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Skunk Anansie's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades
By Stephen Dalton published
Veteran Brit-rockers Skunk Anansie defy challenging times with ambitious midlife reboot The Painful Truth

It's not just the familiar names on Young & Wild glam metal compilation
By Philip Wilding published
The good, the bad and the ugly from a colourful 10-year period of American hard rock gathered together on Young & Wild - A Decade Of American Glam Metal 1982-1992

Every Kiss album ranked, from worst to best
By Paul Elliott published
The complete set of 29 Kiss albums, ranked from woeful worst to wonderful best

Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums
By Matt Mills published
Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap

How Caligula’s Horse searched for a new direction and new message with Rise Radiant
By David West published
Guitarist, writer and producer Sam Vallen was as surprised as anyone else when a bid to avoid making another concept album resulted in a record with an underlying – and refreshingly positive – theme

The Painful Truth is Skunk Anansie's most vital and inventive album in years
By Emma Johnston published
Where many bands coast on past glories thirty years in, Skunk Anansie have served up something special

The scandalous story of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies
By Ian Fortnam published
The Alice Cooper Band's outrageous behaviour prompted a statement in Parliament while their songs thrilled a generation

Enter Shikari to release Live At Wembley album and accompanying live video
By Paul Brannigan published
"Our Wembley show last year was one of my favourite in Shikari’s existence thus far," says Rou Reynolds

“Gary was so talented it actually haunted him. He wasn’t really in control of what was coming through him. That sort of thing always comes at a price”: How guitar icon Gary Moore snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with his early 80s solo albums
By Mick Wall published
The late Gary Moore made some classic solo albums – but he never got the success he deserved
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