Venom Prison’s Primeval: death metal iconoclasts exhume the past to move forward
Venom Prison give fresh life to hard-to-find old songs on bulldozing new album Primeval
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Toadeater’s Bit To Ewigen Daogen: where anarchist black metal meets 80s goth and post-punk
German post-black metallers Toadeater rip up the rulebook on new album Bit To Ewigen Daogen
Touché Amoré’s Lament: post-hardcore lifers spead their wings with help from Ross Robinson
Impassioned post-hardcore crew Touché Amoré expand their scope on soaring new album Lament
Six Feet Under are still drinking blood, still getting high on new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
Death metal warhorses Six Feet Under serve up endearingly sloppy slab of stoner-death brutality with new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
DevilDriver’s pulverising Dealing With Demons Vol.1 is a roar in the face of adversity
Dez Fafara soundtracks his personal struggles on DevilDriver’s new album Dealing With Demons Vol. 1
Dirt Redux: Alice In Chains’ grunge masterpiece gets the doom makeover it deserves
Doom all-stars pay tribute to Alice In Chains’ classic 1992 album on Dirt Redux
Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
Prog-metal kings Enslaved soar as high as ever on 14th album Utgard
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
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
