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The Internet’s most “It’s here, I guess” Weekly is once again back like clockwork, even if a stopped clock is right twice a day. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember: the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.


– List of Releases: May 22nd, 2026 –


6lack – Love is the New Gangsta
Genre: Alternative R&B / Trap Soul
Label: LVRN

A – Prang
Genre: Alternative Rock / Power Pop
Label: Cooking Vinyl

A Good Year – Play
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Escho

Aja Monet – The Color of Rain
Genre: Jazz Poetry / Spiritual Jazz
Label: drink sum wtr

Alela Diane – Who’s Keeping Time?
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Americana
Label: Loose

Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset
Genre: Heavy Metal / US Power Metal
Label: Metal Blade

As the Sun Falls – Songs from the Veil
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Folk Metal
Label: Theogonia

Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti – Almost Waking
Genre: Chamber Folk / Modern Classical
Label: Unheard of Hope

Bladee – Sulfur Surfer
Genre: Rage / Experimental Hip Hop
Label: Trash Island

Bleachers – Everyone For Ten Minutes
Genre: Pop Rock / Heartland Rock
Label: Dirty Hit

Blindead 23 – Deuterium
Genre: Progressive Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Label: Peaceville

Boys from Heaven – The Wanderer
Genre: AOR / Yacht Rock
Label: Frontiers

Crash of Rhinos – Logbook
Genre: Midwest Emo / Post-Hardcore
Label: Storm Chasers

Dan Byrne – There is Where the Show Begins
Genre: Blues Rock / Hard Rock
Label: Frontiers

Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

The Early Years – Modern Moonlight
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Shoegaze
Label: Sonic Cathedral

Ecca Vandal – Looking for People to Unfollow
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Loma Vista

Ed O’Brien – Blue Morpho
Genre: Art Rock / Chamber Folk
Label: Transgressive

Elder – Through Zero
Genre: Heavy Psych / Progressive Rock
Label: Blues Funeral

Erik Grönwall – Bad Bones
Genre: Hard Rock / Power Pop
Label: Playground Music

fakemink – Terrified .
Genre: Pop Rap / Jerk
Label: EtnaVeraVela

Future Islands – From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth [Compilation]
Genre: Synthpop / Indietronica
Label: 4AD

Hammock – The Second Coming Was a Moonrise
Genre: Ambient / Post-Rock
Label: Hammock Music

Hyd – Hold Onto Me Infinity
Genre: Synthpop / Alt-Pop
Label: Cascine

Impure Wilhelmina – Le Sanglot
Genre: Post-Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: Season of Mist

JPEGMAFIA – Experimental Rap
Genre: Experimental Hip Hop / Hardcore Hip Hop
Label: AWAL

Keops – Bitter Story for Humanity
Genre: Groove Metal / Heavy Metal
Label: NoCut

Lowertown – Ugly Duckling Union
Genre: Slacker Rock / Alt-Country
Label: Summer Shade

Maisie Peters – Florescence
Genre: Pop Rock / Folk-Pop
Label: Asylum

Marisa Anderson – The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music
Genre: American Primitivism / Ambient Americana
Label: Thrill Jockey

Marmozets – Co.War.Dice.
Genre: Dance-Punk Revival / New Rave
Label: Nettwerk / Alcopop!

Northborn – Northborn
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Symphonic Metal
Label: Art Gates

Pig – Hurt People Hurt
Genre: Industrial Rock / Electro-Industrial
Label: Metropolis

Requiem in White – The Visible Heaven
Genre: Gothic Rock / Ethereal Wave
Label: The Circle Music

School Fair – Unexpected Violence
Genre: Post-Punk / Slacker Rock
Label: Mutual

Simon Joyner – Tough Love
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Americana
Label: BB*ISLAND

Steep Canyon Rangers – Next Act
Genre: Progressive Bluegrass / Alt-Country
Label: Yep Roc

Thomas Dollbaum – Birds of Paradise
Genre: Alt-Country / Folk Rock
Label: Dear Life

Visible Cloaks – Paradessence
Genre: Ambient / Progressive Electronic
Label: RVNG

Western Addiction – Psychedelic Munitions
Genre: Hardcore Punk / Melodic Hardcore
Label: Fat Wreck


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Comatorium.
05.18.26
Moving to Seattle next weekend. Looks like it’ll be scored by elder and hammock. $30 ounces and magic mushrooms here I come.

Ashtiel
05.18.26
new Elder is on the 29th.

JayEnder
05.18.26
Nothingburger ass week. However, the 29th...

Squiggly
05.18.26
Visible Cloaks, and perhaps Bleachers amd Future Islands, eventually. Inferno week next week. 🔥

RodKneeBrucey
05.19.26
Crash of Rhinos!

ShartHarder
05.19.26
uncs standing up for Dimmo Borgir and Armored Saint

Hawks
05.19.26
DIMMU LFG!!!

henryChinaski
05.19.26
might check Bleachers and 6lack

DungeonBoy
05.22.26
obligatory Dimmu listen incoming today

Dmax28
05.22.26
Melodeath fans check this unknown band Nocturnal Dawn. The new album is really good

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