Edwin McFee

Sweden’s blackened speed demons recalibrate their engines

Glasgow’s psychogeographers Headless Kross chart new maps of doom with new album

Sweden’s melodeath pioneers Pagandom fail to regain pole position on new album

Multifarious Norwegians Dreamarcher hurtle out of the shadows with new album

Thrash masters Testament pull some iron out of the fire for new album, reviewed here...

Finnish voyagers Insomnium embark on a single-track epic

Nick Oliveri unearths his post-Kyuss treasure trove, reviewed here

Cranium-crushing transmissions from Slomatics' new album

Maryland’s rockers Beelzefuzz return without all their faculties for new album

Roving retro-metallers Castle get emboldened by The Beast with new album

Venusian rockers Valient Thorr rearrange their DNA on new album

Underground luminaries Herder look back on the apocalypse on their new album

Corby bruisers Raging Speedhorne return to the brawl

Attalla bring harsh but high-grade stoner rock, from the wild lands of Wisconsin, with new album

High-pedigree punk metallers 100 Years fail to lay their foundations

Sci-fi fans reprogram the thrash co-ordinates

The Wretched End return from the wilderness with new album

Finnish doom crew find new realms of darkness to explore

Atmospheric morbidity from the dark heart of Ireland

Bloodthirsty Belgians divert from the gore

Expansive Catalonian gloomsters earn their stripes

Wigan’s riff-warriors pass beyond their green stage

South London’s stoner-doom survivors light up a rocket

Progressive metallers power through their second decade

Ireland’s veteran doom/death crew make an evolutionary leap