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  • Release Round Up – May 8th 2026

    Release Round Up – May 8th, 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 

    Dallas-based death metal outfit Frozen Soul unleash ‘No Place Of Warmth’ via Century Media Records.

    “you’ll be dragging your destroyed, shattered form back for more out of sheer adrenaline and power dished out.”

    Read out full review here.

    Greek Black Metallers Yoth Iria unveil ‘Gone With The Devil’ via Metal Blade Records.

    “Yoth Iria aimed to make a statement, and they did exactly that “

    Read our full review here.

    Swedish grindcore veterans Gadget drop new EP ‘Coerced’ via De:Nihil Records.

    “you don’t look to Gadget for their progressive approach, you come to them for balls-out grind.”

    Read our full review here.

    Resurfacing after eight years of silence, Lago finally unveil ‘Vigil’ via Everlasting Spew Records.

    “seven tracks each as rampant and rabid as the one preceding”

    Read our full review here.

    Blending sludge, post-metal and doom, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers release debut EP ‘Towers of Silence’ via Lay Bare Recordings.

    “the music is beautiful before the ethereal vocals invade your wandering mind.”

    Read our full review here.

    From the ever-fertile spawning grounds of East Java, Vile Desolation spew new album ‘Annihilating The Consciousness’ via Comatose Music.

    “an absolute war machine of a release.”

    Read our full review here.

    Orange County’s finest, Social Distortion are back with ‘Born To Kill’, their first album in fifteen years, released via Epitaph.

    “a furious blast to remind people that they are back in the game”

    Read our full review here.

    Swedish thrashers Eradikated release ‘Wiring of Violence’ via Indie Recordings.

    “From the cutting riffs to the cutting social commentary, “Wiring Of Violence” is a solid thrasher”

    Read our full review here.

    Dissonant Blackened Death Metal quartet, Voidthrone, return with ‘Dreaming Rat’.

    “Voidthrone haven’t released an album here so much as an attack of auditory night terrors”

    Read our full review here.

    And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…

    Rock

    Black Orchid Empire – Lore (Year of the Rat Records)
    Bong Voyage – Hedonistic Hard Rock (Ripple Music)
    Fighter V – Deja Vu (Frontiers Music SRL)
    Mörkekraft – Fragments (Octopus Rising)
    The Family Men – Co/de/termination (Welfare Sounds & Records)
    The Quill – Master of the Skies (Metalville)
    Who On Earth – It Takes The Village (Independent)

    Heavy Metal

    Old Moon – Home To Nowhere (M-Theory Audio)
    sace6 – Brutalist (Sumerian Records)
    Sins of Shadows – The Last Frontier (Independent)
    Telomyras – Duskfall (Independent)
    Trip Villain – Dose (Seeing Red Records)
    Without Mercy – Infinite Loss [EP] (Independent)

    Black Metal

    Acoluthus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘neath Lifeless Stars (Inverse Music)
    laCasta – Olibanvm (Argonauta Records)
    Lloth – Archees Legeones (Theogonia Records)
    Möhrkvlth – Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’h (Antiq)
    Teloch Vovin – Towards The Inevitable (This Spake Qayin Records)

    Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

    Goholor – Locus Damnation (Personal Records)
    Iatt – Etheric Realms of the Night (Black Lion Records)
    Sacriversum – Before The Birth of Light (Fireflash Records)
    Scarab – Transmutation of Fate [EP] (Brutal Records)
    Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat (Independent)

    Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

    Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm Records)
    Motus Tenebrae – in Sorrow’s Requiem (My Kingdom Music)
    Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye Records)
    Solar Mantra – State of Joyful Lightness (Independent)

    Hardcore

    Beyond The Styx – DIVID (Innerstrength Records)
    Exploding Head Syndrome – Deathbeds (Vestkyst Records)

    Metalcore

    Harms – Rebirth of the Cold (Time To Kill Records)
    The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast Records)

    Post-Metal

    Electric Sun Defence – Estuary (Road to Masochist)
    Ivoire – Uragano (Independent)
    T H R O W N N E S S – Marrow Part II: A Fire Through The Ether [EP] (Raging Planet Records)

    Power Metal

    Rexoria – Fallen Dimension (Black Lodge)
    Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (Massacre Records)

    Progressive Rock / Metal

    Black Sea of Trees – Cult of the Sun (Independent)
    Karcius – Black Soul Sickness (Independent)
    Teramaze – The Silent Architect (Wells Music/Screaming Crow)

    Punk

    Koyo – Barely Here (Pure Noise Records)
    The Flatliners – Cold World (Rude Records)
    Victory Kid – Catalyst (SBÄM Records)

    Thrash Metal

    Abuser – Blood Marks (Xtreem Music)
    Eradikated – Wiring of Violence (Indie Recordings)

    … and the rest!

    Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (Church Road Records) [Post-Hardcore]
    Otay:Onii – Love Is In the Shit (Pelagic Records) [Experimental / Post-Industrial]
    Torchia – They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness (Rockshots Records) [Dark Folk]

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  • “The best AC/DC album that AC/DC never made.” Nine Krokus albums you should listen to and one to ignore

    As Switzerland’s answer to Angus Young & Co. continue to play live years after their farewell tour, we look at their must-have (and best not to have) albums

  • Vicky Psarakis (Sicksense, Ex-The Agonist) Premieres New ‘Call Of Duty’ Zombies Track “No One There”

    Vocalist Vicky Psarakis (Sicksense, ex-The Agonist) has lent her voice to a new metal track titled “No One There,” featured in the latest entry in the “Call Of Duty” Zombies universe. The song can be discovered as an easter egg within the newly added Totenreich map for “Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7.” The track also features guitars, production,… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

  • EP Review: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers of Silence

    EP Review: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers of Silence

    Reviewed by Matthew Williams

    I think I’ve just found out why the phrase “utterly bonkers” was created, and as soon as you listen to the debut EP from A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, you will fully understand why. I’ve played it several times now and each time my heads spins a little more trying to figure out not only what the hell is going on, but also, how have they done that?

    The Dutch four piece come from diverse musical backgrounds, and they’ve taken this, put it into a melting pot, added an angry, anxious narrative and come up with three songs that will test anyone’s musical and political allegiances. With a name that references amongst other things, a Van der Graff Generator song and a Robert Eggers film, their sound is distinctive as it crosses over from metal to jazz, from sludge to spiritual enlightenment so there’s plenty to keep the listener interested.

    It begins with four hits on the cymbal from drummer Derek Twiss as he opens “Massacre of Flour” and it’s a social comment about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. It’s a quite ferocious song, with many complex layers wrapped up in some tender moments, with powerful vocals from Joost Verhagen. The bass from Sterre Marree illuminates the composition before they go all spiritual with the use of a shruti and tanpura. And this is where they keep you thinking, what happens next, where does it lead? The answer, another two minutes of madness with screeching guitars and screaming vocals.

    EP Review: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Towers of Silence

    The wonderfully titled “I Fuck People” is next, which offers support for the marginalised queer communities, and it sounds like a maelstrom of avant garde jazz meets metal. It’s all over the shop and your head is being battered as Tristan “Lama Waaien” adds saxophone alongside playing guitar. The jazz infusion is fun and builds to a mighty crescendo before easing off slightly and then erupting over the phlegm inducing vocals.

    The title track rounds off the EP, with “Towers of Silence” being the longest song at just over 9 minutes and you are immediately greeted with the sounds of a journey into a utopian spiritual world. It gives you food for thought, in this complex world we are currently part of, but the music is beautiful before the ethereal vocals invade your wandering mind. It’s a minimalist, stripped back approach, in stark contrast to the previous two songs, but most importantly, it gives us an insight into the minds of these four musicians.

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  • Presing – Povratak U Krntiju LP (Geenger Records)

    Some albums demand time, while others don’t. They require patient, thorough listening to fully grasp everything an artist,

  • Living Wreckage (Anthrax, Shadows Fall, Etc.) Premiere New Single “Righteous Side Of Sanity”

    Groove metal supergroup Living Wreckage have released a new single titled “Righteous Side Of Sanity.” The track was produced by Zeuss (Rob Zombie, Shadows Fall) and is also set to appear in the upcoming rhythm game “Sound System,” which draws inspiration from titles like “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band,” and is scheduled for release on October 16t… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

  • Yoth Iria – Gone with the Devil (Review)

    Yoth Iria are a Greek black metal band and this is their third album. Following on from the well-received As the Flame Withers and Blazing Inferno, Yoth Iria have now returned to once more grace us with their personable take on black metal. Gone with the Devil contains 46 minutes of new material. Gone with the Devil … Continue reading “Yoth Iria – Gone with the Devil (Review)”

  • Listening Now : Provurb – Joy (feat. Statz)

    Provurb delivers a reflective and uplifting statement with Joy, a track that leans into conscious lyricism and warm, understated production. Centered around thoughtful wordplay and a steady flow, the song balances introspection with a sense of optimism, allowing its message to unfold naturally without forcing it. Provurb’s approach feels grounded and sincere, focusing on substance over excess while letting the emotion carry through each verse. Joy is less about surface level happiness and more about clarity and perspective, offering a calm, resonant listen that lingers beyond its runtime.

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  • Listening Now : Marek Zibrow – Traffic

    Marek Zibrow explores the intersection of sound and system design with Traffic, a dark, slow-moving instrumental that blends ambient textures with cyberpunk aesthetics. Drawing from his dual background in music and IT, the Polish composer crafts a piece that feels both precise and deeply atmospheric, where subtle pulses and shadowy synth layers mirror the flow and friction of modern urban life. The track unfolds patiently, favoring mood over melody, creating a space that is immersive, slightly melancholic, and quietly hypnotic.

    Traffic works best as a late-night companion, where stillness and motion coexist in perfect balance.

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  • EP Review: Gadget – Coerced

    EP Review: Gadget – Coerced

    Reviewed by Dan Barnes

    Swedish grind veterans, Gadget, return with a new look and their first collection of new material in a decade – notwithstanding the pandemic split with Retaliation, which found the band assisted by numerous friends. One of those pals was Radium Grrrls’ vocalist, Emilia Henriksson, who made her position as replacement for Emil England permanent in 2023.

    That Coerced comes ten-years after The Grand Destroyer is not an unusual situation for Gadget who left a decade-long gap between that record and 2006’s The Funeral March; but these things take time and when you’ve a band of the quality of Gadget, then the wait is often worth it.

    Also joining the core Gadget musicians of guitarist Rikard Olsson, bassist Fredrik Nygren and drummer William Blackmon is second guitarist and backing vocals courtesy of Livet Som Insats and Infanticide member Kristofer Jankarls, turning the band into a five-piece.

    Coerced is the first time this iteration of Gadget has the chance to flex their musical muscles on record and hit hard and hit fast with eight new track that collectively come in short of fourteen-minutes. But you don’t look to Gadget for their progressive approach, you come to them for balls-out grind.

    EP Review: Gadget - Coerced

    Opener Nonsense builds from a quiet place, like some monstrous creature awakening from a long slumber; feedback hits then: BOOM, the Gadget we know and love is back, with a frenzy of rampant, grinding guitars and blitzkrieg drumming, Emilia barking bile-soaked lyrics into the mic. No Sense of Self continues in the same vein, adding a few flourishes from the guitarists; What Doesn’t Serve You both gallops and grooves, Gnistan is an explosive twenty-some-odd-seconds. Four tracks and less than three-and-a-half minutes have passed.

    Funerary Rites adds guest vocalist Johan Lundmark of Prescription Death and Infraction to the descending riffs and Flatline might open with a doomy vibe, but that quickly becomes savage, raw and dripping with disgust.

    Closing tune, Violently Silent, is an epic by comparison, breaking the two-minute mark with vicious wave after wave of controlled musical aggression. It’s a big and accomplished piece constructed around sawing, driving guitars and relentless percussion.

    Before Violently Silent, comes Coerced’s most unexpected moment: the lengthy, droning experimentalism of False Pulse; ominous and unsettling, with added harsh Noise elements, this is what madness must sound like.

    Rikard and Kristofer torture sounds that should not be heard from their instruments, Fredrik and William play active co-conspirators, but it is Emila’s ungodly vocals that steal the show as she howls and screeches like a woman possessed.

    I had a right-good time listening to Coerced but, if I’m being truly honest, I didn’t expect anything different from one of the genres best kept secrets.

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