Release date: September 18, 2026 Record label: Nuclear Blast Records Riff Doctor’s Score: RRRR1/2 (4.5/5) Diagnosis Ten years is a hell of a long time to wait for a new Anthrax record. Thankfully, Cursum Perficio sounds like a band making up for lost time. More importantly, it doesn't sound like five veterans simply protecting their legacy. Anthrax sound hungry, ridiculously tight and willing to push beyond the formula that made them one of thrash metal's Big Four. In fact,

Release date: 18 September 2026 Record label: Killer Candy Records Riff Doctor’s Score: RRRR 4/5 Diagnosis With Shapes of Midnight, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats bring the guitars firmly back into focus without simply retracing their old steps. Recorded live to analogue tape at Abbey Road Studios, the album sounds raw, sinister and wonderfully out of time. The Cambridge cult favourites once again combine irresistible psychedelic melodies with proto-metal weight, doom-laden riffs

Release date: 11 September 2026 Record label: SADCØRE Records The Riff Doctor’s Score: RRRR1/2 — 4.5/5 The Riff Doctor’s Diagnosis BLOODLETTING turns suppressed grief and anger into RØRY’s heaviest and most ambitious work yet. Its genre-blurring journey is raw without becoming shapeless, devastating without surrendering hope, and held together by an artist prepared to feel everything in order to feel alive again. The Full Review What happens after you get everything you thoug

Album release date: September 4, 2026 Record label: Spinefarm Records The Riff Doctor’s Score: RRRR — 4/5 The Riff Doctor’s Diagnosis Airbourne do not reinvent rock ’n’ roll on their self-titled sixth album. They simply remind us how exhilarating it can still be when played loudly, shamelessly and with enough electricity to light up an arena. Familiar influences remain, but Airbourne stopped being an AC/DC tribute act a long time ago. This is faster, fresher and unmistakably

One of 2026´s strongest modern metal releases.