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Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, August 12th 2026

SiM returns with Freeze Me Up, delivering another explosive dose of their trademark mixture of metal, punk, reggae and electronic. Released as the opening theme for the upcoming anime Black Torch, the track also serves as a preview of their seventh album Hooman After All, due September 2nd via UNFD. The song hits hard from the start, combining aggressive guitars and powerful screams with the rhythmic bounce that has always made SiM stand out. Vocals shift effortlessly between raw intensity and m...
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LIVE FROM THE PIT: Protest The Hero, Pupil Slicer and Obeyer

In the centre of London, up a staircase below a neon sign blazing the venue’s name into the sky, is Scala - and for one night only, in the height of summer, it became the home of the most uplifting prog band in music, PROTEST THE HERO. With two bands opening for them, there were mere hours between arriving and the time to finally witness their glorious live show - but first, the supports.OBEYER took to the stage first - with a sound that landed somewhere in the djent/deathcore sphere, they did a...
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The Neu Bulletin (Sailor Honeymoon, The Cindys, June McDoom and more!)

Neu Bulletins are DIY’s guide to the best and freshest new music. Your one stop shop for buzzy new bands and red hot emerging stars, this roundup features some choice words from our esteemed contributors on just a few of the tracks we’ve been rinsing at full volume over the last few weeks.We’ve also got a handy playlist where you can find the full slate of Neu tracks we’ve been loving, so you can listen to all our tips in one place! Dive in…...
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REVIEW: Din Of Celestial Birds - Takeoffs & Landings

Leeds’ most emotionally devastating musical export, DIN OF CELESTIAL BIRDS, are back and ready to rip your stitched-up heart wide open. The instrumental post-rockers have put together a collection of music that soars and dives to mimic the to’s and fro’s of life’s journey - whether that be in more metaphorical sensibilities, or the more literal, as shown off by the record’s title - Takeoffs & Landings.With gargantuan gulfs between the delicate and crushing, the brooding and the uplifting, the li...
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REVIEW: Bleached Cross - Wrath

Darkwave act BLEACHED CROSS have found their way out of the murky underbelly of Chicago, and are ready to bring their brand of mournful, industrial sonic sadness to the masses with new LP Wrath. Originating as a file-sharing collaboration between Chicago and San Diego, the band became a fully fledged live act in 2020 and has not stopped to look back since. Now they’re on the cusp of releasing the heaviest work so far in their career, blending post punk, noise rock, industrial, dark wave, goth ro...
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In the studio with Imminence: “It’s going to sound quite different to…

Harald Barrett: “We started writing instantly after The Black was done. It quickly turned into something else, though – something quite different from the previous album. It’s me and Eddie who’ve been writing the whole thing, and we’ve been recording in the same studio as before.”
Eddie Berg: “We were very inspired and still writing songs when we went into the studio for The Black. We had a deadline, and we went in with the songs that we had. But we never felt like we were finished. So, we had t...
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“It is impossible to question our intent behind the record”:…

Matthew McDougal, hasn’t listened to Boundaries new album all that much up until recently.
“I just re-listened to it really for the first time in months, because we've been on tour.” He pauses for a moment, as if to think about when was the last time he gave his own record a spin. “But I re-listened to it a couple of days ago, and I probably feel the best about it that I have of any of our work, as far as feeling like what we made is something that feels complete.”
Yearning: the unbeautiful aft...
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REVIEW: Under Auburn Skies - Diminisher Of Hope

Serving up a portion of Denver metalcore comes UNDER AUBURN SKIES, the latest of a long line of Colorado-based core acts - with their upcoming EP, Diminisher Of Hope, all but upon us. Drawing heavily on the sounds of bands like POLARIS and MAKE THEM SUFFER, the EP treads the thin line between relatively straight-forward melodic metalcore and the more complex aggressive end of the genre, to forge an end project that manages to have fingers in both pies.Across five songs and a small intro, the act...
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REVIEW: Poison The Preacher - Things I Want

Emerging from the fertile underground of Bogotá, Colombia, comes the burgeoning crossover heavyweights POISON THE PREACHER with their latest EP Things I Want. The four track release is inspired by ambition, obsession, and unattainable dreams, and has the heaviness to discuss all of those topics with all the gravity necessary. The EP’s artwork mirrors those themes as it features a mutilated Daruma doll, a traditional Japanese symbol of perseverance and fulfilled goals, but with one eye torn out i...
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Album Review: Protest The Hero – Within

With six years between their last release and this new album, it’s very good to have Protest The Hero back. The progressive punkers have not let time dull their abilities either, as Within marks a bold step further for the bombastic group.
Conceptually, it draws on the Hermetic maxim of ‘as above, so below, as within, so without’, to create a personal and introspective collection of songs discussing how external forces, whether social or personal or political, can shape our internal thoughts and...
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Live review: Bring Me The Horizon's Count Your Blessings anniversary…

A group of hair farmers from Sheffield have somehow managed to sell out two nights at Manchester’s Bowlers Exhibition Centre just by playing scrappy deathcore. Of course, that group does happen to be one of the biggest heavy acts of all time, so maybe there’s some sense after all.
Bring Me The Horizon’s beloved debut album Count Your Blessings was gifted to us 20 years ago in all its rugged charm, but with their enormous Repented release buffing out the scratches, the Yorkshiremen have decided t...
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Album Review: No Cure – It Is Going To Get Dark

Not a band known for shying away from the dark side, Alabama hardcore firebrands No Cure have returned with a vengeance, as they focus on the gradual systematic decline all around us. With their last effort, I Hope I Die Here, portraying their Southeastern US experiences, It Is Going To Get Dark is an incendiary perspective of the current state of the world.
Opening with as fierce start, When The Spasms Cease is a vicious hardcore belter that fully adds their extreme metal influences to their ar...
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“Change is so important and amazing, everyone should be free to do…

What were you going through during the recording of these songs?“I was going through struggles with addiction, I was going through struggles with a break-up that really hurt me, going through struggles with the relationship with my dad, and all of those things came to a boiling point. I didn't feel like I could put on this persona of, ‘I'm the queen of the world’, but it felt really safe to get in the studio and show the more vulnerable or uglier parts of myself.
“It was basically just therapy...
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Album Review: Siamese – dissolution

As the album unfurls itself like some dark flower, each new petal brings perspective. drown approaches self-deprecation and inward anger whilst gargantuan guitars fight all around, and sense laments the dwindling number of artists ready and able to perform with true authenticity whilst celebrating those that manage to retain it.
Across this diaspora of twilight, a few parts attract the listener more convincingly. sinner is a hard listen, with the bare bones of accountability and responsibility o...
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Album Review: The Bobby Lees – New Self

Also included is a reworking of PJ Harvey's 50ft Queenie, found here as 50 Ft. According to the band it was a highlight to record, going so far as to say “This song is our favourite recording we’ve ever done”. Pushing the already boisterous vocal delivery even further, and maximising the bass sound, it becomes a new beast that suits the band down to the ground.
In keeping with punk tradition, nearly every song is below three minutes, with only All I Got, the sombre yet self-supportive song looki...
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REVIEW: Fucked Up - Year Of The Monkey

FUCKED UP are back with their new album Year Of The Monkey, the second chapter in the Grass Can Move Stones trilogy, which picks up where Year Of The Goat left off in December 2025. This marks the penultimate entry in their Zodiac album series, with nine parts coming before last year’s effort from as early as 2006, and one more left to come later this year - Year Of The Rooster, currently billed to release in October.The Grass Can Move Stones trilogy tells the story of Monkey and Good Goat, two...
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REVIEW: Algae Bloom - …it lasts forever, and then it’s over

Here comes a sad one. The spectacular UK screamo trio ALGAE BLOOM are done. They’ve played their last show (this writer was at the second-last one), they’ve now released their last music, and can’t be long off shipping their final bits of merch off. So, in order to give them a little more of a send-off, it’s only right to show them a little love and cover the last music that the band will be putting out.Across just thirteen minutes and three tracks, …it lasts forever, and then it’s over does wha...
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REVIEW: Converge - Hum of Hurt

Two albums in the space of a few months? From one of the best bands to ever do it? Count us in. CONVERGE are icons, heroes in the world of uncompromisingly heavy music. Having already put out a contender for album of the year with Love Is Not Enough earlier this year, we’re now lucky enough to be treated to a double dose of the esteemed metalcore collective in Hum of Hurt, a more noise-inflected release rather than the metallic -core sound of the former.Right off the bat, we get a foaming-at-the...
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REVIEW: Ancient Rivalry - WHAT LIVES BENEATH

The old-school death metallers in ANCIENT RIVALRY are ready to unleash hell on their debut LP WHAT LIVES BENEATH. Having relocated to Nottingham since forming in London five years ago, the five-piece have developed a reputation for groove-laden death metal that harks back to the 90’s, and they very much back themselves up on a record that screams for bloody gore.Opening on the title track, it’s obvious that their reputation is by no means overstated or undeserved - there’s dirt and bodily fluids...
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Album Review: August Burns Red – Season of Surrender

Metalcore icons August Burns Red sound better than ever on album number 11. Maybe it’s the (by their own standards) lengthy break they’ve taken since their last, maybe the stylistic revamp they’ve undertaken, or maybe it’s the huge dose of riffs that can be found on Seasons of Surrender. Whatever it is, this latest venture has more bite than a house cat presented with your ankle, and the persistence of a seagull that’s seen your newly purchased punnet of chips.
Opening on Legions, featuring The...
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REVIEW: Oathbreaker - Rheia (Redux)

When covering a remaster of an album that’s already so utterly brilliant as Rheia, what can be said? OATHBREAKER have long been known to be a stunningly good band, even if they did decide to leave us without new shows or music for a decade. Ten years on from the release of the original version of Rheia and it is as highly appreciated as an album in that scene can get, quite frankly bordering on legendary status - if not already firmly in that top echelon of the blackgaze and post-metal pantheons...
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REVIEW: Kid, Feral - 2019

Coming from Skövde, Sweden is screamo act KID, FERAL. Making a return to recorded music that’s awfully long-awaited - their first album was released in 2018 - follow-up 2019 was recorded all across the period since LP1 and now.The eight tracks across 2019 are shaped by hardships, failed relationships, serious injuries, and personal ruin. Written largely during the band’s youth but released at what they’ve called the ‘dawn of their middle age’, the album reflects years of persistence, frustration...
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REVIEW: Ablation - Lethal Abuse

Consisting of members of some seriously big names in heavy music, ABLATION is the new death metal supergroup that you need to listen to. The iconic NY death metal scene is one that needs no introduction for long-time listeners of extreme metal, and so a band with members from SANGUISUGABOGG, SUFFOCATION and DEHUMANIZED should feel right at home.Their first release, the EP Lethal Abuse, is a six track hit-and-run intent only on causing sonic decimation - luckily enough, the title track (and lead...
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Rage Reviews: Recent Releases, May 20th 2026

After the release of Free, BEARTOOTH marked the start of a new era full of attitude as lead vocalist Caleb Shomo expressed himself as openly as he could. Pure Ecstasy is a violent continuation of that narrative, being unapologetically himself while raining absolute hell on the track. He lets rip with his vocals, screaming through the end of almost every line while insane beats and guitar riffs leave no survivors. The chorus takes a step back to that classic metalcore letting the melodies shine t...
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