Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

OBITUARY / DESTRUCTION / NERVOSA O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON

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

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

We lost the Prince Of Darkness this year – but he made the perfect exit

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS