Myles Kennedy’s The Ides Of March: one of rock’s great voices soars over so-so songs
Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy wrings stellar performances from sometimes less-than-stellar material on new album The Ides Of March
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Dordeduh’s Har: epoch-mashing brilliance from Romania’s polymetal masters
Dordeduh’s transcendent second album Har contains worlds within worlds
Capra’s In Transmission serves up metallic punk exhilaration with attitude to spare
US metallic punks Capra unleash a fiery opening salvo with debut album In Transmission
Tetrarch’s Unstable is the nu metal album 2021 needs
The debut album from rising Atlanta stars Tetrarch updates the best bits of nu metal – and leaves the dodgy rapping behind
Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude
Evile’s Hell Unleashed: rebooted Brit thrashers blast away the cobwebs
Album review: modern thrash flagbearers Evile pick up where they left off on first new album in eight years, Hell Unleashed
Bongzilla fire up a stoner doom epic with new album Weedsconsin. Warning - may contain drugs
Album review: America’s most stoned Bongzilla fire up the cosmic bong once more on new album Weedsconsin
Bodom After Midnight’s Paint The Sky With Blood EP is the farewell Alexi Laiho deserves
Album review: Bodom After Midnight’s posthumous Paint The Sky With Blood is an bittersweet end to Alexi Laiho’s all-too-brief career
Devil Sold His Soul’s new album Loss is a cinematic triumph over turmoil
Cinematic post-hardcore heroes Devil Sold His Soul put a turbulent decade behind them on new album Loss
While She Sleeps’ Sleeps Society is a beacon of hope in troubled times
While She Sleeps tweak the formula with impressive results on new album Sleeps Society
Cannibal Corpse’s Violence Unimagined: death metal legends gouge out a new classic
They may have been around since the dawn of time, but Cannibal Corpse’s new album Violence Unimagined is perilously addictive
Sex, death, isolation and art-rock weirdness? Årabrot’s Norwegian Gothic has them covered
Noise rock surrealists Årabrot are still orbiting a planet of their own on new album Norwegian Gothic
Blaze Bayley’s War Within Me: British metal’s great survivor brings the thunder
Ex-Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley hits new heights of power on new album War Within Me
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen‘s Smith/Kotzen: where Iron Maiden meets The Winery Dogs
Two unlikely worlds come together on the self-titled debut album from Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and guitar hero Richie Kotzen
Devin Townsend’s Devolution Series #1: Acoustically Inclined: prog metal’s mad scientist up close and personal
Devin Townsend is in intimate mode on new lockdown-busting live album Acoustically Inclined
Lamb Of God’s Live In Richmond, VA is the sound of a band raging in the face of the pandemic
Lamb Of God capture their onstage glory on COVID-busting live-in-lockdown album
La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s Trivial Visions: cosmic space rock from interstellar travellers
Italian psych-heads La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio travel way beyond the final frontier on new album Trivial Visions
Raucous noise, epic tunes and maximum weirdness? Tomahawk‘s Tonic Immobility has got it covered
Mike Patton’s deranged provocateurs Tomahawk are in prime form on their first album in eight years, Tonic Immobility
Liquid Tension Experiment’s LTE3: instrumental prog metal masturbation – and proud of it
Dream Theater fans rejoice! Mike Portnoy reunites with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess for Liquid Tension Experiment’s gleefully self-indulgent comeback
