Release Round Up – July 24th 2026

Release Round Up – July 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

NYHC Legends Madball release ‘Not Your Kingdom’ via Nuclear Blast Records.
“bristles with rage and ire, without letting it consume everything around it.“
Read our full review here.

On its 20th anniversary, Meshuggah reissue ‘Catch Thirtythree’ via Reigning Phoenix Music.
“designed for those craving unparalleled heaviness and will satiate lovers of punishingly crushing grooves.”
Read our full review here.

On its 30th anniversary, Meshuggah reissue ‘Destroy Erase Improve’ via Reigning Phoenix Music.
“The seeds were sown here for Meshuggah’s brutal percussion and staccato riffs which went on to define the entire genre”
Read our full review here.

Caelestia deliver a masterclass in modern extreme metal with ‘Revelations In Black’ released via Eclipse Records.
“They offer something fresh and unique to the extreme metal world “
Read our full review here.

Italian post-metal visionaries Viscera release new album ‘4. ⁠Assets For Psychedelic Warfare’ via Time To Kill Records.
“groove-laden walls of distorted sound!”
Read our full review here.

Progressive Death Metal duo, Sallow Moth, release ‘Hydrophilous Brood’ via Willowtip Records.
“a mid-year highlight in a genre flooding 2026 with excellence”
Read our full review here.

Chilean death metallers Ripper unleash ‘Towards Rebirth’ via Dark Descent Records.
“jumping with the frantic dreams of an MDMA-fuelled gymnast”
Read our full review here.

Bristolian extreme metal pioneers Embodiment release latest EP ‘Cryptomorph’.
“four tracks of dynamic and driving melodic death metal, coloured with a modern aesthetic”
Read our full review here.

Forty years on from the original motion picture soundtrack, Reigning Phoenix Music get a whole host of artists together for ‘Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition’
“a completely unessential but hugely fun reimagining of a cult soundtrack”
Read our full review here.

Rock

Hawkwind – Sonic Assassins (Cherry Red Records)
Josh da Costa – New Wave Graveyard (Stones Throw)
Rising Alma – Your Own Story (Independent)
The Hu – Hun (Better Noise Music)
V.B.O. – Vice Business Only (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Zan/Cody – Beautiful ‘N Damned (Frontiers Music SRL)

Heavy Metal

Coven Japan – Promised Land (No Remorse Records)
Mimi Barks – Dreamstate of Fear (Independent)
The Larches – Nihilistic Majesties (Independent)
Tyraels Ascension – Grave Seeker (Rottweiler Records)

Black Metal

Arckanum – Motestandarin [EP] (Darkness Shall Rise)
Faustian – Parable Of The Sewer (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Profane Burial – Desolate Echoes of Turmoil (These Hands Melt)
Saturnian Current – Illuminatio Doctrinae Mysterii (Sinistari Records)
Various Artists – A Tribute To Darkthrone (Antichrist Magazine)

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

Aydra – Icons of Sin (Awakening Records)
Divulsive – Spawned In Viscera (Comatose Music)
Eternal Mourn – Winds of Sorrow [EP] (Terror From Hell Records)
Horns of Abomination – Horns of Abomination (Sentient Ruin)
IATT – Etheric Realms of the Night (Black Lion Records)
Litosth – Dreaming (Personal Records)
Lock-Up – Necropolis [Transparent Red Vinyl Edition] (Cherry Red Records)
Reekmind – Glints From The Crematorium [EP] (Night Terror Records)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

Solothurn – High Priestess [EP] (Independent)
Stay Dead! – Beneath The Weight of Worlds (Ripple Music)
Svindel – Drömfeber (Ripple Music)
Svjetlost – The Forever Silent (Shadow of Sorrow Records)
Yeti on Horseback – Traditional Addictions [EP] (Independent)

Post-Metal

Ddent – Feeding The Void’s Luster (Chien Noir)
Mountainscape – Traversing Realms (Road to Masochist)
Sunswarm – Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn (Independent)

Post-Rock

Changing Places in the Fire – Changing Places in the Fire (Wild Thing Records)
Gudewife – Atoms, Don’t Die (Ripcord Records)

Progressive Rock / Metal

North Sea Echoes – How to Cast a Shadow (Metal Blade Records)
The Vicious Head Society – Call of the Void (Crime Records)

… and the rest!

Castiel – All returns to Hollow and Silence [EP] (Seek and Strike) [Deathcore]
Hopsydian – A Graceful Sin [EP] (Arising Empire) [Metalcore]
Mayday Parade – Sugar (MHE) [Pop-Punk/Alt-Rock]
Minipony – Detach (Subsound Records) [Djent]
The Scepter – Shadows In The Tower (No Remorse Records) [Power Metal]

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