Metal

Wolves in the Throne Room is one of those rare bands that went five years without a full-length, minding its own business out in the woods and not sucking up to anybody.

Album number thirteen, and Amon Amarth are setting sail on the same sea in the same ship again.

Cirith Ungol was never one of those bands that goes "heavy metal's in fashion again, let's knock out another album." These guys have been playing the same heavy, the same warped, the same gloomy epic heavy metal for…

Dot Matrix, Command Prompt, Plug and Play, Socket 7, Turbo Button, Voodoo2, CRT.

Anthrax, the leg of the Big Four everyone always calls "the fourth one" and the most underrated of the lot, went quiet for ten years and finally put out its twelfth album.

Archgoat is one of those rare bands going into their thirty-seventh year with their heads still stuck in the same crypt.

Justin K. Broadrick recorded part of the vocals with a hernia and did the mix after surgery (just owning up to that deserves a salute).

The Ocean is one of those rare bands that pick a concept for every album and work it through with textbook seriousness.