Release Round Up - January 30th, 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
The UK's best kept secret unleash an album of the year contender this week. Urne's 'Setting Fire To The Sky' is released via Spinefarm Records.
"Setting Fire to the Sky is making an audacious early bid to be among the final reckoning for 2026’s best album come December. You be brave to bet against it."
Read out full review here.
Malignant Aura deliver a full-length descent into the depths of human despair on 'Where All of Worth Comes to Wither', released via Memento Mori / Grindhead / Primitive Moth.
"its salivating style emits everything repugnant and vile in death/doom"
Read our full review here.
MØL’s latest opus - 'Dreamcrush' - released via Nuclear Blast, sees their sound evolve further.
"full of tempo changes, progressive vocals and emphasises the potency of their music"
Read our full review here.
Belarusian Death Metal Pack Eximperitus drop new album 'Meritoriousness of Equanimity' via Willowtip Records.
"inarguably worthy of your attention for reasons beyond a name like an all-time scrabble high score."
Read our full review here.
UK heavyweights Indica Blues return with 'Universal Heat Death' via Majestic Mountain Records.
"bluesy, adrenaline fuelled, fuzzed out, riff bludgeoning melancholy"
Read our full review here.
The Hirsch Effekt embrace limitless possibilities on new album 'Der Brauch', released via Long Branch Records.
"Every bass note throbs whilst intricate guitar sections are free to breathe and grow."
Read our full review here.
Avant-garde Extreme Metal collective Nightmarer drop vicious new EP 'Hell Interface'.
"blackness and death intertwined and wound, darting like startled rats in all directions."
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 Eyed Sons - Cowboys In Pinstriped Suits (Off Yer Rocka Recordings)
Francis Rossi - The Accidental (earMUSIC)
Scattered Purgatory 破地獄 - Post Purgatory (Guruguru Brain)
Summer of Hate - Blood & Honey (Tee Pee Records)
Sweatmaster - More! (Svart Records)
The Chuck Norris Experiment - Hot Stuff 3 (Ghost Highway Recordings / Chaputa Records)
The Paper Kites - If You Go There, I Hope You Find It (Nettwerk)
Heavy Metal
FiliI Bibiano's FORTRESS - Death Is Your Master (High Roller Records)
Hanabie. - 「HOT TOPIC」[EP] (Sony Music)
Rave In Fire - Square One (High Roller Records)
Red Sands - Evocations (Independent)
Rotheads - Alles Endet (Massacre Records)
Survivalist - A Place For Thise Who Suffer, Alone (Seek and Strike)
Wicked Leather - Season of the Witch (Lost Realm Records)
Witch - The Hex Is On... And Then Some [Compilatipn] (Lost Realm Records)
Black Metal
Amenspear - Ego's Carrion (Independent)
Beyond The Pale - Monument In Time (Black Metal Archives)
Circular Ruins - A Sermon in Tongues (Vendetta Records)
Gorrch - Stillamentum (Avantgarde Music)
Old Sorcery - The Outsider (Avantgarde Music)
Profane Elegy - Herezjarcha (Independent)
Qasu - A Bleak King Cometh (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Sidious - Malefic Necropolis (Immortal Frost Productions)
Udreka - Nieistnienie (Godz ov War Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Banisher - Metamorphosis (Selfmadegod records)
Buddah - Amyotrophy (Godz ov War Productions)
Cruent Venganza - Legend (Bitume Prods)
Invictus - Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori / Me Saco Un Ojo)
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe (Century Media Records)
Obscurity - Ascheregen (Trollzorn Records)
Pits - Macabre Luxuria (Independent)
Rotheads - Unfazed by Death [10th Anniversary Released] (Memento Mori)
Shine - Wrathcult (Dark Descent Records)
Skulld - Abyss Calls to Abyss (Time To Kill Records)
Stabbing - Eon of Obscenity (Century Media Records)
Uninhibited - From Flesh to Void [EP] (Independent)
Wstret - Enlightened Misanthropy (Godz ov War Productions)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Abissi - Paramagia (Octopus Rising)
Gavran - The One Who propels (Dunk! Records)
Lone Wanderer - Exequiae (High Roller Records)
Lord Elephant - Ultra Soul (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Planet Hunter - Soothsayer (Sharkhound)
Redwood - Time To Lose (Independent)
Tarlung - Axis Mundi (Argonauta Records)
Metalcore
Contrasts - False Idol [EP] (Independent)
Our Mirage - Fractured Minds (Arising Empire)
Shields - death & connection (Long Branch Records)
Noise
It It Anita - Hi Hi Ha Ha (Vicious Circle records / Luik Music)
Noirnoise - Plant Resilience (Club Inferno Ent.)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Course of Fate - Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
Hällas - Panorama (Äventyr Records)
Punk
Bödel - Dödsbringaren (DiSTAT Records)
Buzzcocks - Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red Records)
Final Dose - Endless Woe [EP] (Wolves of Hades)
Kid Kapichi - Fearless Nature (Spinefarm Records)
Self Torque - A Brutal Nadir (Sugar-Free Records)
Thrash Metal
Catachrest - Target of Ruin (Selvajaria Records)
Foresaken Profits - Decayed [SINGLE] (Independent)
Scruda - Extreme Speed Violence (Godz ov War Productions)
... and the rest!
Her - Monochrome (Season of Mist) [Nordic Fusion]
Jagged City - There Are More of Us, Always (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
Parkwalker - The Extra Mile (Independent) [Mathrock]
Ronker - Respect The Hustle, I Won't Be Your Dog Forever (Labelman) [Speed/Noise]
Syberia - Quan tot s'apagui (Moment of Collapse Records) [Post-Metal]
Therion - Con Orquesta (Napalm Records) [Symphonic Metal]
