Cage Fight, Exuvia
78/100: the English thrash/hardcore crossover hits short, fast and hard.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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Hulder, Verbolgen
Hulder softens her black metal: "finest work to date" for one, missed venom for another. 76/100.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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Cwfen, Sorrows
80/100: a melodic, melancholic black metal that wins over critics.
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Cancer Bats, Give Me Dirt
Eight albums, twenty years of service, and one of the warmest receptions of the summer: 79/100 for Give Me Dirt, the best…
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Fires in the Distance, Circadian Promise
85/100: the Americans' melodic, piano-laced death/doom moves the critics.
8.5/10 August 10, 2026
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The Warning, Everything’s Falling
83/100: the Mexican sisters' trio confirm their powerful, melodic hard rock.
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Bizarrekult, Alt Som Finnes
83/100: Bizarrekult's melodic, modern Norwegian black metal wins over listeners.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Mother Vulture, Cartoon Violence
80/100: the Britons' high-octane rock'n'roll reeks of sweat and the stage.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Siamese, dissolution
80/100: the Danes fuse metalcore, pop and saxophone into a surprisingly addictive blend.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Mork, Monolitt
80/100: Thomas Eriksen's old-school Norwegian black metal keeps the tradition alive with class.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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Stabbing, Eon of Obscenity
80/100: the Americans' technical, brutal death metal impresses with its density.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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Funebrarum, Beckoning The Void of Eternal Silence
79/100: the Americans' cavernous, old-school death metal reeks of the crypt.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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A Forest of Stars, Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface
88/100: the Victorian-psychedelic English collective deliver their maddest black metal.
9/10 August 8, 2026
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Triosphere, Oceans Above, Stars Below
93/100: the Norwegians' long-awaited return opens at the top of the aggregates.
9/10 August 8, 2026
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Marianas Rest, The Bereaved
83/100: Finnish melodic death/doom cultivates its deep-freeze melancholy.
8/10 August 7, 2026
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Knocked Loose, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
89/100 across fifteen reviews: the kings of modern hardcore/metalcore deliver a genre peak.
9/10 August 7, 2026
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Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere
87/100 across fourteen reviews: the Americans' cosmic death metal reaches a new dimension.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
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Ulcerate, Cutting the Throat of God
88/100: the New Zealanders of dissonant death metal deliver their masterpiece.
9/10 August 7, 2026
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Uniform, American Standard
87/100: the New York duo push their industrial noise toward a suffocating intensity.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
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Thou, Umbilical
85/100 across twelve reviews: the Louisiana sludge crew deliver their most direct, raging record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
82/100 across fifteen reviews: the heavy-metal gods prove they've lost nothing.
8/10 August 6, 2026
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Nightwish, Yesterwynde
86/100: the Finns push their cinematic symphonic metal to new heights.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Opeth, The Last Will and Testament
84/100: the Swedes bring back the growls and deliver an ambitious concept record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Job for a Cowboy, Moon Healer
85/100: the Americans' return confirms their shift into a first-rate progressive-death band.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Ihsahn, IHSAHN
85/100: the ex-Emperor mastermind unfurls an orchestral, black-metal album of wild ambition.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Vitriol, Suffer & Become
85/100: the Americans' furious tech-death impresses with its controlled violence.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Pallbearer, Mind Burns Alive
83/100: the Americans elevate their melodic, melancholic doom.
8/10 August 5, 2026
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Viande, Monument aux morts
Frightening texture, an hour too full: Chambéry black/death impresses without yet crushing.
7/10 August 5, 2026
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Fleshgod Apocalypse, Opera
87/100: the Italians fuse technical death metal and symphonic grandeur with excess.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Speed, ONLY ONE MODE
86/100: the Australians inject wild energy and positivity into hardcore.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Hamferð, Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
86/100: Faroese death/doom reaches an overwhelming solemnity.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Altarage, Cogwheel
Deconstructed death metal, 74 minutes of liquid cement: 9/10 versus 2.5/5, the press splits clean.
7/10 August 4, 2026
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Persefone, Lingua Ignota: Part I
86/100: the Andorran progressive-metal act unfurl a luminous virtuosity.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Unto Others, Never, Neverland
86/100: the Americans wed heavy metal and gothic post-punk with rare elegance.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Allt, Ataraxia
Muscle, heart and one banger called "Enemy", but a cold public hearing only the recipe. 7.
7/10 August 4, 2026
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Oceans of Slumber, Where Gods Fear To Speak
85/100: the Texans' gothic, progressive metal, carried by Cammie Beverly's masterful voice.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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