Reviews

Lacuna Coil's new album Black Anima elevates a band already on career-defining form

Never Boring: a collection that conspires to capture the extraordinary personality and talent of Freddie Mercury

Babymetal's new album Metal Galaxy deftly proves that the band's whole existence is one massive curveball

Dutch one-hit wonders Golden Earring prove there's so much more to their arsenal than Radar Love

Nick Cave’s new album Ghosteen is an astonishing work which sees him transform his grief into a poetic masterpiece

Six years in the making, Monzer Darwish's debut documentary Syrian Metal Is War gives a voice to the voiceless

Just what the doctor ordered as The Wildhearts deliver mini-album Diagnosis

Merry men The Darkness tread winning tightrope between sublime and ridiculous on Easter Is Cancelled

Hated by the critics and operating with low expectations, Grand Funk brought in production guru Todd Rundgren for We're An American Band

Opeth's 13th album In Cauda Venenum is a lavish, meticulously layered feast for the senses

Sunset Strip revivalists Steel Panther bring more swears than songs with fifth album Heavy Metal Rules

Thunder milk their 30th anniversary on The Greatest Hits and produce nothing but cream

Sheffield quartet deliver the soundtrack of the shape of things to come...

Opeth are one of the most revered modern prog bands on the planet. How’s their 13th album shaping up, then?

Alice In Chains' debut album Facelift reinvented heavy metal and sent grunge into the charts

North Carolina’s horror maestro, Wednesday 13, draws more iron from his blood in new album Necrophaze

Boston's debut album was mostly recorded in band mainman Tom Scholz’s basement in Massachusetts, yet went on to shape the studio work of a generation

Jonathan Davis exorcises his most ferocious demons yet in Korn's new album The Nothing

Dutch black metallers Asagraum weave potent new magick from the old school with new album Dawn of Infinite Fire