Geoff Barton
Geoff Barton is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) after using the term for the first time (after editor Alan Lewis coined it) in the May 1979 issue of Sounds.
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Safety goggles at the ready, we’re going in...

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Not yet ratedNinety-minute documentary tells a bizarre, skewed-focus story of the ‘lost’ guitar hero.

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Forget AC/DC and Rose Tattoo – Brisbane bruisers Buffalo brought heavy rock Down Under

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Finnish lads create a whimsical world with their Gentle Giant-influenced sounds.

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In the wake of the attacks in Paris, we ask the industry experts what it all means for the future of live music.

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Not yet ratedGeoff Barton on new releases from The Tirith, Witchwood, Soft Hearted Scientists, Heylel and Simulacrum

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In 2003 The Darkness released the landmark Permission To Land, but what came next? Classic Rock talked to the band as they launched One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back

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Not yet ratedGeoff Barton on new releases from Sendelica, Octopie, Starship Trooper, Inner Odyssey and Eloah

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Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and more salute the original HV with a (mostly) covers album.

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Legend of the lost.

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Merciless Kate’s Belgian belligerents get their NWOBHM on.

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Not yet ratedGeoff Barton on new releases from Tír na nÓg, The Powwow Rock Orchestra, Crimson Chrysalis, Space Mirrors and Forest Field

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Not yet ratedThe Doors’ final albums, recorded after the death of their talismanic singer.

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Not yet ratedThe Motor City Madman’s first real steps into the spotlight, with a little help from Meat Loaf.

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Not yet ratedGeoff Barton on new releases from Cary Grace, The Anagram Principle, Eternal Journey, Iglomat and Big Big Train

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Pretties for you.

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Not yet ratedGeoff Barton on new releases from A Formal Horse, Nice Beaver, Rainburn, Magic Pie and Kes
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