RELEASE REVIEW

There's nothing out there quite like Bloodywood's Indian-folk flavoured style of metal. How does this second album compare to their debut Rakshak?

Time to get out your horse and strap on that saddle, we’re riding into hell with metal’s answer to Buffalo Bill’s Cowboy Band, Spiritworld.

Refusing to stay stagnant Imperial Triumphant have produced another killer record, albeit in a way they haven't done before.

Shaking things up from their 2021 release Bummer, Canadian duo Cleopatrick is trading the gritty and grungy for retro games consoles and overt existentialism. Their sophomore album Fake Moon shows another side to what these musicians can do, proving they're no one trick ponies.

As progressive emo titans Coheed And Cambria reach the halfway point of their latest arc, the New York four piece prove that sticking to the hits sometimes pays off.

Riding the waves of critical acclaim that have earned them back-to-back Grammy nominations for Best Metal Performance, Canadian metalcore quartet Spiritbox release their highly-anticipated second album Tsunami Sea in a bold expansion of progressive, electronically-infused metalcore.

The best things really do come to those who wait, and Herzschlager deliver a modern hardcore masterpiece with misanthropic vocals and distortion aplenty, all crammed into six memorable tracks.

Breaking free of their reputation as a cult curiosity, emotive punk trio Michael Cera Palin deliver an incredibly diverse and moving debut album.

Lock your doors and stock up on silver bullets because Raging Speedhorn are on the prowl with their beastly seventh album, Night Wolf.

Dutch blackened doom outfit Ter Ziele (roughly translating to: The Demise) are big fans of bleak, agonising sounds, conceptually musing on life and death. Conjuring a haunting exploration of the human condition, the band’s debut album Embodiment of Death finally arrives.

it's been an exciting three years for Split Dogs. Formed in 2022, they have multiple EPs and two debut albums under their belt, have toured with iconic punks such as Subhumans, and have played the seminal Rebellion Festival.

If Kodok is anything to go by, The Grey may be a misnomer. The Cambridge trio's third album is a fizzing wash of contrasts and textures, murky sludge laden blackness peeling away to reveal blinding brightness and an entire spectrum of vivid colour.