A genre built inside Morrisound and Sunlight does not transfer easily to a stage, and most of its live albums exist because a contract said five. Seven that are worth the money, and the three that are worth owning outright.
By Rafael Quintero
7 September · 9 min read
Label Histories
Nine catalogue numbers out of a shop in Oslo, a band that founded its own company rather than accept anyone's terms, an English label set up to release one band nobody else would touch, and...
By Andrzej Sawicki
Explainers
Death metal took the voice down and black metal took it up, into the same band as the guitars. What follows from that one decision is most of what the genre sounds like.
By Eirik Solvang
Explainers
Not because the people making it were unusually disturbed, but because a demo landed in a box with three hundred others and there was one variable a band controlled. The escalation, the four...
By Rafael Quintero
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
How Black Metal Vocals Got That Shape
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
The Death Metal Labels That Built the Genre
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
Death Metal Live Albums Worth Owning
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
Grindcore vs Death Metal
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
Black Metal and Gothic Metal: The Border
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
Thrash Metal in the 1980s, Year by Year
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2026 | Soulers | The Straightforward Dream | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Anthrax | Cursum Perficio | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Blackment | Pandemonium Portrait | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Hanging Garden | Dream Death | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Krallice | Scour Order | Full-length |
| 20 Sep 2026 | Legion | Legion/Blissful Misery | Compilation |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Soulers | Watching the Whole Tragedy with Bated Breath | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
