Under the detailed musical embellishments, the listener is able to fathom the concept and the dark tale it is presenting. A thoroughly intriguing album that simply should not go unnoticed.

By breaking free of their genre restrictions, Lorna Shore have created a modern metal masterpiece which should see them rapidly on the way to becoming one of the essential bands of the moment within the scene.

While the connection with some old masters could be clearly drawn here, there is that current songwriting and production touch to this album that makes it both familiar and brand new at the same time.

Listening to Gentō, you get a sense of being in the eye of the krautrock genre that Steve and Thorsten endure and fall into the world of unbelievable results on the five compositions, tackling themes about man’s fascination with the moving image.

Giants & Monsters is a cracking metal album bursting with big tunes that transported me back to better times.

If you miss Leviathan era Mastodon then Trudger have you covered. This is a stunning return.

The Smart Patrol’s legacy will live on and inspire the next generation of musicians to hopefully follow in their footsteps. Say it once, “ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO!” Perfect, now we’re rolling.

You know that this will be a mournful time of looking at the destruction and the abandoned buildings will make you go inside and think of a place that once was, has now been stuck in the past.

At times frantic, others serene. Malevich makes a cacophony of anger and beauty seem stunningly easy.

Dark and menacing, yet bleakly addictive, Legacy – should help Scotland’s Ihlo could help them find their place within the prog metal pantheon.

Listening to Wilson’s remix, you feel goosebumps crawling underneath your entire body.

Pay up your 7.7p a track and get involved. Please. It’s an investment in finding good, sometimes challenging, new music.

Sherwood was able to gather a brilliant crew that was able to execute his musical ideas to a tee, making this album an excellent experience for both devoted Sherwood fans and those who have barely heard of him.

I have to say their fifth album is like a volcanic explosion, waiting to hit at the right time, at the right place to make your eardrums bleed like a motherfucker!

Throughout the seven soundscapes presented here, Tucker firmly remains in the enchanting space, leaving all the mundane traps easily behind him.

Their music and legacy lives on to continue to inspire the next generation by keeping their spirits alive.

There is a sheer warmness that shines throughout New Radiations and it sees Marissa Nadler at her best.

Stay is one-part curiosity piece, one-part essential art, and it makes perfect sense to me.

Summons the music’s tougher, more upbeat, alter-ego(s) to come out and burn through their social battery.

This it the album that’ll make you want to go back and revisit again and again, repeatedly to see what pieces of the puzzle the master himself has left behind.

You can tell the duo have channeled their inner sense of finding your own true self and being truthful and honest with the music they’ve unfolded for 2025 so far.