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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
By Polly Glass published
Featuring Joe Bonamassa, The Hives, Enuff Z'nuff and five other raiders of the lost art

The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is revered by the critics - but not everyone is on board
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Brian Wilson's celebrated masterpiece, reappraised

"Fuelled by a cartoonish energy”: Atomic Rooster’s Atomic Rooster, remastered and expanded
By Joe Banks published
The proto-prog trio’s crunching 80s revamp revisited, with extras and a live set

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s Luminal and Lateral are a double victory
By Julian Marszalek published
Stunning collaboration yields two albums that are different – while also, somehow, the same

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: June 20 2025
By Rich Hobson published
Biohazard, Omnium Gatherum and Beyond The Black are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

“He seems determined to prove he can sound unlike Genesis”: Nad Sylvan’s Monumentata
By Chris Roberts published
Best known as Steve Hackett’s live vocalist, he moves away from his usual tone with darker, more personal music than his earlier solo output

10 classic rock and metal tunes you (probably) forgot were released as movie tie-ins
By Rich Hobson published
From U2 in a Batman movie to Korn in Tomb Raider and Slayer in Dracula, these songs have outshone the movies they were first featured in

Steve Harley shows who's boss on the 50th Anniversary edition of The Best Years Of Our Lives
By John Aizlewood published
Lavishly expanded 50th-anniversary edition of the album where Cockney Rebel suffered reduced billing (includes the big hit)
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