Porcupine Tree / Should Wilson, Barbieri and Harrison have let sleeping progs lie?
MetalTalk Album Of The Week – Devil’s Train – Ashes & Bones
Khold – Svartsyn – “The thing I love so much about their sound? The atmosphere
Coheed And Cambria continue epic Amory Wars saga with a genuine genre-skipping masterpiece
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.