New Album Released

Australian deathcore wrecking crew A NIGHT IN TEXAS are back, and apparently they’ve decided that everyone’s eardrums have been living far too comfortably lately. 😈💥 The Brisbane extreme-metal quartet have released their fifth full-length album, The Darkest Side of Humanity, via Unique Leader Records, delivering ten tracks of technical brutality, suffocating atmosphere and enough riff-based violence to turn your morning...

South London blues troublemakers Jimmy Regal And The Royals are back — and they’re bringing a whole world of rhythm with them. The London-based trio have announced their new studio album, Snap Back, a record that promises to drag the blues through North Mississippi, New Orleans, Senegal, Mali and the streets of South London before sending it home covered in...

Band: SorceryAlbum: The Immaculate SinLabel: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: 1 October 2026Genre: Death MetalFor Fans Of: Entombed | Dismember | Edge Of Sanity | Centinex Some bands play old-school Swedish death metal. Sorcery helped bloody well invent the stuff. 💀🇸🇪 More than four decades after first crawling from Sweden’s underground, these death metal veterans are preparing to unleash another slab of...

Band: WyrdstæfAlbum: Primordial BloodlinesLabel: Apocalyptic WitchcraftRelease Date: 4 September 2026Genre: Atmospheric Blackened Tribal MetalFor Fans Of: Heilung, Negură Bunget, Behexen, Dordeduh, Gaahl’s Wyrd Forget going back to the ’80s. Forget the ’70s. Hell, forget recorded history altogether. UK atmospheric blackened tribal metallers Wyrdstæf are dragging us so far backwards with their debut full-length album Primordial Bloodlines that you’ll need to...

Artist: The CrawlingRelease: What We Leave Behind EPLabel: Grindscene RecordsRelease Date: 2 October 2026Genre: Death/Doom MetalFormats: CD | Cassette | DigitalFor Fans Of: Swallow The Sun | Officium Triste | October Tide | Paradise Lost Some records look backwards with rose-tinted glasses. The Crawling look backwards and see a bloody prison. That is the bleak, powerful heart of What We...

Artist: The Light SuperiorAlbum: DayspringLabel: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: 2 October 2026Genre: MetalcoreFor Fans Of: Bury Tomorrow | Miss May I | Atreyu | It Dies Today There are albums that politely knock on the door, wipe their boots and wait to be invited inside. Then there are albums that boot the bloody thing off its hinges and throw a breakdown...

Marilyn Manson has unleashed his new album One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2, continuing the sinister chapter that began with 2024’s Chapter 1. Released today, 14 August 2026, through Nuclear Blast Records, the nine-track record is officially Manson’s 13th studio album and arrives just days before he heads out across North America alongside Rob Zombie. Yep. The Reverend is...

Pittsburgh technical death metal wrecking crew VICTIMS OF CONTAGION are preparing to unleash their new album, Egregore — promising hyper-speed extremity, neoclassical madness, blackened tremolo assaults and grooves heavy enough to rearrange your internal organs. 🤘💀 Yep. Sounds suitably horrible. We mean that as the highest possible compliment. The Pennsylvania metallers are taking everything they’ve developed across nearly two decades...

Italian heavy rockers SBARCO are back with fresh noise, unveiling their brand-new single and accompanying video, “The Divorce” — and judging by the title alone, we’re guessing nobody’s getting the good plates. 🤘😈 Italy has never exactly struggled when it comes to producing passionate music, and SBARCO are continuing that tradition with something considerably louder, heavier and more likely to...

Brandenburg black/death metal wrecking crew HKSPK are preparing to unleash their new full-length album, Heimkehr, on 11 September 2026 — and if you like your metal cold, vicious and utterly uninterested in behaving itself, you’ll want this one on the radar. Clocking in at roughly 25 minutes across eight tracks, Heimkehr promises a concentrated blast of raw aggression, combining the...

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 you’re about to take. Graveyards of Joy is one of them. Beauty and death. Happiness and grief. Hope growing somewhere...

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 the front door and starts demanding souls. Subtle, it ain’t. 💀🔥 German death-metal bruisers Temple of Dread have spent the...

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 of the human experience. Except they don’t, do they? Sometimes the people we love most are the people capable of...

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 there’s Verbolgen. This sounds like it was summoned beneath a full moon somewhere deep in a forest where your phone...

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 buzzing every thirty seconds. Group chats. Social media. Video calls. Thousands of people permanently available at the tap of a...