These masterfully cherry-picked tunes help explain why it's not always clear whether Ghost B.C. are a metal act with pop leanings or vice versa. [9 Nov 2013, p.52]

A Beatles-inspired quirkiness cannot save this collection of acoustic jingles, almost all of which are limp enough to make All Time Low sound like Slayer. [20 Nov 2010, p.52]

It's 14 tracks of craziness to be embraced and shouted at the rafters. [10 Feb 2018, p.50]

Essential? For completists. Worth hearing? Absolutely. [7 Nov 2015, p.50]

British Lion is a brilliant album. [8 Sep 2012, p.52]

With Ungrateful, Escape The fate have finally delivered the album they needed to make. [11 May 2013, p.53]

So far, so good then. It’s a takeaway reinforced by most of the album, in fact. ... Where Let The Bad Times Roll will likely divide opinion is in the mid-point, three-track swing of the aforementioned, ice-hockey-goal-music swagger of Coming For You, the bookending, rocked-up cover of evil orchestral classic In The Hall Of The Mountain King, and the embarrassing dad overshare of We Never Have Sex Anymore.

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

It can be boring and not much fun. [19 Nov 2011, p.50]

The rest of these songs weren't good enough to make it onto 2005's Make believe or 2008's Weezer (The Red Album), which says it all really. [6 Nov 2010, p.51]

Nu-Metal stars release a solid effort. [Sep 2011, p.52]

Justice For None is an album that delivers Five Finger Death Punch's wallop adequately. 19 May 2018, p.53]

As ever, they do a fine job here juggling endless solos among intricate vocal passages and harmonies. [Sep 2011, p.51]

Machine Gun Kelly’s detractors will likely have you believe Mainstream Sellout is terrible. It isn’t, but nor is the fire burning as bright as it once was. There’s some fun to be had here, but ultimately, this is the weakest record of MGK’s rock era so far.

It's a record so strong that it's hard to single out standout tracks, and even harder to locate points of weakness, and by anyone's standards this is one hell of an achievement. [30 Apr 2011, p.50]

The good news is that the riffs are back. [8 Sep 2012, p.53]

As a stopgap EP this might not be the best introduction to their brilliance. [27 Jul 2013, p.53]

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

[The] band's strange brew is as striking as ever it was, and is no less potent for being restrained by both taste and age. [15 Oct 2011, p.51]

A mostly sluggish record. [8 Oct 2016, p.52]

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

He goes from pretty ditties to outright tedium as songs drag on interminably and eventually, unlistenably. [10 Nov 2012, p.53]

It's truly impressive stuff, and a reminder of just how good they are. [7 Apr 2012, p.51]

An outfit possessed of a murderous groove. [9 Sep 2017, p.51]

It lacks a little cohesion and substance beneath all of the surface clatter. [18 Aug 2012, p.53]

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]

Frontman Tyler Connolly spends a little less time moping than previously, and throws in subjects such as domestic violence, racism and politics, but when the musical backing is this over-polished and ultimately mundane, it’s hard to care what he’s singing about.

When it good, Music From Another Dimension! captures Aerosmith in all their shiny, glittering glory.... However, at over an hour in length, the party begins to sag after a while. [3 Nov 2012, p.52]