album review
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EXHUMED‘Red Asphalt’2026, Relapse Records Ladies, gentlemen, gore fiends and grind heads, start your engines: EXHUMED are back. Hard to believe, but true, the band led by Matt Harvey has been thrashing like maniacs for 36 years! Back now with newest opus ‘Red Asphalt’ one must ask the question: is this album a new era for…
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ROB ZOMBIE’The Great Satan’Nuclear Blast Recordshttps://www.robzombie.com/ ‘The Great Satan’ is the 8th studio album by musician and filmmaker ROB ZOMBIE. Rob’s latest collection of music, his first in nearly five years, can actually be summed up in just two words; classic Zombie! What era is that? I would classify it between WHITE ZOMBIE’s 1992 album…
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SYLOSISThe New FleshNuclear Blast Records SYLOSIS deserves a seat at the table and at this point, they’ve earned it! This isn’t a band still trying to prove they belong; it’s a band reminding the metal world that consistency, evolution, and riff writing still matter. For me, ‘The New Flesh’ isn’t just another album to review,…
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ENTHRONED‘Ashspawn’Season Of Mist Here we have another retro review for a release that came out last December and was definitely one of the best releases of 2026 with that of Belgium’s own ENTHRONED and their full-length release through SEASON OF MIST, ‘Ashspawn’. With 9 epic tracks and for nearly an hour with an album that…
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2026 Massacre Records The supergroup Death Dealer unleashed its fourth full-length album, (fifth release overall) the metal monster named ‘Reign of Steel,’ January 23rd through Massacre Records. The album had been awaiting release for a few years, and now the time is right for this behemoth to go out into the world and chop some…
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Arising Empire Records When a band titles a record ‘Reinvention’, expectations are naturally high. It’s a bold declaration, and in many ways, THE VEER UNIONlives up to it. With this upcoming release on Arising Empire Records, the band delivers a fresh twist on their familiar sound. While it may not eclipse the raw urgency of…
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OV SULFUR‘Endless’Century Media Records Photo credit: Anabel DFlux Deathcore may never completely shake its reputation as metal’s knuckle-dragging lowest common denominator. But there are certainly a fair number of bands that have broken free of the flagship curb-stomp breakdown/piglet stuffed into a garbage disposal vocalizing/chock-a-block, extremity for extremity’s sake compositional traits that leave so many…
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TAILGUNNERMidnight BlitzNapalm Records Vampires!Conquests!And a lot of blood! Not that heavy metal had ever prided itself on being neat and orderly in the first place, but if there’s one upcoming band in the scene that’s ready to clean up well in 2026, it’ll likely be TAILGUNNER, the fiery UK quintet whose powerful and unabashedly traditionally…
