Swallow The Sun's 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki: encapsulating melancholy and might
Finland’s revered miserablists Swallow The Sun hold a majestic commemoration with 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki
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King Woman's Celestial Blues: from understated elegance to skull-rattling thunderclap
San Francisco’s atmospheric doom voyagers King Woman extend their singular vision with second album Celestial Blues
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Dee Snider's fifth solo album Leave A Scar is a healthy dose of PMA from the PMRC-bashing metal legend
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Powerwolf's eighth album Call Of The Wild is chock-full of epic trademark tales and long-toothed fiends
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At The Gates' The Nightmare Of Being: the melodic death pioneers get weird
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Belgium’s post-metal missionaries take a new route to salvation
Lacuna Coil’s Live From The Apocalypse is the perfect aural antidote to the pandemic
Milanese metallers Lacuna Coil make a hard copy of their COVID-busting livestream on Live From The Apocalypse
Beartooth’s Below: gnarly noise meets life-affirming anthems
Caleb Shomo turns darkness into catharsis on Beartooth’s most brutal album yet
Bossk take post-metal to bleak new peaks on new album Migration
Post-metal is safe in the hands of UK experimentalists Bossk if their new album Migration is any measure
Helloween’s Helloween: power metal kings expand and conquer on new album
Helloween’s past meets their present on dazzling self-titled ‘reunion’ album
Hacktivist’s Hyperdialect: the genre-smashing soundtrack to an imaginary revolution
Grime metal insurrectionists Hacktivist add more prongs to their attack on new album Hyperdialect
Fear Factory’s Aggression Continuum: an industrial-metal triumph over human malfunction
Kiss kick off their archive live series with a die-hard fan's delight
Out now: short-lived Kiss line-up captured live in Japan on Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001
Go Ahead And Die’s Go Ahead And Die: Max Cavalera keeps it in the family
Max Cavalera teams up with son Igor Amadeus for Go Ahead And Die’s impressively brutal debut album album
Red Fang’s Arrows: stoner sultans take a turn for the weird
Portland weirdbears Red Fang tweak the stoner formula on new album Arrows with impressive results
Atreyu’s Baptize: a post-metalcore adrenaline rush that wears off quickly
Metalcore pioneers Atreyu gain star power but lose their spark on new album Baptize
Rise Against’s Nowhere Generation: agit-punk warriors hit another energy spike
Nine albums in and Rise Against’s spirit hasn’t dented an inch if Nowhere Generation is anything to go by
