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Judas Priest: Stained Class - Album Of The Week Club review
Judas Priest's Stained Class catches the band on the cusp; the ultimate hybrid of unbridled, flamboyant creativity and refined, distilled commercial intent. It’s a true metal milestone
The Four Horsemen: Nobody Said It Was Easy - Album Of The Week Club review
The Four Horsemen knew how to to rock. Too often on Nobody Said It Was Easy they sounded like other rockers
Lucinda Williams' Good Souls Better Angels: documenting a world in crisis
Revered US songwriter Lucinda Williams in visceral, impassioned form on 14th studio album Good Souls Better Angels
Trivium's What The Dead Men Say: a multi-layered merging of melody and mania
Trivium provide fury and finesse in one package on ninth album What The Dead Men Say
Def Leppard: High 'N' Dry - Album Of The Week Club review
Nearly four decades afters its release, High ’N’ Dry remains a true rock classic and the springboard for all that followed
Testament's Titans Of Creation: a peerless example of thrash craft
Not yet ratedA titanic thrash statement from Testament on 13th album Titans Of Creation
Marillion's Script For A Jester’s Tear - a deluxe edition that tells a tale
Marillion's neo-progressive ground zero Script For A Jester’s Tear is dusted down and tidied up
Mastodon: Crack The Skye - Album Of The Week Club review
Mastodon's Crack The Skye: a sprawling prog metal masterpiece dealing with astral travel, wormhole theory, Rasputin and suicide
Joe Satriani's Shapeshifting: a thoughtful display of textures and tones
Joe Satriani's Shapeshifting is a smart, solid seventeenth from the master of instrumental rock
Nightwish's Human. :II: Nature. - theatrical and captivating
Symphonic metal titans Nightwish return with grammar-flouting album Human. :II: Nature.
King's X: Gretchen Goes To Nebraska - Album Of The Week Club review
There are the nearly men. There are the underrated bands. There are the should-have-beens. And then there's King's X, and their second album Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Lucifer Star Machine's The Devil's Breath: heavy-duty, puke-on-your-shoes rock’n’roll
UK sleaze dealers Lucifer Star Machine serve up a feast of bracing motor-rock on The Devil's Breath
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs' Viscerals: where Sabbath and Killing Joke collide
Geordie doom-punk quintet Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs unpack thrilling third album Viscerals
Aphrodite's Child: 666 - Album Of The Week Club review
Aphrodite's Child's cult masterpiece 666: an apocalyptic prog tour-de-force or a pretentious load of twaddle? Just don't ask Irene Papas what she thinks
Buffalo Summer's Desolation Blue: cocky and formidable
Welsh rockers Buffalo Summer up their game on Desolation Blue
Brian Fallon's Local Honey: melancholy painted with modern oils
Gaslight Anthem mainman Brian Fallon pulls up a stool on Local Honey
Ratt's The Atlantic Years 1984-1990: should history have been kinder?
Ratt’s first five albums, finally retrieved from the cellar
Pearl Jam's Gigaton: an unexpected album of hope in uncertain times
Eleventh album Gigaton finds Seattle crew Pearl Jam raging against the world but not losing hope
