Bell Witch And Aerial Ruin’s Stygian Bough Volume 1: where funereal doom and gothic folk collide
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Black Sabbath's Never Say Die! arrived as the band's original line-up began to disintegrate. History has not been kind, but will our reviewers find more to enjoy?
Vile Creature’s Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!: sludge metal as you’ve never heard it before
Gender-defying Toronto duo Vile Creature undergo a furious reawakening on new album Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Bury Tomorrow’s new album Cannibal proves they’re the kings of modern metalcore
Bury Tomorrow muscle to the front of the modern metalcore pack with new album Cannibal
Paul Weller's On Sunset: a musical magpie, refusing to stagnate
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Sparks' new album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip refines and amplifies their weirdness
Veteran avant-glam baroque-pop duo Sparks continue their autumnal resurgence on 24th album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
A.A. Williams’ Forever Blue: bleakness and beauty in one stunning debut album
Death gospel visionary A.A. Williams shows metal bands don’t have the monopoly on misery with debut album Forever Blue
Beyond The Black’s Horizon: symphonic metallers mix gloss and grit on new album
Germany’s Beyond The Black move away from their symphonic roots on Horizon with mixed results
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The world's first prog supergroup conjures up challenging jazz fusion, fail to set world alight
Nick D'Virgilio - Invisible Review
Not yet ratedBig Big Train man serves up an unusual kind of “drummer record”.
Kansas - The Absence Of Presence Review
Not yet ratedThe enduring US pomp rockers have still got what it takes.
Buzzcocks: Sell You Everything (1991-2004) - the definitive compendium of the other years
Buzzcocks sell you everything on eight-CD compilation of Mancunian (post) punksters second wave of recording life
Nick D’Virgilio's Invisible lets you know he's much more than just a drummer
The meaning of prog, from Big Big Train drummer Nick D’Virgilio
Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970 - tentative in the studio, revelatory on the road
Frank Zappa’s celebrated 1970 Mothers lineup commemorated with unreleased 70-song collection of studio and live recordings
The Vacant Lots' Interzone: the perfect stun-blast soundtrack for a shattered society
Society-lacerating third album Interzone from Vermont electro-punks The Vacant Lots
Wino's Forever Gone: a reassuring voice in troubled times
The king of American doom Wino goes soulfully solo on Forever Gone
Neon Animal's Make No Mistake is pure, adrenalin-soaked scorch
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock… on Neon Animals' follow-up to Bring Back Rock n Roll From The Dead
Asking Alexandria's Like A House On Fire is the sound of a band stepping up and shaping up
Owning up and owning it on Asking Alexandria's sixth album Like A House On Fire