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MWWB vocalist Jessica Ball explores new sounds with new project Eye's debut Dark Light
Eye's debut album Dark Light sees the Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard vocalist experiment with dreampop, shoegaze and electronica
Big|Brave A Chaos Of Flowers album review: Metal Hammer
Ten years on from their debut album, Canada's Big|Brave are moving far beyond their folk-doom roots with new album A Chaos Of Flowers
The best metal albums of 2023 so far
From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date
4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
French pagan-folksters Skáld, Danish hardcore rabble-rousers Eyes, Aussie animal rights activisits To The Grave and synthwave-laden black metal from Nighted: these are the bands you need to hear in August 2023
20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did
The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career
Brilliant new bands you need to hear right now
Black metal covers of Justin Bieber, gothic post-punk revival and Linkin Park style nu metal from the former guitarist of letlive. - make sure you check out these brilliant new bands this month
7 killer metal albums you might have missed this month
From Kruelty and Demonstealer to Ad Infinitum, nothing,nowhere. and Lana Del Rabies, don't sleep on these brilliant new metal albums
5 brilliant new bands you need to check out this month
From Escuela Grind's progressive grindcore to tongue-in-cheek nu metal from Chuggaboom, these are the bands you need to hear this month
The 50 best metal albums of 2022
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”
Why ex-Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera has reinvented himself as as a noise-rock adventurer
Every Stone Temple Pilots album ranked worst to best
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
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
We examine and rank PJ Harvey's studio collections from worst to best
Every Mogwai album ranked from worst to best
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
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
Baltimore genre-hoppers Turnstile get ready to rhumba with Glow On
The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jacob Bannon’s underground metal collective Umbra Vitae serve up a bombardment of ideas on new album Shadow Of Life
