We've had fights, emotion, sweat and pure punk righteousness. If only you could say the same thing about all live albums. [5 Sep 2015, p.51]

It's brilliant stuff, and proof that when it comes to enormo-doom heaviness, few do it better. Still. [5 Sep 2015, p.53]

On this third album, his gnarly riffs and garage-level production are as unpolished and far-out as ever, but the element of surprise has turned into comforting familiarity. [5 Sep 2015, p.52]

The Book Of Souls is an album of extraordinary vision. [5 Sep 2015, p.50]

Urth captivates throughout. [15 Aug 2015, p.52]

This seventh album will take neither rock'n'roll's top prize nor its wooden spoon, but it's another decent arse-kicker. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]

Given how good Meliora is, it's fair to say Ghost are ablaze too. [29 Aug 2015, p.51]

Bad Magic is proof that Motorhead remain the greatest rock'n'roll band on God's scorched Earth. [29 Aug 2015, p.50]

For an album about broken faith, this should convert a lot of new listeners. [29 Aug 2015, p.52]

Don't call it a comeback. Call it a rebirth. [15 Aug 2015, p.51]

Automatic is part boom, part bust. [8 Aug 2015, p.50]

For those who like black metal to creep up and slowly drain the light from the world like a suffocating nightmare, Myrkur are manna from Hell. [22 Aug 2015, p.53]

Radkey's greatest strength is sounding urgent but never rushed. The greatest weakness is that they wear their influences like face tattoos. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]

They've taken a long sidestep from Sabbath's alter.... One that sets them up to be able to go literally anywhere from here. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]

Immortalized isn't without its duffers. [22 Aug 2015, p.51]

Neck Deep are the most fully formed British rock band to rise to prominence in ages. And in Life's Not Out To Get You they haven't as much made a record as created a world. [15 Aug 2015, p.50]

Venom has injected a whole new life into the British metal heroes. [1 Aug 2015, p.50]

Fear Factory continue to make the future sound dark and dangerous. [1 Aug 2015, p.52]

24 tracks call into question the issue of quality control, but as short, sharp reminders of why all you need is three chords and something to say, there are few better examples than Teenage Time Killers' debut. [8 Aug 2015, p.52]

Aaron and mewithoutYou have authored what's possibly their best album. [25 Jul 2015, p.52]

This is a record that seethes with fury. [25 Jul 2015, p.50]

It plays out like a sulking child trapped in the seat of a supermarket trolley. [18 Jul 2015, p.52]

A record of grandstanding musical ambition. [18 Jul 2015, p.52]

Hammer of The Witches finds these fiends in fine fettle. [4 Jul 2015, p.52]

Countless bands wish they could make music as blissfully abrasive as this. [11 Jul 2015, p.51]

They're suspended in an airy updraft of synths and clean guitar lines that are so '70s prog-rock they should be wearing a Rick Wakeman from Yes-styled cape. [27 Jun 2015, p.52]

There's nothing ambitious or monumental here but a tight 50 minutes of call-to-arms rage. [27 Jun 2015, p.52]

Thrilling, challenging, life-affirming rollercoaster of a record. [27 Jun 2015, p.50]

They might nod to the past, but Creepoid's present is plenty bright. [20 Jun 2015, p.52]

It's not perfect, but a once-a-decade check-in from Desaparecidos sounds perfectly acceptable to us. [20 Jun 2015, p.53]

Wolf Alice have a great album in them, it's just not this one. [20 Jun 2015, p.52]

Seventh album Luminiferous delivers every bit of HOF's expertise. [20 Jun 2015, p.52]

Year Of The Hare might need multiple listens, but if you can spare the time, you just might uncover it's secret. [20 Jun 2015, p.52]

Every tracks leaves you wanting more (and not in a good way), and while Mates of State don't do anything wrong, they don't do much right, either. [6 Jun 2015, p.52]

They exude so much confidence, you wouldn't be surprised if they ran for president next year. [6 Jun 2015, p.52]

Though the grit they show on Where I Lie suits them well, it is in their more energetic moments, like Lonely As A Shark and Heroine that Gengahr shine. [13 Jun 2015, p.53]

With overwhelming heaviness tempered by blues and gospel vibes, this enthralling comeback soothes the soul even as Goatsnake crush your ears. [13 Jun 2015, p.52]

This is still a challenging listen that churns and rages exactly where it needs to. [30 May 2015, p.52]

It's not much of an evolution, but the revolutionary fire still burns. [6 Jun 2015, p.53]

Welcome back, Four Year Strong. [6 Jun 2014, p.51]

The result is a claustrophobic classic that sharpens the focus of what is possible in the name of high-minded rock. [6 Jun 2015, p.50]

It sounds like Ash have never been away. [30 May 2015, p.53]

It might well be that The Darkness' finest moments are not behind them, after all. [30 May 2015, p.54]

There is nuance in the songwriting that, in discovery, has helped Slaves write good album, not just a collection of good songs. [16 May 2015, p.52]

Twenty One Pilots prove you don't always need guitars to have a good time. [16 May 2015, p.54]

It may not appeal beyond their current fanbase, but it cements The Story So Far's position near the front of the pop-punk pack. [16 May 2015, p.53]

There's no pushing at the boundaries, but this nevertheless shows Silverstein can still turn some of the things they touch to gold. [16 May 2015, p.54]

It's a distinctly mixed bag. [2 May 2015, p.52

A dirgey treat. [2 May 2015, p.53]

The best songwriting of their rollercoaster career. [9 May 2015, p.53]

It's claustrophobic and uneasy. [9 May 2015, p.53]

Weird, arty, heavy excellence, thy name is (still) Therapy?. [9 May 2015, p.53]

This is not a time-weathered, diluted imitation of Faith No More. This, ladies and gents, is still "The Real Thing." [9 May 2015, p.52]

Like the sonic equivalent of a Rorschach test, each track is riddled with vast soundscapes begging to be explored and made sense of. [2 May 2015, p.54]

It's all proves Metz are poppy and punky, but they're also so squealing and Bleach-era Nirvana-heavy that you still need a sturdy ear to handle them. [2 May 2015, p.53]

The only thing you can be sure of with Two Hands is to expect the unexpected. [11 Apr 2015, p.53]

It's up there with the best albums they've ever made. [11 Apr 2015, p.53]

If you love pop-punk in its most unadulterated, carefree form, you'll heart this. [28 Mar 2015, p.52]

As a way of rehabilitating his reputation, this is certainly a solid start. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]

While they haven't exactly stretched the boundaries of three chords, these Wyoming punks have crafted another 14 tracks of fearless fun here. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]

There are grooves within grooves, epic 10-minute jams, and they're able to create a feeling of genuine disquiet simply by shifting a drumbeat. Absolutely mammut. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]

The Day Is My Enemy is the most exciting--and most angrily British--album of the year. [21 Mar 2015, p.52]

Their best record yet. [21 Mar 2015, p.54]

Just Like You is a good album, in that it contains many more good songs than bad ones. [21 Feb 2015, p.52]

When they're good, they are astounding, and almost impossible to adequately describe. When they miss the mark, though, this lot grate. [7 Mar 2015, p.54]

Most of it's the aural equivalent of a shoulder rub, but when it's good, it's very good indeed. [21 Mar 2015, p.54]

Nate and his crew are charming, more often than not. [7 Mar 2015, p.54]

Behind every good DIY punk outfit, there's some smart songwriting in place. Boston;s Pile prove this and more here on their fourth full-length. [7 Mar 2015, p.53]

This is the record that brands SWS as a very big deal indeed. [7 Mar 2015, p.52]

There's nothing on the album that's going to suddenly turn them into queen bees again, but Alien Ant Farm here prove themselves to be an enterprise running on more than just the fumes of nostalgia. [14 Mar 2015, p.53]

If you want to hear what will inevitable be one of the metal albums of the year, look no further than In Times. [14 Mar 2015, p.54]

This most powerful of trios churn up tumultuous fury not unlike tribal-metallers Neurosis. [14 Feb 2015, p.54]

Too countrified for you r average black metal fan, Blackberry Smoke are nevertheless as warming as rock gets. [7 Feb 2015, p.54]

It's adventurous, daring, different. [7 Feb 2015, p.54]

There's a certain dumb fun attached to the gonzo country rock of Drinking Beer With Dad, but, in truth, we'd be lion to you if we said First Kiss was good. [14 Feb 2015, p.53]

Less the raised middle finger of old, this is more a clicking one, trying to snap you out of whatever Big Brother fug you may have settled for. [14 Feb 2015, p.54]

It's a deceptively simple formula, but one that Torche continue to twist into intriguing and utterly addictive shapes. [31 Jan 2015, p.54]

It's an uneven album. [10 Jan 2015, p.53]

The Mindsweep is the most enjoyable album Enter Shikari have ever made. [3 Jan 2015, p.52]

Venomously good stuff. [10 Jan 2015, p.52]

The Pale Emperor doesn't repeat the in-your-face rebellion of Manson 1996. But it does share those old traits of being brave, smart and intriguing. [10 Jan 2015, p.52]

This, album number eight, is ample reward for anyone who kept the faith. [17 Jan 2015, p.53]

Only one [band] could still sound this savage 15 albums in. [17 Jan 2015, p.53]

It's an often thrilling listen. [17 Jan 2015, p.52]

Alpha and Rainbow Gravity are the sound of a band in complete control of their sonic destiny, reining in those djenty riffs for more cinematic musings that quickly unravel into modern metal anthems. [17 Jan 2015, p.54]

There's no fat. Here in abundance is evidence of Billy's enduring genius. [13 Dec 2014, p.52]

Million Miles An Hour is the kind of dumb, red-cup rock that only very clever people can write, while Get 'Em Up is the best song about erectile dysfunction (we think) ever written. [29 Nov 2014, p.52]

There are points at which this all feels a little hollow. [6 Dec 2014, p.52]

This is a wholly disturbing listen. [6 Dec 2014, p.54]

Yes, in places the jams get a bit too funky, but even these missteps don't disrupt the haze you enter elsewhere. [16 Aug 2014, p.54]

The album is far heavier, rawer and rootsier than its predecessor. [3 May 2014, p.52]

Atop these intoxicatingly addictive gems are the vocals of bandleader Kim Shattuck. [6 Sep 2014, p.54]

While World On Fire isn't the finest thing Slash has, or will ever, put his name to, it still shows an iconic talent doing what he does very well. [6 Sep 2014, p.52]

This music made the film, basically. Of course, what matters for this physical release is that, like all the best soundtracks, these songs works as an album, independently of Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike's martial kerfuffle. [22 Nov 2014, p.52]

A little of their usual magic may have evaporated, but it's still a pleasure to hear these awkward buggers playing it straight. [22 Nov 2014, p.52]

It seems Punk Goes Pop has finally run its course. [22 Nov 2014, p.51]

Its unhurried pace is a drag at times, but should leave bands who repeat themselves with their pride punctured and their egos pricked. [22 Nov 2014, p.51]

This is an AC/DC record as lusty as they come. [22 Nov 2014, p.50]