Here are the best new metal bands you need to hear this month By Merlin Alderslade published 14 December 23 From Skyrim-inspired nu-industrial noise to happy-go-lucky black metal (wait, what?!), here are some of the best new metal bands we've found for you this month
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
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
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
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
