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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 simultaneously while wearing something fluorescent, holding an overpriced festival pint and wondering why there’s suddenly a techno breakdown happening in...

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 British countryside, plug them into a wall of amplifiers and turn everything up until the local sheep start looking concerned?...

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 moved through emo, post-hardcore, alternative rock, post-punk and indie without ever completely abandoning the emotional intensity that first made people...

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 inside one genre. And thank goodness for that. Across more than two decades, the California outfit have travelled from violent...

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 Me Dirt, the Canadian bruisers’ eighth studio album, is exactly the sort of filthy, riff-soaked, sweat-dripping monster its title promises....

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 boundaries even further. Blending cinematic storytelling, jaw-dropping musicianship and emotionally charged songwriting, LALU’s latest release is a masterclass in modern...

🎹🤘 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, Lake & Palmer. By the time Works Live arrived in 1978, ELP had already cemented themselves as one of the...

🤘🔥 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 from Detroit’s EVA UNDER FIRE, falls firmly into the latter category. Packed with towering choruses, razor-sharp riffs and a fearless...

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 something far more rewarding—a cinematic progressive rock journey packed with atmosphere, emotion and world-class musicianship. From the opening moments, it’s...

🤘💀 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 is a reminder of exactly why they’ve remained one of modern metal’s biggest names. It’s an album packed with crushing...

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 invite you in. Then there are albums that kick your front door off its hinges, steal your beer, set fire...

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 pit opens, then Seattle's Oathbound might just have the soundtrack you've been searching for. Blending soaring melodies, crushing progressive metalcore...

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 to; it's experienced. A world where visual art, storytelling, emotion, mythology, fashion, and heavy riffs collide into something far greater...

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 are somehow still one of the most adventurous, unpredictable and creatively hungry bands in the underground heavy scene. While countless...

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 wire, soaked in radioactive sludge and screaming in Swedish. 🪦☣️ The long-awaited return of Megascavenger arrives on August 13th, 2026...