Release Round Up - March 20th, 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
Thrash metal veterans Exodus unleash 'Goliath', their thirteenth studio album, via Napalm Records.
"easily the most varied Exodus album to date"
Read out full review here.
Toronto-based progressive death metal quartet Gutvoid release 'Liminal Shrines' via Profound Lore Records.
"perverted, reshaped and recontextualised for the band’s desires."
Read our full review here.
Porto's beautiful extreme enigma Gaerea are ste to release latest work 'Loss' this week via Century Media Records.
"Gaerea aren’t just doing the bare minimum to survive. They’re absolutely thriving with “Loss”."
Read our full review here.
Peruvian death merchants Hell Treppaner release 'The Consecration of Eternal Impurity' via Awakening Records.
"It comes in, rips the flesh off your face and leaves with zero abandon."
Read our full review here.
Kate's Acid release 'Hellbender' via High Roller Records this week.
"a definite callback to the heavy metal of the 1980’s"
Read our full review here.
Hungarian speed maniacs Türböwitch release 'Under Haunted Skies' via Time To Kill Records.
"It’s short, fast and aggressive"
Read our full review here.
Abyssius return with their most confrontational and uncompromising work to date, 'Vermin'
"the band bolt an anthemic melodeath chainmail to the plate armour of modern metalcore and deathcore subgenres."
Read our full review here.
Back with their first album in fifteen years, Poison The Well release 'Peace in Place' via Sharptone Records.
"exploding into life with aggression and brutality"
Read our full review here.
Brazilian extremists Diatribes release 'Degenerate' via Brutal Records.
"Maybe Diatribes and their take on an evergreen if defiantly retro sound will be what the doctor ordered"
Read our full review here.
The UK’s heaviest and sickest exponents of shocking brutality are back, Engorgement release 'They Rot Beneath Our Floor' via Comatose Music.
"a heady mix of slam and brutal death, whose blasts and breakdowns will shake you to your core"
Read our full review here.
German thrashers Nuclear Warfare unleash 'All Hail to the Liberator' via MDD Records.
"if you’re desperate for a new Sodom or Destruction album then this just might scratch that itch while you’re waiting."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
ClockTowers - Genesis (Independent)
Filth Is Eternal - Impossible World (MNRK Heavy)
Ignescent - Eternal (Frontiers Music SRL)
S8nt Elecktic - Off The Edge (Long Branch Records)
Sick Shooters - Super Sonic Rock Saga (Wap Shoo Wap Records)
Stainless - Lady of Lust & Steel (High Roller Records)
Stonus - Space To Dive (Ripple Music)
Stud Farm Mafia - Did You Have A Good Weekend? (Independent)
Tyketto - Closer To The Sun (Silver Lining Music)
Heavy Metal
Axel Rudi Pell - Ghost Town (Steamhammer / SPV)
Following The Signs - Evolve [EP] (Independent)
Lost in Hollywood - Lost in Hollywood (Arising Empire)
Misty Route - Ethos (Bitume)
Night Thieves - Metaxis (Independent)
Nihilanth - Detritus of Ruin [EP] (Independent)
Venus 5 - March of the Venus 5 (Frontiers Music SRL)
Black Metal
Calvana - Sub Janus (Adirondack Black Mass)
Decipher - Oeahma (Thelema) (Transcending Obscuirty Records)
Via Doloris - Guerre et Paix (Season of Mist)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Cultist - Spiritual Atrophy (Awakening Records)
Deimler - Darkness Falls (Awakening Records)
Dragsholm - The Bloodlines of Bram (Faithless Entertainent)
Egregore - It Echoes In The Wild (20 Buck Spin)
Empire of Disease - While Everything Collapses (Xtreem Music)
Graufar - Via Necropolis (Independent)
Hautajaisyö - Surun paino (Inverse Records)
Karmian - Horror Vacui (Rockshots Records)
Necrogore - Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena (Awakening Records)
Papa Necrose - Anthropomorphy Execution (Awakening Records)
Putred - Blestemul Din Adanc (Awakening Records)
Rötual - For The Dead (Independent)
Skull Altar - Diabolical (Independent)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Chalice of Suffering - The Raven Cries One Last Time (My Kingdom Music)
Goatsmoker - E.R.I.S. (Vinyltroll Records)
Lord of Confusion - The Weight of Life (Morbid And Miserable Records / Larvae Records)
Magnitudo - M A T E R I A L I S M (Dusktone)
Mister Earthbound - Ostara [EP] (Independent)
Norna/Legbiter - Norna/Legbiter [SPLIT EP] (Pelagic Records)
Radian - Subterfuge (Third House Communications)
Hardcore / Post-Hardcore
Manchester Orchestra - Union Chapel, London, England (Loma Vista Recordings)
mclusky - i sue am getting sick of this bowling alley (Ipecac Recordings)
Truth Grip - Twist of Fate (Thrash Out Records)
Power Metal
Assignment - With The End Comes Silence (Massacre Records)
Evermore - Mournbraid (Scarlet Records)
Punk
Cowboy Hunters - EPeepee [EP] (Independent)
Gladie - No Need To Be Lonely (Get Better Records)
Shatten - Gegenwart (Mistunes)
The Dogs - Back To Fucking (Indie Recordings)
... and the rest!
Askemåne - Kollisjon (Independent) [Neo Folk]
Barren Womb/Hylko - Split Single (Fucking North Pole Records/Captured Records) [Noise Rock]
Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - Music for Intersecting Planes (Ideologic Organ) [Experimental]
Mystfall - Embers of a Dying World (Scarlet Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Persecutor - Casualties of Violence (Audible Music) [Thrash Metal]
