Latest articles by Essi Berelian
Temple Of The Dog's eulogy for a fallen friend still shines
Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music
Mountain's noughties' incarnation celebrated across six live discs of varying quality
Six Mountain live sets – get ready to climb!
The Cold Stares prepare for a big future on The Southern
Finger-picking good Kentucky-fried blues
Kissin' Dynamite light the fuse on Back With A Bang
Pucker up for an explosive eighth album from German 80s-friendly rockers Kissin' Dynamite
Royal Republic continue to party on the exuberant Lovecop
It's a rock'n'roll boogie wonderland
Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse defy expectations and boundaries on tour de force third album Hot Nostalgia Radio
A wild ride across the airwaves from California-by-way-of-New Orleans roots rockers Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse
These Wicked Rivers rock the preacher hats and grizzled beards, but it's the songwriting on second album Force Of Nature that's turned them into real contenders
The songs on These Wicker Rivers' Force Of Nature are well-crafted and designed for maximum live effect
Graveyard's 6: inward-looking and melancholy, but a masterclass in psychedelic light and shade
More psychedelic raves from the grave on Graveyard's enticingly titled sixth album 6
Expansive and ambitious, The Dust Coda's Loco Paradise is much more than just a bit good
London hard rockers The Dust Coda come up trumps on incendiary third album Loco Paradise
Nita Strauss lines up the special guest vocalists to augment the shredding on impressively slick album
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
Hollywood Vampires' Live In Rio is the jukebox of the damned
Fortune favours the grave as superstar supergroup Hollywood Vampires launch their first live album
Steppenwolf lack heavy metal thunder on three albums of declining in potency
Steppenwolf box set the Epic Years 1974-1979 is a far cry from the band's million-selling golden era
The Moon City Masters: feel-good rock'n'roll the way they used to make it
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
Brant Bjork's Bougainvillea Suite: the sweet spot where The Doors and Iron Butterfly meet
Son of the desert Brant Bjork goes back in time on the sweet-smelling Bougainvillea Suite
Orianthi falls short on album that feels uneven and unfinished
Orianthi's strangely short album Rock Candy needs more killer, less filler
The Top 10 Essential Nu Metal Albums
Dig out your massive trousers and wallet chains, these are the bands that owned the nu metal takeover of the late 90s.
Rock, metal and horror make prefect companions on The Retaliators soundtrack
Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills, Five Finger Death Punch and more add music to film dialogue and screaming
Supersonic Blues Machine are the sound of modern blues in the ascendant
Littered with special guests, Voodoo Nation by Supersonic Blues Machine sets the modern blues bar ever higher
Raven's expanded Rock Until You Drop: energetic proof that 'athletic rock' should have been huge
The flying start of NWOBHM might-have-beens Raven lauded with four disc version of Rock Until You Drop
Dirty Honey conjure up the ghosts of classic Zeppelin and Aerosmith on expanded debut
Rock doesn’t come more classic than this, as Dirty Honey prepare for debut European dates with a combination CD
Evergrey: more crunching prog as brutal riff power pounds into the gothic bleakness
Feel-sad prog metallers Evergrey return with 13th studio album A Heartless Portrait
Stöner's new album is a consummate lesson in High Desert grooviness
More sun-baked high jinks from Brant Bjork, Nick Oliveri and stoned company
Bonham-Bullick: powerful, immaculately played, and perfectly smoky
Rock, blues and soul covers done right from John Bonham's daughter Deborah Bonham and Paul Rodgers' guitarist Peter Bullick
