Melvins’ Working With God: more sonic insanity from rock’s kings of absurdism
Surf rock, twisted pop, unhinged doo wop – it’s business as usual in the demented world of Melvins
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Epica’s Omega is a glorious hymn to symphonic metal excess
Can you have too much of a good thing? Not if you’re Epica, you can’t
Moonspell’s Hermitage: where goth metal meets Pink Floyd
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is a love letter to rock’n’roll’s spiritual home
Shock rock OG Alice Cooper pays tribute to his hometown on new album Detroit Stories
Harakiri For The Sky push post-black metal exploration to the limit on new album Mære
More is more for post-black metal visionaries Harakiri For The Sky on 85-minute new album Mære
The Amenta’s new album Revelator is the industrial-metal soundtrack to our nightmarish future
Australian future-brutes The Amenta return after eight-year absence with pulverising new albm Revelator
Senyawa’s Alkisah: Indonesian sorcerers put the ‘manic’ into ‘shamanic’
Experimental metallers Senyawa mix the sublimely strange with the deliberately comic on new album Alkisah
Sirenia’s Riddles, Ruins & Revelations: symphonic metal collides with 80s synthpop
Symphonic metallers Sirenia dust off their Fairlights on new album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations
God Is An Astronaut’s Ghost Tapes #10 is celestial post-rock perfection
Enigmatic post-rock travellers God Is An Astronaut hit the cosmic highs on new album Ghost Tapes #10
The Pretty Reckless’s Death By Rock And Roll: vulnerability, reflection and schmaltz
Taylor Momsen’s crew pay tribute to fallen idols on new album Death By Rock And Roll
Love And Death’s Perfectly Preserved: songs of angst and devotion
Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch’s other band Love And Death make their long-awaited second coming with new album Perfectly Preserved
Loathe’s The Things They Believe: Brit-metal hopefuls tear up the rulebook
Electronic soundscapes, ambient atmospheres, euphoric highs – Loathe’s surprise-released new album The Things They Believe is dazzlingly ambitious
Heave Blood & Die’s Post People is a genre-hopping headf**k, in the best possible way
Ex stoner rockers Heave Blood & Die head off on a kaleidoscopic new trip with latest album Post People
The Ruins Of Beverast’s The Thule Grimoires: extreme metal maverick’s full-spectrum sonic assault
Alexander von Meilenwald – aka The Ruins Of Beverast – casts his net wide on new album The Thule Grimoires with stellar results
John Carpenter’s Lost Themes III: horror master unearths fresh synthwave chills for us
Halloween director and synthwave inspiration John Carpenter serves up immersive chills on new album Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
Korpiklaani’s Jylhä album: folk metal berzerkers put down the grog and get serious
Finnish lunatics Korpiklaani put the grog to one side for something more serious on new album Jylhä
Cult Of Luna’s The Raging River: post-metal catharsis and a surprise guest on heavyweight new EP
Cult Of Luna rope in grunge icon Mark Lanegan on album-sized EP The Raging River
Annisokay’s Aurora: metalcore hopefuls step up to the plate
German metalcore hopefuls Annisokay finally deliver on their promise with new album Aurora
Tribulation’s Where The Gloom Becomes Sound: gothic grandeur and dark litanies
Goth metal mavericks Tribulation put more swish into their capes with fifth album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
