Two decades on from their last album, The Heads fifth is a heady stew of the sounds that make them such a vital force in psychedelic music.

The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal.

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.