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Plus the best metal tracks of the month.
The sludge metal heroes team up with Mike Kunka of godheadSilo for a noisy, grungy super team-up.
The Japanese stoner rockers and experimental noise artist team up for a strange and unusual double album.
The Brooklyn metal band returns with 23 minutes of powerful, dark and eclectic sounds.
Erik Wunder brings Charlie Fell (Lord Mantis) aboard for a double set of epic metal that hails to the greats.
The Portland duo’s attempt at the “grossest pop album of all time” is a success.
The Canadian grindcore outfit packs a lot of ideas into 20 minutes.
The thrash legends return to form on this heavy and melodic, yet entirely modern metal record.
The Finnish psychedelic metal band further explores the possibilities of their sound.
The Liverpool doom-metal band finds fun and interesting new ways to wreck, shatter and destroy.
The Brooklyn-based grindcore band has an innovative and invigorating take on the genre, while keeping it concise.
The California doom metal outfit offers up an ambitiously daring and emotional set of music on their new, sprawling LP.
The Savannah sludge metal outfit rises up after the death of bandmate Jonathan Athon with a resilient new chapter.
The Chicago art-metal band goes big, without sticking to close to any expectations of what metal is.
The Immortal frontman continues the Immortal legacy with a new band and more blistering metal.
The Quebec death metal band finds melody in ugliness, and vice versa, on their Profound Lore debut.
The New York black metal outfit offers a short, sharp surprise of blistering metal for the new year.
Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson offer their shortest, simplest album in some time, which is still quite moving.
The St. Louis sludge metal outfit goes for the throat on their eclectic, intense new album.