Jason Hicks

Former black metallers reach for the opposite end of the spectrum

Melodeath mavens reassemble on solid ground

Tortured Texans Seeker unleash a crust/thrash onslaught with new album

US metal mavens form an unlikely alliance as Serpentine Dominion. Read our album review here...

German melodeath crew Heaven Shall Burn bring in some star quality with new album

Futuristic death metal technicians Allegaeon prove very few shocks with new album

Desert rock documentary Lo Sound Desert finds deep undercurrents

British melodeath crew Countless Skies find moments of glory in the gloom. Read our album review here.

San Diego deathcore crew Carnifex keep blades sharp with new album

Death/thrash stalwarts Revocation dial up the debauchery on new album

French fable-tellers Blood Ages fall short of the fantastic on new album

Whitechapel are proving that deathcore is still alive, and kicking, with their new album

Genre-mashing Germans undergo some Weltschmerz

Colorado’s groove metal crew Arise In Chaos get too fixated on the formula

Lincolnshire mob Anti-Clone offer a new take on the nu metal template

Over-important alt-metal from LA’s veteran aggressors

Dutch melodic heavyweights hit a plateau

Midlands metallers craft an eclectic, exhilarating opus

South coast doom unit progress through the ranks

Bordeaux’s stoner rockers start to run out of steam

Wildly unoriginal rumblings from the lakefronts of Wisconsin

Finnish thrashers break away from the herd

Perth’s death metal prodigies storm into pole position

Fast-rising Floridian hardcore crew turn up the heat