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Release Roundup: 5/8/26

In which Black Veil Brides put out a better album than Crashdïet, alongside other new releases by Voidthrone, Basement, Darkthrone, Panopticon, Social Distorion, A Forest of Stars, Frozen Soul, Ingested, Draconian, Gadget, Scarab, Haggard Cat and more, feat. Robb Flynn of Machine Head.

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Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat (weird/blackened deathgrind)

This album sounds the way the new Crashdïet record makes me feel.

Release Roundup

Abuser – Blood Marks (death thrash/grind)

The Ascended – The Damned and The Betrayed (groove metal/core, melodeath)

Aghalmar – Ruin (post-black metal)

Ascended Master – Crepuscular Gloom (black/death metal)

Atmoran – We Fight Back! (thrash)

Baratro – No Comply (sludge)

Basement – Wired (alt rock, emo)

Bjørn Berge Morphine (blues)

Black Sea Of Trees – Cult Of The Sun (blackened prog-doom)

Black Orchid Empire – Lore (alt rock, prog metal)

Black Veil Brides – Vindicate (shitty Trivium, decent BFMV)

Bloodkill – Systemic Disruption (thrash)

Bong Voyage – Hedonistic Hard Rock (guess)

Civil Villains – A Sleeper, Underneath (alt prog)

Conjuring – Memento Mori ((I am so sick of) post-black metal)

Crashdïet – Art of Chaos (y tho?)

Critical Disaster – Blast of Rebellion Day (brutal death metal)

Crystal Winds – Long Live the King (heavy/power metal)

Darkthrone – Pre-Histroic Metal (shitty black metal)

Disassemble – Invest in Fear (spooky groove metal)

Diseased Ways – Remains of Life (death metal)

Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (doom)

Drown in Malice – Amnesie & Hysterie (progressive blackish metal)

Endless Floods – Passages (post doom)

Epilog – Digital Afterlife (prog metal)

Eradikated – Wiring Of Violence (tech thrash)

Erase The File – Crowquill (mathcore)

Exploding Head Syndrome – Deathbeds (hard/altish rock)

Extinct – In Conspiracies We Trust (thrash)

The Flatliners – Cold World (altish rock)

Forced Order – Undying Spirit (hardcore, crossover)

A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface (weird/posty post-black)

Frozen Soul – No Place Of Warmth (brutal groove-death/core)

Gadget – Coerced (grindcore) Review

Galibot – Catabase (post-black metal)

General Chaos – Can’t Please ‘Em All (punk)

Goholor – Locus Damnatorum (black metal)

Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (alt/noise rock)

Harms – Rebirth Of The Cold (blackened mellowdoom)

High Fade – Twice As Nice (southern/funk rock)

Hocico – Unseen Horror Scenes (industrial metal)

Höwler – Beyond Mortal Control (black/death thrash)

Iatt – Etheric Realms Of The Night (progressive meloblack)

Idle Threat – You’ll Forget The Sun (post-hardcore, emo)

In 2 Again – Coins, Currency, Tokens, And Other Related Objects (Glassjaw)

In Their Sleep – Infinite Genesis (death metal/core)

Ingested – Denigration (brutal death/core)

Karcius – Black Soul Sickness (progish metal)

The Keating Contingency – Scream Into The Void (heavy metal)

Koyo – Barely Here (melodic hardcore)

Kurt Deimer – A Grog Is Born (Matal Sucks ad-banner metal)

Lago – Vigil (disso-death)

Lauren Lakis – Deadlights (alt rock, shoegaze)

Lloth – Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions) (powerful meloblack)

Lyrre – Nothing Is Promised (folk metal)

Madvice – L’ottavo giorno (meloblack/death)

Mamorlis – Proving Grounds (heavy/speed metal)

Motus Tenebrae – In Sorrow’s Requiem (doom)

Mörkekraft – Fragments (stoner prog)

The Narrator – Phosphor (metalcore)

Night Vigil – The Ritual (folk, doom?)

Old Moon – Home To Nowhere (post/meloblack)

Panopticon – Det hjemsøkte hjertet (folky/post-black metal)

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers Of Silence (weird noise-doom)

Prolapsed – Apex of Excruciation (brutal death, goregrind)

The Quill – Master Of The Skies (heavy metal)

Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (doom metal)

Rexoria – Fallen Dimension (melodic/power metal)

Saasta – Cesspool (black metal)

Sabotør – Første Aksjon (shitty crust)

sace6 – brutalist (baddiecore)

Sacriversum – Before The Birth Of Light (melodeath)

Scarab – Transmutation Of Fate (death metal)

Scraper – Infinite Journey (heavy/groove metal)

Sense of Fear – Infernal Decay (heavy metal, thrash)

Sins Of Shadow – The Last Frontier (heavy/power metal)

Social Distortion – Born To Kill (grandpa punk, rock)

Solar Mantra – State Of Joyful Lightness (southern rock)

Sungrave – Afterglow (posty alt-rock)

Teloch Vovin – Towards The Inevitable (black metal)

Telomyras – Duskfall (black/doom trad)

Thin Ice – Happiness Ain’t Meant For All (hardcore, crossover)

Thrownness – Marrow Part II: A Fire Through The Ether (post rock)

Torchia – They Are Born Under Rules of The Darkness (blackened death metal)

Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (heavy/power metal)

Trip Villain – Dose (electro)

Twin Serpent – True Norwegian Blackgrass (blackened bluegrass)

Vile Desolation – Annihilating The Consciousness (brutal death metal)

Warside – Cognitive Extinction (brutal death metal)

Who On Earth – It Takes The Village (heavy metal)

Without Mercy – Infinite Loss (groove djent)

Wolfpack Heading Nowhere Wolfpack Heading Nowhere (goth rock, black metal?)

Wormlord – Choices (melodeath)

Wounded Touch – They Promised Eden Vol 1 (hard/metalcore)

Yoth Iria – Gone With The Devil (Rotting Christ at home) Review

Yoyo Club 66 – Yoyo Club 66 (post-black drone)

Zaraza – …And You Will Remember This Winter (black metal)

Joshua Bulleid

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