Alex Deller

From Californian hardcore heroes Scowl to Icelandic post-punks Kaelan Mikla and Brazilian black metal brutes Vauruva, these are the 5 new bands you need to check out this month

From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months

From Gojira-style Swiss prog metal to anti-war Ukrainian death metal, these are 5 new bands you need to hear right now

From Aborted and Immolation to Venom Prison and Lorna Shore, these are the 10 best death metal records of 2022

From gothic reflections of smalltown America to world-conquering deathcore, these are the five new bands you need to know this month

From Tory-bashing metalcore to experimental mathcore and Britain's answer to Every Time I Die - these are the five new metal bands you need to hear this month

From mathcore digit-snappers to the Cayman Island resident working with Iggy Pop and Randy Blythe, this is the best new noise around right now

John Carpenter, Ben Wheatley and more on the horror movie soundtracks to give you the full Halloween fear

Heroin addiction, jail, Hurricane Katrina and a liver transplant – Eyehategod singer Mike Williams has faced them all and come out the other side

Where to start with New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod. Warning: may contain drugs

What life at hardcore’s sharp end has taught Converge mastermind Jacob Bannon about hustling, fatherhood and how to deal with the imitators

Kentish hardcore mob Harrowed want you to use your brain before forcibly removing it from your skull

Known metalhead Iggor Cavalera talks us through the dance tracks essential for all metal fans looking to broaden their horizons