Alastair Riddell

Kaballic invocations from Gevurah, in the dark heart of Canada

Polarising Germans go deep into the black

Savage black/thrashers lay siege to your senses

LA longhairs put some power into their classicism

Catalonian cataclysm-lovers churn up the wastelands

Trance encounters from an Italian/American alliance

Anglo-infused metallers power through to the modern age

Biff Byford keeps the heavy metal flag flying

Poland’s masked crusaders craft a masterpiece

Finnish filthmongers rummage around the Satanic side of crust

Classic British metallers convene in North London

Michigan marauders drag classic metal into the modern age

Finnish retro-rockers dish out the dirt

Oregon miscreants leave their footprints on the black/thrash path

Sweden’s classic doomsters return with cult status intact

Seminal thrashers bring mayhem to the masses

Punk metallers party hard to the beat of the apocalypse

Pepper Keenan returns to the CoC fold

Death metallers at the height of their might

Speed metal freaks reach top rabid dog status

Finnish filthmongers ride roughshod over your senses

Old-school grit from the plague pits of southern France

Sweden’s heathen metallers expand their armoury

Brutal blackened death direct from the lower depths

Norwegians conjure new spells from the old-school cauldron