Jon Barbas of Heavy Metal Philosophy recounts the week’s metal news and breaks down the best new metal albums from the weekend of September 25th, 2026! From Classic Heavy Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Deathcore, Alternative Metal, Post-Hardcore, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Modern Metal, Black Metal, Synthwave, Sludge Metal, […]
2007 was an absolutely STACKED year for metalcore. From genre-defining classics by As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Parkway Drive, Every Time I Die, and The Dillinger Escape Plan to underrated gems from Poison The Well, The Number 12 Looks Like You, Ion Dissonance, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous — […]
Jon Barbas of Heavy Metal Philosophy is breaking down the best new metal albums of the weekend, from June 5th, 2026! From Alternative Metal, Metalcore, Metallic Hardcore, Ambient Synth, Goth, Modern Metal, Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Post Black Metal, Post Hardcore, and everything in between! If […]
There’s a mythic element to the band Refused and their 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come. They were a nobody punk band from Umea, Sweden, who, after 7 years of by-the-numbers hardcore, dropped a perfect statement of an album before disappearing, never to play again. That album fused […]
