The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II album is the conclusion to an epic four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of Ocean’s history of the Earth
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Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
Ayreon’s epic Transitus is the missing link between prog metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber – with added Doctor Who
You won’t hear another album like Anna von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly this year
Swedish visionary Anna von Hausswolff makes the year’s strangest and most beguiling album with All Thoughts Fly
Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses
Time and a global pandemic cannot wither Canadian veterans Kataklysm on their 14th album Unconquered
Heathen’s Empire Of The Blind: never write an old school Bay Area thrash band off
Bay Area thrash originals Heathen triumph over adversity on new album Empire Of The Blind
Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands
Prog-metal, unhinged fuzz punk and left-field covers collide on Mastodon’s sprawling new compilation Medium Rarities
Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album
O.G. folk metal fiends Finntroll make their long-awaited return with Vredesvävd. To the forest!
Deftones have made a record for every kind of Deftones fan with Ohms
Alt-metal adventurers Deftones take a journey through their own past with new album Ohms
Pain Of Salvation’s Panther is the sound of 21st century prog metal at its brooding best
Swedish prog metallers Pain Of Salvation push their shapeshifting vision to new heights on Panther
Napalm Death’s Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism: grind kings return triumphant
Underground icons Napalm Death rise and grind for the 16th time on new album Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Cult Of Lilith open up a new tech-death frontier on stellar debut album Mara
Icelandic debutants Cult Of Lilith rip up the tech death rulebook with debut album Mara
Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why?
Zakk Wylde goes full fanboy on fun but pointless rerun of Black Sabbath’s debut album
Skeletal Remains’ The Entombment Of Chaos: old school death metal for a new generation
Skeletal Remains serve up death metal brutality without the nostalgia on new album The Entombment Of Chaos
Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: The God Of F*ck gives his demons free rein
Marilyn Manson has released his new album We Are Chaos – and here's our verdict
Code Orange’s Under The Skin: modern metal visionaries redraw the boundaries again
Code Orange’s stripped-down new live album Under The Skin is MTV Unplugged for the lockdown era
Ulver’s Flowers Of Evil: a dark journey into danceable decadence
Post-black metal adventurers Ulver head deeper into 80s pop nirvana on Flowers Of Evil
Oceans Of Slumber’s stellar new album is a turbulent masterpiece for our times
Oceans Of Slumber’s self-titled new album is an epic statement of intent from one of modern metal’s brightest hopes
Backxwash’s God Has Nothing To Do With This… is the most important album of 2020
Backxwash delivers thrilling trap metal dispatches from the battlegrounds of self-identity on debut album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
