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.

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.

Jools Green 2025 Review.As a fan/journalist, another positive year for the Extreme/underground Metal scene, with some great gigs, tours and releases happening.

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

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.