Whitechapel — Hymns in Dissonance
79/100: the Tennessee deathcore kings reconnect with pure brutality.
8/10 August 15, 2026
Stick To Your Guns — Keep Planting Flowers
83/100: the Californian melodic-hardcore veterans hit true and hard.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Death Hilarious
79/100 across sixteen reviews: the Britons with the impossible name impose their colossal stoner-noise.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Sumac & Moor Mother — The Film
82/100 across ten reviews: the meeting of Sumac's tectonic sludge and Moor Mother's poetry.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Die Spitz — Something to Consume
82/100 across ten reviews: the Texan quartet blow in a gust of raging, clever punk.
8/10 August 22, 2026
HEALTH — CONFLICT DLC
79/100 across eight reviews: the Angelenos push their industrial noise toward apocalyptic pop.
8/10 August 22, 2026
SpiritWorld — Helldorado
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Portrayal of Guilt — …Beginning of The End
78/100: the Texan blackened-hardcore crew spit an ever more desperate violence.
7.5/10 August 23, 2026
Venom — Into Oblivion
79/100: the English godfathers who named black metal keep the house standing.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Blackwater Holylight — Not Here Not Gone
79/100 across ten reviews: the Americans' dreamlike psychedelic doom still enchants.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Hellripper — Coronach
84/100: Scottish riff-machine James McBain unleashes his blackened speed metal.
8.5/10 August 23, 2026
URNE — Setting Fire To The Sky
84/100: the Britons confirm a heavy, melodic and ambitious metal.
8.5/10 August 24, 2026
BIG|BRAVE — in grief or in hope
83/100: the Canadian trio sculpt silence and saturation with devastating intensity.
8/10 August 24, 2026
Spirit Adrift — Infinite Illumination
79/100: Nate Garrett's melodic heavy/doom keeps aiming high.
8/10 August 24, 2026
Frozen Soul — No Place of Warmth
78/100: the Texans' glacial, old-school death metal stays fearsomely effective.
7.5/10 August 24, 2026
Saor — Amidst the Ruins
83/100: Andy Marshall's Caledonian metal, between atmospheric black and Scottish folklore.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Winterfylleth — The Unyielding Season
83/100: the English weave atmospheric black metal steeped in landscape and history.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Havukruunu — Tavastland
82/100: Finnish pagan black metal in all its epic splendour.
8/10 August 25, 2026
Der Weg Einer Freiheit — Innern
85/100: the German atmospheric-black-metal outfit reach a rare intensity.
8.5/10 August 25, 2026
Blackbraid — Blackbraid III
85/100: Sgah'gahsowáh's atmospheric, Native American black metal keeps fascinating.
8.5/10 August 25, 2026
Darkthrone — Pre-Historic Metal
80/100: the Norwegian veterans keep morphing into gleefully filthy heavy/black.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Sepultura — The Cloud of Unknowing
79/100: after announcing the end, the Brazilians deliver an honourable last chapter.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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
Voivod — Symphonique
83/100: the Québécois prog-thrash legends re-orchestrate their catalogue with a symphony orchestra.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Chelsea Wolfe — The Dark
Her most accessible album, still haunted. Critics and public aligned at 77/100.
7.5/10 August 26, 2026
Devin Townsend — The Moth
83/100: the Canadian polymath delivers another oversized, generous opus.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Archspire — Too Fast to Die
83/100: death metal's fastest Canadians push the tempo limits again.
8/10 August 26, 2026
Sylosis — The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Bleed from Within — Zenith
83/100: the Scots confirm their place atop modern European metalcore.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Conjurer — Unself
80/100: the English progressive-sludge outfit confirm the hype.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Helloween — Giants & Monsters
81/100: the inventors of European power metal, reunited, keep the flame.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Paradise Lost — Ascension
79/100: the English goth/doom godfathers confirm a second youth.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Fallujah — Xenotaph
81/100: the Californians' atmospheric, cosmic death metal regains its shine.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Cryptopsy — An Insatiable Violence
81/100: the Canadian tech-death masters hold their rank.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Igorrr — AMEN
83/100: the French mad scientist returns, between metal, baroque and breakcore.
8/10 August 28, 2026
Deadguy — Near-Death Travel Services
83/100: the improbable return of the 1990s chaotic-metalcore pioneers.
8/10 August 28, 2026