Essi Berelian
Whether it’s magazines, books or online, Essi has been writing about rock ’n’ metal for around thirty years. He has been reviews editor for Classic Rock and Metal Hammer, rock reviews editor for lads mag Front and worked for Kerrang!. He has also written the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal and contributed to the Rough Guide to Rock and Rough Guide Book of Playlists, and the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (13th edition). Most fun interview? Tenacious D – Jack Black and Kyle Gass – for The Pick of Destiny movie book. An avid record/CD/tape collector, he’s amassed more music than he could ever possibly listen to, which annoys his wife no end.
Latest articles by Essi Berelian

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Are Big Four thrash legends Anthrax about to begin a latter-career renaissance?

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Not a lot of thunder and lightning (or original members) on Foreigner's’s 50th-anniversary live album In The Eye Of The Storm

By Neil Jeffries Published
Buying guide Much-loved Brit rockers Thunder have rarely come up short in more than three decades, but now face an uncertain future. These are their best albums

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Anniversary fun from pioneering German rockers the Scorpions

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Treasure from the Foreigner vaults

By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music

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Six Mountain live sets – get ready to climb!

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Finger-picking good Kentucky-fried blues

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Pucker up for an explosive eighth album from German 80s-friendly rockers Kissin' Dynamite

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It's a rock'n'roll boogie wonderland

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A wild ride across the airwaves from California-by-way-of-New Orleans roots rockers Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse

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The songs on These Wicker Rivers' Force Of Nature are well-crafted and designed for maximum live effect

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More psychedelic raves from the grave on Graveyard's enticingly titled sixth album 6

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London hard rockers The Dust Coda come up trumps on incendiary third album Loco Paradise

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Ace guitarist Nita Strauss takes a break from the Alice Cooper/Demi Lovato day jobs to deliver steely solo second album The Call Of The Void

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Fortune favours the grave as superstar supergroup Hollywood Vampires launch their first live album

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Steppenwolf box set the Epic Years 1974-1979 is a far cry from the band's million-selling golden era

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You want classic? You got it: The Moon City Masters mine rock's rich past on joyously upbeat new album The Famous Moon City Masters

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Son of the desert Brant Bjork goes back in time on the sweet-smelling Bougainvillea Suite

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Orianthi's strangely short album Rock Candy needs more killer, less filler

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Dig out your massive trousers and wallet chains, these are the bands that owned the nu metal takeover of the late 90s.

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Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills, Five Finger Death Punch and more add music to film dialogue and screaming

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Littered with special guests, Voodoo Nation by Supersonic Blues Machine sets the modern blues bar ever higher
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