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A fearless trawl through the realms of extreme and experimental metal

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For September Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with all that is good, bad and ugly in heavy metal, covering new releases from Napalm Death, Sumac and Uniform

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back once again like a renegade mosher, with news of all that is righteous and good in (extreme) metal

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For July Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with reviews of the good, the bad and the ugly from the world of metal

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with his stygian sack of sludge, doom, thrash, BM and post metal releases

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with more skull vaporising riffs and eyeball bursting blastbeats, not to mention reviews of Triptykon, Vader and Old Man Gloom

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the rock down in lockdown - Columnus Metallicus with reviews of Testament, Oranssi Pazuzu, Gnaw Their Tongues and more!

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

From My Dying Bride to Tombs via a new one by Body Count, Kez Whelan is back with all of your heavy metal album reviews for March

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Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with another column that rounds up the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal

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Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Listen and understand, says Kez Whelan. Heavy metal is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever until you are banging your head to some sweet riffology

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Columnus Metallicus: Kez Whelan’s Top Metal Albums Of 2019

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Columnus Metallicus: November’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

In a few months' time we're about to mark the 50th freaking birthday of Heavy F'n Metal, says Kez Whelan, so let's get the party started early with news of the year's best death metal album: Hidden History Of The Human Race by Blood Incantation, not to mention stellar cuts from Angel Witch, Caïna, Esoteric and Nile

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Columnus Metallicus: October’s Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with Teitanblood's long game, the reliable death doom of Coffins, the bee-keeper themed extreme metal of Wallowing and much more

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Columnus Metallicus: September’s Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is here with the rights and wrongs of metal from Ghold and Witch Vomit to Tool and Slipknot

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Columnus Metallicus: May’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan attempts to summarise 2019's busiest month for metal in a single column, with new releases from Saint Vitus, Possessed, Nocturnus AD, Full Of Hell and many more coming under scrutiny

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Columnus Metallicus: February In Heavy Metal Album Reviews

Kez Whelan looks at the good, the bad and the very very ugly (hello Pissgrave) when it comes to the best heavy metal albums released this month. This feature contains very NSFW imagery

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For January

Start your year right with chaos, malevolence and bittersweet desolation from Altarage, Veldes, Swallow The Sun, Astrophobos and Soilwork

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For October

Winter is coming: time to celebrate. With spooky bleak releases from High On Fire, Windhand, Moloch, Deathhammer and more

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For September

Pig Destroyer, you say? Anaal Nathrakh? Bliss Signal? Yes, we say. We have all this and more - scroll on, read, listen and wallow in the rich bleak horrors

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For August

It's the last week of August, and in typical British style it's chucking it down. Time to get the battered old longsleeves out of storage and huddle down with the latest in heavy metal thunder.

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For July

Immortal! Blasphemy! Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters! This is all the new metal you could possibly need this July

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Massive Monthly Metal Roundup

Stoner rock, screaming pits of rage and sore tonsils: your guide to midsummer metal with Orange Goblin, ASG, Yob, Hoth and more

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Month In Metal

From doom yoga to martial rhythms, from Bong to Witch Mountain, from Helsinki to Hades - your roundup of the mightiest metal this month

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For April

Spring is here, time to get heavy with Septic Tank, Hoof Glove, Aura Noir, Dagger Lust and the Melvins

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For March

Ten of the heaviest, sludgiest, nastiest, doomiest metal albums to welcome the spring, with Ancst, Conjurer, Vile Creature and Eagle Twin

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For February

Green Druid, Black Moth, Visigoth, Saxon, Vojd and Judas Priest: hold on and holler!

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal For January

Starting the year as we mean to go on, with Lugubrum Trio, Corrosion Of Conformity and Agrimonia.

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Your Heavy Metal Hits For November

In her first Columnus Metallicus, Cheryl Carter aka our new harbinger of doom-tunes proffers Aosoth, Cannibal Corpse, All Pigs Must Die and more.

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Hits For October

Winter is coming, says Louise Brown, give in to the darkness. With just Amenra, Bell Witch, Audn, Batushka, Hällas, Mork and your own shrivelled soul for company.

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Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Hits For September

Stride past the turgid patriarchy, says Kez Whelan, and rejoice in this autumn's righteous, furious, glorious metal offerings.

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Columnus Metallicus: The Past Month In Heavy Metal

Friendly wyverns bring Pavel Godfrey tidings of late summer’s mightiest metal, from Akercocke and Serpent Column to Arckanum, Esoctrilihum and Sons of Crom.

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal Album Reviews For July

Mistress of metal Louise Brown - with some help from Angela Davey - reviews this month's major releases including LPs from Prong, Accept, Melvins and Dead Cross

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan looks at the best heavy metal released during June

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For September Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For July Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Kez Whelan’s Top Metal Albums Of 2019

Columnus Metallicus: November’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: October’s Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: September’s Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: May’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: February In Heavy Metal Album Reviews

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For January

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For October

Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For September

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For August

Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For July

Columnus Metallicus: Your Massive Monthly Metal Roundup

Columnus Metallicus: Your Month In Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For April

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For March

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For February

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal For January

Your Heavy Metal Hits For November

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Hits For October

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Columnus Metallicus: The Past Month In Heavy Metal

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