Metal Hammer Reviews

Jonathan Davis exorcises his most ferocious demons yet in Korn's new album The Nothing

Dutch black metallers Asagraum weave potent new magick from the old school with new album Dawn of Infinite Fire

The Politically charged thrash originals Sacred Reich break a near-quarter-century silence wand prove thrash metal is still alive and well

Album review: Masked Iowan metallers Slipknot still refuse to conform on We Are Not Your Kind

Highway To Hell: the album that took AC/DC to international superstardom, and an entry point for new fans since its release

Recorded in one room and crackling with energy, AC/DC's fourth album Let There Be Rock was a statement of furious intent

Sweden’s power metal battalion get serious about going over the top

Black metal overlord Abbath broadens his own snowy horizons in new album Outstrider

The amplified historians deliver another psychedelic sermon

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

The black metal icon takes a turn for the unexpected with the new album from Gaahls Wyrd

The dynamic duo's new project, described as "ambient psych doom metal", release their debut record Celestial Mechanics

Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album

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