The playlist: metal - Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Abbath and more

This month’s roundup features Megadeth’s ferocious return to form, an eviscerating heavy metal snowstorm from Abbath and an alternative Yuletide anthem Reluctant figureheads for a post-millennial US metal scene that has singularly failed to live up to their standards, Killswitch Engage return in 2016 with an album that promises to be one of the year’s most significant. The band’s second album since the return of vocalist Jesse Leach in 2012, it needs to be brilliant for a