This is a weird, unconventional and utterly thrilling classic. [29 Sep 2012, p.53]

Once again, Enslaved have produced music that kicks slavish notions of genre limitations into touch. [29 Sep 2012, p.54]

Gwen and co. prove that, when it comes to state-of-the-art, good-time punk-dance, they're still the fairest of them all. [29 Sep 2012, p.54]

The reassuring thing about Self/Entitled is that NOFX are still gobby, snotty and obnoxious for punk's sake. [29 Sep 2012, p.54]

It's the sound of a band who know their craft inside out, but who aren't afraid to grow and try something new. [29 Sep 2012, p.53]

They've finally made an album as noisy and expressive as their leader. [22 Sep 2012, p.52]

Blaqk Audio deliver faithfully realised fare, then, but about as 2012 as Betamax videotapes [22 Sep 2012, p.53]

What you get here are all-out, blastbeat-fuelled trashers--for every anthemic call-and-response hook and melody, there's a lurching spine-crushing breakdown to follow. [22 Sep 2012, p.51]

Minus The Bear are back on track. [22 Sep 2012, p.51]

What this amounts to is a sharp and often exhilarating change of gear from the Green Day of the past eight years. [22 Sep 2012, p.50]

There's a fresh, East-meets-West ingenuity on culture-clash cuts such as Wrestling Israel, amid the straight-up, old-fashioned fury on the title track, and closers #OccupyEarth and Stop the Apocalypse. [8 Sep 2012, p.53]

Another startling offering, then, from one of the most consistently perfect bands in post-rock. [1 Sep 2012, p.51]

The Essex four-piece rarely put a foot wrong. [1 Sep 2012, p.50]

They offer no hits or immediately accessible anthems, but when they do engage, they show why they're beloved of so many. [25 Aug 2012, p.54]

A sonic gem that's both immediate and visceral in its delivery, as well as remaining a genuinely exciting prospect. [25 Aug 2012, p.54]

It's a good album, but one undone by its more extreme moments. [25 Feb 2012, p.52]

It's a bleak, nihilistic affair, but dynamic enough never to lose its focus. [25 Feb 2012, p.52]

It's a lean, mean metallic assault from a band who only seem to get better with age. [11 Aug 2012, p.53]

If you can look beyond this band's inherent safe-ness, there's plenty her for fans of the sugar rush offered by Paramore, All Time Low, Simple Plan et al to enjoy. [11 Aug 2012, p.53]

Priorities is chock-full off gargantuan tunes. [11 Aug 2012, p.52]

After listening to Ascent, you'll be hard-pressed to locate a better batch of mesmerising mind-expanding jams this year. [25 Aug 2012, p.54]

Dig deeper and beguiling melodies emerge while the intriguingly sinister edge to Cacie Dalager's lyrics is exposed. [25 Aug 2012, p.53]

Hot Cakes may tail off a bit, but, ultimately, it proves as capable of suspending your belief and blowing your mind as any blockbuster. [18 Aug 2012, p.52]

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

This is a raw, vicious and churning blast of a record. [25 Aug 2012, p.52]

They're back with a glorious melange of influence that borrows from everywhere but combines to sound like no-one else on earth. [1 Aug 2012, p.54]

Just as Emperor expanded and grew with each album, becoming ever more grandiose and sophisticated, so it is with Ihsahn's solo material that he never repeats himself. [16 Jun 2012, p.54]

This is unashamed brooding, biker rock. [28 Jul 2012, p.54]