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August 2022

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August 30
- Megadeth’s The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!: what doesn’t kill Dave Mustaine only makes him stronger
- Willow's Reading set was a success - even if the crowd eventually let her down a little
- Halsey rocks Reading 2022: the crowning of a 21st century superstar
- Bring Me The Horizon's Reading set proved they are the breakout headliner rock has been waiting for
August 29
- Rock Goddess: Rock Goddess - Album Of The Week Club review
August 28
- Blind Guardian’s The God Machine: power metal deities deliver stellar comeback album
August 27
- Finally: proof that Emerson, Lake & Palmer were actually a singles band
- Dinosaur Jr: Seventytwohundredseconds of glorious discharge teetering on the brink of chaos
- Blondie's Against All Odds box celebrates one of the last century's finest bodies of work
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: never has smooth sounded so sublime
August 26
- Lonely Robot - A Model Life: "Still a Robot, but still invitingly human."
- Machine Head's Of Kingdom And Crown: blunt as heavy-force trauma but melodic and rich
- Muse capture the the head-spinning chaos of the age on Will Of The People
- The Kut: punk-pop swagger sprinkled with homages to new wave, melodic metal and grunge
- Datura 4's Neanderthal Jam is a reverent and joyful ode to arena-rock excess
August 25
- Muse - Will of The People: "hardly short on flamboyant outlandishness"
August 21
- Machine Head’s Of Kingdom And Crown: Robb Flynn and co return to furious form
August 19
- The Gaslight Anthem blow hot and cold at their largest ever UK headline show
- Motorpsycho are primed and eager to flip your metaphorical lid
- Thundermother's Black And Gold glides along on a wave of singalong arena rock
- Five Finger Death Punch are still hitting hard and pummelling heads
- The Chats: a roguish distillation of Aussie rock’s most oikish corners
- David Paich calls in the favours on masterfully produced solo album
- Six By Six: an opening salvo from a supergroup that bubbles with chemistry
- R.E.M.'s Chronic Town: enigmatic jangle rock that sounds like a portal to the ghost dimension
- From hellish childhoods to hometown salvation: Walter Trout still has a lot to say
August 18
- Apple AirPods Max review
August 17
- Five Finger Death Punch’s AfterLife: hater-proof modern metal titans get experimental
August 16
- Why last night’s Vended show in London proved it’s time to get over the 'Slipknot kids’ tag
August 15
- Soilwork’s Overgivenheten album review: melodeath meets AOR from Swedish masters
- Manowar: Battle Hymns - Album Of The Week Club review
August 14
- Heilung’s otherworldly new album Drif is powerful, hypnotic and unifying
August 12
- The Faust Tapes: just as disorientating now as it ever was
- Goo Goo Dolls have not run out of stuff to sing about yet
- Arch Enemy: blurring the line between turbo-thrash avant-punk extremism and Eurovision
- Osees have mutated again and this time it's explosive punk rock
August 11
- Norma Jean’s Deathrattle Sing For Me: pure anguished poetry from metalcore lifers
August 9
- Hollywood Undead’s Hotel Kalifornia: rap-metal party starters get serious
- The Halo Effect’s Days Of The Lost: melodeath all-stars salute the Gothenburg Sound on debut album
August 8
- Joe Walsh: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get - Album Of The Week Club review
August 5
- Prey review: Predator prequel doesn't quite do enough to rescue the franchise
- Tim Bowness - Butterfly Mind: "full of invention, scope and ambition"
- H.e.a.t.: an unbreakable brotherhood grounded in noise, beers and shampoo
- Dub War: thwarted by the arrival of Britpop, their hour may have finally come
- Paul McCartney: 50 years, three McCartney albums, one box set
- Neil Young's Noise & Flowers: a heartfelt tribute to a fallen friend
- Mickey Jupp: Not a wasted word nor a pointless chord from a total original
- Tim Bowness: the Elton John of sublime, avant-garde prog
- Bernie Marsden has delivered another master class in rock history
August 4
- The Interrupters' In The Wild is the joyous, defiant, liberating sound of a fearless survivor living her best life
August 2
- Dub War’s Westgate Under Fire: metal’s original soundclash kings return to reclaim their crown
August 1
- Dio: Holy Diver - Album Of The Week Club review