Joan Armatrading does serious harm to electric guitars on How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean
National treasure Joan Armatrading maintains forward momentum
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Album review: Bryan Adams - Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2024
Bryan Adams reinvents his wheels again
"An AC/Leppard mongrel that's 50% party soundtrack and 50% time travel": Crossbone Skully's Evil World Machine is gloriously daft, but it's also glorious
Mutt lives!
Opeth return to extremity on the inventive The Last Will And Testament
Succession meets Edgar Allan Poe on prog metal kingpins Opeth's fascinating fourteenth album
“The most psychedelic trip you’ll ever have sober”: Baroness, Graveyard and Pallbearer conquer adversity to give London a heavy metal high
Overcoming technical troubles and an initially thin crowd, the three bands offer unique approaches to mind-expanding music
The Last Will And Testament is Opeth at their most groundbreakingly brilliant
Opeth go Miss Marple via Edgar Allen Poe on the prog-death-jazz metal odyssey that is The Last Will And Testament
From that Pink Floyd cover to collabs with Corpsegrinder, Max Cavalera and more, new Body Count album Merciless is an ice-cold knock-out
Body Count only seem to improve with age courtesy of their heaviest album yet
Roger Waters rails against capitalism, America, war, religion and television on Amused To Death
Amused To Death is Roger Waters’ proudest solo moment and a damning reflection on social disintegration.
George Harrison's lovely Living In The Material World, revisited
Gem-studded yet often overlooked album from ex-Beatle George Harrison, now with added extras
Armed with 40 years of anthems and some stellar support acts, Sepultura’s final UK show is an unmitigated triumph
Celebrating their seminal classics and modern material alike, Sepultura bow out in impeccable form at London’s Hammersmith Apollo
Du Blonde's Sniff More Gritty is 2024's most exhilarating declaration of independence
Beth Jeans Houghton aka Du Blonde serves up one of 2024's most deliciously defiant albums with the brilliant Sniff More Gritty
Terry Wilson Slesser and friends successfully conjure up the ghost of Paul Kossoff
Back Street Crawler singer Terry Slesser sang on Pyromania and auditioned for both AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Now he's finally made a solo album
"Negative Spaces is one of the catchiest, most consistent records of 2024." Poppy has gone and made a full-on arena metal album, and it absolutely bangs
Teaming up with ex-Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish, Poppy has crafted an anthem-stacked, arena-ready metal record
Linkin Park return from the darkness with the triumphant From Zero
Nu metal giants Linkin Park return after tragedy rebooted and reborn
"An extra layer of atmosphere and weight”: The Fierce And The Dead Live At Ramsgate
Psych-prog-stoners at their best on seaside rendezvous stage
Sólstafir’s Hin Helga Kvöl shifts from sonic aggression to oddly comforting
Eighth album of challenging and mesmerising atmospherics from Iceland’s gnarliest post-rock band.
The Bronx are still the best punk rock band on the planet
A piss-up in a brewery with The Bronx? This was never going to be anything but A Lovely Time
Patti Smith's commercial breakthrough is a flawed artistic statement
Containing her biggest hit and her most controversial song, the Patti Smith Group's third album Easter is a fascinating whole
The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is unsettling and damn near indispensable
Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras
