The Ghost Inside: Get What You Give
There is in metalcore a lineage of bands that refuse darkness in favor of light, and The Ghost Inside is one of…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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The Exploited: Punks Not Dead
Released in 1981, Punks Not Dead is The Exploited’s debut album and one of the most famous rallying cries in British punk.…
8/10 September 19, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis
Option Paralysis arrives after a label switch and a drummer change, yet The Dillinger Escape Plan never sounds like it’s rebuilding from…
7.5/10 September 26, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: One of Us Is the Killer
The fourth studio album from the New Jersey outfit, One of Us Is the Killer landed in 2013 as another statement from…
8.5/10 September 16, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Miss Machine
Released in 2004, Miss Machine is The Dillinger Escape Plan’s second studio album and the first with Greg Puciato on vocals. After…
8.5/10 September 16, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Ire Works
Released in 2007, Ire Works is The Dillinger Escape Plan’s third album and one of the most adventurous of its career. The…
8.5/10 September 16, 2026
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
Released in 1999, Calculating Infinity, the debut album from the New Jersey band, redefined what extreme metal could attempt. The Dillinger Escape…
9/10 September 11, 2026
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The Chariot: Wars and Rumors of Wars
By 2009, The Chariot were already a strange and singular animal in the chaotic hardcore landscape. Fronted by Josh Scogin, the former…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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The Chariot: One Wing
Released in 2012, One Wing would become the final studio chapter of The Chariot, Josh Scogin’s band announcing its breakup the following…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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The Chariot: Long Live
When The Chariot released Long Live in 2010, the Atlanta band had already built a reputation resting as much on their live…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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The Chariot: Before There Was
With Before There Was, The Chariot keeps digging the trench it carved for itself from the start: a hardcore that refuses straight…
7.5/10 September 28, 2026
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The Callous Daoboys: I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
85/100: the wildest mathcore around reaches an unexpected maturity.
8.5/10 August 28, 2026
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The Acacia Strain: You Are Safe from God Here
81/100: the heaviest deathcore veterans keep digging their nihilistic furrow.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Textures, Genotype
85/100: the Dutch progressive-djent pioneers deliver a highly praised return.
8.5/10 August 12, 2026
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Tetrarch: Unstable
The second album by American band Tetrarch, Unstable arrived in 2021 and pushed the Atlanta quartet to the forefront of the nu…
6/10 September 23, 2026
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Testament: The Legacy
Testament’s first album, The Legacy (1987), is one of the great debuts of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene. Arriving after…
8/10 September 19, 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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Terror : Still Suffer
Zero surprises, ferocious execution: 75/100 for veterans proving hardcore is in rude health.
7.5/10 April 26, 2026
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Taproot: Gift
Taproot’s first album for a major label, Gift arrived in 2000 with the reputation of a band courted then dropped by Fred…
6/10 September 23, 2026
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Tallah: Matriphagy
The debut album by American band Tallah, Matriphagy came out in 2020 and stands as one of the most frantic offerings of…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Taake: Nattestid ser porten vid
Taake’s debut, Nattestid ser porten vid (1999), is the near-solitary work of Hoest, the one-man engine of Norwegian black metal. Far from…
8/10 September 21, 2026
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System of a Down: Toxicity
System of a Down’s second album, Toxicity, propelled the Los Angeles band to the summit of alternative metal. Produced by Rick Rubin,…
9.5/10 September 17, 2026
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Symphony X: The Odyssey
The sixth album by the American band Symphony X, The Odyssey, released in 2002, marks a decisive step in the evolution of…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Sylosis: The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Sylar: Seasons
The second album from New York’s Sylar, Seasons crystallises in 2016 their brand of nu metalcore laced with rap and pop hooks.…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Swallow the Sun : Shining
The Finnish masters of sorrow find an unexpected glimmer: 81/100 for a record brighter than usual.
8/10 June 10, 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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Surge Of Fury, It’s Gonna Be…
Surge Of Fury unleashes a massive, no-detour hardcore.
7.3/10 August 13, 2026
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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
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Sunami: Sunami
Coming out of the San Francisco Bay Area scene, Sunami made a name for themselves in very little time with a beatdown…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Sumac & Moor Mother: The Film
82/100 across ten reviews: the meeting of Sumac's tectonic sludge and Moor Mother's poetry.
8/10 August 22, 2026
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Suffocation : Hymns from the Apocrypha
The architects of technical death metal hold their course: 80/100 for a controlled return.
8/10 June 5, 2026
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Stuck Mojo: Snappin’ Necks
Released in 1995, Snappin’ Necks is the debut album by American act Stuck Mojo and one of the founding works of Southern…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Strife: One Truth
With One Truth, released in 1994, Strife signs one of the landmark records of West Coast metallic hardcore. The Los Angeles band,…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Strife: In This Defiance
The mid nineties saw hardcore harden, load itself with metal, gain in heaviness and compactness. Strife fully accompanied that movement, and In…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Stray from the Path: Only Death Is Real
Few modern hardcore bands own their political dimension as openly as Stray from the Path. Coming from Long Island, in New York…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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