Al Jourgensen might be hinting at putting Ministry to bed after their next album, but Hopiumforthemasses shows the industrial metal legends are as incendiary and furious as ever
The Mandrake Project sees Bruce Dickinson return to solo output almost 20 years after A Tyranny Of Souls
At a sold-out London extravaganza, prog metal intellectuals Tesseract make a stunning play for the heavy music mainstream, backed by two of their genre’s finest up-and-comers
Poppy’s latest material might trail deeper into electro-pop, but her KOKO show proves that she's still a metal girlie through and through.
Job For A Cowboy return in spectacular style for their first album in ten years
Darkest Hour have put together another pulsating collection of metalcore bangers
Despite a potentially destabilising lineup shift, Amaranthe are as strong as ever
Ihsahn's latest offering may just feature the best work of his career
After working on movie soundtracks, Chelsea Wolfe returns to the wellspring for a bold new vision on She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Steve Harris' British Lion take over the Cart & Horses for a triumphant show in London
A decade on from the passing of Wayne Static, Static-X's bizarre continuation are nonetheless going strong with solid - if a little rudimentary - industrial metal bangers
Five albums in and Johanna Platow Andersson's doomy occult sect are still producing retro-style infernal brilliance
With an all-star line-up of metal musicians serving as composers, Bright & Black's orchestral debut is the first serious contender for the best metal album of 2024
Saxon's twenty-fourth studio album brings the kind of heavy metal thunder you'd expect. And we wouldn't have it any other way
"A riot from start to finish, with the band having a blast revisiting their British influences"
The Iron Maiden frontman has roped in some heavyweight comic book names for his latest endeavour - and it's worked rather well
If Jordan Fish's exit has shaken the band, they show no signs of it with an immense, retina-singeing headline show in Manchester
Dublin's Sprints release long-awaited debut album Letter To Self, and it's a masterpiece
Lord Of The Lost's bloated new covers album is harmless fun, but absolutely nothing more than that
