Release Round Up - April 24th, 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
As the curtain falls on an extraordinary career spanning more than four decades, Sepultura release closing EP 'The Cloud of Unknowing' via Nuclear Blast.
"a whirlwind trip through the history of the Sepultura, from the old, blasting thrash to the grooves of Sacred Books’ slow, though no less intense, atmosphere."
Read out full review here.
At The Gates pay special tribute to frontman Tomas Lindberg on 'The Ghost of a Future Dead', released via Century Media.
"It is not only saying goodbye to one of the most distinctive harsh vocalists in metal but also one of the best frontmen and inspiring figureheads in extreme metal."
Read our full review here.
Italian death metal masters Devoid of Thought release their self titled album.
"one of the more comprehensively unhinged metal releases the year has put forth"
Read our full review here.
Mexican death metal warriors Necroccultus release The Afterdeath Blackness' via Terror From Hell Records.
"a record that refuses to stop for anything and nothing but your dismembered corpse will satisfy their bloodlust."
Read our full review here.
Six Feet Under release fifteenth studio album 'Next To Die' via Metal Blade Records.
"Barnes sounds better here than he has in years"
Read our full review here.
Six decades into their career, Uriah Heep release new boxset 'Beautiful Dream 1975-1977' via HNR Recordngs.
"these four albums are perhaps not as famous as some, but show the development of one of the county’s foremost heavy rock acts."
Read our full review here.
Eight years on from their last album, Scotland’s Cnoc An Tursa have returned with 'A Cry For The Slain' via Apocalyptic Witchcraft.
"One of the more unique offerings to the world of black metal in 2026"
Read our full review here.
Stockholm's Xorsist builds on the cities death metal legacy with 'Aberrations', released via Hammerheart Records.
"there’s legitimate diversity in what Xorsist have on display"
Read our full review here.
Witch Piss brew their potent blend of dark, stoner metal on new album 'The Devil Doesn't Burn' via Ardua Music.
"The Mechelen based group pound away at your soul"
Read our full review here.
Hard-hitting heavy metal outfit Anubis continues their relentless march with new album 'Anthromorphicide' via M-Theory Audio.
"the pomp of power metal but with a bit more metallic thrash grit"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Astraya - Atropine (These Hands Melt)
Creye - IV Aftermath (Frontiers Music SRL)
Failure - Location Lost (Failure Records/Virgin Music Group)
Foo Fighters - Your Favourite Toy (TBC)
Highway - Last Call for Rock'N'Roll (Rock City Music)
Hokka - Via Miseria IV (Nuclear Blast)
Holy Wars - Shadow Work/Light Work (Pale Chors/Light Work)
John Corabi - New Day (Frontiers Music SRL)
Krooked Tongue - I Know A Place (Independent)
Matteo Mancuso - Route 96 (Music Theories Recordings)
Metameria - Electro Romantica (Independent)
Praying Mantis - The Official Bootleg Boxset Vol 1: Live in Japan 1993 & 1998 (HNE Recordings)
Since 2000 - neverland [Chapter II] (Easy Life Records)
The Cruel Intentions - All Hail Hypcrisy (Indie Recordings)
The Groggy Dogs - No Grog, No Glory (Independent)
White Tundra - Stories from the Dark (Octopus Rising)
Heavy Metal
Holocaust - Dance Into The Void: Complete Recordings Vol 2 89-2003 (HNE Recordings)
Konquest - Dark Waters (No Remorse Records)
Nuclear Messiah - Black Flame (Cleopatra Records)
Powerrage - Beast (High Roller Records)
Black Metal
Asenheim - Elbenblut (Dominance of Darkness)
Blood Countess - Imperatrix Sanguinis (Dominance of Darkness)
Heiden - CMA (Epidemie Records)
Kõdu - Kirjad Sõgedate Külast (Antiq)
Riverflame - Lunar Crusaders (code666)
Werewolf - Satanic Terror (Dominance of Darkness)
Wrang - Verwording (Dominance of Darkness)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Archaic Oath - Determined to Death and Beyond (AOP Records)
Aurora Borealis - Disillusioned By The Illusion (Non Serviam Records)
Bringers of Death - Sulphur (Disorder Recordings)
Golgotha - Hubris (Abstract Emotions)
Nixil / Drouth - Toward Dead Temples [SPLIT EP] (Independent)
Olympus - Knowing it Shall Wake (Independent)
Pig's Blood - Destroying The Spirit (Dark Descent Records)
Poseydon - Time Is A River And The Waters Are Red (Independent)
Sewer Alter - Fever Dreams of Vengence (783 Label / Hecatombe Records)
Since the Death - Entangled (Nordic Mission Records)
Thy Sanatorium - Thy Sanatorium (Independent)
Vaeovon - Spiritual Nullification (Gutter Prince Cabal)
Vomit Forth - In The Name of the Father (Pure Noise Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Ambergris - Untitled [EP] (Independent)
Atlantic Ridge - Atlantic Ridge (Void Wanderer Productions)
Disastroid - Live At Tiny Telephone (Doom Stew Records)
Dust Lovers - Green Screens (Le Cepe)
Grief Collector - The Death of All Dreams (Independent)
The Medea Project - Akkadian Artefacts (BDB Studios)
Thorgrim - Puca (Octopus Rising)
Tons - Stoned Villains (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Hardcore
Nequient - Avarice (Nefarious Industries)
Portrayal of Guilt - ...Begining of the End (TBC)
Roman Candle - Unadulterated (Sumerian Records)
Metalcore
Atreyu - The End Is Not The End (Spinefarm Records)
Knife Bridge - Sorry About The Plague [EP] (Independent)
Premier Jester - Turn You On (Independent)
The Amity Affliction - House of Cards (Pure Noise Records)
Post-Punk
30 Denari - Kindly Plotting For Riot (My Kingdom Music)
Shadowlands - 4 (Seeing Red Records)
Post-Rock
Armed for Apocalypse - The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me (Church Road Records)
Blindead 23 - Deuterium (Peaceville)
VLMV - There Will Come Soft Rains (Pelagic Records)
Power Metal
Anubis - Anthromorphicide (M-Theory Audio)
Battleroar - Petrichor (No Remorse Records)
Progressive Rock/Metal
Einar Solberg - Vox Occulta (InsideOut Music)
Vmbra - A Man Walks [Single] (Independent)
... and the rest!
Death Lens - What's Left Now? (Epitaph Records) [Punk]
Tabernis - Seasons of the Dark Hive (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
The Prestige - Isthmos (Banshies) [Post-Hardcore]
Ural - Anthropic Genetic Involution (Xtreem Music) [Thrash Metal]
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