Pomp and ceremony, bravado and bluster; you gotta love a bit of chest-beating power metal/melodic metal and 2017 served up some delicious cheesy platters for us to gorge on [...]
Love it or despise it, nu metal forged on in 2017 as more bands than ever popped out of the woodwork to give this baggy-panted nonsense a second chance! With Machine Head [...]
Technical death metal in 2017 yielded some amazing albums and in order not to lump them in with our standard ‘death metal’ best of, it felt right to give the [...]
UK metal and hard rock is currently in very rude health and 2017 unearthed a shit-load of quality full-length debuts from bands with huge potential. So, in no particular [...]
While the more established legends of the scene coughed up some damn fine adventures in thrash, 2017 was primarily the year that saw the new guard re-cementeing their [...]
A true oddity, Slander were a New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band whose only album (to date) is the underrated Careless Talk Costs Lives, an album that slavishly recreated [...]
There’s already a million identikit reviews of Annihilator’s For The Demented floating around internet land so Worship Metal simply cuts to the chase and answers the [...]
Having struck gold with the release of their classic debut album NOLA in 1995, the various members of Down quickly returned to their various day jobs and it seemed, for a [...]
Formed in 1989, MORTUARY are one of the oldest extreme metal bands in France and yet they remain one of the country’s best kept secrets. However, with a reissue of [...]
Some frontmen seem to work their asses off without ever receiving the respect they deserve. More often than not, it’s those brave souls who step up to replace a [...]