Solace take the Small Stone staple of stoner riffola and spice it up with a generous pinches of thrash and hardcore on their fifth studio album, A.D.

Montreal retro-rockers Priestess bring the proto-thrash riffola and seventies melodics back to heavy metal on their second album, Prior To The Fire.

Oakland stoners Saviours have been indulging in some Accelerated Living, a slightly cleaner take on their blend of heavy thrashy metal’s aesthetic high points.

Thanks to Obiat, your search for the musical equivalent of a hundred magic mushrooms and a bottle of whiskey is over. Eye Tree Pi; turn on, tune up, space out.

The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal has seemingly never stopped washing over the Midlands; take a trip Into The Volcano with retro-thrashers Last Stop China Town.

It’s difficult to go terribly wrong with the Greatest Hits of Black Sabbath… but you’d still be better off investing in the first four albums than this one.

Glaswegian thrashers Attica Rage have a passable tune in new single “Dark City”. The Motorhead cover on the B-side, however, doesn’t flatter either band.

Sweden’s premiere retro-metallers Wolf show they’re still way out in front of the other eighties rock revivalists with Ravenous, their fifth studio album.

Step Through The Gates Of Hell with Sandhurst metallers Primitai – it’s all fun and games until someone loses a soul.