Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers - Album Of The Week Club review
In which Deep Purple's fabled Mk II line-up return to renew their animosity with a new album, Perfect Strangers
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Peter Gabriel's Rated PG: in which Peter Gabriel sings to a pig, and more
Rated PG is a slightly arbitrary compilation of Peter Gabriel songs used in films
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Georgia sister act Larkin Poe come back stronger on fifth album Self Made Man
House Of Lords' New World - New Eyes: balancing polish and power
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Carach Angren’s Franckensteina Strataemontanus: Frankenstein in corpse paint
Cult Dutch black metallers Carach Angren reimagine Frankenstein with added serial killers on new album Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Caligula’s Horse raise the prog-metal bar on new album Rise Radiant
Antipodean explorers Caligula’s Horse position themselves on prog-metal’s cutting edge with new album Rise Radiant
End’s Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face: the best kind of sonic nightmare
Undeground metal supergroup End find a collective passion for pain on new album Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Saga: Silent Knight - Album Of The Week Club review
"Majestic!" says one reviewer, "dreadful!" says another. What's the truth about Saga's third album Silent Knight?
Currents’ The Way It Ends: an uncompromising yet accessible call to arms
Currents’ mix of metalcore, post-hardcore and punk dissonance has never sounded as potent as it does on new album The Way It Ends
Dion - Blues With Friends: a fabulous album from a singular treasure
Dion returns in some style on Joe Bonamassa’s label, with all-star backing on Blues With Friends
Grave Digger’s Fields Of Blood: German metal warhorses go the full Braveheart
Metal veterans Grave Digger focus on Scottish history on new album Fields Of Blood
Firewind: ex-Ozzy sidekick Gus G serves up hooks and guitar heroics on ninth album
Gus G returns to melodic power metal roots on Firewind’s self-titled ninth album
Old Man Gloom’s Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning: a towering tribute to a fallen comrade
Sludge metal supergroup Old Man Gloom return from the shadows
Sea Hags: Sea Hags - Album Of The Week Club review
The Sea Hags: the throbbing, ragged heart of Saturday night, or more 80s rock'n'roll bullshit? You decide
Alestorm bust out the West Coast rap on new album Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
Pirate metal lunatics Alestorm go grog-crazy on new album Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
Rush - Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Review
Not yet ratedIt was the album that marked the end of one chapter and turned the prog icons into unlikely pop stars along the way. And now it gets the deluxe treatment it deserves.
