Articles by: Spencer Grady

The best metal albums of 2023 so far

By Rich Hobson published 8 November 23

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

Escuela Grind/Skin Failure/Isafjord/Chuggaboom

5 brilliant new bands you need to check out this month

By Matt Mills published 10 March 23

From Escuela Grind's progressive grindcore to tongue-in-cheek nu metal from Chuggaboom, these are the bands you need to hear this month

Astriferous/Undeath/Scowl/Kaelan Mikla/Vauruva

5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month

By Liz Scarlett published 23 February 23

From Californian hardcore heroes Scowl to Icelandic post-punks Kaelan Mikla and Brazilian black metal brutes Vauruva, these are the 5 new bands you need to check out this month

She Must Burn/Gaupa/Kekht Arakh/I AM/Bizarrekult

5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

By Emily Swingle published 9 January 23

From symphonic deathcore to neogothic Ukrainian black metal, these are the five bands you need to hear this month. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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

The 25 best symphonic metal albums

By Hywel Davies, Malcolm Dome, Eleanor Goodman, Chris Chantler, Connie Gordon, Spencer Grady, Adam Rees, Jonathan Selzer published 17 November 21

From Delain and Devin Townsend to Celtic Frost, Nightwish and Cradle Of Filth, these are the 25 best symphonic metal releases that saw metal embrace its grandiose side

Senyawa’s Alkisah: Indonesian sorcerers put the ‘manic’ into ‘shamanic’

By Spencer Grady published 18 February 21

Experimental metallers Senyawa mix the sublimely strange with the deliberately comic on new album Alkisah

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