Release Round Up – September 18th 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
Thrash metal heavyweights Anthrax release latest album ‘Cursum Perficio’ via Nuclear Blast.
“ranks among the band’s most accomplished works.”
Read our full review here.
Nytt Land follow their living, breathing connection with ancient traditions and beliefs on ‘Ritual of Stone Sun (Live 2026)’ released via Season of Mist.
“Ritual of Stone Sun succeeds because Nytt Land understand that power doesn’t always have to come from volume or aggression.”
Read our full review here.
Game Over take no prisoners on new thrasher ‘When Darkness Falls’, released via Scarlet Records.
“Best served with a couple of cold beers, a pizza and an old pair of Reebok hi-tops.”
Read our full review here.
Heavier than Meshuggah? Emma Ruth Rundle releases ‘These Killing Times’ via Errant Child.
“judging solely on sentimental power and pure textural depth, “These Killing Times” is one of the most impactful and emotionally heaviest”
Read our full review here.
Tokyo industrial metal project GodFrost release EP ‘Hanging Doll’ via Brutal Records.
“impactful and innovative, mixing doom and gothic noises, and a proper 90’s industrial base”
Read our full review here.
UK death metal force The Bleeding return with ‘Godless Communion’ via Redefining Darkness.
“easily The Bleeding’s most searing release to date”
Read our full review here.
The Cartographer release their debut album ‘The Collapse of a Bitter End’
“hard-hitting machine-gun riffs before brutal beatdowns”
Read our full review here.
Long-running black metal juggernaut Krallice release ‘Scour Order’ via Profound Lore Records.
“This one flows like lava, consuming everyone and everything in its path!”
Read our full review here.
Parisian underground punk/hardcore outfit LUGOSi release ‘The Scars’.
“a hard-edged punk attitude and a mathcore level of utter madness.”
Read our full review here.
Cambridge heavies Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats return with their seventh full-length ‘Shapes Of Midnight’.
“this is right up there with some of the best.”
Read our full review here.
Blending Death/Doom Metal with ritualistic atmospheres, Runemagick releases ‘After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil’ via Hammerheart Records.
“There were moments I loved on this album and moments I struggled with but you cannot deny the mood throughout.”
Read our full review here.
Led by one of the founding members of Big Country, Big Country Redux release ‘Eastworld’.
“this project feels like the final embers of a dying fire, likely to appeal only to die-hard fans and completists”
Read our full review here.
Rock
Black Blood Sthlm – Black Blood Sthlm (Independent)
Riff Wood – Butterfly In Black and White (Giant Music)
Big Country Redux – Eastworld
Gary John Barden – Empowered Emotions (Frontiers Music SRL)
Saturna – Lifght and Shadow (Spinda Records/Ripple Music)
Chris Horses & The Slow Smoke – Nowhere Bound (Devil’s Fork Records)
Kärbholz – Sturm Zieh Auf (Metalville)
Hardbone – TBC (Massacre Records)
Velveteen Queen – The Greater Good (Silver Lining Music)
Steelmade – Toxic (Independent)
Colin Moulding – Want It Bad (the pep talks and playing fields of old England) (Burning Shed)
Slothrust – What They Grow In The Garden (Rude Records / Equal Vision Records)
Heavy Metal
Kai Hansen – Born With A Hammer (earMUSIC)
Wasted Maniacs – Night of the Maniacs (Independent)
Trenchwar – Overlords of Cold (Time To Kill Records)
Mourning Wood – Rise & Shine (Independent)
Grinn – Silence [EP] (Independent)
Violation – The Anthology (Ripple Music)
Dekadenza – Wasteland (Independent)
Black Metal
Funeral Witchery – Beyond The Light (Invima Records)
Hexbane – From Hell [EP] (The Circle Music)
Mittags-Abgrund – Mittags-Abgrund (Darkness Shall Rise)
Blodtår – Monark (Nordvis Produktion)
The Noctambulant – Revival (Terminus Hate City)
Profeci – Troska (Godz ov War productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Asenblut – A New Era (Independent)
Ch’Ahom – Anthropic Rites of Sublimation (20 Buck Spin)
Sea Sleeper – Burden of Anthlers (Independent)
Besomora – Devolution to the Fear [EP] (Independent)
Hanging Garden – Dream Death (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Revel In Flesh – Flesh For The Kult of Death (War Anthem Records)
Embers of Dawn – Infernal Culture (Independent)
Memories of a Lost Soul – Lost Memories (My Kingdom Music)
Necrocene – Scumocracy (Personal Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Stinking Lizaveta – Cassandra, Prophet of Doom (SRA Records)
Phlefonyaar – Encyclopaedia Sociopathica (Independent)
Allume – Ex Luto (Octopus Rising)
LáGoon – Forget What You Heard (Independent)
Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree – In Between Strides (Magnetic Eye Records)
Terra Black – Mirage (Bonebag Records)
Paranoid Reverb – Red River Black Roots (Octopus Rising)
Remote Viewing – State Violence (Human Worth)
Post-Hardcore
Holding Absence – Modern Life Is Lonely (Sumerian)
Cor de Lux – Year of the Horse (Ipecac Recordings)
Post-Punk
Hijss – Hijss (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Duncan Evans And The Weeping Starlight – The World is a War Zone (Independent)
Power Metal
Aletheya – Chance To Reborn (Independent)
Valkyrie’s Fire – Out of Darkness (Eclipse Records)
James Legendforge – The Witchfinder’s Flame (Independent)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Playground – A Flower To Water (Pelagic Records)
Abstracted Mind – Break Down Your Fears (Independent)
The Eternal – Obscured Horizons (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Submasq – Spirit Animal (Willowtip Records)
Villagers of Ionnina City – Venceremos (Napalm Records)
Punk
Yellowcard – Better Days [Deluxe] (Better Noise Music)
Summer Wars – Closer Than It Seems (Adventure Cat Records)
The Dogs – Trauma Junkie (Indie Recordings)
Thrash Metal
Ombra – Night Terror (Independent)
Garota – Strąceni w Ciemność (Godz ov War Productions)
… and the rest!
Cenobia – Lethal Devotion [EP] (Fearless Records) Metalcore
30,000 Monkies – Super Rebound (Fvn Kult Rekords) Noise Rock
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