Release Round Up - March 13th, 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
Lamb of God have nothing left to prove, yet 'Into Oblivion' shows why the modern metal veterans continue to be so popular.
"Lamb Of God are still kings of metal and will not be abdicating the throne anytime soon."
Read out full review here.
Prog legends Rush release a super deluxe edition of 'Grace Under Pressure'.
"I can’t imagine a better time to be reacquainting yourself with that unassuming Toronto three-piece."
Read our full review here.
Metal/hip-hop fusion band UnityTX unleash 'Somewhere, In Between...' via Pure Noise Records.
"laced with frustration and discontent, but also the determination to prove people wrong"
Read our full review here.
D.C. grindcore crushers NO/MAS return with a vicious new album 'No Peace' via Redefining Darkness Records.
"It vomits groove and thrash along with the formidable grind broadside"
Read our full review here.
Manchester’s feral kings of the underworld, Wolfbastard release 'Satanic Scum Punks' via Apocalyptic Witchcraft.
"fast and furious with layers of demonic screams"
Read our full review here.
The Big Band of Boom will have the room bouncing with their new, self titled album, released via Ragtime Records.
"it’s like a sunshine party in your eardrums"
Read our full review here.
Whip out your leather, spikes, chains and bullet belts for Nuctemeron are set to drop new album 'Demonic Sceptre' via I Hate Records.
"I defy each and every one of you to resist the impassioned, hellacious momentum this band toy with."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Asia - Live In England (Frontiers Music SRL)
Bara - Mary Cry (Club Inferno Ent.)
Dead Air - World Wide Villainy [EP] (Independent)
Gotthard - More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix Music)
n0trixx - A Catalogue of Madness and Melancholia (tbc)
Sweet Pill - Still There Is A Glow (Hopeless Records)
The Gems - Year of The Snake (Napalm Records)
To The Max! - Two The Max! (Go Down Records)
Heavy Metal
Ravenspell - Obsidian King (Fighter Records)
Schattenmann - Endgegner (Perception)
Senki - Szilánkok (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Alkhemia - Häxen (Non Serviam Records)
Aschen - The Never Ending Search (WormholeDeath Records)
Frozen Ocean - Askdrömmar (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Mißträu - Gegendemonstration & Leidensgenossen (Bleeding Heart Nihilist / Cultkill Music)
Osmium Gate - Cannibal Galaxy (Independent)
Throat - Beyond The Devil's Shroud (Primitive Reaction)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Against I - Anti Life (Twisted Flesh Records)
Bras D'Honneur - Hate Speech (Primitive Reaction)
Deadvoid Inc. - Chapters (Inverse Records)
Gluttony - Eulogy to Blasphemy (FDA Records)
Messticator - Total Mastery (Testimony Records)
Monstrosity - Screams from Beneath the Surface (Metal Blade Records)
Morbid Death - Veil of Ashes (Firecum Records)
Mors.Void.Discipline - Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin)
Protrusion - The Last Suppuration (Extremely Rotten Productions)
Tragos - Bellicum (Fetzner Death Records)
Vanta - Perpetual Selection (Independent)
Voidstar Nocturnal - Nexus Teleport Fracture (Godz ov War Productions)
Wielded Steel - Sins of Your Domain (1126 Records)
Deathcore
Bound In Fear - A Mind Too Sick To Heal (Unique Leader Records)
Mauled - When Your Eyes Are Shit [EP] (Silverback gorilla Records / DS//FP Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
clâm - clâm (Independent)
Fangus - Emerald Dream (From The urn records)
Harvey Rushmore & The Octopus - Mindsuckers (Taxi Gauche Records)
Kallohonka - Lazer Blood (Memory Terminal Records)
Lord Centipede - Centipede II: Electric Boogaloo (Morbid And Miserable Records / Wyrd Byrd)
Mammon's Throne - My Body to the Worms (Hammerheart Records)
Red Sun Atacama - Summerchild (Mrs Red Sound)
Witchcraft - A Sinner's Child [EP] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Hardcore
Ondt Blod - Bauta (Playground Music)
Vitamin X - Ride TRhe Apocalypse (Svart Records)
Post-Metal
Lesotho - A Flashing On Plain Glass (Independent)
Monosphere - Amnesia (Independent)
Salos - A Slaughter for the Empire (Independent)
Punk
Exploding Head Syndrome - Confessions (Vestkyst Records)
Instigators - Sanctus Propaganda Sessions Vol. 5 (Sanctus Propaganda)
Thrash Metal
Belith - Hounds of Hell (Godz ov War Productions)
Hellfuck - 9 Nails Hammered Into The Flesh of God (Godz ov War Productions)
Transilvania - Magia Posthuma (Invictus Productions)
... and the rest!
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye (Napalm Records) Power Metal
Eihwar - Hugrheim (Season of Mist) Nordic Folk
Fabienne Erni - Starveil (Northstar Media) Symphonic Metal
Gong - Bright Spirit (Kscope) Prog Rock
Hiraki / Meejah - Interwoven [SPLIT EP] (Pelagic Records) Noise/Post-Rock
Mascara - Going Postal (Fever Ltd) Post-Hardcore
Nest - Trail of the Unwary (Avantgarde Music) Neofolk
Powerplant - Bridge of Sacrifice (Arcane Dynamics) Synth/Punk
Shoreline - Is Theis The Low Point or The Moment After? (Pure Noise Records) Emo Punk/Hardcore
Sunny Doom - Devotion (Independent) Dark Folk
The Silence Industry - The Stars Above are Looking Down (Independent) Industrial/Goth
Victious Rain - The Anatomy of Surviving (Arising Empire) Metalcore
