Articles by: Remfry Dedman

The 50 best metal albums of 2022

By Rich Hobson published 26 December 22

From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months

Iggor Cavalera wearing sunglasses and standing against a multi coloured wall

Cavalera Conspiracy’s Iggor Cavalera on one of metal’s big problems: “Sometimes it can be too conservative”

By Remfry Dedman published 30 November 22

Why ex-Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera has reinvented himself as as a noise-rock adventurer

Every Stone Temple Pilots album ranked worst to best

By Remfry Dedman published 3 August 22

Originally fronted by the charismatic Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots were one of the most successful US rock bands of the '90s, and are now enjoying a second act with new vocalist Jeff Gutt. This is their catalogue ranked

Every Pixies album ranked from worst to best

By Remfry Dedman published 6 July 22

From Surfer Rosa to Beneath the Eyrie, we examine this Boston band's back catalogue like some sort of cool forensic scientist

Every PJ Harvey album ranked from worst to best

By Remfry Dedman last updated 21 April 22

Thirty years on from the release of her debut album Dry, we examine and rank PJ Harvey's studio collections from worst to best

Every Mogwai album ranked from worst to best

By Remfry Dedman published 12 April 22

They've delivered a catalogue encompassing 10 albums across the past 25 years, but which Mogwai album rules the roost?

Every Placebo album ranked from worst to best

By Remfry Dedman published 4 April 22

Brian Molko's band have always been proudly out of step with music trends: here is Placebo's catalogue ranked

Turnstile's Glow On: melodic hardcore punk expansionists' most eclectic statement yet

By Remfry Dedman published 24 August 21

Baltimore genre-hoppers Turnstile get ready to rhumba with Glow On

The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics

By Remfry Dedman published 2 March 21

If Tool jammed with Helmet, it would sound like the second album from UK’s hypno-metallers The Hyena Kill

God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 album cover

God Is An Astronaut’s Ghost Tapes #10 is celestial post-rock perfection

By Remfry Dedman published 10 February 21

Enigmatic post-rock travellers God Is An Astronaut hit the cosmic highs on new album Ghost Tapes #10

pg.lost find light in the darkness on cinematic new album Oscillate

By Remfry Dedman published 26 November 20

Scandinavian post-rockers pg.lost wring exponential grace from the gloom on stellar new album Oscillate

Palm Reader’s Sleepless: boundary-pushing brilliance from Brit hardcore mavericks

By Remfry Dedman published 26 November 20

UK heavyweights Palm Reader mark their 10th anniversary with their greatest album yet in the shape of Sleeplesss

Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers

By Remfry Dedman published 8 October 20

Florida’s Bloodbather serve up furious riffs and atonal guitar squeals on terse Silence EP

A.A. Williams’ Forever Blue: bleakness and beauty in one stunning debut album

By Remfry Dedman published 30 June 20

Death gospel visionary A.A. Williams shows metal bands don’t have the monopoly on misery with debut album Forever Blue

Umbra Vitae’s Shadow Of Life: Converge’s Jacob Bannon leads all-star death drive

By Remfry Dedman published 13 June 20

Jacob Bannon’s underground metal collective Umbra Vitae serve up a bombardment of ideas on new album Shadow Of Life

Loathe's I Let It In And It Took Everything: Expansively lavish, furiously heavy and impossible to pigeonhole

By Remfry Dedman last updated 7 February 20

Eclectic Liverpudlian metalcore crew Loathe prove they're one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from the British underground

Review: Fever 333’s Strength In Numb333rs is the first killer album of 2019

By Remfry Dedman published 18 January 19

Jason Aalon Butler rises from the ashes of LetLive with a genre-mashing debut from his new band Fever 333

The Xcerts, Live in London

By Remfry Dedman published 11 December 14

Purveyors of distorted pop begin to show their true potential

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, live

By Remfry Dedman published 21 November 14

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Trickily-titled Texans play breakthrough album in full

ANTEMASQUE, live in London

By Remfry Dedman published 16 October 14

Former At The Drive-In/The Mars Volta duo bring their latest eccentric venture to the capital.