Starkill - Shadow Sleep album review By Jason Hicks published 29 October 16 Former black metallers reach for the opposite end of the spectrum
Dark Tranquility - Atoma album review By Jason Hicks published 28 October 16 Melodeath mavens reassemble on solid ground
Seeker album review – Loss By Jason Hicks published 2 October 16 Tortured Texans Seeker unleash a crust/thrash onslaught with new album
Serpentine Dominion album review – Serpentine Dominion By Jason Hicks published 2 October 16 US metal mavens form an unlikely alliance as Serpentine Dominion. Read our album review here...
Heaven Shall Burn album review – Wanderer By Jason Hicks published 8 September 16 German melodeath crew Heaven Shall Burn bring in some star quality with new album
Allegaeon album review – Proponent For Sentience By Jason Hicks published 7 September 16 Futuristic death metal technicians Allegaeon prove very few shocks with new album
Lo Sound Desert – Jörg Steineck review By Jason Hicks published 12 August 16 Desert rock documentary Lo Sound Desert finds deep undercurrents
Countless Skies – New Dawn album review By Jason Hicks published 11 August 16 British melodeath crew Countless Skies find moments of glory in the gloom. Read our album review here.
Carnifex – Slow Death album review By Jason Hicks published 15 July 16 San Diego deathcore crew Carnifex keep blades sharp with new album
Revocation – Great Is Our Sin album review By Jason Hicks published 15 July 16 Death/thrash stalwarts Revocation dial up the debauchery on new album
Blood Ages –Godless Sandborn album review By Jason Hicks published 15 July 16 French fable-tellers Blood Ages fall short of the fantastic on new album
Whitechapel – Mark Of The Blade album review By Jason Hicks published 21 June 16 Whitechapel are proving that deathcore is still alive, and kicking, with their new album
Thränenkind – King Apathy album review By Jason Hicks published 18 June 16 Genre-mashing Germans undergo some Weltschmerz
Arise In Chaos – Terminal Cognition album review By Jason Hicks published 16 June 16 Colorado’s groove metal crew Arise In Chaos get too fixated on the formula
Anti-Clone – The Root Of Man album review By Jason Hicks published 15 June 16 Lincolnshire mob Anti-Clone offer a new take on the nu metal template
Otep: Generation Doom By Jason Hicks published 26 April 16 Over-important alt-metal from LA’s veteran aggressors
Beholder: Reflections By Jason Hicks published 29 March 16 Midlands metallers craft an eclectic, exhilarating opus
Izegrim: The Ferryman's End By Jason Hicks published 29 March 16 Dutch melodic heavyweights hit a plateau
Mars Red Sky: Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul) By Jason Hicks published 1 March 16 Bordeaux’s stoner rockers start to run out of steam
King Goat: Conduit By Jason Hicks published 1 March 16 South coast doom unit progress through the ranks
Lost Society: Braindead By Jason Hicks published 2 February 16 Finnish thrashers break away from the herd
Product Of Hate: Buried In Violence By Jason Hicks published 2 February 16 Wildly unoriginal rumblings from the lakefronts of Wisconsin
Sanzu: Heavy Over The Home By Jason Hicks published 7 January 16 Perth’s death metal prodigies storm into pole position
Hot New Band: Fit For An Autopsy By Jason Hicks published 8 December 15 Fit For An Autopsy are gleefully reinventing the deathcore wheel.
Culture Killer: Throes Of Mankind By Jason Hicks published 8 December 15 Fast-rising Floridian hardcore crew turn up the heat