Sophie Maughan

Eco-conscious Australians return with a heavy heart

Posi-beatdown deliverers prove less than revelatory

New York City supergroup fail to make a timely political point

Canadian rockers prove that they’re in for the long haul

Nu metal bastions bridge the old and the new

Gallic prog-metallers add a heavy twist to their tale

North Carolina alt-rockers go off on a daring detour

Brutal Belgians unleash more multi-textured, math mayhem

Massachusetts deathcore merchants ring more changes

Melbourne marauders continue to take all the right left turns

UK melodic hardcrew crew prepare to tackle the big leagues

Expansive, electro-tinged French crew splay out their stall

UK heavyweights Architects unleash the power and the poignancy live in Birmingham, with support from Bury Tomorrow and Stick To Your Guns

Maryland’s progressive rockers Megosh get themselves a poppy sheen with new album

Illinois nu industrial crew Dope return fully charged with new album

Stockholm’s sleaze rockers hone their hard edge

London-based tech metallers Exist Immortal come good on their promise with new album

Mid-west rock quintet attempt to outrun their influences

Denmark’s emotive rockers expand their palette

Fired up Seattleites To The Wind provide quality, as well as quantity, with new album

Fired up Seattleites provide quality as well as quantity

Former Of Mice & Men frontman comes clean

Eclectic Swedish sextet Amaranthe continue to over-stir the pot with new album

Canadian metallers The Agonist commit themselves to picking up the pace with new album, reviewed here

Industrial-goth metallers prepare to step out of the shadows