Fear Factory: Demanufacture
Fear Factory’s second album, Demanufacture, imposed in 1995 a futuristic and implacable vision of metal. The Los Angeles band here perfects its…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel’s debut, Altars of Madness, stands in 1989 as one of the founding acts of Florida death metal. Fast, chaotic and…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley
The third album by California’s Kyuss, Welcome to Sky Valley (1994), is often regarded as the cornerstone of desert rock. Born from…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Sleep: Dopesmoker
Few albums carry a history as legendary as Sleep’s Dopesmoker. Recorded in the 1990s but released in full in 2003, this record…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian’s sixth album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, released in 1998, is a summit of European power metal. Conceived as a concept album…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Slipknot: Iowa
Slipknot’s second studio album, Iowa, arrived carried by the meteoric success of the debut and an exhausting tour. Recorded again with producer…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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Rammstein: Mutter
The third album from Berlin’s Rammstein, Mutter, confirmed the band’s international status in 2001. A pillar of Neue Deutsche Harte, this record…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden’s third album, The Number of the Beast (1982), is the record of transformation. It is the first with Bruce Dickinson…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Released in 1980, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the Dead Kennedys’s first album and one of the most incisive records of…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power
Released in 1992, Vulgar Display of Power is the record that locked in Pantera’s definitive identity. Having shed the glam of its…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Candlemass: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Few albums lend their name to an entire subgenre. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986), the debut by Sweden’s Candlemass, is one of them:…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Meshuggah: obZen
Released in 2008 on Nuclear Blast, obZen marks a turning point in the story of modern extreme metal. After more than fifteen…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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My Dying Bride: Turn Loose the Swans
My Dying Bride’s second album, released on Peaceville in 1993, marks a decisive turn for the young death doom movement. Where many…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Carcass: Heartwork
With Heartwork in 1993, Carcass completed a mutation begun on Necroticism. The Liverpool band, pioneers of goregrind with their early records and…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Behemoth: The Satanist
Released in 2014, The Satanist is truly Behemoth’s rebirth album. Recorded after frontman Nergal overcame a leukemia that nearly cost him his…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Bathory: Under the Sign of the Black Mark
In 1987 Bathory, the Swedish project driven by Quorthon, released Under the Sign of the Black Mark, a third album that ranks…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Bad Brains: Bad Brains
Released in 1982, originally on cassette, Bad Brains’ debut is one of the most explosive records in the history of punk. The…
9/10 September 16, 2026
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Botch: We Are the Romans
Released in 1999, We Are the Romans is the second and final studio album from the Tacoma band, and it stands as…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
Released in 1999, Calculating Infinity, the debut album from the New Jersey band, redefined what extreme metal could attempt. The Dillinger Escape…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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Minor Threat: Out of Step
Few bands have left a mark as deep in as little time as Minor Threat. Out of Step, released in 1983, condenses…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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Bad Brains: I Against I
How do you sum up a band that seems to contain several universes at once? With I Against I, released in 1986,…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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Gorilla Biscuits: Start Today
Some records are a punch in the face, others a burst of sunshine. Start Today, released in 1989, belongs to that rare…
9/10 September 11, 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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Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea
89/100: the new benchmark for modern metalcore, driven by Courtney LaPlante's extraordinary voice.
9/10 August 30, 2026
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Mastodon: Leviathan
The first masterpiece: Moby Dick rewritten in metal, a world-record.
9/10 August 15, 2026
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Mastodon: Crack the Skye
The progressive summit: astral travel, Rasputin and grief, a shattering record.
9/10 August 14, 2026
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Deftones: Koi No Yokan
The perfect balance: heaviness and grace reconciled, a near-masterpiece.
9/10 August 13, 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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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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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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Gojira, From Mars to Sirius
The masterpiece of consecration: a world-record on the death and rebirth of the Earth.
9/10 July 19, 2026
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Cattle Decapitation : Terrasite
The peak of a death metal turned discourse: 89/100 for a work where ecological apocalypse becomes music.
9/10 July 15, 2026
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Horrendous : Ontological Mysterium
The Americans reconcile old-school death metal and progressive freedom: 88/100 for a record of rare elegance.
9/10 July 15, 2026
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Dødheimsgard : Black Medium Current
The Norwegians transfigure black metal into a psychedelic voyage: 89/100 for an avant-garde work.
9/10 July 14, 2026
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Zulu : A New Tomorrow
Los Angeles powerviolence becomes an African-American manifesto: 88/100 for a record as brief as it is vital.
9/10 July 14, 2026
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