Classic Rock Reviews

The redemption of Scott Stapp, the worst rock star of the 90s, begins here

A prog album for Talking Heads fans? Or a new-wave album for King Crimson fans? Either way, Discipline sparks debate

Fly Like An Eagle is an album that sees Steve Miller navigate his way through rapidly changing musical tides

Made In Australia: the latest Deep Purple album from the Deep Purple live album production line hits the stores

Out with Dio, in with the Hawaiian shirt bloke. What was Ritchie Blackmore up to with Rainbow's Down To Earth?

Tubular Bells' iconic status grows as the years pass, its importance underlined when Mike Oldfield performed it at the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics

California’s starriest hobby band, Hollywood Vampires, pull back the covers for their second album Rise

Judas Priest's British Steel is an album that defined the style, sound and image of metal as we know it today

Can we review Axl Rose's labour of love Chinese Democracy without talking about time and money? Probably not

Recorded after the tragic deaths of two band members, Brothers And Sisters found The Allman Brothers Band striving for unity and renewal

Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan dials down the rock and ups the country quotient on second solo release Tenderness

Part rock, part prog, under-produced and released on a French disco label: it can only be Saxon's debut album

The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow was one of the most extraordinary British albums of the late 1960s, and one utterly beset by disaster

Formed from the Wishbone Ash's background in hard rock, folk and crisp, electric blues, Argus's evocative strains pioneered a twin-guitar approach that was adopted by countless other bands

David Coverdale shows he can still keep it up after all these years, as Whitesnake unfurl Flesh & Blood

Saints & Sinners by Whitesnake features two songs that would later be successfully remodelled... but what of the rest of the album?

Timely defiance from E Street Band legend Little Steven, with new album Summer Of Sorcery

The Wildhearts' first album in 10 years, Renaissance Men, ticks all the right boxes – arriba!

Metallica's Black Album turned them from rising thrash stars to mainstream rock icons. Did the compromise come at a cost?