Steve Howe's Love Is: masterly communication with the universe
Steve Howe's first album in nine years Love Is shimmers and glows
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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
Kansas: The Absence of Presence - both pomp and rock in full effect
Latter-day Kansas are still able to surprise on 16th album The Absence of Presence
Bush's The Kingdom: ambitious, confident, passionate
British radio-rock stalwarts Bush let their guard down on album number eight, The Kingdom
The Blinders' Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath: the claustrophobic sound of our times
Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath by The Blinders is the definitive dark rock diatribe for lockdown Britain
