HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

WITHIN TEMPTATION Resist “the album that Hydra should have been. Staaaaaacked!” MERLIN ALDERSLADE EDITOR

SOILWORK VERKLIGHETEN “It’s Soilwork, but even more metal \m/” ELEANOR GOODMAN DEPUTY EDITOR

SVARTIDAUÐI REVELATIONS of the RED SWORD “Black metal ends the year on a blistering and brain cell-engulfing high” JONATHAN SELZER REVIEWS EDITOR

WARDRUNA SKALD “hauntingly beautiful and incredibly atmospheric” VANESSA THORPE PRODUCTION EDITOR

THE PRODIGY no tourists “a throwback of 90s rave with an uppercut of fearless attitude” LUKE MORTON ONLINE EDITOR

ARCHITECTS HOLY HELL “a great follow-up to All Our Gods…” LEWIS SOMERSCALES ART EDITOR