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Week of 05/15/2026

A Static Lullaby: ...And Don't Forget To Breathe (Live); (Smartpunk Records)

Acid Reign: Daze Of The Week; (Back On Black)

Advent Horizon: Falling Together; (Advent Horizon)

alt.: Nevermore; (Resist Records/SharpTone Records)

Antimozdebeast: The Vagrant Unkempt Grave; (N/A)

Arroganz: Death Doom Punks; (Testimony Records)

Artillery: Made In Hell; (Mighty Music)

Borknagar: True North (Vinyl); (Season Of Mist)

Crematory: Greatest Hits: English Hymns & Deutsche Hymnen; (ROAR)

Crown Lands: Apocalypse; (InsideOutMusic)

Crown The Beast: Judgement; (Emanzipation Productions)

Dead Pony: Eat My Dust!; (Dead Pony)

DeadWax: Nu-K; (DeadWax)

Defect Designer: Depressants; (Transcending Obscurity Records)

Desiccation: Legatum Mortuorum; (Carbonized Records)

Dispraised: Dispraised; (Thumper Punk Records)

Dromos: Failing Light; (Argonauta Records)

Drosera: Outlier; (Lambgoat Records)

Exhumed + Iron Reagan: Split (Vinyl Reissue); (Tankcrimes)

Faded Remembrance: The Blessing Of A Downfall; (Bitume Prods)

Frozen Sand: Fractals: A Shadow Out Of Lights; (N/A)

Gabi And The Fly: Initiation Of Decay; (N/A)

Gozu: Gozu VI; (Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records)

Gravery: Purified In Blood; (Upstate Records)

Greyhawk: Call Of The Hawk / Ride Out; (Nameless Grave Records)

Heavenfall: Thorn; (Rockshots Records)

Held.: GREY; (MNRK Heavy)

Inthraced: Constellation Zero; (Inverse Records)

Intrusive: Die On That Hill; (Static Era Records)

Jungle Rot: Cruel Face Of War; (Unique Leader Records)

Krushya: DooMinion; (Krushya)

Louder: Devil's Night; (Fighter Records)

Mad Honey: Bridge Over Cumberland; (Deathwish Inc. / Sunday Drive Records)

Makkmat: Syke Fantasier; (N/A)

Maximum Robot: Away With The Fairies; (Epictronic Records)

Molosser: Molosser; (Gutter Prince Cabal)

My Heart, An Inverted Flame: My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life; (Crucial Blast)

New Idea Society: Fire On The Hill; (Relapse Records)

Noosed: Misery; (Road To Masochist)

Orphan Donor: Ailments; (Zegema beach Records)

Paradise Lost: Gothic (35th Anniversary Edition); (Peaceville)

Periphery: A Pale White Dot; (3DOT Recordings)

Port Noir: The Dark We Keep; (InsideOutMusic)

Primus: A Handful Of Nuggs; (Prawn Song/ATO Records)

Pro-Pain: Stone Cold Anger; (Napalm Records)

Profaned: The Human Condition; (N/A)

Revenge Ritual: Arbitrary Punishment; (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

Rhododendron: Ascent Effort; (The Flenser)

Rotting Christ: Der Perfekte Traum (Vinyl); (Season Of Mist)

Self Deception: One Of Us; (Napalm Records)

Slayer: Hell Awaits (40th Anniversary); (Metal Blade Records)

SPLIT: A Thousand Reflections; (Prime Collective)

Sum Of Seven: Echoes Of The Hypermind; (Inverse Records)

The Ghoulstars: The Dark Overlords Of The Universe; (Season Of Mist)

Tyrannus: Mournhold; (True Cult Records)

Valor: Ark Of Time; (N/A)

Van Halen: 1984 (Vinyl/SACD); (MoFi)

Violent Playground: Thrashin' Blues (Reissue); (N/A)

Von Groove: Born To Rock; (Frontiers Music Srl)

THEPRP TAG ARCHIVE

Archive for Kurt Ballou

Baptists Reveal Plans For Next Album

Baptists Reveal Plans For Next Album Mar 1st, 2017 - 8:39am

Full Of Hell Detail New Album "Trumpeting Ecstasy"

Full Of Hell Detail New Album "Trumpeting Ecstasy" Feb 21st, 2017 - 9:41am

SECT (Fall Out Boy, Earth Crisis, Ex-Cursed, Etc.) Sign With Southern Lord

SECT (Fall Out Boy, Earth Crisis, Ex-Cursed, Etc.) Sign With Southern Lord Feb 15th, 2017 - 11:25am

Vallenfyre Begin Recording New Album With Kurt Ballou

Vallenfyre Begin Recording New Album With Kurt Ballou Jan 18th, 2017 - 12:42pm

Darkest Hour Release Second "Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora" Studio Video

Darkest Hour Release Second "Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora" Studio Video Jan 11th, 2017 - 12:53pm

Darkest Hour Release First "Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora" Studio Webisode

Darkest Hour Release First "Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora" Studio Webisode Jan 4th, 2017 - 11:33am

Darkest Hour Reveal New Album & Tour With Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Tombs, Etc.

Darkest Hour Reveal New Album & Tour With Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Tombs, Etc. Dec 13th, 2016 - 12:43pm

Here's What Converge Guitarist Kurt Ballou's Distortion Pedal Business Card Sounds Like When Built

Here's What Converge Guitarist Kurt Ballou's Distortion Pedal Business Card Sounds Like When Built Dec 7th, 2016 - 9:47am

Converge Guitarist Kurt Ballou's Business Card Is A Schematic For An Actual Distortion Pedal

Converge Guitarist Kurt Ballou's Business Card Is A Schematic For An Actual Distortion Pedal Nov 26th, 2016 - 12:11pm

Converge's Jacob Bannon To Guest On New Burn Album

Converge's Jacob Bannon To Guest On New Burn Album Nov 10th, 2016 - 10:37pm

Iron Reagan Detail New Album "Crossover Ministry"

Iron Reagan Detail New Album "Crossover Ministry" Nov 7th, 2016 - 10:22am

Watch Mutoid Man (Cave In/Converge) Play A Bunch Of New Songs Live

Watch Mutoid Man (Cave In/Converge) Play A Bunch Of New Songs Live Nov 2nd, 2016 - 3:04pm

Burn Enter The Studio With Converge's Kurt Ballou

Burn Enter The Studio With Converge's Kurt Ballou Nov 1st, 2016 - 1:55pm

Code Orange Detail New Album "Forever"

Code Orange Detail New Album "Forever" Oct 31st, 2016 - 9:20am

Code Orange Debut Video For New Song "Forever", New Album Due In Early 2017 (Updated)

Code Orange Debut Video For New Song "Forever", New Album Due In Early 2017 (Updated) Oct 31st, 2016 - 8:18am

Mutoid Man (CaveIn/Converge, Etc.) Recording New Album

Mutoid Man (CaveIn/Converge, Etc.) Recording New Album Oct 15th, 2016 - 10:56am

Darkest Hour Finish Recording New Album

Darkest Hour Finish Recording New Album Oct 6th, 2016 - 2:59pm

Darkest Hour Recording New Album With Kurt Ballou, Kris Norris To Guest

Darkest Hour Recording New Album With Kurt Ballou, Kris Norris To Guest Sep 13th, 2016 - 9:04am

Gatecreeper Debut "Craving Flesh", New Album Due In October Aug 2nd, 2016 - 1:19pm

Trap Them Detail New Album "Crown Feral"

Trap Them Detail New Album "Crown Feral" Aug 2nd, 2016 - 11:20am