This is the seventh album from Swedish heavy metallers Ram. Ram are ferociously good, let’s get that right in the open straight away. They’ve been absent a good many years though, silen…

Firtan are a German black metal band and this is their fifth album. Following on from 2022’s Marter and 2024’s Ethos, Helios brings us 60 minutes of well-crafted atmospheric black metal…

This is the third album by Crown Magnetar, a US death metal/deathcore band. Crown Crown Magnetar’s brand of deathcore is on the more extreme side of the spectrum. The Hollowing of Godflesh de…

This is the ninth album from Chelsea Wolfe, a solo alternative rock artist from the US. Chelsea Wolfe’s new record delivers 40 minutes of darkly expressive music for the listener to fall deep…

Spirit Possession are a black metal band from the US and this is their third album. Brought to us by a member of Black Curse/Ulthar, Cathedral Speech contains 43 minutes of engaging blackened mayhe…

This is the sixth album by Italian power metallers Frozen Crown. Frozen Crown are one of the absolute best in the business. Although 2024’s War Hearts didn’t ascend to the same stratosp…

Death. Void. Terror. are a black/death/doom metal band from Switzerland, and this is their third album. This new record follows hot on the sulphurous heels of last month’s EP To the Great Mon…

Rorcal are a Swiss post-black/doom metal band and this is their seventh album. Rorcal are a shapeshifting band that are more than worthy of your attention, (here, here, here, here, here). In other …

This is the second album by UK extreme metal band Burner. Burner bring us 48 minutes of material to abandon all hope to on No One Is Coming to Save Us. Playing a hybrid style that’s as effect…

This is the second album from UK solo black metal band Noctule. The artist behind Noctule, (from Svalbard), brings us 39 minutes of melodic black and death metal on Extinguish Thy Flame. The music …

This is the eleventh album from German progressive metal band The Ocean. After 2023’s Holocene, The Ocean have returned a changed band, with a new drummer, two new guitarists, and two new voc…

This is the fourth album by Swedish doom/sludge metal band Kongh. Dissolved in Time contains three sprawling tracks that total 39 minutes. Kongh’s style mixes sludge, doom, and post-metal, de…

Mother of Millions are a Greek progressive metal band and this is their fifth album. 2024’s Magna Mater was a fantastic record, so the enigmatically titled T has a lot to live up to. Mother o…

This is the fourth album by UK sludge metallers Remote Viewing. Fusing doomy sludge heaviness with noise rock urgency and dynamics, Remote Viewing are here to cause damage and drag you down into th…

This is the sixth album from black metal band Fluisteraars, who are from the Netherlands. Jacht der Mysteriën blesses us with three tracks equalling 42 minutes of music. Fluisteraars have a well-de…

It’s the inaugural Tynebound, brought to us by the lovely Reaper Agency. It’s a sister festival of this year’s Reaper Festival, and if it’s even half as good as that was, th…

Green Lung are a doom rock band from the UK and this is their fourth album. Following on from 2021’s The Harvest and 2023’s This Heathen Land, Necropolitan delivers 41 minutes of new ma…

Kōya are a post-hardcore band from Denmark and this is their debut album. Pendula consists of 38 minutes of material that is impressively wrought, especially for a first record. Kōya bring a few di…

ArcTanGent is the UK’s premier outdoor alternative music festival, and it’s a great pleasure to have so many great bands here over one weekend, from all over the world. It’s this …

Sworn are a Norwegian black metal band and this is their fifth album. Sworn are one of the best melodic black metal bands active right now. Coming off a genuinely top tier previous album, (2023&#82…

This is the third album from Chat Pile, a noise/sludge rock band from the US. Chat Pile understandably made a stir with their debut album God’s Country, so Who Loves the Sun is a most welcome…

Russian Circles are an instrumental post-rock/metal band from the US. This is their ninth album. Russian Circles can do no wrong. Sorry, but them’s the rules. More seriously, coming off the b…

Epicardiectomy are a death metal band from Czechia and this is their fourth album. Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis offers up a feast of gruesome death metal brutality. Epicardi…

This is the third album from UK doom/sludge band Kulk. Now here’s an intriguing release. On the surface of it, Choosing to Die is a 26-minute doomsludge album ostensibly in the vein of many o…

This is the eighth album by French death metal band Gorod. After their very strong 2023 album The Orb, the return of Gorod is to be celebrated. The Ember Gone delivers 44 minutes of the band’…

Fen are a UK black metal band and this is their eighth album. Following on from 2023’s Monuments to Absence, Fen have now returned with 47 minutes of new material in the form of Elemental Par…

This is the third album from US grinders Deathgrave. Here we have 32 minutes of deathgrind, shot through with elements of thrash, mathcore, and doom. Deathgrave smash it all together into ten nasty…

This is the latest EP from Russian black/death metal band Thanatomass. Following on from 2023’s Hades, Thanatomass have now returned with the three-track EP The Rabid Dead. Across 20 minutes,…

This is the third album from Spanish doom metal band Todomal. Graveyards of Joy brings us 43 minutes of compelling material. Todomal’s style can be described as doom metal mixed with progress…

Gorge are an Italian death metal band and this is their debut album. Containing a member of Fulci, Deeds of Horror dishes out 28 minutes of death metal that’s raw and nasty, but surprisingly …

Death. Void. Terror. are a black/doom metal band from Switzerland, and this is their latest EP. This 3-track release from Death. Void. Terror. brings us something otherworldly and foul to become ab…

This is the second album from Abyssal Rift, a death metal band from the US. Prepare thyself for the hulking great chunk of spectral rot that is Relics of Great Ash. This is a hideous collection of …

This is the second album from UK post-rock band Din of Celestial Birds. The three-guitar, (and synths), post-rock approach of Din of Celestial Birds is back, with the 41-minute Takeoffs & Landi…

Tonight’s bill is a red hot one, and the opportunity to see Spectral Wound in an intimate venue like Gorilla is not to be missed.

This is the debut album from UK black metal band Cairiss. A decade after 2016’s EP Fall comes its long-awaited follow up Wilderness. Fall was a notably strong first release, one that excelled…

This is the seventh album from Aphonic Threnody, a funeral doom band from the UK. It’s always a pleasure to listen to a new Aphonic Threnody album. The primary artist behind the band, (also i…

Wormwood are a Swedish black metal band and this is their latest release. This short, two-track EP follows on from 2024’s The Star, bringing us a another dose of Wormwood’s intelligentl…

This is the third album from US black metal band Hulder. Following on from 2022’s The Eternal Fanfare and 2024’s Verses in Oath, comes the 49-minute Verbolgen, which is Hulder’s f…

Hagoroth are a black metal band from an unknown location, and this is their second album. No information is available as to whether Hagoroth is a full band or a solo venture. Either way, Hagoroth p…

Carbon Tomb are a death metal band from Denmark and this is their debut album. Carbon Tomb play dissonant death metal, with a touch of a blackened influence in places. Passage to a Neutron Star del…

This is the debut EP from UK death metal band Disgracing. Introducing the world to Disgracing’s brand of brutal death metal comes Descension into Despair – 19 minutes of barbaric savage…

This is the latest EP from Beyond Grace, a death metal band from the UK. Two years after the second part of this EP trilogy, we come to Welcome to the New Dark Ages, Part 3. Beyond Grace continue t…

Altarage are a Spanish blackened death metal band and this is their seventh album. If you’re unfamiliar with the monstrous entity that is Altarage, then prepare yourself for something dread-i…

This is the third album from US death metallers Nothingness. Following on from 2023’s very well-received Supraliminal comes Godslaughter, which provides us with 41 minutes of new material. No…

This is the second album from UK post-metal band The Salt Pale Collective. Bringing together doom, sludge, post-rock,  and post-metal components into a bleakly compelling whole, The Salt Pale Colle…

This is the sixth album from Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero. Within contains 35 minutes of Protest the Hero’s inimitable brand of progressive metal. The band’s style h…

This is the fourth album from US death metal band Sallow Moth. Sallow Moth play adventurous death metal that brings together elements of the technical, progressive, and brutal subgenres, (with diss…

This is the debut album from sludge metal band Stay Dead. Featuring members of Aiwass and High Desert Queen, Stay Dead play a compelling mix of sludge and doom. Beneath the Weight of Worlds contain…