Tags: genx, mother's day, Nuclear Assault, Speed Metal
Sadistic Metal Review: Posers Fuck Off Edition
When hardcore was new, it was a few innovators producing really interesting music not because they broke “the rules” but because they thought outside of the form of the aggregate of what had been rewarded so far.
48 CommentsTags: Classical, dave lombardo, late hardcore, physical media, radio, smr, william shatner
Aurora Borealis – Disillusioned by the Illusion (2026)
Over the last few years, death metal has been steadily invaded by speed metal and late hardcore just like black metal because these genres are easy to produce so everyone can participate, but Aurora Borealis pushes back against this trend with an album full of roaring old-school riffs and speed thrills.
5 CommentsTags: aurora borealis, death metal
Kaine – Extinction’s End (2026)
If you can imagine a crossover between Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Sodom but with its own zest for life and flair for the majestic, Kaine delivers NWOBHM-drenched speed metal at mid-pace with old school riff composition.
13 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, kaine, NWOBHM, Speed Metal
Consecration – Exanimis (2026)
As clowns push death metal and black metal into pure repetition, death-doom rises, in one fiery instance with Consecration who take a Candlemass approach to Skepticism style funeral doom and make energetic but morbid havens of dark sound.
43 CommentsTags: consecration, death-doom, Doom Metal
Mortuary – Great Black Earth (2026)
Almost no one understands what made speed metal great, looking from the outside-in as any time after the era tends to do, nor what made those transitional bands like Slayer, Rigor Mortis, and Destruction so powerful.
8 CommentsTags: death metal, Mortuary
Amorphophallus Titanum – The First Geometry (2026)
For fans of traditional sweeping but slower-paced black metal in the style of Enslaved and Graveland, but with a homebrew twist that calls to mind the most abstract of death metal structuralism, Armophophallus Titanum delivers an album of saturating experiences.
6 CommentsKilling Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders (2026)
This four-part documentary manages to convey a few things, one being that the suspect (who has since pleaded guilty) is nuts, and second that most of the people involved with publicizing the case are nuts.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, documentary, rex heuermann, serial killers
Reign in Blood Turns Forty and Slayer Plays it in Full
Legendary speed metal band Slayer — a proto-underground coven of wizardry like Sodom, Rigor Mortis, Hellhammer, and Bathory — introduced Reign in Blood four decades ago this month.
37 CommentsTags: proto-underground metal, slayer, Speed Metal
Metal Cosmos (#6)
Black metal is its own religion: Darwinism + naturalism + consequentialism + transcendence. You will recognize this as the formula that most ancient societies used because it worked for tens of thousands of years.
14 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, Grindcore, metal cosmos, radio, War Metal
