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
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’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 Not yet rated 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.