<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums Wed, 27 May 2026 17:46:37 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “One album took three years and my heart wasn’t in it. I had to reinvent myself”: When Mike Oldfield released Crises, his old friends stopped ignoring him ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/mike-oldfield-crises-moonlight-shadow MgJRCxHTAvfb9cNDXRLpoH Wed, 27 May 2026 17:46:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce newly remastered reissue of Works Live ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/emerson-lake-and-palmer-announce-newly-remastered-reissue-of-works-live V75Des3frUgdpWepQNYd6e Wed, 27 May 2026 12:25:26 +0000 Wed, 27 May 2026 12:35:46 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I got a letter from Ozzy telling me my services weren’t needed and Axl had gotten rid of me”: How Zakk Wylde launched Black Label Society with the booze-fuelled chaos of Sonic Brew ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/zakk-wylde-sonic-brew-story-black-label-society QzEpg9GvkHFTvT9Lh6T7NF Wed, 27 May 2026 10:34:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ “AI is good at copying stuff and it’s going to get better. But AI is creating with logic and I’m creating with chaos”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg wants to be the most cinematic artist in prog ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/einar-solberg-meaning-of-vox-occulta C8XMwn3D87QKLz4jiKUYzG Wed, 27 May 2026 06:26:32 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We had been on the road pretty heavily, and we were burned." How a frazzled Bad Company made their "great lost album" Burnin' Sky ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/bad-company-burnin-sky fKCC5UGwuDbJKgqnMyDN4c Wed, 27 May 2026 02:54:49 +0000 Wed, 27 May 2026 05:36:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Slash came up to me and said, ‘Man, I got laid to your records so much.’ I said, ‘Dude, didn’t we go to high school together?’”: How Lenny Kravitz’s Let Love Rule and Mama Said turned him into a superstar ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-story-behind-lenny-kravitz-let-love-rule-mama-said e3dAMfATUGrdiNbrxwT4TY Tue, 26 May 2026 09:24:16 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We partied every night! We would have a hotel room and just give the details out to friends and girls, ‘We’ll see you there!’” The story of the song that made Judas Priest icons in America ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/story-behind-you-got-another-thing-comin-judas-priest WJCJE3Fri3gSd5BgL7TNU Tue, 26 May 2026 08:58:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I never know what my audience is in the mood for." Nine Todd Rundgren albums to listen to, and one to avoid ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/todd-rundgren-albums uDQ8VGje5qCMoGvA9JCCyc Tue, 26 May 2026 04:42:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We had a plan but, Jesus Christ, are you kidding?" How David Coverdale used glamour and bombast to turn Whitesnake into international superstars ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/whitesnake-1987-album eaAXcMi7XcJaWPgQfZVQeZ Tue, 26 May 2026 04:18:57 +0000 Tue, 26 May 2026 04:48:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We'd blown all the momentum that we had and all the credibility." The Police's journey to superstardom wasn't the smooth ride you might imagine ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-police-journey-to-superstardom-wasnt-a-smooth-ride jyaTw3hGPsfYpwbdVjayuM Mon, 25 May 2026 16:12:56 +0000 Mon, 25 May 2026 16:22:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Can this possibly be the perfect rock album?" Deep Purple climb an early pinnacle on Machine Head ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/deep-purple-machine-head ZN7Hz47Q4DfrZmCZM6Yja8 Mon, 25 May 2026 04:43:19 +0000 Mon, 25 May 2026 08:02:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I swear to God I turned the radio off because I got sick of hearing us every 20 minutes!" The story of how Pyromania sold 100,000 copies a day and turned Def Leppard into superstars ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/def-leppard-story-behind-pyromania tZZhF3CNbqL44uhrSXwgPT Sun, 24 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We’d been messing about with it for so long that we said, ‘Let’s stop thinking and let go of it’”: Sigur Rós, a discredited medieval poem and the end of Heaven and Earth ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/sigur-ros-odin-s-raven-magic SYqLGJ3ZDgyrz5vJ4u3HBP Sat, 23 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "There’s no magic formula at work here –this is an album full of simple but glorious pop-rock songs." How alt. rock godhead Bob Mould finally struck gold with Sugar's Copper Blue ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/sugar-story-behind-copper-blue zxgqzZMW9SdgQFT7bAhAx7 Sat, 23 May 2026 07:15:08 +0000 Sun, 24 May 2026 14:45:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that.” How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen - with their classic song Sober ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-story-and-meaning-of-tool-sober NyiVjVcn5oNPfzMdCTWPaS Fri, 22 May 2026 13:10:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I had huge insecurities, knowing I’d be compared to Thom Yorke or Jonny Greenwood. I felt like, ‘Who am I?’” Ed O’Brien steps out from Radiohead’s shadow with Blue Morpho ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/ed-o-brien-radiohead-blue-morpho G7Kn5MZF58L3JFWXbWPJr3 Fri, 22 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "If you saw these guys on the street, you wouldn't even know that they're cool." Every Helmet album ranked from worst to best ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/helmet-albums-ranked-worst-to-best k927htMQawiXWo7a5CZ5bf Thu, 21 May 2026 08:24:57 +0000 Thu, 21 May 2026 08:27:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ After eight long years, one of the UK's best modern rock bands are finally back. So is new Marmozets album CO.WAR.DICE worth the wait? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/marmozets-cowardice-review 5rM35fMPH8QrZ864qf9goM Wed, 20 May 2026 10:11:27 +0000 Wed, 20 May 2026 10:11:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ From prog icon to underground dance cult hero: Nine Steve Hillage albums to listen to and one to avoid ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/-steve-hillage-best-albums 4iXNYTWaxD5h2NvzcytBLm Wed, 20 May 2026 07:05:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He’s trying to say, ‘They’re words. The more you use them, the more you disempower them’”: Why Marillion ex Fish opened a song with a string of racial slurs ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/fish-sunsets-on-empire NzZ9ACKwMUDHYJWsuzaCGZ Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Simply some of the most sophisticated and beautiful progressive rock music ever created!" Steven Wilson announces Gentle Giant, Storm Corrosion and Hawkwind additions to his Headphone Dust platform ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/simply-some-of-the-most-sophisticated-and-beautiful-progressive-rock-music-ever-created-steven-wilson-announces-gentle-giant-storm-corrosion-and-hawkwind-additions-to-his-headphone-dust-platform i2S5W9opLmb3quarWWXEMT Tue, 19 May 2026 12:23:39 +0000 Tue, 19 May 2026 21:09:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ Slipknot side-project Look Outside Your Window to get wider vinyl and CD release next month ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/slipknot-look-outside-your-window-broader-release-june-2026 oSGdRYLC6bAc54McLrbLHf Tue, 19 May 2026 09:57:50 +0000 Tue, 19 May 2026 10:28:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It was the end of me being a cult artist at the fringes of the mainstream”: Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer and So, and why he had to be nailed inside a barn to finish the album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/peter-gabriel-sledgehammer-so EvNTGNQgHVwL86xzdgdfcD Tue, 19 May 2026 05:45:49 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It’s a masochistic way of recording. Working in the studio isn’t always fun”: Prog metallers Amorphis rehired a notoriously picky producer, knowing they just had to trust him. The result was Queen Of Time ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/amorphis-queen-of-time-jens-bogren bZ8GvzXcEUazLGFRW8staa Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:15 +0000 Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Daring and meditative and spiritual and rousing." Van Morrison perfects his blues/rock/Celtic soul thing on Saint Dominic's Preview ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/van-morrison-saint-dominics-preview tRWf3fpwLqKVUgVQALyPc3 Mon, 18 May 2026 06:21:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ “They’d always played fast and loose with traditional song structures. This album pushed it even further”: Big Country wouldn’t have called Steeltown a prog record – but it is ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/theyd-always-played-fast-and-loose-with-traditional-song-structures-this-album-pushed-it-even-further-big-country-wouldnt-have-called-steeltown-a-prog-record-but-it-is d7QGLCgRvsBKeHcVHbbzQR Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Sun, 17 May 2026 21:08:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’d wake up, have no memory of it, then play it back – and funnily enough it worked”: The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord drank to forget his new songs as he wrote them ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/bruce-soord-ghosts-in-the-park tWs4nAzGKB56CT8hSQSQ8L Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Substitute any Vietnam reference with any current war and the lyrics still stand up. I think the lyrics on Paranoid are timeless." How themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust shaped Black Sabbath's second album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/black-sabbath-story-behind-the-album-paranoid v9AWsZDsimWDEB5MdjaA29 Sat, 16 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It changes you when you lose someone that you love so much." How Amy Lee channelled a devastating personal loss into Evanescence's most emotional album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-story-behind-evanescences-the-bitter-truth E8rGTt85Kh8VpouL4MpfNb Fri, 15 May 2026 13:26:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ “In my memory it is very clear, like watching a film. We gambled our entire career on this album." How Celtic Frost laid the blueprint for extreme metal, black metal and death metal with their debut Morbid Tales ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/celtic-frost-morbid-tales-interview BMXaYvow9ano3eRpw7FabT Fri, 15 May 2026 12:41:12 +0000 Fri, 15 May 2026 13:16:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ “You can actually listen to these albums back-to-back in reverse order”: Why Crown Lands’ fourth album Apocalypse is a prequel to second album Fearless ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/crown-lands-apocalypse ExwEKMjr39oYRCxmkap6Ei Fri, 15 May 2026 06:44:56 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The key to the band's sound is that all the guys in the band are really into progressive rock..." Magic Pie beat a case of writer's block to make sixth album Maestro ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-key-to-the-bands-sound-is-that-all-the-guys-in-the-band-are-really-into-progressive-rock-magic-pie-beat-a-case-of-writers-block-to-make-sixth-album-maestro fdeqbr6ncDa7rsYtCMJrF5 Thu, 14 May 2026 23:10:22 +0000 Thu, 14 May 2026 23:11:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ “They just do what they feel is right for them. They don’t take into account what people think”: How Metallica rewrote their script (and irritated countless metalheads) with Load and Reload ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/metallica-story-behind-load-reload-albums Fc5xMNLn2e2nqZmcNPhUpE Thu, 14 May 2026 15:59:05 +0000 Thu, 14 May 2026 16:02:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “By day they worked on the official record. At night they taped an entirely different record, without the knowledge or approval of the label”: The story of Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, Quiet Sun and their sly posthumous album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/phil-manzanera-quiet-sun-mainstream crQjMcFfS3tW24cqofwNVA Thu, 14 May 2026 11:37:31 +0000 Fri, 15 May 2026 05:07:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The cycle of album-tour-album-tour is dying. It’s long been dead at our end of the scale”: This prog band took a risk to escape broken music industry models. So far, it’s paying off ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/the-cycle-of-album-tour-album-tour-is-dying-its-long-been-dead-at-our-end-of-the-scale-this-prog-band-took-a-risk-to-escape-broken-music-industry-models-so-far-its-paying-off Lq2vu7w9s7uqYrsm7VcKTj Wed, 13 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Music, art, death, time – they’re all part of the same thing. I can’t articulate it. I’m just some stoned goofball with a guitar”: How Gong became more Gong than ever with latest album Bright Spirit ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/gong-bright-spirit 7Hv9WyzzBojacRp9UKa8dD Wed, 13 May 2026 12:22:03 +0000 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:22:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We’ve played each other songs, but we still haven’t come eye-to-eye on how things should be done”: 15 years after their comeback, will there ever be a sixth System Of A Down album? ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/system-of-a-down-story-behind-sixth-studio-album-probably-not-happening 3rPfUeE8imNbxHcVCJ2xUS Wed, 13 May 2026 11:44:03 +0000 Wed, 13 May 2026 15:16:57 +0000 <![CDATA[ Remixed and remastered version of Quiet Sun's legendary Mainstream album due in September ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/remixed-and-remastered-version-of-quiet-suns-legendary-mainstream-album-due-in-september KqsoUZKmvpitHTZCFr9FzA Wed, 13 May 2026 10:01:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I used to think I’d keep screaming until a trickle of blood came out. But it hasn’t happened yet”: How post-metal maverick Julie Christmas returned with her first album in eight years ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/julie-christmas-the-story-of-her-solo-album-ridiculous-and-full-of-blood 5hHomeFBEmSCA3Zh7k7M3M Wed, 13 May 2026 09:51:43 +0000 Wed, 13 May 2026 09:54:58 +0000 <![CDATA[ "When I went to rehab, they forced me to do the serenity prayer...I told them I’d say, ‘Ozzy grant me the serenity.'" Heartbreak, partying with Playboy bunnies and relapsing with Slayer: Every HIM (and VV) album in Ville Valo's own words ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/every-him-and-vv-album-in-ville-valos-own-words SMrgKny6UKUhjyg26MRViA Mon, 11 May 2026 11:27:47 +0000 Mon, 11 May 2026 11:29:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It trampled over most of the taboos of mid-70s radio with its sweary, anti-establishment lyrics and sneering tone." The Sex Pistols burn the apple cart to the ground on Never Mind The Bollocks ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/sex-pistols-never-mind-the-bollocks 4oxa5PVnVRds5div6KYKA4 Mon, 11 May 2026 04:18:48 +0000 Mon, 11 May 2026 21:20:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Zeppelin was primarily an in-person band… that’s what it was really about”: The greatest Led Zeppelin album no one ever talks about might just be a legendary bootleg ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/led-zeppelin-bootleg-live-on-blueberry-hill-story-behind-album BtBxW8QC7edUW6ogMtrS75 Sun, 10 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Mon, 11 May 2026 06:25:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The last thing I wanted to do in the world was to have a fist fight with Pete Townshend. Unfortunately he hit me with his guitar”: The tangled story of one of rock’s mythical lost albums – and the two classics it eventually produced ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/the-who-lifehouse-lost-album quVCnUvfMdoKJkj4yqnN6Q Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I always go back to the early 1970s because those sounds are timeless, even though they’re from before I was born." Why Lars Fredrik Frøislie plays it defiantly old school on second solo album Gamle Mester ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/larsfroisliegamlemester KexrjrPAA3zy9PTttfp6KA Sat, 09 May 2026 10:33:58 +0000 <![CDATA[ King Crimson announce new 2014 New York live album will be released in July ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/king-crimson-announce-new-2014-new-york-live-album-will-be-released-in-july bkeCAoRMKFFX9mzNd7o6tk Fri, 08 May 2026 12:10:12 +0000 Fri, 08 May 2026 12:11:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The most glorious example of infuriatingly pretentious or highly intriguing nonsense”: In the 80s, many artists used newfangled samplers to make jolly tunes. The Art Of Noise went solid prog rock ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/art-of-noise-prog-credentials DCmuxBGeX3B2KLCfFR47oY Thu, 07 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We never thought, ‘Let’s piss people off!’ Now I can see it’s going to piss people off!”: Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfleldt went crazy and outrageous with Storm Corrosion. But Åkerfleldt still doesn’t know what the album’s about, and won’t ask ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/storm-corrosion-wilson-akerfeldt-defy-fans KVELSLRs7vj8TNMB2nSQT Thu, 07 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "A relevant, inspiring and beloved icon of rabble-rousing artistry and individuality." Every Patti Smith album ranked from worst to best ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/patti-smith-albums-ranked Uq9vGk7sKbba6zioVtj678 Wed, 06 May 2026 02:42:27 +0000 Sat, 16 May 2026 23:32:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The best AC/DC album that AC/DC never made." Nine Krokus albums you should listen to and one to ignore ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/krokus-the-best-albums pnhPNNpAs7WjRT62eEQDVJ Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I used Steven Wilson’s Mellotron in exchange for me guesting at his London Palladium show!”: Prog pioneers Soft Machine spared no effort on their new album, then took a risk by calling it Thirteen ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/soft-machine-thirteen CitPngyh6BdGnd395VAaMM Tue, 05 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000