Toby Cook

Lysergic rites from Northern Italy’s shadowy outposts

Psych-horror heroes peel back some layers

Virginian doom crew get caught napping

Avant-dronelords move up the social ladder

Capital offenders fail to rustle up some outrage

East Coast hardcore mob more a pity party than pit-worthy

A claustrophobic and colossal ode to the man-made endtimes

NOLA sludgers return to the scene of the grime

Eclectic Arizonians find cohesion through confusion

Heavy-hitting two-piece stick to the guidebook

A Satanic lesbian vampire apocalypse – what’s not to love?

What did we learn at Bristol's heaviest weekend?

Danish Wild West lovers prove to be the wrong kind of cowboys

Amebix and Voivod heroes combine their crusty forces

Funeral doom duo give way to more majestic mourning

Aussie maniacs take thrash back to the wild

Resurrected doom legends broadcast their past

Sludge-ridden Londoners launch a new attack

Exploratory post-metallers find themselves stuck on the same path

Nordic punk metallers chart some highs but mostly lows

Seattle grind collective fail to surpass their pedigree

German sludge crew still wading in the tracks of their heroes

Brummie sludge crew invoke it like they smoke it

Support: Sex Swing, Henge

Devotional duo take the scenic route on album number six