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September 2020

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September 30
- Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
- Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters
September 29
- Corey Taylor’s CMFT is music to ride motorbikes into swimming pools to
- John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
September 28
- Tallah’s Matriphagy: the sound of nu metal being reinvented for 2020
- Motorpsycho - The All Is One review
- John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity review
- Yes: Drama - Album Of The Week Club review
September 27
- Amaranthe’s Manifest: rippling riffs meet gleaming razzmatazz on genre-mashing new album
- Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
- Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
September 26
- Fish - Weltschmerz review
September 25
- The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
- Lou Reed's New York: a compelling cacophony of bad news, now in deluxe form
- Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits: the most dangerous vinyl in the world?
- Deftones' sonic adventures flip between bliss and fury on Ohms
- Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels
- James Williamson & Deniz Tek's Two To One: timeless, old-school rock'n'roll
- Idles' Ultra Mono is stripped-back, brutal, and lacerating
- Fish's Weltschmerz: ending on a note of beautiful melancholy
- Public Enemy: urgency returns on What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
September 24
- Dyble Longdon - Between A Breath And A Breath review
- Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
- You won’t hear another album like Anna von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly this year
September 23
- Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses
September 22
- Heathen’s Empire Of The Blind: never write an old school Bay Area thrash band off
- Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands
September 21
- Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album
- Deftones have made a record for every kind of Deftones fan with Ohms
- Accept: Metal Heart - Album Of The Week Club review
September 17
- Pain Of Salvation - Panther review
- Pain Of Salvation’s Panther is the sound of 21st century prog metal at its brooding best
- Napalm Death’s Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism: grind kings return triumphant
September 16
- Cult Of Lilith open up a new tech-death frontier on stellar debut album Mara
September 15
- Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why?
September 14
- Sweet: Sweet Fanny Adams - Album Of The Week Club review
- Skeletal Remains’ The Entombment Of Chaos: old school death metal for a new generation
September 11
- Mastodon - Medium Rarities: A trawl through 20 years of long-lost sonic mayhem
- The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream
- Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: The God Of F*ck gives his demons free rein
September 10
- Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones review
September 7
- Robert Plant: Pictures At Eleven - Album Of The Week Club review
September 4
- Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber review
- Code Orange’s Under The Skin: modern metal visionaries redraw the boundaries again
- Fleetwood Mac's 1969 To 1974: a rousing last hurrah for the road not taken
- The Rolling Stones' Goat's Head Soup: retaining the whiff of sex, sleaze and violence
- Zakk Sabbath's Vertigo: you don't need it but you'll love it
- All Them Witches: Nothing As The Ideal - an enticing feast for psychedelic senses
September 2
- Ulver’s Flowers Of Evil: a dark journey into danceable decadence
September 1
- Oceans Of Slumber’s stellar new album is a turbulent masterpiece for our times