Unto Others: Mana
Before becoming Unto Others, this Portland band went by another name, and Mana was released under that original identity, as a collective…
7.5/10 October 20, 2026
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Altarage: Worst Case Scenario
There is something almost unhealthy about Altarage’s consistency. The anonymous collective from Bilbao keeps stacking albums like geological strata, each one more…
7.5/10 October 19, 2026
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Stabbing: Extirpated Mortal Process
Stabbing belongs to that generation of American bands that grew up with the idea that technicality and brutality don’t exclude each other,…
7.5/10 October 15, 2026
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Mork: Syv
Thomas Eriksen never truly deviates from his path, and that’s precisely what makes Mork fascinating to follow year after year. With Syv,…
7.5/10 October 15, 2026
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The Warning: ERROR
There’s something almost provocative about the way The Warning opens ERROR: three sisters from Monterrey, raised on viral covers, who decide to…
7.5/10 October 13, 2026
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Cancer Bats: Psychic Jailbreak
There’s something slightly vertiginous about rediscovering Cancer Bats after the departure of a guitarist who had shaped a good part of their…
7.5/10 October 13, 2026
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Conan: Evidence of Immortality
Conan has never needed nuance to exist. From Liverpool, the trio has been building a cathedral of maximum-slowed riffs for years, and…
7.5/10 October 12, 2026
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Dying Wish: Fragments of a Bitter Memory
With Fragments of a Bitter Memory, Dying Wish immediately establishes itself as a band that shows no interest in seducing gently. The…
7.5/10 October 12, 2026
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Coroner: Grin
With Grin, Coroner closes a cycle and opens a door it will never truly walk through. The Zurich group, accustomed to labyrinthine…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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Whitechapel: Kin
After The Valley, which opened an unprecedented emotional breach in Whitechapel’s sound, the Knoxville band returns with Kin, still produced by Mark…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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SpiritWorld: DEATHWESTERN
There’s something quite exhilarating about the way SpiritWorld refuses to pick a side. The project led by Stu Folsom doesn’t pretend to…
7.5/10 October 9, 2026
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Hellripper: Death Wish
James McBain has never hidden his fondness for dirty riffs and blast-beats that reek of spilled beer over a Marshall amp. With…
7.5/10 October 8, 2026
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Frozen Soul: Glacial Domination
Frozen Soul has never hidden its ambition: to embody old-school death metal carved from ice, massive and unadorned, conceived as an advancing…
7.5/10 October 8, 2026
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Cryptopsy: As Gomorrah Burns
Cryptopsy never needed to reinvent itself to stay dangerous. Since None So Vile, the Montreal band has built its reputation on crushing…
7.5/10 October 6, 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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Fen: Monuments to Absence
There is something immutable about Fen, a way of constantly returning to that same landscape of marshes and low skies that built…
7.5/10 October 4, 2026
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Queens of the Stone Age: Villains
With Villains, Queens of the Stone Age makes a turn that wasn’t necessarily expected: handing the controls to Mark Ronson, a producer…
7.5/10 October 4, 2026
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Darkest Hour: Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora
After a self-titled album that had sown doubt among part of their fanbase, Darkest Hour returns in 2017 with a record that…
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Triosphere: The Road Less Travelled
With The Road Less Travelled, Triosphere closes one chapter and opens another. After a debut album forged in rawer urgency, the Trondheim…
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Anthrax: Cursum Perficio
Ten years after For All Kings, Anthrax return. The press applauds, the public trails a notch behind. Consensus: 7.5/10.
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Gel: Violent Closure
It’s hard to be more direct than this Violent Closure, released by Gel in 2021. This short format, a handful of tracks…
7.5/10 October 2, 2026
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200 Stab Wounds: Slave to the Scalpel
Cleveland isn’t known for its death metal scene, but 200 Stab Wounds is here to set the record straight with a brutality…
7.5/10 October 1, 2026
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Hulder: Verses In Oath
Following the warm welcome given to Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry, Hulder returns with Verses In Oath, an album that makes…
7.5/10 October 1, 2026
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Amon Amarth: Berserker
Amon Amarth never reinvents the formula, it polishes it. With Berserker, the Swedish band recovers an energy that hadn’t been felt in…
7.5/10 September 30, 2026
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Norma Jean: Deathrattle Sing for Me
Norma Jean has never been in the business of making things easy, and Deathrattle Sing for Me drives that point home with…
7.5/10 September 29, 2026
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Hatebreed: Weight of the False Self
There is something reassuring about Hatebreed: since Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, the Connecticut band has never deviated from its trajectory,…
7.5/10 September 28, 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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Code Orange: What is Really Underneath?
Released the same year as The Above, What is Really Underneath? is neither a simple bonus disc nor a rehash: it’s the…
7.5/10 September 28, 2026
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The Ghost Inside: Searching for Solace
There’s something almost paradoxical about watching The Ghost Inside, a band built on endurance and the repetition of a proven formula, suddenly…
7.5/10 September 28, 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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Gallows: Orchestra of Wolves
When Gallows arrived from Watford, England, with Orchestra of Wolves in 2006, the British hardcore punk scene finally had its knockout band.…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Chubby and the Gang: The Mutt’s Nuts
Led by Charlie Manning, known as Chubby, the London outfit Chubby and the Gang have given punk a taste of pub rock…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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One Step Closer: All You Embrace
Out of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, One Step Closer have established themselves as one of the standard-bearers of contemporary melodic hardcore. With All You…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Drain: Living Proof
Hailing from Santa Cruz, California, Drain built their name on a simple truth: hardcore can be a party without ever softening its…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Kublai Khan TX: Absolute
Released in 2017, Absolute firmly establishes Kublai Khan TX among the rising forces of heavy hardcore. The Texan band from Sherman unfolds…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Jesus Piece: So Unknown
With So Unknown, released in 2023, America’s Jesus Piece confirms all the good the hardcore scene expected of them. The Philadelphia band…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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