Black metal legends Mayhem channel De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas with new record Daemon
Oslo’s second-wave black metal forefathers, Mayhem, are still defining the state of the art
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Airbourne's Boneshaker is a ferocious old-school rock'n'roll romp
AC/DC’s sonic heirs, Airbourne, dispense once more with the graces in new album Boneshaker
Black metal luminaries 1349 return to form with The Infernal Pathway: A relentless barrage of ice-cold riffage
The Infernal Pathway delivers fresh devilry from Norway’s guardians of the grim, the merciless 1349
Lacuna Coil - Black Anima: The Milan metallers dig deeper into their dark side
Lacuna Coil's new album Black Anima elevates a band already on career-defining form
Babymetal - Metal Galaxy: Japan’s Fox God emissaries chart a new sonic course
Babymetal's new album Metal Galaxy deftly proves that the band's whole existence is one massive curveball
Monzer Darwish's Syrian Metal Is War film review
Six years in the making, Monzer Darwish's debut documentary Syrian Metal Is War gives a voice to the voiceless
Have Steel Panther taken the joke too far?
Sunset Strip revivalists Steel Panther bring more swears than songs with fifth album Heavy Metal Rules
Wednesday 13 cranks up the heavy in party album Necrophaze
North Carolina’s horror maestro, Wednesday 13, draws more iron from his blood in new album Necrophaze
Korn's The Nothing recaptures the genuine darkness of their earlier works
Jonathan Davis exorcises his most ferocious demons yet in Korn's new album The Nothing
Asagraum's Dawn Of Infinite Fire is an instant black metal classic
Dutch black metallers Asagraum weave potent new magick from the old school with new album Dawn of Infinite Fire
Why Sacred Reich's Awakening was worth waiting twenty three years for
The Politically charged thrash originals Sacred Reich break a near-quarter-century silence wand prove thrash metal is still alive and well
Slipknot are back and as bold as ever in We Are Not Your Kind
Album review: Masked Iowan metallers Slipknot still refuse to conform on We Are Not Your Kind
AC/DC: Highway To Hell album review
Highway To Hell: the album that took AC/DC to international superstardom, and an entry point for new fans since its release
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock album review
Recorded in one room and crackling with energy, AC/DC's fourth album Let There Be Rock was a statement of furious intent
Sabaton arise victorious with new album The Great War
Sweden’s power metal battalion get serious about going over the top
Abbath's new album is an expansive journey through black metal's icy tundras
Black metal overlord Abbath broadens his own snowy horizons in new album Outstrider
Heilung's Furtha is an album of unstoppable primal power
The amplified historians deliver another psychedelic sermon
Black metal legends Darkthrone prove they're more metal than ever with new album
The legendary duo seamlessly blend their genre-defining strain of blackened metal with their expert knowledge of heavy music in the relentlessly riffy Old Star
