The second volume gets even wacky, dadaist, crazy, insane, and brilliant in a way those two guys can show how much wonderful music can come out of the Great White North.

If you like metal, then this album is for you. It’s unabashed in its delivery, and more fun than an afternoon eating pizza, watching Return Of The Living Dead 3.

Sanguis is harder, edgier, powerful, and it still manages to see what the band will do next for the third and final chapter in the Dark Poem saga that waits for us.

Sugar Horse pull off the unlikely feat of sounding like OMD and Ministry at the same time.

It’s an album which towers tall over the recent death metal revival and shows how it should be done.

You feel as if you’re watching the duo, pouring their heart and soul into the album and bringing all of these wonders to life to make sure they’ve got it all down to a T.

Tenth album from beloved Canadian collective finds them getting even more insular and melancholy than its predecessor.

Sabel and Vildgren wrap it all up in some gentle and subtly complex songwriting that makes it all sound like it is worth the effort of turning it all into music, as well as keeping that search for the right path going.

The melodies and darkness on Gild The Lily, is quite a moment of realisation and not a single bad track the band put forth for 2026.

There’s still some of that old sound, tense steel-strung acoustica and extended spoken word passages, but it’s nestled among a forest of hulking post-metal riffs, drone metal and doom, a landscape bereft of light where old gods still lurk and accept their offerings.

Dewa is bound and ready to show how much he’s come a long way for 46 years. There’s not a single bad track on Praguenayama.

It certainly deserves to be heard and hopefully will find a home with Metal Church fans old and new.

The Matador accomplish a tremendous feat of taking the familiar sounds of post-metal and amplifying them to exciting places.

A combination of these three musicians, prove to me they can take their levelling approach with mind-blowing beauty and spectacular walks of life.

This is, perhaps, Gnod at their gentlest, but they’ve not mellowed out.

Dank, atmospheric, gritty and gruesome, it’s the soundtrack to a 70’s seedy horror movie gone wrong

By using the combination of acoustic (‘regular’) instrumentation and electronics Jarboe is attempting to make a connection between all that is visible, obvious and invisible, mystic in the natural world.

This is not passive, you need to engage if you want the good stuff, you’ve got to meet it somewhere. In this album’s case, that’s out in the woods.

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.