Release Round Up – August 21st 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 melodic metal veterans Mob Rules release ‘Stories From The Verdant Vale’ via Reigning Phoenix Music
“more of a collectors item for the hardcore fan rather than an essential release.”
Read our full review here.
Cvinger unapologetically fuses black and death metal on new album ‘Rites of Flesh’ via Void Wanderer Productions.
“offers a nice change of aesthetic from the slicing, freezing style familiar to black metal.”
Read our full review here.
Sludge/post-metal outfit Dead Steppe release ‘Hail to the End’.
“you can feel the passion oozing out”
Read our full review here.
German up and rising melancholic heavy metallers The Night Eternal release ‘Cold Velvet’ via Metal Blade Records.
“attempting to fill the rather large Peter Steele shaped void left in the gothic metal scene”
Read our full review here.
Rock
7zumaz – Deep Inside… [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Bernie Marsden – Stage (Conquest Music)
Cemetery Echo – Civitas Lacrimarum (Seeing red Records)
Famous Strangers – Famous Strangers (Independent)
Grand – Guilty Pleasure (Frontiers Music SRL)
Over The Edge (Ft. Mickey Thomas) – Over The Edge (XXX Anniversary Remix Edition) (Frontiers Music SRL)
Sakoya – World Gone Crazy [EP] (Adventure Cat Records)
Speed Stroke – Damage Control (Scarlet Records)
Heavy Metal
Cease To Resist – Edge Of Silence (Independent)
Fejd – Nifelheim (Black Lodge)
Nova Riot – Blood, Lies & Lullabies (Eclipse Records)
Tokyo Blade – Hoise The Colours Hight (Cherry Red Records)
Triskelyon – Metalmorphosis (Moribund Records)
Black Metal
Helheim – Yersinia Pestis [VINYL ReISSUE] (Nomad Snakepit Productions)
Røkkr – Sindets Skygger Hvisker (Nomad Snakepit Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Accursed Womb – Hymns of Blasphemous Fornication (Nespithe)
Azatoth – Carnal Lust of blasphemy (Extremely Rotten Productions)
Deathgrave – Hell Is Evil (Tankcrimes)
Dogtak – Shattered Reflection (Independent)
Nekrodawn – Convenant of Carnage (War Anthem Records)
Shabti – Haze, Cacophony, And White Light (Contemn Light)
Street Tombs – Existence Is Corruption (Carbonized Records)
Thanatomass – The Rabid Dead (Nomad Snakepit Productions)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Argul – Soledad & Orgullo (Personal Records)
Bleeding Antlers – Songs of Praise (Independent)
Florist – Adrift [REISSUES] (Ripple Music)
Hardcore
Cutthroat – The Pruge [EP] (M-Theory Audio)
The Barbarians Of California – Megatons (Villains For Good)
Metalcore
Axty – The Pain Made Me Who I Am (Napalm Records)
Rising Insane – Deathrace (Long Branch Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Noveria – Becoming After (Scarlet Records)
Oddland – Unilluminate To Illuminate (Frontiers Music SRL)
Punk
Karen Dio – Fugaz [EP] (Hopeless Records)
Rocketsuit Rogue – Hello, Apocalypse! (Double Helix Records)
… and the rest!
Coastal Fire Dept. – Hey! What’s Your Name? (L’islet Records) [Grunge]
Ristridi – Ride The Storm (Independent) [Power Metal]
Untitled With Drums – Made Flsh (Seson of Mist) [Post-Hardcore]
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