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"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves

After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
By Johnny Sharp published
Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá

Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
By Liz Scarlett published
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones

In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
By David Stubbs published
Hawkwind's 37th album There’s No Space For Us finds the space travellin' veterans in cosmic shipshape form

Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us
By Mike Barnes published
Hawkwind return with There Is No Space For Us, another impressive blend of familiar elements and stylistic surprises in what’s effectively a sister album to Stories From Time And Space

The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
By Fraser Lewry published
Neil Young's millionth live album just happens to be a good one

How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
By Paul Brannigan published
Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
By Matt Mills published
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
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