Iconic / Second Skin is a great ensemble of talent and tunes
Album Of The Week / The seriously underrated Exocrine release The Hybrid Suns
Infanteria build huge Thrash Metal songs on Patriarch
Stillborn / Cultura de la Muerte, an engagingly brutal assault on the senses
Soulfly box set demonstrates Max Cavalera’s important place in the Metal hierarchy
GWAR / Alien Lords and Masters demand your unfettered attention
Crobot / Feel This “for me, is the best album so far this year”
Malignant Aura / Abysmal Misfortune Is Draped Upon Me is superbly bleak and haunting
Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos an eclectic triumph from one of music’s finest institutions
Album Of The Week / The Heretic Order release III – Let the nightmares begin
Bridear / Aegis Of Athena cracks things wide open – resistance is futile
Decapitated drop the album of their career with Cancer Culture
Lord Belial rekindle the fire with Rapture, the Black Metal highlight of 2022
Michael Schenker / The Mad Axeman attacks again – with an album of quality.
Album Of The Week / Brave Rival creates a thrilling life-changing debut
Anvil / Impressive Canadian Heavy Metallers have you bracing for impact
Virgin Idol / Self-titled debut album brings an old school feel to their music
Icare / Charogne a brutally romantic tribute to nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire