Fire-Toolz — Lavender Networks
79/100 across six reviews: Angel Marcloid's project blends metal, vaporwave and prog into a unique kaleidoscope.
8/10 August 11, 2026
Psychonaut — World Maker
81/100: the Belgian trio broaden their progressive, spiritual post-metal further.
8/10 August 11, 2026
Abigail Williams — A Void Within Existence
80/100: Ken Sorceron's American atmospheric black metal continues its evolution.
8/10 August 11, 2026
Retromorphosis — Psalmus Mortis
83/100: the death-metal supergroup (ex-Pestilence, Asphyx) hits hard on its debut.
8/10 August 10, 2026
Cage Fight — Exuvia
78/100: the English thrash/hardcore crossover hits short, fast and hard.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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
Cwfen — Sorrows
80/100: a melodic, melancholic black metal that wins over critics.
8/10 August 10, 2026
Fires in the Distance — Circadian Promise
85/100: the Americans' melodic, piano-laced death/doom moves the critics.
8.5/10 August 10, 2026
The Warning — Everything’s Falling
83/100: the Mexican sisters' trio confirm their powerful, melodic hard rock.
8/10 August 10, 2026
Bizarrekult — Alt Som Finnes
83/100: Bizarrekult's melodic, modern Norwegian black metal wins over listeners.
8/10 August 9, 2026
Mother Vulture — Cartoon Violence
80/100: the Britons' high-octane rock'n'roll reeks of sweat and the stage.
8/10 August 9, 2026
Siamese — dissolution
80/100: the Danes fuse metalcore, pop and saxophone into a surprisingly addictive blend.
8/10 August 9, 2026
Paleface Swiss — The wilted EP
80/100: the most violent Swiss deathcore/beatdown gives no quarter.
8/10 August 9, 2026
Mork — Monolitt
80/100: Thomas Eriksen's old-school Norwegian black metal keeps the tradition alive with class.
8/10 August 8, 2026
Stabbing — Eon of Obscenity
80/100: the Americans' technical, brutal death metal impresses with its density.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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
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
Triosphere — Oceans Above, Stars Below
93/100: the Norwegians' long-awaited return opens at the top of the aggregates.
9/10 August 8, 2026
Marianas Rest — The Bereaved
83/100: Finnish melodic death/doom cultivates its deep-freeze melancholy.
8/10 August 7, 2026
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
Blood Incantation — Absolute Elsewhere
87/100 across fourteen reviews: the Americans' cosmic death metal reaches a new dimension.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
Ulcerate — Cutting the Throat of God
88/100: the New Zealanders of dissonant death metal deliver their masterpiece.
9/10 August 7, 2026
Uniform — American Standard
87/100: the New York duo push their industrial noise toward a suffocating intensity.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
Thou — Umbilical
85/100 across twelve reviews: the Louisiana sludge crew deliver their most direct, raging record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
Judas Priest — Invincible Shield
82/100 across fifteen reviews: the heavy-metal gods prove they've lost nothing.
8/10 August 6, 2026
Nightwish — Yesterwynde
86/100: the Finns push their cinematic symphonic metal to new heights.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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
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
Ihsahn — IHSAHN
85/100: the ex-Emperor mastermind unfurls an orchestral, black-metal album of wild ambition.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
Vitriol — Suffer & Become
85/100: the Americans' furious tech-death impresses with its controlled violence.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
Pallbearer — Mind Burns Alive
83/100: the Americans elevate their melodic, melancholic doom.
8/10 August 5, 2026
Viande — Monument aux morts
Frightening texture, an hour too full: Chambéry black/death impresses without yet crushing.
7/10 August 5, 2026
Fleshgod Apocalypse — Opera
87/100: the Italians fuse technical death metal and symphonic grandeur with excess.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
Speed — ONLY ONE MODE
86/100: the Australians inject wild energy and positivity into hardcore.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
Hamferð — Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
86/100: Faroese death/doom reaches an overwhelming solemnity.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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