Top Picks
Judiciary – Stalagmite Angels (metallic hardcore, groove thrash)
You ever see Gatecreeper, and they’re like four skinny hardcore dudes and then there's the guitarist, who’s this big death metal guy who’s a head taller than everyone, weighs more than the rest of them combined and absolutely shits riffs? Judiciary are what you get if he was all the other members as well.
Februus – Construction Of Conflict (prog death)
I get what Mitchell is saying about the mix on this album being unbalanced, but it doesn't bother me that much and the guitars are so damn tasty I don't really care how far forward they are!
Rebecca Black – Age of the Exhibitionist (sexy dance-pop)
I'd make a "Gotta get down" joke (or should that be "go down" now?), but this actually slaps though.
Release Roundup
Acausal Intrusion – Vomit Meditations (noisy/blackened disso-death)
Accept – Teutonic Titans: 1976-2026 (heavy metal)
Amyl And The Sniffers – Truth Or Consequence (country covers)
Ancient Malice – Worm Tongue (crust black)
A-tota-so – I Told You So (alt prog, math sludge?)
Arab Strap – Half-Told Tales (progressive/electro indie, Scotch slam)
Audrey Horne – Achilles (heavy metal/rock)
AV Sunset – Vs Reality (post rock)
Avern – Unique and Eternal (black metal)
Bacht’n de Vulle Moane – Verdwazing Der Dwazen (kraut black)
Barbarian Prophecies – Echoes (groove death)
Behemoth – I, Scvlptor (blackened death metal)
Beyond Seventh Dimension – Tähtien ikuinen suru (progressive/post balck metal)
Bitter – Slamosaurus Rex (slamish death metal)
The Black Wizards – Force Majeure & the Acts of God (psyche rock)
Bloodshed – Punishments Beyond Comprehension (metallic hardcore)
Bootes Void – Panta Rhei (deathened black metal)
Castxdown – The Statement (metallic hardcore)
Castle – Carrie Chains (heavy/doom metal)
Chat Pile – Who Loves the Sun (industrial sludge)
Dead Meat – Devoured Ferociously (brutal death emtal)
Demonic Manifestation – Grimshrine (death metal)
Deviated Instinct – Scavenger Gospel (crust death)
Devil Master – Bloody Dreams (speed black)
Dorena – Kvar (post rock)
Elk Hunter – Arriving Intact (weird black metal)
Encasement – Encasement (black metal)
Exitium Sui – Unravelling (blackened funeral-doom)
Fog Wall – Gloomweaver (death metal)
Godblood – Fuck the Skull (groove black)
Godslut – The Art Of Deconstruction (death metal)
Gradience – Anomaly (rap metal)
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex (prog metal)
Grey Shores – Dark Waters Of Night (progressive meloblack)
Grimner – Stormvingar (folk metal, melodeath)
Hadopelagyal – Zalmathic Necroichorion (brutal noise-death)
Hellmetall – Mgla (black thrash)
Herfstdood/Kärv – Schemerfluisteringen (I) (post-back metal)
Hexenhammer – Hexenhammer (heavy metal, post-doom)
Holy Dragons – Guardians of Time Part II (speed metal)
Judicator – The Elector (power metal)
Kavernist – Holocene Blues (sludgy deathgrind)
Killing Spree – Tales of Anthropophagy (brutal death metal)
Kingcrown – Moonfall (power metal)
Lifeswallower – Lifeswallower (weird sludge)
Lost Velvet – Dark Cells (prog post)
Mad Max – Stories Of Destiny (melodic rock)
Mental Disorder – Neural Lamentation of the Broken Lilith (slaming brutal death)
Monochromatic Residua – Forbidden Kaleidoscopic Abomination (shitty tech-death)
Moon Destroys – Omni (grungy stoner-prog)
Movements – Happier Now (emo)
mr.phylzzz – Fear The Lord (alt rock/metal)
A Night In Texas – The Darkest Side Of Humanity (deathcore)
Nott – As All Is Undone (sludge djent)
156/Silence – From A Distance (nu metalcore)
Pelegrin – The Curse Of Nephtar (stoner prog) Premiere
Pakosteň – Spevy smutných Lotrov (black metal)
President – Blood Of Your Empire (who even listens to this?)
Purest Form – Resistance (industrial, rave-metal)
Pyroclast – Fractured State (heavy/power metal)
Rahvn – The Purity of Vengeance (blackened death metal)
Rūdus – Ghost/Echoe (poat rock)
Sandekala – Mata Pedang Penghabisan (symphonic/industrial power-black?)
Sardonic Witchery – Hell’s Thorns Attack (meloblack)
Sauros – Offense (sludge doom)
Saviourself – Hard Launch (nu metalcore)
Seraina Telli – Green Live (y tho?)
Severoth – Waves (progressive post-black)
Shakra – Just Live Loud! (heavy metal, butt rock)
Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Loneliness (nu metalcorecore) Review
Sigh – Goh-Ka (very-progressive black metal)
Sight Of Theia – The Great Dreamer (alt prog)
Skuggor – The Expanse (mellowblack)
Slovenians – Birds Of Disgrace (crust punk)
Sleep – Hempispheres (stoner doom) Review
Stick Men – Let’s Thrak Again (jazz prog)
Sun Guts – Supervoid (djent)
Stormbringer – Transcendence (heavy metal)
Sworn – Null Crowned The Infinite (meloblack)
Titanosaur – A Thousand Suns (stoner sludge)
The Unknown – Graveyard Of Empires (heavy metal)
Vanaheim – Roede voor de Borst (folk metal)
Vanessa Funke – Aura (gothic melodeath)
Veilcaste – Hellward (sludge)
Venomous Echoes – Ŋvęŧş: Violator Of Mater (weird symphonic/noise-black)
Vredesverk – The Sanguine Heir (symphonic melodeath)
Wince and Frisson – Tumult (blackened death metal)
Witchburner – Black Raging Flames (thrash)
Zahna – Break Or Breakthrough (pop metal, baddiecore)
Zvindiyar – Six Rites (progressive death metal)