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October 2020

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October 31
- Hello darkness my old friend… Nothing deliver the most 2020 album of 2020 with The Great Dismal
October 30
- Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning is deliberately annoying, genuinely funny and weirdly emotional
- Motorhead's deluxe edition of Ace Of Spades is four hours and 11 minutes of beautiful madness
- The Human Condition finds Black Stone Cherry returning to rock's heartland
- Grateful Dead's American Beauty gets a makeover for its 50th Anniversary
- Joni Mitchell grows from tomboy folkie to master musician on Archives Vol.1: The Early Years
- Pantera celebrate 20 years of Reinventing The Steel with a vibrant new mix
- Uriah Heep: a missed opportunity after Fifty Years In Rock
- Elvis Costello pays brilliant homage to himself on Hey Clockface
October 29
- Auðn’s Vökudraumsins Fangi is atmospheric black metal the way they used to make it
- Trap metal renegade Ghostemane serves up nihilism and pain on new album Anti-Icon
October 28
- Draconian’s Under A Godless Veil: a glorious marriage of gothic doom and gnostic cosmology
October 27
- Mr Bungle’s The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo: you want thrash? You got thrash
- Mörk Gryning’s Hinsides Vrede: black metal prodigies return to the fiery fray after 15 years
October 26
- Marillion: Fugazi - Album Of The Week Club review
October 23
- Jakko M Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies review
- Songhoy Blues deliver 2020's most joyous album with the essential Optimisme
- Sevendust's Blood & Stone is a sturdy slice of 21st Century rock
- Joe Bonamassa channels Beck and Page on Royal Tea, and finds himself back on track
- Pallbearer push the doom envelope on the shimmering Forgotten Days
- Smith & Myers craft immaculate originals and compelling covers on Volume 1 & Volume 2
- Jakko Jakszyk's Secrets & Lies bristles with pain and thrilling invention
- Letter To You finds Bruce Springsteen full of wisdom yet still young at heart
- Thin Lizzy's Rock Legends is a stunning tribute to the coolest band there ever was
October 22
- Igorrr singer Ricinn swaps chaos for beauty on new album Nereïd
- Sevendust’s Blood & Stone is the sound of a band who finally mean business once more
October 21
- HammerFall’s Live! Against The World: anthem after fist-banging anthem
- Armored Saint’s Punching The Sky: metal’s great nearly-men remain as exhilarating as ever
October 20
- Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days is the sound of doom metal marching into the future
October 19
- Devin Townsend’s Order Of Magnitude: prog-metal’s greatest showman in full flight on epic live album
- Van Halen: Van Halen III - Album Of The Week Club review
October 16
- The Struts master the classic rock arts on third album Strange Days
- Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown's Pressure is a true coming of age
- The spirit of rock'n'roll lives on with Tommy Lee's Andro, if not its music
- Wildflowers & All The Rest is a Tom Petty album you can luxuriate in
- Hawkwind Light Orchestra bleep and whoosh and rage at contemporary society on Carnivorous
October 15
- Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987/Plays Live review
- Hawkwind Light Orchestra - Carnivorous review
- Death metal legends Benediction obliterate all-comers on new album Scriptures
- Low Cut Connie tells frayed stories of all-American fuck-ups on Private Lives
October 14
- Wayfarer’s A Romance With Violence: the Clint Eastwoods of extreme metal strike gold
October 12
- Molassess’ Through The Hollow is a stellar tribute to a fallen bandmate
- Greg Puciato’s Child Soldier: Creator Of God: head-melting genius from ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer
October 11
- Nickelback: All The Right Reasons - Album Of The Week Club review
- Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst review
October 10
- Ultravox - Vienna: Deluxe Edition review
October 9
- Metz - Atlas Vending: corrosive but cathartic head-caving noise-rock
- John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth gains a new sheen on the Ultimate Mixes
- Blue Oyster Cult echo past glories on The Symbol Remains
- The 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's Paranoid delivers visceral joy and rat's innards
- DevilDriver's Dealing With Demons I is unrelentingly heavy, but is it enough?
- The Doors sparkle on Morrison Hotel's 50th anniversary out-takes
October 8
- Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers
- Crippled Black Phoenix’s Ellengaest: scabrous diatribes and emotional devastation on majestic new album
October 7
- Anaal Nathrakh’s Endarkenment: filthy nihilism out, unexpected optimism in
- Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou’s May Our Chambers Be Full is the perfect marriage of the grime and the sublime
October 6
- Ascension Of The Watchers’ Apocrypha: Burton C Bell rises from the ashes of Fear Factory
October 5
- Venom Prison’s Primeval: death metal iconoclasts exhume the past to move forward
- Toadeater’s Bit To Ewigen Daogen: where anarchist black metal meets 80s goth and post-punk
- Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti - Album Of The Week Club review
October 4
- Touché Amoré’s Lament: post-hardcore lifers spead their wings with help from Ross Robinson
October 3
- Six Feet Under are still drinking blood, still getting high on new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
October 2
- Roger Waters - Us + Them review
- Enslaved - Utgard review
- Nickelback's All The Right Reasons: expanded, with a faint whiff of Nashville
- Bob Mould's Distortion: 1989-1995 is littered with treasures
- Robert Plant's Digging Deep: Subterranea is a celebrity-free solo celebration
- Gotthard pay fragile tribute to fallen frontman on Steve Lee: The Eyes Of A Tiger
- Corey Taylor's CMFT: out of the darkness into risk-taking reinvention
- Queen + Adam Lambert's Live Around The World: no radical overhaul, but oozing joy
October 1
- DevilDriver’s pulverising Dealing With Demons Vol.1 is a roar in the face of adversity
- Dirt Redux: Alice In Chains’ grunge masterpiece gets the doom makeover it deserves