Mother Love Bone: Apple - Album Of The Week Club review
Apple bridged the end of hair metal and the beginning of grunge, but Mother Love Bone's one album will forever be associated with tragedy rather than transformation
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The Psychedelic Furs' Made Of Rain: warm, melancholy, and blessed with great songs
Return of 80s big hitters Psychedelic Furs well worth the decades wait on eighth album Made Of Rain
Thundermother's Heat Wave: not a death rattle but a battle cry
Strikingly hooky return on Heat Wave from regenerated Swedes Thundermother
Steve Howe's Love Is: masterly communication with the universe
Steve Howe's first album in nine years Love Is shimmers and glows
NWOBHM Thunder: a no-guts-no-glory tribute to NWOBHM's foot soldiers
NWOBHM Thunder is a superb three-disc celebration of British heavy metal’s last big hurrah
Dee Snider's For The Love Of Metal Live! is brash, bullish and maniacal
Dee Snider's soundtrack to single household lockdown back-garden festivals has arrived
Alcatrazz's Born Innocent: featuring fret-frazzlers to the fore
Graham Bonnet’s post-Rainbow project Alcatrazz resurfaces on Born Innocent after a long rebirth
AC/DC: Back In Black - Album Of The Week Club review
As one of our reviewers says, "AC/DC may not have reinvented the wheel here, but they may have produced the best f**king wheel to ever exist"
Seasick Steve - Love & Peace: Grizzled layers and earthly delights
Seasick Steve's 10th album, Love & Peace, shows just why he doesn't need a garbled backstory to maintain mass appeal
Primal Fear's Metal Commando: unashamedly brutish and balls-out
Lucky thirteenth for German pure metal stalwarts Primal Fear on Metal Commando
Haken's Virus: the missing link between Slayer and King Crimson
Haken provide many bloodied riffs on sixth album Virus
Blackfoot: Strikes - Album Of The Week Club review
It took ten years for Blackfoot to become an overnight success, and a week for the Album Of The Week Club members to compose the definitive review of Strikes
Lonely Robot's Feelings Are Good: heartache and turmoil burnished bright
When you’ve loved and lost like John Mitchell, Feelings Are Good is the result
Asylums' Genetic Cabaret: forceful without getting furious
Asylums build up a head of steam for third album Genetic Cabaret with producer Steve Albini
Absolute Beginners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: fully restored and still suave
First full CD reissue for Bowie-powered retro-jazz mix-tape musical Absolute Beginners
U.D.O. And Das Musikkorps Der Bundeswehr: We Are One album review
Former Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider hooks up with the concert band of the German armed forces on We Are One. Of course he does.
Be-Bop Deluxe's Axe Victim box set is lavish and charmingly overblown
Lavish reissue for Bill Nelson and Be-Bop Deluxe's ambitious art-glam debut Axe Victim
Joy Division's Closer: foreboding, painful, and still wreathed in shadow
Joy Division's Closer: as the NME commented with wry understatement: “[This album] cannot have been easy to record”
Massive Wagons' House Of Noise: joyful, silly, and stuffed with memorable songs
Lancaster rockers Massive Wagons unleash the decibels with studio album number five, House Of Noise