This week, fun wins out, despite efforts by the majority, with releases from Bragging Rights, Depravity, Frozen Land, Morbikon and Stone Nomads. It's a less interesting week for bigger releases, but not dull. AngelMaker –  This Used To Be Heaven Annisokay –  Abyss Bloodbound –  Field Of Swords The Halo Effect –  We Are Shadows  (covers EP) The Pretty Wild –  zero.point.genesis TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Frozen Land – Icemelter Genre: Power metal Subjective rating: 4/5 Objective rat

Label: Kuromaku Corp Release Date: November 14th 2025 I wasn’t even gonna do another review this year. I wanted to shift my focus on getting my 2025 top 10 albums post ready. But I felt compelled for some reason to do a review for this one. CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!! is the 4th full length album from whatever the fuck French hardcore crossover rap ani-metal band Rise of the Northstar. Fucks sake I’ve listened to this album much more than I needed to.

This week's dominated by bands doing things slightly different than everyone else, with releases from Chairmaker, Lamp Of Murmuur, Stellar Circuits, Veilburner and Voidceremony. The higher-ups play it slightly more safe, but you'll find some surprises here too. 1914 –  Viribus Unitus Avralize –  liminal Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin –  Stygian Bough Vol. II The Devil Wears Prada –  Flowers Of Mice & Men –  Another Miracle Rise Of The Northstar –  Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battl

Label: Epitaph Release Date: November 7th 2025 Santa Cruz hardcore kings DRAIN are back with their third full length album, …IS YOUR FRIEND. This is a positive, feel-good record with no shortage of gnarly riffs, breakdowns, skank parts, sing-alongs, and solos. DRAIN is a band, that when you hear their music, you immediately know it’s them. Whether it’s the killer guitar tones, the infectious grooves, or Sammy’s undeniable vocals, you know you’ve stepped into their world from

A bewildering and tonally divergent week is upon us, with releases from Astronoid, Ildaruni, Oromet, Pupil Slicer and Qrixkuor. If you get dizzy, poke your head overground for some more straightforward impressions.    Agnostic Front –  Echoes In Eternity Alcatrazz –  Prior Convictions Cold Steel –  Discipline & Punish Drain –  …Is Your Friend Omnium Gatherum –  May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World Genre: Atmospheric death

Label: BLKIIBLK Release Date: October 17th, 2025 It’s been 13 years since NYHC legends Biohazard released an album. They have now returned with Divided We Fall, featuring their classic lineup, and boy it’s refreshing to hear these guys back at it, just as if it was the early 90s. We are thrown back into that era right as we start the first track, hard riffs and some tough-guy attitude. This is streetwise 90s NYHC. This is the bands complete playbook — mosh parts, fast parts,

Label: Nuclear Blast Release Date: October 31st, 2025 After 6 years, Montreal deathcore kings are back with Shadow Work, their 7th LP. Released on a busy Halloween, the album is a lukewarm but solid enough outting that displays the deathcore vets’ chops and why they are still one of the last OGs goin hard. This is manic, brutal, technical deathcore that also highlights the hardcore part of the genre. Shadow Work showcases a veteran band with the energy of younger, hungrier, a

Label: Napalm Records Release Date: October 31st, 2025 Symphonic Power Death/Black Metal, whatever the fuck you wanna call this. Utopie the 4th album (produced by Dan fuckin Swanö), released on Halloween, by French band Aephanemer, was my first experience with the band. I loved every damn second of it. All 6120 of them. Utopie is packed with orchestral grandeur, the sharp bite of melodic death metal, lush polyphonic musical texture, blood curdling screams you’d find on a blac

Colorado Vampyric Death Metal band Pedestal For Leviathan recently released their debut full length horror, Enter: Vampyric Manifestation on Halloween. You can find my review for this awesome album here . I was able to have a nice quick Q&A with the Vampyr Lord himself, mastermind behind Pedestal For Leviathan, Kendrick Lemke. Photo Credit Instagram @crippledxwings I know bands like Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and Emperor have always been some of your favorites, and Pedest