With all of the sounds that gave her ears an idea for The Spinning Wheel, she sets up each of the compositions for each month of the year. Each of those months that you have in your hand, represents a goddess to be worshiped.

Black metal may now be the extreme genre of choice for metal fans, but for those of us who are more old school, bands like Torture Hammer keep the death metal fire burning.

With its nod to not just the Berlin School of Music, it gives us the satisfaction and imaginative wonders we have just witness to make it worth the trip alone.

On their 16th album, Kreator sound invigorated and with it, a new sense of recognition for their past achievements.

While I’m very new to the world of Textures’ music, their new album is like a massive volcanic eruption, waiting to explode at the right time, at the right place to kick 2026 off with a bigger bang.

All in all, The Ballad of General Jupiter is a great way to kick 2026 off with a big bang and hopefully we’ll get to see more from Anton’s next adventure that will be waiting for us in the years to come in the late 2020’s. And what an album it is.

A highly recommended, mind-blowing piece of extreme metal, where slow, crushing doom and furious black metal blasts merge with striking power.

Fleshvessel fuses death metal, black jazz, folk, and black metal with ethereal and acoustic elements, welding them into a volatile mass before spewing it out in an eruption of experimental madness.

The Floyd themselves had accomplished their goal between the live recording you have in your hand and they weren’t just an incredible progressive rock band; they were the band that were philosophical and unique in their own way to capture the vision and the sonic alchemy that is brought to their listeners.

Abraham delivers a dense album of psychedelic post-doom madness, unveiling striking atmospheres layered with avant-garde complexity.

Yes, it’s not the same, yes, it is different, but you can’t deny what Thorsten, Hoshiko, and Paul have captured the wonders and mysteries behind the Dream’s atmosphere.

This is a crazy, yet insane album Benthos have released to display the powerful force of metallic core with incredible electrical juice, ready to raise hell like there’s no tomorrow!

It is a real corker that’ll get your fist pumping with sheer electricity.

Neverland has a powerful, yet mind-blowing amazement which showcases Ulver at their best to prove how far they’ve come since their formation in 1993.

This is not just a perfect album, it is powerful and rich in its metallic defiance of how progressive and symphonic metal is supposed to sound; crisp, epic, and straight to the point on where the next chapter will take them into.

While they called it a day on August 5th, 1971, they were very much ahead of their time.

Essentially, Blanos does take control of this album, keeping the fusion flame alive and well.

If face-ripping thrash is your thing then you can’t go far wrong with Wounds. It’s a brutal assault on the senses, where the band always know just how to work the sheer ferocity.

I can’t wait to see and hear what she’ll come up with next for the next adventure by continuing where she has left off in her debut release. We’ll have to keep (no pun intended) a watch out for her to see what 2026 has in store for Bobbie Dazzle.

The result is 10 tracks of very good to excellent psych rock that sounds both old and new at the same time, to the delight of all psych rock fans.

Sometimes you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, and just want some straightforward death metal.