Metal

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.