Death metal legends Benediction obliterate all-comers on new album Scriptures
UK underground icons Benediction rabid new album Scriptures shows the kids how death metal should be done
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Wayfarer’s A Romance With Violence: the Clint Eastwoods of extreme metal strike gold
Extreme metal meets Deadwood on Denver gunslingers Wayfarer’s epic new album A Romance With Violence
Molassess’ Through The Hollow is a stellar tribute to a fallen bandmate
Former members of The Devil’s Blood pay tribute to late mainman Selim Lemouchi on the debut album from new band Molassess
Greg Puciato’s Child Soldier: Creator Of God: head-melting genius from ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer
Never mind the leaks – ex-Dillinger Escape Plan man Greg Puciato’s brilliant debut solo album sets him up as the next Mike Patton
Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers
Florida’s Bloodbather serve up furious riffs and atonal guitar squeals on terse Silence EP
Crippled Black Phoenix’s Ellengaest: scabrous diatribes and emotional devastation on majestic new album
Post-rock mavericks Crippled Black Phoenix rise above turmoil the help of all-star guests on new album Ellengaest
Anaal Nathrakh’s Endarkenment: filthy nihilism out, unexpected optimism in
Blackened grind doomsayers Anaal Nathrakh clean up their act on new album Endarkenment – but it can’t dispel the whiff of formula
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou’s May Our Chambers Be Full is the perfect marriage of the grime and the sublime
Post-rock chameleon Emma Ruth Rundle and sludge metal boundary-pushers Thou team up on brilliant left-field collaboration
Ascension Of The Watchers’ Apocrypha: Burton C Bell rises from the ashes of Fear Factory
Ex-Fear Factory frontman Burton C Bell ventures into the shadows once more on Ascension Of The Watchers’ belated second album
Venom Prison’s Primeval: death metal iconoclasts exhume the past to move forward
Venom Prison give fresh life to hard-to-find old songs on bulldozing new album Primeval
Toadeater’s Bit To Ewigen Daogen: where anarchist black metal meets 80s goth and post-punk
German post-black metallers Toadeater rip up the rulebook on new album Bit To Ewigen Daogen
Touché Amoré’s Lament: post-hardcore lifers spead their wings with help from Ross Robinson
Impassioned post-hardcore crew Touché Amoré expand their scope on soaring new album Lament
Six Feet Under are still drinking blood, still getting high on new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
Death metal warhorses Six Feet Under serve up endearingly sloppy slab of stoner-death brutality with new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
DevilDriver’s pulverising Dealing With Demons Vol.1 is a roar in the face of adversity
Dez Fafara soundtracks his personal struggles on DevilDriver’s new album Dealing With Demons Vol. 1
Dirt Redux: Alice In Chains’ grunge masterpiece gets the doom makeover it deserves
Doom all-stars pay tribute to Alice In Chains’ classic 1992 album on Dirt Redux
Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
Prog-metal kings Enslaved soar as high as ever on 14th album Utgard
Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters
Barcelona voyagers Obsidian Kingdom venture into unexplored territories on new album Meat Machine
Corey Taylor’s CMFT is music to ride motorbikes into swimming pools to
Corey Taylor brings the party on exhilarating debut solo album CMFT
John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
