Connie Gordon

Doom/death pioneers come back from the grave

Street metal vets can still get it up to drink, fight and fuck

LA shape-shifters take the scenic route through the sewers

Re-jigged Swedeath dealers prove that life goes on

Masterful misanthropy from the north east US badlands

Grind provocateurs search for the Ace in their pack

Grindcore superheroes live up to advance billing

Noise rockers set a new gold standard with fourth full-length

Irish thrashers extol the joys of arrested development

Heavy metal as you know it – and have never heard it before

Boston’s hardcore hurricane marks a quarter century

Experimental Texans tune in to some resonant evil

US noise collective expand their angst

Canada’s chaotic grind misfits mutate once more

Manchester madmen muddy up their blackened grind

Single-minded crossover crew lose their sense of direction

German death metal crew go in search of some Sunlight

Death metal’s dirtiest sons find themselves on the skids

Norse duo thrash from birth, will thrash ’til death

Emotional industrialism, direct from the irradiated wastelands

Kentucky punk crew put their faith in the post

Miami grindcore maulers edge towards greatness

Well connected Brooklyn alt-doom quintet fizzle out

Swedish doom monoliths still dragging slabs across the desert

Grind/death adepts brew up a new batch of brutality