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  • Release Round Up – June 19th 2026

    Release Round Up – June 19th 2026

    Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we’ll round up some of the best new music available, some we’ve reviewed, some we haven’t, but all worth checking out!

    Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!

    Here’s what we think you should check out today!

    ALBUM OF THE WEEK

    Warning release their first new album in 20 years, Rituals of Shame‘, via Relapse Records
    “a riveting, harrowing experience that has the ability to take you from serene bliss to existential torment.”
    Read our full review here.

    Marillion celebrate 25 Years of ‘Marillion.Com’ with the deluxe edition reissue.
    “an honest album, one that isn’t trying to be anything other than a collection of good, sometimes even great, songs”
    Read our full review here.

    French post metal outfit Lost In Kyiv release ‘We’re All Going To Be Fine’ via Pelagic Records.
    “crunching grooves; distorted and with plenty of attitude”
    Read our full review here.

    Scordatura unleash nine tracks of pure death metal madness on ‘Led Into Oblivion’ via Everlasting Spew
    “zipping through scalpel-sharp tremolo sequences and noodle-digit flights of techy fret molestation”
    Read our full review here

    Norwegian black-metal titans Mork return with ‘Monolitt’ via Peaceville Records
    “captures the raw fury and blazing infernal atmosphere of the genre’s early days”
    Read our full review here.

    Swedish death metal force One Day In Pain unleash ‘Devouring The Gods’ via Awakening Records
    “sounds revolting in that quintessentially Swedeath way, vomiting pestilent lungfuls of the same grotesque miasma that sullied the air about those early classics”
    Read our full review here.

    Forged on the western shores of Norway, Einherjer release ‘Lifeblood’ via By Norse Music
    “epic and rousing metal with the right balance between aggression and melody”
    Read our full review here.

    Rock

    11 Theory – All In Our Minds (WLA productions)
    Devil’s Train – Devil’s Train [REISSUE] (Fireflash Records)
    Gin Lady – Toads & Diamonds Volume One: Live In Spain (Ripple Music)
    Leoni Jane Kennedy – Synthetic (Independent)
    Mattador – III (Frontiers Music SRL)
    Muddshovel – Little White Hair (Epictronic Records)
    The Carburetors – We Ride At Night (Fast Forward Records)
    When Rivers Meet – Rhythm Rust & Static (Independent)

    Heavy Metal

    Axemaster – Of Beasts And Plagues (Cosmic Fire Records)
    Drakkar – Invasion (WormholeDeath Records)
    Einherjer – Lifeblood (By Norse Music)
    Judas Priest – The Best of Judas Priest (Sony Music)
    Lindsay Schoolcraft – Harrowing (Independent)

    Black Metal

    Blood Mother – Blood Mother (Independent)
    Flykt – Sinister Strain (Hammerheart Records)
    Inherits the Void – The Silent Abscission (Avantgarde Music)
    Saidan – Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memories Wrist (Avantgarde Music)

    Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

    Avarice – perpetual Ruin (Mighty Music)
    Blood of Angels – Les Agnst ov Thanatous (Independent)
    Conflux Collective – In the Wake of Saturn (Independent)
    Cyclopic – Flesh of Chaos (Awakening Records)
    Gold Spire – Steps Into Shadows (Awakening Records)
    Scordatura – Led Into oblivion (Everlasting Spew Records)
    Scythe – Boiled Alive (Awakening Records)
    The Conflux Collective – In The Wake of Saturn (Independent)
    Warthrash – No Light Shall Remain (Awakening Records)

    Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

    Bantoriak – Vol. II (Argonauta Records)
    Green Desert Water – Eerie MEadows (Small Stone Recordings)
    Mister Earthbound – Litha [EP]
    Plaindrifter – Gestalt (Ripple Music)

    Post-Hardcore

    Solitone – Le Champ Des Possibles [EP]
    If I Die Today – I Felt Nothing (Independent)

    Progressive Rock / Metal

    Lunar Kites – The DoomStar Chronicles (Independent)
    Prince of Failure – Prince of Failure (Kscope)

    Punk

    Bunkerjugend – Systemprobe (Independent)
    The Applicators – My Weapon [20th Anniversary] (Cellofame Records)

    Thrash Metal

    Destructor – Tales of Glory (Shadow Kingdom)
    Kerry King – From Hell I Rise [Extended Deluxe Edition] (Reigning Phoenix Music)

    … and the rest!

    Chainlacing – Messuage (These Hands Melt) [Shoegaze]
    Eternal Recurrence – Eternal Recurrence (Independent) [Symphonic Metal]
    Liminal Sky – All Tomorrow’s Darkness (Karisma Records) [Post-Rock]
    Loneshore – Nothing Left To Deconstruct (Willowtip Records) [Post-Metal]
    Mylla Issues – My(Rage) (Wave Records) [Synthwave]
    Shadowborne – Heaven’s Falling (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
    Zeruel – Ruin;Rebirth (Rise Records/BMG) [Metalcore/Shoegaze]

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