Release Round Up - June 12th, 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
Colorado heavy weights Khemmis release their fifth, self-titled, album via Nuclear Blast.
"massive riffs that bring the hammer"
Read our full review here
Italian grindcore icons Cripple Bastards release EP 'La tua foto sul marmo' via F.O.A.D. Records.
"does everything that you want from a Cripple Bastard's record - except, perhaps, last longer than fifteen-minutes"
Read our full review here
Medieval black metal outfit Véhémence release 'Assiégé pour l'Eternité' via Antiq.
"it's borne out of the far past, not out of some romanticism but a legitimate allure of bygone times."
Read our full review here.
Canadian death metal band Goreworm unleash 'Miasmic Solitude' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"a fantastically written technical death metal album"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Bolan - Gargoyle of the Garden State (earMUSIC)
Def Leppard - Greatest Hits (TBC)
Des Rocs - To Hell And Back (Sumerian Records)
Dirty Heads - 7 Seas (Better Noise Music)
Joseph Tholl - It Might Be Art (High Roller Records)
Lockhart - City Pulse (High Roller Records)
Sleeping With Sirens - An Ending In Itself (TBC)
Spread Eagle - The Brutal Divine (Frontiers Music SRL)
Sublime - Until The Sun Explodes (Atlantic Records)
Sweet - Live at the Capitol (Hannover 1991) (Metalville)
The Heavy Eyes - Focus (Magnetic Eyes Records)
Heavy Metal
Boarzoy - The Great Fires (Independent)
Heavenwood - The Tarot of the Bohemians Part II (Mighty Music)
Lex Legion - Lex Legion (MNRK)
Tarja - Frisson Noir (earMUSIC)
Black Metal
Inherits the Void - The Silent Abscission (Avantgarde Music)
Non Serviam - La Lune Dont Mon Ame Est Pleine (Lay Bare Recordings)
SAĦĦAR - Migja ta Mohh Mignun (Time To Kill Records)
Stormkeep - The Nocturnes Of Iswylm (Vesperian)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
BalashToth - Equation II - The Antithesis of Life and Free Will (Not-Even-Music/Pest Records)
Bloodhunter - Sons of the Abandoned (ROAR)
Defenestration - Rotting ANtefix (Iron Fortress REcords)
Defiled - Altered State (Season of Mist)
Fleshcrawl - Epitome of Carnage (Distortion Music Group)
Goetia - Mortuary Cult (Carbonized Records)
Goreworm - Miasmic Solitude (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Soulburn - Quantifying Cosmic Doom (Testimony Records)
Tombal - Grave of the Demned [EP] (Blood Harvest Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Big | Brave - in gried or in hope (Thrill Jockey)
Khemmis - Khemmis (Nuclear Blast Records)
King Potenaz - Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2 (Majestic Mountain Records)
Make - Exegesis At The End Of Time (Accident Prone Records)
Redwood - Hyperspace (Independent)
Sorrow Sphere - The Wizard of Doom (Club Inferno Ent.)
Hardcore
Foreign Film - A Love Letter (Independent)
Twist Lock - Surplus Citizen (Independent)
Progressive Metal
GanEden - Gan Eden (Epitronic)
Mirror of my Soul - October is Rising (Majestic Mountain Records)
Tonnen Von Hall - Donnermesser [EP] (Unsung Records)
Vanden Plas - AcCult II (Frontiers Music SRL)
Thrash Metal
Nuclear Tomb - Epoch Inhumane (Rotten Life Records)
Scatter - Tech Hell Cyber Thrash (Independent)
... and the rest!
Big D and the Kids Table - The Good Ole American Saturday Night (SideOneDummy Records) [Ska/Punk]
Genghis Tron - Signal Fire (Relapse Records) [Cybergrind/Prog]
Man Looking Man - Man Looking Man (Octopus Rising) [Post-Hardcore]
Mono - Snowdrop (Temporary Residence Limited) [Post-Rock]
Still Remains - Spirit Breaker (Arson Theory) [Metalcore]
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