Toby Cook

Further proof that Liverpool is actually the gateway to Hell

Torche mainman resurrects his former, elevated sludge glories

Texan rockers leave their mark in the sludge/psych slipstream

Sabbath-infused veterans keep climbing the same path

Helsinki’s Nietzschean visionaries prove not so super

Eluveitie and Manes members lose it in the lab

Scandic alt-metallers stay in good musical company

Progressive metal maestro makes a dazzling return

Norways’s Sabbath-devotees broaden their scope

German doom pilgrims traverse the earthly and the astral

Neurosis/Eyehategod members reach the heights of despair

Dave Wyndorf recharges his rocket

Neurosis’s former retina-scorcher zeros in on the world’s end

Fuzzed‐up alt‐rockers surge forth from the wreckage

Weighty post-metallers draw up a new set of plans

Fearless crust warriors take on a few more layers

Former Unida members lay down their gonzoid groove

Jazz-metal mavericks tone down the mayhem

Norwegian crustpunks revel in damage and defiance

Nordic punk mayhem with two hands on the wheel

Thrash as it’s meant to be from men at the heart of the scene

Belgian post-sludgers get under the skin

Are you scared to get fucking miserable? You should be

Reignited rockers blast out a live DVD

Oceanic heaviosity from scandic stoner-rock voyagers