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September 2023
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- September 29
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- “Imbued with otherness… steeped in drama and grandeur, but it feels tethered to a very specific point on the earth”: Haunt The Woods’ Ubiquity
- “Hearing each concert side by side demonstrates just how well rehearsed the presentation was, while allowing for individual improvisation”: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Box Set
- The Black Sabbath ballet shows Sabbath are still pushing heavy metal into unchartered territories after half a century
- Graveyard's 6: inward-looking and melancholy, but a masterclass in psychedelic light and shade
- "All grinding desperation and lank-haired perspiration": the new album by KK's Priest confirms that they're not a viable alternative to the real thing
- "It would be an obtuse listener who didn't grasp how splendid this record is": Steven Wilson's The Harmony Codex is a high-wire act that few artists could pull off
- In Screamin' At The Sky, Black Stone Cherry have made the album where they remind us why we fell for them in the first place
- September 28
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- "I'll fight you till I win": Kae Tempest, Heartworms and Viji steal the show at Speedy Wunderground's thrilling 10th anniversary celebrations
- Blood Command's World Domination: 20 tracks, almost half being a minute long or less, yet one of the most exciting, unique, genre-bending metal albums you'll hear this year
- September 27
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- Jailbreak shows that, despite the chaos of their lineups, Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are still a powerful force to be reckoned with
- New KK's Priest album The Sinner Rides Again isn't reinventing any wheels, but when you have K.K. Downing and Tim 'Ripper' Owens together on this kind of form, who cares?
- Code Orange's The Above is everything modern heavy music should be but all too often isn’t. If this is "selling out", more bands should try it
- September 25
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- Paul Rodgers and run-of-the-mill band provide flashes of brilliance on new album Midnight Rose as the hyperbole rings hollow
- “There was too much isolation, loneliness and access to cheap booze and drugs”: Kevin Ayers’ Falling Up reissue
- "With a voice marked by weariness and loss, it's scarcely credible Tedeschi was in her twenties": Susan Tedeschi still sails and soars as Just Won't Burn turns 25
- Starbenders: defiant, spooky and sexy, yet somehow more fun than graduation day at clown college
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- September 14
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- Tesseract's War Of Being is a progressive metal masterpiece and a frontrunner for album of the year
- Baroness may have dropped the colour-coded albums, but Stone sees them on as vibrant and glowing form as ever
- “An enlightening, vital listen, underlining the importance of an institution treated as a political football”: Public Service Broadcasting’s The New Noise (Live)
- September 13
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- September 11
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- "All the things that made me feel alive, still make me feel alive”: Ash retain their infectious, joyous lust for life on Race The Night
- "A superb document of, and tribute to, a brilliant band in its prime": Whitesnake: Live... in the Heart of the City Album Of The Week Club review
- Cryptopsy's first album in 11 years was worth the wait: As Gomorrah Burns is a dizzying maelstrom of technical death metal excellence
- “It isn’t the edgiest, most dramatic or experimental album released this year, but that’s really not the point”: Downes Braide Association’s Celestial Songs
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- Kvelertak's Endling is another thrilling reminder of why they're one of modern metal's most unique and riotously entertaining bands
- Bowers & Wilkins Px8 headphones review
- Lamb Of God and Trivium love them, and Heriot’s ferocious live show proves they’re one of the best new bands in British metal
- With any justice, A Sign Of Things To Come is the album that will finally take Sylosis out of the British metal underground and into the big time
- September 5
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- "I don't give a f*** what people think": trap metal pioneer Backxwash makes an emotional, triumphant UK debut that shows there's more to metal than riffs
- "Black Rainbows is a truly astonishing record, a revelation": Corinne Bailey Rae comes of age on one of 2023's most remarkable, must-hear albums
- "Some now feel it was too heavy but it was in keeping with musical fashions of the day": Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning Album Of The Week Club review
