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5.0
DIMMU BORGIRGrand Serpent Rising
Grand Serpent Rising offers scale without urgency, burying flashes of menace beneath an overextended and emotionally distant design.
Immortal Finish Writing Eleventh Studio Album
Demonaz has completed the material for Immortal’s follow-up to 2023’s ‘War Against All’.
4.0
IN FLAMESClayman
A transitional record with undeniable hooks, but one whose streamlined attack often trades depth for repetition and blunt impact.
4.0
SYLOSISThe New Flesh
Sylosis deliver precision and muscle, but too many songs mistake heaviness for drama and technical control for momentum.
Down Pass Midpoint of Recording New Album
Kirk Windstein says Down have completed drums, rhythm guitars and bass for their long-awaited studio album.
7.0
ELUVEITIEÀnv
Ànv balances folk-metal colour with sharp melodic hooks, though its smoother middle stretch lowers the impact of an otherwise focused record.
4.0
BEHEMOTHThe Shit Ov God
A polished but strangely inert record whose imposing production cannot disguise weak rhythmic ideas and inflated presentation.
7.0
SEPTICFLESHModern Primitive
Modern Primitive makes orchestral death metal feel urgent again by giving its aggression direction instead of drowning it in decoration.
6.0
SABATONThe War to End All Wars
The War to End All Wars delivers sturdy hooks and battlefield momentum, but Sabaton’s familiar machinery shows through the smoke.
6.0
HELLOWEENHelloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
9.0
ANTHRAXWorship Music
Anthrax return with sharpened riffs, huge choruses and the kind of rhythmic discipline most comeback albums never find.
7.0
SABATONThe Great War
The Great War is compact, rhythmically sturdy and hook-heavy, though Sabaton’s formula occasionally turns history into assembly-line spectacle.
5.0
ELUVEITIEAtegnatos
Ategnatos contains flashes of Eluveitie’s old force, but its crowded arrangement and uneven pacing blunt the impact.
6.0
ARSISWe Are the Nightmare
Technically dazzling melodic death metal that impresses immediately, though its relentless density eventually becomes exhausting.
10.0
BEAST IN BLACKFrom Hell with Love
From Hell with Love turns shameless synth-metal excess into a near-perfect sequence of hooks, riffs and heroic nonsense.
8.0
WINTERSUNWintersun
Wintersun’s debut fuses melodic death metal speed, folk-inflected melody and grand ambition into a technically dazzling, emotionally uneven whole.
4.0
IN FLAMESThe Jester Race
The Jester Race has influential guitar work and several excellent songs, but its thin production and uneven pacing blunt the impact.
5.0
BEAST IN BLACKBerserker
Berserker delivers sharp choruses and vocal fire, but its synthetic sheen often overwhelms the metal underneath.
3.0
ELUVEITIEEvocation II - Pantheon
Evocation II has texture and atmosphere, but too little dramatic movement to support its long ceremonial journey.
6.0
ELUVEITIESlania
Eluveitie’s breakthrough balances melodic death metal force with memorable folk instrumentation, though the formula can feel overly calculated.