Whitechapel: Kin
After The Valley, which opened an unprecedented emotional breach in Whitechapel’s sound, the Knoxville band returns with Kin, still produced by Mark…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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Stick To Your Guns: Spectre
Stick to Your Guns return with Spectre, an album that lives up to its name: that of a band seemingly haunted by…
6.5/10 October 10, 2026
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper
There’s something organic in the way Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs builds its records, as if each riff grows out…
8/10 October 10, 2026
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HEALTH: RAT WARS
There’s something exhilarating about the way HEALTH closes the Disco chapter and returns to a more direct, darker sound. Rat Wars arrives…
8/10 October 10, 2026
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Green Lung: Necropolitan
Green Lung's occult doom takes on London. The press flirts with perfection, the public follows. Consensus: 9/10.
9/10 October 10, 2026
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SpiritWorld: DEATHWESTERN
There’s something quite exhilarating about the way SpiritWorld refuses to pick a side. The project led by Stu Folsom doesn’t pretend to…
7.5/10 October 9, 2026
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Portrayal of Guilt: Devil Music
There’s something obscene about the speed with which Portrayal of Guilt delivers its sentences. Devil Music never tries to settle in, it…
8/10 October 9, 2026
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Venom: Storm the Gates
When Venom releases an album at the end of this decade, the exercise is as much about survival as it is about…
5.5/10 October 9, 2026
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Hellripper: Death Wish
James McBain has never hidden his fondness for dirty riffs and blast-beats that reek of spilled beer over a Marshall amp. With…
7.5/10 October 8, 2026
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Spirit Adrift: Ghost At The Gallows
There’s something almost provocative about a band built on heavy riffs and flamboyant solos choosing, for the duration of one album, to…
7/10 October 8, 2026
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Frozen Soul: Glacial Domination
Frozen Soul has never hidden its ambition: to embody old-school death metal carved from ice, massive and unadorned, conceived as an advancing…
7.5/10 October 8, 2026
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Saor: Caledonia
There is something almost ritualistic about the way Saor opens their albums, and Caledonia follows suit. From the very first bars, the…
8/10 October 7, 2026
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Bleed from Within: Shrine
There are albums that arrive at just the right moment, carried by a momentum you can feel almost physically from the first…
8/10 October 7, 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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Paradise Lost: Obsidian
There’s something almost unfair about Paradise Lost’s consistency. After navigating through different styles, electronic experimentation, and extreme returns to their roots, the…
8.5/10 October 6, 2026
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Cryptopsy: As Gomorrah Burns
Cryptopsy never needed to reinvent itself to stay dangerous. Since None So Vile, the Montreal band has built its reputation on crushing…
7.5/10 October 6, 2026
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Igorrr: Spirituality and Distortion
There is something almost brazen in the way Gautier Serre opens this record. After the already extreme stylistic exercise of Savage Sinusoid,…
8/10 October 6, 2026
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Deadguy: I Know Your Tragedy
Released in 2000, after the band’s dissolution, I Know Your Tragedy is not a new studio album but a compilation filling the…
6.5/10 October 5, 2026
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Beartooth: Below
There’s something almost ironic about a record titled Below sometimes sounding so bright. Caleb Shomo has never hidden the fact that his…
7.5/10 October 5, 2026
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Alcest: Spiritual Instinct
With Spiritual Instinct, Alcest leaves Prophecy Productions to join Nuclear Blast, and this label change is almost physically felt in the record’s…
8/10 October 5, 2026
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Gorod: A Maze of Recycled Creeds
There’s something almost perverse about the way Gorod manages to make complexity enjoyable to listen to. A Maze of Recycled Creeds arrived…
8/10 October 4, 2026
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Fen: Monuments to Absence
There is something immutable about Fen, a way of constantly returning to that same landscape of marshes and low skies that built…
7.5/10 October 4, 2026
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Queens of the Stone Age: Villains
With Villains, Queens of the Stone Age makes a turn that wasn’t necessarily expected: handing the controls to Mark Ronson, a producer…
7.5/10 October 4, 2026
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Insomnium: Heart Like a Grave
There’s something unwavering about Insomnium, a loyalty to a certain idea of sorrow that never truly weakens, album after album. With Heart…
8/10 October 3, 2026
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Darkest Hour: Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora
After a self-titled album that had sown doubt among part of their fanbase, Darkest Hour returns in 2017 with a record that…
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Triosphere: The Road Less Travelled
With The Road Less Travelled, Triosphere closes one chapter and opens another. After a debut album forged in rawer urgency, the Trondheim…
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Anthrax: Cursum Perficio
Ten years after For All Kings, Anthrax return. The press applauds, the public trails a notch behind. Consensus: 7.5/10.
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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MØL: Diorama
It’s hard not to think of a snowstorm suddenly breaking to let through a ray of sunlight: that’s the impression Diorama leaves…
8/10 October 2, 2026
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Gel: Violent Closure
It’s hard to be more direct than this Violent Closure, released by Gel in 2021. This short format, a handful of tracks…
7.5/10 October 2, 2026
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Sabaton: Legends
Sabaton returns with Legends, an album that switches record labels without changing its formula: battles, heroic figures, and choruses built for stadium…
6.5/10 October 2, 2026
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Nickelback: Feed the Machine
It’s hard to approach Feed the Machine without first thinking about what came before its release: a cancelled tour, vocal cord issues…
4.5/10 October 1, 2026
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200 Stab Wounds: Slave to the Scalpel
Cleveland isn’t known for its death metal scene, but 200 Stab Wounds is here to set the record straight with a brutality…
7.5/10 October 1, 2026
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Hulder: Verses In Oath
Following the warm welcome given to Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry, Hulder returns with Verses In Oath, an album that makes…
7.5/10 October 1, 2026
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Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Noktvrn
There’s something almost provocative in the way Der Weg einer Freiheit opens Noktvrn: no gradual build-up, no muffled entry point, but a…
8.5/10 September 30, 2026
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Amon Amarth: Berserker
Amon Amarth never reinvents the formula, it polishes it. With Berserker, the Swedish band recovers an energy that hadn’t been felt in…
7.5/10 September 30, 2026
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Wayfarer: American Gothic
After traversing vast plains and conquest mythologies on A Romance with Violence, Wayfarer shifts scenery without abandoning its logic. American Gothic trades…
8.5/10 September 30, 2026
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