The Cult: Hidden City review – ever-changing rock veterans still on the move

Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy and co present some of their strongest songs in years on an album that forges yet another new path

Megadeth: Dystopia review – a fired-up and furious return to form

After the disappointment of their 2012 album, Megadeth’s latest is a return to their angry, thrashy best

Play it loud enough and the Seattle-based duo’s latest album offers thrills with the disorientation

The titans of abstract metal return with a new exercise in heavy meditation

Back in force after their 2012 bus crash, the Georgians return with more giant hooks and elegant guitar interplay than ever

With a reconfigured lineup and renewed commitment to the infernal cause, the LA metallers reclaimed their crown as the masters of darkness

With almost 30 years of breakneck extremity under their belts, Autopsy sound as gruesomely great as ever on their latest EP

They’re on their eighth drummer, the inventor of hair metal is now bald, and despite a massive farewell tour, the Priest keep rocking

A bigger sound, proggier riffs and more of pretty much everything make Fuzz’s second album feel truly huge

Those who like the loud bits of Mogwai and the more melodic moments of Dillinger Escape Plan will have found the metal band for them.

The sense of indecision that hung over Trivium’s previous albums is replaced by focused, refined, heavy-metal power on their latest

Sheffield’s Bring Me the Horizon seem to be on a mission to revive the corpse of nu-metal, and it might just work

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

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