Metal Hammer Reviews

Blackened sludge gang The Lion's Daughter fire up their synths and get weird on Future Cult

Deathcore diehards Chelsea Grin shuffle the deck but remain on cruise control for Eternal Nightmare

Returning metalcore bruisers The Agony Scene skip an evolutionary step with Tormentor

We Already Lost The World delivers fearlessly turbulent hardcore courtesy of Birds In Row

Prog metal posterboys Between The Buried And Me kick convention into the long grass on Automata II

Symphonic metal high-risers Epica get in an animated mood with Epica Vs Attack On Titan

Tech-death masters Obscura complete their four-album opus with Diluvium

Metalcore mainstays Bury Tomorrow return with their sights set high on Black Flame

Post-black scene leaders Deafheaven let go of their ballast on Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Goth-tinged Icelandic rockers Kontinuum refine their sensibilities on No Need To Reason

Batman and Robin. Chocolate and peanut butter. Metal and country? Devildriver think so!

Immortal's Demonaz and Horgh get back on the frostbitten track with Northern Chaos Gods

Greek metallers Raw In Sect marry the modern and the traditional on Kitro

Berlin’s mystic-minded rockers Lucifer realign their forces with Lucifer II

Pennsylvania’s progressive extremists Rivers Of Nihil hit an all-new apex with Where Owls Know My Name

Temperamental Swedish black metallers Vanhelga lose sight of the plot with Fredagsmys

Bridgend’s metal juggernaut Bullet For My Valentine switch gears for Gravity

Sweden’s black metal institution Marduk battles through the potshots with Viktoria

Denver’s doom-weighted heavy metallers Khemmis move up another level with Desolation