Crowbar: Crowbar
Crowbar’s second album, this self titled record from 1993, cements the place of Kirk Windstein’s band in the New Orleans sludge landscape.…
8/10 September 19, 2026
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Crossfade: Crossfade
The South Carolina band’s debut, this 2004 self-titled record stands as a model of effective post-grunge. Driven by the single Cold, an…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Cro-Mags: The Age of Quarrel
Few records distill an entire scene into a handful of songs. The Age of Quarrel, released in 1986, is one of them.…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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Cro-Mags: Best Wishes
Released in 1989, Best Wishes is the Cro-Mags’ second album and one of the most metallic records to come out of the…
8/10 September 16, 2026
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Crazy Town: The Gift of Game
Released in 1999, The Gift of Game is the record that rocketed Crazy Town up the charts thanks to the single Butterfly,…
6/10 September 23, 2026
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Counterparts : A Eulogy for Those Still Here
The Canadians of melodic metalcore hold their line: 82/100 for a record of rage and mourning.
8/10 June 13, 2026
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Corrosion of Conformity, Good God / Baad Man
80/100: the American southern-sludge veterans rediscover their sticky groove.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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Coroner: Grin
With Grin, Coroner closes a cycle and opens a door it will never truly walk through. The Zurich group, accustomed to labyrinthine…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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Coroner: Dissonance Theory
83/100: the Swiss tech-thrash veterans return after decades, and hit hard.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Converge & Chelsea Wolfe : Bloodmoon: I
Hardcore meets the gothic: 84/100 for a collaboration as improbable as it is spellbinding.
8.5/10 June 6, 2026
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Converge : Love Is Not Enough
Three perfect scores and 87/100 across 13 reviews: hardcore's elder statesmen still have no rival.
8.5/10 February 18, 2026
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Converge : Hum Of Hurt
"No leftovers here; 2 for 2": Converge's second 2026 album equals the first by digging elsewhere.
8.5/10 June 10, 2026
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Conjurer: Unself
80/100: the English progressive-sludge outfit confirm the hype.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Conjurer: Mire
Some albums announce their direction from the very first minute, and Mire belongs to this category. From the opening measures, Conjurer establishes…
8/10 October 7, 2026
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Conan: Violence Dimension
79/100: the English "caveman battle doom" crew flatten everything in their path.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Conan: Evidence of Immortality
Conan has never needed nuance to exist. From Liverpool, the trio has been building a cathedral of maximum-slowed riffs for years, and…
7.5/10 October 12, 2026
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Cold: Year of the Spider
Cold’s melancholic peak, Year of the Spider, unfolds a post-grunge tinged alternative metal where heaviness serves emotion rather than aggression. Scooter Ward’s…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Code Orange: What is Really Underneath?
Released the same year as The Above, What is Really Underneath? is neither a simple bonus disc nor a rehash: it’s the…
7.5/10 September 28, 2026
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Code Orange: Underneath
With Underneath, released in 2020, America’s Code Orange clears a major threshold. The Pittsburgh band, born of the hardcore scene, unfolds an…
8/10 September 16, 2026
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Code Orange: I Am King
Released in 2014, I Am King marks a turning point for Code Orange. It is with this record that the Pittsburgh band,…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Code Orange: Forever
Released in 2017, Forever propelled Code Orange to the forefront of the extreme hardcore scene. The Pittsburgh band unfolds a radical vision…
8.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Coalesce: Give Them Rope
The debut album from the Kansas City band, Give Them Rope arrives in 1997 and lays one of the first stones of…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Coalesce: Functioning on Impatience
Released in 1998, Functioning on Impatience is one of the most striking records from the Kansas City band. In a hardcore landscape…
8/10 September 16, 2026
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Coal Chamber: Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber’s 1997 debut, this self-titled record stands as one of the milestones of the emerging nu metal. The Los Angeles band…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Clawfinger: Deaf Dumb Blind
The Swedish quartet’s debut, Deaf Dumb Blind introduced in 1993 a then novel formula blending massive metal riffs, rapped verses and shouted…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Circle Jerks: Group Sex
Released in 1980, Group Sex is the Circle Jerks’s first album and one of the most radical records of early California hardcore.…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Chubby and the Gang: The Mutt’s Nuts
Led by Charlie Manning, known as Chubby, the London outfit Chubby and the Gang have given punk a taste of pub rock…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Chubby and the Gang: Speed Kills
When Speed Kills arrived in 2020, it sounded like a record beamed in from another decade, and that is exactly its strength.…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Chevelle: Wonder What’s Next
Wonder What’s Next plants Chevelle firmly in a dense, angular strain of alternative metal, driven by Pete Loeffler’s voice that shifts from…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark
Her most accessible album, still haunted. Critics and public aligned at 77/100.
7.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe : She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
The priestess of electronic goth reinvents herself: 82/100 for a record of intimate rebirth.
8/10 June 18, 2026
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Chat Pile: Who Loves The Sun
Rapturous early reviews: "the fury has metastasized". Out September 4.
7.5/10 September 1, 2026
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Chat Pile: Cool World
After the shock of God’s Country, Chat Pile didn’t really have a choice: either repeat the formula or expand it. The Oklahoma…
8.5/10 September 27, 2026
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Chat Pile : God’s Country
American despair set to sound: 86/100 for a debut album that hits like a punch.
8.5/10 June 22, 2026
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Chain of Strength: True Till Death
Few bands have left a mark as deep in as little time as Chain of Strength. True Till Death gathers the essence…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Ceremony: Violence Violence
Ceremony’s first album, out in 2006 on Deathwish, Violence Violence is a concentrate of fury from Rohnert Park, California. The band led…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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