Slayer: Repentless review – thrash masters still stupidly exciting

Despite deaths and departures, Slayer’s evil powers remain undimmed on this whiplash-inducing new set

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: The Night Creeper review – taut and dynamic

The Cambridge stoner/doom-psych quartet do nothing new, but they won’t disappoint fans, either

Five Finger Death Punch’s gruff charm is irresistible and their secret weapon is the vein-popping roar of singer Ivan Moody

Confounding some fans, Iron Maiden refuse to coast on their old hits, and have made another knotty, impressive album

The band’s 22nd studio album is delivered with the kind of venomous abandon and danger that most bands can only dream of. Long may they rage on

Sweden’s occult rockers balance theatricality and thudding malevolence on their third release. It could be a breakthrough

They may have the purists harrumphing into their goblets of mead, but Deafheaven’s brand of shoegaze black metal has this crowd in raptures

With a schlocky Hammer Horror aesthetic, Sunn O))) worship decibels and endurance – the musical equivalent of slow death from aggressive disease

It’s a slight improvement on the hopeless Temper Temper, but BFMV are still pretty unconvincing

Fear Factory’s latest is an exhilarating musical collision of man and machine, and their best album for 20 years

One of metal’s biggest bands earn their status with an album full of fresh axes to grind

Cradle of Filth may have lost their power to shock, but their latest album is full of filthy, vicious fun

These punky Swedes throw a thousand ideas into their comeback album, but very few of them are any good

Prog-metal heroes Between the Buried and Me reach new heights on their jaw-dropping new album

Lemmy is 69 now, but Motörhead’s brand of full-throttle rock shows little sign of slowing down