Weekly rundown October 03 – 2025

We’ve got a divide this week, between those veering off the staked-out course to travel unknown waters, and those sticking to, and improving on, well-established turf.

Weekly rundown September 26 – 2025

A week for those who think that extreme metal needs as many notes and riffs as possible, and to preferably be saturated in melody.

Weekly rundown September 19 – 2025

We’re doomed! This week is all about the gloom, be it fuzzy and fantastical or hooded and malignant. With a couple of jokers here and there to shake things up.

Weekly rundown September 12 – 2025

Prog metal has a big surge this week, and isn’t so weird or smug that it’s cant co-exist with a good bunch of more straightforward and predictable stuff.

Weekly rundown September 05 – 2025

A truly unpredictable, full-spectrum week where you can find something to match whatever mood you might be in at any given moment.

Weekly rundown August 22 – 2025

We seem to be out of the summer siesta and bands from all manner of spires and catacombs are poking their heads out to show off what they’ve been working while you were at the beach.

Weekly rundown August 15 – 2025

This is a week of both reliability and fringe ideas are able to triumph, even as both the safe and inventive fail in other hands.

Weekly rundown August 08 – 2025

Dark and spiritual underground dwellers are being offset by vibrant, fun-loving mass pleasers this week, and it will no doubt divide the fanbase.

Weekly rundown August 01 – 2025

Metalcore makes a big push this week, delivering some solid stuff, but having to share the spotlight with its more brutal and progressive cousins.

Weekly rundown July 25 – 2025

Each part of the more extreme reaches of the metal spectrum has something to say this week, and it’s all worth paying attention to.