Dream Theater’s Parasomnia largely lives up to the hype
It’s back to the future as Mike Portnoy returns to the prog metal giants – bringing a little of their old magic with him
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"It doesn't wholly demystify them, but it reveals the human brilliance at their heart": Becoming Led Zeppelin strips away the mystique to present the birth of a legend
Rare footage and the voice of John Bonham – Becoming Led Zeppelin is cracks opens the door into an unseen world
Mike Portnoy is back with Dream Theater, and he's helped them make a banger of an album in Parasomnia
Dream Theater needed something special to justify the hype following Portnoy's return, and they've delivered
“They let go of a degree of preciousness”: Riverside are charged up on Live ID
The Polish prog metallers’ fourth live album contains maximum simpatico between band and audience
Jinjer have made their darkest, angriest album yet with Duél
Thought Jinjer might have used their growing popularity to write an album of big, catchy bangers? Nah. No chance
Gary Moore finds grit but lacks groove on Corridors Of Power
In which former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore attempts to forge a new career in the post-NWOBHM rock landscape and also writes some ballads
Was Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s Poisoned Ascendancy really “the metal tour of 2025”?
Playing their classic 2005 albums at the O2 in London, the metalcore icons indulge everyone’s nostalgia while proving themselves as arena headliners
Steely Dan's tunes are rich and assured on the nonchalant Katy Lied
The Dan has a sonic wingding in 1975
“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of The Living Night is brilliant and beautiful
After channeling Nick Drake and Bert Jansch on his first record, the Swedish guitarist’s pivot from extreme metal brings him to a Kate Bush-like world
“These pieces aren’t so much produced as dramatised”: Soft Machine’s Softs vinyl remaster
John Etheridge’s arrival adds a harder, defined edge to the band’s 1976 album
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe’s An Evening Of Yes Music Plus returns in 4-disc set
Sound and vision elements of 1989 pay-per-ew show brought together in clamshell
The Yes soap opera revisited on Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe's live An Evening Of Yes Music Plus
Yes, no Squire
Saturday Night: It's like A Complete Unknown but with far more people dressed as bees
Saturday Night reimagines the first night of SNL as an embolism-inducing thrill-ride about the fight for the soul of America
Alt Blk era's debut album has officially announced one of the most exciting new bands in alternative music
Formed of sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Beckett-Messam, Alt Blk Era are spinning metal, hip hop and EDM into irresistibly fun new shapes
David Gilmour soars on beautifully-crafted if ultimately unchallenging debut solo album
Released in between Pink Floyd's Animals and The Wall, David Gilmour's self-titled solo album laid the groundwork for future releases
“An airier touch on a record of extraordinary scope”: Wardruna’s Birna
Dark Nordic folk collective’s sixth album takes the listener into hibernation and on to the new spring
Heilung might've played Glastonbury, but Birna shows Wardruna are still the grand daddies of Nordic folk
As one of the leading figures behind the Nordic folk renaissance, Einar Selvik returns to claim the crown with Birna
Matt Berry’s Heard Noises adheres to his oblique vision
His 13th album, self-performed except for drums, is another example of his fathomless imagination and instrumental prowess
