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Issue 02 · October 2026 · Section

Metal

Issue 02 · October 2026: this issue's Metal section.

  1. Metal · black metal · atmospheric black metal
    Wolves in the Throne Room: Estuary
    Kuzgun

    Wolves in the Throne Room is one of those rare bands that went five years without a full-length, minding its own business out in the woods and not sucking up to anybody.

  2. Metal · melodic death metal · viking metal · CD, vinyl, cassette
    Amon Amarth: The Allfather Awakens
    Kuzgun

    Album number thirteen, and Amon Amarth are setting sail on the same sea in the same ship again.

  3. Metal · heavy metal · doom · Vinyl, CD
    Cirith Ungol: All The Shadows
    Kuzgun

    Cirith Ungol was never one of those bands that goes "heavy metal's in fashion again, let's knock out another album." These guys have been playing the same heavy, the same warped, the same gloomy epic heavy metal for…

  4. Metal · melodic death metal · 2LP, CD, digital
    Insomnium: Netherworlds
    Kuzgun

    Insomnium belong to the Finnish branch of melodic death metal, and they haven't strayed an inch from the same line in years.

  5. Metal · industrial metal · thrash
    Master Boot Record: Computer Metal
    Kuzgun

    Dot Matrix, Command Prompt, Plug and Play, Socket 7, Turbo Button, Voodoo2, CRT.

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