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Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work
By Daryl Easlea published
The real-life running order is reinstated, audience sound is returned and Derek Shulman’s song introductions are heard in souped-up version of 1977 classic

All 20 Ronnie James Dio album ranked, from worst to best
By Paul Elliott published
Ronnie James Dio's albums with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell and Dio helped define what a hard rock singer can be

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 23 2025
By Rich Hobson published
Electric Callboy, Blackbraid, Malevolence and many others have devastated our eardrums with new tunes this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

The five least metal Metallica songs
By Matt Mills published
Not even having the word ‘metal’ in their name could stop the Four Horsemen from adventuring outside of their genre

See Electric Callboy get “darker” and “more serious” with twisted new song/video Revery
By Metal Hammer published
Germany’s synth-metal party boys have reinvented themselves in dramatic fashion

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
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