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Code Orange’s stripped-down new live album Under The Skin is MTV Unplugged for the lockdown era
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Peter Green’s Mac swansong stands proud as Fleetwood Mac's entire pre-Buckingham-Nicks era gets boxed on 1969 To 1974
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Remastered, multi-format edition of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 classic Goat's Head Soup, with previously unheard tracks
Zakk Sabbath's Vertigo: you don't need it but you'll love it
A nativity in black as Zakk Wylde's Zakk Sabbath replicate Black Sabbath's debut album
All Them Witches: Nothing As The Ideal - an enticing feast for psychedelic senses
Scorching new album Nothing As The Ideal from psych-blues enigmas All Them Witches
Ulver’s Flowers Of Evil: a dark journey into danceable decadence
Post-black metal adventurers Ulver head deeper into 80s pop nirvana on Flowers Of Evil
Oceans Of Slumber’s stellar new album is a turbulent masterpiece for our times
Oceans Of Slumber’s self-titled new album is an epic statement of intent from one of modern metal’s brightest hopes
Backxwash’s God Has Nothing To Do With This… is the most important album of 2020
Backxwash delivers thrilling trap metal dispatches from the battlegrounds of self-identity on debut album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
The Heartbreakers: L.A.M.F. - Album Of The Week Club review
Released, remixed, re-released, remixed, re-released: will the real Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F. please stand up?
Israeli death/doom crew Tomorrow’s Rain call in metal all-stars on cathartic new album Hollow
Members of Paradise Lost, Moonspell and My Dying Bride help bring Tomorrow’s Rain’s bleak vision to life on new album Hollow
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet review
Not yet ratedThe Caped Crusader parks the wisecracks and ivory-tinkling covers on Earth and teams up with The English Rock Ensemble for a long-overdue journey back to prog’s extra-terrestrial realms.
Back Street Crawler's Atlantic Years 1975-1976 - a truncated tribute to Paul Kossoff
Four-CD compilation of Paul Kossoff's post-Free output with Back Street Crawler
Metallica's S&M2 - success on the grandest of scales
James Hetfield and co. revisit their great orchestral-metal triumph, with stellar results, on S&M2
Walter Trout's Ordinary Madness - a deeply personal state of the nation address
Walter Trout ponders the state of the world on his Ordinary Madness album
Allman Betts Band's Bless Your Heart - further proof that you can never have enough guitarists
The sons of Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley jam on Allman Betts Band's second album Bless Your Heart
Rick Wakemans The Red Planet - a return to a prog god's halcyon days
Ground control to Major Rick, as Rick Wakeman launches himself towards The Red Planet
Brimstone Coven’s The Woes Of A Mortal Earth: doom rock the way they used to make it
US doomsters Brimstone Coven party like it’s 1973 on new album The Woes Of A Mortal Earth
UFO: The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent - Album Of The Week Club review
Singer Phil Mogg might have been listening to Bruce Springsteen, but UFO's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent was much more than just a nod towards the boss
Metal all-stars Kill The Lights nail the groove and the glory on debut album The Sinner
Ex-Bullet For My Valentine man ‘Moose’ Thomas comes out swinging with Kill The Light’s debut album The Sinner
