
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
Barcelona voyagers Obsidian Kingdom venture into unexplored territories on new album Meat Machine
Corey Taylor brings the party on exhilarating debut solo album CMFT
John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
Philadelphia nu-core heroes Tallah ramp up the twisted, sadistic sounds on their debut album Matriphagy
Power metal, pop, EDM – Amaranthe leave no genre unturned on new album Manifest
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
Ayreon’s epic Transitus is the missing link between prog metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber – with added Doctor Who
Swedish visionary Anna von Hausswolff makes the year’s strangest and most beguiling album with All Thoughts Fly
Time and a global pandemic cannot wither Canadian veterans Kataklysm on their 14th album Unconquered
Bay Area thrash originals Heathen triumph over adversity on new album Empire Of The Blind
Prog-metal, unhinged fuzz punk and left-field covers collide on Mastodon’s sprawling new compilation Medium Rarities
O.G. folk metal fiends Finntroll make their long-awaited return with Vredesvävd. To the forest!
Alt-metal adventurers Deftones take a journey through their own past with new album Ohms
Swedish prog metallers Pain Of Salvation push their shapeshifting vision to new heights on Panther
Underground icons Napalm Death rise and grind for the 16th time on new album Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Icelandic debutants Cult Of Lilith rip up the tech death rulebook with debut album Mara
Zakk Wylde goes full fanboy on fun but pointless rerun of Black Sabbath’s debut album