pg.lost find light in the darkness on cinematic new album Oscillate
Scandinavian post-rockers pg.lost wring exponential grace from the gloom on stellar new album Oscillate
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Voivod Lost Machine – Live: to infinity and beyond
Prog-metal voyagers Voivod head into deep space on new album Lost Machine – Live
Palm Reader’s Sleepless: boundary-pushing brilliance from Brit hardcore mavericks
UK heavyweights Palm Reader mark their 10th anniversary with their greatest album yet in the shape of Sleeplesss
Sodom’s Genesis XIX: thrash veterans strip away the fuss – and the thrills
Euro-thrash mainstays Sodom go back to their roots on new album Genesis XIX with mixed results
Hatebreed’s Weight Of The False Self: bulldozing optimism from hardcore’s moshpit kings
It wasn’t broken, so Hatebreed haven’t fixed it on new album Weight Of The False Self
Nibiru’s Panspermia: hypno-sludge dementors smash the sanity Matrix
Sonic adventurers Nibiru take a mind-bending trip through metal’s outer limits on new album Panspermia
Tombs’ Under Sullen Skies: black metal majesty meets New York City grit
NYC’s esoteric black metallers Tombs refine their book of spells on new album Under Sullen Skies
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
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
