Edwin McFee

Black metal individualists lack a bit of individuality

Orchestral black metal to – where else – the max

Veteran black metallers reach the recesses of the underworld

New Jersey’s space lords enter another parallel universe

Savannah psych/sludge crew dive further down the rabbit hole

Greece’s metal overlords have a humongous homecoming

Cult rockers undergo a shift of allegiance

Norwegian punk’n’roll posse hone their (Kvel)attack

Converge and Cave-In members find new ways to crush

Norway’s epic metallers find new territories to conquer

Irish folk metal crusaders get back to their roots

Eighties-bothering Spaniards find new tricks up their sleeves

Former Arch Enemy guitarist retunes his roots

Candlelight

India’s symphonic metallers move out of the darkness

Liverpudlian thrashers get by with a little help from their friends

Semimal Swedes get down with the crowd

Finland’s modern thrashers continue to evolve

Sweden’s heavy metal diehards have a devil of a time

Conceptual occult hymn duo experience highs and lows

Sky raising riffs from former Taint frontman

Alt-metal heroes unearth two classics

US death metallers start to reach outside the box

Toronto’s trad metal warriors hit new heights

Sorrowful Swedes apply string theory to Dead End Kings