Alastair Riddell

Orgiastic, old-school metallers whiz through their video nasty collection

The Battalion and Emperor members rough up their woofers

Cleveland’s proto-black metallers prove all the rage

Metal for mountain-topping, air-guitaring glory seekers

Underground anomalies make another massive impact

Hardcore punk hero beats you into all new shades of blue

Primordial frontman seals his doom

Norway’s black/thrashers reload their bullet belts

Sweden’s demonic death/ thrashers go for the throat

Finnish black metal beasts mix the rough with the... rough

Barbarous British occult death metallers tap into the old-shul

Occultic black metallers tap into their East European heritage

Czech black metallers write their own script

Blackened death metal at the precipice of purgatory

It’s heavy metal and it’s exactly as you know it

An apocalyptic testament to human frailty and perseverance

Dutch death metal master gets his war face on

Vast black metal with a burning ambition

DM cult charge into the heart of darkness

Punk-tinged metal madmen stay rough ’n’ ready

Epic extremity conjured from the Italian peaks

Dutch death metallers straddle the old and new schools

Death metal filthmongers dig out some rotten rarities

West Coast retro-metallers return with added power

It’s heavy metal, and it’s going to smack you with a mace