Asymmetries is a perfect flex of post contemplation and metal might in a way unique to the UK scene.

There’s so much chemistry the quartet have with each other on this live recording for those two evening shows PAKT have brought forth in the Great White North.

What can I say? Transcend into Oblivion is the album that you need in your metal collection straightaway.

Seretan & Thayer were able to make a seemingly complicated concept sound as easy and natural as their “machine in the garden” should sound. Their sunbeam sounds quite natural indeed.

Taken as a whole, My Days of 58 is a truly fine Callahan album, and I would not hesitate to call it one of the best of his career.

On this second album, Teratoma have developed exponentially from their debut, and show flashes that they might just be in this for the long haul.

Listening to Solberg’s second album, you feel as if you are entering the room of an unknown world, revealing the power and having this cinematic movie inside your head, in what the Leprous front man has envisioned inside his head.

Cult of Occult have crafted an album that suffocates, punishes, and lingers long after the final note fades.

Viggen notes that booking agents often have a problem deciding which venues to give her- classical, jazz or post rock – but her listeners shouldn’t or wouldn’t care because it makes all the sense musically.

This is an intriguing experiment that could really transcend into something special.

It’s insane, in your face, and perhaps one of the maddest prog albums Major Parkinson has unleashed this year to let their listeners know, they might have more tricks up their sleeves in the years to come.

The greatest slam-death party loons that you could ever meet. Long may they reign in absolute silliness.

This album truly delivers in terms of emotion and power. Their finest work to date.

Echoes will hopefully find its way into more and more homes and record collections as it’s an album that any self respecting fan of heavy music needs to hear.

Jetzer’s music turns out to be a well-crafted, ambient combination of jazz, krautrock, and world music that sometimes can veer into the dreaded new age territory, but never touches it here.

I’ll call it out, dälek are quite simply the most exciting hip-hop act on the planet right now.

A construction of wonder, surrealism, unexpected twists, and a magnitude that’s deserves massive sparks of pure electrifying jolts you really need to get your blood pumping.

A blackened hardcore album of both urgency and atmosphere. Ingenting Forblir fulfils all the promise using angry and hope to make a formidable album.

Their collective warmth, light and talent is undying. This record can, from the sun-blinking outside, heave any listener’s cave-door boulder away, and pull up a seat for them at that big table.

An album which contains all the elements which make death metal so much fun when done correctly, it’s almost as if the glory days are back again.

Put it on now, crank up the volume, and make sure you keep on headbanging until the crack of dawn, because it only gets louder and nastier than ever!