It's real highs and lows in the news for rock music this week, with incredibly exciting reveals from Disfear and Repugnant, the 2027 line-up announcements from Slam Dunk and ArcTanGent, but also the news of Enter Shikari's incoming hiatus and the mountain-moving loss of Venom's Cronos, the forefather of extreme metal without whom our world is unthinkable.

Releases:
Amon Amarth - The Allfather Awakens
Twin Atlantic - Separation from the Animals
Imminence - Axis Mundi
Escape the Fate - The Last Goodbye
Miss May I - No Place for Me
To the Grave - LIBERATION FRONT
Haywire 617 - I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye
Cyadine - Violence In Measure
Bobbie Dazzle - Star Power
Haunt - Setting Course
Asomvel - Set Your World On Fire
Hippotraktor - Annihilist
Dissimulator - Artifice Dissolves
Deconsekrated - The Inexorable Transcendence of Death
Spirit Possession - Cathedral Speech
Xasthur - Open to Misinterpretation
From First to Last - We Were Bleeding Anyway
The Crawling - What We Leave Behind
Swans - Newly Sentient Being