There are bands who claim to throw everything into their art, then there is Beartooth, a group who screamed their entrance right in your face with their angst-laced debut. A potent mix of nu-metal and metalcore, their debut contained banger after banger and, having gone from strength to strength since then, it should come as no surprise that 2021’s Below is one of the most-anticipated albums of the year. The title track kicks off the album and, while frontman Caleb Shomo’s vocals are particularly nasty, the initial musical output is more restrained. However, as the band lurch into “Devastation” things take a more vicious turn. Matching Shomo’s cathartic howls, Beartooth careen through a cocktail of stomping metalcore and arena-sized melodies. Long-time fans of the band will be familiar wit...