Toby Cook

Portland’s despondent duo The Body find a new mode of misery to share

Cult folk and black metal artists form a grave alliance

Pulverising riff-worship from the meaner streets of NYC

American atmospheric headbangers plot a familiar course

Orgiastic Austrians prove in need of some pep pills

Nihilistic noisemakers step it up for their second dance

Chicago post-rockers set sail after the wind’s died down

Dorset doomlords set out on the road to reinvention

Accessible doom/fuzz with a slight whiff of teen spirit

US grind agitators fight the horrors of hipsterville

Efficient racket-making from the Arctic Circle

Resurrected NYHC crew refuse to rely on the template

Sweden’s black/thrash maniacs rally the troops

Finnish space metal collective flood the senses

Sweden’s post-metal maestros take the visual high road

Singapore grind crew start a panic at the disco

Antipodean noise-rock that’s determined to start a buzz

Scandic crust warriors clamber to the summit

Elemental icons Neurosis span 30 years of deliverance, live in London. Support from Earth, Discharge and Subhumans

Surreal racket-makers Terminal Cheesecake add gloom to their loom

Psychedelic voyagers 11 Paranoias turn up the warped factor with new album

Windy City jokers Oozing Wound show off some serious songwriting chops with new album