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Testament’s Titans Of Creation album is state-of-the-art Bay Area thrash
Old school attitude meets new school brutality on Testament’s new album Titans Of Creation
Katatonia have just made their best album in 20 years with City Burials
Swedish gloom-masters Katatonia hit cinematic gold on their 11th album
Trivium’s What The Dead Men Say: no cheese, just heavy f**king metal
Trivium’s hot streak continues with new album What The Dead Men Say
Oranssi Pazuzu’s Mestarin Kynsi is the ultimate black metal headtrip
Cosmic black metal shamans Oranssi Pazuzu unleash a psychedelic maelstrom on new album Mestarin Kynsi
The Black Dahlia Murder’s Verminous album is a bloodstained new high
Underground veterans The Black Dahlia Murder retain their place at extreme metal’s top table
Ratt's The Atlantic Years 1984-1990: should history have been kinder?
Ratt’s first five albums, finally retrieved from the cellar
Me and That Man's New Man, New Songs, Same Sh*t, Vol.1 is a fun celebration of friends, outlaws and Satan
Nergal's Me And That Man heads down Route 666 with a stellar new entourage in New Man, New Songs, Same Sh*t, Vol.1
Lucifer's third album is a retro romp that unites the band's light heart and dark soul
Occult-infused rockers Lucifer bring their twin poles into harmony with third album, Lucifer III
Myrkur goes back to her resonant roots with Folkesange
Myrkur's Folkesange is a captivating collection of largely new folk songs rendered with ethereal harmonies, wistful lyrics and the thrum and drone of primal instruments
Code Orange's Underneath is the greatest metal record in a generation - read our 10/10 review
Pittsburgh’s hardcore iconoclasts Code Orange throw down the gauntlet for a new decade with Underneath, earning a rare 10/10 in Metal Hammer
Body Count's Carnivore: raucous riffage, ferocious rants and... Amy Lee?
Ice-T, the original gangsta, is back with Body Count's latest record, Carnivore – and he's hungry as f**k
Five Finger Death Punch's F8 is the best record of their career
Las Vegas’ metal behemoths 5FDP bait the mainstream with their latest album F8
Loathe's I Let It In And It Took Everything: Expansively lavish, furiously heavy and impossible to pigeonhole
Eclectic Liverpudlian metalcore crew Loathe prove they're one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from the British underground
Black metal legends Mayhem channel De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas with new record Daemon
Oslo’s second-wave black metal forefathers, Mayhem, are still defining the state of the art
Airbourne's Boneshaker is a ferocious old-school rock'n'roll romp
AC/DC’s sonic heirs, Airbourne, dispense once more with the graces in new album Boneshaker
Black metal luminaries 1349 return to form with The Infernal Pathway: A relentless barrage of ice-cold riffage
The Infernal Pathway delivers fresh devilry from Norway’s guardians of the grim, the merciless 1349
Lacuna Coil - Black Anima: The Milan metallers dig deeper into their dark side
Lacuna Coil's new album Black Anima elevates a band already on career-defining form
Babymetal - Metal Galaxy: Japan’s Fox God emissaries chart a new sonic course
Babymetal's new album Metal Galaxy deftly proves that the band's whole existence is one massive curveball