Release Round Up – August 7th 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
Carving out a distinct place within the black metal underground, Hulder release ‘Verbolgen’ via Season of Mist / 20 Buck Spin
“a sleeping giant soon to wake up and lay waste to the world of black metal!”
Read our full review here.
Witching Buzz Records release ‘Cathedral of Smoke: A Tribute to SLEEP’
“a solid album that hopefully will serve as a gateway into one of the greatest heavy bands to ever play on this earth.”
Read our full review here.
Argentine stoner rockers Mephistofeles release ‘Live in Europe’ via Heavy Psych Sounds.
“a filthy guitar sound, huge bass notes and sleazy psychedelic doom”
Read our full review here.
Horrifier continue to vomit pure, old-school brutality on latest album ‘Revelations of Gore’, released via Personal Records.
“the threat of ripping our person apart remains,”
Read our full review here.
Wolverhampton deathcore heavyweights Suffer drop new EP ‘Soul From Flesh’
“a bite size easy-to-ingest sample of their undeniable potential”
Read our full review here.
Twenty six bands team up on a ‘Death Metal Tribute to Ozzy’.
“a body of work that is inspirational to people no matter where in the world they may be, and what their musical passion is.”
Read our full review here.
Rock
Billy Morrison – Hollow (TLG | ZIOD)
Hawkwind – Friends & Relations Vol 6 (Cherry Red Records)
Marc Amacher – Overdrive (Hoboville)
Heavy Metal
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies – Cathedral (Sacred Bones)
Metasoma – Core [EP] (Independent)
Winter on Venus – Words I Never Meant (Independent)
Xandria – Eclipse (Napalm Records)
Black Metal
Aspen Sanctum – To Withhold The Need To Conquer (Fiadh Productions)
Dark Plague – Masquerade (Fetzner Death Records)
Flowers Of Rust – Crude Exhibitions Of The Soul (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Hanternoz – A Hed an Noz, a Noz, a Noz (Antiq)
Wormwood – Å [EP] (Black Lodge)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
F.A.M. – Pleasure of Torture (Selfmadegod Records)
Gravecrawler – Nidus (Independent)
New Sun – Hanged’s Fate (WormholeDeath Records)
Temple of Dread – Dreadspawn Dominion (Testimony Records)
Vertiginous – Incessant Affliction (Comatose Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
10,000 Years – Esox Lucifer (Ripple Music)
Crumbling Ghost – Four (New Heavy Sounds)
Pleb – You And Me Baby Ain’t Nothing But Cannibals [SINGLE] (Independent)
Todomal – Graveyards of Joy (Season of Mist)
Wealthy Women – Children (Independent)
Hardcore
Cancer Bats – Give Me Dirt (Marshall Records)
Negative Frame – Break The Ice (Blood Blast Distrobution)
Metalcore
Electric Callboy – Tanzneid (Century Media Records)
Kingseeker – Parables [EP] (Braak Records)
Post-Hardcore
Citizen – Halcyon Blues (Run For Cover Records)
Jamie Lenman – Puke (Independent)
… and the rest!
Die Entweihun – Worldwide Terror (Morbid & Miserable Records) [Thrash Metal]
Machiner – Motion Waves (Butterfly Effect Records) [Post-Industrial]
Public Opinion – The Curse of Public Opinion (Sideonedummy) [Punk]
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