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Black Spiders' comeback album is an effervescent love letter to rock’n’roll at its most joyous and uncomplicated
Can’t Die, Won’t Die is a wonder web of rock’n’roll thrills from South Yorkshire’s comeback kids, Black Spiders
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Album Of The Week Club review
The self-titled Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the album from the version of Yes that wasn’t technically Yes at all
Winger fail to reinvent themselves again, but who cares when the choruses are this big?
Reanimated 80s FM rockers Winger return with comfortingly familiar seventh album Seven
Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering
Bloodlines is the unlucky 13th album from the band formerly known as "NWOBHM legends" Tygers Of Pan Tang
Thirty four years in, Therapy? unleash 10 more bulldozing, bone crunching anthems
Therapy? sound as hungry and vital as ever on 16th album Hard Cold Fire
The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review
"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing
Whitesnake add polish to an unexpected gem on the pleasingly punchy Still Good To Be Bad
Whitesnake’s tenth studio album Good To Be Bad reissued with added bells, whistles and horns
Rush's Signals celebrates its 40th birthday with an underwhelming party
Signals signalled the beginning of a whole new phase in Rush's career, but the anniversary edition falls well short
The Damned continue to flourish as their punk peers wither and fade
Darkadelic is a loud'n'lively twelfth album from punk’s most adaptable survivors The Damned
Metallica just threw Amsterdam the world's biggest heavy metal party
Metallica's first set of the M72 world tour was a triumphant, rousing success
Goat: mysterious masked magick mavens bewitch Brixton with filthily funky ritual
Pancultural psych-fusion Swedes serve up heady witch's brew at UK tour climax
Jane's Addiction: Ritual De Lo Habitual - Album Of The Week Club review
Ritual De Lo Habitual became the first ‘alternative’ record to sell a million, inspiring a generation of bands who would ultimately kill the idea of ‘alternative’ stone dead
"Their best album since...": Metallica fans review new album 72 Seasons
We asked rock and metal fans to share their views on the new Metallica album 72 Seasons - here's what they had to say
RökFlöte finds Jethro Tull tackling Norse Gods and somehow reborn as a viable contemporary outfit
Jethro Tull forsake the Bible of last year's The Zealot Gene in favour of the paganism of Norse mythology on RökFlöte
Nobody but Ian Hunter has the power, at this point in their career, to sound so fresh, so new and so exciting
One of Britain's great songwriters Ian Hunter delivers a shining example of his craft on new solo album Defiance Part 1
Kerrang! Living Loud: an essential insider account of how 'The Rock Bible' shaped the global rock landscape
Nick Ruskell's Kerrang! Living Loud: Four Decades On The Frontline Of Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative Music is an eye-opening account of the magazine's storied history, featuring tributes from Metallica, Guns N' Roses and more
Can: Tago Mago - Album Of The Week Club review
Can's Krautrock masterpiece Tago Mago was an album that realigned rock, commencing countdown for 21st-century music
Argus by Wishbone Ash: the return of the greatest least-known million-selling rock album ever made
The fiftieth anniversary edition of Wishbone Ash's Argus is a class act, with an ear-opening remix and a brilliant half-minute of silence
