More than three decades on from their Tampa beginnings, the Florida symphonic-power-metal institution arrive at album number fourteen with something genuinely ambitious in hand

For the better part of two decades Maria Brink has draped her band in ritual and candlelight, in veils and horns and Salem-trial pageantry, so the real surprise with album number nine is not that it is called Witch but that it took her this long to plant the word squarely on the sleeve. T

Every diptych lives or dies on its second half. Chapter one lands the blow; chapter two has to prove the blow meant something.

The Rolling Stones- Foreign Tongues. I think the conversation with my editor went something like this: " What about the Rolling Stones? " I responded, " What about them?" My editor was talking about the new album by the iconic English rockers, of course.

In the world of music, after ten studio albums, it would stand to reason that a band would struggle to keep switching things up and surprising fans.

The evolution of Kris Barras continues and with Monsters We Made the heavier beats of previous album "Halo Effect" follow suit but with tinges of emotion that impact hard and of course it is an album full to brimming with outstanding guitar work. 

Two decades of being the most divisive, most streamed and most stubbornly, infuriatingly successful band the modern metal mainstream has ever thrown up

I’d imagine the gang within The Hu are riding pretty high right now.  This relatively new group of noise makers from Mongolia performed to over 30,000-40,000 people at Knebworth at Eddfest just a couple of weekends ago. 

Twenty years. Two decades of eyeliner and industrial-sized riffs; two decades of line-up changes

Nashville husband and wife led band Parker Barrow have already outlived the collaboration of the bands namesakes (Bonnie and Clyde) and with Hold the Mash they could very well become more infamous.

It is time for album number three from Eva Under Fire and with Villainous we have a band slipping into a groove cut out by Nu Metal but this album is huge, the production is incredible and the stories within enthralling.

DevilDriver deserve better! I still have a huge spot for their debut which frankly was met with what I still consider a lot of negative resistance and I feel they’ve been on an uphill battle ever since but now we arrive at latest album Strike And Kill

In rock n' roll parlez if there's something even more important than the all-important second album then surely it's the all-encompassing third full-length studio release.

London trio HAWXX are fearless. Building on their reputation as one of the fiercest bands out there, debut album 'Earth, Spit.

Sit back and let me take you on a journey back in time to an era where the speakers vibrated to the thunderous pounding of drums, screaming guitars and soaring vocals

Seven years on from In the Raw, the longest gap between metal albums in her solo catalogue, the Finnish soprano Tarja has returned to where she belongs, Frisson Noir makes an emphatic case that the extended absence only sharpened the intent.