Beartooth’s Below: gnarly noise meets life-affirming anthems
Caleb Shomo turns darkness into catharsis on Beartooth’s most brutal album yet
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Bossk take post-metal to bleak new peaks on new album Migration
Post-metal is safe in the hands of UK experimentalists Bossk if their new album Migration is any measure
Helloween’s Helloween: power metal kings expand and conquer on new album
Helloween’s past meets their present on dazzling self-titled ‘reunion’ album
Hacktivist’s Hyperdialect: the genre-smashing soundtrack to an imaginary revolution
Grime metal insurrectionists Hacktivist add more prongs to their attack on new album Hyperdialect
Fear Factory’s Aggression Continuum: an industrial-metal triumph over human malfunction
Kiss kick off their archive live series with a die-hard fan's delight
Out now: short-lived Kiss line-up captured live in Japan on Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001
Go Ahead And Die’s Go Ahead And Die: Max Cavalera keeps it in the family
Max Cavalera teams up with son Igor Amadeus for Go Ahead And Die’s impressively brutal debut album album
Red Fang’s Arrows: stoner sultans take a turn for the weird
Portland weirdbears Red Fang tweak the stoner formula on new album Arrows with impressive results
Atreyu’s Baptize: a post-metalcore adrenaline rush that wears off quickly
Metalcore pioneers Atreyu gain star power but lose their spark on new album Baptize
Rise Against’s Nowhere Generation: agit-punk warriors hit another energy spike
Nine albums in and Rise Against’s spirit hasn’t dented an inch if Nowhere Generation is anything to go by
Perturbator’s Lustful Sacraments: synthwave guru takes a walk on the dark side
Goth hits the dancefloor on the new album from synthwave pioneer James ‘Perturbator’ Kent
Myles Kennedy’s The Ides Of March: one of rock’s great voices soars over so-so songs
Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy wrings stellar performances from sometimes less-than-stellar material on new album The Ides Of March
Dordeduh’s Har: epoch-mashing brilliance from Romania’s polymetal masters
Dordeduh’s transcendent second album Har contains worlds within worlds
Capra’s In Transmission serves up metallic punk exhilaration with attitude to spare
US metallic punks Capra unleash a fiery opening salvo with debut album In Transmission
Tetrarch’s Unstable is the nu metal album 2021 needs
The second album from rising Atlanta stars Tetrarch updates the best bits of nu metal – and leaves the dodgy rapping behind
Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude
Evile’s Hell Unleashed: rebooted Brit thrashers blast away the cobwebs
Album review: modern thrash flagbearers Evile pick up where they left off on first new album in eight years, Hell Unleashed
Bongzilla fire up a stoner doom epic with new album Weedsconsin. Warning - may contain drugs
Album review: America’s most stoned Bongzilla fire up the cosmic bong once more on new album Weedsconsin
Bodom After Midnight’s Paint The Sky With Blood EP is the farewell Alexi Laiho deserves
Album review: Bodom After Midnight’s posthumous Paint The Sky With Blood is an bittersweet end to Alexi Laiho’s all-too-brief career
