🪦🌅 Album Review: TODOMAL – Graveyards of Joy
Artist: TodoMalAlbum: Graveyards of JoyLabel: Season of MistGenre: Atmospheric Doom Metal / Cinematic Doom / Dark RockRelease: 3 July 2026Tracks: 9Running Time: Approx. 43 minutes 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars There are album titles that tell you precisely what sort of journey…
💀⚔️ Album Review: TEMPLE OF DREAD – Dreadspawn Dominion
Artist: Temple of DreadAlbum: Dreadspawn DominionGenre: Old-School Death Metal / Death MetalRelease: 7 August 2026Label: Testimony RecordsTracks: 10Running Time: 40:16 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Some albums gently invite you inside. Dreadspawn Dominion arrives aboard a bloody great battle trireme, smashes through…
🔥🖤 EP Review: INITIATE – With Love // With Rage
Artist: InitiateEP: With Love // With RageGenre: Hardcore / Melodic Hardcore / Post-HardcoreRelease: 7 August 2026Label: Blue Grape MusicProducer: Zach TuchTracks: 5 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Love and rage. Two emotions that seem like they should exist at completely opposite ends…
🌲⚔️🔥 Album Review: HULDER – Verbolgen
Artist: HulderAlbum: VerbolgenGenre: Black Metal / Medieval Black MetalRelease: 7 August 2026Label: 20 Buck SpinTracks: 9 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars There are records that sound like they were made in expensive studios surrounded by blinking equipment and people discussing compression. Then…
🖤🐉 Album Review: HOLDING ABSENCE – Modern Life Is Lonely
Artist: Holding AbsenceAlbum: Modern Life Is LonelyGenre: Post-Hardcore / Alternative Rock / EmoRelease: 28 August 2026Label: Sumerian RecordsTracks: 11 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Modern life is weird, isn’t it? We’re supposedly more connected than at any point in human history. Phones…
⚡🕺 Album Review: ELECTRIC CALLBOY – TANZNEID
Artist: Electric CallboyAlbum: TANZNEIDGenre: Electronicore / Metalcore / EDM / Party MetalRelease: 7 August 2026Label: Century Media Records 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Some bands want you to headbang. Some bands want you to dance. Electric Callboy want you to do both…
🌿💀 Album Review: CRUMBLING GHOST – Four
Artist: Crumbling GhostAlbum: FourGenre: Doom Folk / Psychedelic Rock / Folk Rock / Doom MetalRelease: 7 August 2026Label: New Heavy Sounds 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars What happens when you take centuries-old folk traditions, drag them through the darkest corner of the…
🖤🌊 Album Review: CITIZEN – Halcyon Blues
Artist: CitizenAlbum: Halcyon BluesLabel: Run For Cover RecordsGenre: Alternative Rock / Emo / Post-Hardcore / Indie RockRelease: 7 August 2026Tracks: 11 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Citizen have never been interested in standing still. Across nearly two decades, the Ohio/Michigan outfit have…
🖤🔥Album Review: CEREMONY – Tell Me Your Dream
Album Review: CEREMONY – Tell Me Your Dream Artist: CeremonyAlbum: Tell Me Your DreamLabel: Relapse RecordsGenre: Hardcore Punk / Post-Punk / Punk RockRelease: 7 August 2026Tracks: 10 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Ceremony have never been a band willing to sit comfortably…
🦇🔥 Album Review: CANCER BATS – Give Me Dirt
Artist: Cancer BatsAlbum: Give Me DirtGenre: Hardcore Punk / Sludge Metal / MetalcoreRelease: 7 August 2026Tracks: 11 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Twenty years into their career, Cancer Bats aren’t interested in cleaning themselves up. Thank bloody Satan for that. 🤘 Give…
Album Review: LALU – A Mythmaker’s Demise 🤘🎹
Artist: LALUAlbum: A Mythmaker’s DemiseGenre: Progressive Metal / Progressive RockRelease: 2026 Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Progressive metal has never been a genre afraid of taking risks, but A Mythmaker’s Demise sees French composer, keyboardist and producer Vivien Lalu push the…
Album Review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Works Live
🎹🤘 Artist: Emerson, Lake & PalmerAlbum: Works LiveGenre: Progressive Rock / Symphonic Rock / Classic RockOriginal Release: 1978 Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars When it comes to live progressive rock albums, few bands could match the sheer musical ambition of Emerson,…
Album Review: EVA UNDER FIRE – Villainous
🤘🔥 Artist: EVA UNDER FIREAlbum: VillainousGenre: Hard Rock / Alternative Metal / Modern RockRelease: 2026 Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars There are albums that simply entertain, and then there are albums that arrive with something to prove. Villainous, the latest release…
Album Review: OSIRIS – Within A Dream 🌌🤘
Artist: OSIRISAlbum: Within A DreamGenre: Progressive Rock / Progressive MetalRelease: 2026 Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Some albums are built around big singles. Others rely on technical fireworks. Within A Dream, the latest release from OSIRIS, manages to blend both into…
Album Review: FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – Legacy
🤘💀 Artist: Five Finger Death PunchAlbum: LegacyGenre: Heavy Metal / Groove Metal / Hard RockRelease: 31 July 2026 Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 5/5 Guitars Twenty years into their career, Five Finger Death Punch could have coasted on their reputation alone. Instead, Legacy…
REVIEW: Masters of Disasters – Handsome Like a Nuclear Bomb 💣🔥
Release Date: June 5th, 2026Genre: Action Rock / Scandi-Rock / Punk Rock ‘n’ RollFFO: Turbonegro, Gluecifer, The Hellacopters, Backyard Babies, early Guns N’ RosesRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (4.5/5) 💣 Oslo’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrecking Crew Strike Again There are albums that gently…
🎨🤘 OATHBOUND’S COLORS IN GREY PROVES THERE’S LIGHT EVEN IN THE DARKEST BREAKDOWNS
Seattle’s emotional metalcore powerhouse continues its rise with a debut album packed with heart, hope, and heavyweight riffs If you’ve ever found yourself staring out of a rain-soaked window wondering why life insists on throwing curveballs faster than a Slipknot…
🎭🔥 ANA: The Melbourne Metal Visionaries Creating Their Own Universe One Riff At A Time
From High Fashion To Heavy Metal – ANA’s Rise Is Unlike Anything Else Happening In Modern Music Every so often a band comes along that doesn’t just write songs. They create a world. A world where music isn’t simply listened…
ELDER’s Through Zero Is A Cosmic Heavy Rock Odyssey Built From Fuzz, Philosophy & Pure Riff Worship 🌌🔥🤘
Some bands hit twenty years together and start coasting. You know the type. Same album.Same setlist.Same leather jacket that smells faintly of 2007 festival cider and regret. But Elder? Nah mun. Not these lads. Two decades into their existence, Elder…
☣️💀 MEGASCAVENGER’S TOXIC NOXIOUS UNDEATH IS THE SOUND OF A GRAVEYARD EXPLODING IN SLOW MOTION 🤘🔥
Some albums are polished. Some albums are carefully market-tested for playlists and algorithms. And then there are albums like Toxic Noxious Undeath by Megascavenger — records that sound like they were discovered buried beneath a condemned cemetery wrapped in barbed…
🎸 “THIS SONG WAS ALMOST LEFT OFF THE ALBUM?!” — Why Geddy Lee Didn’t Want Tom Sawyer On Moving Pictures 🤯🔥
There are rock songs… And then there are ROCK SONGS. The kind of tracks that don’t just become hits — they become part of music history itself. Songs that live forever in sweaty clubs, festival fields, battered old headphones, late-night…
SOOTHSAYER’S THE UNBINDING LOOKS READY TO DRAG DOOM METAL INTO THE ABYSS — AND WE’RE ABSOLUTELY HERE FOR IT 🌑🔥🇮🇪
There are metal albums you casually throw on in the background while you answer emails. And then there are albums that consume the entire room. Albums that feel alive. Albums that stalk through your speakers like some ancient cursed spirit…
🤠🔥 HILLBILLY VEGAS CRANK THE SOUTHERN ROCK CHAOS TO ELEVEN WITH NEW ALBUM “A LA MODE” 🔥🤠
If your speakers aren’t currently shaking your walls and upsetting at least one neighbour, don’t panic mun — Hillbilly Vegas have just arrived with the cure. 💥🎸 The Oklahoma rockers have officially unleashed their brand-new album A La Mode, and…
💀🩸 NECROMONGER’S EMANATION OF THE DYING PERCEPTIONS IS THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF BEING DRAGGED THROUGH A MASS GRAVE 🤘🔥
LABEL: Xtreem MusicRELEASE DATE: July 9th 2026GENRE: Death/Gore Metal Some albums entertain you. Some albums inspire you. And then there are albums like Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions by Necromonger — records that feel like they were stitched together from…