Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist: modern metal with the grandest of ambitions
Modern metal heroes Architects continue their upward swing with new album For Those That Wish To Exist
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Melvins’ Working With God: more sonic insanity from rock’s kings of absurdism
Surf rock, twisted pop, unhinged doo wop – it’s business as usual in the demented world of Melvins
Epica’s Omega is a glorious hymn to symphonic metal excess
Can you have too much of a good thing? Not if you’re Epica, you can’t
Moonspell’s Hermitage: where goth metal meets Pink Floyd
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is a love letter to rock’n’roll’s spiritual home
Shock rock OG Alice Cooper pays tribute to his hometown on new album Detroit Stories
White Lion: Pride - Album Of The Week Club review
What's the recipe for two million sales? A Danish singer, a genius guitarist, and a production that perhaps hasn't stood the test of time
Harakiri For The Sky push post-black metal exploration to the limit on new album Mære
More is more for post-black metal visionaries Harakiri For The Sky on 85-minute new album Mære
Whitesnake's Blues Album blurs genres but remains in the shadow of the blues
After Whitesnake albums called silver, gold, purple, red and white, David Coverdale completes a weird rainbow on The Blues Album
Mogwai's As The Love Continues treads an unlikely fine line between waft and heft
Sound sense from Mogwai on 10th album As The Love Continues
Ricky Warwick's complex soul exposed on When Life Was Hard And Fast
Black Star Riders frontman Ricky Warwick's panoramic When Life Was Hard And Fast is his seventh album under his own name
The Hold Steady's Open Door Policy finds new life beyond the burn-out
Brooklyn’s anthemic bar rockers The Hold Steady tell stories featuring a litany of beaten characters on Open Door Policy, but there's light in the darkness
The Amenta’s new album Revelator is the industrial-metal soundtrack to our nightmarish future
Australian future-brutes The Amenta return after eight-year absence with pulverising new albm Revelator
Senyawa’s Alkisah: Indonesian sorcerers put the ‘manic’ into ‘shamanic’
Experimental metallers Senyawa mix the sublimely strange with the deliberately comic on new album Alkisah
Pretenders: Pretenders II - Album Of The Week Club review
Written and recorded under pressure, Pretenders II sought to continue where Pretenders I left off. But did it succeed?
Dio live albums: repackaged but still offering more Heaven than Hell
Ronnie James Dio's live albums Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City and Holy Diver Live get taken out for another spin
Black Sabbath: Vol 4 Super Deluxe Edition - sometimes, the drugs do work
Black Sabbath's Vol 4 Super Deluxe Edition: a four CD/five vinyl box containing everything except the Class A narcotics that fuelled it
Death By Unga Bunga's stellar songcraft shines on Heavy Male Insecurity
Heavy Male Insecurity is the fifth album from muscular Norwegian power-poppers Death By Unga Bunga
Nu-metal lovers rejoice! Love And Death revive memories of parachute pants on Perfectly Preserved
Love And Death's Perfectly Preserved is a polished lesson in melodic alt.metal
