Age of Ignorance is a very strong release built around plenty of simple ideas: catchy riffs, intense drums and varying vocal styles. What Days of Ruin do very well is execute those ideas with enough variation that each song leans on their core skills slightly differently, keeping things fresh throughout
Alternative metal newcomers GRINN will release their debut EP, ‘Silence’, on September 18th, 2026.
You don’t have to be wicked to like this album, but it probably helps. The Noctambulant transport the listener to dark and devilish places, but once there, few will want to leave. I know I didn’t. An incredibly impressive effort overall.
Brisbane alt-rock outfit Sunbleached will drop their upcoming debut album, ‘Stop Destroying the Things You Love’, on September 18th, 2026, via Community Music.
Cambridge heavies Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats return with their seventh full-length album, ‘Shapes of Midnight’. A concept album partly inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and the too-real nightmares of our modern age.
Brighton dream-punks Winter Gardens return with new EP, ‘Macabre Divine’, set for release on 16th September 2026.
Nonpoint, the iconic nu-metal band, are back with ‘The Last Word’, out September 18th, 2026, via 361 Degrees Records.
It’s heavy, it’s chaotic, it’s filthy, and it’s ugly, but it’s not easily definable. I like that.