Top Pick
H.E.A.T – Welcome to the Future (hair metal)
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Release Roundup
Aeonyzhar – The Profane Era (blackened death metal/doom)
Ahamkara – The Harrow Of The Lost (progressive post-black)
Ancient Bards – Artifex (symphonic power metal)
Ancst – Dominion (crusty metalcore)
Angels On Fire – Falling From The Sky (heavy/doom metal)
Another Damn Disappointment – Bedlam (punk metal)
Aortes – Carrion (doomy post-metal)
Art Nation – The Ascendance (melodic rock)
Assimilated Transdimensionalization – Neuroforged in the Womb of Wires (brutal death metal)
Ataudes – Tempus Edax Rerum (black/death metal)
Avenger Of Blood – Revenge Is My Name (black thrash)
Bank Myna – Eimuria (ambient, post-doom)
Bark – The Time Has Come (death thrash)
Behölder – In The Temple Of Tyrant (heavy/doom metal)
Big Boy – Love Songs (hardcore)
Big|Brave – Ost (ambient post/drone)
Billy Idol – Dream Into It (pop-rock)
Black Sword Thunder Attack – Black Sword Thunder Attack (heavy metal)
Blastanus – Land Of The Weak, Home Of The Slave (tech grind)
Blister Brigade – A Rioting New Breed (thrash)
Brick By Brick – Collapse (beatdown hardcore, groove death)
BRUIT ≤ – The Age Of Ephemerality (progressive post–rock)
Cadaver – Hymns Of Misanthropy (weird/techish death metal)
Caliban – Back From Hell (death/metalcore)
Cancer – Inverted World (death metal)
Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment (death metal/grind)
Cell Intruder – Den of Deformity (death metal)
Changeling – Changeling (progressive/technical death metal)
Cineastre – Fortgang (post-black/gaze)
Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble (brutal death metal)
Cogas – Among The Dead: How To Become A Ghost (blackened death metal)
Conan – Violence Dimension (sludge doom)
Corrupter – Gloria in Profundis (blackened/brutal death metal)
Cosmic Cathedral – Deep Water (prog rock)
Cotoba – Sin Swims (post-rock)
Danny Veras – Can’t Stop The Rock (please stop)
David Eugene Edwards and Al Cisneros – Pillar of Fire / Capernaum (stoner/psych rock)
Dead Shrine – Cydonia Mensa (stoner metal/doom)
Deserted Fear – Veins Of Fire (alt groove, melodeath)
Desolator – Spirit of Speed (thrash)
Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn (speedy death metal)
Drain Down – Mental Pollution (thrash)
Earl Of Hell – Earl Of Hell (spooky goth-metal)
Echoes of the Extinct – Era of Darkness (melodeath)
Eluveitie – Ànv (folk metal)
Employed To Serve – Fallen Star (sludgy metalcore) Review
Epic Death – The Seer (symphonic/blackened melodeath)
Eyes – Spinner (crusty hard/metal/mathcore)
Fat Bastard – Barely Dressed (very bad metal)
Felgrave – Otherlike Darknesses (long prog-black)
Gaffed – I Can Feel Myself Rot (death metal)
Game Over – Face The End (thrash)
Ghost – Skeleta (heavy/occult metal)
GhostSeeker – Divergence (nu/groove metal)
The Great Sea – Noble Art Of Desolation (post metal, meloblack)
Greengoat – Aloft (blackish doom metal)
Ǥứŕū – Revel in the End of the World (blackened doom)
Hans & Valter – The Legend Of The Oakensource (power folk)
Harem Scarem – Chasing Euphoria (melodic rock)
Heart Attack Man – Joyride The Pale Horse (acoustic pop punk)
Hexekration Rites – Misanthropic Path of Carnal Deliverance (blackened death metal)
Higher Walls – No End (sludge-core)
Hyena – About Rock And Roll (heavy metal)
Imminent Sonic Destruction – Floodgate (prog metal)
Inhuman Nature – Greater Than Death (crossover thrash)
Insineratehymn – Irreverence Of The Divine (death metal)
Insomnia Creep – Questions? (stoner sludge)
Jack Starr – Out Of The Darkness Part II (heavy metal)
Kardashev – Alunea (progressive/post-death metal) Review
Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (nu metal, baddiecore)
Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (symphonic metal, power doom?)
Lord Vampyr – The Greatest Bloodbath (blackened goth metal)
Machine Head – UNATØNED (grøøve thrash) Review
Mad Invasion – Crack In The Sky (doom metal)
Malforce – Force du Mal (death thrash)
Mano de Piedra – Tales From The Burnt House (post metal)
Martoriator – Bloodpainted Visions of Perpetual Conflict (blackened deathgrind)
Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun (stoner rock)
Monhell – A Last Sigh Of Pain (doomy meloblack)
Morbific – Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh (brutal death metal)
Northvoid – Ember Remains (melodeath)
Oak – The Third Sleep (mellow prog)
Of the Muses – Underheavens: Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater (pop-ambient, post post-black?)
Onsetter – Malice (fuzzy sludge)
Opia – I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep (mellowdoom)
Oracle Hands – Dirge For The Doomed (gothy/blackened sludge)
Oresund Space Collective – Alotta Hella Down In Estrela (space prog)
Oria – This Future Wants Us Dead (weird/progressive groove-metal)
Ornamentos del Miedo – Vacío como el tronco de un árbol muerto (blackish funeral doom)
Osmed – The Final Singularity (brutal death metal)
Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel (industrial goth)
Övervåld – Vigarv (death metal)
Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead (doom rock)
Panzerballett – Übercode Œuvre (y tho?)
Parthian – Mortuorum (groove death)
Phantom – Tyrants Of Wrath (speed metal, thrash)
Phoschydeux – 4 Days of Bliss in Hell (blackish doom)
PLQ MRX – Cumgitsum (noise sludge)
Point Mort – Le point de non-retour (post/-blackened hardcore)
Prost – Believe Again (melodic rock/AOR)
The Riven – Visions Of Tomorrow (heavy metal)
Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy (heavy metal, thrash)
Samiarus – Reign Destroyer (noisy/blackened death-doom)
Serj Tankian – Foundations (alt metal)
Sijjin – Helljjin Combat (death metal/thrash)
Slamdinistas – Wild & Restless (punk/garage rock)
Snow White Blood – A Spark of Truth (symphonic/power metal)
Society Of Villains – Good & Evil (weird/pop rock)
The Storyteller – The Final Stand (power metal)
Structure – Heritage (funeral doom)
Sumac + Moor Mother – The Film (weird post-sludge?)
Sunflower Bean – Mortal Primetime (goth rock)
Supreme Void – Towards Oblivion (blackened disso-death)
Teaser Sweet – Night Stalker (hard rock/metal)
Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind (alt/hard rock)
Titan Rage – Colossal (groove death)
Trick Or Treat – Ghosted (power metal)
Urisk – Shrivelling Lights (black doom)
Valkenrag – Fury Untamed (folkened meloblack)
Vape Warlök – …And His Skull Shall Make My Bong (stoner sludge/doom)
Venator – Psychodrome (heavy/speed metal)
The Victorious Dead – The Reaper At The Gates (black metal)
Void King – The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter II (doom)
Voland – The Grieving Fields (folk metal)
Vomitizer – Release The Rats (crossover death metal)
Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis (Rob Zombie at home, only-semi-derogatory)
Where Evil Follows – Ruination Revelation (speed thrash)
Wisdom & Fools – Prophecy (progish death metal, thrash)
The Yagas – Midnight Minuet (goth metal)