New Releases

Five For Friday: August 23, 2024

August 23, 2024

This week’s new releases put most months to shame, with new releases from Spectral Wound, Nile, Fleshgod Apocalypse and more!

Five For Friday: August 16, 2024

August 16, 2024

This week brings death metal of many shades, including the latest hues of darkness from Cemetery Filth, Vile Rites, Dark Tranquillity and more!

Five For Friday: August 9, 2024

August 9, 2024

This week brings a wave of destruction, with the latest in sonic devastation from Calderum, Fulci, Oxygen Destroyer and more!

Five For Friday: August 2, 2024

August 2, 2024

This week’s new releases included the latest metal (and punk!) from Carnophage, Demon Spell, Poison Ruïn and more!

Five For Friday: July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024

This week’s new releases include the latest heavy hitters from bands like Defacement, Void Witch, Laceration and more!

Five For Friday: July 12, 2024

July 12, 2024

This week’s new metal releases include the latest from Pestilent Death, Krallice, Cranial Disorder and more!

Five For Friday: June 28, 2024

June 28, 2024

Sear Bliss (I hope you like brass), Limbonic Art (I hope you like synths) and the tailor-made-for-Decibel-coverage outfit in 200 Stab Wounds headline this week’s new stuff.

Five For Friday: June 21, 2024

June 21, 2024

It’s a weekend for reflection and catharsis with the latest from Alcest, Cavalera Conspiracy, Hyperdontia and more!

Five For Friday: June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024

This week’s new releases include the latest dark offerings from Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, Malignancy and more!

Five For Friday: June 7, 2024

June 7, 2024

Prepare for a weekend of riffs, blasts and growls with the latest from Severe Torture, Umbra Vitae, Fractal Generator and more!

Five For Friday: May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

This week’s set of new releases include the latest deadly doses of heavy from Gatecreeper, Tzompantli, Extinguish and more!

Five For Friday: May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

This week brings us a lot of heavy music from across the spectrum, including the latest from Terminal Nation, SVNEATR and more!

Five For Friday: April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024

You don’t get a new Darkthrone or Deicide album every week, but you get one today, along with other cursed musical offerings!

Five For Friday: April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024

This week’s new releases have an extra-dreary and dark energy to them, including the latest from Dool, My Dying Bride and more!

Five For Friday: April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024

This week brings forth monsters, and by that I mean the latest from Dialith, Funeral Leech, Witch Vomit and more!

Five For Friday: March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024

This week’s load of new arrivals comes in heavy with the latest from Necrophobic, Khold, Mastiff and more!

Five For Friday: March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024

The electric eyes are on you this week with the latest metal releases from Judas Priest, Slimelord, Midnight and more!

Album Stream: Je est un Autre – ‘Flatworm Mysticism’

February 28, 2024

Dylan Desmond’s Je est un Autre offers a sonic exploration tangential to his main doom metal squeeze, Bell Witch.

Five For Friday: February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024

This week brings us the latest in dark, chaotic brutality with new releases from Eternal Storm, Pesilength, Cercenatory and more!

Five For Friday: January 26, 2024

January 26, 2024

This week’s metal new releases are highlighted by Vitriol, Lucifer and Dissimulator!

Five For Friday: January 19, 2024

January 19, 2024

This week’s edition of new releases comes with all things cold and dark, including the latest from Vemod, Master, Sovereign and more!

Five For Friday: January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024

This week’s edition of the latest deadly metal releases includes the newest from Engulf, Mourning Dawn, Atavistic Decay and more!

Five For Friday: January 5, 2024

January 5, 2024

The first edition of our new release coverage for 2024 includes the latest from Threnomancy, Meridion, Fall of Gnosis and more!

Five For Friday: Black Metal 2023

December 29, 2023

This week’s edition looks back at some of the best black metal of 2023, including Immortal, Krieg, Calderum and more!

Five For Friday: December 15, 2023

December 15, 2023

And thus we come to the last standard edition of Five For Friday for 2023. The rest of the month will be dedicated to death metal and black metal retrospectives, so look out for that!

Five For Friday: December 8, 2023

December 8, 2023

This week’s new releases include the latest dark serenades from Dusk, Dimmu Borgir, Fugitive Wizard and more!

Five For Friday: November 10, 2023

November 10, 2023

Pretty soon it’ll be time to pre-emptively reveal our Top 40 albums of the year. But before any of you finalize your own list, keep coming here every Friday to see who shuffles in at the last minute.

Five For Friday: October 27, 2023

October 27, 2023

It’s Halloween, so we’re going extra brutal this week with new gruesome releases from Gravesend, Autopsy, Mouth for War and more!

Five For Friday: October 20, 2023

October 20, 2023

This week’s new releases include the latest from big names like Myrkur and Cirith Ungol along with a crop of heavy newcomers!

Five For Friday: September 29, 2023

September 29, 2023

It’s a good week for darkness with the latest from Woe, Disguised Malignance, Wolves in the Throne Room and more!