Reviews

Ace vinyl despatches from Gabriel’s superstar years, remastered.

Brock and co come into their own with sprawling but topical dystopian rock.

UK underground icons Benediction rabid new album Scriptures shows the kids how death metal should be done

Soul-drenched rock’n’roll with a soft centre on Low Cut Connie's Private Lives

Extreme metal meets Deadwood on Denver gunslingers Wayfarer’s epic new album A Romance With Violence

Former members of The Devil’s Blood pay tribute to late mainman Selim Lemouchi on the debut album from new band Molassess

Never mind the leaks – ex-Dillinger Escape Plan man Greg Puciato’s brilliant debut solo album sets him up as the next Mike Patton

In which we ask our Album Of The Week regulars to put aside any hatin' business and give Nickelback's All The Right Reasons a fair crack of the whip

Brit collective snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

Synth-pomp monolith receives the Wilson treatment.

Ottawa noise-rock trio Metz evolve and expand their sonic parameters on intense fourth album Atlas Vending

John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth is part of rock’s fabric, and here it gets a brand new lustre

The Symbol Remains is the first new album in 19 years from ultimate cult rockers Blue Oyster Cult

Fiftieth-anniversary five-LP/four-CD edition of Black Sabbath's Paranoid metal landmark, expanded with live recordings

American metal grunts DevilDriver return with the first of a double dose of heaviness on Dealing With Demons I

Seamy tales from a downtown LA Hard Rock Café as The Doors mark the 50th anniversary of Morrison Hotel

Florida’s Bloodbather serve up furious riffs and atonal guitar squeals on terse Silence EP

Post-rock mavericks Crippled Black Phoenix rise above turmoil the help of all-star guests on new album Ellengaest

Blackened grind doomsayers Anaal Nathrakh clean up their act on new album Endarkenment – but it can’t dispel the whiff of formula