ZZ Top: Fandango! - Album Of The Week Club review
One half recorded live, one half in the studio, ZZ Top's Fandango! felt like a compromise but still shone
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Helloween's self-titled 16th album is the German metallers’ best album in decades
Out now: Helloween deliver the goods with ensemble line-up including returning vocalist Michael Kiske and guitarist Kai Hansen
Joe Bonamassa plays Royal Tea Live and the cardboard cut-outs go wild
Out now: Joe Bonamassa's Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman proves Royal Tea was a good album, even without a real-life audience
Black Sabbath's super deluxe Sabotage is the lavishly packaged sound of indignant fury
Out now: Anger and frustration resulted in Black Sabbath's sixth album Sabotage - now on super deluxe form - being their heaviest
Riot: Fire Down Under - Album Of The Week Club review
Riot's third album Fire Down Under might just be the finest NWOBHM album released by an American band
Mammoth WVH's debut album is high-tech, energetic, relentless and thrilling
Out now: Wolfgang Van Halen strides out as a one-man band on first album Mammoth WVH
Kiss kick off their archive live series with a die-hard fan's delight
Out now: short-lived Kiss line-up captured live in Japan on Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001
Alice Cooper classics celebrated on Three Temptations From Alice
Out now: A tempting trio from Alice Cooper on Three Temptations From Alice, as Trash, Hey Stoopid and The Last Temptation move to a more compact environment
Def Leppard's Volume Three might not contain their best work but it still sparkles
Out now: Volume Three finds Joe Elliott doing a thorough job curating Def Leppard’s 21st-century collection
Thin Lizzy: Nightlife - Album Of The Week Club review
Two new guitarists but a muted sound make Nightlife a Thin Lizzy album that isn't quite the Thin Lizzy we know and love
Red Fang's Arrows is a barrage of barely controlled distortion and fuzzy riffage
Out now: Less-than-serious stoners Red Fang return after half a decade with fifth album Arrows
Review: Billy F Gibbons has a ball on Hardware's riff-strewn feast of scuzz
Out now: ZZ Top leader Billy F Gibbons' dirty third album Hardware proves he’s getting the hang of this solo lark
Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine - Album Of The Week Club review
Triumph's second album Rock & Roll Machine was also their debut, depending on where you lived. It also mixed hard rock with ambitious prog
The Datsuns don't fix what wasn't broke but Eye To Eye still engrosses
Eye To Eye finds long dormant Kiwi blues rockers The Datsuns reawaken with a wider 70s perspective
Kansas are musically impeccable on Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond
Out now: Wayward sons Kansas still carrying on to the Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond
Blackberry Smoke do Georgia proud once again
Out now: Atlanta rockers Blackberry Smoke blend rhinestones and rock’n’soul with reliable skill on seventh studio album You Hear Georgia
Back Street Crawler: 2nd Street - Album Of The Week Club review
Back Street Crawler's 2nd Street: the last will and testament of former Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
Cinderella: Long Cold Winter - Album Of The Week Club review
Cinderella shifted gear on second album Long Cold Winter, as Tom Keifer attempted to move forward before both the band and the scene got left behind
Paul and Linda McCartney's Ram: half-speed mastery
Time’s been kind to Ram, Paul McCartney’s second, relatively understated, post-Beatles solo album
