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February 2021

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February 26
- Be-Bop Deluxe's Drastic Plastic expanded but still elegant
- The Black Crowes celebrate 30 years of Shake Your Money Maker in deluxe style
- Steve Lukather plays it safe on I Found The Sun Again
- Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories is his most concise bolt of precision-tooled heavy rock in 50 years
- Lee Kerslake's Eleventeen is a poignant, welcome reminder of his skills
- The Alarm's War: recorded in isolation but bursting with heart
February 25
- Architects’ For Those That Wish To Exist: modern metal with the grandest of ambitions
February 24
- Evergrey’s Escape Of The Phoenix: soaring anthems from prog metal’s most underrated band
- Melvins’ Working With God: more sonic insanity from rock’s kings of absurdism
- Epica’s Omega is a glorious hymn to symphonic metal excess
- Moonspell’s Hermitage: where goth metal meets Pink Floyd
February 22
- Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is a love letter to rock’n’roll’s spiritual home
- White Lion: Pride - Album Of The Week Club review
February 21
- Harakiri For The Sky push post-black metal exploration to the limit on new album Mære
February 20
- Whitesnake's Blues Album blurs genres but remains in the shadow of the blues
- Mogwai's As The Love Continues treads an unlikely fine line between waft and heft
- Ricky Warwick's complex soul exposed on When Life Was Hard And Fast
- The Hold Steady's Open Door Policy finds new life beyond the burn-out
February 18
- The Amenta’s new album Revelator is the industrial-metal soundtrack to our nightmarish future
- Senyawa’s Alkisah: Indonesian sorcerers put the ‘manic’ into ‘shamanic’
February 15
- Pretenders: Pretenders II - Album Of The Week Club review
February 12
- Dio live albums: repackaged but still offering more Heaven than Hell
- Black Sabbath: Vol 4 Super Deluxe Edition - sometimes, the drugs do work
- Death By Unga Bunga's stellar songcraft shines on Heavy Male Insecurity
- Nu-metal lovers rejoice! Love And Death revive memories of parachute pants on Perfectly Preserved
- We Will Ride by Inglorious: breathing fresh life into an irresistible 70s rock template
- The Pretty Reckless find brilliant new life on Death By Rock And Roll
- Drones rage hard on Our Hell Is Right Here, an album born of tribulation
February 10
- Sirenia’s Riddles, Ruins & Revelations: symphonic metal collides with 80s synthpop
- God Is An Astronaut’s Ghost Tapes #10 is celestial post-rock perfection
February 9
- The Pretty Reckless’s Death By Rock And Roll: vulnerability, reflection and schmaltz
February 8
- Love And Death’s Perfectly Preserved: songs of angst and devotion
- Loathe’s The Things They Believe: Brit-metal hopefuls tear up the rulebook
- Faith No More: Angel Dust - Album Of The Week Club review
February 7
- DeWolff's Wolffpack conjures up pandemic-defying feel-good rock’n’roll
- Downes Braide Association's Halcyon Hymns is a welcome escape from a turbulent real world
- Walking Papers lose half a band for The Light Below with no loss of quality
February 5
- Downes Braide Association - Halcyon Hymns review
- Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe review
- Heave Blood & Die’s Post People is a genre-hopping headf**k, in the best possible way
- Transatlantic's The Absolute Universe: not one technically flawless concept album, but two
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets overwhelm and bamboozle on Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
- Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight spikes grunge ballast with pop panache
- John Mayall's 35 disc box set: gem-studded, but who is it for?
- The Telescopes stay spooky and mesmeric on Songs Of Love And Revolution
February 4
- The Ruins Of Beverast’s The Thule Grimoires: extreme metal maverick’s full-spectrum sonic assault
February 3
- John Carpenter’s Lost Themes III: horror master unearths fresh synthwave chills for us
February 2
- Korpiklaani’s Jylhä album: folk metal berzerkers put down the grog and get serious
February 1
- Cult Of Luna’s The Raging River: post-metal catharsis and a surprise guest on heavyweight new EP
- The Firm: The Firm - Album Of The Week Club review