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Airbourne blaze back on a wave of pent-up desire and nostalgia on album featuring Bryan Adams and Mutt Lange
By Emma Johnston Published
Airbourne's self-titled sixth album pays tribute to Lemmy, John Bonham, Bon Scott, and Little Richard

“We said, ‘It will ruin our career.’ That’s what happened”: The rock + electronica experiment that failed
By Lin Bensley Published
A rising British band’s reputation was trashed by their collaboration with a French musique concrète artist. But they’d opened the door for rock’s marriage to electronic sounds

Celebrate 25 years of System Of A Down’s Toxicity with this stunning amber vinyl – and a 7” single featuring a long-lost bonus track
By Metal Hammer Published
The nu metal icons’ second album came out on September 4, 2001, and remains a stone-cold classic

Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did
By Matt Mills Published
The avant-garde maestro on why his self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet

Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery: Can two guitarists share a studio without dissolving into a duel of overplaying egos?
By Phil Weller, Chris Roberts Published
It took them 10 years to find the time, but The Roaring Waves sees the Marillion and Genesis icons following each others’ lead in turns – and includes one song they believe will shock prog fans

Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness once gave themselves an hour to write a No-Man song. Another time, they took 25 years
By Chris McGarel Published
Their 2019 album Love You To Bits began to take form in 1994, inspired by movie soundtracks, disco epics and Pink Floyd melancholy – but spent a quarter-century in development hell

Every Rolling Stones album ranked from worst to best
By Ian Fortnam Published
Buying guide From the smoke-filled clubs of London’s rhythm’n’blues scene to the world's greatest stadiums, the Rolling Stones' recorded work is the soundtrack to rock'n'roll itself

“It took me until album number three before I found an identity”: Peter Gabriel’s first four solo records
By Daryl Easlea Published
Car, Scratch, Melt and Security log the incredible distance he covered between leaving Genesis and creating So

One of the great 'what if' moments in rock history: Ace by Dee Snider's Desperado
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
What happens when you mix Dee Snider, Clive Burr and Bernie Tormé? A lost, long-forgotten surprise

The 'bad' metal albums that are much better than you remember
By Rich Hobson, Merlin Alderslade, Justin Breckner, Joe Daly, Eleanor Goodman, Perran Helyes, Stephen Hill, Dom Lawson, Hannah May Kilroy, Matt Mills, Jonathan Selzer Published
From Iron Maiden to Metallica, Slayer to Guns N' Roses, these are the 'dud' albums that deserve a second look
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