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

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

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Rat City Rockers TEE PEE

Tobias Forge spent another year converting the masses. His next ambition? Scuba diving!