Genre Directory
Metal
Browse Dork's album & ep review coverage for Metal, plus artists and albums connected to the genre.
Recent Reviews
Skeletá
Ghost
By this point, a Ghost album is a bonafide good time.
Tsunami Sea
Spiritbox
Metal's most fascinating evolution story continues with glorious defiance, as Spiritbox return with a second album that treats expectations like fragile china, then hurls them against the wall just to hear the satisfying smash.
The Fear Of Fear EP
Spiritbox
New EP 'The Fear Of Fear' is as brutal as they come.
The Seventh Sun
Bury Tomorrow
Tasting ‘The Seventh Sun’ is a sensory experience, cinematic in its scope.
the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
Architects
Potentially massive.
The End, So Far
Slipknot
It may not suit all, but in over two-decades Slipknot have never stopped burning down boundaries.
Darker Still
Parkway Drive
Parkway Drive once again prove that they do nothing by halves. Massively impressive.
Down Tools
Mush
Mush keep their wit quick and their takes boiling hot.
Impera
Ghost
Ghost have never sounded this good.
Requiem
Korn
The blows come fast and heavy.
Happier?
Volumes
A record that can live both above and below in a way so many struggle to match.
Eternal Blue
Spiritbox
'Eternal Blue' sits simultaneously familiar and fresh.
Sleeps Society
While She Sleeps
For a band already on the top of their game, it promises to be transformative.
For Those That Wish To Exist
Architects
The metallers are fully loaded with a determined snarl aimed squarely at the state of the world.
Lines Redacted
Mush
A retrospective for the last year of mayhem.
Like A House On Fire
Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria are pulling out their anthemic stadium-grade of shredding.
Cannibal
Bury Tomorrow
Standing on the edge of something important, it’s the record that should tip the quintet over the edge and outside the confines of their scene.
Viva the Underdogs
Parkway Drive
An album that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of a swarming crowd on a hot Deutschland evening.
3D Routine
Mush
The debut record from Leeds-based Mush couldn't feel more perfectly timed.
Day of the Gusano
Slipknot
★★★★
