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October 2021

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October 31
- Lou Reed and Metallica's snarling Lulu embraces nausea, self-loathing and spite
October 29
- Jerry Cantrell's Brighten: like Alice In Chains, but also fresh and unexpected
- Time Clocks hastens Joe Bonamassa's journey into his own blues future
- Whitesnake's Restless Heart: Nowhere near as bad as some claim
- Pink Floyd's reworked A Momentary Lapse Of Reason fails to fly
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer celebrate the bombast with Out Of This World Live 1970-1997
- Mastodon mix beauty and beastliness on Hushed And Grim
October 26
- Whitechapel's Kin: Knoxville deathcore deviants ramp up their ascent
- David Crosby: If Only I Could Remember My Name - Album Of The Week Club review
October 25
- Mastodon's Hushed And Grim: Atlanta riffmasters' boldest adventure yet
October 22
- The Pineapple Thief - Nothing But The Truth: "a must-own collection"
- Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World: "bigger and better"!
- The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You gets a lustrous respray for its 40th birthday
- Sixx AM show musical insight but lack consistency on curiously named Hits
- The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album
- The Pineapple Thief continue to captivate on Nothing But The Truth
- Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World
- Biffy Clyro's The Myth Of Happily Ever After: glorious, instantly recognisable weirdness
October 20
- Every Time I Die's Radical: metalcore crossover kings' run of form continues
October 18
- Bullet For My Valentine bring the heavy back on their self-titled new album
- Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Album Of The Week Club review
October 16
- Ice Nine Kills' The Silver Scream 2 - Welcome To Horrorwood: there will be blood
October 15
- Judas Priest's quest to build a metal monster documented on 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music
- 50 years of The Beatles' Let It Be improved via panoramic expansion
- David Crosby's If Only I Could Remember My Name: still triumphant, 50 years on
- Santana's Blessings And Miracles: successfully continuing the search for singers
- Tom Morello continues to break the rules on The Atlas Underground Fire
- Alcatrazz showcase classic metallic fire and fury on V
October 13
- Tom Morello's The Atlas Underground Fire: a star-studded, style-shifting roll of the dice from RATM guitarist
October 12
- Genesis: A Trick Of The Tail - Album Of The Week Club review
October 8
- Faust - Faust 1971-74: "the golden age of krautrock"...
- Between The Buried And Me - Colors II: "a worthy follow up"...
- The Record Company branch out on Play Loud with mixed results
- Wayward Sons step up a level on Even Up The Score
October 5
- Anker Soundcore Rave review
October 4
- Trivium's In The Court Of The Dragon: metal's great hopes exceed all expectations
- Status Quo: Hello! - Album Of The Week Club review
October 1
- Blood Youth's Visions Of Another Hell: a maelstrom of intense metal chaos
- Yes - The Quest: "a spirited attempt to roll back the years."
- Mark Knopfler does it gently on The Studio Albums 1996-2007
- Ministry's fifteenth album Moral Hygiene provides a few surprise twists
- Neil Young at Carnegie Hall: acoustic perfection and a rapturous audience make for magnificence
- Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy, deluxe edition: forget the album, revel in the extras
- Roger Taylor achieves unexpected solo career high on the moving Outsider
- Yes start strongly on The Quest before fading and fizzling