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…
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…
Tesseract – Perspective (2012)
Perspective is the second EP by British progressive metal band Tesseract, released on May 21, 2012. The EP is not a…
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion (2012)
Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson bring their prog powers as a duo on the…
Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol (2012)
Released in 2012, Tragic Idol is Paradise Lost’s 13th studio album, and fourth since re-embracing heavy metal…
DragonForce – The Power Within (2012)
Power metal champions DragonForce’s fifth studio album, The Power Within, is the first outing to feature new…
DragonForce – Twilight Dementia: Live (2010)
Not ones for subtlety, metal virtuosos Dragonforce storm straight from the stage and into your ears like…
The Safety Fire – Grind the Ocean (2012)
Grind the Ocean is the debut studio album from UK based progressive metal band The Safety Fire. The album was initially…
Wodensthrone – Curse (2012)
Lighting a new fire where 2009′s intriguing Loss previously smoked itself out, Wodensthrone’s second album, Curse, casts inquisitive musical…
Iron Maiden – En Vivo! (2012)
En Vivo! is a live/video album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Filmed by Banger Films, Inc during The Final Frontier World Tour at Estadio Nacional…
Enochian Theory – Life…And All It Entails (2012)
Following extensive touring in support of Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio through 2009 and 2010, Ben Harris-Hayes began writing…
Angel Witch – As Above, So Below (2012)
Next to the tragically under-performing Diamond Head, Angel Witch may just have been the New Wave of British Heavy…
UFO – Seven Deadly (2012)
Since its release, this album has been met with mostly positive reviews. Rebecca Miller of Metal Temple wrote, “Not contented to sit back…
Napalm Death – Utilitarian (2012)
A quarter of a century after 1987′s Scum introduced the world to arguably one of the metal scene’s most uncompromising and downright menacing bands, and Birmingham…
Orange Goblin – A Eulogy for the Damned (2012)
For a while there, things looked pretty grim for lovable stoner metal stalwarts Orange Goblin…their sixth studio album, and third since branching out beyond their stoner/space rock foundations, 2007′s Healing…
Slash – Made in Stoke 24/7/11 (2011)
Recorded live at the Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England in 2011, Made In Stoke 24/7/11 spans two discs…
Slash – Apocalyptic Love (2012)
If you were wondering why Slash, one of the greatest guitarists of his generation, chose to throw in his lot with Myles Kennedy, one of the greatly undistinguished hard rock vocalists of his…
Cathedral – Anniversary (2011)
By the time English doom metal institution Cathedral announced that 2011 would be their last year as a performing concert unit (with a final studio album slated for the following year), they’d already…
Motörhead – The Wörld Is Ours, Vol. 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else (2011)
After over 35 years of relentless touring and recording, heavy metal pioneers Motörhead show no signs of slowing…
Motörhead – The Wörld Is Ours, Vol. 2: Anyplace Crazy as Anywhere Else (2012)
Not even a year after the first installment in their new series of live recordings, metal veterans Motörhead released a…
Cradle of Filth – The Manticore and Other Horrors (2012)
Just in time for Halloween 2012, Cradle of Filth’s The Manticore and Other Horrors arrives on store shelves. Their tenth studio album looks much…
Savage Messiah – Plague of Conscience (2012)
Let’s not beat around the bush now: after showing much promise on a raw but righteously motivated, self-released…