Released by: Road To Masochist Release Date: 27.03.26 Running Time: 37:16 Review by Dark Juan Score: Graham’s Number/10 Once more into the breach, dear friends. I am Dark Juan, and I write total bollocks that is occasionally about music. However, even though I am one of the most misanthropic arseholes on the planet, I want to speak to you about the importance of friendships, regardless of their shape. My friendships are mainly remote, based on mutual love for Metal with peo

You're likely to find conceptual depth and stylistic flexibility where you least expect it among these releases from Egregore, Gutvoid, Hanging Garden, Iron Firmament and Papa Necrose. Defying expectations is less of a theme and more of a localized phenomenon (looking at you Gaerea) in the mainstream this week: Exodus – Goliath (thrash metal) Gaerea – Loss (blackened metalcore) Lost In Hollywood – Lost In Hollywood (metalcore) Poison The Well – Peace In Place (melodic

Released by: Argonauta Records Release Date: 27.02.26 Running Time: 39:23 Review by Dark Juan Score: 9/10 It is a sad and sorrowful time at Crow Cottage. The last of the original canine Triumvirate of Terror left us earlier this week. Hodgson went peacefully and surrounded by love and for this Dark Juan is thankful. Mrs Dark Juan is utterly inconsolable and so am I. He has now joined the pantheon of very good bois and is in the company of the mighty Zeus and the pocket rock

Friday the 13th proved to be a fitting release date for these albums by Gluttony, Mammon's Throne, Monstrosity and No/Más. Not into horror? The mainstream releases are significantly less spooky: Fabienne Erni – Starveil (symphonic metal) Lamb Of God – Into Oblivion (groove metal) Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The All-Seeing Astral Eye (power/electronic metal) UnityTX – Somewhere, In Between… (rap metal) Vicious Rain – The Anatomy Of Surviving (metalcore) TOP PICK OF

Gritted-teeth solemnity gives (mostly) way to entertainment factor on these releases from Axe Dragger, Desert Storm, Miserere Luminis, Temple Of Void and Triumpher. The big name bands aren't being all too serious either: Erra – silence outlives the earth (metalcore) Leaves Eyes – Song Of Darkness (EP) (symphonic metal) Lost Society – Hell Is A State Of Mind (heavy/nu metal) Tardigrade Inferno – Hush (alternative metal) Vreid – The Skies Turn Black (melodic black met

Label: Nidhogg (Independent) Release Date: February 6th, 2026 Unleash the wolves of the Polish black metal metalion. Narcissvs the debut album from Polish practitioners of evil Nidhogg (solo project of former Wilczyca vocalist), released in February with a strength and power to it that you may not hear that often. This sounds to me, very much like a late 90s/early 2000s Behemoth release. Black metal with the hairy balls of death metal. I think it’s awesome honestly. I’m reall

This week's for those who don't like playing by the rules, just like Cemetery Reign, Cryptic Shift, Ennui, Necrosexual and Unverkalt. The big names are playing it fairly off-kilter as well: Carpenter Brut – Leather Temple (synthwave/electronic metal) The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance (metalcore) Ruoska – Kade (industrial metal) Varials – Where The Light Leaves (hardcore/nu metal) Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (shock rock/industrial metal) TOP PICK OF THE W

A dark and moody week, with little light penetrating to the underground, as evidenced by the releases from Coscradh, Domhain, Incandescence, Nazghor and Serpent Gates. Up above they've got some actual light to energize and illuminate proceedings: Atlas – Sunder (melodic extreme metal/metalcore) Clawfinger – Before We All Die (rap metal) Exhumed – Red Asphalt (death metal/grindcore) Mirrorcell – Long Nights In Lovescape (alternative metal/metalcore) Stam1na – Apnea (

The wave of bleak morbidity keeps on rolling, but meets some brighter-minded resistance, featuring releases from Ensanguinate, Mors Verum, Night Of The Vampire, Phendrana and Sleeping Giant. The same thing is happening overground, just on a bigger scale: Before I Turn – Immoral And Malevolent Happenings (metalcore) Karnivool – In Verses (progressive metal/rock) Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death (black metal) Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz (heavy metal) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Overt