Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb
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“Darkness and bleakness still lurks – but the album offers light and hope”: IQ’s Dominion
With masterful vocal performances backed up by a huge range of sounds, IQ’s Dominion is worth the six-year wait
Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
Masters Of Reality's seventh album The Archer is lean, graceful and magnificent
A welcome return of cult desert-rock mystic Chris Goss
Those Damn Crows prepare to go international on God Shaped Hole
They’re ready to take on the world
Marshall Emberton III review
Can Marshall’s third-gen portable thunderbox rock the budget Bluetooth speaker market?
"Is this the ultimate Epica record?"
Epica give Nightwish a run for their money in symphonic metal brilliance
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys
Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious
Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more on The Spin
Italian doom metallers Messa chuck out the recipe book on album four, The Spin
The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters
For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio
Camel’s Nude and Pressure Points remixed
Camel’s 1981 concept studio album Nude and 1984 live set Pressure Points are remastered and presented in three-disc sets
L.A. Guns appear impervious to age on Leopard Skin
Sunset Strip veterans L.A. Guns' late-career hot streak continues on album number 15
“An evening in with the lava lamp beckons”: Middle Earth Club 3CD set
Middle Earth: The Soundtrack Of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club features David Bowie, Family Brian Auger, Denny Laine, Yardbirds, Deviants, The Who and more
Alien Weaponry Te Rā album review
Māori culture meets titanic groove metal in this epic third record from New Zealand's Alien Weaponry
Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
Bleed From Within's seventh studio album confirms their status as one of the UK's most vital and consistent metal bands
The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind
The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well
Deafheaven's new album is tailor-made to shut whinging mouths
After straying from their black metal roots in recent years, Deafheaven come screeching back on Lonely People With Power
“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout.”
New Delhi’s viral superstars keep a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town singing and screaming for their entire 60-minute set
