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Album review: Bryan Adams - Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2024
By Neil Jeffries published
Bryan Adams reinvents his wheels again

"An AC/Leppard mongrel that's 50% party soundtrack and 50% time travel": Crossbone Skully's Evil World Machine is gloriously daft, but it's also glorious
By Fraser Lewry published
Mutt lives!

Opeth return to extremity on the inventive The Last Will And Testament
By Dave Everley published
Succession meets Edgar Allan Poe on prog metal kingpins Opeth's fascinating fourteenth album

Roger Waters rails against capitalism, America, war, religion and television on Amused To Death
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Amused To Death is Roger Waters’ proudest solo moment and a damning reflection on social disintegration.

George Harrison's lovely Living In The Material World, revisited
By Everett True published
Gem-studded yet often overlooked album from ex-Beatle George Harrison, now with added extras

Terry Wilson Slesser and friends successfully conjure up the ghost of Paul Kossoff
By Neil Jeffries published
Back Street Crawler singer Terry Slesser sang on Pyromania and auditioned for both AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Now he's finally made a solo album

Linkin Park return from the darkness with the triumphant From Zero
By Rich Hobson published
Nu metal giants Linkin Park return after tragedy rebooted and reborn

Patti Smith's commercial breakthrough is a flawed artistic statement
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Containing her biggest hit and her most controversial song, the Patti Smith Group's third album Easter is a fascinating whole

The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is unsettling and damn near indispensable
By Everett True published
Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras

Mountain's 1995 collection Over The Top captures the band at their most creative
By Johnny Sharp published
US blues-rock heavyweights’ best-of, reissued

Peter Hammill's Incoherence offers a unique glimpse into the febrile mind of a restless genius
By Dom Lawson published
An ambitious peak from a prog maverick revisited

Hawkwind's DoReMi FasOl LaTiDo, now more earthshattering than ever before
By Claudia Elliott published
Hawkwind's space rock classic remixed and expanded, leaves no star unturned

The Pineapple Thief up the melancholy quotient on Last To Run
By Rich Hobson published
British prog rockers The Pineapple Thief still going strong on new EP Last To Run

Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal
By Sleazegrinder published
The ultimate Ratt'N'Roll album returns

Aphrodite’s Child are ambitious and utterly bonkers on 666 The Apocalypse Of John
By Paul Moody published
A multi-format re-release of Aphrodite's Child's progressive rock masterpiece

Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead
By Paul Whitelaw published
The Primal Scream team fail to get their rocks off with this underwhelming comeback

Massive Wagons conjure up more magic on Earth To Grace
By Rich Hobson published
Lancashire rockers Massive Wagons still going strong on album seven
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