We might have lost metal’s founding fathers, but the next generation proved that the music lives on

Featuring tributes to curry and fantasy battles involving… rats?! here are all the records our critics loved this year

This month…

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Beloved by System Of A Down and Slipknot, Acid Bath are playing bigger shows than they ever did in their 90s heyday