Metal Exposure (2026)

05/01/2026

2025 unfolded as a year shaped less by bombast and more by atmosphere. Across the metal and alternative spectrum, artists leaned into texture, introspection, and emotional clarity. It became a year of deep listening — through reviews, live shows, and the albums that quietly settled into the months.
Michael Brookhuis his review of 2025 is now up for reading

2025 unfolded as a year shaped less by bombast and more by atmosphere. Across the metal and alternative spectrum, artists leaned into texture, introspection, and emotional clarity. It became a year of deep listening — through reviews, live shows, and the albums that quietly settled into the months...

04/01/2026

Extreme metal joke projects are everywhere in 2025, but very few are built like €NI$LOBOTOMY. On “P1$$WORLD”, four tracks and just under eight minutes of Monopoly-themed chaos become a showcase in how to make something utterly ridiculous and utterly professional at the same time. This is silly, fun, ultra-violent grind/ slam that is executed with the discipline and precision of people who live at the very top of the modern heavy-music food chain.

Extreme metal joke projects are everywhere in 2025, but very few are built like P€NI$LOBOTOMY. On “P1$$WORLD”, four tracks and just under eight minutes of Monopoly-themed chaos become a showcase in how to make something utterly ridiculous and utterly professional at the same time. This is sill...

03/01/2026

2025 will be the year that’s remembered with highs and lows.
We lost some great musicians and icons along the way, there was a lot of drama in the music industry and of course there’s also a lot of great music that came out this year. Antonie van der Kooij is now up for reading!

2025 will be the year that’s remembered with highs and lows. We lost some great musicians and icons along the way, there was a lot of drama in the music industry and of course there’s also a lot of great music that came out this year. Let’s start this year’s list with something different tha...

03/01/2026

Bloody Pineapples started life in 2020 as six musicians scattered around the globe writing for the URM Collab Smash competition, eventually coalescing around a core creative unit of Jake (guitars), Toby (guitars/production) and Luke (vocals). Since then they’ve dabbled in black metal, death metal, metalcore and even a 13-second grindcore stunt track, released many stand alone singles, an EP and a full-length, and quietly built out their own hybrid sound in ‘pineapplecore’.

On paper, Bloody Pineapples should have been a throwaway curiosity. A multi-national project born out of URM collab competitions, fronting a self-declared new subgenre ‘pineapplecore’ which sounds like the kind of joke that usually dies on Discord. In reality, their self-titled hardcore album .....

02/01/2026

I usually approach re-recordings with a very high degree of scepticism. At best, they’re harmless; at worst, they sound like an amateur cover band murdering songs you loved in your teens. 2025 gave us a particularly egregious example of how badly that can go with Five Finger Death Punch. So when announced “Spit XXV”, a four-track re-recording of material from their 2000 debut, my expectations were firmly in check.

I usually approach re-recordings with a very high degree of scepticism. At best, they’re harmless; at worst, they sound like an amateur cover band murdering songs you loved in your teens. 2025 gave us a particularly egregious example of how badly that can go with Five Finger Death Punch. So when K...

02/01/2026

Sweden has never struggled to produce great extreme metal, but every so often a band turns up that doesn’t just join the lineage, it sharpens it. Avdagata ’s second full-length, “The Apocalyptic Aeon”, is exactly that kind of record: a modern, meticulously executed take on the Gothenburg-born melodic death tradition that remembers why those ’90s releases mattered in the first place, and then has the audacity to push it further.

Sweden has never struggled to produce great extreme metal, but every so often a band turns up that doesn’t just join the lineage, it sharpens it. Avdagata’s second full-length, “The Apocalyptic Aeon”, is exactly that kind of record: a modern, meticulously executed take on the Gothenburg-born...

31/12/2025

As for most people, 2025 has been a turbulent year for me as well. Nevertheless, it has produced quite some nice albums, within the different genres where I roam. Ingrid Kroes is now online.

As for most people, 2025 has been a turbulent year for me as well. Nevertheless, it has produced quite some nice albums, within the different genres where I roam. Kite – Kite on Ice Never in my life would I have thought that a live recording would end up as my favourite release one year, […]

28/12/2025

2025 has been a year of reckoning as much as a year of discovery. Legacy genres have had to decide whether they’re museum pieces or living, breathing organisms. Some chose to polish themselves into oblivion; others doubled down on why they mattered in the first place. What follows is not a definitive “best of” list; it’s a record of the releases that refused to leave my turntable, my headphones and occasionally my conscience.
Andy Baqone his yearlist is now up for reading!

2025 has been a year of reckoning as much as a year of discovery. Legacy genres have had to decide whether they’re museum pieces or living, breathing organisms. Some chose to polish themselves into oblivion; others doubled down on why they mattered in the first place. What follows is not a definit...

27/12/2025

2025 was a year of hardships—and some smaller wins. It wasn’t marked by grand success, but by endurance, persistence, and learning how to recognize progress wherever it appeared.
I hope that for you, the reader, this year was a little more forgiving—and if it wasn’t, I hope you found the strength to slap life right back in the face!
That said, there were a handful of metal releases that stood out to me as some of the year’s finest.
Omer Barzilai is now online!

2025 was a year of hardships—and some smaller wins. It wasn’t marked by grand success, but by endurance, persistence, and learning how to recognize progress wherever it appeared. I hope that for you, the reader, this year was a little more forgiving—and if it wasn’t, I hope you found the str...

26/12/2025

Another year has gone by and while I normally be a twin sister to the Grinch when it comes to the whole end of the year thing. This is probably the first year since who knows that I actually feel a bit of joy in December. Let’s call it a Christmas Miracle for now.
While looking back on this years music and concerts, I couldn’t really choose between making a release list only or a gigs only list. So I thought let’s mix the two together.
So here you go. Milou Buscher her yearlist filled with amazing and memorable moments in chronological order cause there is not really one favorite this time. (maybe there is but I will let you decide)

Another year has gone by and while I normally be a twin sister to the Grinch when it comes to the whole end of the year thing. This is probably the first year since who knows that I actually feel a bit of joy in December. Let’s call it a Christmas Miracle for now. While […]

25/12/2025

Survived another year. Bravo! Despite the uneasy trappings of AI music, the increasing global tensions, the privilege and challenges of raising a sweet, good-hearted but confused and nuclear tempered teenage girl, and what seems to be a case of complete moral bankruptcy as I peak through the digital looking glass, for me as a music enthusiast and disciple of art in general, it is quite the time to be alive!
Enjoy Extreme Metal Voyager his yearlist of 2025!!

FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2025 Survived another year. Bravo! Despite the uneasy trappings of AI music, the increasing global tensions, the privilege and challenges of raising a sweet, good-hearted but confused and nuclear tempered teenage girl, and what seems to be a case of complete moral bankruptcy as I....

23/12/2025

We're approaching the end of the year, and Erik Willems his year review is the first we share with you:

2025 has been quite a musical endeavor. I hope 2026 will be, at least music wise, in the same vein. And for now, I wish you an Unholy Christmas and blasphemous 2026,66.

Yours truly,
Erik

It has been quite a year. Especially the first half was….well frankly put: terrible. I had to stand my ground in more ways than possibly imagined. Luckily, there was a turn of the tide since July, and since that time I had the chance and time to delve into music again, resulting in quite some […...

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