Alastair Riddell

Swedish death metal diehards open up new channels to Hell

Eighties-obsessed thrashers break open another pack of Pacers

USBM primitivists resurrect themselves in filth

Grind/sludge grievances from the wrong side of the tracks

Nordic thrashers get roughed up for album number three

Pittsburgh proto-metallers get dizzy on Thin Lizzy

LA black metallers fuse the old school and the immediate

German black metal outfit dig deep into the arcane

Norse black metallers bear the weight of a fallen brother

Visceral thrills and spills direct from the dirty South

Occult rock entity gets fuzzy around the edges

Ukrainian BM veterans experience the triumph of death

Black-thrashers unearth the old-school spirit

Putting the testosterone back into power metal

Fired-up Bolivians offer hails to Satan – and Finland

The true, terrifying sound of modern metal

Black metallers tip their caps to the men who made the genre

Raising the curtain on rabid Bolivian black metal