Release Round Up – August 14th 2026

Release Round Up – August 14th 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

The Kris Barras Band are back and a decade after their debut release album bumber six ‘Monsters We Made’ via Earache Records.
“A well rounded record that mixes hard hitting tunes with melody and vulnerability that sees the outfit mature into a modern rock beast.”
Read our full review here.

Chicago-based instrumental ensemble Afrofuturistics release ‘The Enigmatic’ via Big Bonkey Records.
“exudes confidence and is a thrilling ride of euphoric sounds”
Read our full review here.

Rock

Grand – Guilty Pleasure (Frontiers Music SRL)
Buzzed & Loaded – Medication Nation (Bootstrap Records)

Heavy Metal

Duckwalk Chuck – 525 (Independent)
Trench Warfare – Achtung! Destroy The Weak (Conjuring Records)
Soulgrind – Ad Pulchram Mortem (Inverse Records)
Ian Parry’s Consortium Project VI – Legacy of Empires (Frontiers Music SRL)
Ironflame – Worlds To Conquer (High Roller Records)

Black Metal

Death. Void. Terror. – To The Great Monolith 2.5 [EP] (Sentient Ruin)

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle (Independent)
Raunchy – Prisoner (Mighty Music)
Abyssal Rift – Relics of Great Ash (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Death Kommander – The Great Offensive (FDA Records)
Megascavanger – Toxic Noxious Undeath (Xtreem Music)
My Minds Mine – Between Soothing Consolation and Uncontrollable Madness (Selfmadegod Records)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

Mean Green – Castle (Independent)
Observers – The Emerald (Independent)
Destroy My Brains – Wilt (Independent)

… and the rest!

Only Echoes – Born Adrift (Independent) [Post-Metal]
Holissstik – Chapter 1: This Endless Solitude (Season of Mist) [Dark/Electronic]
Coyote Man – Prosthetic Memories (Independent) [Progressive Metal]
Shadowmare – transfiguration (Independent) [Thrash Metal]

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