Latest articles by Connie Gordon
Review: Ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato digs deep into his psych on Mirrorcell
Greg Puciato takes a dizzying tour through his interior world on his second solo album, Mirrorcell
Voivod's Synchro Anarchy: "another essential listen in the long line of essential listens Voivod have delivered since 1983"
Prog thrashers Voivod continue to unearth new elements on their 15th studio album, Synchro Anarchy
The Story Behind The Song: Melvins' Honey Bucket
“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
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"
Filth is Eternal: caustic hardcore from the band formerly known as F***ed and Bound
10 obscure post-metal bands that should be huge
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sludge metal supergroup Old Man Gloom return from the shadows
1994: The albums that changed the world
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
German duo Mantar add more oxygen to the flames with The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze
Axegrinder – Satori album review
UK crustpunks Axegrinder dust themselves down after a 30-year hiatus with Satori
Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation
Lee Dorrian rounds up a crew of 80s hardcore punk obsessives for Septic Tank
Ministry - AmeriKKKant album review
Mad Uncle Al Jourgensen resurrects his outlaw industrial harbingers
Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore album review
Ephel Duath frontman leads a roll call of experimental extremity
Primal Rite - Dirge Of Escapism album review
Bay Area crossover crew battle against the knobs
Marginal - Total Destruction album review
Belgian grind crew keep churning up the beaten track
