EPs OF ThE YEAR

Sometimes good things come in small packages

LOVEBITES

Battle Against Damnation one of 2018’s surprise success stories, this all-female Japanese power metal crew bagged a

Best New Band Golden God, and wowed Bloodstock fest to boot.

ThE FEVER 333

Made An America aKa What Jason aalon Butler Did Next, Made An America married the punked-up intensity of letlive with bonus levels of hip hop and big beat to create a whole new animal.

CASKET FEEDER

Scalps a guttural rumble of blackened noise, this brain-imploder from the milton Keynes newcomers turned an otherwise stunning summer all grimy and horrible.

GOD COMPLEX

Created Sick Sounding like a mammoth on speed throwing a tantrum, this

outrageously heavy slab of fuzzy hardcore shook buildings when God complex hit the road with employed to Serve in may.

hUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN

Rei Part screamo lost in atmospheric reverie, part post-metal pilgrimage to the ninth circle of the psyche, this three-track eP took familiar sonic signposts and planted them in a vast, enthralling no-man’s land.