How The HU’s HUN Turns Four Years of Momentum Into Their Most Cinematic Album Yet
The HU’s HUN is out now via Better Noise Music, reviewed in full: four years of touring, an Order of Genghis Khan, and their most cinematic Hunnu Rock yet.
Why Altarage Made a Seventy-Five Minute Album That Should Have Ended Fifteen Minutes Earlier
Altarage Cogwheel runs 74 minutes across seven tracks, four past ten minutes. The longest record of their career, and fifteen minutes too long
Why Fractal Sun Made a Six-Track Album With an Eleven-Minute Closer and No Label
Fractal Sun Divergent Paradox is a six-track concept album from Costa Rica built in mirrored pairs, closing on eleven minutes with Chaney Crabb.
How Allt Turned Inward and Found the Sophomore Problem Waiting There
Allt Ataraxia trades a post-apocalyptic concept for lived experience. The emotional risk paid off. The musical risk did not. Reviewed.
Why The Salt Pale Collective Made the Heaviest Self-Released Album of July
The Salt Pale Collective and God said nothing. Six tracks, thirty-five minutes, self-released, and heavier than anything a label funded in July.
How Holy Wave Crossed a Border to Find the Album They Could Not Make at Home
Holy Wave i’m DADA. Recorded in Ensenada, trading haze for intention. The band’s most deliberate work. Reviewed.
How the Neal Morse Band Wrote Another Concept Album While Nobody Was Looking
Neal Morse Band L.I.F.T. Thirty-eight albums in, another ambitious concept record. Stands toe to toe with Similitude. Reviewed.
Why Altın Gun’s Tribute to a Dead Poet Is the Most Alive Record of 2026
Altın Gün Garip. Ten Neşet Ertaş songs reimagined into the most joyous record of 2026. A tribute that transcends tribute. Reviewed.
How Textures Proved That the Best Comeback Is the One Nobody Expected
Textures Genotype. Not a comeback but a reintroduction. The band that helped invent djent reclaims its territory. Reviewed.
How Soen’s Seventh Album Proves That Comfort Is the Enemy of Progressive Metal
Soen Reliance. Seven albums in, a perfected formula that never quite surprises. Triumph or warning?
