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Amon Amarth - The Allfather Awakens Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. For over three decades, Swedish melodic death metal titans Amon Amarth have commanded the global stage like modern-day berserkers, raising drinking horns and turning festival crowds into legendary participatory "Viking rows". When a band reaches their thirteenth studio release, complacency is usually the death of them. But with Amon Amarth The Allfather Awakens , unleashed via Metal Blade Records, the Norse heavyweights prove that the fires of Asgard still burn with terrifying intensity. The Return of the Allfather Odin, the Allfather, god of war, wisdom, death, magic, and poetry, once again anchors the album's thematic and visual universe. However, frontman Johan Hegg has made it clear that this record is not a rigid concept album; rather, it is a visceral collection of historically inspired epic tales dealing with conflict, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of gre...

Green Lung - Necropolitan Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Forget polite introductions and watered-down retro-rock: London's premier occult heavy-metal sorcerers are back to snap necks with swaggering elegance. With their fourth full-length onslaught, Green Lung doesn't just cement their status as darlings of the heavy metal press; they stake an unyielding, iron-clad claim over modern stoner-doom supremacy. Necropolitan is a blazing ritual carved into black wax, dragging the band out of the rural mists and straight into the dark, cobblestone heart of the capital. From Rural Woods to Urban Graveyards: The Concept While their acclaimed 2023 breakthrough This Heathen Land thrived on the open skies and folkloric fog of the English countryside, Necropolitan shifts gears with ruthless urgency. Released on September 11, 2026, via Nuclear Blast, the album is brilliantly described by the band as "a love letter to gothic London in riffs". Th...

Accept - Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Fifty years of ear-shattering German metal isn't something you see every day. To mark five decades of neck-snapping riffs, Wolf Hoffmann and his crew dropped Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 through Napalm Records. But don't expect a lazy best-of compilation riding purely on nostalgia. Instead, Accept dragged roughly 50 metal heavyweights into the studio to cut fresh takes on 19 classic tracks. Is this a legendary tribute, or just a chaotic guest-heavy spectacle? Here’s our honest take on Accept Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 . Five Decades in the Pit: 50 Years of German Heavy Metal Accept basically laid the foundation for European speed and power metal back in the day. Think back to the raw power of 1982's Restless and Wild or the massive singalong energy of Balls to the Wall , that legacy was built on pure grit, cranking amps, and relentless touring. On Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 , the...

Sortilege - Metamorphose Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Sortilege - Larmes De Heros Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. If you are a vinyl collector with a weakness for 1980s heavy metal, there is a good chance that you have already discovered the name Sortilège. If you haven't, well... you may be about to discover one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of French heavy metal. For international collectors, Sortilège is still far less well known than Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Accept or Manowar. But that relative obscurity is also part of the attraction. Finding an original French pressing of a great Sortilège album can feel like discovering a small piece of heavy metal history that somehow escaped the mainstream. I have original copies of the classic Sortilège albums in my own collection, and this article comes from that collector's perspective. I don't sell those original copies. They stay in my persona...

Motionless In White - Decades Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Motionless In White Decades: Two Decades of Stubborn Survival Twenty years. That’s two decades of eyeliner, industrial-sized riffs, and the kind of middle-finger stubbornness that most bands trade in for a mortgage by their second record. Motionless In White Decades isn’t just an album title, it’s a line scratched in the dirt. Released on July 17, 2026, it marks twenty years of a war that began in the grey, working-class grimness of Scranton, PA. This band didn’t get a silver spoon; they built this legacy out of festival mud, genre snobbery, and a famously broken-down van in a snowstorm that left them sleeping on rest-stop floors. From those frozen Pennsylvania nights in 2006 to becoming international festival headliners, Decades is a fucking declaration of survival. It’s the sound of a band that didn't just survive the "critics' darlings" cycle, they outlasted it. Evolution...

Slift - Fantasia Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Crank your amplifiers to eleven and brace for impact: Toulouse's ferocious power trio SLIFT has returned to obliterate your speakers with their fourth studio album, Fantasia . Following the space-faring monolithic double LP Ummon in 2020 and 2024’s sprawling sci-fi juggernaut Ilion , the French heavyweights hit back via Sub Pop Records. Stripping away the excess filler, the new release Slift Fantasia arrives as an unyielding, 50-minute wrecking ball of pure sonic fury and political urgency. The Genesis: From Cosmic Marathons to Lean Precision Formed in 2016 by brothers Jean Fossat (guitar, synths, vocals) and Rémi Fossat (bass), alongside childhood brother-in-arms Canek Flores on drums, SLIFT spent ten years forging a reputation as an unstoppable sonic hurricane. From their early garage-stoner days on La Planète Inexplorée to their legendary viral KEXP session recorded at Trans Musicales, the trio...

All Them Witches - House Of Mirrors Photo credit: Amazon. The actual product may vary. Forget the sterile, over-polished drivel clogging mainstream rock radio. With House Of Mirrors , the Nashville power-four unleash a roaring, sonic sledgehammer that obliterates expectations and resets the heavy psych landscape. Six years after the suffocating darkness of Nothing As The Ideal (2020) and the sprawling experimentation of Baker's Dozen (2022), the band returns with a seventh full-length studio album that is raw, organic, and heavy as molten lead. Album Breakdown & Blueprint Released on May 29, 2026, via BMG, this record marks a monumental shift in the band's trajectory—their first full-length album in over a decade not issued through New West Records. Here is the raw anatomy of the beast: Attribute Details Artist All Them Witches (Official website) Album Title House Of Mirrors ...