Lacuna Coil’s Live From The Apocalypse is the perfect aural antidote to the pandemic By Sophie Maughan Milanese metallers Lacuna Coil make a hard copy of their COVID-busting livestream on Live From The Apocalypse
Hacktivist’s Hyperdialect: the genre-smashing soundtrack to an imaginary revolution By Sophie Maughan Grime metal insurrectionists Hacktivist add more prongs to their attack on new album Hyperdialect
Devil Sold His Soul’s new album Loss is a cinematic triumph over turmoil By Sophie Maughan Cinematic post-hardcore heroes Devil Sold His Soul put a turbulent decade behind them on new album Loss
Love And Death’s Perfectly Preserved: songs of angst and devotion By Sophie Maughan Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch’s other band Love And Death make their long-awaited second coming with new album Perfectly Preserved
Jinjer’s Alive In Melbourne is a sh*t-kicking reminder of how great gigs used to be By Sophie Maughan Tech-metal marauders Jinjer are captured full pre-COVID flight on Alive In Melbourne
DevilDriver’s pulverising Dealing With Demons Vol.1 is a roar in the face of adversity By Sophie Maughan Dez Fafara soundtracks his personal struggles on DevilDriver’s new album Dealing With Demons Vol. 1
Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters By Sophie Maughan Barcelona voyagers Obsidian Kingdom venture into unexplored territories on new album Meat Machine
Metal all-stars Kill The Lights nail the groove and the glory on debut album The Sinner By Sophie Maughan Ex-Bullet For My Valentine man ‘Moose’ Thomas comes out swinging with Kill The Light’s debut album The Sinner
Currents’ The Way It Ends: an uncompromising yet accessible call to arms By Sophie Maughan Currents’ mix of metalcore, post-hardcore and punk dissonance has never sounded as potent as it does on new album The Way It Ends
10 essential tech metal albums By Sophie Maughan Tech metal is the very definition of order in chaos, and here are 10 albums that prove it
Theraphosa’s Transcendence album is a blackened exploration of the soul By Sophie Maughan French trio Therophosa crank up the dark progressive grooves on new album Transcendence
10 essential Deathcore albums By Sophie Maughan Where hardcore meets death metal you’ll find these 10 throat-shredding deathcore albums
Lacuna Coil - Black Anima: The Milan metallers dig deeper into their dark side By Sophie Maughan Lacuna Coil's new album Black Anima elevates a band already on career-defining form
The 20 Best Lacuna Coil songs of all time By Sophie Maughan We asked, you voted and now the results are in: here, we count down the 20 best Lacuna Coil songs ever recorded
Why Cane Hill have ditched nu metal for their new EP By Sophie Maughan Elijah Witt reveals why Cane Hill have moved away from their nu metal sound for something a little different
New Band Of The Week: The Uncharted By Sophie Maughan How did a bunch of lads from the Cotswolds end up producing this?!
The Algorithm: Compiler Optimization Techniques album review By Sophie Maughan Gallic electro-metaller The Algorithm pushes the dial towards technical ecstasy with Compiler Optimization Techniques
New Band Of The Week: Walking Dead On Broadway By Sophie Maughan Inverting deathcore hallmarks on their heads, Walking Dead On Broadway are injecting some freshness into the formula
The Black Queen – Infinite Games album review By Sophie Maughan Greg Puciato’s synth-driven venture The Black Queen enters a dystopian realm with Infinite Games
Lovebites – Battle Against Damnation album review By Sophie Maughan Japan’s enthralling power metal five-piece Lovebites fire their way to elite status with Battle Against Damnation
Kobra And The Lotus – Prevail II album review By Sophie Maughan Kobra And The Lotus complete a heroic two-part quest
Shields – Life In Exile album review By Sophie Maughan Tech-metalcore upstarts Shields find themselves in the wake of a tragedy
Lacuna Coil at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London - live review By Sophie Maughan Milanese metallers celebrate two decades in style
Letters From The Colony - Vignette album review By Sophie Maughan Expansive Swedes stick their flag in the heavy end of tech
