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Lion’s Den - Enter The Den… (EP)
Label: Delirium Release Date: October 13th, 2025 Have you ever heard Hatebreed’s Under The Knife EP? Then you know exactly what to expect from Enter The Den…, the debut EP from Long Island hardcore band, Lion’s Den. Drywall beware. As soon as it starts, you’re compelled to smash your enemies. Each riff calls for movement, every breakdown demands blood. All 4 songs on here are spin kick and crowdkill worthy. Riffs, snare, and breakdowns. All killer, no filler. Opening track, S

Carlo
3 days ago2 min read
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Dead Heat - Process of Elimination
Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: October 10th, 2025 Welcome to Oxnard, California. Welcome to crossover. Dead Heat is a metalheads’ best friend. They return with their 3rd full length album, Process of Elimination — a mighty fierce follow-up to 2021’s World At War. Here is a record with enough stomp to cave in the fuckin’ floor. World At War was a 10/10, force to be reckoned with. It was a filthy riffin’, two steppin’, stage-diving crossover masterpiece. It did such a

Carlo
4 days ago2 min read
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Soul Blind - Red Sky Mourning
Label: Closed Casket Activities Release Date: October 10th, 2025 Hudson Valley, NY, Soul Blind is a group I was super hype on when I first heard them back in 2021 via their fantastic Third Chain EP. But when their first proper full-length, Feel It All Around, came out in 2022, it just didn’t connect with me. I haven’t really listened to them much since, but when I saw they had a new record coming out, I added it to my release list to listen to. As soon as I pressed play, I sm

Carlo
5 days ago2 min read
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Death SS - The Entity
Label: Lucifer Rising Records Release Date: May 9th 2025 Italian heavy metal band, Death SS released their 11th full length album, The Entity, earlier this year, and number 11 does not disappoint. I am so late to this record. I had no clue this came out back in May. It flew right over my head. To be honest, the fact I am just now listening to this in October, may have worked in the albums favor. Consider this review, and score seasonally biased. The album starts strong with t

Carlo
Oct 112 min read
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Grael - World Without End (EP)
Label: Streets Of Hate Release Date: September 4th 2025 A month ago, Grael, hardcore/metalcore band from Long Island, New York dropped their first EP, World Without End. There are riffs here that Slayer wish they put on their records and breakdowns that will make you break your own neck, or someone else’s nose. There’s a rabid feeling laced in the music that is sure to infect any listener and any audience member. At only 18 minutes, this EP shreds through you, with ripping g

Carlo
Oct 92 min read
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Fermented Mess - Fermented Mess (EP)
Label: Baby Chico Records x End Meaningless Noise Release Date: October 3rd, 2025 What a fucking disgusting mess this is. Long Island, NY 3-piece grind outfit Fermented Mess set out pulverize audiences into puddles, and after this release, I’d say watch where you’re stepping. Their self titled debut EP is 9 songs, and 8 minutes of bone crushing and two stepping grind that will stick with you much longer than its runtime. You don’t need to think much, just press play. There

Carlo
Oct 61 min read
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Igorrr - Amen
Released by: Metal Blade Records Release Date: 19.09.25 Running Time: 50:15 Score: 1,000,000,000/10 Â Crow Cottage is currently a plague...

Dark Juan
Oct 56 min read
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The Sorrow Of Being Immaculate – Suicide Forest
Released by: Drone Alone Release Date: 26.09.25 Running Time: 45:02 Score: 8/10 Â It is a grim day at Crow Cottage. The wind is howling...

Dark Juan
Oct 45 min read
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(Advance Copy) Orodrim - Thanatocracy
Hailing from Houston, Orodrim’s lineage can be traced back to Austin, Texas when in 2017 Oromë began unearthing the atmospheres, and...

Nikos
Sep 202 min read
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Scatter The Tribe - The Human Condition (EP)
I first crossed paths with Scatter the Tribe in late 2022 when I photographed them before any music had been released. Watching them grow...

Rakkan
Sep 194 min read
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Whitehorse / Uboa - The Dissolution of Eternity
Released by: Tartarus Records/ Sweatlung Release Date: 29.08.25 Running Time: 45:34 Score: Decillion/10 Â There are times in my life when...

Dark Juan
Sep 155 min read
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ten56. - iO
Released by: Out of Line Release Date: 05.09.25 Running Time: 32:00 Score: 9/10 Â Good evening, you very naughty people! Dark Juan here,...

Dark Juan
Sep 145 min read
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(Advance Copy) Pound Land / Headless Kross – Split LP
Released by: Cruel Nature Records Release Date: 12.09.25 Score: Graham’s Number/10  I have just been through Hell. It is called IKEA. It...

Dark Juan
Aug 76 min read
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(Advance Copy) Electrocutioner - Harbinger
Here is another one for all the thrash lovers out there. After their album "False Idols" in October '23, the lads from Long Island, New...

Saurabh
Jul 233 min read
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Ward XVI – Id3ntity
Released by: Earache Records Release Date: 11.07.25 Running Time: 56:24 Review by Dark Juan Score: 927,158,234,291,799.4/10 Â It is fair...

Dark Juan
Jul 205 min read
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Runereader – Pathfinder (EP)
Self Released Release Date: 04.07.25 Running Time: 27:51 Review by Dark Juan Score: 241,934,892,858/10 Â It is well known that Dark Juan...

Dark Juan
Jul 46 min read
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Electric Citizen – EC4
Released by: Heavy Psych Sounds Release Date: 27.06.25 Running Time: 38:27 Review by Dark Juan Score: 567,324,197/10 Â Bet you thought...

Dark Juan
Jun 275 min read
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Häxan – Death of Me (EP)
Self-Released Release Date: 23.05.25 Running Time: 17:16 Review by Dark Juan Score: 9/10 Â Now, it is well known that Dark Juan is a...

Dark Juan
Jun 45 min read
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Concrete Age - Awaken the Gods
Well well well. How many times do you see a band releasing more than one album in less than 12 months...few, very few. But that's exactly...

Saurabh
Jun 34 min read
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(Advance Copy) Basement Torture Killings – The Gallery of Monsters Part 1 (EP)
Self-Released Release Date: 13.06.25 Running Time: 13:17 Review by Dark Juan Score: 9/10 Â I am still in the grip of verbal diarrhoea. I...

Dark Juan
May 316 min read
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