Metal Hammer Reviews

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

America’s prog giants rediscover the glories of heavy metal on their 14th album

Greek masters Rotting Christ dive into the ancient mysteries and deliver unto us an extreme metal classic

Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows

Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans

Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album