Liam Yates

Denver’s doom-weighted heavy metallers Khemmis move up another level with Desolation

Progressive, esoteric invocations from NY’s blackened borough

Canada’s 70s-styled retro rockers fire up their furnaces

Mystical black metal minimalism from the Canadian enclaves

German savages bring some clarity to their cacophony

Finland’s psych visionaries pass the acid test

Tchort’s newest black metal blastfest sticks to safe ground

Uppsala’s blackened death dealers sharpen their dark art

Southern US occult metallers still seeking their own left-hand path

Berlin’s hirsute retro-rockers get down and get high

Soul-choking black/death dynamics from a shadowy Spanish sect

Swedish masters of steel fire on all cylinders

Seventies-obsessed Swedes prove they’re the reel thing

Primitive yet precise battery from Satan’s Texan wing

Sun-kissed stoner psych from the spawn of Tony Hawk

Death metal brutality with true, old-school determination

Sweden’s atmospheric merchants of death refine their fury

Small Mercies - New Blood

NWOBHM originals make their way to the modern age

True doom adepts look to the real world for inspiration

Fearsome Finns refine their death metal murk

Atmospheric black metallers scale the heights of the Icelandic scene

Electric Wizard drummer hits back on familiar ground

Sweden’s proto-metal protagonists wind up their clocks

Italian garage occultists cast a proto-metal spell