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It might be the Swedes’ crowning achievement, but the recording was marred by personal conflict

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Discoballs! Foxes! Monsters! Babymetal, their guests, and a Harvard music lecturer break down every track on new album Metal Forth

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

Japan’s modern-day shamans weave together past, present and future, via a healthy dose of folky doom

Out of the darkness comes light, and Ghost ’s future increasingly looks bright. Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards “newer, better, bigger”.