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If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
Atlanta nu metal revivalists Tetrarch stick to the fundamentals
Sleep Token's new album Even In Arcadia is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others
Propagandhi are as confused about the state of things as everyone else on vital new album At Peace
Canada’s punk/metal iconoclasts aren’t sure what to do about the chaos across the globe, but their eighth album is poignant and poetic all the same
Machine Head's Unatoned has so many crushing riffs that it should come with a health and safety certificate. This is a band back in peak condition
Machine Head's epic bounce back continues with the brilliant Unatoned
I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era
Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start
Employed To Serve have made an album of the year contender with Fallen Star
Employed To Serve have dished up their best album yet - and a certified metal album of the year contender
Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
"Is this the ultimate Epica record?"
Simone Simons et al show they can do grandiose metal with their eyes closed on Aspiral
Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more on The Spin
Italian doom metallers Messa are probably the coolest band you'll hear this week
Alien Weaponry Te Rā album review
New Zealand's Alien Weaponry step up to the big leagues on stunning third album
Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
Bleed From Within's seventh studio album confirms their status as one of the UK's most vital and consistent metal bands
Deafheaven's new album is tailor-made to shut whinging mouths
After straying from their black metal roots in recent years, Deafheaven come screeching back on Lonely People With Power
“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout.”
New Delhi’s viral superstars keep a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town singing and screaming for their entire 60-minute set
Blood Dynasty might be Arch Enemy's boldest album yet - even if they didn't totally burn the rulebook
Mixing some bold experimentation with the kind of full-throttle heavy metal thunder you'd expect, Blood Dynasty continues Arch Enemy's hot streak
"It’s peak Cradle." British black metal institution Cradle Of Filth continue to soar
Fourteen albums in, Cradle Of Filth reconnect with their roots to produce an expansive, era-encompassing epic
