Metal Hammer Reviews

Helix is a smart mix of fury and finesse from revitalised melodic metallers Amaranthe

Disturbed broaden their horizons with new album Evolution

Muscular groove metal favourites Soulfly fire on all cylinders for Ritual

OC metalcore stalwarts Atreyu seek a new chorus of approval with In Our Wake

Northern Irish thrashers Gama Bomb rustle up more killer riffs on Speed Between The Lines

Skálmöld deliber more stirring hymns to the glorious, frozen North with Sorgir

Ex-Rage Against The Machine axe hero Tom Morello finds fertile new pastures on The Atlas Underground

Beartooth make another leap towards the mainstream with Disease

Nergal’s black/death juggernaut Behemoth joins a new pantheon of gods with I Loved You At Your Darkest

New York’s prog sci-fi visionaries Coheed And Cambria return to the warfront with The Unheavenly Creatures

Matt Pike's ratchets up his war cry with High On Fire's Electric Messiah

Brightons’ progressive metallers Black Peaks raise the bar with All That Divides

Greg Puciato’s synth-driven venture The Black Queen enters a dystopian realm with Infinite Games

Brummie hellblazers Anaal Nathrakh conjure anthems for doomed youth on A New Kind Of Horror

Canada’s prog metal kings Voivod take a tumultuous trip on The Wake

Iconic axeslinger Slash makes a bid for the history books with Living The Dream

Belgium’s beloved gorehounds Aborted get their fingers dirty once more with TerrorVision

Former Isis frontman takes his avant metallers into pastures new

Irish icons Therapy? wring a diamond from our current grim reality with Cleave