Reviews

Slade may not have been cool, but they were a better live act than most, and Alive! captures the band at their fiery best

After three decades of negotiation, Cheap Trick finally play Liverpool's legendary Cavern club

In which Genesis cause controversy and dismay by turning their hand to shorter, more pop-orientated songs

From a time when Creedence Clearwater Revival and Californian plaid ruled the world

Baby, Bruce Springsteen was born to run, and run, and run…

Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold

San Francisco’s metal stalwarts Metal Church fail to refuel with Damned If You Do

New York’s finest thrashers Anthrax celebrate 30 years of being Antisocial with this State Of Euphoria reissue

Girlschool didn’t so much sound like they might scratch your eyes out as boot you in the balls and nick your beer

Filth-ridden rumbles from a North Carolina basement, courtesy of Funeral Chic

Strictly speaking, Tommy wasn't the first rock opera. But it's the one that catapulted The Who into the major leagues

Choice offcuts from San Diego’s deathgrind visionaries Cattle Decapitation

The Biohazard frontman makes a solo run at the barricades with Feed The Fire

US metalcore stalwarts All That Remains return with a heavier sound, and heavy hearts

Conceived as a stop-gap release, the second Guns N’ Roses album remains a remarkable one-off – in every sense.

Wardruna offer a solo summoning from the outskirts of time with Skald

Norways’s progressive pioneers In The Woods... settle for a wistful stroll on Cease The Day

"It’s absolutely amazing. Every single song on there is brilliant." Iron Maiden's Steve Harris on Be Bop Deluxe's Sunburst Finish

At a time when rock was increasingly looking beyond its own frontiers for inspiration, Living Colours' Vivid was a genre-mashing stake in the ground