A directory of stoner metal bands filed by the scene each one keeps returning to, from the Coachella Valley and New Jersey to London, Örebro, Kyiv, Buenos Aires and Wollongong. Every band gets a founding date and one record, with Truckfighters and Fuzzorama at the centre of the Scandinavian page.
By Ilse Brandt
8 September · 9 min read
Explainers
Most of the lettering on doom metal sleeves was bought from a catalogue rather than drawn, from Victorian display capitals to phototype faces and a digital blackletter. We follow the typefac...
By Ilse Brandt
Essential Albums
Six sludge records that sank for reasons of paperwork rather than music: a shelved master, a band that split within a year, a label that went bust. Each comes with its date, label and two so...
By Gareth Llewellyn
Genre Histories
From a former military church in Göppingen to the 013 in Tilburg and a field outside Siegen, the doom metal festivals gave a slow music its fixed addresses. This is the history of Roadburn,...
By Ilse Brandt
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
How Black Metal Vocals Got That Shape
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
The Death Metal Labels That Built the Genre
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
Why Death Metal Became So Extreme
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
Thrash Metal in the 1980s, Year by Year
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2026 | Mittags-Abgrund | Mittags-Abgrund | Full-length |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Soulers | The Straightforward Dream | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Anthrax | Cursum Perficio | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Blackment | Pandemonium Portrait | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Hanging Garden | Dream Death | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Krallice | Scour Order | Full-length |
| 18 Sep 2026 | Sea Sleeper | Burden of Antler | Full-length |
| 20 Sep 2026 | Legion | Legion/Blissful Misery | Compilation |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Soulers | Watching the Whole Tragedy with Bated Breath | Full-length |
