A mature, provocative and at times genuinely beautiful piece of work. [1 Apr 2017, p.50]

It's a record with an electric crackle, a halogen glow. [25 Feb 2017, p.52]

If You're looking for something with ambition, swagger and feel-good power, Different Creatures is your beast. [25 Mar 2017, p.52]

They're never going to be the heaviest band in the world, but Minus The bear are at their strongest when they threaten to get their claws out. [25 Mar 2017, p.52]

[A] glorious masterpiece. [11 Mar 2017, p.50]

Millport is a welcome postcard from a busman's holiday taken by a fine songwriter. [11 Mar 2017, p.52]

Some of the best songs [Obituary] have penned, nearly 33 years after their inception. [18 Mar 2017, p.52]

The haze delivers both sleazy rock'n'roll and sugary glam-pop, with the band putting equal dedication into their myriad components to create a joyous whole. [18 Mar 2017, p.53]

It's a beautiful, bruised patchwork: all fragile optimism and ebbing regret. [18 Mar 2017, p.53]

It is by turns beautiful and brash, driven and divine. [18 Mar 2017, p.50]

Danko Jones has plainly not lost his mojo. [11 Mar 2017, p.52]

While the album does lose focus at times, loosening its initial invigorating grip, the jovial bounce of Let's All Go To Hades is a surefire live hit when you've had a few pints. [11 Feb 2017, p.52]

Impressions is thrumming with big ideas, bigger choruses and is imbued with the pearly wisdom learned from rolling with life's punches. [4 Mar 2017, p.53]

All Them Witches have conjured fresh landmarks all their own. [18 Feb 2017, p.52]

Easily besting 2013's Kingdom Of Conspiracy, this is dark and ugly death metal for ugly minds. [25 Feb 2017, p.52]

The Incessant is an enraged punk album with the occasional sombre stupor slinked within. [18 Feb 2017, p.54]

Full of weirdness and with groove to spare, this is a fascinating collection. [25 Feb 2017, p.53]

Alive with the freshness and vitality of rebirth, they've delivered 11 tracks that manage to bridge the vast airiness of their mid-'00s heyday and the poppy progression of here and now. [25 Feb 2017, p.52]

This may be the most punk record of 2017: possessing brains, balls and bags of tunes. [4 Feb 2017, p.51]

This is a brave, bold and ambitious album, and the finest of Lower Than Atlantis' career so far. [4 Feb 2017, p.50]

Aside from brief moments in songs such as Satellites and Why Can't We Do It Again, the best thing about The Trigger Complex is its title. [11 Feb 2017, p.52]

It would be remiss not to point out that Iron Reagan are retreading familiar ground, but it would be churlish not to recognise that they do so with ferocious relish. [4 Feb 2017, p.52]

This is no tribute, however, just a mighty fine hard-rock album. [4 Feb 2017, p.52]

Too often, each song's relentless march toward the kind of chorus you can imagine providing the soundtrack for a bevy of beautiful, suburban cheerleaders is too much to take. [4 Feb 2017, p.52]

Japandroids' ability to move the listener remains as powerful as ever. [4 Feb 2017, p.51]

Should be regarded as perhaps their finest album yet. [14 Jan 2017, p.51]

[An] excitable, artistically emphatic album. [28 Jan 2017, p.51]

Hardcore devotees can rest assured that Kreator have shed little of their original skin. [28 Jan 2017, p.52]