Hjelvik’s Welcome To Hel: ex-Kvelertak singer kneels before the gods of heavy metal
Erlend Hjelvik swaps Kvelertak’s blackened rock’n’roll for full metal racket with his new band’s debut album Welcome To Hel
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Insidious Disease’s After Death: extreme metal A-listers’ deathly old school salvo
Napalm Death/Dimmu Borgir spin-off Insidious Disease head underground on new album After Death
Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations 2020: Metallica’s favourite band revisit the past
Cult NWOBHM heroes Diamond Head re-record classic Lars Ulrich-approved debut album
Jinjer’s Alive In Melbourne is a sh*t-kicking reminder of how great gigs used to be
Tech-metal marauders Jinjer are captured full pre-COVID flight on Alive In Melbourne
Iron Maiden make epic even bigger on Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast live album
Heavy metal’s indefatigable warhorses Iron Maiden cement their legacy on new live album Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast
Killer Be Killed’s Reluctant Hero: stellar return from modern metal’s greatest supergroup
Metal all-stars Killer Be Killed stake their claim as the greatest supergroup of the last 10 years with Reluctant Hero
Dark Tranquility’s Moment: melodeath veterans step up to the big league
Melodic death metal underdogs Dark Tranquility make their case for superstardom on new album Moments
AC/DC have saved 2020 with their new album Power Up
Not yet ratedWe asked Beartooth frontman and AC/DC mega-fan Caleb Shomo to review Power Up for us. This is what he had to say
Dark Buddha Rising’s Mathreyata is the doom-laden soundtrack to the apocalypse
Not yet ratedFinnish mystics Dark Buddha Rising match the immensity of the endtimes on new album Mathreyata
Macabre’s Carnival Of Killers: the kings of murder-metal reclaim their crown
Serial killer-obsessed sickos Macabre return from their slumber on new album Carnival Of Killers
Henrik Palm’s Poverty Metal: what A Nameless Ghoul does after Ghost
Former Ghost guitarist Henrik Palm goes on a weird, wild ride on debut solo album Poverty Metal
If you only listen to one Christian trad metal album this week, make it Wytch Hazel’s III: Pentecost
Wytch Hazel serve up songs of faith and devotion on instant-classic new album III: Pentecost
Black Stone Cherry seize life with both hands on new album The Human Condition
Southern rockers Black Stone Cherry carve through the isolation blues wiith new album The Human Condition
Sólstafir’s Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love: a post-metal snowstorm to get lost in
Icelandic enigmas Sólstafir fuse the intimate and the epic on new album Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning is deliberately annoying, genuinely funny and weirdly emotional
Maynard James Keenan and co find serenity beyond the silliness on Puscifer’s new album Existential Reckoning
Auðn’s Vökudraumsins Fangi is atmospheric black metal the way they used to make it
Icelandic black metal warhorses Auðn cleave to the elements on new album Vökudraumsins Fangi
Trap metal renegade Ghostemane serves up nihilism and pain on new album Anti-Icon
Industrial, rap, metalcore, techno: trap metal genre-smasher Ghostemane leaves no genre unturned on new album Anti-Icon
Draconian’s Under A Godless Veil: a glorious marriage of gothic doom and gnostic cosmology
Sweden’s revered gloom-mongers Draconian find new depths of glory on Under A Godless Veil
Mr Bungle’s The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo: you want thrash? You got thrash
Only Mike Patton and co could resurrect a 35-year-old demo and make it sound like one of the most vital albums of 2020
