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Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
By Polly Glass published
Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album

The Alice Cooper song that started as a failure but finished as a smash
By Paul Elliott published
Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

Debate: What’s the greatest concept album of all time?
By Martin Kielty published
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is incredible, but were Genesis outdone by Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion or even The Kinks?

Every Meat Loaf album ranked, from worst to best
By Ken McIntyre published
The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best

"It was about a feeling of being a terrible person and f***ing up everything." Rejected by MTV, lonely nights on the road and the start of a split: the story of Nightwish anthem Nemo
By Dom Lawson/Natasha Scharf published
How Nightwish's goth-tinged anthem turned them into symphonic metal's brightest stars

The former metalcore brats who astonished everyone with a prog concept album
By Luke Morton published
Once talked up as “the next Metallica,” this American group rejected easy options and used their developing skills to craft a progressive metal record that arrived without warning in 2016

Tragedy lies behind most of Mastodon’s music. Hushed And Grim was no different
By Matt Mills published
In 2021 the band released their first double-length record, which would prove to be their last with Brent Hinds. They hoped it would be their last to be inspired by personal catastrophes

Avatar’s Don’t Go In The Forest is the album for people who like their massive 80s-inspired tunes with a side order of creepiness
By Holly Wright published
Avatar finally go for the commercial jugular on Don’t Go In The Forest
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