SpiritWorld — Helldorado
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
8/10 August 23, 2026
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
Stabbing — Eon of Obscenity
80/100: the Americans' technical, brutal death metal impresses with its density.
8/10 August 8, 2026
Static Dress — Rouge Carpet Disaster
British post-hardcore is reborn under a nervy pen: 81/100 for an ambitious debut album.
8/10 June 13, 2026
Stick To Your Guns — Keep Planting Flowers
83/100: the Californian melodic-hardcore veterans hit true and hard.
8/10 August 22, 2026
Suffocation — Hymns from the Apocrypha
The architects of technical death metal hold their course: 80/100 for a controlled return.
8/10 June 5, 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
Sunn O))) — Sunn O)))
79/100 across twenty reviews: the drone kings' self-titled album, a mass of low frequencies.
8/10 August 29, 2026
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
Swallow the Sun — Shining
The Finnish masters of sorrow find an unexpected glimmer: 81/100 for a record brighter than usual.
8/10 June 10, 2026
Sylosis — The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
Terror — Still Suffer
Zero surprises, ferocious execution: 75/100 for veterans proving hardcore is in rude health.
7.5/10 April 26, 2026
TesseracT — War of Being
The British atmospheric-djent band deliver their most accomplished record: 86/100.
8.5/10 July 14, 2026
Textures — Genotype
85/100: the Dutch progressive-djent pioneers deliver a highly praised return.
8.5/10 August 12, 2026
The Acacia Strain — You Are Safe from God Here
81/100: the heaviest deathcore veterans keep digging their nihilistic furrow.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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
The Hives — The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
The grand return of the Swedish garage-rock dandies: 80/100 for a record of pure adrenaline.
8/10 June 8, 2026
The HU — HUN
A strange stream of sound like nobody else: 73/100 for the Mongolian cavalry.
7.5/10 July 27, 2026
The Ocean — Holocene
The German collective close their geological fresco with restraint: 82/100 for a record more atmospheric than ever.
8/10 June 17, 2026
The Plot In You — The Plot In You
A compilation dressed as a self-titled album — but the songs are strong enough for 80/100.
8/10 July 12, 2026
The Scratch — Pull Like a Dog
81/100: the Irish fuse metal and traditional music with contagious energy.
8/10 August 12, 2026
The Warning — Everything’s Falling
83/100: the Mexican sisters' trio confirm their powerful, melodic hard rock.
8/10 August 10, 2026
Thou — Umbilical
85/100 across twelve reviews: the Louisiana sludge crew deliver their most direct, raging record.
8.5/10 August 6, 2026
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
Triosphere — Oceans Above, Stars Below
93/100: the Norwegians' long-awaited return opens at the top of the aggregates.
9/10 August 8, 2026
Turnstile — Glow On
Hardcore reinvented as broad-daylight music: 89/100 for the album that dragged the genre out of the basement.
9/10 June 12, 2026
Turnstile — Never Enough: Versions
From Elton John to Dying Fetus, twenty-two wildly uneven reworks: not an album, a flex.
7.5/10 August 30, 2026
Ulcerate — Cutting the Throat of God
88/100: the New Zealanders of dissonant death metal deliver their masterpiece.
9/10 August 7, 2026
Undeath — It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave
The new guard of old-school death metal embrace their heritage: 82/100 for a jubilant, uncomplexed record.
8/10 June 21, 2026
Uniform — American Standard
87/100: the New York duo push their industrial noise toward a suffocating intensity.
8.5/10 August 7, 2026
Unto Others — Never, Neverland
86/100: the Americans wed heavy metal and gothic post-punk with rare elegance.
8.5/10 August 4, 2026
URNE — Setting Fire To The Sky
84/100: the Britons confirm a heavy, melodic and ambitious metal.
8.5/10 August 24, 2026
Venom — Into Oblivion
79/100: the English godfathers who named black metal keep the house standing.
8/10 August 23, 2026
Venom Prison — Erebos
Violence in the service of a message: 83/100 for a British death metal as ferocious as it is lucid.
8/10 June 6, 2026
Viagra Boys — Cave World
Swedish social satire hits a new peak of causticity: 82/100 for a record as funny as it is disquieting.
8/10 June 8, 2026
Viande — Monument aux morts
Frightening texture, an hour too full: Chambéry black/death impresses without yet crushing.
7/10 August 5, 2026