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Bleed From Within just played the biggest show of their lives and pulled out all the stops
Bleed From Within hit a new apex at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum, where they were backed up by special guests, bagpipe players and an uber-passionate audience
Looking for the best thrash metal album of 2025? Testament have your back with Para Bellum
40 years in, Testament are still doing it louder and better than most bands that arrived in their wake
We're not sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was
Surely a Download Festival headline set is on the cards after this?!
Ozzy: No Escape From Now is an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
Though it’s sometimes slapdash, Paramount Plus’s two-hour documentary offers impressive insight into the Prince Of Darkness’ late-life struggles
Can Vimic's Open Your Omens live up to Joey Jordison's legacy?
Almost a decade since Vimic first released music, their debut album Open Your Omen is finally here
If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it this one
Orbit Culture return with yet more evidence of why they're one of the best bands in the current European metal scene
Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
The California four-piece offer another platter of soulful rock’n’roll that bucks trends and plucks heartstrings
Debut albums as complete, impactful, and thrilling as Something To Consume are vanishingly rare. Die Spitz could be your life
White-hot Austin, Texas ragers Die Spitz deliver scorching debut for Jack White's Third Man Records
President King Of Terrors: Can metal's most hyped newcomers live up to the buzz?
A masked, mysterious band taking the metal world by storm? We're getting major deja vu...
"Musical insanity comes in many forms. Igorrr are attempting them all at once."
Avant-garde maniacs Igorrr are breaking brains with a little help from Mr. Bungle's Trey Spruance
Paradise Lost Ascension review: The godfathers of goth metal still find glee in gloom
17 albums in, Paradise Lost remain masters of the gothic arts on new album Ascension
"Everything about this band rules hard." Fantasy doom metal heroes Castle Rat have made one of 2025's most epic metal albums in The Bestiary
Looking like they've stepped out of the world of Conan The Barbarian, Castle Rat are one of metal's most vibrant new bands
I Prevail Violent Nature review: the metalcore heavyweights' fourth album is a little hit and miss, but the hits go hard
They might be divisive, but Violent Nature proves I Prevail are still swinging for the fences on album 4
"It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere
They might be prog metal geniuses, but Between The Buried And Me are also still fallible
Deathcore's biggest band just made an extreme metal album fit for arenas
Lorna Shore continue to raise the bar for deathcore and extreme metal in the mainstream
"There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings."
Tallah's third album sees them branch out from their more obvious nu metal inclinations
Witch Club Satan proved they're the best thing in black metal right now
Norwegian black metal trio Witch Club Satan made a thrilling, theatrical and utterly terrifying UK debut at Birmingham's Supersonic Festival
