Primitive Knot - Cold As A Dead Sun (2026)

Cold As A Dead Sun, released this year by deathbed tapes (should be well known by anyone into noise/power electronics, industrial) is the new album from Pimitive Knot, a very fine piece of riffs driven industrial metal with machine drum (with also some noise interludes). Overall it has a very strong Godflesh feel (even if it's more about the riffs), which is totally fine for me, but of course it doesn't score many originality points. Totally recommended if you liek that kind of stuff.

 

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Ingested - Denigration (2026)

In their new album called Denigration, I feel Ingested focused more on their deathcore basics and injected less different elements in their sound. Why not, the result is a good album, in which they found a nice balance between brutality, impact, melody and groove. Nothing groundbreaking, but definitely efficient and enjoyable. Good stuff.

 

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Andrew Nolan - Black Dogs (2026)

Black Dogs is another excellent piece of dark and industrial dubstep from Andrew Nolan, with a nice haunted feel. This time it's released and mastered by another Blasting Days regular, JK Broadrick, on his Avalanche Recordings label, whose also coming from a grind background. Andrew Nolan have been busy these last month and I also recommend the album Sacrifice and and the two Monochrome volumes featurings some excellent grim hip-hop vocalists.

 

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Deathgrave - Hell is Evil (2026)

Hell is Evil, the third album from Californian band Deathgrave is once again a treat for anyone into the slower and groovier side of old school death/grind. Evoking Autopsy, but also Unsane, Black Flag and  sludge. Recommended!

 

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Chat Pile - Who Love sThe Sun (2026)

After a collab album with Hayden Pedigo that was good, but a lot more quiet/ambient, Chat Pile is back to its usual self, that is sounding somewhere between Unsane and Korn, maybe slightly more melodic on this new album called Who Loves The Sun. In any case another strong Chat Pile album. 

 

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Rahaty - Bestial Lustmord (2026)

From the Bandcamp page : "Rahaty is the alter ego of Belarusian raw black metal tomb-walker Pa Vesh En, here wielding the unholy hellfires of death metal's most deranged and enigmatic dominion." Bestial Lustmord is indeed a strongly blackened piece of death metal, cavernous, at times dissonant, and with also a feel of chaos/war metal at times. My only complain is that the album is too short for its immersive potential to really catch. Good stuff anyway.

 

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Xenosis - Hermetic Transmutaiton (2026)

With this fifth album, Hermtic Transmutation, released with Transcending Obscurity, a label that keeps growing and excelling, the US death-metal band Xenosis are making a big impression. Very technical and progressive while keeping brutality on a high level. What the songs may lack in clear direction they more than compensate with the awesome musicianship and the many very inspired moments. Highly recomended!

 

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Triage - In the Trenches (2026)

On this second Triage album, while the drums are definitely grindcore (Bryan Fajardo!), the vocals and riffs bring some kind of black/thrash/war metal feel, and it works fine. In the Trenches is perfect for your daily dose of audio aggression! Go for it!

 

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Show Me The Body - Alone Together (2026)

Logically less diversity in this album than on their Corpus I and II EPs (which I recommend), but still a lot more diverse, surprising and personal than your usual hardcore album. Like in their previous albums Show Me The Body blend some noise-rock, post-punk and nu-metal (mostly some hip-hop rhythms and grooves) in their hardcore, but in Alone Together they also bring some marching band style music, along with bits of acoustic guitars and spoken words, with good results, managing again to renew themselves while keeping quality on top. I think it's time these guys get more recognition!

 

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AxCxMxE - NECROPATÍA SISTÉMICA (2026)

 

Necropatia Sistemica is AxCxMxE second album. The Columbian grinders play some traditionnal grind, but with goregrind style vocals and a quite clean sounding bass forward in the mix, a bit like in modern tech death. This mix of old school basics and modern elements works fine, nothing groundbreaking, it's still quite basic, but it's an enjoyable album.

 

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Iceage - For Love of Grace & The Hereafter (2026)

For the previous Iceage album I wrote that they included some pop/indie rock in their post-punk, in their new one, For Love of Grace & The Hereafter, we can hear some post-punk elements left in their indie rock. And despite getting sometimes dangeresously close to cheesy pop punk at times it's still a good and enjoyable album thanks to their always excellent singer and their songwriting skills, their capacity to transmit feelings. Recommended when you'r in the mood for something that isn't heavy.

 

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Tricky - Different When It's Silent (2026)

One of the pleasure of discovering a new Tricky album is finding wich new interesting singers he's introducing. This time it's mostly a young singer, also from Bristol, called Mitch Sanders (a few others featuring are also on the album). he's doing a good job. Tricky, after the disapointing previous album (first one after he lost his daughter so I won't be too hard on him) is back with a strong album. Maybe not on the level of his best ones, but still with many excellent songs, and even the less memorable ones contrinutes to the nice overall feel and atmosphere of the album, so I wouldn't say they're fillers. And speaking about the atmosphere, Different When it's Silent is another proof Tricky is the absolute master of these laid back but subtly menacing feel. Recommended!

 

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No Cure - It Is Going To Get Dark (2026)

It Is Going To Get Dark is the first album from young band No Cure is a new band from Alabama, and a nicely done exercice in beatdown hardcore. With elements of deathcore, but staying definitely more brutal hardcore than death metal. In any case it has the groove and smashing power.

 

Cripple Bastards - La tua foto sul marmo (2026)

Cripple Bastards return with 13 min EP La tua foto sul marmo, and as usual (they formed in 1988!) they deliver high quality grind, with both a powerful sound and a lot of hardcore punk elements, and this time also some melodic guitar parts bits (never lasting for long!), bringing an element of surprise. Good stuff!

 

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Verdun - Abyssal Womb (2026)

I support Verdun since their beginnings, so I'm not surprised seeing them sign with the Excellent Transcending Obscurity records and releasing what will no doubt stays as one of the best doom/sludge album of the year. But with Abyssal Womb they exceeded my expectations, with even better songwriting skills with a great attention to details and dynamics. I just regret that this time the melodic element is less psychedelic (still is in the first track Funeral of the Cosmic Knight) and more traditionnal doom (can reminds Pallbearer or Hangman's Chair or even Paradise Lost at times), but that's not really a problem since they show they're also great at that. As a nice bonus, the singing in French in two songs is a success. Overall, I'm very pleased by this album that see Verdun reaching new heights. Keep going!

 

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Elizabeth Bane - Tenerife Sur (2026)

Can't tell you much about Elizabeth Bane, but this Tenerife Sur album is an excellent piece of noise/industrial/dark ambient, reminding a bit what Dominic Fernow (Prurient/Vatican Shadow) is doing. I hope we'll be hearing more from this new producer int he future!

 

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GROND - The Temple (2026)

Ten years passing between this new album and the previous one probably didn't help (that and maybe also being Russian), but I feel GROND don't get the recognition they deserve. I think they are among the best old school death metal bands around and The Temple is another proof. They kept their cool concept of mixing monstrous sea creatures, old warships and Lovecraft for the lyrics and art. The music is still grounded in mid tempo old school death, but I'd say it's now a bit more polished, with more attention to details, melodic elements and atmosphere, losing a bit the primitive rawness and moving slightly towards death doom. They still reminds Obituary, but now maybe Incantation and Immolation even more. But that being said I think they really managed to craft their own style. Anyone into more old-school and slower death metal should worship (or warship maybe!) The Themple.. Highly recommended!

 

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Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition (2026)

Engines of Demolition is the best Black Label Society since Mafia, the best in twenty years. There still are a couple of mellow piano driven songs we didn't really need, but here it's taking less space than on their others recent albums, and the heavy songs are better, and of course Zakk Wylde's leads are still worth your time. Not as good as their first albums, but better than what they did in between, overall it's an nice album that I enjoy (old school heavy metal with a Black Sab' influence if you didn't know).

 

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Fake Dust - Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon (2026)

Another band I saw recently at Les Passagers du Zinc, in Besançon (East of France), playing with Archagathus, Tension and Apoptose. And also a great show. Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon is their first album, released by the mighty Iron Lung Records. And it's an excellent album. Grindcore rooted in the old school, but also with some heavier parts and manic snare beating drumming evoking goregrind, but also some moments more on the powerviolence/punk side of grind. They can please the whole grind family.

 

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The Heavy Eyes - Focus (2026)

I don't think Focus is their best album, but anyway it's a pleaseure to hear again The Heavy Eyes six years after their previous one. Their garage / stoner /doom, somewhere between Brant Bjork and Black Sabbath, still has something special and theydifferentiate from similar bands thanks to superior songwriting skills and their excellent vocalist. Good stuff again!

 

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