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- September 29
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- "There’s really no way you should be ignoring this band." If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it Orbit Culture's excellent Death Above Life
- Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
- “Dismissed because it doesn’t sound anything like Yes, it’s best to dispense with prog expectations and enjoy the fun”: Alan White’s only solo album, Ramshackled, echoes his earlier times
- "If you wondered how Fleetwood Mac evolved into the Rumours-era juggernaut, look no further than Buckingham Nicks": Lindsey and Stevie invent the future on long-lost now-found album
- September 26
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- Sprints All That Is Over review: one of Ireland’s most thrilling bands are reborn with one of 2025's best records
- Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious
- Review: What kind of a monster would you have to be not to like Ronnie Wood's Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025?
- “A truly virtuosic and deeply musical homage to King Crimson’s legacy – hugely entertaining”: BEAT LIVE captures the joy of Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey reviving and evolving the 80s
- "Deranged and spooky and full of unexpected songs about sexual peccadillos and the sound of milk bottles clanking": The dark humour and unexpected musical twists and turns of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway still startle 50 years on
- “Marvel again at the ridiculous ambition of the young musicians who came up with this. It gave Peter Gabriel little option but to leave the band”: Genesis’ 50th anniversary edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is even better than the Rael thing
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- September 22
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- Biffy Clyro Futique review: catchy, weird, often warm and occasionally crushingly sad, it's everything that makes Biffy one of the UK's greatest bands
- "If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
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- "Musical insanity comes in many forms. Igorrr are attempting them all at once." French experimentalists Igorrr go wild on new album Amen
- Two years into the post-space age, Hawkwind continue to explore music's deeper reaches on Hall Of The Mountain Grill
- “Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition
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- September 14
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- "The band's interpretations of other writers' songs are so creative they're essentially new songs with the old lyrics and title": Manfred Mann’s Earth Band mix it up on Nightingales & Bombers
- “There’s inevitably repeated songs from Asia, King Crimson and UK, but plenty of variations in arrangement – and he’s in fine voice throughout”: John Wetton’s Concentus II is 10 discs of sumptuous live performance
- September 13
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- “They took big swings, but knew when a lighter touch fitted. It’s like Pink Floyd played by 10cc”: Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? 50th anniversary editions
- “Genuinely shocking, and uninterested in the post-rock status quo”: Jo Quail’s Notan proves yet again that there’s no one quite like her
- September 12
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- Twenty One Pilots Breach review: it's the end of the band as we know them, but it points to an exciting future all the same
- “Faintly ludicrous and simplistic – but Humankind should enjoy it while it still can”: Arjen Anthony Lucassen has fun counting down to Armageddon on Songs No One Will Hear
- “If they were Dungeons & Dragons characters, their alignment would be Chaotic Good, breaking all the rules with the best of intentions”: Between The Buried And Me’s The Blue Nowhere brakes for no one
- September 11
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- "It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere
- "A gigantic, impermeable, orbital black achievement which has intensified with age": Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti receives a 50th Birthday polish
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- September 5
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- "Whichever musical hat he wears, its brim casts a darker shadow than before": If this is his final solo album, Glenn Hughes is closing that door with a mighty bang
- “Understated, captivating ebb and flow with a sense of cohesion”: Green Carnation commence a trilogy with the enthralling A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
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- September 2
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- "There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings." One of nu metal's best modern bands are evolving in style on Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
- Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review
- Thrilling, unsettling and definitely NSFW: Witch Club Satan's first UK show proved they're the best thing to happen in black metal in years
- September 1
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- "A little more restraint in the number of extra notes would help let things shine": Camel break out the complexity but fail to enthral on Mirage
- "There are no sprawling fantastical epics here, no dragons or orcs or magical pumpkins": Helloween's Giants & Monsters is a thoroughly modern melodic metal album
