This week's best new extreme metal, hardcore punk and hard'n'heavy releases. Additionally, a segment celebrating the best hardcore punk albums of the 2020s!

NEW RELEASES

VORAGO - Morulus

HOPE? - Hell on Planet Earth

SOD THE EARTH - Hardly Working Man

SEIDHR - Wrong Way Rockers Compilation

KERRIGAN - Wayfarer

ST. MINCER - No Place For Humanity

INVICTUS - Nocturnal Visions

SEQUERA - Split w/FAUNA

EXODUS - Goliath

BEST HARDCORE PUNK ALBUMS OF THE 2020s

DROPDEAD - Dropdead 2020

DISBRIGADE - Catastrofe Mundial (2020)

HOPE? - Dead and Gone (2021)

OSSACRUX - Complete Discography (2021)

BOMBARDEMENT - Le Futur Et La (2022)

M.V-11 - 6 Songs EP (2022)

EMISSAIRIES OF SYN - The Core Assumptions (2023)

SOOKS - Moral Decay (2024)

DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice (2024)

DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - S/T (2024)

WARBITCH - Summoned (2025)

ULTIMATE DISASTER - For Progress ... (2025)