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Ghost become first hard rock act in four years to top US album chart but miss out in the UK
By Fraser Lewry published
Skeletá has also had the biggest vinyl sales week for a hard rock album in more than three decades

Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's endearing all-star 1974 period piece revisited

How Primus told of goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows
By Fraser Lewry published
2017’s The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool’s bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children’s story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

The story of the Pearl Jam record that the band admit they’re “never going to remember as one of the greats”
By Niall Doherty published
The Seattle rockers’ trickiest album was fraught with writer’s block and drug addiction and it’s not one guitarist Stone Gossard is in a hurry to listen to again.

How Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and a modern blues icon came together to form Black Country Communion
By Mick Wall published
Black Country Communion’s second album, BCC2, established them as one of the greatest supergroups of the 21st century

A surrogate for Yes – but The Flower Kings’ Love is a fully-achieved ambition
By Fraser Lewry published
It’s the rebooted band’s fifth album in less than six years, but it doesn’t sound like they’re running out of ideas

How This Is A Call changed everything for Dave Grohl and introduced the world to Foo Fighters
By Niall Doherty published
The story of Foo Fighters’ debut single, which turns 30 next month, and why it's the song that Dave Grohl says saved his life

Watch Donny Osmond headbanging to The Osmonds’ Crazy Horses played at 33rpm and sounding like a lost doom metal classic
By Metal Hammer published
We always suspected The Osmonds were secret doom fans
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