Amyl and the Sniffers : Cartoon Darkness
The Australians broaden their horizon without losing any of their rage: 84/100 for their most accomplished record.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
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August Burns Red : Season Of Surrender
Eleven albums, zero fatigue: 84/100 for technical metalcore's safest bet.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
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Wednesday : Rat Saw God
A noisy, devastating portrait of the deep American South: 86/100 for one of the records of the year.
8.5/10 June 8, 2026
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Rolo Tomassi : Where Myth Becomes Memory
Chaos and grace in a single breath: 86/100 for the culmination of a twenty-year mutation.
8.5/10 June 6, 2026
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Converge & Chelsea Wolfe : Bloodmoon: I
Hardcore meets the gothic: 84/100 for a collaboration as improbable as it is spellbinding.
8.5/10 June 6, 2026
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At The Gates : The Ghost of a Future Dead
Tompa Lindberg's posthumous farewell: 85/100, Kerrang! and AMG at full marks. Exit through the front door.
8.5/10 April 27, 2026
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Immolation : Descent
Thirty-five years, zero drop-off: 85/100 for a direct and devastating death metal statement.
8.5/10 April 12, 2026
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Cryptic Shift : Overspace & Supertime
Four 9/10s and a trip into "the obsidian kaleidoscope": 87/100, the winter's extreme-metal peak.
8.5/10 March 1, 2026
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Converge : Love Is Not Enough
Three perfect scores and 87/100 across 13 reviews: hardcore's elder statesmen still have no rival.
8.5/10 February 18, 2026
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Worm : Necropalace
Three 9/10s and a « modern classic » tag: symphonic black metal gets its delusions of grandeur back. 84/100.
8.5/10 February 17, 2026
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Bane: The Note
The Note confirms Bane at the peak of its craft.
8.3/10 August 14, 2026
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Defeated Sanity: The Sanguinary Impetus
There’s something almost absurd about watching a band so deeply rooted in extreme technicality continue, album after album, to push beyond what…
8/10 October 21, 2026
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Finsterforst: Jenseits
With Jenseits, Finsterforst closes a cycle begun years ago around the Black Forest and its legends, and does so with an scope…
8/10 October 20, 2026
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Persefone: Metanoia
It’s hard to approach a Persefone album without thinking of the long shadow cast by Aathma and Spiritual Migration, two landmarks that…
8/10 October 19, 2026
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Fleshgod Apocalypse: Veleno
With Veleno, Fleshgod Apocalypse closes one chapter and opens another. The Perugia band reunites with its singer and rhythm guitarist on lead…
8/10 October 18, 2026
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Ihsahn: Ámr
With Ámr, Ihsahn pulls back some of the doors he had opened on previous records. Gone is the omnipresent saxophone, the sprawling…
8/10 October 18, 2026
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Judas Priest: Firepower
There is something almost miraculous in the way Judas Priest managed, with this record, to rediscover an energy we thought was reserved…
8/10 October 17, 2026
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Thou: Blessings of the Highest Order
There’s something almost pop in certain passages of this record, and it’s precisely what both troubles and fascinates in equal measure. Thou…
8/10 October 17, 2026
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Uniform: Shame
Uniform has never sought comfort, but with Shame, the New York band pushes discomfort to an almost physical breaking point. Released on…
8/10 October 16, 2026
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Marianas Rest: Auer
There are records that don’t seek to surprise but to deepen a groove already laid out, and Auer belongs to that category.…
8/10 October 16, 2026
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A Forest of Stars: Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
There is something profoundly English in the way A Forest of Stars treats death: with a wry smile, a touch of Victorian…
8/10 October 15, 2026
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Bizarrekult: Den Tapte Krigen
There is something profoundly unsettling about the way Bizarrekult manages to blend raw rage with an almost chamber-like melancholy. Den Tapte Krigen…
8/10 October 14, 2026
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Abigail Williams: The Accuser
With The Accuser, Abigail Williams closes one chapter and opens another in the same breath. Ken Sorceron’s band spent years shedding its…
8/10 October 12, 2026
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Epica: Omega
With Omega, Epica closes what the band presents as a trilogy started years earlier, and the album carries this ambition like a…
8/10 October 11, 2026
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper
There’s something organic in the way Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs builds its records, as if each riff grows out…
8/10 October 10, 2026
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HEALTH: RAT WARS
There’s something exhilarating about the way HEALTH closes the Disco chapter and returns to a more direct, darker sound. Rat Wars arrives…
8/10 October 10, 2026
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Portrayal of Guilt: Devil Music
There’s something obscene about the speed with which Portrayal of Guilt delivers its sentences. Devil Music never tries to settle in, it…
8/10 October 9, 2026
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Saor: Caledonia
There is something almost ritualistic about the way Saor opens their albums, and Caledonia follows suit. From the very first bars, the…
8/10 October 7, 2026
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Bleed from Within: Shrine
There are albums that arrive at just the right moment, carried by a momentum you can feel almost physically from the first…
8/10 October 7, 2026
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Conjurer: Mire
Some albums announce their direction from the very first minute, and Mire belongs to this category. From the opening measures, Conjurer establishes…
8/10 October 7, 2026
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Igorrr: Spirituality and Distortion
There is something almost brazen in the way Gautier Serre opens this record. After the already extreme stylistic exercise of Savage Sinusoid,…
8/10 October 6, 2026
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Alcest: Spiritual Instinct
With Spiritual Instinct, Alcest leaves Prophecy Productions to join Nuclear Blast, and this label change is almost physically felt in the record’s…
8/10 October 5, 2026
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Gorod: A Maze of Recycled Creeds
There’s something almost perverse about the way Gorod manages to make complexity enjoyable to listen to. A Maze of Recycled Creeds arrived…
8/10 October 4, 2026
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Insomnium: Heart Like a Grave
There’s something unwavering about Insomnium, a loyalty to a certain idea of sorrow that never truly weakens, album after album. With Heart…
8/10 October 3, 2026
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MØL: Diorama
It’s hard not to think of a snowstorm suddenly breaking to let through a ray of sunlight: that’s the impression Diorama leaves…
8/10 October 2, 2026
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Godflesh: Decay
Billed as Godflesh's penultimate record, Decay earns a rare alignment of press and public. Consensus: 8/10.
8/10 September 29, 2026
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