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System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian ditches quirky nu metal for incendiary deathcore with Seven Hours After Violet
Almost 20 years since his last ful-length album, Shavo Odadjian is roaring back with his heaviest band to date
Melodeath all-stars unite to create goth brilliance on Cemetery Skyline's Nordic Gothic
Not content with mastering melodeath Mikael Stanne is leading a goth pop revolution with Cemetery Skyline's debut, Nordic Gothic
Touche Amore team up with Ross Robinson to make post-hardcore perfection on Spiral In A Straight Line
The Los Angeles band's mix of angst and anthems prove to be as effective - and emotionally resonant - as ever
Review: Sylosis retain their place as UK metal’s uncrowned kings on new EP The Path
Across five blistering songs, Reading bruisers Sylosis summarise everything that makes them one of Britain’s best metal bands
Oranssi Pazuzu's Muuntautuja is the weirdest and most wonderful black metal record you'll hear this year
The Finnish blackened psychonauts dive to new depths of sonic depravity on album six
Arch Enemy, In Flames and Soilwork London Hammersmith review: a true celebration of heavy metal greatness
A generational bill brings equal parts nostalgia and cutting edge excellence to London
Jason Aalon Butler reignites the sparks of inspiration on Darker White
Jason Aalon Butler reignites the sparks of inspiration with an all-new lineup for Fever 333
Sabaton throw down the gauntlet as the world's biggest power metal band with The Tour To End All Tours
Sabaton's massive metal concert movie The Tour To End All Tours is a must see when it hits cinemas in October
Blood Incantation's new album is only two songs long. It's also one of the best metal albums of 2024
Blood Incantation confirm themselves as one of the most innovative and interesting bands in modern death metal
Cannibal Corpse bring 30-plus years of bruising death metal tracks to sold-out London show
Supported by Schizophrenia, Immolation and Municipal Waste, Cannibal Corpse bring one of the most stacked extreme metal bills of 2024 to the UK’s capital
Servitude is the best tribute to Trevor Strnad Black Dahlia Murder fans could have asked for
Even tragedy can't stop The Black Dahlia Murder being one of extreme metal's most reliably brilliant bands
Doom trap? Trap metal? Nu gen? Whatever: Mimi Bark's debut album proves she's a star
Nu gen queen Mimi Barks is feral and fascinating on debut This Is Doom Trap
"At their heaviest, they feel genuinely dangerous." Heriot live up to their potential as Britain's best new metal band on Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell
Beloved by Lamb Of God, Trivium and Machine Head, Heriot just proved that 2022's Profound Morality EP was just a taste of what they can do
Linkin Park's London O2 show is a celebration of one of 21st century metal's most impactful and important bands
Linkin Park and new singer Emily Armstrong roll out the hits and some promising new material for a delighted London crowd
Zeal & Ardor go avant-garde without hindering their hooks at electric London gig
At a crammed O2 Empire Shepherds Bush, Zeal & Ardor shed their ‘black metal meets spirituals’ tag with a set of new, experimental anthems
The Obsession reunites Charlotte Wessels with former Delain bandmates
After two experimental Tales From Six Feet Under releases, Charlotte Wessels is back on familiar grounds
Vended's self-titled debut finally goes some way to shaking off that Slipknot tag
Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan set out their vision for world domination with Vended's self-titled debut
