Release Round Up - May 22nd, 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
Norwegian extreme metal royalty Dimmu Borgir release 'Grand Serpent Rising' on Nuclear Blast.
"Ultimately, you know what you’re getting with a new Dimmu Borgir record and this one delivers on all those fronts."
Read our full review here
The next chapter in the Armored Saint story lands this week with 'Emotion Factory Reset', released via Metal Blade Records.
"chock full of hard rocking metal anthems with fantastic songwriting and amazing performances."
Read our full review here.
Impure Wilhelmina's blend of progressive-tinged dark rock lands on 'Le sanglot' on Season of Mist.
"the somewhat chaotic and unstructured nature of the music is rather like Opeth minus the walls and walls of distortion."
Read our full review here
Nashville post-rock duo Hammock release 'The Second Coming Was A Moonrise'.
"This speaks to Hammock's unpredictable song writing nature and taking the unconventional path to constantly challenge!"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
A - Prang (Cooking Vinyl)
Boys From Heaven - The Wanderer (Frontiers Music SRL)
Bustié - Throb (Psychic Eye Records)
Dan Byrne - This Is Where (Frontiers Music SRL)
Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions 3 (TBC)
Dead Register - Fiber [10th Anniversary Edition] (AVR)
Erik Grönwall - Bad Bones (Greenwall Entertainment)
Fatal Vision - Four Sides to Every Story (Escape Music)
Midnight Rider - Limited Infinity (Massacre Records)
Neo Dimes - Alone (Independent)
Penitent - Te Veut Ivre (Gates of Hell Records)
Poison Zoomak - New Machines (Independent)
Requiem in White - The Visible Heaven (The Circle Music)
Rival Cults - Our Gods Needs Blood (Seeing Red Records)
The Dead Collective - The Dead Collective [EP] (Independent)
The Howling - Salvo (Independent)
Various Artists - Frontiers XXX Anniversary (Frontiers Music SRL)
Virginmarys - Beyond The House of Fires (Independent)
Heavy Metal
Aeveris - Imminence (Independent)
Armored Saint - Emotion Factory Reset (Metal Blade Records)
Crimson Day - Dark Dimension (WormholeDeath Records)
Musth - Jollysad (Independent)
Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club - Trippin’ On A Chinese Market (Aalzorp recordz)
XCIII - In Puncto Ad Inferna Descendunt (Club Inferno Ent.)
Black Metal
Isegrim - Isegrim [REISSUE] (Fireflash Records)
Piolun - Exolvuntur (Malignant Voices)
The Circle of the Elect - Kaoskarma (Archaic Sound)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Abandon Agony - Endbringer (Independent)
Corpse Water - ...something in the water (Grindscene Records)
Dark Millennium - Some (Massacre Records)
Desecresy - The Secret of Death (Xtreem Music)
Ersedu - Gore (Independent)
Hexenaltar - Descending Curse (Godz ov War Productions)
Horrific Visions - Remnants of Atrophy (Comatose Music)
Kur-nu-gi-a - Carmina Inferorum (Godz ov War Productions)
Mansvara - Sable Odes to Nihility (Godz ov War Productions)
Membrance - Resa Marciana (Ad Noctem records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Burial Clouds - Burn Holy (Independent)
Endless Floods - Passages (Permafrost Records / Araki Records / Yoyodyne Records)
Fireball Ministry - The Second Great Awakening [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Goddess - Ritual of The Cloven Hoof (Majestic Mountain Records)
JPT Scae Band - Live At Crosstown Station (Ripple Music)
Maliciouz - Sympathypnotic Intercession (Independent)
SÖNUS - Planes of Torment (Independent)
Hardcore
Your Spirit Dies - It Is Well... (MNRK Heavy)
Xcomm - Time To Burn (Blowout Records)
Power Metal
Embrace of Souls - The Battle of the Dead (Rockshots Records)
Moonlight Haze - Interstellar Madness [EP] (Scarlet Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Ayreon - 30th Anniversary - An Amazing Flight Through Time (Music Theories Recordings/Artone)
Du Cane - Veil of the Abyss (Independent)
Vision Divine - A Clockwork Reverie [EP] (Scarlet Records)
... and the rest!
Ataraxia - Sylfaera the Fair (The Circle Music) [Dark Folk]
Bear - Anhedonia [EP] (Pelagic Records) [Mathcore]
Caught In A Mirror - Neoncore (Bleeding Nose Records) [Metalcore]
Hellevate - Killicon Valley (Independent) [Thrash Metal]
Hysterese - Hysterese (V) (This Charming Man Records) [Punk]
Impure Wilhelmina - Le sanglot (Season of Mist) [Post-Rock]
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