As I Lay Dying: Shadows Are Security
Released in 2005 on Metal Blade, Shadows Are Security is As I Lay Dying’s third album and the one that brought international…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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As I Lay Dying: The Powerless Rise
As I Lay Dying’s fifth album, The Powerless Rise, arrived in 2010 and extends the path opened by An Ocean Between Us.…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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As I Lay Dying: Through Storms Ahead
Since forming in San Diego, As I Lay Dying built its name on a fast, technical brand of metalcore, cut from the…
6/10 September 29, 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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At The Gates : The Ghost of a Future Dead
Tompa Lindberg's posthumous farewell: 85/100, Kerrang! and AMG at full marks. Exit through the front door.
8.5/10 April 27, 2026
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Atreyu : The End Is Not The End
The press hails the comeback (4/5 at Kerrang!), AMG fires a 2/5: round ten for the metalcore veterans.
7/10 April 29, 2026
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August Burns Red : Season Of Surrender
Eleven albums, zero fatigue: 84/100 for technical metalcore's safest bet.
8.5/10 June 8, 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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Backtrack: Darker Half
Released in 2016, Darker Half is a notable album by Backtrack, a hardcore band out of Long Island. True to a direct…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Backtrack: Lost in Life
With Lost in Life in 2014, Backtrack delivers a record that cuts to the core of New York hardcore and its Long…
7.5/10 September 11, 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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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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Bad Brains: Rock for Light
Released in 1983 and produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Rock for Light offers a more polished take on Bad Brains’…
8.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Bad Religion: Suffer
Released in 1988, Suffer is the record that put Bad Religion back on the map and quietly rewrote the rules of Californian…
9/10 September 20, 2026
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Bad Wolves: Disobey
Bad Wolves’ debut album, Disobey, owes its fame to its muscular cover of the Cranberries’ Zombie, an unexpected hit that launched the…
6/10 September 23, 2026
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Balance and Composure: Separation
With Separation in 2011, Balance and Composure, a band from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, released a debut album that quickly became a reference point…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Balance and Composure: The Things We Think Were Missing
In 2013, Balance and Composure confirmed with this second album that they hold a place apart in the American post-hardcore scene. The…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Bane: Don’t Wait Up
For its final record, Bane stays true to itself.
7.8/10 August 14, 2026
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Bane: Give Blood
With Give Blood, Bane deliver one of melodic hardcore's high points.
8.7/10 August 15, 2026
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Bane: It All Comes Down to This
Bane arrives with a debut that never fakes it.
8/10 August 15, 2026
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Bane: The Note
The Note confirms Bane at the peak of its craft.
8.3/10 August 14, 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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Basement: Colourmeinkindness
Colourmeinkindness arrived in 2012 in a peculiar context: the British band Basement, from Ipswich, announced a hiatus at the very moment they…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Basement: Promise Everything
Released in 2016, Promise Everything confirms the craft of Basement, an English band from Ipswich. After a break and a return welcomed…
7.5/10 September 16, 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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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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Beartooth: Pure Ecstasy
Beartooth's pop-rock turn: press applauds (77/100), fans grumble (59/100). Divisive, therefore interesting.
6.5/10 August 31, 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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Being as an Ocean: Dear G-d
The debut album of the American band Being as an Ocean, Dear G-d appeared in 2012 and immediately laid the foundations of…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Being as an Ocean: How We Both Wondered
Released in 2014, How We Both Wondered is the second album by Being as an Ocean, an American band associated with the…
7/10 September 16, 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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Better Lovers : Highly Irresponsible
The supergroup born of Every Time I Die hits hard: 82/100 for a record of jubilant violence.
8/10 June 13, 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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Beyond The Black : Break The Silence
Killer hooks for the press (8.5/10 at Blabbermouth), 53/100 from the public. The great symphonic split.
6.5/10 January 13, 2026
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BIG|BRAVE: in grief or in hope
83/100: the Canadian trio sculpt silence and saturation with devastating intensity.
8/10 August 24, 2026
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Biohazard: State of the World Address
Released in 1994, State of the World Address propelled Biohazard to the front of the scene and marked the Brooklyn band’s arrival…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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