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

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

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

Rat City Rockers TEE PEE

These Spectred Isles

Revealed via one legendary gig announcement and brought to life with Ghost’s sixth album, Skeletá , he gave Tobias Forge a new lease of life