Latest Reviews on Classic Rock
Was Black Sabbath's Sabotage as good as everyone remembers?
The final entry into Black Sabbath's original golden run, Sabotage is often hailed as the band's heaviest and most fearless album. But is it really?
Prog fans rejoice! Steven Wilson has come home with cosmic modern classic The Overview
Steven Wilson’s interstellar new album The Overview measures up to prog’s greats
Neil Young’s Oceanside Countryside uncorks some vintage 70s vibes from deep within the cellar
The latest in Neil Young’s series of ’lost’ albums is a 1977 adventure, now welcomely restored.
The Wildhearts prove once again they’re one of the UK’s greatest bands with The Satanic Rites Of…
Cult UK rock heroes The Wildhearts deliver another masterpiece with their 11th album
Jethro Tull lean into the twilight on inspired and poignant 24th album Curious Ruminant,
Age cannot wither Ian Anderson, as Jethro Tull’s new album Curious Ruminant proves
Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels
Made between the much-derided Burnin' Sky and the much-derided Rough Diamonds, Desolation Angels was heralded as a return to form - but was it?
The albums that found Ian Gillan riding NWOBHM's slipstream into the charts, together at last
Deep Purple survivor Ian Gillan’s career-reviving vehicle rides again across seven discs on 1978-1982
Little Feat capture a grim early-70s vibe on Dixie Chicken
Dixie Chicken solidified Little Feat's reputation before later albums saw them drifting towards a jazzier sound
David Lee Roth teaches a lesson in how not to conduct a solo career in five albums
David Lee Roth's precipitous post-Van Halen tail-off is documented on The Warner Recordings 1985-1994
John Sykes, Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin conjure up a cult favourite on debut Blue Murder album
After being let go by Whitesnake, John Sykes returned with supergroup Blue Murder and a debut album that failed at the box office
Manic Street Preachers show that rage never sleeps on Critical Thinking
A vein of melancholy runs through Manic Street Preachers' 15th album Critical Thinking
Screaming Trees mix psychedelia with melancholy on swansong album Dust
Arriving after a difficult gestation, Dust found Mark Lanegan tweaking the Screaming Trees blueprint
Dream Theater's dream team return with a sharper-edged heaviness to the sound on Parasomnia
None shall sleep
"It doesn't wholly demystify them, but it reveals the human brilliance at their heart": Becoming Led Zeppelin strips away the mystique to present the birth of a legend
Rare footage and the voice of John Bonham – Becoming Led Zeppelin is cracks opens the door into an unseen world
Gary Moore finds grit but lacks groove on Corridors Of Power
In which former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore attempts to forge a new career in the post-NWOBHM rock landscape and also writes some ballads
Steely Dan's tunes are rich and assured on the nonchalant Katy Lied
The Dan has a sonic wingding in 1975
