Reviews

Dream Theater keyboard player Jordan Rudess goes bonkers on Wired For Madness album

Thirty-five years down the road and The Quireboys still sound fresh on 12th album Amazing Disgrace

Blue Oyster Cult's debut album: the first forays into sonic exploration from the thinking man’s rock band

The dynamic duo's new project, described as "ambient psych doom metal", release their debut record Celestial Mechanics

An inspiration for Guns N' Roses and a cover featuring a bat-like creature with vicious teeth. It can only be Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog

How do you follow an album that changed the world? For the most part it's rinse then repeat

Rolling Stone Keith Richards' 1988 solo debut gets major expansion job – in real Fender wood!

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother marked the point where the band found their way out of their post-Barrett malaise

UK rockers of a certain age were introduced to Nantucket Sleighride by political broadcasting on the TV, but there was also an album attached to the song

After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?

Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album

In which we discuss communal music youth programs in a social democracy, and what they meant for Europe's album The Final Countdown

Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia

Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed

In mid-1975, Peter Frampton was a moderately successful solo artist. Within a year, Frampton Comes Alive! had smashed all known sales records...

Luciferian odes find their calling in music’s golden age on Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop)

Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album

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

Heavy and progressive, it’s business as usual for Queensrÿche on The Verdict