The 10 best metalcore albums of 2022 By Rich Hobson published 17 December 22 From Architects and Parkway Drive to Ithaca and Motionless In White, these are the 10 best metalcore albums of 2022
The 10 best death metal albums of 2022 By Rich Hobson published 14 December 22 From Aborted and Immolation to Venom Prison and Lorna Shore, these are the 10 best death metal records of 2022
Lorna Shore’s Pain Remains: brutality, bombast and ballads on 2022’s most audacious deathcore album By Elliot Leaver published 10 October 22 Album review: Lorna Shore push back the boundaries of deathcore on new album Pain Remains
Norma Jean’s Deathrattle Sing For Me: pure anguished poetry from metalcore lifers By Elliot Leaver published 11 August 22 Album review: metalcore vets Norma Jean step out of their comfort zone on new album Deathrattle Sing For Me
5 new bands you need to hear this month By Dannii Leivers, Matt Mills, Catherine Morris, Elliott Leaver published 1 August 22 Ethereal doom, modern nu metal and a righteous hardcore/hip hop mash-up – these are the new bands we‘re hitting hard right now
Ithaca’s They Fear Us: metallic hardcore firebrands stake their claim to greatness with stellar second album By Elliott Leaver published 25 July 22 Album review: Ithaca’s new album They Fire us is a raging, ever-changing triumph
Papa Roach’s Ego Trip: Class of 2000 survivors continue to banish the ghost of nu metal By Elliott Leaver published 6 April 22 Album review: Nu metal? What nu metal? Papa Roach build on their late-career remodelling on new album Ego Trip
Bloodywood's Rakshak proves they are more than just an internet sensation By Elliott Leaver published 18 February 22 Indian metal sensation Bloodywood mix nu, folk and rap metal on their thrilling debut Rakshak
Every Time I Die's Radical: metalcore crossover kings' run of form continues By Elliott Leaver published 20 October 21 Every Time I Die continue to prove themselves the kings of hardcore/metalcore crossover on their ninth record Radical
Alien Weaponry's Tangaroa: Māori metal sensations come of age By Elliott Leaver published 17 September 21 Kiwi groove metal upstarts Alien Weaponry dig deep into the roots of Māori culture and colonialism on second album Tangaroa
Jinjer's Wallflowers: the angriest album of 2021? By Elliott Leaver published 24 August 21 Ukraine’s progressive metal hotshots Jinjer hit the bullseye with Wallflowers
Light The Torch’s You Will Be The Death Of Me: the line up has changed, but the songs remain the same By Elliott Leaver published 17 June 21 Metalcore supergroup Light The Torch stick to familiar ground on solid if unspectacular new album You Will Be The Death Of Me
The Black Dahlia Murder’s Verminous album is a bloodstained new high By Elliott Leaver published 15 April 20 Underground veterans The Black Dahlia Murder retain their place at extreme metal’s top table
