Animals as Leaders — Parrhesia
The instrumental trio push the limits of the guitar: 82/100 for a record of dizzying virtuosity.
8/10 June 15, 2026
Soen — Memorial
The Swedes refine their melodic progressive metal: 80/100 for a limpid, committed record.
8/10 June 15, 2026
Vola — Friend of a Phantom
The Danes wed djent, pop and electronics with grace: 81/100 for an immediate, refined record.
8/10 June 14, 2026
Between the Buried and Me — Colors II
The Americans reconnect with their 2007 masterpiece: 82/100 for an outsized prog fresco.
8/10 June 14, 2026
Counterparts — A Eulogy for Those Still Here
The Canadians of melodic metalcore hold their line: 82/100 for a record of rage and mourning.
8/10 June 13, 2026
Fit for an Autopsy — Oh What the Future Holds
The Americans' committed deathcore gains in depth: 81/100 for a record as heavy as it is thoughtful.
8/10 June 13, 2026
Invent Animate — Heavener
The Texans' atmospheric metalcore clears a hurdle: 81/100 for a record of rare elegance.
8/10 June 13, 2026
Static Dress — Rouge Carpet Disaster
British post-hardcore is reborn under a nervy pen: 81/100 for an ambitious debut album.
8/10 June 13, 2026
Better Lovers — Highly Irresponsible
The supergroup born of Every Time I Die hits hard: 82/100 for a record of jubilant violence.
8/10 June 13, 2026
While She Sleeps — Self Hell
The Britons of independent metalcore persevere: 80/100 for a combative, sincere record.
8/10 June 12, 2026
Erra — Cure
The Americans of progressive metalcore polish their craft: 79/100 for a goldsmith's record.
8/10 June 12, 2026
Militarie Gun — Life Under the Gun
Melodic hardcore reaches out to indie rock: 83/100 for a debut album of fine maturity.
8/10 June 11, 2026
Gel — Only Constant
Nineteen minutes of raw, frontal hardcore: 82/100 for a record that hits fast and true.
8/10 June 11, 2026
Scowl — Are We All Angels
Hardcore throws its windows open to grunge and pop: 82/100 for a record mid-moult.
8/10 June 11, 2026
Show Me the Body — Trouble the Water
New York hardcore reinvented with banjo and grime: 80/100 for a harsh, communal record.
8/10 June 11, 2026
Amorphis — Halo
The Finns continue their mythological epic without ever faltering: 82/100 for a fourteenth album of sovereign breadth.
8/10 June 10, 2026
Insomnium — Anno 1696
The melancholy Finns turn a tale of witchcraft into a sonic fresco: 82/100 for a record of rare coherence.
8/10 June 10, 2026
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
Guilt Trip — Armour Of Angels
80.2/100 and four reviews in unison: Manchester delivers Europe's pit record of the year.
8/10 June 9, 2026
Queens of the Stone Age — In Times New Roman…
Josh Homme reopens the wound and delivers a sharp record: 80/100 for the sneering return of the Californians.
8/10 June 9, 2026
IDLES — TANGK
The Britons trade rage for love and gain in depth: 83/100 for a daring turn.
8/10 June 8, 2026
Viagra Boys — Cave World
Swedish social satire hits a new peak of causticity: 82/100 for a record as funny as it is disquieting.
8/10 June 8, 2026
The Hives — The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
The grand return of the Swedish garage-rock dandies: 80/100 for a record of pure adrenaline.
8/10 June 8, 2026
METZ — Up on Gravity Hill
The Canadian noise merchants embrace a new atmospheric breadth: 81/100 for a record of maturity.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Yard Act — Where’s My Utopia?
The English band flee the post-punk cliché and embrace excess: 82/100 for an audacious second album.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Evanescence — Sanctuary
81/100 and a first Billboard Hard Rock No. 1: the press crowns Amy Lee's return, the public debates.
8/10 June 7, 2026
SLIFT — Fantasia
80/100, a Distorted Sound 10/10 and no dissenting voice: Toulouse rules the cosmos.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Blood Command — World Domination
The Norwegians confirm their supercharged hardcore pop punk: 80/100 for an explosive, melodic record.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Frontierer — Oxidized
The calculated chaos of mathcore reaches peaks of aggression: 82/100 for a suffocating record.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Immortal — War Against All
Norwegian black metal pared back to its icy open sea: 80/100 for a convincing first record after Abbath.
8/10 June 7, 2026
Venom Prison — Erebos
Violence in the service of a message: 83/100 for a British death metal as ferocious as it is lucid.
8/10 June 6, 2026
An Autumn for Crippled Children — Closure
The Dutch band's diaphanous melancholy reaches its purest form: 82/100 for a blackgaze of mist.
8/10 June 6, 2026
Ingested — The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
The Britons widen their brutality without betraying it: 80/100 for a finely crafted deathcore.
8/10 June 6, 2026
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
Employed to Serve — Conquering
British rage turns more hymnal without losing its bite: 82/100 for an ambitious metalcore.
8/10 June 5, 2026
Boris — Heavy Rocks (2022)
The insatiable Japanese replay their riff library with glee: 80/100 for a third "Heavy Rocks".
8/10 June 5, 2026