Full of Hell & Nothing : When No Birds Sang
The improbable meeting of fury and mist: 82/100 for a collaboration of troubled beauty.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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Pyrrhon : Exhaust
The New Yorkers' organised chaos reaches its point of incandescence: 84/100 for a suffocating record.
8.5/10 June 21, 2026
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Artificial Brain : Artificial Brain
Cosmic death metal reaches its most accomplished form: 83/100 for a record at once cold and dizzying.
8/10 June 22, 2026
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Chat Pile : God’s Country
American despair set to sound: 86/100 for a debut album that hits like a punch.
8.5/10 June 22, 2026
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Warning : Rituals of Shame
Twenty years away, 87/100 and a Kerrang! 5/5: the year's most devastating doom comeback.
8.5/10 June 22, 2026
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Wormrot : Hiss
Singaporean grindcore reaches peaks of expressiveness: 85/100 for a record as violent as it is heartrending.
8.5/10 June 22, 2026
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Tomb Mold : The Enduring Spirit
The Canadians shed their skin without disowning it: 87/100 for a death metal that opens to the cosmos while keeping its mire.
8.5/10 June 22, 2026
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Mutoid Man : Mutants
The American supergroup make virtuosity a game: 83/100 for a record as ferocious as it is joyful.
8/10 June 22, 2026
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Dying Fetus : Make Them Beg for Death
The technical-death-metal war machine remains implacable: 84/100.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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Blut aus Nord · Disharmonium · Nahab
The French band's sonic nightmare reaches an unprecedented intensity: 85/100 for a haunted record.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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Incantation : Unholy Deification
The patriarchs of cavernous death metal do not falter: 85/100 for a record of absolute darkness.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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Green Lung : This Heathen Land
English folklore and the Hammond organ: 85/100 for an irresistible occult heavy-rock record.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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Svalbard : The Weight of The Mask
Fury and light in the service of the intimate: 85/100 for a devastating record on mental health.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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Katatonia : Sky Void of Stars
Melancholy made record: 84/100 for an album where the Swedes elevate their art of elegant despair.
8.5/10 June 24, 2026
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Enslaved : Heimdal
The Norwegians turn myth into music: 84/100 for a sixteenth album of undimmed ambition.
8.5/10 June 24, 2026
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Muse : The Wow! Signal
From 100 down to 20 depending on the church: Muse's cosmic madness owns itself, the press picks sides.
7/10 June 29, 2026
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Deep Purple : Splat!
A torrent of energy from great-grandfathers: 76/100, Purple's best reception in ages.
7.5/10 July 5, 2026
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Moonspell : Far from God
Stripped-back gothic return, Ribeiro revitalized: 73/100, the essence recovered without reaching the peaks.
7.5/10 July 6, 2026
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Witchsorrow : The Devil And All His Works
Twenty years in, their best album, "the devil's work!": 80/100, a rare doom communion.
8/10 July 7, 2026
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Gojira : Live At Hellfest 2016
Gojira on home soil: communion with the crowd of France's biggest metal festival.
7.5/10 July 9, 2026
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Gojira : Les Enfants Sauvages
The touring machine at its peak: the live CD/DVD of the L'Enfant Sauvage era.
8/10 July 10, 2026
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Gojira : The Link Alive
The first live document: Gojira on the road, before the international breakthrough.
9/10 July 10, 2026
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The Plot In You : The Plot In You
A compilation dressed as a self-titled album, but the songs are strong enough for 80/100.
8/10 July 12, 2026
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No Cure : It Is Going To Get Dark
Three reviews, three 80s: Alabama straight edge finds unanimity in the dark. 8/10.
8/10 July 13, 2026
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TesseracT : War of Being
The British atmospheric-djent band deliver their most accomplished record: 86/100.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
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Ne Obliviscaris : EXUL
The violin and the growl, beauty and fury: 86/100 for the Australians' masterful return.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
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Mourir : Nous, le venin
Metal Storm at 8.3, French press won over: Toulouse black metal spits its venom with newfound maturity.
8/10 July 14, 2026
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DevilDriver : Strike and Kill
Lethal riffs, incendiary solos, Dez back in the game: 70/100 and zero surprises, proudly so.
7/10 July 14, 2026
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Zulu : A New Tomorrow
Los Angeles powerviolence becomes an African-American manifesto: 88/100 for a record as brief as it is vital.
9/10 July 14, 2026
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Dødheimsgard : Black Medium Current
The Norwegians transfigure black metal into a psychedelic voyage: 89/100 for an avant-garde work.
9/10 July 14, 2026
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Horrendous : Ontological Mysterium
The Americans reconcile old-school death metal and progressive freedom: 88/100 for a record of rare elegance.
9/10 July 15, 2026
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Cattle Decapitation : Terrasite
The peak of a death metal turned discourse: 89/100 for a work where ecological apocalypse becomes music.
9/10 July 15, 2026
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Gojira : Fortitude
The album of militant maturity: more melodic, more varied, and a historic Grammy win.
8/10 July 18, 2026
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Gojira : Magma
The record of mourning: Gojira strip back and sign their most moving album.
8.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Emptiness : Nowhere Speaks
Spectral blackened death and Brussels industrial: "it does not narrate; it confronts". 7.5 average.
7.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Gojira, L’Enfant Sauvage
Entering the top rank: a more direct, sharper Gojira, losing none of its depth.
8.5/10 July 19, 2026
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