Release Round Up – September 4th 2026

Release Round Up – September 4th 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

German legends Accept celebrate half a century with ‘Tutonic Titans’ released via Napalm Records and featuring guest including Kirk Hammett, John Bush, Rob Halford, Phil Anselmo, Tobias Forge and more!
“They’re simply having fun with them and celebrating the music that has been part of their journey for five decades.”
Read our full review here.

The raw, uncompromising underground metal of Sardonic Witchery deliver ‘Hell’s Thorns Attack’ via Firecum Records.
“It’s dark, aggressive and savage”
Read our full review here.

Wyrdstæf invoke the spirit of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ages on new album ‘Primordial Bloodlines’, released via Apocalyptic Witchcraft.
“channeling raw aggression into the image of an ancient people traversing a vast, hostile frozen landscape during the Ice Age.”
Read our full review here.

Dutch outfit Vanaheim release ‘Roede Voor De Borst’ via Fireflash Records.
“you’ll be hooked and thoroughly immersed and engaged through the ever-changing landscape.”
Read our full review here.

Oklahoma City based quartet Chat Pile release ‘Who Loves The Sun’ via The Flenser
“the perfect balance between art-rock and no-bullshit.”
Read our full review here.

Polish extreme metal legends Behemoth release ‘I, Scvlptor’ via Nuclear Blast Records.
“I, Scvlptor is a peak behind that curtain to see if the newer fans want to tread the infernal path the band themselves took in the early nineties.”
Read our full review here.

Green Carnation close our their ambitious trilogy with ‘A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex’ released via Season of Mist.
“a suitably epic conclusion to the trilogy with three excellent songs and a hair raising orchestral piece.”
Read our full review here.

French heavy psych explorers Pelegrin release ‘The Curse of Nephtar’ on Ripple Music.
“hooks aplenty and mesmerising vocals over gentle, catchy riffs.”
Read our full review here.

Rock

A-tota-so – I Told You So (bUTTOMpUSHER)
Airborne – Airborne (Spinefarm Records)
Audrey Horne – Achilles (Napalm Records)
Black Bananas – Bad Bunch (Fire Records)
Bleeker – Elephant (Known Accomplice)
DieveNoire – The Story of a Gunslinger (Independent)
Mad Max – Stories of Destiny (ROAR)
President – Blood of Your Empire (Atlantic Records)
Ricky Warwick – Fire & Vengeance (Earache Records)
Seraina Telli – Green Live (Metalville)
Seven Spires – A Fortress Called Home (Master Key Edition) [3CD] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Shadowman – Shadowman (Nica Records/Republic of Music)
Shakra – Just Live Loud! (Frontiers Music SRL)
Soho Dukes – Don’t Spare The Horses (Duchess Records)
Space Pistols – Headlocker (Independent)
Stormbringer – Trascendence (Attic Records)
The Black Wizards – Force Majeure & The Acts of God (Hassle)
Those Made Broken – A Door You Can Never Close (Independent)

Heavy Metal

Doomcrusher – Forsaker (Arising Empire)
Pyroclast – Fractured State (Furious Music)
Scald – Relics [EP] (Cruz Del Sur Music)

Black Metal

Bootes Void – Panta Rhei (Vendetta Records) Black Metal
Devil Master – Bloody Dreams (Relapse Records)
Encasement – Encasement (Hypaethral Records / I, Voidhanger Records) Black Metal
Februus – Construcrion of Conflict (Transcending Obscurity Records) Black Metal
Sworn – Null Crowned the Infinite (Independent) Black Metal

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

Ancient Malice – Worm Tongue (Independent)
Demonic Manifestation – Grimshrine (Personal Records)
Fog Wall – Gloomweaver (Independent)
Godslut – The Art of Deconstruction (Selfmadegod Records)
Zvindiyar – Six Rites (Independent)

Deathcore

A Night In Texas – The Darkest Side of Humanity (Unique Leader Records)
Bitter – Slamosaurus Rex [EP] (CDN Records)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

A Thousand Sufferings – Valley of A Sun (Independent)
Castle – Carrie Chains (Hammerheart Records)
Moon Destroys – Omni (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Polymoon – Mariposa Magic! (Vesperian)
Spirit Mother – Thistle (Sound Of Liberation)
Titansaur – A Thousand Suns (Independent)
Veilcaste – Hellward (Third House Communications)
Vulture Neck – Vulture Neck (Independent)

Progressive Rock / Metal

Lifeswallower – Lifeswallower (Prog On! Recordings)
Sight of Theia – The Great Dreamer (Independent)

Punk

Codex Lovelace – Galvanized Heart (Independent)
Exp – Exp (Reptilian Records)
Slovenians – Birds of Disgrace (Mottow Soundz)
The Feelgood McLouds – Decade On Parade (Deaf Shepherd Recordings)

… and the rest!

Gradience – Anomaly (Metal Blade Records) Blackened Death/Urban Trap
Grey Shores – Dark Waters of Night (Independent) Post-Rock
Hellmetall – MGLA (Rockshots Records) Thrash Metal
Kingcrown – Moonfall (Rockshots Records) Power Metal
Movements – Happier Now (Fearless Records) Post-Hardcore
Season of Melancholy – In Sleep (Independent) Goth/Post-Punk
SiM – Hooman After All (UNFD) Metalcore

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