Reviews

A blistering black metal lament from the Church Of Ra's Wiegedood

Prog metal’s chief scientists Tesseract bring back the riffs

Toronto punk champions Cancer Bats deliver more attitude than hooks

A sophisticated return for Tool’s ‘feminine’ offshoot

Nashville-based duo serve up hatfuls of rockin’ country

Are the Southern-fried Kentucky rockers poised to take Skynyrd’s crown?

All men continue to play on 10

Maynard James Keenan gets into a meditative mode for A Perfect Circle's new album Eat The Elephant

Tech-metalcore upstarts Shields find themselves in the wake of a tragedy

Washington’s celebrated absurdists Melvins form a new alliance

Recorded at the height of their powers in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, Status Quo's Live! is a firm fan favourite

Metallica have reissued and remastered The $5.98 EP: Garage Days EP

Lee Dorrian rounds up a crew of 80s hardcore punk obsessives for Septic Tank

Nergal’s unstopabble force go full Satanist with their Messe Noire live album

Blackened shoegazers Møl deliver a thrillingly on-the-nose debut

Manic Welsh rockers return to stadium-sized anthemics on their thirteenth album

The Damned's crowdfunded return, their first in a decade, keeps things neat

Motley Crue’s second album, their platinum-selling breakthrough, was an all-out attack on America’s self-appointed moral majority

Album number four arrives from Australian-American supergroup The Dead Daisies