Reviews archive

April 2023

Filter

Year
Month

32 articles

April 29
- Whitesnake add polish to an unexpected gem on the pleasingly punchy Still Good To Be Bad
April 28
- Rush's Signals celebrates its 40th birthday with an underwhelming party
- The Damned continue to flourish as their punk peers wither and fade
- Metallica just threw Amsterdam the world's biggest heavy metal party
April 24
- Paramore's joyous show in London last night proved why they're the most vital rock band of their generation
- Goat: mysterious masked magick mavens bewitch Brixton with filthily funky ritual
- Jane's Addiction: Ritual De Lo Habitual - Album Of The Week Club review
April 21
- "Their best album since...": Metallica fans review new album 72 Seasons
- Jethro Tull - RökFlöte: "resounds with personality, meaning and drama."
- RökFlöte finds Jethro Tull tackling Norse Gods and somehow reborn as a viable contemporary outfit
- Nobody but Ian Hunter has the power, at this point in their career, to sound so fresh, so new and so exciting
April 20
- Enter Shikari's A Kiss For The Whole World: the electrifying, genre-smashing sound of the future
April 18
- "A Michael Bay wet dream": How Sabaton, Babymetal and Lordi conquered Wembley Arena
April 17
- Kerrang! Living Loud: an essential insider account of how 'The Rock Bible' shaped the global rock landscape
- Can: Tago Mago - Album Of The Week Club review
April 14
- Evil Dead Rise review: a quintessential Evil Dead experience filled with fresh, unexpected twists
- Argus by Wishbone Ash: the return of the greatest least-known million-selling rock album ever made
- David Bowie's Aladdin Sane: still better than 99% of all other pre-'77 rock
- Overkill's Scorched: No ballads, no compromises, just pure, vicious thrash metal
- Mike Tramp ramps up the poignancy as he revisits the Songs Of White Lion
- Black Diamonds by L.A. Guns contains no prog-jazz epics, just pure-blooded rock'n'roll
- Warning: Joe Bonamassa's Tales Of Time guarantees serious gig envy
- The Dio Album by Paul Gilbert reduces the originals to a jarring, overplayed jumbles
April 11
- Montrose: Paper Money - Album Of The Week Club review
April 6
- Andy Fairweather Low continues as the master of nonsense titles on Flang Dang
- 35 years on, Mudhoney are as feral and incisive and sarcastic as ever
- If you want immense melodies and uplifting choruses, Welshly Arms have got you
- The 20th anniversary edition of Linkin Park's Meteora is pure nu metal catnip
April 5
- Metallica 72 Seasons review: 2023’s most anticipated metal album is a ringing success
April 4
- Heart: Heart - Album Of The Week Club review
April 3
- Metallica 72 Seasons review: rarely has James Hetfield laid himself so bare
April 2
- Last In Line looser and grittier than before on the classy Jericho