Primal Fear's Metal Commando: unashamedly brutish and balls-out
Lucky thirteenth for German pure metal stalwarts Primal Fear on Metal Commando
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Haken - Virus Review
Not yet ratedWho says sequels are never as good as the originals? The UK prog kings pick up from where 2018’s Vector left off – and serve up a modern masterpiece in the process.
Haken's Virus: the missing link between Slayer and King Crimson
Haken provide many bloodied riffs on sixth album Virus
Corpsing’s Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants: UKDM ragers go for the jugular
Corpsing’s new album Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants prove UK death metal is alive and seething
The Acacia Strain chronicle our descent into hell on Slow Decay
US hardcore bruisers The Acacia Strain offer a savage state-of-the-world address on new album Slow Decay
Aleah’s posthumous new album is a spectral reminder of a great lost talent
Magical melancholy from late Tears Of Eternity singer Aleah Starbridge
Destruction’s Born To Thrash: German titans live and feral
Euro thrash warhorses Destruction show no sign of slowing on new live album Born To Thrash
Blackfoot: Strikes - Album Of The Week Club review
It took ten years for Blackfoot to become an overnight success, and a week for the Album Of The Week Club members to compose the definitive review of Strikes
Lonely Robot - Feelings Are Good Review
Not yet ratedJohn Mitchell comes back down to earth, and feels the gravity…
Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim: Expanded And Remastered Edition Review
Not yet ratedFour-disc box set honours a neglected glam nearly-was.
Lonely Robot's Feelings Are Good: heartache and turmoil burnished bright
When you’ve loved and lost like John Mitchell, Feelings Are Good is the result
Asylums' Genetic Cabaret: forceful without getting furious
Asylums build up a head of steam for third album Genetic Cabaret with producer Steve Albini
Absolute Beginners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: fully restored and still suave
First full CD reissue for Bowie-powered retro-jazz mix-tape musical Absolute Beginners
U.D.O. And Das Musikkorps Der Bundeswehr: We Are One album review
Former Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider hooks up with the concert band of the German armed forces on We Are One. Of course he does.
Be-Bop Deluxe's Axe Victim box set is lavish and charmingly overblown
Lavish reissue for Bill Nelson and Be-Bop Deluxe's ambitious art-glam debut Axe Victim
Joy Division's Closer: foreboding, painful, and still wreathed in shadow
Joy Division's Closer: as the NME commented with wry understatement: “[This album] cannot have been easy to record”
Massive Wagons' House Of Noise: joyful, silly, and stuffed with memorable songs
Lancaster rockers Massive Wagons unleash the decibels with studio album number five, House Of Noise
Kansas: The Absence of Presence - both pomp and rock in full effect
Latter-day Kansas are still able to surprise on 16th album The Absence of Presence
Bush's The Kingdom: ambitious, confident, passionate
British radio-rock stalwarts Bush let their guard down on album number eight, The Kingdom
