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September 2022

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September 30
- Rory Gallagher's Deuce expanded and remixed but still sounding good at 50
- Slipknot return to the apex on experimental maelstrom The End, So Far
- Pixies still blend subtle malevolence with surprise and intrigue
- The Dead Daisies: taut, vibrant rock that ticks every box
- Dead Kennedys's debut: still satirical, still subversive, now with extra shine
- Monster Truck's Warriors offers the escapism we could all do with right now
September 29
- The Grateful Dead's new box set costs a fortune, but at least the playing is stellar
September 27
- Strigoi’s Viscera: dark, dank death-doom nirvana from Paradise Lost guitarist
September 26
- Autopsy’s Morbidity Triumphant: gore-metal godfathers are still sick after all these years
- Dio: Dreamers Never Die is the documentary Ronnie James Dio deserves
- Joe Satriani: Surfing With The Alien - Album Of The Week Club review
September 23
- Another Motorhead album celebrates its 40th birthday, and it's quite the party
- Billy Idol's The Cage is compact, catchy, precision-tooled pop-rock
- Troy Redfern continues breakneck creative pace on The Wings Of Salvation
- Dr. John is in tip-top form on posthumous album Things Happen That Way
- Steve Howe pays tribute to late son Virgil on lovingly rendered Lunar Mist
- Nikki Lane chronicles youthful follies on defiant Denim And Diamonds album
- Rise by The Rasmus is not the fightback album against covid you were looking for
- If Britain is going to hell in a handcart then Kid Kapichi are the soundtrack
- Sonics In The Soul is the sound of Buzzcocks rebooted and reinvigorated
September 21
- Venom Inc.’s There’s Only Black: metal warhorses prove they’re more than a nostalgia act
September 19
- Slipknot's The End, So Far: "the world’s most volatile, nine-man wrecking crew are as untameable as ever"
- The Yardbirds: Roger The Engineer - Album Of The Week Club review
September 17
- Pink Floyd's remix of Animals is hollowed out, brittle and harrowing
- Rock, metal and horror make prefect companions on The Retaliators soundtrack
- The Mars Volta keep the fans guessing on super slinky comeback album
- Fierce and artful to the end, Joe Strummer's music resonates more than ever
- Marianne Faithfull: salvaging treasure from life’s shipwreck
- Marillion's buff and polish suggests Holidays In Eden has aged well
- Starcrawler seek a bigger audience and a travel upgrade on third album She Said
- The Black Angels are the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world
- Jimmy Hall's voice and harp playing are still in fine shape on Ready Now
September 16
- Clutch: other bands might as well pack up their tents and think about heading home
- Marillion - Holidays In Eden (deluxe reissue): "Steve Hogarth's charismatic presence is palpable"
- Suede get back to basics on "punk" album Autofiction
- Creedence Clearwater Revival's legendary London choogle can finally be heard
- Words & Music, May 1965 is a captivating examination of Lou Reed's early talent
- Marco Mendoza belts out the anthemic power pop metal on New Direction
- The Godfathers have just released their best album in more than three decades
- Smith/Kotzen come alive on vibrant Better Days... And Nights collection
- David Bowie's Moonage Daydream soundtrack veers from the sublime to the ridiculously sublime
September 15
- The Devil Wears Prada's Color Decay: "might just be their finest hour"
September 14
- Clutch's Sunrise On Slaughter Beach: "a joyous conflagration of riffs, grooves and bittersweet wit"
September 12
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile - Album Of The Week Club review
September 10
- Flames, battles and beers: inside the epic Vikings and Lionhearts tour
September 9
- Parkway Drive's Darker Still: Aussies triumph over darkness and shoot for the stratosphere
- Afghan Whigs: still mixing psychedelic rock and brimstone gospel in fiery fashion
- Patient Number 9 captures the mischievous, defiant energy of Ozzy Osbourne
- Slade: a box set that questions whether punk really needed to happen at all
- The Kinks: two albums of urban isolation, cultural paranoia and occasional whinging
- Kiss's extraordinary rock juggernaut in full flight on official Des Moine bootleg
- Manic Street Preachers' contrary Sandinista moment now refined and repackaged
- From primal emotion to forlorn boogie, GA-20's songs shine
September 5
- Hughes/Thrall: Hughes/Thrall - Album Of The Week Club review
September 4
- XFM was a tiny radio station that made a big noise: a new film finally tells its story
- Grand Theft Audio's Pass Me The Conch: the 90s-style dance-rock revival starts here
- Epica's We Still Take You With Us collection may well bust your corset
September 3
- Blind Guardian: dramatic dispatches from the power metal trenches
September 2
- Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9: metal’s greatest icon continues his late-career hot streak
- King's X - Three Sides Of One: "There’s still plenty of imagination in the tank."
- The Hu’s Rumble Of Thunder: Mongolian folk-metal heroes’ unstoppable march continues
- Hu! Hu! Hu! Mongolian metal warriors The Hu continue their epic journey of conquest
- King's X continue the search for truth on Three Sides Of One
- The Best Of Roxy Music: a storied career laid out in reverse
- Mike Tramp's new album is gentle, melodic, and entirely in Danish
- Dave Mustaine: still spitting lyrics, railing at the world, headbanging like a 20-year-old