Voivod's Synchro Anarchy: "another essential listen in the long line of essential listens Voivod have delivered since 1983" By Connie Gordon published 10 February 22 Prog thrashers Voivod continue to unearth new elements on their 15th studio album, Synchro Anarchy
The Story Behind The Song: Melvins' Honey Bucket By Connie Gordon published 2 January 22 “If Captain Beefheart was a metal band, it’d sound like this” - how endorsement by Kurt Cobain helped Melvins' Honey Bucket become an unlikely mainstream hit
The 25 best symphonic metal albums By Hywel Davies, Malcolm Dome, Eleanor Goodman, Chris Chantler, Connie Gordon, Spencer Grady, Adam Rees, Jonathan Selzer published 17 November 21 From Delain and Devin Townsend to Celtic Frost, Nightwish and Cradle Of Filth, these are the 25 best symphonic metal releases that saw metal embrace its grandiose side
Filth Is Eternal: "We lost a tour because people objected to our old name" By Connie Gordon published 22 September 21 Filth is Eternal: caustic hardcore from the band formerly known as F***ed and Bound
10 obscure post-metal bands that should be huge By Connie Gordon published 2 July 21 We dig out the obscure but brilliant post-metal bands lurking in the shadows
Sex, death, isolation and art-rock weirdness? Årabrot’s Norwegian Gothic has them covered By Connie Gordon published 8 April 21 Noise rock surrealists Årabrot are still orbiting a planet of their own on new album Norwegian Gothic
Melvins’ Working With God: more sonic insanity from rock’s kings of absurdism By Connie Gordon published 24 February 21 Surf rock, twisted pop, unhinged doo wop – it’s business as usual in the demented world of Melvins
Aspyhx’s Necroceros album: cult death metal overlords in world-eating form By Connie Gordon published 21 January 21 Dutch veterans Asphyx serve up a tour de force of speed, sludge, riffs and sly humour with first album in five years
Sodom’s Genesis XIX: thrash veterans strip away the fuss – and the thrills By Connie Gordon published 25 November 20 Euro-thrash mainstays Sodom go back to their roots on new album Genesis XIX with mixed results
Macabre’s Carnival Of Killers: the kings of murder-metal reclaim their crown By Connie Gordon published 12 November 20 Serial killer-obsessed sickos Macabre return from their slumber on new album Carnival Of Killers
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou’s May Our Chambers Be Full is the perfect marriage of the grime and the sublime By Connie Gordon published 7 October 20 Post-rock chameleon Emma Ruth Rundle and sludge metal boundary-pushers Thou team up on brilliant left-field collaboration
Old Man Gloom’s Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning: a towering tribute to a fallen comrade By Connie Gordon published 3 June 20 Sludge metal supergroup Old Man Gloom return from the shadows
1994: The albums that changed the world By Chris Chantler, Alex Chillingworth, Ali Cooper, Connie Gordon, Stephen Hill, Dom Lawson, Dannii Leivers, Matt Mills, Dayal Paterson, Jonathan Selzer, Jon Wiederhorn published 24 August 19 1994 was the year when metal came of age, bands twisting heavy music into new forms that would echo through the ages. We take a look back at the year's essential releases
Mantar – The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze album review By Connie Gordon published 28 August 18 German duo Mantar add more oxygen to the flames with The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze
Axegrinder – Satori album review By Connie Gordon published 10 August 18 UK crustpunks Axegrinder dust themselves down after a 30-year hiatus with Satori
Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation By Connie Gordon published 13 April 18 Lee Dorrian rounds up a crew of 80s hardcore punk obsessives for Septic Tank
Ministry - AmeriKKKant album review By Connie Gordon published 4 March 18 Mad Uncle Al Jourgensen resurrects his outlaw industrial harbingers
Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore album review By Connie Gordon published 4 February 18 Ephel Duath frontman leads a roll call of experimental extremity
Primal Rite - Dirge Of Escapism album review By Connie Gordon published 4 February 18 Bay Area crossover crew battle against the knobs
Marginal - Total Destruction album review By Connie Gordon published 4 January 18 Belgian grind crew keep churning up the beaten track
Autopsy - Puncturing The Grotesque album review By Connie Gordon published 4 January 18 Classic death metal battery from Bay Area veterans
Gnaw - Cutting Pieces album review By Connie Gordon published 8 December 17 Seasoned sonic assaulters reveal more madness than method
Friendship - Hatred album review By Connie Gordon published 8 December 17 Japan’s shadowy noise outfit find multiple ways to mangle
Nuisance Of Majority - Savage Ritual album review By Connie Gordon published 6 November 17 German noise-makers kick several shades of shit out of the speakers
Complete Failure - Crossburner album review By Connie Gordon published 5 November 17 Grind steelers start to wield their own power tools