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
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HEALTH: CONFLICT DLC
79/100 across eight reviews: the Angelenos push their industrial noise toward apocalyptic pop.
8/10 August 22, 2026
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SpiritWorld: Helldorado
80/100: Stu Folsom's "death western", dusty thrash and dried blood.
8/10 August 23, 2026
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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
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Venom: Into Oblivion
79/100: the English godfathers who named black metal keep the house standing.
8/10 August 23, 2026
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Blackwater Holylight: Not Here Not Gone
79/100 across ten reviews: the Americans' dreamlike psychedelic doom still enchants.
8/10 August 23, 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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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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BIG|BRAVE: in grief or in hope
83/100: the Canadian trio sculpt silence and saturation with devastating intensity.
8/10 August 24, 2026
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Spirit Adrift: Infinite Illumination
79/100: Nate Garrett's melodic heavy/doom keeps aiming high.
8/10 August 24, 2026
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Frozen Soul: No Place of Warmth
78/100: the Texans' glacial, old-school death metal stays fearsomely effective.
7.5/10 August 24, 2026
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Saor: Amidst the Ruins
83/100: Andy Marshall's Caledonian metal, between atmospheric black and Scottish folklore.
8/10 August 25, 2026
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Winterfylleth: The Unyielding Season
83/100: the English weave atmospheric black metal steeped in landscape and history.
8/10 August 25, 2026
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Havukruunu: Tavastland
82/100: Finnish pagan black metal in all its epic splendour.
8/10 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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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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Darkthrone: Pre-Historic Metal
80/100: the Norwegian veterans keep morphing into gleefully filthy heavy/black.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Sepultura: The Cloud of Unknowing
79/100: after announcing the end, the Brazilians deliver an honourable last chapter.
8/10 August 26, 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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Voivod: Symphonique
83/100: the Québécois prog-thrash legends re-orchestrate their catalogue with a symphony orchestra.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark
Her most accessible album, still haunted. Critics and public aligned at 77/100.
7.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Devin Townsend: The Moth
83/100: the Canadian polymath delivers another oversized, generous opus.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Archspire: Too Fast to Die
83/100: death metal's fastest Canadians push the tempo limits again.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Sylosis: The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Bleed from Within: Zenith
83/100: the Scots confirm their place atop modern European metalcore.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Conjurer: Unself
80/100: the English progressive-sludge outfit confirm the hype.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Helloween: Giants & Monsters
81/100: the inventors of European power metal, reunited, keep the flame.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Paradise Lost: Ascension
79/100: the English goth/doom godfathers confirm a second youth.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Fallujah: Xenotaph
81/100: the Californians' atmospheric, cosmic death metal regains its shine.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence
81/100: the Canadian tech-death masters hold their rank.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Igorrr: AMEN
83/100: the French mad scientist returns, between metal, baroque and breakcore.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services
83/100: the improbable return of the 1990s chaotic-metalcore pioneers.
8/10 August 28, 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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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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Mayhem: Liturgy of Death
77/100: the Norwegian black-metal legends deliver a solid if debated record.
7.5/10 August 29, 2026
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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
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