Metal Hammer Reviews

Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia

Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed

Luciferian odes find their calling in music’s golden age on Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop)

Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album

Sheffield’s ever-evolving punk metallers jump off the deep end

Doom metal pioneers Candlemass enlist Tony Iommi and their original singer on stellar new album

America’s prog giants rediscover the glories of heavy metal on their 14th album

Greek masters Rotting Christ dive into the ancient mysteries and deliver unto us an extreme metal classic

Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows

Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans

Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album

Japan’s new power metal queens scale the heights on their second album

The nu metal survivors cast their sonic net wide on album number 10

Jason Aalon Butler rises from the ashes of LetLive with a genre-mashing debut from his new band Fever 333

Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold

San Francisco’s metal stalwarts Metal Church fail to refuel with Damned If You Do

New York’s finest thrashers Anthrax celebrate 30 years of being Antisocial with this State Of Euphoria reissue

Filth-ridden rumbles from a North Carolina basement, courtesy of Funeral Chic

Choice offcuts from San Diego’s deathgrind visionaries Cattle Decapitation