Release Round Up – July 17th 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
Platinum-selling powerhouse Motionless In White release ‘Decades’ via Roadrunner Records.
“keen to draw the listener into their bosom”
Read our full review here.
British thrash force Imperium release debut album ‘Exodus Unknown’ via Heavy Metal Records.
“an absorbing debut release”
Read our full review here.
Canadian Blackened Thrashers Eternal Drak release ‘The Violence of Time’ via FirstWave
“make time in your life to experience and enjoy the deathly screams and raucous riffs of Eternal Drak.”
Read our full review here.
Rock
Mercers – The Liminal Tapes (Independent)
Tesla – Homage (Frontiers Music SRL)
Heavy Metal
Black Sites – For Eternity (Independent)
Coffin Hunters – Cosmic Dawn (Bitter End Records)
Repentance – Retaliate (Noble Demon)
Ruthless – Curse of the Beast (Fireflash Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Carbon Tomb – Passage to a Neutron Star (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Eaten By Sharks – The Undertow of Hate (CDN Records)
Ethereal Rot – Ethereal Rot (Independent)
Horresque – Behind the Door (Independent)
Mangled Carpenter – Between Blood And Silence [EP] (Rottweiler Records / Broken Curfew Records)
Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation (Metal Blade Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Heavy on the Ride – Heavy on the Ride (Independent)
Holystone – Accepting Omega (Independent)
Mothertomb – Dying to Live (independent)
Tomb Slab – Tomb Slab (Road to Masochist)
Umbersound – Tracks From The Slither (Red Book Records)
Metalcore
Boundaries – Yearing: The Unbeautiful After
Kingseeker – Eldritch Horrors (Braak Records)
Under Auburn Skies – Diminisher of Hope [EP] (independent)
Post-Hardcore
As It Is – As It Is (FLG)
Quicksand – Bring On The Psychics (Rude Records)
Too Late, But Still – How Much We Can Take (Cardinal Sun Records)
Power Metal
Novareign – Shifting the Axis of the World (M-Theory Audio)
Stormhammer – Wrath of the Hammer (ROAR)
Punk
The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw (Epitaph)
Trivia – Home [EP]
… and the rest!
Cinder Well – A Blooming Body (Hen House Studios)
Poison The Preacher – Things I Want [EP] (Seek and Strike) [Thrash Metal]
Protest The Hero – Within (Independent) [Progressive Metal]
Rei Code Zero – Chronicles (WormholeDeath records) [Industrial Metal]
Riley! – To Live and Die in the American South (Pure Noise Records) [Emo/Pop-Punk]
The Secrecy – Pins & Needles (Disorder Recordings) [Post-Punk]
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