Swedish melodic death-metallers Scar Symmetry have uploaded a video diary of the recording of Holographic Universe. A lot of drinking seems to be involved.

Veteran thrash titans Testament return with their first studio album in nearly a decade, The Formation Of Damnation.

Ultra-youthful thrashers Fate turn in Vultures, a début metalcore outing that has all the right ingredients … but not quite the perfect recipe.

Kyle Shutt, guitarist of Texan doomster dudes The Sword, talks about the band’s first headline tour of the UK and their new album, Gods Of the Earth.

Texan doom-thrashers The Sword gallop rough-shod through Portsmouth, leaving dead scenes and punctured eardrums in their wake.

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

“Hearts Burst Into Fire”, the latest single from emo-metallers Bullet For My Valentine, has daytime radio written all over it.

Back from the brink of burn-out, Chimaira are coming to the UK at the tail end of their European tour for the Resurrection album.

Swiss metalcore veterans Cataract turn in a fifth album that’s as brilliantly performed as it is otherwise unremarkable.

A Life Once Lost thrive on the misfortune of others as they replace The Agony Scene on the support roster of the forthcoming Himsa tour.