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August 2020

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August 31
- Backxwash’s God Has Nothing To Do With This… is the most important album of 2020
- The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F. - Album Of The Week Club review
- Israeli death/doom crew Tomorrow’s Rain call in metal all-stars on cathartic new album Hollow
August 28
- Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet review
- Back Street Crawler's Atlantic Years 1975-1976 - a truncated tribute to Paul Kossoff
- Metallica's S&M2 - success on the grandest of scales
- Walter Trout's Ordinary Madness - a deeply personal state of the nation address
- Allman Betts Band's Bless Your Heart - further proof that you can never have enough guitarists
- Rick Wakemans The Red Planet - a return to a prog god's halcyon days
August 27
- Brimstone Coven’s The Woes Of A Mortal Earth: doom rock the way they used to make it
August 24
- UFO: The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent - Album Of The Week Club review
- Metal all-stars Kill The Lights nail the groove and the glory on debut album The Sinner
- Metallica’s S&M2: metal’s biggest band changes the game once more on epic live album
August 23
- Unleash The Archers let battle commence on epic new album Abyss
- Incantation’s Sect Of Vile Divinities: a hissing hate-swamp of old school death metal glory
August 21
- L.A. Witch's Play With Fire: mood music for people who haven't been taking their prescriptions
- Blues Pills attain post-millennial neo-hippy nirvana on Holy Moly!
August 20
- Blues Pills party like it’s 1974 on new album Holy Moly!
August 18
- Pink Floyd: Meddle - Album Of The Week Club review
August 14
- Fantastic Negrito's Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?: brilliant music for a broken world
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo’s Factory still excites in 50th birthday form
- James Dean Bradfield's Even In Exile: shining a light on dark history
- Biffy Clyro: A Celebration Of Endings might be the beginning of something
August 13
- Magenta - Masters Of Illusion review
August 11
- Brit warhorses Onslaught up their thrash game on new album Generation Antichrist
August 10
- Klaatu: Hope - Album Of The Week Club review
August 8
- Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970
August 7
- Theatrical metal kings Avatar take a turn for the darker on new album Hunter Gatherer
- Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past
- Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Now - a debut album re-sung and embellished
- Deep Purple's Whoosh!: confident, mature, and superb
- Selbst’s Relatos De Angustia: black metal anguish meets Jungian psychology
August 6
- Shadowy Portuguese cult Gaerea open up a thrilling new black metal front on new album Limbo
- Steve Von Till’s No Wilderness Deep Enough: gothic Americana for hardcore insomniacs
- Dee Snider’s For The Love Of Metal – Live: rock’n’roll’s greatest ringmaster in untouchable form
- Zombi’s 2020 is the soundtrack to the greatest sci-fi movie never made
August 5
- Septicflesh’s Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX: orchestral death metal gets its own S&M2
August 4
- Primal Fear’s Metal Commando: the power metal Jedi Masters return
August 3
- Rumahoy’s Time II: Party: pirate metallers’ new album goes better with grog
- Mother Love Bone: Apple - Album Of The Week Club review
- Metalcore heroes Misery Signals go back to the future on new album Ultraviolet