Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth: an emotive and empowered rock album for our times
Amy Lee releases her most empowered, emotional, politically charged album yet with Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth
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Pupil Slicer’s Mirrors: grind meets mathcore on one of 2021’s most exciting debut albums
Grind meets mathcore meets doom on Pupil Slicer’s savage debut album Mirrors
The Crown’s Royal Destroyer: Sweden’s hardest declare all-out death metal war
If it’s subtlety you’re after look elsewhere – The Crown’s Royal Destroyer is death metal the way it should be: bloody, brutal and hard as f**k
White Void’s Anti’s is a whirlwind ride around metal, occult rock and psychedelia
Norwegian oddballs White Void find new ways to get psyched on debut album Anti
Eyehateod’s A History Of Nomadic Behaviour is the sick and twisted soundtrack for our times
NOLA sludge kings Eyehategod return with their first album in seven years – and their timing couldn’t better
Death metal maniacs Baest take a swim in the grim on new album Necro Sapiens
Looking for brutish, no-nonsense death metal riffery? Baest’s new album Necro Sapiens has got you covered
The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics
If Tool jammed with Helmet, it would sound like the second album from UK’s hypno-metallers The Hyena Kill
Mason Hill’s Against The Wall: arena-ready rock that proves the power of peristence
Scottish rockers Mason Hill finally release their assured debut album. Fans of Alter Bridge and Shinedown apply here
Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist: modern metal with the grandest of ambitions
Modern metal heroes Architects continue their upward swing with new album For Those That Wish To Exist
Melvins’ Working With God: more sonic insanity from rock’s kings of absurdism
Surf rock, twisted pop, unhinged doo wop – it’s business as usual in the demented world of Melvins
Epica’s Omega is a glorious hymn to symphonic metal excess
Can you have too much of a good thing? Not if you’re Epica, you can’t
Moonspell’s Hermitage: where goth metal meets Pink Floyd
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is a love letter to rock’n’roll’s spiritual home
Shock rock OG Alice Cooper pays tribute to his hometown on new album Detroit Stories
Harakiri For The Sky push post-black metal exploration to the limit on new album Mære
More is more for post-black metal visionaries Harakiri For The Sky on 85-minute new album Mære
The Amenta’s new album Revelator is the industrial-metal soundtrack to our nightmarish future
Australian future-brutes The Amenta return after eight-year absence with pulverising new albm Revelator
Senyawa’s Alkisah: Indonesian sorcerers put the ‘manic’ into ‘shamanic’
Experimental metallers Senyawa mix the sublimely strange with the deliberately comic on new album Alkisah
Sirenia’s Riddles, Ruins & Revelations: symphonic metal collides with 80s synthpop
Symphonic metallers Sirenia dust off their Fairlights on new album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations
God Is An Astronaut’s Ghost Tapes #10 is celestial post-rock perfection
Enigmatic post-rock travellers God Is An Astronaut hit the cosmic highs on new album Ghost Tapes #10
The Pretty Reckless’s Death By Rock And Roll: vulnerability, reflection and schmaltz
Taylor Momsen’s crew pay tribute to fallen idols on new album Death By Rock And Roll
