Sleep Token : Take Me Back to Eden
The masked collective turn metal into a love liturgy: 84/100 for a third album impossible to file.
8.5/10 June 14, 2026
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Between the Buried and Me : Colors II
The Americans reconnect with their 2007 masterpiece: 82/100 for an outsized prog fresco.
8/10 June 14, 2026
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Vola : Friend of a Phantom
The Danes wed djent, pop and electronics with grace: 81/100 for an immediate, refined record.
8/10 June 14, 2026
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Soen : Memorial
The Swedes refine their melodic progressive metal: 80/100 for a limpid, committed record.
8/10 June 15, 2026
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Animals as Leaders : Parrhesia
The instrumental trio push the limits of the guitar: 82/100 for a record of dizzying virtuosity.
8/10 June 15, 2026
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Rivers of Nihil : The Work
Pennsylvania death metal opens to saxophone and introspection: 83/100 for a daring record.
8/10 June 15, 2026
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Caligula’s Horse : Charcoal Grace
The Australians deliver their gravest, most accomplished record: 85/100 for a haunted work.
8.5/10 June 15, 2026
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Haken : Fauna
The London collective cross virtuosity with an imaginary bestiary: 82/100 for a playful, learned record.
8/10 June 15, 2026
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Leprous : Melodies of Atonement
The Norwegians reconnect with weight and tension: 82/100 for a record that restores density to progressive metal.
8/10 June 16, 2026
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King Buffalo : Regenerator
The Rochester trio close their pandemic trilogy in weightlessness: 82/100 for a hovering, hypnotic record.
8/10 June 16, 2026
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Baroness : Stone
The Americans pursue their melodic metamorphosis: 80/100 for an accessible, colourful record, not without risks.
8/10 June 16, 2026
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High on Fire : Cometh the Storm
Matt Pike's beast still roars as loud as ever: 81/100 for an implacable sludge record.
8/10 June 16, 2026
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Russian Circles : Gnosis
The Chicago instrumental trio harden their tone: 82/100 for a rougher, denser record.
8/10 June 16, 2026
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Elder : Innate Passage
The Americans' progressive metamorphosis reaches its fullness: 84/100 for a luminous psychedelic journey.
8.5/10 June 17, 2026
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Cave In : Heavy Pendulum
The Boston veterans reconnect with breadth: 83/100 for a rich, generous return after loss.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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Khemmis : Khemmis
79/100 and no song that lets you down: Denver's epic doom restarts without reinventing its axe.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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The Ocean : Holocene
The German collective close their geological fresco with restraint: 82/100 for a record more atmospheric than ever.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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Cult of Luna : The Long Road North
The Swedish masters of post-metal unfold their sonic cathedrals: 83/100 for a monumental record.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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Bell Witch : The Clandestine Gate
A single eighty-three-minute piece, suspended outside time: 84/100 for a monument of slowness.
8.5/10 June 17, 2026
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Khemmis : Deceiver
The Americans' luminous doom grows heavier: 83/100 for a fourth album shot through with grief.
8/10 June 18, 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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Amenra : De Doorn
The Belgians' sonic ritual reaches a new intensity: 84/100 for a record of liturgical gravity.
8.5/10 June 18, 2026
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1914 : Where Fear and Weapons Meet
The Great War set to music: 82/100 for a brutal, documented record on the horror of the trenches.
8/10 June 18, 2026
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Gaerea : Mirage
Portuguese black metal steps up: 83/100 for a record of visceral intensity.
8/10 June 18, 2026
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Alcest : Les Chants de l’Aurore
The father of blackgaze finds the light again: 84/100 for a record of luminous grace.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Wayfarer : American Gospel
Black metal turned crepuscular western: 84/100 for a fresco on the myth of the American West.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Zeal & Ardor : Zeal & Ardor
The negro spiritual meets black metal: 82/100 for a third album consolidating a stroke of genius.
8/10 June 19, 2026
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Spectral Wound : Songs of Blood and Mire
Quebecois black metal in its sharpest form: 85/100 for a record of undiminished fury.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Ashenspire : Hostile Architecture
An avant-garde firebrand against social injustice: 87/100 for one of the most original records of the year.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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Panopticon : The Rime of Memory
A lone American's great winter work: 85/100 for a glacial, devastating meditation.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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White Ward : False Light
When the saxophone haunts black metal: 85/100 for a Ukrainian record of nocturnal beauty.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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Cannibal Corpse : Chaos Horrific
The most famous institution of death metal does not falter: 80/100 for a record of metronome regularity.
8/10 June 20, 2026
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Autopsy : Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
The pioneers of putrid death metal stay true to their grime: 81/100 for a record of gleeful insalubrity.
8/10 June 20, 2026
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Gatecreeper : Dark Superstition
Arizona death metal gains melody without losing power: 82/100 for a record built to last.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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Undeath : It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave
The new guard of old-school death metal embrace their heritage: 82/100 for a jubilant, uncomplexed record.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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Wiegedood : There’s Always Blood at the End of the Road
The Belgians broaden their palette without losing their edge: 83/100 for a black metal mid-moult.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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