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May 2023

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May 31
- Freaks, mullets, coochie calls, pysch-punk and the coronation of Caroline Polachek: why Wide Awake 2023 was everything
May 30
- Iron Maiden's new show is another reminder that class is permanent - and so is heavy metal
May 29
- The Cramps: A Date With Elvis - Album Of The Week Club review
May 26
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical
- Foo Fighters' new album But Here We Are is a cathartic tribute to a fallen friend
- Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is a defiant, emotional roar in the face of loss
May 25
- Countdown To Ecstasy: all hail Steely Dan's idiosyncratic visions of jazz-charged contemporary rock
- If it's big, boisterous, melodic metal anthems you're after, Elegant Weapons may be just what you need
- Marc Bolan loses the plot on T.Rex's Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?
- Hanoi Rocks' first five albums repackaged: No bells, no whistles, but what a beautiful noise
- Sparks' album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte is living proof that weirdness never gets old
May 24
- "Sleep Token fully delivered on their promises": metal fans review new album Take Me Back To Eden
May 23
- Immortal’s War Against All: thrilling riff-powered noise from Norway‘s black metal crusaders
- Aerosmith: Rocks - Album Of The Week Club review
May 21
- Ghost's Phantomime EP: the devil still has the best tunes, even when they're someone else's
- Night one of NOFX’s last ever European tour perfectly illustrates why Fat Mike’s crew will be treasured forever as true punk rock rebels
May 20
- Def Leppard's Drastic Symphonies: You know the songs, but you’ve never heard them like this
May 19
- Ghost’s Phantomime covers EP is yet another mad journey through Tobias Forge’s head
- Neal Schon's live celebration of Journey: supremely musicianly and surprisingly rough-and-ready
- The deluxe edition reissue of Season’s End proves Steve Hogarth was the perfect fit and foil for Marillion
- Yes: a strong start and a lacklustre finish on 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky
May 16
- The enduring power of guitars, drums and desperate poetry: Frank Turner lights up New York City
May 15
- Toto: XIV - Album Of The Week Club review
May 13
- The world’s loudest bands took over the home of BritPop last weekend and it was beautiful
May 12
- Black Spiders' comeback album is an effervescent love letter to rock’n’roll at its most joyous and uncomplicated
May 11
- Dez Fafara lays his trauma to rest on Devildriver's Dealing With Demons Vol. II
May 10
- Bowers & Wilkins PX7 S2 headphones review
May 9
- Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones review
- Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: Album Of The Week Club review
May 5
- Gojira and Mastodon just levelled a Florida Ampitheater to remind everyone why they're two of metal's greatest bands
- Winger fail to reinvent themselves again, but who cares when the choruses are this big?
- Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering
- Thirty four years in, Therapy? unleash 10 more bulldozing, bone crunching anthems
May 2
- Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden is a potent, masterful statement from metal's most exciting young band
May 1
- The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review