Rumahoy’s Time II: Party: pirate metallers’ new album goes better with grog
Scurvy dogs Rumahoy narrowly avoid walking the plank on new album Time II: Party
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Mother Love Bone: Apple - Album Of The Week Club review
Apple bridged the end of hair metal and the beginning of grunge, but Mother Love Bone's one album will forever be associated with tragedy rather than transformation
Metalcore heroes Misery Signals go back to the future on new album Ultraviolet
Misery Signals’ first album with their original line-up in 16 years is a huge leap sideways
The Psychedelic Furs' Made Of Rain: warm, melancholy, and blessed with great songs
Return of 80s big hitters Psychedelic Furs well worth the decades wait on eighth album Made Of Rain
Steve Howe - Love Is review
Not yet ratedThe evergreen Yes guitarist uncouples from the mothership to drift through ever-shifting landscapes, both internal and external, on his first solo album in nine years.
Thundermother's Heat Wave: not a death rattle but a battle cry
Strikingly hooky return on Heat Wave from regenerated Swedes Thundermother
Steve Howe's Love Is: masterly communication with the universe
Steve Howe's first album in nine years Love Is shimmers and glows
NWOBHM Thunder: a no-guts-no-glory tribute to NWOBHM's foot soldiers
NWOBHM Thunder is a superb three-disc celebration of British heavy metal’s last big hurrah
Dee Snider's For The Love Of Metal Live! is brash, bullish and maniacal
Dee Snider's soundtrack to single household lockdown back-garden festivals has arrived
Alcatrazz's Born Innocent: featuring fret-frazzlers to the fore
Graham Bonnet’s post-Rainbow project Alcatrazz resurfaces on Born Innocent after a long rebirth
Imperial Triumphant’s Alphaville is the sound of metal’s cutting edge being redefined
Masked NYC brain-melters Imperial Triumphant serve up metal/jazz/avant garde/barbershop madness on majestic new album Alphaville
AC/DC: Back In Black - Album Of The Week Club review
As one of our reviewers says, "AC/DC may not have reinvented the wheel here, but they may have produced the best f**king wheel to ever exist"
Seasick Steve - Love & Peace: Grizzled layers and earthly delights
Seasick Steve's 10th album, Love & Peace, shows just why he doesn't need a garbled backstory to maintain mass appeal
Primal Fear's Metal Commando: unashamedly brutish and balls-out
Lucky thirteenth for German pure metal stalwarts Primal Fear on Metal Commando
Haken - Virus Review
Not yet ratedWho says sequels are never as good as the originals? The UK prog kings pick up from where 2018’s Vector left off – and serve up a modern masterpiece in the process.
Haken's Virus: the missing link between Slayer and King Crimson
Haken provide many bloodied riffs on sixth album Virus
Corpsing’s Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants: UKDM ragers go for the jugular
Corpsing’s new album Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants prove UK death metal is alive and seething
The Acacia Strain chronicle our descent into hell on Slow Decay
US hardcore bruisers The Acacia Strain offer a savage state-of-the-world address on new album Slow Decay