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
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
Pyrrhon — Exhaust
The New Yorkers' organised chaos reaches its point of incandescence: 84/100 for a suffocating record.
8.5/10 June 21, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dying Fetus — Make Them Beg for Death
The technical-death-metal war machine remains implacable: 84/100.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
Enslaved — Heimdal
The Norwegians turn myth into music: 84/100 for a sixteenth album of undimmed ambition.
8.5/10 June 24, 2026
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
Deep Purple — Splat!
A torrent of energy from great-grandfathers: 76/100, Purple's best reception in ages.
7.5/10 July 5, 2026
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
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
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
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
TesseracT — War of Being
The British atmospheric-djent band deliver their most accomplished record: 86/100.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
Ne Obliviscaris — EXUL
The violin and the growl, beauty and fury: 86/100 for the Australians' masterful return.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
Emptiness — Nowhere Speaks
Spectral blackened death and Brussels industrial: "it does not narrate; it confronts". 7.5 average.
7.5/10 July 19, 2026
Haken — In a Fever Dream
Slimmed to a trio, Haken reinvent themselves in 27 minutes: "ingenious and classy", yet "the least Haken-y" release of their career.
8/10 July 19, 2026
Protest The Hero — Within
Rody Walker "better than ever", 87/100: Protest The Hero's return is a masterstroke.
8.5/10 July 20, 2026
Boundaries — Yearning: The unbeautiful after
Grief spat with venom: great metalcore songs undercut by an over-compressed mix.
7/10 July 20, 2026
Loathe — A Stranger To You
Six years slow-cooking, 82/100: Loathe deliver 2026's great art-metalcore record, muddy production included.
8/10 July 21, 2026
Fuming Mouth — The Ringing Bell
Seventh-circle gutturals versus waning creativity: the press splits, the pit will decide.
7/10 July 22, 2026