Converge — Hum Of Hurt
"No leftovers here; 2 for 2": Converge's second 2026 album equals the first by digging elsewhere.
8.5/10 June 10, 2026
Amyl and the Sniffers — Cartoon Darkness
The Australians broaden their horizon without losing any of their rage: 84/100 for their most accomplished record.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
August Burns Red — Season Of Surrender
Eleven albums, zero fatigue: 84/100 for technical metalcore's safest bet.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
Wednesday — Rat Saw God
A noisy, devastating portrait of the deep American South: 86/100 for one of the records of the year.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
Rolo Tomassi — Where Myth Becomes Memory
Chaos and grace in a single breath: 86/100 for the culmination of a twenty-year mutation.
8.5/10 June 6, 2026
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe — Bloodmoon: I
Hardcore meets the gothic: 84/100 for a collaboration as improbable as it is spellbinding.
8.5/10 June 6, 2026
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
Immolation — Descent
Thirty-five years, zero drop-off: 85/100 for a direct and devastating death metal statement.
8.5/10 April 12, 2026
Cryptic Shift — Overspace & Supertime
Four 9/10s and a trip into "the obsidian kaleidoscope": 87/100, the winter's extreme-metal peak.
8.5/10 March 1, 2026
Converge — Love Is Not Enough
Three perfect scores and 87/100 across 13 reviews: hardcore's elder statesmen still have no rival.
8.5/10 February 18, 2026
Worm — Necropalace
Three 9/10s and a « modern classic » tag: symphonic black metal gets its delusions of grandeur back. 84/100.
8.5/10 February 17, 2026
MØL — DREAMCRUSH
Denmark's blackgaze spearhead delivers one of the year's highest-rated records (85/100) — but the gap with the public marks it as divisive.
8/10 September 5, 2026
Mastodon — Marrow Deep
Mastodon's first post-Hinds album is an acclaimed grief record (83/100 Metacritic), cathartic and often magnificent.
8/10 September 1, 2026
Deafheaven — Lonely People With Power
83/100 across twenty-one reviews: the blackgaze pioneers reconnect with fury.
8/10 August 29, 2026
Sunn O))) — Sunn O)))
79/100 across twenty reviews: the drone kings' self-titled album, a mass of low frequencies.
8/10 August 29, 2026
Deadguy — Near-Death Travel Services
83/100: the improbable return of the 1990s chaotic-metalcore pioneers.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Igorrr — AMEN
83/100: the French mad scientist returns, between metal, baroque and breakcore.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Cryptopsy — An Insatiable Violence
81/100: the Canadian tech-death masters hold their rank.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Fallujah — Xenotaph
81/100: the Californians' atmospheric, cosmic death metal regains its shine.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Paradise Lost — Ascension
79/100: the English goth/doom godfathers confirm a second youth.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Helloween — Giants & Monsters
81/100: the inventors of European power metal, reunited, keep the flame.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Conjurer — Unself
80/100: the English progressive-sludge outfit confirm the hype.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Bleed from Within — Zenith
83/100: the Scots confirm their place atop modern European metalcore.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Sylosis — The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Archspire — Too Fast to Die
83/100: death metal's fastest Canadians push the tempo limits again.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Devin Townsend — The Moth
83/100: the Canadian polymath delivers another oversized, generous opus.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Voivod — Symphonique
83/100: the Québécois prog-thrash legends re-orchestrate their catalogue with a symphony orchestra.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Sepultura — The Cloud of Unknowing
79/100: after announcing the end, the Brazilians deliver an honourable last chapter.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Darkthrone — Pre-Historic Metal
80/100: the Norwegian veterans keep morphing into gleefully filthy heavy/black.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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
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
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