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Employed To Serve have made an album of the year contender with Fallen Star
Employed To Serve have dished up their best album yet - and a certified metal album of the year contender
Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
"Is this the ultimate Epica record?"
Simone Simons et al show they can do grandiose metal with their eyes closed on Aspiral
Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more on The Spin
Italian doom metallers Messa are probably the coolest band you'll hear this week
Alien Weaponry Te Rā album review
New Zealand's Alien Weaponry step up to the big leagues on stunning third album
Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
Bleed From Within's seventh studio album confirms their status as one of the UK's most vital and consistent metal bands
Deafheaven's new album is tailor-made to shut whinging mouths
After straying from their black metal roots in recent years, Deafheaven come screeching back on Lonely People With Power
“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout.”
New Delhi’s viral superstars keep a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town singing and screaming for their entire 60-minute set
Blood Dynasty might be Arch Enemy's boldest album yet - even if they didn't totally burn the rulebook
Mixing some bold experimentation with the kind of full-throttle heavy metal thunder you'd expect, Blood Dynasty continues Arch Enemy's hot streak
"It’s peak Cradle." British black metal institution Cradle Of Filth continue to soar
Fourteen albums in, Cradle Of Filth reconnect with their roots to produce an expansive, era-encompassing epic
Wardruna just led a Nordic ritual in London’s most beautiful venue, and I’ve never seen anything like it before
Supported by cellist extraordinaire Jo Quail, the shaman dazzle with their powerful voices and mystical production
"Those sultry licks get weirder and weirder, until they resemble the sound of a UFO taking off."
Imperial Triumphant's Goldstar is their most accessible record yet - but still weirder than a box of frogs
India's biggest metal sensations have produced another iron-clad rager
Indian nu metal machine Bloodywood are packing nothing but bangers
The Father Of Make Believe is Coheed And Cambria's midlife crisis album. Luckily, it's also a layered, thoughtful and rich new entry in the Amory Wars Saga
Claudio Sanchez has suggested this album came from a musical midlife crisis. Luckily for us, he pushed through and the results were well worth it
Whitechapel just made one of this year's most brutally intense metal albums
The deathcore veterans have released their heaviest record since This Is Exile
