10 Best Metal Bands Of The Last 10 Years

From the big and operatic to the down-trodden and guttural: the British riff maniacs Conjurer slot in at number nine thanks to the unprecedented underground earthquake that they caused with their violent debut album, The Mire.

It speaks volumes about the sheer magnificence of The Mire that its release date of the 9th March, 2018 saw it clash with albums like Judas Priest’s Firepower and Between the Buried and Me’s Automata I and it still soared to success, wowing both critics and diehard extreme metalheads alike.

Conjurer’s debut boasts seven enormous tracks of soul-crushing sludge that perpetuate nothing but blinding heaviness. Labelled by many reviewers as the best and most promising heavy metal debut of 2018 thus far, it’s an unrelenting juggernaut that eschews such wimpy notions as sing-alongs and high-flying technical w*nkery, all while flipping you the bird in the process.

If you’re a metalhead that has even the remotest of interest in how the future of extreme music is going to sound (and, if you don’t, what’s your problem?!), The Mire should undeniably be your first call.