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June 2020

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June 30
- A.A. Williams’ Forever Blue: bleakness and beauty in one stunning debut album
June 29
- Beyond The Black’s Horizon: symphonic metallers mix gloss and grit on new album
- U.K. - U.K. Album Of The Week Club review
June 26
- Nick D'Virgilio - Invisible Review
- Kansas - The Absence Of Presence Review
- Buzzcocks: Sell You Everything (1991-2004) - the definitive compendium of the other years
- Nick D’Virgilio's Invisible lets you know he's much more than just a drummer
- Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970 - tentative in the studio, revelatory on the road
- The Vacant Lots' Interzone: the perfect stun-blast soundtrack for a shattered society
- Wino's Forever Gone: a reassuring voice in troubled times
- Neon Animal's Make No Mistake is pure, adrenalin-soaked scorch
- Asking Alexandria's Like A House On Fire is the sound of a band stepping up and shaping up
June 23
- Emmure crank the menace up to maximum on new album Hindsight
June 22
- Aversions Crown conjure apocalyptic fury on new album Hell Will Come For Us All
- Starz: Starz - Album Of The Week Club review
June 19
- Vampire’s Rex album: blackened thrash with sharp teeth
- Cro-Mags: In The Beginning - a monstrous comeback rich in sonic beef
- Neil Young: Homegrown - stark, beautiful, and finally here
- Whitesnake: The Rock Album - proof that there's life left in brand Coverdale
- Bad Touch: Kiss The Sky - tunes designed to put a smile on your face
- Lamb Of God's Lamb Of God: self-titled, hook-powered thunder-crunch
- Mushroomhead’s A Wonderful Life album: Slipknot still have nothing to worry about
June 17
- 156/Silence’s prove hardcore is 2020’s most exciting noise with new album Irrational Pull
June 16
- Cro-Mags’ In The Beginning: offstage drama out, raging NYHC in
- Lamb Of God: US metal heroes hit an exhilarating new high on Lamb Of God album
June 15
- Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers - Album Of The Week Club review
June 13
- Umbra Vitae’s Shadow Of Life: Converge’s Jacob Bannon leads all-star death drive
June 12
- Peter Gabriel - Rated PG Review
- Vega: Grit Your Teeth - all the hallmarks of vintage Bon Jovi
- Peter Gabriel's Rated PG: in which Peter Gabriel sings to a pig, and more
- Larkin Poe's Self Made Man: winningly gnarly and authoritive
- House Of Lords' New World - New Eyes: balancing polish and power
June 10
- Carach Angren’s Franckensteina Strataemontanus: Frankenstein in corpse paint
- Caligula’s Horse raise the prog-metal bar on new album Rise Radiant
June 8
- End’s Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face: the best kind of sonic nightmare
- Saga: Silent Knight - Album Of The Week Club review
June 7
- Currents’ The Way It Ends: an uncompromising yet accessible call to arms
June 5
- Dion - Blues With Friends: a fabulous album from a singular treasure
- Grave Digger’s Fields Of Blood: German metal warhorses go the full Braveheart
June 3
- Firewind: ex-Ozzy sidekick Gus G serves up hooks and guitar heroics on ninth album
- Old Man Gloom’s Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning: a towering tribute to a fallen comrade
June 1
- Sea Hags: Sea Hags - Album Of The Week Club review
- Alestorm bust out the West Coast rap on new album Curse Of The Crystal Coconut