Heriot – Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell Century Media Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Heriot are a British metalcore band. The band was formed in Swindon in 2014 by drummer Julian Gage, bassist and…
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Klone – The Unseen
Klone – The Unseen Pelagic Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Returning with their 10th full-length album, ‘The Unseen’, French art-rock band Klone are pushing their already sumptuous sound to dizzying, magisterial heights. A bold new…
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Transport League – We Are Satan’s People
Transport League – We Are Satan’s People Sound Pollution Records/Black Lodge Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Swedish groove metal legends Transport League are storming back into the spotlight with their explosive new album, “We Are…
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Swallow The Sun – Shining
Swallow The Sun – Shining Century Media Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: More than two decades of despair, beauty, and heartache have not only shaped but fueled Finnish melancholy torchbearers, the chart-topping and two-time Finnish…
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Future Palace – Distortion
Future Palace – Distortion Arising Empire Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: The world is a firework of overstimulation – and Future Palace have dedicated an album to this feeling of overwhelm. On the new record…
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Vomit Forth – Terrified Of God
Vomit Forth – Terrified Of God Century Media Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: VOMIT FORTH’s sophomore full-length, Terrified of God, isn’t merely a benchmark for the Connecticut-born extreme metal squad but also for Northeastern death…
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Oceans Of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak
Oceans Of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak Season of Mist Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: More than a decade has passed since the release of Oceans Of Slumber’s Aetherial debut album, and a…
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Leprous – Melodies Of Atonement
Leprous – Melodies Of Atonement Inside Out Music Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: The only thing that remains constant in the world of Leprous is change. Formed in 2001 in Notodden, Norway, this most agile…
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Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness
Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness Inside Out Music Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Pure Reason Revolution is a British rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003. Their music incorporates…
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Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals
Dark Tranquillity – Endtime SignalsCentury Media Records9,0/10,0 Brief: Melodic death metal phenoms DARK TRANQUILLITY herald uncertain times on their new album, Endtime Signals. The Swedish outfit made their mark indelible with The Gallery…
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Zeal & Ardor – GREIF
Zeal & Ardor – GREIFRedacted Records9,0/10,0 Brief: Zeal & Ardor is a Swiss avant-garde metal band started and led by Manuel Gagneux, a Swiss-American musician who had previously created a chamber pop project…
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Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust
Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust Massacre Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Illdisposed’s new album “In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust” is full of anger and frustration, making it the band’s most ambitious and creative…
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Kittie – Fire
Kittie – Fire Sumerian Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Fire is the seventh studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie through Sumerian Records. It is the band’s first album in almost 13 years following…
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Huntsmen – The Dry Land
Huntsmen – The Dry Land Prosthetic Records 10,0/10,0 Brief: Emerging from the shadows and plumes of smoke, Chicago, IL ensemble HUNTSMEN are set to make their return in 2024 with their third album,…
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Camerata Mediolanense – Atalanta Fugiens
Camerata Mediolanense – Atalanta Fugiens Prophecy Productions 10,0/10,0 Brief: Camerata Mediolanense are one of these extremely rare musical gems that are hard to categorise. With the sixth studio album “Atalanta Fugiens” (“Atalanta Fleeing”),…
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Earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus
Earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus Candlelight Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Earthtone9’s name is one rightly hailed by those who know as one of the most forward-thinking, clever, musically wise and creatively smart in the…
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Cainites – Revenant
Cainites – Revenant Scarlet Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Cainites is the name of the new melodic death metal duo risen from the ashes of the Italian gothic-doom masters Motus Tenebrae and founded by Andrea…
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Withering Surface – Exit Plan
Withering Surface – Exit Plan Mighty Music Records 7,0/10,0 Brief: Exit Plan is the 6th studio album from WITHERING SURFACE following the success of the 2020-comeback album Meet You Maker. The process of…
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Neaera – All Is Dust
Neaera – All Is Dust Metal Blade Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: German metalcore veterans NEAERA, who are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year, will release their All Is Dust full-length on June 28th via…
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Bala – Besta
Bala – Besta PIAS Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: BALA are Ánxela Baltar (guitar/vocals) and Violeta Mosquera (drums/vocals), two friends who got together in 2013 with the sole purpose of having fun, playing at a…
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Nightmare – Encrypted
Nightmare – Encrypted AFM Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: French heavy metal frontrunners, NIGHTMARE, have shared a brand new album Encrypted! Founded in 1979, NIGHTMARE have been an integral part of the European metal scene…
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Rotting Christ – ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou)
ROTTING CHRIST – ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou) Season of Mist Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: In the dimly lit catacombs of extreme metal, one name stands as a monolith: ROTTING CHRIST. Sakis Tholis and his…
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Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us
Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us Monotreme Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: For the follow-up to their critically lauded, 2018-released full-length, Evaporate, founding MIDAS FALL members Elizabeth Heaton and Rowan Burn are joined by…
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VLTIMAS – EPIC
VLTIMAS – EPIC Season of Mist Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Extreme metal powerhouse VLTIMAS (pronounced ‘uhl-tuh-mas’) assault metaldom once more with their highly-anticipated sophomore album, EPIC, through Season of Mist. Featuring Norwegian guitarist Rune…
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