Release Round Up – July 10th 2026

Release Round Up – July 10th 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

DevilDriver‘s elevenths album ‘Strike and Kill’, release via Napalm Records, hits hard!
“their launch pad for a new wave of brutality “
Read our full review here.

Math-rock outfit Daydream Plus, the aurally opposite alter ego of lauded death metal band Tomb Mold, release ‘Second Last Day of Summer’ via Run For Cover Records.
“something deceptively complex and deep, with an undeniable smokey lounge jazzy undertone.”
Read our full review here.

A decade and a half in the making, Cranial Osteotomy release ‘Vortex Of The Dark Knowledge’ via Comatose Music.
“The gun cabinet is raided for endless intersections of high-calibre chugs and sprinting tremolos”
Read our full review here.

The living embodiment of raw, powerful heavy metal, Sinsid release ‘All That Remains’ via Pitch Black Records.
“a believable and honest record from a band who eat, drink, and sleep heavy metal!”
Read our full review here.

Cowpunk pioneers Nine Pound Hammer release ‘Too Outlaw For Outlaw Country’ via Reptilian Records.
“this is nothing but fun to listen to”
Read our full review here.

Death metal supergroup Arise From Worms unleash ‘A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self Destruction’ via Church Road Records.
“the guitar wankery is just sublime”
Read our full review here.

Pacific Northwest riff masters Slow Goat release ‘Where The Wisest Fear To Tread’
“You can sense that raw, gritty edge which lies behind their music”
Read our full review here.

Bulgarian death/gore masters Necromonger release ‘Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions’ via Xtreem Music.
“exhausting and terrifying in equal measure”
Read our full review here.

Hailing from the barren Sundered Lands of the North East, Yersin release new EP ‘Born Alone, Die Alone’
“sounds like an antimatter warhead going off inside a closet.”
Read our full review here.

Italian death-grind veterans Undertakers release ‘Global Dominion’ via Time To Kill Records.
“a tidal surge of blasts, threshing flesh before the floor collapses from below and we plunge into a nasty, bone-splintering breakdown.”
read our full review here.

Rock

Ealdor Bealu – Graves of the Silent Plain (Ripple Music)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance (Frontiers Music SRL)
Eva Under Fire – Villainous (Better Noise Music)
Pride of Lions – Unbridled (Frontiers Music SRL)
Sweet – The Answer [Expanded Reissue of A]
The Devil Wears Nada – In Lust We Thrist (Eonian Records)
The Xcerts – I Think I Want To Go Home Now (FLG)
Wailin Storms – The Arsonist (Season of Mist)

Heavy Metal

Irata – Human (Small Stone Recordings)
Iron Slaught – Metallic Torments (Gates of Hell Records)
Master Massive – With Shadows (Fireflash Records)
Smoking Snakes – All Lights On (Frontiers Music SRL)

Black Metal

I Proélefsi – Ypógeio Vasíleio (Depressive Illusions Records)
Mourir – Nous (Pelagic Records)

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

Apogean – Waste Where Life Begins (The Artisan Era)
Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship – 二次元コンプレックス 2D Complex (Stillbirth Records / Gore House Productions)
Dysgnostic – End Whisphers (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Haserot – Advent of Suffering (Redefining Darkness Records)
Hrothgar – Tales of Volholl (Independent)
Pythonic – Laws of Karma [EP]
Ravaged by the Yeti – Snowbound Horror (Testimony Records)
Savage – Spetic Tomb [EP]
Sigyn – From Nation to Chaos (Noble Demon)
Volubilis – Theasterion (Independent)
Vulgar Dissection – Grotesque Impalement [Single] (Dying Fetus cover) (Cesspit Records)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

Beware of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Descends III: Behead The Oracle (Independent)
Blackstaff – Drowner [EP]
Pylar – Delyrio (Cyclic Law/Cavsas)
Rodtgod – Tales From Beyond The Tomb (Independent)
Shadow of Jupiter – Bones (Ripple Music)

… and the rest!

As Oceans Divide – As Oceans Divide [EP] (Independent) [Metalcore]
If These Trees Could Talk – The Hidden Hand (Metal Blade Records) [Post-Rock]
No Cure – It Is Going To Get Dark (Sharptone Records) [Deathcore]
Semantron – Secrets Of A Krummholz Heart (Independent) [Prog Rock]
Spread The Disease – The Darkness, The Dread, The Suffering (Hypaethral Records) [Hardcore]