Holly Wright

Former Kyuss drummer Brant Bjork turns back the clock with Mankind Woman

Finland’s inebriated folk metallers Korpiklaani take a turn for the morose with Kulkija

Progressive Aussie rockers Dead Letter Circus keep their ballast intact

Finland’s schlock rockers Lordi make a tone-deaf return with Sexorcism

Finland’s symphonic metal behemoths take stock

Teutonic metalcore hopefuls fail to get with the times

Swedish conceptualists preview their rock opera

Patched together pirate metallers offer a rum do

Nordic progressive death metallers step back from the brink

Sludge/doom missives direct from the California slums

Southampton’s theatrical punks rise above the horror

Danish desert rockers mine an undertow of artiness

Switzerland’s prog metallers cough up the goods

Leprous are joined by Agent Fresco, Alithia and Astrosaur in a line-up of global proportions!

New Jersey’s prog/psych veterans get their party groove on

The Gospel - live

Italian prog metallers even out their aggression

Dayton, Ohio stoner rockers get (s)toked for the endtimes

German thrashers look closer to home for inspiration

Occult-infused rockers invoke the feelgood vibe

Ambitious five-piece attempt to break the Finnish folk metal mould

Brisbane’s progressive rockers fail to seek out a port in their storm

All-star uprising puts party above politics

Midlands-based riff-wielders fail to leave a trail

Finnish orchestral metallers dial down the extremity