The sisters of mercy first and last and always rhino ★★★★☆

Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

U.S. Girls ★★★★ Scratch It 4AD. CD/DL/LP ...

Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

Eleven years after his first ambitious homage to Mike Oldfield, Robert Reed is back with the long-awaited fourth instalment in his Sanctuary series. With a little help from Oldfield collaborators Les Penning, Tom Newman and drummer Simon Phillips, the Magenta and Cyan mastermind tells Prog about his mission to keep long-form music alive.

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts