Metalcore titans August Burns Red return with ‘Behemoth’, a crushing new single marking their reunion with Fearless Records. True to its name, the track delivers towering breakdowns, thunderous percussion, and rallying choruses, while moments of restraint highlight the band’s dynamic power and relentless evolution after more than two decades.

Wage War have announced their upcoming EP It Calls Me By Name, arriving April 17 via Fearless Records, alongside the savage new single ‘Song of the Swamp’. The track is one of the band’s most brutal releases yet, delivering a swampy, predator like assault from start to finish.

24 years after their start, TERROR still reign as one of the most influential bands in hardcore. Now TERROR announce their tenth full length record, STILL SUFFER, releasing April 24th through Flatspot Records. Working with producer (and former guitarist) Todd Jones, the band created ten fast, aggressive, in-your-face tracks that embrace the themes that made TERROR so influential in the first place. 

On Friday 8th May, British alternative rock mainstays Basement will return with WIRED marking their first new album in eight years as well as a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records. Across the LP’s 12 tracks fans will hear a return to the unbridled passion and creative intuition that's always animated their best material.

As the curtain falls on an extraordinary career spanning more than four decades, SEPULTURA are preparing to close their final chapter at the end of this year. With over 40 years of band history, 14 gold records, and performances across more than 80 countries, SEPULTURA stand as Brazil’s uncompromising emissary to the global stage and one of today’s most influential metal bands. 

Royal Discordance is a bold and brave album: a lyrical metalcore journey through life, pain, beauty and death. Pounding bass, intense percussion breakdowns, heavy vocal fry and clean vocals drive a cinematic vision of sonic wrath and metal carnage, balanced with symphonic metallic sound and huge guitar riffs.

With tolling bells and dystopian warnings, Rob Zombie launches into a groove heavy, riff driven assault that fuses industrial grit with old skool 70s heavy rock. From the defiant ‘F.T.W’ to highlights like ‘Black Rat Coffin’ and ‘Unclean Animals’, the album rejects surveillance culture and electronic numbness, urging listeners to reclaim their lives through loud, melodic rock ‘n’ roll.

Brisbane metal outfit DIESECT today share HIDE FROM THE LIGHT Deluxe EP, and lead with new single "NO HOME LEFT TO FIND", out now via Greyscale Records. The band will tour their new music across Europe for the first time on a tour starting next week with Crystal Lake (JPN) & Miss May I (US), and they'll support Spite (US) & Varials (US) across Australia in March - tickets on sale now

‘The New Flesh’ is heavy-as-hell through the bassline and drums, stacked with melodic heavy hooks and razor sharp lyrics. From destructive riffing to beautiful melody and guitar work, it carries a message about fighting dark feelings and living in “new flesh”.

Florida based New Found Glory's 11th studio album is ‘Listen Up!’ and it’s a return to late 1990s pop-punk energy. It’s full of fun, love and a ‘f@#k cancer philosophy’. The album has been created in the shadow of guitarist Chad Gilbert's cancer battle and the reality a diagnosis like that brings to the person and his loved ones.

For nearly two decades, Manchester’s INGESTED has stood as one of the UK’s most uncompromising forces in extreme metal. Champions of a sound that fuses precision brutality with increasingly dynamic songwriting, they’ve evolved from underground slam pioneers into a globally recognized, forward-driving powerhouse. With Denigration, the band begins a bold new chapter, one defined by reinvention, sharpened purpose and the arrival of a new voice at the helm.

American heavy metal icons CORROSION OF CONFORMITY return with their long awaited double album Good God / Baad Man, arriving April 3 via Nuclear Blast. Forged in Raleigh in 1982, the band shaped punk and metal with classics like Eye For An Eye and Deliverance.

Story Of The Year have crafted a record of metaphorical songs about rage, resilience and control in a world that is chaos. From the call to arms of ‘Gasoline (All Rage Still Only Numb)’ to the massive hits and huge singalong chorus, it’s melodic hard rock with surprises in the mix. 

EVERGREY, Gothenburg’s masterminds of melancholia, offer up another outburst of beautiful darkness and turn their inner fire into something unstoppable: their intense fifteenth album, Architects Of A New Weave, will be released on June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records

Angel Du$t deliver a hard rock ‘n’ roll album in 11 tracks and in 26 minutes that is ultra-lean but high on the interesting quotient. The band has produced an album that has a hardcore punk philosophy with short songs and minimal instrumentation. It appears the punchy drums, bold guitar riffs and the lead singer’s Justice Tripp's charismatic vocals lead the way: it’s a rock album that is slightly unhinged.

It’s been five long years since we have heard those tones and that voice. Devil Electric have roared back with Tahlia, their third studio album and most emotionally charged release to date. At its core, Tahlia is about fracture and survival, pain, frustration and relationships breaking under pressure.

At last year’s Good Things Festival, our contributor Stewart worked with bands across the lineup to capture a series of artist portraits throughout the day, including Wargasm, Inertia, Yours Truly, Bad Nerves, Make Them Suffer, Windwaker, South Arcade, CIVIC, Cobra Starship, GWAR, Scene Queen, and Dayseeker.

What began as an unconventional project in 2004 has since evolved into one of the most successful metal phenomena worldwide. Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle) documents POWERWOLF’s unrelenting rise to the top, showcasing a performance that goes far beyond a metal concert. From a fire-breathing church organ and thunderous pyro spectacles to dark, operetta-like storytelling and rousing crowd interaction, this show is pure heavy metal theater at its finest.

Metal heroines NERVOSA announce their new album: Slave Machine will be unleashed on April 3, 2026 via Napalm Records! Their sixth album shows the Brazil-based modern thrash metal band releasing their inner beasts at staggering speed and with formidable emphasis. Having performed at the biggest metal festivals worldwide, from Wacken to Hellfest, and making a lasting impression on fans and critics alike, NERVOSA aims to consolidate their standing as genre frontrunners.

Currently blazing their way across Europe opening for ALTER BRIDGE, GRAMMY® Award–nominated metal icons SEVENDUST have announced their 15th studio album, ONE. The highly anticipated release from the quintet arrives May 1 via Napalm Records.