Bring Me the Horizon: That’s the Spirit
With That’s the Spirit, released in 2015, Bring Me the Horizon cross a decisive threshold. The Sheffield band, once rooted in an…
8/10 September 16, 2026
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Buggin: Concrete Cowboys
A breeze of freshness blows through Concrete Cowboys, Buggin’s debut album released in 2023, and it is a joy to hear. The…
7/10 September 11, 2026
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Bulldoze: The Final Beatdown
A band from New Jersey, Bulldoze stands among the pioneers of beatdown, that subgenre of hardcore cut for pure crushing. The Final…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Bury Tomorrow: Black Flame
The fifth album by British band Bury Tomorrow, Black Flame appeared in 2018 and confirms the group’s place among the safe bets…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Bury Tomorrow: Cannibal
Released in 2020, Cannibal is the sixth album by Bury Tomorrow, a British band that had become one of the pillars of…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Bury Tomorrow: The Union of Crowns
The second album by England’s Bury Tomorrow, The Union of Crowns landed in 2012 as the confirmation of a Southampton outfit determined…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Bury Your Dead: Beauty and the Breakdown
In 2006, Bury Your Dead released Beauty and the Breakdown on Victory Records, marking a clear turning point in the band’s career.…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Bury Your Dead: Cover Your Tracks
In the mid two thousands the American metalcore scene is boiling, and Bury Your Dead holds a place apart within it. The…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Burzum: Hvis lyset tar oss
Recorded by Varg Vikernes in the early 1990s and released in 1994, Hvis lyset tar oss is recognised as a landmark of…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Cage Fight, Exuvia
78/100: the English thrash/hardcore crossover hits short, fast and hard.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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Caliban: I Am Nemesis
Released in 2012, I Am Nemesis marks a clear intent from Caliban to sharpen the edge. After years of refining its metalcore…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Caliban: Say Hello to Tragedy
Released in 2009, Say Hello to Tragedy finds Germany’s Caliban in full confidence, backed by a reputation built across the 2000s on…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Caliban: The Undying Darkness
With The Undying Darkness, released in 2006, Caliban confirmed their place among the major figures of German metalcore. The band refined their…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Caligula’s Horse : Charcoal Grace
The Australians deliver their gravest, most accomplished record: 85/100 for a haunted work.
8.5/10 June 15, 2026
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Cancer Bats, Give Me Dirt
Eight albums, twenty years of service, and one of the warmest receptions of the summer: 79/100 for Give Me Dirt, the best…
8/10 August 10, 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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Candlemass: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Few albums lend their name to an entire subgenre. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986), the debut by Sweden’s Candlemass, is one of them:…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Cane Hill: Smile
With Smile, New Orleans’ Cane Hill established themselves in 2016 as one of the spearheads of the nu metal revival. The debut…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Cannibal Corpse : Chaos Horrific
The most famous institution of death metal does not falter: 80/100 for a record of metronome regularity.
8/10 June 20, 2026
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Carcass: Heartwork
With Heartwork in 1993, Carcass completed a mutation begun on Necroticism. The Liverpool band, pioneers of goregrind with their early records and…
9/10 September 17, 2026
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Cathedral: Forest of Equilibrium
When Lee Dorrian walked away from Napalm Death, a name synonymous with the most extreme grindcore, few expected him to deliver one…
8.5/10 September 20, 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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Cave In : Heavy Pendulum
The Boston veterans reconnect with breadth: 83/100 for a rich, generous return after loss.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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Ceremony: Rohnert Park
Released in 2010, Rohnert Park is a pivotal record in Ceremony’s trajectory, the Californian band taking its title from the name of…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Ceremony: The L-Shaped Man
With The L-Shaped Man, out in 2015 on Matador, Ceremony makes a deliberate and radical turn. The California band, once a standard…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Ceremony: Violence Violence
Ceremony’s first album, out in 2006 on Deathwish, Violence Violence is a concentrate of fury from Rohnert Park, California. The band led…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Chain of Strength: True Till Death
Few bands have left a mark as deep in as little time as Chain of Strength. True Till Death gathers the essence…
8/10 September 11, 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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Chat Pile: Cool World
After the shock of God’s Country, Chat Pile didn’t really have a choice: either repeat the formula or expand it. The Oklahoma…
8.5/10 September 27, 2026
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Chat Pile: Who Loves The Sun
Rapturous early reviews: "the fury has metastasized". Out September 4.
7.5/10 September 1, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe : She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
The priestess of electronic goth reinvents herself: 82/100 for a record of intimate rebirth.
8/10 June 18, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark
Her most accessible album, still haunted. Critics and public aligned at 77/100.
7.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Chevelle: Wonder What’s Next
Wonder What’s Next plants Chevelle firmly in a dense, angular strain of alternative metal, driven by Pete Loeffler’s voice that shifts from…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Chubby and the Gang: Speed Kills
When Speed Kills arrived in 2020, it sounded like a record beamed in from another decade, and that is exactly its strength.…
8/10 September 11, 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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Circle Jerks: Group Sex
Released in 1980, Group Sex is the Circle Jerks’s first album and one of the most radical records of early California hardcore.…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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