Release Round Up – September 11th 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
Green Lung, the future of traditional British metal, release ‘Necropolitan’ via Nuclear Blast Records/.
“their love letter to Gothic London“
Read our full review here.
Swiss post-rock band hubris. release ‘White Shores’.
“more on the melodic and loungey end of the spectrum, and not so much the crushing atmospheric and all-consuming end.”
Read our full review here.
Czechia’s Sněť release ‘V bažinách vědomí’ via Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent Records.
“absolutely reeks with atmosphere and is eminently headbangable”
Read our full review here.
Probably the greatest thing to come out of Bognor Regis, alternative trio iAtlas release ‘Beyond The New Horizon’
“grooves that are great to get lost in”
Read our full review here.
Vulgar Mephitis unleash ‘From Dust’ via Willowtip Records.
“A locomotive at light speed, churning vortices of convoluting riffs and slams, drums and gurgles”
Read our full review here.
RØRY delivers a fearless exploration of grief, rage and mortality on ‘Bloodletting’.
“Sometimes you feel strong, sometimes you fall apart, and sometimes you’re somewhere in between. The album embraces all of those emotions.”
Read our full review here.
Barcelona-based death-doom metallers Bocc announce sophomore album ‘Demolarium’ via Night Terrors Records.
“a ruthless and heavy record that showcases Spain’s extreme metal scene”
Read our full review here.
Thrashers Godslave return with a new, self-titled album via Metalville.
“It’s fast, intense, and would not be out of place on a Kreator album.”
Read our full review here.
NWOBHM stalwarts Tygers Of Pan Tang release ‘Electrifyed’ via Mighty Music.
“great riffs, great vocals and great songs.”
Read our full review here.
Shrineburner will deliver their monolithic debut album ‘Hymns Of Despair‘.
“this album isn’t for the faint of heart “
Read our full review here.
Aussie thrashers Harlott release ‘Exsequiis’ via Metal Blade Records.
“a blur of speed and unbridled violence”
Read our full review here.
Space Chaser deliver big time thrash on new album ‘Razorblade Bay’ released on Testimony Rwecords.
“all about pace with its piss and vinegar attitude”
Read our full review here.
Rock
CoreLeoni – Generection (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Eric Steckel – Sandstorm (SPV)
Megaton Communion – Three of Cups (Black Doomba Records)
Radio Karma – We Were Gods EP
Sweet Electric – Something Something Disco (Independent)
The Fierce & The Dead – Regional Theatre (Independent)
Heavy Metal
Bulent Ceylan – B.L.N.T. (Napalm Records)
Hunter Omega – Lake of Death [EP] (Independent)
Killer – The Grand Finale (High Roller Records)
Scene Queen – Metalicious (Hopeless Records)
Black Metal
AntiMozdeBeast – Prophecy (Independent)
Barkasth – Silent Torment (Mara Production)
Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern (Season of Mist)
Marca Diaboli – Labyrintomb (Sentient Ruin)
Offernat – The Ecstasy of Death (Night of Sacrifice Records)
Paenil Era – A Wilting Fountain (Independent)
Vingulmork – Barmhjertighetens Fallitt (Crime Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Avulsed – Nordic Embryogenesis (Xtreem Music)
Barbarian Prophecies – Echoes (Base Record Productions)
Cartilage – Operating Altar (Everlasting Spew Records)
Discouraged – A Farewell In Stages (FDA Records)
Epitaphe – III (Aesthetic Death)
Filth – Death Exhibition (Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life)
Gravegod – Sermon Under Mound (Independent)
Neolith – Inbir (Deformeathing Production)
Sněť – V bažinách vědomí (Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent Records)
Til The End – Til The End (Lifeforce Records)
Folk Metal
Hrafnablót – Guðlaugar Saga (Independent)
Schandmaul – Sternensegler (Napalm Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Alan Davey – Astroblades and Sunstones (Savant Guarde Records)
Dreadnought – Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light (Vesperian)
Exist Immortal – Afterglow [EP] (Seek & Strike)
Mother of Millions – T (ViciSolum Productions)
Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Empyrean (Independent)
Slug Comparison – Cold In Cold Out [EP] (Independent)
Punk
Foreign Body – Libertine (Brutal Panda Records)
The Meffs – BUSINESS (Frontiers Music SRL)
… and the rest!
Everything Decays – Requiem II: We Will Slaughter the Lambs (Independent) [Deathcore/Hardcore]
Lack – Lack (Dream Bureau) [Hardcore]
Split Chain – motionblue [DELUXE] (Epitaph) [Shoegaze/Post-hardcore]
The Medea Project – Kharon: Forbearance (BDB Studios) [Doom]
X-Pozed – A Cure For Worse (Independent) [Metalcore]
Xion – When Stars Collide (Fireflash Records) [Thrash Metal]
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