Theatrical metal kings Avatar take a turn for the darker on new album Hunter Gatherer
Avatar park the theatrics and for a circus of horrors on eighth album Hunter Gatherer
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Selbst’s Relatos De Angustia: black metal anguish meets Jungian psychology
Epic black introspection from the heart of South America from Chile’s Selbst
Shadowy Portuguese cult Gaerea open up a thrilling new black metal front on new album Limbo
Gaerea’s new album establishes them as one of the newest visionaries in metal
Steve Von Till’s No Wilderness Deep Enough: gothic Americana for hardcore insomniacs
Not yet ratedNeurosis man Steve Von Till takes an existential walk on the wild side on new solo album No Wilderness Deep Enough
Dee Snider’s For The Love Of Metal – Live: rock’n’roll’s greatest ringmaster in untouchable form
Twisted Sister legend Dee Snider shows the kids how it’s done on new album For The Love Of Metal Live – and throws in an AC/DC cover too
Zombi’s 2020 is the soundtrack to the greatest sci-fi movie never made
Proto-synthwave wizards Zombi return after five year absence and strike cinematic gold with 2020
Septicflesh’s Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX: orchestral death metal gets its own S&M2
Epic death metallers Septicflesh get the orchestral treatment on new live album Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX
Primal Fear’s Metal Commando: the power metal Jedi Masters return
Power metal warhorses Primal Fear show their class on lucky thirteenth album Metal Commando
Rumahoy’s Time II: Party: pirate metallers’ new album goes better with grog
Scurvy dogs Rumahoy narrowly avoid walking the plank on new album Time II: Party
Metalcore heroes Misery Signals go back to the future on new album Ultraviolet
Misery Signals’ first album with their original line-up in 16 years is a huge leap sideways
Imperial Triumphant’s Alphaville is the sound of metal’s cutting edge being redefined
Masked NYC brain-melters Imperial Triumphant serve up metal/jazz/avant garde/barbershop madness on majestic new album Alphaville
Corpsing’s Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants: UKDM ragers go for the jugular
Corpsing’s new album Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants prove UK death metal is alive and seething
The Acacia Strain chronicle our descent into hell on Slow Decay
US hardcore bruisers The Acacia Strain offer a savage state-of-the-world address on new album Slow Decay
Aleah’s posthumous new album is a spectral reminder of a great lost talent
Magical melancholy from late Tears Of Eternity singer Aleah Starbridge
Destruction’s Born To Thrash: German titans live and feral
Euro thrash warhorses Destruction show no sign of slowing on new live album Born To Thrash
Bush’s new album The Kingdom is a reminder of why they were one of the 90s' biggest bands
Grunge-era superstars Bush show their class on new album The Kingdom
Ensiferum’s Thalassic is the sound of a band still gallantly riding on the wings of folk metal
Finnish folk metallers Ensiferum put fresh wind in their sails with new album Thalassic
Bell Witch And Aerial Ruin’s Stygian Bough Volume 1: where funereal doom and gothic folk collide
Funereal Seattleites Bell Witch renew a fertile partnership with old friend Aerial Ruins on new album Stygian Bough: Volume 1
Saudi Arabian black metallers Al-Namrood wage war from the shadows on new album Wala’at
Al-Namrood’s Wala’at album is the work of true black metal rebels