The Weight Of The Mask is both the prettiest and bleakest Svalbard have sounded to date - and it's a stunning monument to the human experience
Svalbard's incredible new album unwraps further layers of beauty and pain
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"When Ashley Holt screams, doesn't it sound like Gillan?": Warhorse by Warhorse - Album Of The Week Club review
After being sacked By Deep Purple, bassist Nick Simper took up with Marsha Hunt’s backing band and gradually turned them into a hard-rockin' force
Muse's Manchester AO Arena show proves that whatever route their music may take, they'll always be one of the greatest live bands in all of music
Muse bring the hits, charm and a ton of showmanship to Manchester
“Imbued with otherness… steeped in drama and grandeur, but it feels tethered to a very specific point on the earth”: Haunt The Woods’ Ubiquity
Quartet’s second album shapeshifts among its folk, prog and alt rock influences
“Hearing each concert side by side demonstrates just how well rehearsed the presentation was, while allowing for individual improvisation”: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Box Set
Complete with the previously unreleased third concert recording, 11-disc collection goes beyond the wildest dreams of even the most avid Hawkfan
The Black Sabbath ballet shows Sabbath are still pushing heavy metal into unchartered territories after half a century
Black Sabbath - The Ballet isn't just a meeting of worlds, it's a celebration of one of metal's most iconic groups
Graveyard's 6: inward-looking and melancholy, but a masterclass in psychedelic light and shade
More psychedelic raves from the grave on Graveyard's enticingly titled sixth album 6
"All grinding desperation and lank-haired perspiration": the new album by KK's Priest confirms that they're not a viable alternative to the real thing
The apocalypse is nigh (part 182)
"It would be an obtuse listener who didn't grasp how splendid this record is": Steven Wilson's The Harmony Codex is a high-wire act that few artists could pull off
Solo album number seven The Harmony Codex finds Steven Wilson triumphing by not trying too hard
In Screamin' At The Sky, Black Stone Cherry have made the album where they remind us why we fell for them in the first place
On Screamin’ At The Sky, album number eight, Black Stone Cherry’s formula remains reassuringly simple: songs that pack a ferocious punch
"I'll fight you till I win": Kae Tempest, Heartworms and Viji steal the show at Speedy Wunderground's thrilling 10th anniversary celebrations
Cutting edge London record label Speedy Wunderground serves up fascinating state-of-the-indie-nation snapshots at 10th birthday bash
EarLabs dBud review
I take a look at the EarLabs dBud to see if these premium ear plugs can keep the noise down while maintaining quality audio
Blood Command's World Domination: 20 tracks, almost half being a minute long or less, yet one of the most exciting, unique, genre-bending metal albums you'll hear this year
Norway's Blood Command might be reliably brilliant, but new album World Domination is as unpredictably genre-smashing as ever
Asinhell's Impii Hora: Volbeat frontman Michael Poulson has a new death metal project, and it's pretty damn good
Volbeat's Michael Poulson digs into his death metal past for his new band Asinhell's debut
Jailbreak shows that, despite the chaos of their lineups, Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are still a powerful force to be reckoned with
They may have suffered all manner of turbulence with their lineups, but Nervosa are still one of thrash's modern leaders
New KK's Priest album The Sinner Rides Again isn't reinventing any wheels, but when you have K.K. Downing and Tim 'Ripper' Owens together on this kind of form, who cares?
You know exactly what you're getting with K.K. Luckily, what you're getting is top-tier, classic heavy metal
Code Orange's The Above is everything modern heavy music should be but all too often isn’t. If this is "selling out", more bands should try it
Code Orange continue their streak as one of the most exciting and ambitious bands in all of modern metal
Sony WF-1000XM5 review
The latest edition of Sony’s 1000X in-ear headphone range are another upgrade on an already world class product
"The album is guilty of attempting to appease people that Queen had no real business in trying to win over": Queen's News Of The World - Album Of The Week Club review
At a time when punk rock was new, Queen suddenly epitomised everything about the old rock aristocracy that the critics now held in contempt... so they released their most popular album yet
