Escuela Grind, DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
84/100: the Americans' turbocharged grindcore gives no respite.
8.5/10 August 2, 2026
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Stab, Lost In Maine
Two reviews, zero real objections and a 8.5/10: Maine's bruised love letter to melodic hardcore.
8.5/10 July 26, 2026
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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
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Gojira, The Way of All Flesh
After the cosmos, death: a dark, monumental record on accepting the end.
8.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Gojira, L’Enfant Sauvage
Entering the top rank: a more direct, sharper Gojira, losing none of its depth.
8.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Gojira : Magma
The record of mourning: Gojira strip back and sign their most moving album.
8.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Ne Obliviscaris : EXUL
The violin and the growl, beauty and fury: 86/100 for the Australians' masterful return.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
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TesseracT : War of Being
The British atmospheric-djent band deliver their most accomplished record: 86/100.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
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Enslaved : Heimdal
The Norwegians turn myth into music: 84/100 for a sixteenth album of undimmed ambition.
8.5/10 June 24, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dying Fetus : Make Them Beg for Death
The technical-death-metal war machine remains implacable: 84/100.
8.5/10 June 23, 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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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Pyrrhon : Exhaust
The New Yorkers' organised chaos reaches its point of incandescence: 84/100 for a suffocating record.
8.5/10 June 21, 2026
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White Ward : False Light
When the saxophone haunts black metal: 85/100 for a Ukrainian record of nocturnal beauty.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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Panopticon : The Rime of Memory
A lone American's great winter work: 85/100 for a glacial, devastating meditation.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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Ashenspire : Hostile Architecture
An avant-garde firebrand against social injustice: 87/100 for one of the most original records of the year.
8.5/10 June 20, 2026
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Spectral Wound : Songs of Blood and Mire
Quebecois black metal in its sharpest form: 85/100 for a record of undiminished fury.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Wayfarer : American Gospel
Black metal turned crepuscular western: 84/100 for a fresco on the myth of the American West.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Alcest : Les Chants de l’Aurore
The father of blackgaze finds the light again: 84/100 for a record of luminous grace.
8.5/10 June 19, 2026
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Amenra : De Doorn
The Belgians' sonic ritual reaches a new intensity: 84/100 for a record of liturgical gravity.
8.5/10 June 18, 2026
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Bell Witch : The Clandestine Gate
A single eighty-three-minute piece, suspended outside time: 84/100 for a monument of slowness.
8.5/10 June 17, 2026
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Elder : Innate Passage
The Americans' progressive metamorphosis reaches its fullness: 84/100 for a luminous psychedelic journey.
8.5/10 June 17, 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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Sleep Token : Take Me Back to Eden
The masked collective turn metal into a love liturgy: 84/100 for a third album impossible to file.
8.5/10 June 14, 2026
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Soul Glo : Diaspora Problems
Hardcore as political and vital cry: 87/100 for a record of burning urgency.
8.5/10 June 12, 2026
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Drug Church : Hygiene
Post-hardcore meets 1990s grunge: 84/100 for a record as biting as it is catchy.
8.5/10 June 12, 2026
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Model/Actriz : Dogsbody
Noise rock weds the sensuality of post-punk: 84/100 for a debut of troubling intensity.
8.5/10 June 11, 2026
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Gilla Band : Most Normal
The Irish band make saturation a sonic material: 85/100 for a radically inventive record.
8.5/10 June 10, 2026
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Converge : Hum Of Hurt
"No leftovers here; 2 for 2": Converge's second 2026 album equals the first by digging elsewhere.
8.5/10 June 10, 2026
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