Primal Fear’s Metal Commando: the power metal Jedi Masters return
Power metal warhorses Primal Fear show their class on lucky thirteenth album Metal Commando
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Rumahoy’s Time II: Party: pirate metallers’ new album goes better with grog
Scurvy dogs Rumahoy narrowly avoid walking the plank on new album Time II: Party
Metalcore heroes Misery Signals go back to the future on new album Ultraviolet
Misery Signals’ first album with their original line-up in 16 years is a huge leap sideways
Imperial Triumphant’s Alphaville is the sound of metal’s cutting edge being redefined
Masked NYC brain-melters Imperial Triumphant serve up metal/jazz/avant garde/barbershop madness on majestic new album Alphaville
Corpsing’s Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants: UKDM ragers go for the jugular
Corpsing’s new album Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants prove UK death metal is alive and seething
The Acacia Strain chronicle our descent into hell on Slow Decay
US hardcore bruisers The Acacia Strain offer a savage state-of-the-world address on new album Slow Decay
Aleah’s posthumous new album is a spectral reminder of a great lost talent
Magical melancholy from late Tears Of Eternity singer Aleah Starbridge
Destruction’s Born To Thrash: German titans live and feral
Euro thrash warhorses Destruction show no sign of slowing on new live album Born To Thrash
Bush’s new album The Kingdom is a reminder of why they were one of the 90s' biggest bands
Grunge-era superstars Bush show their class on new album The Kingdom
Ensiferum’s Thalassic is the sound of a band still gallantly riding on the wings of folk metal
Finnish folk metallers Ensiferum put fresh wind in their sails with new album Thalassic
Bell Witch And Aerial Ruin’s Stygian Bough Volume 1: where funereal doom and gothic folk collide
Funereal Seattleites Bell Witch renew a fertile partnership with old friend Aerial Ruins on new album Stygian Bough: Volume 1
Saudi Arabian black metallers Al-Namrood wage war from the shadows on new album Wala’at
Al-Namrood’s Wala’at album is the work of true black metal rebels
Vile Creature’s Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!: sludge metal as you’ve never heard it before
Gender-defying Toronto duo Vile Creature undergo a furious reawakening on new album Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Bury Tomorrow’s new album Cannibal proves they’re the kings of modern metalcore
Bury Tomorrow muscle to the front of the modern metalcore pack with new album Cannibal
A.A. Williams’ Forever Blue: bleakness and beauty in one stunning debut album
Death gospel visionary A.A. Williams shows metal bands don’t have the monopoly on misery with debut album Forever Blue
Beyond The Black’s Horizon: symphonic metallers mix gloss and grit on new album
Germany’s Beyond The Black move away from their symphonic roots on Horizon with mixed results
Emmure crank the menace up to maximum on new album Hindsight
New album Hindsight is unpredictably ferocious even for Emmure
Aversions Crown conjure apocalyptic fury on new album Hell Will Come For Us All
Aussie bruisers Aversions Crown raise their game even further on fourth album Hell Will Come For Us All
Vampire’s Rex album: blackened thrash with sharp teeth
Swedish blackened thrash heroes Vampire emerge from the shadows on new album Rex
