Botch blow minds at their first, and last, reunion show in London, at a sold-out Electric Ballroom
With British metalcore in a golden age and new bands Bad Omens and Spiritbox tearing up the rule book, While She Sleeps are feeling the pressure to transform their own sound on new album Self Hell
Our take on Nickelback's interesting - if hardly explosive - new documentary
South Coast vampire punks Creeper blow Brighton away with an anthem-stacked, fun and emotional set
Hot off earning Tiktok stardom and scoring a UK number two album, ragga metal masters Skindred play a career-affirming showcase at one of London’s most legendary venues
BRAT have the right look to fit in with the likes of Scene Queen and Sophie Powers, but their straight-ahead deathgrind fails to make the same impact
David Vincent, Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen and Flo Mounier live up to their reputation as extreme metal's leading lights
A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow
Dragonforce prove they are still guitar heroes through and through
Hardcore music has never been bigger, and Knocked Loose are making sure it stays true to its savagely heavy roots
During their first-ever headline tour, Swedish up-and-comers Orbit Culture rocked the Underworld’s foundations with a groove metal/melodeath armada
James Lollar has been on shaky ground with GosT's most recent material, but a return to the darkest edges of synthwave re-energises the project
At a rammed Islington Assembly Hall, a bill headed by viking explorers Enslaved pushes black metal into new, fascinating soundscapes
Judas Priest prove yet again that little in this world is as timeless as pure, unadulterated heavy metal
The self-described "Backstreet Boys of metal", Blind Channel capture the anthemia and energy of peak nu metal with new album Exit Emotions
Five albums in and New Years Day are maturing - but losing of the charm of their youth on new album Half Black Heart
Al Jourgensen might be hinting at putting Ministry to bed after their next album, but Hopiumforthemasses shows the industrial metal legends are as incendiary and furious as ever
The Mandrake Project sees Bruce Dickinson return to solo output almost 20 years after A Tyranny Of Souls
At a sold-out London extravaganza, prog metal intellectuals Tesseract make a stunning play for the heavy music mainstream, backed by two of their genre’s finest up-and-comers
