A bumper live reviews pack checks out Machine Head and Amon Amarth's Vikings & Lionhearts tour, Blood Command, and The Xcerts, as well as a consideration of the reviewer mindset, and The Black Dahlia Murder looking to continue on.

Releases:
Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvrum
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
No Devotion - No Oblivion
Blaqk Audio - Trop d’amour
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Suede - Autofiction
Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay
Mindforce - New Lords
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
Spiritus Mortis - The Great Seal
Tribal Gaze - The Nine Choirs
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Wolfheart - King of the Abyss
Irist - Gloria