Deftones' sonic adventures flip between bliss and fury on Ohms
Sacramento alt.metal linchpins Deftones deliver stellar ninth album with Ohms
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Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels
Hüsker Dü legend Bob Mould tackles the present American crisis on Blue Hearts
James Williamson & Deniz Tek's Two To One: timeless, old-school rock'n'roll
Veteran pioneers crank it up as a Stooge James Williamson and Birdman Deniz Tek combine forces on Two To One
Idles' Ultra Mono is stripped-back, brutal, and lacerating
Forged during lockdown, Idles' Ultra Mono feels entirely appropriate for these times
Fish's Weltschmerz: ending on a note of beautiful melancholy
Fish signs off with imposing swansong Weltschmerz before retiring to become a writer
Public Enemy: urgency returns on What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
Public Enemy: Still fighting the power, with help from some famous friends on What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
Accept: Metal Heart - Album Of The Week Club review
Teutonic titans Accept mould themselves into more commercial shapes on sixth album Metal Heart
Sweet: Sweet Fanny Adams - Album Of The Week Club review
Sweet left their bubblegum-peddling past behind and morphed into a fully fledged hard rock band on their 1974 classic Sweet Fanny Adams
Mastodon - Medium Rarities: A trawl through 20 years of long-lost sonic mayhem
Mastodon's new compilation Medium Rarities is a breakneck trawl through the cobweb-strewn corners of their archive
The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream
The Flaming Lips have just released their new album American Head, and here's what we made of it
Robert Plant: Pictures At Eleven - Album Of The Week Club review
Instead of returning with a debut solo album that aped previous achievements, Robert Plant pleased himself on 1982's Pictures At Eleven
Fleetwood Mac's 1969 To 1974: a rousing last hurrah for the road not taken
Peter Green’s Mac swansong stands proud as Fleetwood Mac's entire pre-Buckingham-Nicks era gets boxed on 1969 To 1974
The Rolling Stones' Goat's Head Soup: retaining the whiff of sex, sleaze and violence
Remastered, multi-format edition of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 classic Goat's Head Soup, with previously unheard tracks
Zakk Sabbath's Vertigo: you don't need it but you'll love it
A nativity in black as Zakk Wylde's Zakk Sabbath replicate Black Sabbath's debut album
All Them Witches: Nothing As The Ideal - an enticing feast for psychedelic senses
Scorching new album Nothing As The Ideal from psych-blues enigmas All Them Witches
The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F. - Album Of The Week Club review
Released, remixed, re-released, remixed, re-released: will the real Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F. please stand up?
Back Street Crawler's Atlantic Years 1975-1976 - a truncated tribute to Paul Kossoff
Four-CD compilation of Paul Kossoff's post-Free output with Back Street Crawler
Metallica's S&M2 - success on the grandest of scales
James Hetfield and co. revisit their great orchestral-metal triumph, with stellar results, on S&M2
Walter Trout's Ordinary Madness - a deeply personal state of the nation address
Walter Trout ponders the state of the world on his Ordinary Madness album
