Release Round Up - February 27th, 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 unique rock icon that is Rob Zombie releases latest album 'The Great Satan' via Nuclear Blast.
"The Great Satan is the Rob Zombie record we’ve been waiting for, this one feels organic and a very worthy successor to the first four."
Read out full review here.
French synthwave icon Carpenter Brut release 'Leather Temple' via No Quarter Prod.
"It's dark and malevolent yet Brut performs it in the most energetic of ways"
Read out full review here.
Technical Thrash / Death Metal meets all things Sci-Fi on Cryptic Shift's latest album 'Overspace & Supertime' via Metal Blade Records.
"unless someone writes something even bigger, this might be amongst the year’s most maddeningly ambitious."
Read our full review here.
Kent's finest sludge export Blunt Knife Castration unleash 'Blood & Oil'.
"highly creative and filthy sounding songs."
Read our full review here.
Suffocation look back on their time with Roadrunner Records on new boxset 'Jesus Wept', released via Dissonance Productions.
"essential listening to any fan of brutal death and extreme metal!"
Read our full review here.
Kalandra produce atmospheric and captivating Nordic soundscapes on 'Live in Lafayette', released via By Norse.
"unapologetic originality and undeniable authenticity."
Read our full review here.
Hardcore punk heavyweights The Exploited release a 45th Anniversary edition of 'Punks Not Dead' Via Captain Oi!
"cementing its place in the pantheon of stone-cold classic punk records"
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 Swan - Paralyzed (Frontiers Music SRL)
Crooked Fingers - Swet Deth (Merge Records)
From Sheep To Wolves - Ephemeris (WormholeDeath Records)
Glorious Bankrobbers - Intruder (WIld Kingdom)
Hawkwind - Hawkwind [2CD/Blu-Ray Deluxe Edition] (Esoteric Records)
IT'SALIE - Wild Games (Frontiers Music SRL)
Izzy and the Black Trees - Kisses to Chaos (Antena Krzyku)
Joel Hoekstra's 13 - From The Fade (Frontiers Music SRL)
Paul Gilbert - WROC (Music Theory Recordings)
Philip Shouse - Vol. 1 (Wild Kingdom)
Starbenders - The Beast Goes On (Sumerian Records)
The Sheepdogs - Keep Out Of The Storm (Right On Records)
Wille and the Bandits - Sal Roots (Independent)
Heavy Metal
Black Reuss - Death (Golden Robot Records)
Final Gasp - New Day Symptoms (Relapse Records)
Kerrigan - Wayfarer (High Roller Records)
Midnatt - Skräckfylld Förtjusning (Jawbreaker Records)
Nerve Star - White Hot (Independent)
Novomundo The Cursed Cult (Independent)
Phoenix Lake - Seraphina: The Fall From Eden (Independent)
Scratch One Grub - One (Independent)
Templar - Conquering Swords (Jawbreaker Records)
The Browning - Burning This World [EVOLVED] (FiXT)
Black Metal
Drawn Into Descent - Onrust (Immortal Frost Productions)
Imbolic - Sette Cornici di Purificazione (Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music)
Mec Na ver - Noctivaga (Masked Dead Records)
Necrofier - Trascend Into Oblivion (Metal Blade Records)
Nibiru - Hypostasis (Argonauta Records)
Olhava - Memorial (Avantgarde Music)
Ovi - Hedera Helix [EP] (Independent)
Vide - Aux enfantes des ruines (Antiq)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Blackwater Drowning - Obscure Sorrows (Bleeding Art Collective)
Cemetery Reign - Confined To Time (Carbonized Records)
Haiduk - Archdevil (Independent)
Hating Life - Revenge From Beyond (Pulverised Records)
Mývalyĭr - The Past Tales (Independent)
Plagued - Rotting Dominions [EP] (Independent)
Rotten Blasphemy - Worshippers of Chaos (Witches Brew)
Speglas - Endarkenment, Being & Death (Trust No One Recordings)
Unburier - As Time Awaits (Independent)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Ennui - Qroba (Meuse Music Records)
Hela - A Reign To Conquer (Ardua Music)
Locus Noir - Shadow Sun (Listenable Records)
Owls Over Oaks - O.O.O. (Argonauta Records)
Weedpicker - V (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Metalcore
Nomad - Oxygen (Independent)
The Gloom In The Corner - Royal Discordance (Sharptone Records)
Varials - Where The Light Leaves (Fearless Records)
Post-Metal
Aufhebung - Luchtbegrafenis (Dunk! Records)
Matador - Above, Below and So (Church Road Records)
Unverkalt - Héréditaire (Season of Mist)
Post-Rock
Bruecken - Years That Answer (Collapse records)
JeGong - Gomi Kuzu Can (Pelagic Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Fågelle - Bränn (Independent)
Galasphere 347 - The Syntax of Thing (Independent)
Jake Webber - Middle Eart: Vol 2 (Independent)
Manuel - Parasite (WormholeDeath Records)
Punk / Post-Punk
Ceremony - Live At The Hollywood Palladium (Relapse Records)
Deeper Graves - Pull Me Toward The Dark (Disorder Recordings)
Dry Socket - Self Defense Techniques (Get Better Records)
No Murder No Moustache - As Everything Else Decays (Independent)
Shelf Lives - Hypernormal (Independent)
Tricie and the Phantom Punks - Saw Serenade (We Are Horror Records)
Utopia Development Corporation - Industrial Area Swimming Centre [EP] (Kill Flamingo)
Thrash Metal
Chaingun - Nukin' The Heaven's Door (Independent)
Necrosexual - Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives)
Toranaga UK - Crash and Burn (Independent)
... and the rest!
Dälek - Brilliance Of A Falling Moon (Ipecac Recordings) [Experimental Hip-Hop]
A Wilhelm Scream - Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor Records) [Hardcore]
Our Wits - Let Me Join You (Independent) [Post-Hardcore]
Nothing - A Short History of Decay (Run For Cover) [Shoegaze]
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