Six sludge records that sank for reasons of paperwork rather than music: a shelved master, a band that split within a year, a label that went bust. Each comes with its date, label and two songs to play first.
By Gareth Llewellyn
8 September · 9 min read
Explainers
Thrash metal is the point at which heavy metal stopped being about power and started being about velocity. The mechanics, the three parents, the four scenes, the ten records, where the borde...
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Portraits
He joined Exodus at seventeen, inherited the writing when Kirk Hammett left for Metallica, and has played on every record the band ever made. Then he spent eight years holding Jeff Hanneman'...
By Declan Rourke
Essential Albums
Nobody pays for the music on death metal vinyl records. What collectors buy is everything wrapped around it: the censored second front, the letters in the dead wax, the bootleg that beat the...
By Rafael Quintero
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
What Thrash Metal Actually Is: Sound, Speed and Style
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Hail Conjurer | Abyss & Ekstasis | Full-length |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Violet Eternal | Azure Stardust | Full-length |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Bassaium | Wrapped in Death | Full-length |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Chosen Undead | Cinder of a Fading Dream | Full-length |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Slaughtercult | Devoured by Perversion | Full-length |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Massteron | Second in the Spheres | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Crown Magnetar | The Hollowing of Godflesh | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
