Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters
Barcelona voyagers Obsidian Kingdom venture into unexplored territories on new album Meat Machine
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Corey Taylor’s CMFT is music to ride motorbikes into swimming pools to
Corey Taylor brings the party on exhilarating debut solo album CMFT
John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
Tallah’s Matriphagy: the sound of nu metal being reinvented for 2020
Philadelphia nu-core heroes Tallah ramp up the twisted, sadistic sounds on their debut album Matriphagy
Amaranthe’s Manifest: rippling riffs meet gleaming razzmatazz on genre-mashing new album
Power metal, pop, EDM – Amaranthe leave no genre unturned on new album Manifest
Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
Ayreon’s epic Transitus is the missing link between prog metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber – with added Doctor Who
You won’t hear another album like Anna von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly this year
Swedish visionary Anna von Hausswolff makes the year’s strangest and most beguiling album with All Thoughts Fly
Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses
Time and a global pandemic cannot wither Canadian veterans Kataklysm on their 14th album Unconquered
Heathen’s Empire Of The Blind: never write an old school Bay Area thrash band off
Bay Area thrash originals Heathen triumph over adversity on new album Empire Of The Blind
Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands
Prog-metal, unhinged fuzz punk and left-field covers collide on Mastodon’s sprawling new compilation Medium Rarities
Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album
O.G. folk metal fiends Finntroll make their long-awaited return with Vredesvävd. To the forest!
Deftones have made a record for every kind of Deftones fan with Ohms
Alt-metal adventurers Deftones take a journey through their own past with new album Ohms
Pain Of Salvation’s Panther is the sound of 21st century prog metal at its brooding best
Swedish prog metallers Pain Of Salvation push their shapeshifting vision to new heights on Panther
Napalm Death’s Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism: grind kings return triumphant
Underground icons Napalm Death rise and grind for the 16th time on new album Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Cult Of Lilith open up a new tech-death frontier on stellar debut album Mara
Icelandic debutants Cult Of Lilith rip up the tech death rulebook with debut album Mara
Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why?
Zakk Wylde goes full fanboy on fun but pointless rerun of Black Sabbath’s debut album
