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Cancer Bats’ Psychic Jailbreak: hardcore kingpins as reliably awesome as ever
Not yet ratedAlbum review: they may be down a member, but Cancer Bats haven’t let up the pace on new album Psychic Jailbreak
Health’s Disco4 :: Part II: future-metal visionaries continue to taunt the gatekeepers on all-star sequel
Album review: Health team up with Trent Reznor, Poppy and Lamb Of God on new album Disco4 :: Part II with stellar results
Metal Lords review: Hollywood finally gets heavy metal right
Netflix's new heavy metal film, produced by Game Of Thrones' D.B. Weiss, is a true love letter to the genre
Papa Roach’s Ego Trip: Class of 2000 survivors continue to banish the ghost of nu metal
Album review: Nu metal? What nu metal? Papa Roach build on their late-career remodelling on new album Ego Trip
Euro-thrash legends Destruction channel the fury of youth on new album Diabolical
Album review: Destruction’s Diabolical album ticks every vintage thrash box you want it to tick with venomous results
Carpenter Brut’s Leather Terror: murder on the dancefloor
Album review: Synthwave’s shadowy maestro Carpenter Brut goes dancing in the dark on new album Leather Terror
Meshuggah’s Immutable: still running rings around every other metal band on the planet
Album review: prog-metal emperors Meshuggah deliver another head-spinning classic with new album Immutable
Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road is the perfect live album for 2022
Album review: UK metalcore kings Architects revive last year’s magisterial livestream at legendary London studio
Animals As Leaders’ Parrhesia album: molten noise meets next-level virtuosity
Album review: Animals As Leaders continue to push djent into bold new realms on new album Parrhesia
Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow is the ultimate love letter to extreme metal
Album review: Dave Grohl swaps the Foo Fighters for grindcore, sludge and black metal on Dream Widow
Soul Glo's Diaspora Problems: "like Animal from The Muppets getting p***ed up and finding a snare drum at a funeral"
Soul Glo's Diaspora Problems mixes hardcore punk, metal and rap in the best crossover record since Turnstile's Time & Space
Abbath’s Dread Reaver: black metal icon hits the sweet spot between Motörhead, Bathory and Kiss
Album review: ex-Immortal man and black metal survivor pulls back from the edge of ruin with Dread Reaver
Eric Wagner’s In The Lonely Light Of Mourning is a fitting epitaph for the voice of doom
Album review: Trouble frontman and doom icon Eric Wagner’s posthumous In The Lonely Light Of Morning is a fitting goodbye to a legend
Ghost’s Impera album is the 80s arena rock banger to end 80s arena rock bangers
Album review: Ghost’s Impera proves the Devil doesn’t have the best tunes – Tobias Forge does
Ho99o9’s Skin: hip hop/punk riotstarters are out to f**k with your head
Corey Taylor and Travis Barker join in the chaos as Ho99o9’s step into new realms of the weird on second album Skin
The Batman Review: six things we learned from Robert Pattinson's Dark Knight debut
Our review of The Batman breaks down Emo Bruce Wayne, the darkest on-screen Gotham yet and much more
Cassyette's London Underworld show proves she's the leader of a new kind of alternative scene
Was Cassyette's London Underworld show a preview of the next generation of alt artists to break big?
