Connie Gordon

Street metal vets can still get it up to drink, fight and fuck

Doom/death pioneers come back from the grave

LA shape-shifters take the scenic route through the sewers

Re-jigged Swedeath dealers prove that life goes on

Grind provocateurs search for the Ace in their pack

Masterful misanthropy from the north east US badlands

Grindcore superheroes live up to advance billing

Noise rockers set a new gold standard with fourth full-length

Boston’s hardcore hurricane marks a quarter century

Irish thrashers extol the joys of arrested development

Heavy metal as you know it – and have never heard it before

US noise collective expand their angst

Experimental Texans tune in to some resonant evil

Canada’s chaotic grind misfits mutate once more

Single-minded crossover crew lose their sense of direction

Manchester madmen muddy up their blackened grind

Death metal’s dirtiest sons find themselves on the skids

German death metal crew go in search of some Sunlight

Emotional industrialism, direct from the irradiated wastelands

Norse duo thrash from birth, will thrash ’til death

Well connected Brooklyn alt-doom quintet fizzle out

Miami grindcore maulers edge towards greatness

Kentucky punk crew put their faith in the post

Grind/death adepts brew up a new batch of brutality

Swedish doom monoliths still dragging slabs across the desert