The thriving British alt-metal scene may be in its rudest health for years, but that means the flurry of bands…
Architects – The Here and Now (2011)
Architects – Daybreaker (2012)
Daybreaker is the fifth full-length studio album by British metalcore band Architects, released on 28 May…
Sabaton – Carolus Rex (2012)
Carolus Rex is the seventh studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton. It was released with both…
To Speak of Wolves – Find Your Worth, Come Home (2012)
Find Your Worth, Come Home[1] is the second studio album by American metalcore band To Speak of Wolves it was…
To Speak of Wolves – Myself < Letting Go (2010)
Myself < Letting Go is the debut album by metalcore band To Speak of Wolves. It was released on May 18, 2010…
Six Feet Under – Undead (2012)
For untold years and scores of LPs, vocalist Chris Barnes and the other members of Six Feet Underhave…
Six Feet Under – Graveyard Classics, Vol. 3 (2010)
Every single metal band — past, present, and future — starts off by covering tunes by their favorite bands and takes it from…
Malice – New Breed of Godz (2012)
Unlike so many second-tier American heavy metal bands of the early 1980s, Los Angeles’ Malice had the decency to…
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Piñata (2012)
Pandora’s Piñata is the third studio album by Swedish avant-garde metal band Diablo Swing Orchestra. It was released on…
Burzum – Umskiptar (2012)
Umskiptar (Old Norse for Metamorphosis) is the ninth studio album by Norwegian band Burzum, released on 21…
Burzum – From the Depths of Darkness (2011)
From the Depths of Darkness is a compilation album by one-man musical project Burzum, released on 6 December…
Burzum – The Fallen (2011)
Varg Vikernes’ real-life rehabilitation for murder may have taken close to two decades (in case you’ve been living under…
Burzum – Belus (2010)
Controversy reigns over Belus: the first, brand new recorded work released under the dreadedBurzum masthead by…
Tesseract – One (2011)
Britain’s Tesseract is not the first and will not be the last heavy metal band to fall under the spell of Sweden’s Meshuggah…
Tesseract – Concealing Fate (2010)
Tesseract’s highly conceptual Concealing Fate (a mini-opus composed of six interlocking parts) has the distinct quality…
Firewind – Few Against Many (2012)
Few Against Many is the seventh studio album by Greek heavy metal band Firewind. It is the first album to featureNightrage…
Sonata Arctica – Stones Grow Her Name (2012)
Having seemingly reached the limits of their experimental comfort zone with the more progressive and/or aggressive…
Engel – Blood of Saints (2012)
Blood of Saints is the third album from Swedish melodic death metal/industrial band Engel…
Shining – Redefining Darkness (2012)
Redefining Darkness is the eighth studio album by the Swedish black metal band Shining.[3] It was released through Spinefarm…
Shining – Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt (2012)
Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt is an EP by the Swedish black metal band Shining. It…
Shining – Född Förlorare (2011)
Född förlorare (Born Loser) is the seventh album by Shining, released by Spinefarm Records on May 25, 2011…
Shadows Fall – Fire from the Sky (2012)
Shadows Fall alienated some fans with 2007′s Threads of Life. They’d signed to Atlantic and brought the hooks and…
Shadows Fall – Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live in the Philippines (2010)
This CD/DVD set’s title tells the whole story. A 70-minute live set recorded at some festival or another, documenting…
Saratoga – Nemesis (2012)
The Spanish heavy metal giants from Vallecas, Madrid, have been around in name since 1995, but the band…