Compiled by Jason Ritchie

RORY GALLAGHER - The Best Of

October

2nd

AMARANTHE ‘Manifest’ Nuclear Blast

BLACKFIELD ‘For The Music’ Parlophone Records

BON JOVI ‘Bon Jovi 2020′ Island (postponed from May)

BRUFORD ‘Rock Goes To College’ (CD/DVD) Cherry Red Records

PAUL CARRACK ‘Another Side Of’

ELLEFSON ‘No Cover’

IRON ANGEL ‘Emerald Eyes’ Mighty Music

GOTTHARD – STEVE LEE ‘The Eyes Of A Tiger’

BOB MOULD ‘Distortion: 1989-2019′ (24CD box set)

NEW ORDER ‘Power, Corruption and Lies’ (re-issue)

NICKELBACK ‘All The Right Reasons’ (15th anniversary re-issue)

NIGHTMARE ‘Aeternam’ AFM Records

OSIBISA ‘The Boyhood Sessions’ Red Steel Music

ROBERT PLANT ‘Digging Deep: Subterranea’ (2CD with 3 previoulsy unreleased songs)

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT ‘Live Around the World’

SCORPIONS ‘Winds Of Change’ (30th anniversary box set)

WILLIAM SHATNER ‘The Blues’

SIX FEET UNDER ‘Nightmares Of The Decomposed’ Metal Blade Records

TANGERINE DREAM ‘The Sessions II’

COREY TAYLOR ‘CMFT’

ROGER WATERS ‘Us + Them’ (CD,DVD,BluRay)

MARTY WILDE ‘Running Together’

9th

Ascension Of The Watchers ‘Apocrypha’ Dissonance Productions

BLACK SABBATH ‘Paranoid’ (50th anniversary vinyl edition) BMG

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT ‘The Symbol Remains’ Frontiers

MARK BOALS & RING OF FIRE ‘All The Best!’ (2CD) Frontiers

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX ‘Ellengæst’ Season Of Mist

DEVILDRIVER ‘Dealing With Demons 1′ Napalm Records

DGM ‘Tragic Separation’ Frontiers

Dire Straits ‘The Studio Albums 1978-1991′ (6CD)

THE DIVINE COMEDY Liberation (1993), Promenade (1994), Casanova (1996), A Short Album About Love (1997), Fin de Siècle (1998), Regeneration (2001), Absent Friends (2004), Victory for the Comic Muse (2006) and Bang Goes the Knighthood (2010) 2CD re-issues with one CD of B-sides, rare & demo tracks

THE DOORS ‘Morrison Hotel’ Rhino Records (50th anniversasy edition)

RORY GALLAGHER ‘The Best of Rory Gallagher’ UMC Records

HELLRIPPER ‘The Affair Of The Poisons’ Peaceville

IRON MAIDEN ‘Iron Maiden’ (limited edition clear vinyl) Parlophone Records

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE S/T (20th anniversary re-issue)

KRAFTWERK (coloured vinyl re-issues)

KRONOS QUARTET ‘Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger’ Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

LINKIN PARK ‘Hybrid Theory: 20th Anniversary Edition’

JOHN LENNON ‘Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes’ (2CD)

MOTORHEAD ‘On Parole’ (CD/2LP re-issue)

OZRIC TENTACLES ‘Space For The Earth’ KScope

PRIDE OF LIONS ‘Lion Heart’ Frontiers

THE REPLACEMENTS ‘Pleased To Meet You’ (deluxe reissue)

SANCTUARY ‘Into The Mirror Black’ (30th anniversary edition)

SINNER’S BLOOD ‘The Mirror Star’ Frontiers

PATTY SMYTH ‘It’s About Time’ (DAN HUFF producing)

STARDUST ‘Highway To Heartbreak’ Frontiers

TEARS FOR FEARS ‘The Seeds Of Love’ (deluxe re-issue)

TRAVIS ’10 Songs’

ULTRAVOX ‘Vienna’ (40th anniversary edition remastered by Steven Wilson 6CD/DVD, vinyl) Chrysalis

THE UNGUIDED ‘Father Shadow’ Napalm Records

Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac) ‘Lucky in Love: The Best of Rick Vito’

SNOWY WHITE AND THE WHITE FLAMES ‘Something On Me’

RONNIE WOOD ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ (CD/DVD/BluRay) Eagle Vision

16th

Allman Brothers Band ‘Warner Theatre in Erie, Pennsylvania’ Allman Brothers Band Recording Company

BENEDICTION ‘Scriptures’ Nuclear Blast

TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN ‘Pressure’

THE DAMNED ‘The Rockfield Files’ (EP) Search And Destroy/Spinefarm

DEF LEPPARD ‘Hysteria At The O2′ & ‘Hits Vegas: Live At Planet Hollywood’ Eagle Rock

EAGLES ‘Live From The Forum’

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH ‘A Decade Of Destruction – Volume 2′ Better Noise Music

JON GOMM ‘The Faintest Idea’ KScope

HAWKWIND LIGHT ORCHESTRA ‘Carnivorous’ Cherry Red Records

THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY ‘Slippin’ And Slidin’ (EP)

TOMMY LEE (MOTLEY CRUE) ‘Andro’

METAL CHURCH ‘Classi Live’ Reaper Entertainment

Joey Molland [Badfinger) 'Be True to Yourself'

Tom Petty 'Wildflowers & All The Rest - Super Deluxe' Warner

PURE REASON REVOLUTION 'The Dark Third' (re-issue) Inside Out

SIGNAL ED 'Alien Nation' Escape Records

SKÁLMÖLD '10 Year Anniversary - Live In Reykjavík' Napalm Records

VOODOO SIX 'Simulation Game'

23rd

AMERICAN TEARS 'Free Angel Express' Deko Entertainment

ARMOURED SAINT ‘Punching The Sky’ Metal Blade Records

BLUE OCTOBER 'This Is What I Live For'

JOE BONAMASSA 'Royal Tea' Provogue

THE CADILLAC THREE 'Tabasco & Sweet Tea' Big Machine Record

ALICE COOPER 'Live at the Apollo Theatre Glasgow 19-02-82'

EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE 'Resurrect The Faithful'

FLOGGING MOLLY 'Swagger' (20th anniversary re-issue)

FREAKS AND CLOWNS 'Justice Elite' Metalville Records

MARTY FRIEDMAN 'Tokyo Jukebox 3'

John Frusciante (RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS) 'Maya'

PETER GABRIEL 'Secret World Live'

HAMMERFALL 'Live! Against The World' Napalm Records

BEN HARPER 'Winter Is For Lovers'

Jakko Jakszyk 'Secrets & Lies' InsideOutMusic

KING CRIMSON 'The Complete 1969 Recordings' Panegyric (box set)

GREG LAKE ‘The Anthology – A Musical Journey' BMG

LEAVES' EYES 'The Last Viking' AFM Records

ULF NILSSON 'Make A Move' Fifth Island Music

PALLBEARER 'Forgotten Days' Nuclear Blast

SEVENDUST 'Blood & Stone' BMG/Rise Records

SOLITARY 'The Truth Behind The Lies' Metalville Records

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STRET BAND 'Letter To You'

THIN LIZZY 'Rock Legends' (6CD/DVD) UMC

DEVIN TOWNSEND 'Order of Magnitude - Empath Live Volume 1' Inside Out

WOBBLER 'Dwellers of the Deep'

26th

MULTI-STORY 'CBF10' F2 Music

30th

BLACK STONE CHERRY 'Human Condition' Mascot Label Group

DAVID BOWIE 'OUVREZ LE CHIEN (LIVE DALLAS 95)'

BRING ME THE HORIZON 'Post Human: Survival Horror' (EP)

GEEZER BUTLER (BLACK SABBATH) (solo albums re-issued) BMG

CARCASS 'Despicable' Nuclear Blast (EP)

ELVIS COSTELLO 'Hey Clockface' Concord Records

DRACONIAN 'Under A Godless Veil' Napalm Records

EELS 'Earth To Dora'

EVILDEAD 'United $tate$ Of Anarchy' SPV/Steamhammer

THE FLOWER KINGS 'Islands' Inside Out

IMPERIUM 'Heaven Or Hell' AOR Heaven

Mattsson 'War' (Remix) Lion Music

JONI MITCHELL 'Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967)' (5CD box set)

MOTORHEAD 'Ace Of Spades' (deluxe re-issue)

MR BUNGLE 'The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo'

STEVIE NICKS '24 Karat Gold The Concert'

Aimée Osbourne 'Vacare Adamare' Make Records

PROCUL HARUM 'Something Magio' (expanded re-issue) Cherry Red Records

Ring Van Möbius '3rd Majesty' Apollon Records

CHRIS SQUIRE 'Fish Out Of Water' (expanded re-issue) Cherry Red Records

TEENAGE FANCLUB 'Endless Arcade'

U2 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' (20th Anniversary edition)

URIAH HEEP 'Fifty Years In Rock' (box set) BMG

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS 'A Symphonic Journey To Remember!' Napalm Records

THE WHO 'The Who' (deluxe edition)

WILDNESS 'Ultimate Demise' AOR Heaven

YES 'The Royal Affair Tour – Live From Las Vegas' BMG

November

6th

LEE AARON 'Almost Christmas'

ALTER BRIDGE 'Walk The Sky 2.0' (EP) Napalm Records

MARTIN BARRE ‘50 Years Of Jethro Tull' (2CD)

REB BEACH 'A View From The Inside' Frontiers

ALBERT BOUCHARD (ex-BOC) 'Re-Imaginos' RockHeart Records/Deko Entertainment

ELVIS COSTELLO 'The Complete Armed Forces' (box set)

DarWin 'DarWin 2: A Frozen War'

ECLIPSE 'Viva La Victouria' Frontiers

ETERNAL IDOL 'Renaissance' Frontiers

Perry Farrell 'The Glitz, The Glamour' (box set)

FATES WARNING 'Long Day Good Night' Metal Blade Records

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH 'A Decade Of Destruction - Volume 2'

HANSON 'Hanson.Net'

LORDS OF BLACK 'Alchemy Of Souls Part 1' Frontiers

Erja Lyytinen ‘Lockdown Live 2020’ (CD/DVD)

MARILLION 'Live at St. David’s'

MASSIVE WAGONS ‘The Good The Bad And The Ugly’ (rarities)

The Steve Miller Blues Band 'Live From The Fillmore West 1968'

CORMAC NEESON (THE ANSWER) 'White Feather' (deluxe edition)

Orianthi 'O' Frontiers

PHEONMENA 'Still The Night' (best of with GLENN HUGHES on vocals) Cherry Red Records

Angelica Rylin 'All I Am' Frontiers

SOLSTICE 'Sia' GEP

JEFF SCOTT SOTO 'Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)' Frontiers

TARJA 'From Spirits And Ghosts (A Dark Score For Christmas)' (re-issue) earMUSIC

TRAGIK 'Faith Healer' Rock Company Records

TWISTER 'Cursed & Corrected'

WHITESNAKE 'Love Songs' Rhino

WILCO 'Summerteeth' (re-issue) Rhino

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE 'Return To Geendale'

12th

FOXY SHAZAM 'Burn'

13th

AC/DC 'Power Up' Colombia

ACCUSER S/T Metal Blade Records

PHIL CAMPBELL & THE BASTARD SONS 'We're The Bastards' Nuclear Blast

DEATH DEALER 'Conqurered Lands' Steel Cartel

DEREK & THE DOMINIOS 'Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs' (50th anniversary edition) Polydor

ELTON JOHN 'Elton: Jewel Box'

L.A. GUNS (feat. STEVE RILEY) 'Renegades'

Jayce Landberg 'The Forbidden World' GMR Music

Lazarus Dream 'Alive' Pride & Joy Music

MANDULA 'The Echoes Of Your Mind'

KIM MITCHELL 'The Big Fantasize' El Mocambo Records

PORCUPINE TREE 'Delerium 92-97 Years' (13CD box set) Snapper Music

THE PRETTY THINGS 'Parachute' (50th anniversary edition) Madfish Music

PYRAMAZE 'Epitaph' AFM Records

Keith Richards ‘Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988′

SHADOW TRIBE 'Reality Unveiled'

SCHAFFER/BARLOW PROJECT 'Winter Nights'

MARTIN SIMPSON 'Home Recordings' Topic

TANGERINE DREAM 'The Sessions III'

VOLSTER 'Arise' ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records

WARFECT 'Spectre Of Devastation' Napalm Records

WARRIOR SOUL 'Cocaine And Other Good Stuff' (covers album) Cargo Records

20th

STAN BUSH 'Dare To Dream' Cargo Records

MIKE CAMPBELL & THE DIRTY KNOBS 'Wreckless Abandon' BMG

NICK CAVE 'Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace'

DARK TRANQUILLITY 'Moment' Century Media

DIAMOND HEAD 'Lightning To The Nations 2020' (40th anniversary re-issue) Silve Lining Music

Dave Ellefson (MEGADETH) 'No Cover' Combat/earMUSIC

JOHN FOGERTY 'Fogerty's Factory'

HEARTWIND 'Strangers' Escape Music

JIMI HENDRIX 'Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui'

HJELVIK 'Welcome to Hell' Nuclear Blast

THE HOLD STEADY 'Heaven Is Wherever' (10th anniversary reissue)

Iggy And The Stooges 'You Think You’re Bad, Man? The Road Tapes ’73-’74' (5CD Boxset) Cherry Red Records

IRON MAIDEN 'Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live in Mexico City' Parlophone

Jinjer 'Alive In Melbourne' Napalm Records

KIX 'Midnite Dynamite Re-Lit'

LARKIN POE 'Kindred Spirits' (covers album)

ANNIE LENNOX 'A Christmas Cornucopia' (10th anniversary reissue)

LIZZY BORDEN ‘Best of Lizzy Borden, Vol. 2‘ (digital)

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar 'The Reckless One'

TIM MINCHIN 'Apart Together' BMG

MY DYING BRIDE 'Macabre Cabaret' (EP) Nuclear Blast

Pain Of Salvation 'The Perfect Element, Pt. I.' (special edition) InsideOut

Al Stewart '24 Carrots – 40th Anniversary Edition' (3CD) Cherry Red Records

UFO 'Strangers In The Night' (8CD box set/double vinyl) Chrysalis

WHEN RIVERS MEET

27th

ALIEN 'Into the Future' AOR Heaven

JON ANDERSON 'Somg Of Seven' (re-issue) Cherry Red Records

BILLION DOLLAR BABIES 'Battle Axe' (3CD) Cherry Red Records

CADAVER 'Edder & Bile' Nuclear Blast

CATS IN SPACE 'Atlantis'

GRAHAM BONNET 'Solo Albums 1974-92' (box set) Cherry Red Records

DREAM THEATER 'Distant memories - Live in London' Inside Out

EAST TEMPLE AVENUE 'Both Sides Of Midnight' AOR Heaven

FICTION SIXX 'Tall Dark Secrets' (re-issue) Melodic Rock Records

FOREIGNER 'Can't Slow Down - Deluxe Edition' (2CD) earMUSIC/Edel

PETER GABRIEL 'Growing Up Live'

GRYPHON 'Get Out Of My Father's Car'

GUNNER 'Back 4 More' Lions Pride Music

HATEBREED 'Weight of The False Self' Nuclear Blast

HEAVY PETTIN' 'Best Of' Cherry Red Records

JADED HEART 'Stand Your Ground' Massacre Records

JINJER 'Live In Melbourne' Napalm Records

Mark Kelly’s Marathon (MARILLION's keyboards player)

KING KING 'Maverick'

MAVERICK 'Ethereality' Metalapolis Records

MYSTERY 'Caught In The Whirlwind Of Time' Unicorn Digital

Anthony Phillips 'Missing Links' (5CD box set) Esoteric/Cherry Red Records

SHAKIN' STEVENS 'Fire In The Blood' (19CD box set) BMG

SHAKIN' STEVENS 'Singled Out' (3CD best of) BMG

The Smashing Pumpkins 'Cyr' Sumerian Records

SODOM 'Genesis XIX in Europe' SPV/Steamhammer

STING 'Duets' (digital only)

SUPERGRASS 'Live' (all proceeds donated to #SaveOurVenues)

VOIVOD 'Lost Machine - Live' Century Media

VOLBEAT 'Hokus' (deluxe edition)

VOLBEAT 'Rewind, Replay, Rebound: Live In Deutschland' Republic Records

December

1st

DAMON JOHNSON

4th

TORI AMOS 'Christmastide' (EP)

BLACKFIELD 'For The Music' Parlophone

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT ‘Here We Come A-Caroling’ (EP) earMUSIC

BLUE OYSTER CULT 'Live at Rock Of Ages Festival' Frontiers

BLUE OYSTER CULT 'A Long Day's Night' (re-issue) Frontiers

FISH 'A Fish In The Lemon Tree' (live album)

FOREIGN 'The Symphony Of The Wandering Jew Part II' Pride & Joy Music

HUMAN FORTRESS 'Epic Tales & Untold Stories' Massacre Records

Iconic Eye 'Back From Behind The Sun' (EP) Sky Rocket Records

IRON MASK 'Master of Master' AFM Records

IRON SAVIOR 'Skycrest' AFM Records

MAGIC DANCE 'Remnants' Frontiers

MANOWAR 'Back Wind, Fire & Steel – The Atlantic Albums 1987-1992' (3CD box set) Cherry Red Records

McStine & Minnemann 'II'

MY DYING BRIDE 'EVINTA (MMXX)' (vinly re-issue) Peaceville

NEAL MORSE 'Jesus Christ Exorcist Live' Frontiers

PALACE 'Rock N Roll Radio' Frontiers

PARADISE LOST 'Draconian Times' (re-issue) Music For Nations

STEVE PERRY 'Traces Alternate Versions And Sketches' (eight songs performed acoustically)

PERSUADER 'Necromancy' Frontiers

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF 'The Soord Sessions Volume 4' Kscope

REBEL (feat John Lawton) 'Stargazer' (reissue) Metalapolis Records

DAN REED 'Lift Off'

REVIVAL BLACK 'Live In Your Lounge' (CD/DVD)

SAINTS & SINNERS 'Locked & Loaded'

SCULPTOR 'Untold Secrets' Frontiers

SLADE 'Crackers - The Christmas Party Album' (reissue - digital only) BMG

SQUEALER 'Insanity' Pride & Glory

UNRULY CHILD 'Our Glass House' Frontiers

ROBBY VALENTINE 'Seperate Worlds'

VANDEN PLAS 'The Ghost Xperiment - Illumination' Frontiers

THE WEDDING PRESENT 'Not From Where I’m Standing' (James Bond covers)

THE WHITE STRIPES 'Greatest Hits'

THE WILDHEARTS '30 Years Itch' (double live album)

11th

ELLES BAILEY 'Ain't Nothing Bad'

BLACK PAISLEY 'Rambler'

EDGELARKS 'Henry Martin'

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM 'Elizium 30th Anniversary Edition' Arkive/Beggars Banquet

GAVIN HARRISON (KING CRIMSON) 'Chemical Reactions'

RON KEEL 'Alone At Last' (acoustic album)

KILLING JOKE ‘Killing Joke’, ‘Pandemonium’, ‘The Singles Collection: 1979 – 2012’ (deluxe re-issues CD/vinyl)

RIVERSIDE 'Lost’n’Found - Live in Tilburg' Inside Out

18th

KEVIN GODLEY 'Muscle Memory'

ICED EARTH S/T (re-issue)

THE KINKS 'Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One' (50th anniversary box set)

GEORGE LYNCH & JEFF PILSON 'Hevay Hitters' (covers album) Cleopatra Records

PAUL McARTNEY 'III'

ROYAL HUNT 'Dystopia' North Point Productions

THE SWEET 'Isolation Boulevard' (digital only)

George Thorogood and The Destroyers 'Live in Boston, 1982'

MIKE TRAMP 'Trampthology'

23rd

BABY METAL '10 Babymetal Years'

Vitalij Kuprij 'Progression' Lion Music

25th

LEWIS CLAY 'Idle Hands' (EP)

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

In this sequence we play 'The Best of 2024' GRTR! reviewer selections

Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024

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