Edwin McFee

Progressive metallers power through their second decade

Ireland’s veteran doom/death crew make an evolutionary leap

Black metal individualists lack a bit of individuality

Orchestral black metal to – where else – the max

Veteran black metallers reach the recesses of the underworld

New Jersey’s space lords enter another parallel universe

Greece’s metal overlords have a humongous homecoming

Savannah psych/sludge crew dive further down the rabbit hole

Cult rockers undergo a shift of allegiance

Norwegian punk’n’roll posse hone their (Kvel)attack

Converge and Cave-In members find new ways to crush

Norway’s epic metallers find new territories to conquer

Former Arch Enemy guitarist retunes his roots

Eighties-bothering Spaniards find new tricks up their sleeves

Irish folk metal crusaders get back to their roots

Candlelight

India’s symphonic metallers move out of the darkness

Liverpudlian thrashers get by with a little help from their friends

Semimal Swedes get down with the crowd

Finland’s modern thrashers continue to evolve

Sweden’s heavy metal diehards have a devil of a time

Conceptual occult hymn duo experience highs and lows

Sky raising riffs from former Taint frontman

Alt-metal heroes unearth two classics

US death metallers start to reach outside the box