Release Round Up – September 25th 2026

Release Round Up – September 25th 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

Post-metal visionaries The Ocean are back with ‘Solaris’ on Pelagic Records.
“a statement of resilience, and rather than resisting change, fully embracing it“
Read our full review here.

Swedish sludge/doom outfit Kongh release ‘Dissolved in Time’ via Trust No One Recordings.
“crushing, cavernous and quietly magnificent.”
Read our full review here.

Underground grindcore royalty Suffering Quota unleash ‘Sisyphean Life’ via Tartarus Records/7 Degrees Records.
“a blitzkrieg of molten catharsis”
Read our full review here.

Irish death metallers Zealot Cult release ‘Psalms Of Filth’ via Awakening Records.
“old school death metal by old school death metal heads”
Read our full review here.

Mat MCcNerney’s Scorpion Milk return with ‘Flesh Masks For Skulls’ via Peaceville Records.
“A magpie’s scrapbook of a stopgap: inessential, unhurried and an absolute joy “
Read our full review here.

Noctule – the solo project of Svalbard’s Serena Cherry – releases sophomore album ‘Extinguish Thy Flame’.
“forty-minutes of ripping melodic black metal”
Read our full review here.

Nordic folk metal outfit Gåte release ‘Sigil’ via Season of Mist.
“This is classic contemporary meets tradition and the synergy between the two is remarkable.”
Read our full review here.

Modern heavy metal ensemble Banks Arcade drop ‘Second Place Superstar’ via Arising Empire.
“see hard rock/ heavy metal as merely another arrow in their musical quiver, refusing to be wholly defined by the genre boundaries.”
Read our full review here.

Crown Magnetar are bringing brutal back with ‘The Hollowing Of Godflesh’ on Unique Leader.
“ranks right up there with the most destructive releases for 2026!”
Read our full review here.

One of the worlds greatest rock acts, Europe, release ‘Come This Madness’ via Silver Lining Music.
“a band very much on top of their game”
Read our full review here.

Bimboviolence flagbearers Brat return with their vicious new album ‘Manslayer‘ on Prosthetic Records.
“This feels like a big deal for Brat, an album which has seen them deviate from their original outlook and deliver a brutal yet breathtaking album.”
Read our full review here.

Belgian grind/death outfit Barren drop ‘Verderf’ via Selfmadegod Records.
“twenty-minutes of a band at the top of their game and blasting for all they’re worth.”
Read our full review here.

The Scumdogs Of The Universe, GWAR, celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Beyond Hell’ with a deluxe reissue of the album.
“giving this record a clean and sharp cutting edge, beside its big and lush sound.”
Read our full review here.

Christian metal pioneers Stryper return with a commanding new chapter ‘Throne Of Thorns’ via Frontiers Music.
“as cast iron a reaffirmation of Stryper’s place in the contemporary metal scene as could be asked for”
Read our full review here.

Godflesh is ready to unleash an even bolder, bleaker series of sounds in ‘Decay’, via Relapse Records.

Rock

7 Miles To Pittsburgh – Beyond Repair (M-Theory Audio)
Budgie – Running From My Soul – The MCA Years (1973-1975) (HNE Recordings)
Francis Rossi – The Way We Were Vol. 2 (earMUSIC)
Little King – Lente Viviente (Independent)
Mason – Edge of Destruction (Eonian Records)
Mikey Ball & The Company – Keep The Fire Burning (Independent)
Paul Laine – The Long Road Back (Frontiers Music SRL)
Spiders – Crystal Eyes (Wild Kingdom)
Stay For Tomorrow – When Hope’s Gone (independent)
Sweat – In Dream (Tee Pee Records)
The Bitter Pills – The Bitter Pills (independent)

Heavy Metal

Apocalypse – Last Man Standing (High Roller Records)
Bleak House – Tyrant (High Roller Records)
Bloodstain – Bloodstain (Threeman Recordings)
Cloven Hoof – Never A Prophet In Your Own Land (High Roller Records)
Invincia – Echoes From The Past (Escape Music)
Mama Doom – Eminent Womb (Argonauta Records)
Metalite – Discovery (Perception)
Meurtrier – Messe de Fer (Jawbreaker Records)
Night Laser – Rats In The Cradle (Steamhammer)
Plume – Saferooms & Healing Frequencies (Arising Empire)
Raven – Wiped Out [BOXSET] (HNE Recordings)
Red Code – Traces of Unease and Discomfort (Episode 1) (Epictronic Records)
Sons of Cult – Revenge (Black Night Productions)
Volucrine – Chapter V: Renewal (Inverse Records)
Wednesday 13 – Un-Alive from Pol’and’Rock 2025 (Napalm Records)

Black Metal

Autumnfall – The Archaic Sins (Ardua Music)
Bloodmother – Militant Black Magic (Time To kill Records)
Death.Void.Terror. – The The Great Monolith III: Riffs (Sentient Ruin)
Draugr – Ahnenfeuer – Ginnungagap Chaos Pt. I (Immortal Frost Productions)
Iskald – Curse of the Mind (Dusktone)
Nail By Nail – Internal Inferno (War Anthem records)
Rorcal – Mahre (Humus Records)
Theosophy – Line Before The Event Horizon (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Überchriist – Dæmonic Apotheosis (Deanwell Global Music)
Uburen – Dødsdans i Aske (Dusktone)
Windswept – A Sign of The Cloven Hoof (Primitive Reaction)

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

Burner – No One Is Coming To Save Us (Church Road Records)
Forsaken Eternity – Shades Of Existence (Rottweiler Records)
Goatest (A combination of Goatburner and Test) – Goatest (Time To kill Records)
Intercorpse – Intercorpse [EP] (Everlasting Spew Records)
Lord Gryphus – Summoning the King of Death (Nespithe)
Massteron – Second in the Spheres (ATMF)
Mindvile – Old Continent (Paragon Records)
Sacreligious – Brutality Incarnated (independent)
Slaughtercult – Devoured By Perversion (Vicious Instinct Records)
Tombstalker – Chaos Monolith (Awakening Records)
Wharflurch – Mycodeath and Rebirth in the Outer Clusters (Personal records)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

Amarok – Overcome (Hypaethral Records)
Altera Doomonica – Angelic Doomology (Independent)
Equisetum – Cor Ex Putredine (My Kingdom Music)
Light Conductor – Sequence Three (Constellation)
Mister Earthbound – Mabon [EP] (Independent)
Moloken – Moloken (Discouraged Records)

Hardcore

Index – Vis Interiae (Get Better Records)
Pain of Truth – Pain of Truth (Daze)

Metalcore

Altarheart – Prone to Wander (Rottweiler Records)
coldrain – OPTIMIZE = OPTDEMISE (Century Media Records)
Days of Ruin – Age of Ignorance EP (Independent)
Lacrimas Profundere – Lay Me Down O Silent Fear (Steamhammer)
Sicksense – Funerals EP (Independent)

Progressive Rock / Metal

Confusion Field – Resilience Remains (Independent)
Mr. Bison – The Garden of Forgotten Dreams (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ølyp – I(m)MORTAL (Klonosphere Records/Season of Mist)
Pure Reason Revolution – Terrifying Angels (InsideOut Music)
The Great White Nothing – Live at Motormusic (Independent)

Thrash Metal

Apöcalypse A.D. – Prototype: Zero Hour (Independent)
Chemical Storm – Splintered, Crushed And Shattered (Independent)
Flame – Ignis Draconis Daemonicus (Primitive Reaction)

… and the rest!

Courant Zéro – Solari (Constellation) [Electronic/Avant Garde]
Dråpslag – Krigets hundar (DiSTAT Records) [Punk]
Gargant – Dead Night Defiance (Fireflash Records) [Power Metal]
Godflesh – Decay (Relapse Records) [Industrial Metal]
Love•Love•Love / Ølgod – LØVEGOD [SPLIT] (Electric Valley Records) [Post-Hardcore]
S.C.R.A.M. – Coma Filament (Independent) [Synthwave]
Skald – Ørlǫg (Napalm Records) [NeoFolk]

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