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Kittie have completed one of modern metal's great comebacks with Fire
By Paul Travers published
Twenty five years on from nu metal breakthrough Spit, Fire proves that Kittie are a vital modern metal band with plenty left to say

Rezn Burden Album Review
By Edwin McFee published
Shelved for three years, Burden has finally been dusted off and released, showing a bold new vision for Chicago psych-doomers Rezn

Julie Christmas Ridiculous And Full Of Blood album review
By Alex Deller published
Former Made Out Of Babies and Battle Of Mice vocalist Julie Christmas offers a bizarre, bold new vision on new album Ridiculous And Full Of Blood

Ulcerate’s Cutting The Throat Of God is everything death metal should be in 2024
By Matt Mills published
On album number seven, New Zealand’s Ulcerate raise their own bar and set a new benchmark for death metal releases this year

Bring Me The Horizon’s first show of the Nex Gen era was ludicrous, meticulous and surprisingly heavy
By Matt Mills published
At their first concert since the release of new album Post Human: Nex Gen, pop-metal royalty Bring Me The Horizon hosted an extravaganza of pyro, video and once-in-a-lifetime moments

Jacob Bannon's extreme metal supergroup Umbra Vitae have stuck gnarled gold with Light Of Death
By Stephen Hill published
One of the best extreme metal albums of 2024 has arrived

Apocalyptica have done another stirring album of orchestral Metallica covers - and even St Anger sounds epic
By Paul Travers published
Almost thirty years on from their first Metallica covers record, Apocalyptica have come full circle

Tool review - Resorts World Arena Birmingham May 30 2024
By Rich Hobson published
Tool return to the UK for the second time this decade for a masterclass in mind-boggling imagery and prog instrumentals

Umbilical proves Thou are still one of sludge metal's most adventurous and innovative bands
By Kez Whelan published
US underground darlings Thou prove there's so much more to them than just sludge on expansive sixth album Umbilical

Bad Omens' Concrete Jungle [The OST] confirms their status as heavy music's next superstars
By Emily Swingle published
Bad Omens stretch their boundaries and produce gold with Concrete Jungle [The OST]

Exodus' new live album gives us a rowdy glimpse into the golden age of thrash
By Matt Mills published
New Exodus live album British Disaster: The Battle Of '89 offers no surprises but plenty of thrashing good fun

"Bring Me The Horizon don’t care about the expectations of metal – if anything, the guidelines are there to be ridiculed." Post Human: Nex Gen is long, chaotic and antagonistically weird
By Emily Swingle published
Bring Me The Horizon's latest album is another dizzying evolution for a band that refuses to stand still

Nordic folk champion Kati Rán explores femininity in Norse mythology on new album Sála
By Joe Daly published
Nine years on from her debut, Kati Rán unveils a sublime new vision of Nordic folk and mythology with Sála

Rotting Christ have just crafted their most accessible - and perhaps most magnificent - album yet
By Dom Lawson published
Rotting Christ have written the most immediate hooks of their career without compromising one jot

"Dark Superstition is the moment where Gatecreeper become a more well-rounded and versatile heavy metal band." Gatecreeper confirm their status as one of the most exciting bands in death metal with album three
By Dom Lawson published
Gatecreeper have evolved nicely without compromising their extreme metal roots on the excellent Dark Superstition

Peter Tagtgren dusts off electro-metal side project Pain for rave-inducing new album I Am
By Paul Travers published
Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren takes a break from singing about aliens and conspiracies to indulge electro-goth dancefloor fillers with side project Pain

Doom champions Pallbearer branch out on emotionally devastating new album Mind Burns Alive
By Alex Deller published
After dipping their toes in the prog pool with 2020's Forgotten Days, Arkansas doom-mongers Pallbearer embrace experimental sounds with new album Mind Burns Alive
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