One of the finest examples of organic and original heavy post-rock I have heard in quite some time.

To be 26 odd years into a career and adding an album this good to a stacked back catalogue is utterly ridiculous. Why are they not huge?

This is another collection of breathtaking, unique tracks from a truly special band.

Post-metal’s most vital and unique voice delivers a flawless second album that will be a favourite for decades to come.

Earthtone9 has just lost its UK metal crown, it will have to better The Scorching Gaze to try and win it back!

This mix of minimalist post-rock and neo-classical is best enjoyed when you stop the world and sink into the music. A stunning release which will richly reward the sacrifice of time.

One of the finest post-black metal bands in the UK continues to deliver with a devastatingly cohesive and diverse EP.

Two tracks in 22 minutes covering brilliant post-metal and doom shows there is a bountiful future in front of both bands.

Big|Brave steps into new depths of weight and heaviness with great success and whatever they choose to do next, the evidence suggests they will master that too.

If blackened post-hardcore is your thing then this may very well be your album of the year!

II: Aging & Formless is a tremendous post-metal release and it doesn’t even feel like the band has hit its peak yet.

Take the best of 90’s Sacramento emo and mix it with the finest in stoner rock and you get close to what Sons of Alpha Centauri has achieved again.

Mastiff has made one of the grimmest albums of recent times, a dense sludgy atmosphere of hopelessness and pain and it is absolutely glorious.

The third album from the Danish trio continues with a tremendous mix of noise, sludge and post-metal which is heavy, punishing, awkward and beautiful.

The spectacular post-rock of Cold Waves Divides Us is going to be a truly special release this year and amongst the band’s output thus far.

Beautifully textured instrumental, nautical post-rock which richly rewards greater attention when listening.

Corryvreckan is tremendous, it is folk without being twee, metal without being generic and has an appeal even beyond those genres.

Gary Davidson caught up with Joe Clayton to hear all about Pijn, No Studio and Floodlit Recordings and the triumphant Curse These Metal Hands 2023 Arctangent set.

Gary Davidson caught up with Hidden Mothers and Copse to chat through the formative years, Arctangent, their next releases, playing Scotland and Edward Gibbs!

When music is this full of passion and anguish, language translation does not matter. This will be one of the best post-black screamo albums of the year.

A classic European mix of screamo and post-hardcore with flashes of black, serves up seven passionate tracks to get the blood pumping.