BAD TASTE! LOUD RIFFS! TOO MUCH CUM!
Sabaton
The War to End All Wars delivers sturdy hooks and battlefield momentum, but Sabaton’s familiar machinery shows through the smoke.
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian sharpen their grand design into a dense, dramatic album where layered voices and restless guitars serve the songs.
Jinjer
Wallflowers is focused, confrontational and fiercely dynamic: a record where technical power serves a clear emotional and social voice.
Edge Of Sanity
A fractured but compelling Edge of Sanity record, balancing sharp death-metal impact with Dan Swanö’s expanding progressive instincts.
Powerwolf
Call of the Wild has atmosphere and hooks, but Powerwolf’s rigid formula leaves too many songs sounding like alternate costumes on one idea.
Wizardthrone
A dazzling, absurdly ambitious collision of symphonic grandeur, melodic death metal and cosmic excess.
Exhumed
Compact, tightly engineered goregrind that balances speed, riff density and structural control better than its chaos suggests.
Helloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
At The Gates
At the Gates deliver a brutally concise melodic death metal blueprint whose precision, urgency and riff economy remain formidable.
Rhapsody
Rhapsody’s symphonic power metal spectacle is energetic and technically polished, but relentless excess turns grandeur into fatigue.
Tetrarch
Unstable turns anxiety into blunt, heavy hooks, though its narrow emotional vocabulary and repeated structures limit the payoff.
Anthrax
Anthrax return with sharpened riffs, huge choruses and the kind of rhythmic discipline most comeback albums never find.