Reviews

Ex Dio-ites Last In Line find their own style on II

America’s prog giants rediscover the glories of heavy metal on their 14th album

Stranger In Town is an album featuring three of Bob Seger's most celebrated songs, but it's not his most celebrated album. What's going on?

Susan Tedeschi. Derek Trucks. And their Band. Album number four is Signs

Turn-of-the-century reissues from a reinvigorated Megadeth

Greek masters Rotting Christ dive into the ancient mysteries and deliver unto us an extreme metal classic

A debut album from the youthful Free, a band with a couldn’t-care-less attitude honed on the rough-and-ready UK circuit of blues clubs and ballrooms

SAHB crept up on an unsuspecting nation, grabbed it by the balls and won hearts and minds in unison

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl

Paradise Theater: a concept piece based on a fictional rundown venue, and a metaphor for the American dream

Long Beach rockers’ Rival Sons' sixth album twists and turns and ultimately triumphs

Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows

Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans

Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album

Japan’s new power metal queens scale the heights on their second album

Dovetailing perfectly with what AC/DC and Aerosmith were doing, the Scorpions added arena sparkle to their sound

The nu metal survivors cast their sonic net wide on album number 10

Ex-Montrose, pre-Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar seeks solo success

Old and new Magnum material given a live sparkle