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King 810 – Suicide King album review
Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows
Swallow The Sun – When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light album review
Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans
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Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album
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Japan’s new power metal queens scale the heights on their second album
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The nu metal survivors cast their sonic net wide on album number 10
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Jason Aalon Butler rises from the ashes of LetLive with a genre-mashing debut from his new band Fever 333
Mayhem: Grand Declaration Of War (2018) album review
Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold
Metal Church: Damned If You Do album review
San Francisco’s metal stalwarts Metal Church fail to refuel with Damned If You Do
Anthrax: State Of Euphoria 30th Anniversary Edition album review
New York’s finest thrashers Anthrax celebrate 30 years of being Antisocial with this State Of Euphoria reissue
Funeral Chic: Superstition album review
Filth-ridden rumbles from a North Carolina basement, courtesy of Funeral Chic
Cattle Decapitation: Medium Rarities album review
Choice offcuts from San Diego’s deathgrind visionaries Cattle Decapitation
Billybio: Feed The Fire album review
The Biohazard frontman makes a solo run at the barricades with Feed The Fire
All That Remains: Victim Of The New Disease album review
US metalcore stalwarts All That Remains return with a heavier sound, and heavy hearts
Wardruna: Skald album review
Wardruna offer a solo summoning from the outskirts of time with Skald
In The Woods...: Cease The Day album review
Norways’s progressive pioneers In The Woods... settle for a wistful stroll on Cease The Day