Havukruunu — Tavastland
82/100: Finnish pagan black metal in all its epic splendour.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Winterfylleth — The Unyielding Season
83/100: the English weave atmospheric black metal steeped in landscape and history.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Saor — Amidst the Ruins
83/100: Andy Marshall's Caledonian metal, between atmospheric black and Scottish folklore.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Frozen Soul — No Place of Warmth
78/100: the Texans' glacial, old-school death metal stays fearsomely effective.
7.5/10 August 24, 2026
Spirit Adrift — Infinite Illumination
79/100: Nate Garrett's melodic heavy/doom keeps aiming high.
8/10 August 24, 2026
BIG|BRAVE — in grief or in hope
83/100: the Canadian trio sculpt silence and saturation with devastating intensity.
8/10 August 24, 2026
URNE — Setting Fire To The Sky
84/100: the Britons confirm a heavy, melodic and ambitious metal.
8.5/10 August 24, 2026
Hellripper — Coronach
84/100: Scottish riff-machine James McBain unleashes his blackened speed metal.
8.5/10 August 23, 2026
Blackwater Holylight — Not Here Not Gone
79/100 across ten reviews: the Americans' dreamlike psychedelic doom still enchants.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Venom — Into Oblivion
79/100: the English godfathers who named black metal keep the house standing.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Portrayal of Guilt — …Beginning of The End
78/100: the Texan blackened-hardcore crew spit an ever more desperate violence.
7.5/10 August 23, 2026
SpiritWorld — Helldorado
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
8/10 August 23, 2026
HEALTH — CONFLICT DLC
79/100 across eight reviews: the Angelenos push their industrial noise toward apocalyptic pop.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Die Spitz — Something to Consume
82/100 across ten reviews: the Texan quartet blow in a gust of raging, clever punk.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Sumac & Moor Mother — The Film
82/100 across ten reviews: the meeting of Sumac's tectonic sludge and Moor Mother's poetry.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Death Hilarious
79/100 across sixteen reviews: the Britons with the impossible name impose their colossal stoner-noise.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Stick To Your Guns — Keep Planting Flowers
83/100: the Californian melodic-hardcore veterans hit true and hard.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Whitechapel — Hymns in Dissonance
79/100: the Tennessee deathcore kings reconnect with pure brutality.
8/10 August 15, 2026
Epica — Aspiral
78/100: the Dutch symphonic-metal act roll out their usual grand spectacle.
7.5/10 August 15, 2026
Hooded Menace — Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
78/100: Finnish death/doom in all its melancholic heaviness.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
Coroner — Dissonance Theory
83/100: the Swiss tech-thrash veterans return after decades, and hit hard.
8/10 August 14, 2026
Conan — Violence Dimension
79/100: the English "caveman battle doom" crew flatten everything in their path.
8/10 August 14, 2026
Dying Wish — Flesh Stays Together
83/100: the Americans confirm their place in the elite of melodic, violent metalcore.
8/10 August 14, 2026
The Acacia Strain — You Are Safe from God Here
81/100: the heaviest deathcore veterans keep digging their nihilistic furrow.
8/10 August 13, 2026
Pupil Slicer — Fleshwork
81/100: the English trio confirm their mathcore, as technical as it is emotional.
8/10 August 13, 2026
Born of Osiris — Through Shadows
80/100: the American progressive-metalcore act hold their high technical level.
8/10 August 13, 2026
I See Stars — THE WHEEL
83/100: the electronicore pioneers deliver an acclaimed return.
8/10 August 13, 2026
Love Is Noise — To live in a different way
80/100: the rising Britons blend atmospheric post-hardcore and metalcore intensity.
8/10 August 13, 2026
Wyatt E. — Zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu, Pt. 1
80/100: the Belgians' ritual doom summons ancient Mesopotamia in sonic trance.
8/10 August 12, 2026
Textures — Genotype
85/100: the Dutch progressive-djent pioneers deliver a highly praised return.
8.5/10 August 12, 2026
As Everything Unfolds — Did You Ask To Be Set Free?
83/100: the Britons' atmospheric metalcore grows even broader.
8/10 August 12, 2026
The Scratch — Pull Like a Dog
81/100: the Irish fuse metal and traditional music with contagious energy.
8/10 August 12, 2026
Draconian — In Somnolent Ruin
79/100: Swedish gothic/doom unfolds its majestic melancholy.
8/10 August 12, 2026
Corrosion of Conformity — Good God / Baad Man
80/100: the American southern-sludge veterans rediscover their sticky groove.
8/10 August 11, 2026
A.A. Williams — Solstice
80/100: the Briton weaves a dark, cinematic rock of rare beauty.
8/10 August 11, 2026
Electric Callboy — Tanzneid
The metalcore party, bottled: press has fun (75/100), purists sigh. Unapologetic.
7/10 August 11, 2026