3Teeth
Metawar
Exposing the horrors of modern society's sins, the industrial metal upstarts deliver a peak in their catalog.
Alcest
Spiritual Instinct
This swirling, churning set builds on the more aggressive character of Kodama in pursuing the ends of blackgaze.
Astronoid
Astronoid
Sophomore LP that elevates the New England band's dream-thrash sound with a tighter, grander vision.
Baroness
Gold & Grey
With new guitarist Gina Gleason, the band deliver their most diverse, kaleidoscopic, intricate release to date.
Blut aus Nord
Hallucinogen
Normandy's premier experimental black metal outfit enter a new exploratory musical phase without forsaking their origins.
Born of Osiris
The Simulation
Nearly four years after Soul Sphere, the Chicago outfit simultaneously go back to basics and push the envelope.
Bring Me the Horizon
Amo
Genre-bending sixth effort from the English quintet that continues their evolution away from metalcore.
Devin Townsend
Empath
Rock's most chameleon-like polymath offers a maximalist, startling aural view of his entire soundworld simultaneously, accompanied by a stellar cast.
DragonForce
Extreme Power Metal
Great Britain's ultimate power metal band return sounding revitalized, refreshed, and more athletic than ever.
Dream Theater
Distance over Time
The New York quintet refocuses, goes back to basics, and delivers a gem that's full of aggression, great writing, and inspired playing.
Earth
Full Upon Her Burning Lips
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Olympia, Washington's power drone outfit juxtaposes its rifftastic roots with harmonic discovery.
Helms Alee
Noctiluca
The Puget Sound metal trio's fifth studio effort feels both streamlined and expansive; it's their most multi-faceted and majestic outing to date.
Killswitch Engage
Atonement
With all lineage trademarks on display alongside new production techniques and sonics, the band thrashes and burns through 11 new songs.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Infest the Rats Nest
The ever-prolific band dive headfirst into riff-heavy, thrash-adjacent metal, composing a doomy tale about the death of Earth and what happens after.
KMFDM
Paradise
Angst-packed set from the industrial-dance veterans is a call-to-arms to save the world.
Korn
The Nothing
Reeling from his wife's death, Jonathan Davis pulls his bandmates into the void with this intense career peak.
Lacuna Coil
Black Anima
Emotionally dense ninth set from the Italian goth metal crew sheds theatrics for soul-baring vulnerability.
Lindemann
F&M
Sophomore set from the industrial metal pair abandons their debut's camp in favor of theatrical, emotional depth.
Mono
Nowhere Now Here
Japan's iconic post-rockers celebrate 20 years with a new drummer and electronics on their powerful, emotionally wrenching tenth album.
Motorpsycho
The Crucible
The trio pick up where The Tower left off with a tightly focused yet sprawling set that crisscrosses past and present to create the future.
Of Mice & Men
Earth & Sky
An expertly crafted and undeniably hefty slab of grade-A melodic hardcore.
Opeth
In Cauda Venenum
The Swedish band have left metal completely to pursue their own brand of 21st century progressive rock, and are heavier than ever.
Papa Roach
Who Do You Trust?
The hooky, well-balanced 11th studio album from the California rap-rock stalwarts.
Pelican
Nighttime Stories
The post-metal instrumentalists' sixth full-length effort showcases the band at their funereal best.
Philary
I Complain
Harsh and melodic metal-shoegaze-indie hybrid made with skill and deep feels by a member of Stove.
Queensrÿche
The Verdict
On their third album with vocalist Scott La Torre, Seattle's favorite metal sons sound reinvigorated and in full articulation of their prog metal identity.
Rammstein
Untitled
After a decade, the reinvigorated German metal sextet return with one of their best and catchiest efforts to date.
Russian Circles
Blood Year
Recorded with Converge's Kurt Ballou, Russian Circles' seventh studio album is one of their most unmistakably raw, direct releases.
Sleeping with Sirens
How It Feels to Be Lost
Course-correcting LP from the melodic post-hardcore crew returns them to a thrilling comfort zone.
Slipknot
We Are Not Your Kind
The masked Iowans sixth full-length effort sees a confident and apoplectic Slipknot in full command of their craft.
Sunn O)))
Life Metal
On their first recording since Kannon, the power riff drone masters enlist Steve Albini in tearing light out of the blackness.
Swallow the Sun
When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Guitarist/composer Juha Raivio penned these grief-laden songs to make sense of his life partner's death. The band illumines them with shadowy grandeur.
The Devil Wears Prada
The Act
A career-defining evolution for the Ohio metalcore crew that pushes genre boundaries and atmospheric scope.
Tool
Fear Inoculum
Long-awaited LP finds the enigmatic prog-metal outfit older, wiser, and at the peak of their craft.
Torche
Admission
The Floridian doom-pop quartet's fifth full-length effort administers seismic confections that vary in sweetness but always satisfy.
Volbeat
Rewind, Replay, Rebound
The Danish-American quartet re-channel the ghosts of arena rock's past and emerge with their strongest collection of songs to date.
Whitechapel
The Valley
On its seventh full-length, Tennessee's best known metal outfit bring their progressive and death metal ambitions to the fore with excellent results.
