Judge: Bringin It Down
If youth crew had a bright, fraternal side, Judge embodied its dark half, the cold anger and the conviction pushed all the…
8.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Youth of Today: Break Down the Walls
Some records define a movement so completely that they become its face. Break Down the Walls, released in 1986, is one of…
8.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Sick of It All: Scratch the Surface
By 1994, Sick of It All was no longer a well kept secret of the Lower East Side. The band was carrying…
8.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Agnostic Front: Victim in Pain
Some records do not just deliver music, they draw a map. Victim in Pain, released in 1984, is one of them. In…
8.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
Trilogy finale bordering on critical genuflection: 9.8/10 at Sonic Perspectives. Out September 4.
8.5/10 September 1, 2026
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Russian Circles: Nine
The season's best-reviewed record: 83/100, zero reservations. Instrumental post-metal at its peak.
8.5/10 September 1, 2026
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Deftones: private music
87/100 across nineteen reviews: the alternative-metal masters return to near-unanimous acclaim.
8.5/10 August 30, 2026
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Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound
86/100: the Californian "ecstatic black metal" crew turn darkness into light.
8.5/10 August 29, 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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Fen: Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth
English atmospheric black at its peak: "my favorite Fen album to date" (AMG 4.0), 9/10 from Dead Rhetoric.
8.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Blackbraid: Blackbraid III
85/100: Sgah'gahsowáh's atmospheric, Native American black metal keeps fascinating.
8.5/10 August 25, 2026
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Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern
85/100: the German atmospheric-black-metal outfit reach a rare intensity.
8.5/10 August 25, 2026
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URNE: Setting Fire To The Sky
84/100: the Britons confirm a heavy, melodic and ambitious metal.
8.5/10 August 24, 2026
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Hellripper: Coronach
84/100: Scottish riff-machine James McBain unleashes his blackened speed metal.
8.5/10 August 23, 2026
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Deftones: Diamond Eyes
The rebirth: after tragedy, a luminous and vital record.
8.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Parkway Drive: Horizons
Horizons lifts Parkway Drive to metalcore benchmark status.
8.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Mastodon: Emperor of Sand
The return of the concept: cancer and the desert, a grave and masterful record.
8.5/10 August 13, 2026
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Deftones: Ohms
The great return: reunited with Terry Date, a taut and masterful record.
8.5/10 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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Fires in the Distance, Circadian Promise
85/100: the Americans' melodic, piano-laced death/doom moves the critics.
8.5/10 August 10, 2026
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Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere
87/100 across fourteen reviews: the Americans' cosmic death metal reaches a new dimension.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
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Uniform, American Standard
87/100: the New York duo push their industrial noise toward a suffocating intensity.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
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Thou, Umbilical
85/100 across twelve reviews: the Louisiana sludge crew deliver their most direct, raging record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Nightwish, Yesterwynde
86/100: the Finns push their cinematic symphonic metal to new heights.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Opeth, The Last Will and Testament
84/100: the Swedes bring back the growls and deliver an ambitious concept record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Job for a Cowboy, Moon Healer
85/100: the Americans' return confirms their shift into a first-rate progressive-death band.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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Ihsahn, IHSAHN
85/100: the ex-Emperor mastermind unfurls an orchestral, black-metal album of wild ambition.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Vitriol, Suffer & Become
85/100: the Americans' furious tech-death impresses with its controlled violence.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Fleshgod Apocalypse, Opera
87/100: the Italians fuse technical death metal and symphonic grandeur with excess.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Speed, ONLY ONE MODE
86/100: the Australians inject wild energy and positivity into hardcore.
8.5/10 August 5, 2026
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Hamferð, Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
86/100: Faroese death/doom reaches an overwhelming solemnity.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Persefone, Lingua Ignota: Part I
86/100: the Andorran progressive-metal act unfurl a luminous virtuosity.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Unto Others, Never, Neverland
86/100: the Americans wed heavy metal and gothic post-punk with rare elegance.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Oceans of Slumber, Where Gods Fear To Speak
85/100: the Texans' gothic, progressive metal, carried by Cammie Beverly's masterful voice.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
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Defeated Sanity, Chronicles of Lunacy
84/100: the Germans, masters of technical brutal death, push the genre's limits.
8.5/10 August 3, 2026
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Crypt Sermon, The Stygian Rose
85/100: the Americans' epic doom summons the grandeur of metal's origins.
8.5/10 August 3, 2026
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