Release Round Up – July 31st 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
German force Finsterforst release ‘Still’ via AOP Records.
“A colossal epic piece of metal that is vast in scale and sound.”
Read our full review here.
Horrid Mass drop debut album ‘Nauseating Ecstatic Degeneration’ via Momento Mori / Night Terror Records.
“The riffs are sinister, the vocals are vile and the drums are dramatic”
Read our full review here.
The culmination of nearly two decades of uncompromising creativity, Disfiguring The Goddess release ‘Bloom’ via Seek and Strike.
“The mix of death grunts and raw intensity results in fiery, violent soundscapes”
Read our full review here.
At the intersection of post‑punk, doom metal, early industrial, noise‑rock, and shoegaze, Anatomy of Habit release ‘Paired Sentinels’.
“full of mystery and intrigue”
Read our full review here.
An album that follows the path of early black metal, Tabernakel release ‘Scheintaufe’ via Iconoclasm Conquest.
“It is, in a nutshell, old school black metal as fuck.”
Read our full review here.
Nothingness push their digressive death ethos on ‘Godslaughter’ released via Everlasting Spew Records.
“An album as ruthless as its namesake would suggest.”
Read our full review here.
Rock
Iconic – II (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Limit – Another Drop (Silver Lining Music)
Sinner – Boom Bang Goodbye (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Heavy Metal
Element of Fate – Dreamfall (Independent)
FireFlame – Force Against The End (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Cairiss – Wilderness (Independent)
Ceremonial Worship – Between Sleep and Death (Eternal Death)
Finsterforst – Still (AOP Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Altarage – Cogwheel (Sentient Ruin)
Beyond Grace – Welcome to the New Dark Ages [EP] (Independent)
Complexant – Apex (Bleeding Art Collective)
Hexorcist – Crucificial Imprecations & Evil Reaping Death (Invictus Productions)
Scarab – Blinding the Masses [REISSUE] (Brutal Records)
Scattered Remnants – Procreating Mass Carnage | Inherent Perversion | Destined to Fail (Redefining Darkness Records)
Tarturerama – The Elaborate Theatre of the Macabre (Memento Mori)
Viande – Monument aux morts (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Xatytax – Abrasion [EP] (Independent)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Arsis Thesis – Ustanak (Independent)
Dead Meadow – Foundlings (Heavy Pysch Sounds)
Metalcore
Allt – Ataraxia (Century Media Records)
Concrete Hyena – Future Primitives (Grand Theft Audio)
Future Palace – Resurgence (Century Media Records)
TX2 – We’re Going To Hell For This… [EP] (Independent)
… and the rest!
Dry Wedding – The Back of Beyond (Wesperian)
Sellsword – …With Might and Vengeance (Independent)
Lalu – A Mythmaker’s Demise (Frontiers Music SRL)
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables [The 2022 Mix] (Cherry Red Records)
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