With Poster Child, Taylor Acorn continues to shape her own lane in pop-punk. Across twelve tracks, she moves through love, self-doubt, and reflection. From the raw emotion of ‘Hangman’ to the nostalgia of ‘Home Videos’, each song shows her growth as a singer and songwriter.

Story Of The Year have announced their eighth studio album A.R.S.O.N., described as the next evolution of their signature sound and raw lyricism. The band have also shared its first single, ‘Gasoline (All Rage Still Only Numb)’, “a song about hitting your breaking point and saying fuck everything,” explains guitarist Ryan Phillips.

All Time Low have delivered in ‘Everyone’s Talking!’ an album of songs fixed in lived experience that sound like the journey has been painful. The melancholy running through the songs is brilliantly written and expressed through metaphor, imagery and wonderful contrasts.

From the chanting monks of ‘Templars’ to Gustav Vasa’s stand in ‘Till Seger’, Legends pushes history through thunderous riffs and brooding synths. Sabaton move across centuries with tales of Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vlad the Impaler. This is history told as only Sabaton can, fierce, melodic and larger than life.

Australian deathgrind act Gorotica unleash their second album Daily Grind of the Medieval Age via BandCamp. A 35-minute feast of extreme metal carnage, it fuses grisly death metal, grindcore, and dark humour into a grotesque medieval spectacle—complete with torture, cannibalism, and gluttonous riffs.

Para Bellum brings together Testament’s classic heavy sound with moments of experimentation, blending thrash, groove, and melody that revisit different parts of their history while keeping things fresh. It’s a varied and adventurous mix that shows the band still has plenty of fire left, delivering a solid and well-crafted album that plays to their strengths.

RADAR is the culmination of a fifteen-year journey that has seen TesseracT rise from underground beginnings to one of the most vital forces in modern metal music. 

Perturbator’s ‘Age Of Aquarius’ is a darkly cinematic fusion of synthwave, rock, and electronica. With collaborations from Ulver, Author & Punisher, and Alcest, the album explores humanity’s self-destructive path through war, fascism, and despair, balancing haunting instrumentals with moments of fragile beauty. A dystopian soundtrack for our times.

"DEATHSTYLE is not only the title of the track, it's the very embodiment of Deficit's sound," says the band. "Death" refers to our roots in Metal, Hardcore, Death Metal, and Deathcore, while "Style" captures the groove, catchiness, and swagger that define our identity. It’s the definition of Deficit's own unique genre."

“The album isn't about heartbreak over an individual — some of it is — but it's from the state of the world. That's what it is. It's about heartbreak over the loss of childhood and the imagined future that you might have had when you were young, because that doesn't exist. It's actively been taken away from all of us and everything is being stripped before our very eyes, constantly, every single day," says Levinson.

The Bloody Beetroots return with Forever Part One, a fearless EP from Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo. Known for fusing electro, punk, and dance since 2005, he calls this project his life: no boundaries, no compromise. Out now is I’m Not Holy, a chaotic love song featuring Grabbitz and Pirapus. This is The Bloody Beetroots. Forever.

For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band has made it a point to evolve with every album – sometimes dramatically so – never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels.

Deaf Havana’s ‘We’re Never Getting Out’ is an indie-rock soundtrack to existential dread. Across 12 songs, the Veck-Gilodi brothers explore ageing, break-ups, regret and wasted time, wrapping heavy themes in shimmering melodies. It’s devastating yet relatable, balancing heartbreak with fearless songwriting and sonic shifts that keep the band’s sound both fresh and brutally honest.

Brisbane nu-metal provocateurs Headwreck have dropped their electrifying new single ‘BINGO!’, paving the way for their highly anticipated EP Attitude Adjustment, set for release on Friday 31 October. Guitarist Jamo Benadie describes the track as a perfect showcase of the band’s identity, saying: “‘BINGO!’ is a track that gives the listener a little bit of everything Headwreck has to offer.”

Dyssidia return after five years with Deeper Wells of Meaning, their most immersive and expansive work yet. Co-produced by Sam Vallen (Caligula’s Horse) and mastered by V. Santura (Obscura), the album fuses technical precision, theatrical depth and raw vulnerability. Lead single ‘Serum Sickness’ offers a cryptic, venom-laced glimpse into their boundary-pushing progressive metal.

New Found Glory is excited to announce their highly anticipated new album Listen Up!, set to be released on February 20th, 2026. The band’s first full-length in nearly 6 years and their first since signing to Pure Noise Records earlier this year, Listen Up! is a collection of songs about resilience and hope through hard times.

PRESIDENT’s debut EP blends religious imagery, political themes and shifting genres into something haunting and deliberate. Across 20 minutes it moves from delicate synths to heavy breakdowns, exploring love, death and control. Anonymous yet purposeful, PRESIDENT deliver a work that is dark, thought-provoking and strangely uplifting, reminding us that love is the only thing left.

One of the most talked about and Multi-million streaming artists PRESIDENT, have today released their debut EP, King of Terrors. The title, drawn from a Biblical reference, frames the EP’s exploration of themes such as darkness, religion, and the ultimate maker of life: death. 

Notorious black metal collective WATAIN has announced that their upcoming eighth album will also be their last, set for release in 2028 on the band’s 30th anniversary. Marking the closure of a three-decade legacy, the record will serve as their final chapter before returning “unbowed and undefeated, back into the primordial chaos that once gave it life.”

Paradise Lost return with their 17th album Ascension via Nuclear Blast. Produced by Gregor Mackintosh, the record delivers colossal riffs and haunting despair. Nick Holmes states, “We’re still tuning our instruments to the key of despair!” as the band unveil their lyric video for ‘Lay A Wreath Upon The World.’