Sólstafir’s Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love: a post-metal snowstorm to get lost in
Icelandic enigmas Sólstafir fuse the intimate and the epic on new album Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
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Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning is deliberately annoying, genuinely funny and weirdly emotional
Maynard James Keenan and co find serenity beyond the silliness on Puscifer’s new album Existential Reckoning
Auðn’s Vökudraumsins Fangi is atmospheric black metal the way they used to make it
Icelandic black metal warhorses Auðn cleave to the elements on new album Vökudraumsins Fangi
Trap metal renegade Ghostemane serves up nihilism and pain on new album Anti-Icon
Industrial, rap, metalcore, techno: trap metal genre-smasher Ghostemane leaves no genre unturned on new album Anti-Icon
Draconian’s Under A Godless Veil: a glorious marriage of gothic doom and gnostic cosmology
Sweden’s revered gloom-mongers Draconian find new depths of glory on Under A Godless Veil
Mr Bungle’s The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo: you want thrash? You got thrash
Only Mike Patton and co could resurrect a 35-year-old demo and make it sound like one of the most vital albums of 2020
Igorrr singer Ricinn swaps chaos for beauty on new album Nereïd
Post-metal icon Ricinn makes her way out of the Igorrr menagerie on second solo album Nereïd
Sevendust’s Blood & Stone is the sound of a band who finally mean business once more
Atlanta metal mainstays Sevendust serve up their best album in years with Blood & Stone
Armored Saint’s Punching The Sky: metal’s great nearly-men remain as exhilarating as ever
Veteran headbangers Armored Saint show the youngsters how it’s done on new album Punching The Sky
Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days is the sound of doom metal marching into the future
Arena-sized ambition with prog twists: Forgotten Days proves no one does doom like Pallbearer
Devin Townsend’s Order Of Magnitude: prog-metal’s greatest showman in full flight on epic live album
Devin Townsend brings the Hawaiian shirts and escapism on effervescent new live album Order Of Magnitude: Empath – Vol. 1
Death metal legends Benediction obliterate all-comers on new album Scriptures
UK underground icons Benediction rabid new album Scriptures shows the kids how death metal should be done
Wayfarer’s A Romance With Violence: the Clint Eastwoods of extreme metal strike gold
Extreme metal meets Deadwood on Denver gunslingers Wayfarer’s epic new album A Romance With Violence
Molassess’ Through The Hollow is a stellar tribute to a fallen bandmate
Former members of The Devil’s Blood pay tribute to late mainman Selim Lemouchi on the debut album from new band Molassess
Greg Puciato’s Child Soldier: Creator Of God: head-melting genius from ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer
Never mind the leaks – ex-Dillinger Escape Plan man Greg Puciato’s brilliant debut solo album sets him up as the next Mike Patton
Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers
Florida’s Bloodbather serve up furious riffs and atonal guitar squeals on terse Silence EP
Crippled Black Phoenix’s Ellengaest: scabrous diatribes and emotional devastation on majestic new album
Post-rock mavericks Crippled Black Phoenix rise above turmoil the help of all-star guests on new album Ellengaest
Anaal Nathrakh’s Endarkenment: filthy nihilism out, unexpected optimism in
Blackened grind doomsayers Anaal Nathrakh clean up their act on new album Endarkenment – but it can’t dispel the whiff of formula
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou’s May Our Chambers Be Full is the perfect marriage of the grime and the sublime
Post-rock chameleon Emma Ruth Rundle and sludge metal boundary-pushers Thou team up on brilliant left-field collaboration
