Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.

Reading thrashers Sylosis release The Supreme Oppressor, their second mini-album of brutal and uncompromising melodic metal with a hardcore edge.

This eponymous EP from Oxford’s technical free-jazz-metal lunatics Dr. Slaggleberry is a triumph of wilful obscurity.

The future of heavy music lies in texture, innovation, and in the adoption of new instruments and techniques. Genghis Tron’s new album, Board Up The House, is a glimpse into that future.

Berlin progressive metal collective The Ocean present Precambrian, one of the most ambitious and accomplished concept albums the metal field has seen in years.