Meshuggah’s Immutable: still running rings around every other metal band on the planet
Album review: prog-metal emperors Meshuggah deliver another head-spinning classic with new album Immutable
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Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road is the perfect live album for 2022
Album review: UK metalcore kings Architects revive last year’s magisterial livestream at legendary London studio
Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow is the ultimate love letter to extreme metal
Album review: Dave Grohl swaps the Foo Fighters for grindcore, sludge and black metal on Dream Widow
Animals As Leaders’ Parrhesia album: molten noise meets next-level virtuosity
Album review: Animals As Leaders continue to push djent into bold new realms on new album Parrhesia
Soul Glo's Diaspora Problems: "like Animal from The Muppets getting p***ed up and finding a snare drum at a funeral"
Soul Glo's Diaspora Problems mixes hardcore punk, metal and rap in the best crossover record since Turnstile's Time & Space
Abbath’s Dread Reaver: black metal icon hits the sweet spot between Motörhead, Bathory and Kiss
Album review: ex-Immortal man and black metal survivor pulls back from the edge of ruin with Dread Reaver
Eric Wagner’s In The Lonely Light Of Mourning is a fitting epitaph for the voice of doom
Album review: Trouble frontman and doom icon Eric Wagner’s posthumous In The Lonely Light Of Morning is a fitting goodbye to a legend
Ho99o9’s Skin: hip hop/punk riotstarters are out to f**k with your head
Corey Taylor and Travis Barker join in the chaos as Ho99o9’s step into new realms of the weird on second album Skin
Ghost’s Impera album is the 80s arena rock banger to end 80s arena rock bangers
Album review: Ghost’s Impera proves the Devil doesn’t have the best tunes – Tobias Forge does
The Batman Review: six things we learned from Robert Pattinson's Dark Knight debut
Our review of The Batman breaks down Emo Bruce Wayne, the darkest on-screen Gotham yet and much more
Everything you need to know about the Foo Fighters' horror comedy Studio 666
The Foo Fighters horror movie Studio 666 made its London premiere and Hammer were there to pass judgement
Cassyette's London Underworld show proves she's the leader of a new kind of alternative scene
Was Cassyette's London Underworld show a preview of the next generation of alt artists to break big?
Bloodywood's Rakshak proves they are more than just an internet sensation
Indian metal sensation Bloodywood mix nu, folk and rap metal on their thrilling debut Rakshak
Annihilator's Metal II: "If terrible ideas weighed a gram, this would be heavier than the Eiffel Tower"
Annihilator touch up 2007's Metal for a star-studded sequel but fail to paper the cracks on Metal II
Zeal & Ardor's self-titled album: "Originality is a scant currency, and Manuel Gagneux’s pockets are full"
Zeal & Ardor's black metal meets black spirituals mesh reaches near perfection on their self-titled third album
Voivod's Synchro Anarchy: "another essential listen in the long line of essential listens Voivod have delivered since 1983"
Prog thrashers Voivod continue to unearth new elements on their 15th studio album, Synchro Anarchy
Cult Of Luna's The Long Road North: "cerebral and exhilaratingly heavy"
Cult Of Luna's The Long Road North offers an arduous yet rewarding journey into post-metal majesty
Amorphis' Halo: "A host of anthems that the Finns’ diehard admirers will take enormous delight in"
Finnish melodeath veterans Amorphis play to their progressively minded strengths with album #14, Halo
Saxon's Carpe Diem: "great songs, giant choruses, gritty musicianship and absolutely no mucking about"
NWOBHM heroes Saxon ride again on triumphant 23rd studio outing Carpe Diem
