Vampire’s Rex album: blackened thrash with sharp teeth
Swedish blackened thrash heroes Vampire emerge from the shadows on new album Rex
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Mushroomhead’s A Wonderful Life album: Slipknot still have nothing to worry about
Nu metal also-rans Mushroomhead’s eighth album A Wonderful life is dated and downright clumsy
156/Silence’s prove hardcore is 2020’s most exciting noise with new album Irrational Pull
Pittsburgh’s 156/Silence are following in the stellar footsteps of Code Orange on new album Irrational Pull
Cro-Mags’ In The Beginning: offstage drama out, raging NYHC in
Hardcore legend Harley Flanagan parks the legal drama and focuses on the music on first new Cro-Mags album in 20 years
Lamb Of God: US metal heroes hit an exhilarating new high on Lamb Of God album
Randy Blythe and co join the pantheon of metal greats on new album Lamb Of God
Umbra Vitae’s Shadow Of Life: Converge’s Jacob Bannon leads all-star death drive
Jacob Bannon’s underground metal collective Umbra Vitae serve up a bombardment of ideas on new album Shadow Of Life
Carach Angren’s Franckensteina Strataemontanus: Frankenstein in corpse paint
Cult Dutch black metallers Carach Angren reimagine Frankenstein with added serial killers on new album Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Caligula’s Horse raise the prog-metal bar on new album Rise Radiant
Antipodean explorers Caligula’s Horse position themselves on prog-metal’s cutting edge with new album Rise Radiant
End’s Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face: the best kind of sonic nightmare
Undeground metal supergroup End find a collective passion for pain on new album Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Currents’ The Way It Ends: an uncompromising yet accessible call to arms
Currents’ mix of metalcore, post-hardcore and punk dissonance has never sounded as potent as it does on new album The Way It Ends
Grave Digger’s Fields Of Blood: German metal warhorses go the full Braveheart
Metal veterans Grave Digger focus on Scottish history on new album Fields Of Blood
Firewind: ex-Ozzy sidekick Gus G serves up hooks and guitar heroics on ninth album
Gus G returns to melodic power metal roots on Firewind’s self-titled ninth album
Old Man Gloom’s Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning: a towering tribute to a fallen comrade
Sludge metal supergroup Old Man Gloom return from the shadows
Alestorm bust out the West Coast rap on new album Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
Pirate metal lunatics Alestorm go grog-crazy on new album Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
Bleed From Within’s Fracture album is what metalcore should sound like in 2020
Returning Scottish metalcore heroes Bleed From Within push back their own boundaries on new album Fracture
Theraphosa’s Transcendence album is a blackened exploration of the soul
French trio Theraphosa crank up the dark progressive grooves on new album Transcendence
Witchcraft’s Black Metal: the opposite of what it says on the tin
Ex-doomsters Witchcraft swap amps for acoustic guitars on misfiring new album Black Metal
Nu-thrashers Shrapnel mix it up with the old masters on Palace For The Insane
British thrashers Shrapnel pick up the pace on new album Palace For The Insane
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