Connie Gordon

Grind steelers start to wield their own power tools

Glacial, cinematic suffering from Portland’s funeral doom crew

Hardcore punk crew widen their radius of destruction

Bleak but brilliant crust-infused DM from Italian n’erdowells

Gallic heavy rockers find friends in high places

Northern miserablists play fast and loose with the sludge template

Wringing more low-slung mayhem from the Melvins’ larder

Nordic noisemakers career along the sonic spectrum

Belgian grind institution complete their renewal

Supergroup does super work on debut

Death metal greybeards slip off the comeback trail

Small Mercies - New Blood

Rap metal supergroup suffers a power outage

NY’s experimental black metal crew throw in some more shades

NOLA black thrashers ascend to new heights

Grade A carnage from irrepressible grind crew

Finnish underground thrashers rev themselves up to warp speed

Swedeath supergroup lives up to its status

Swedish death metal – it’s in their blood

Denver thrashers try to grasp the irony of their album title

Irrepressible rockers dig up a mound of new dirt

Floridians’ doom debut depresses for all the wrong reason

The heart of crossover’s still beatin’

Oakland upstarts use their debut album to buck orthodoxy