Extreme Metal

Album review: Piołun. Discover why Exolvuntur stands out in modern Black Metal with bleak lyricism, fierce riffs, and haunting atmosphere.

Six Feet Under return with Next To Die, their fifteenth album, blending Death Metal aggression and groove to deliver their strongest, most creative release in years.

Icy and primal Determined To Death And Beyond sees Archaic Oath craft a powerful Blackened Death Metal debut inspired by Dissection, Naglfar, and Swedish extremes.

Album review. RIKET – 2026. A crushing Swedish Death Metal debut packed with historical themes, intense riffs, and a decade-long wait worth every second.

Album Review: Void Of Light. Asymmetries delivers a crushing, haunting sludge/post-Metal debut, blending raw vocals, atmosphere, and emotional depth across five immersive tracks.

Album Review: TULUS. Morbid Desires, a black to the core release blending raw vocals, dark folklore themes, and adventurous songwriting in a haunting 2026 album.

Album Review: Cryptic Shift. Overspace & Supertime is Technical Death Metal in hyperspace. 82 minutes of astrodeath, sci-fi chaos and insane riffs.

THE MAGUS journeys to Demonhood on Daemonosophia, delivering vengeful, theatrical black metal intensity and occult grandeur. Out 20 Feb 2026.

Mayhem return with Liturgy of Death, a raw, immersive album pushing Norwegian Black Metal’s boundaries. Discover the intensity in this full review.

Album Review: Kanonenfieber release Soldatenschicksale channeling WWI tragedy through intense Black/Death Metal. Two new songs and seven rerecorded tracks included.

Album review: Sidious Malefic Necropolis—UK Black Metal at its finest. A blistering follow-up to Blackest Insurrection, darker, bolder, and more immersive.

Album Review: Heir Corpse One return with Destination: Domination, a brutal 2026 zombie metal concept album packed with apocalyptic riffs, gore-fuelled storylines, and undead mayhem.

Rogga Johansson delivers again with 14th Paganizer album As Mankind Rots. A savage, riff-heavy Death Metal release that’s as relentless as it is essential.

Ellende returns with Zerfall, a 2026 atmospheric Black Metal masterpiece exploring despair, resilience, and rebirth through haunting soundscapes and raw emotion.

Album Review: Dødsferd. Purification Forms is a nihilistic raw Black Metal compilation of covers and rarities, blending chaos, punk fury and anti-human darkness

Rogga Johansson’s Dead Sun returns with This Life Is A Grave, a dark, melodic Death Metal album full of eerie riffs and horror themes. Released 19 Dec 2025.

Der Rote Milan return with Verlust, a raw and atmospheric Black Metal release that delves into themes of grief, loss, and inner darkness with poetic intensity.

Dive into our album review of Siltskin by Blood Red Throne. An intense, riff-heavy assault proving these Norwegian Death Metal legends are still on top form.