Swallow The Sun's 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki: encapsulating melancholy and might By Adam Rees Finland’s revered miserablists Swallow The Sun hold a majestic commemoration with 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki
Metal heavy hitters collide with DC Comics universe on DC Dark Nights: Death Metal By Adam Rees Mastodon, Chelsea Wolfe, Chino Moreno and more clash on DC Comics’ multiverse-restructuring soundtrack
Red Fang’s Arrows: stoner sultans take a turn for the weird By Adam Rees Portland weirdbears Red Fang tweak the stoner formula on new album Arrows with impressive results
Chris Jericho wants to save this ’80s metal band from obscurity By Adam Rees Never heard of Siren? Fozzy’s Chris Jericho has – and he wants bring their story to the world with a new documentary
Gifts for music lovers 2021: Earth-shaking presents for rock and metal fans By Adam Rees, Louder UPDATED Looking to pick up a gift for a rock or metal fan? Then look no further, as we've hand-picked some of our favourite items: From vinyl and puzzles, to speakers, headphones and more
Soilwork’s A Whisp Of The Atlantic: melodeath masters take an epic prog detour By Adam Rees Soilwork extend their winning streak on new album-length EP A Whisp Of The Atlantic
Hatebreed’s Weight Of The False Self: bulldozing optimism from hardcore’s moshpit kings By Adam Rees It wasn’t broken, so Hatebreed haven’t fixed it on new album Weight Of The False Self
10 unreleased songs by major metal bands we want to hear right now By Adam Rees We demand Metallica, Slipknot, Slayer and more open up the vaults and let the public hear these lost treasures
10 killer videos of bands playing gigs in Halloween costumes By Adam Rees Limp Bizkit as Guns N’ Roses? James Hetfield as Elvis? Pantera as Kiss? This is how your favourite stars celebrate Halloween
10 songs you’ll never believe Korn have covered By Adam Rees Sepultura, Radiohead, Poison – Korn are masters of the unexpected cover version, and here’s proof
Devin Townsend’s Order Of Magnitude: prog-metal’s greatest showman in full flight on epic live album By Adam Rees Devin Townsend brings the Hawaiian shirts and escapism on effervescent new live album Order Of Magnitude: Empath – Vol. 1
Every Sepultura album ranked from worst to best By Adam Rees The hits, the misses, the buried treasures – this is Sepultura’s mighty back catalogue arranged in order of greatness
Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries By Adam Rees Prog-metal kings Enslaved soar as high as ever on 14th album Utgard
Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses By Adam Rees Time and a global pandemic cannot wither Canadian veterans Kataklysm on their 14th album Unconquered
Cult Of Lilith open up a new tech-death frontier on stellar debut album Mara By Adam Rees Icelandic debutants Cult Of Lilith rip up the tech death rulebook with debut album Mara
10 essential nu core bands you need to hear right now By Adam Rees Call it nu core, call it The New Wave Of Nu Metal, but this is the most exciting sound of 2020. From Guerrilla Warfare to Tallah these are the bands you need to hear
The best Metallica merch 2020: amazing gifts for the Metallica fan in your life By Adam Rees The best Metallica merch you can buy in 2020, from S&M2 box sets and whiskey to Hetfield guitars and luxury watches
10 times metal hit the headlines for the wrong reasons By Adam Rees The mainstream media doesn’t bother with metal very often. And when it does, it’s usually for a really crazy reason
Septicflesh’s Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX: orchestral death metal gets its own S&M2 By Adam Rees Epic death metallers Septicflesh get the orchestral treatment on new live album Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX
The Top 20 best Corey Taylor cover versions By Adam Rees Metal, rock, country, kids’ cartoon themes – there’s literally nothing Corey Taylor won’t cover
Destruction’s Born To Thrash: German titans live and feral By Adam Rees Euro thrash warhorses Destruction show no sign of slowing on new live album Born To Thrash
The Best Funko Pop! Rocks figures 2021: Collect your musical heroes By Adam Rees UPDATED Funko figures always make a great gift or personal treat – and rock and metal are well catered for in their Pop! Rocks range. Here are some of our favourites
Aversions Crown conjure apocalyptic fury on new album Hell Will Come For Us All By Adam Rees Aussie bruisers Aversions Crown raise their game even further on fourth album Hell Will Come For Us All
The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal: where are they now? By Adam Rees Shadows Fall? Bleeding Through? Unearth? Whatever happened to the bands behind the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal?
