All Them Witches
Nothing as the Ideal
The Nashville psych-rockers, now operating as a trio, deliver a bold and bracing set that plays to all of their strengths.
Boris
No
Working in quarantine, the Japanese noise rockers explore hardcore, thrash metal, doom, sludge, and more in direct response to the pandemic.
Bring Me the Horizon
Post Human: Survival Horror
Riotous burst of rage inspired by world events in 2020, this EP is the first in a series by the English post-hardcore outfit.
Bury Tomorrow
Cannibal
The British metalcore group's sixth effort delivers a weighty set that tosses melody and might into a blender and spams the pulse button.
Deftones
Ohms
The alt-metal wizards' stunning ninth set reunites them with producer Terry Date on a heady sci-fi vision quest.
Emma Ruth Rundle / Thou
May Our Chambers Be Full
Rundle and Thou team up for an evocative set that stands at the nexus of doom, gothic rock, post-grunge, and black metal.
Enter Shikari
Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
The English "trancecore" enthusiasts deliver one of the most innovative and genre-obliterating efforts of the year.
Eye Flys
Tub of Lard
The debut LP from this noisy sludge metal act pushes the aggression of Amphetamine Reptile-styled noise rock into new, ugly places.
Fit for a King
The Path
The powerful sixth album from the Texan metalcore outfit offers a brutal outlet for fans of faith.
Haken
Virus
This heavy, diverse concept offering extends the narrative on Vector and answers the question of the identity of "the Cockroach King" from 2013's The Mountain.
Hatari
Neyslutrans
Sociopolitics and sex appeal collide on the electro-industrial debut from the outspoken Icelandic firebrands.
Heaven Shall Burn
Of Truth and Sacrifice
After a four-year break, Germany's premier metalcore outfit deliver a sprawling, wildly ambitious double album, and pull it all off in spades.
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Katatonia
City Burials [Deluxe Edition]
After a four-year break, Stockholm's favorite prog metal band emerges with a dynamic reflection on memory, loss, grief, and rage.
Kvelertak
Splid
The studio debut for vocalist Ivar Nikolaisen, the Norwegian black metallers pick right up where 2016's Nattesferd left off and never look back.
Lamb of God
Lamb of God
The stalwart metallers rise to meet the perceived heft of the late-career eponymous LP with a ten-song set that's spilling over with caustic sonic riches.
Magnum
The Serpent Rings
In the aftermath of major personnel changes in the late 2010s, these revitalized Birmingham rockers come out of the gate rocking.
Metallica / San Francisco Symphony
S&M2
Metallica celebrate the 20th anniversary of S&M by playing another extravaganza with the San Francisco Symphony.
Motorpsycho
The All Is One
The final part of the trilogy that began with The Tower and continued with The Crucible is more ambitious and expansive than both.
Mr. Bungle
The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
The band delivers a bracing and vital-sounding re-recording of their 1986 thrash/punk-metal demo.
My Dying Bride
The Ghost of Orion
Despite threats of life-threatening illness, lineup changes, emotional strain, and doubt, these British metallers deliver the goods in spades.
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Napalm Death
Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism [Limited Edition]
The veteran extreme metallers deliver a sonic cudgel swung with extreme prejudice into the face of the worst that humanity has to offer.
Nothing
The Great Dismal
The band's fourth album sees them adding metal back into their shoegaze sound; the result is almost on par with their brilliant debut.
Ozzy Osbourne
Ordinary Man
The first solo album in ten years from this longstanding icon of metal is surprisingly spontaneous and energetic.
Pallbearer
Forgotten Days
Arkansas' psychedelic doom metal merchants balance a back-to-basics approach with melodic invention, prog asides, and fine production.
Paradise Lost
Obsidian
Three decades after their debut album, these British goth metal pioneers embrace musical eclecticism amid their signature heaviness.
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Viscerals
The third album from U.K. noise/metal purveyors features songs that are more compact but no less brutal than before.
Poppy
I Disagree
On her empowering third LP, the subversive pop star finds her own voice with a brash metal makeover.
Sepultura
Quadra
For the first time in two decades, the Brazilian metal outfit's 2020 album displays the power, aggression, and sophistication of their earliest work.
Stabbing Westward
Dead and Gone
After nearly two decades, the '90s industrial veterans returned with this pulsing comeback EP.
Static-X
Project Regeneration, Vol. 1
Comeback set that employs the late Wayne Static's unearthed vocals on a raucous techno-metal ride.
Testament
Titans of Creation
The thrash legends' 13th studio effort is as savage as it is meticulously rendered; born of the wisdom of age and rage.
The Black Dahlia Murder
Verminous
Michigan's melodic tech death metal kings deliver album number nine. They shift their attack to revel in more speed, hard grooves, and old-school metal.
The Ghost Inside
The Ghost Inside
Arriving five years after the band's bus collided with a tractor-trailer while on tour outside of El Paso, Texas, the metalcore heroes return with their potent fifth effort.
The Ocean
Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic/Cenozoic
The band celebrate 20 years with the wildly adventurous conclusion to Phanerozoic I, creating an allegory of evolutionary history and cosmic tragedy.
Trivium
What the Dead Men Say
Pushing their creative envelope once more, these Floridians reference their catalog while opening the gates to new sonic frontiers.
