“Fight the Good Fight” appeared on Triumph’s fifth album, Allied Forces. The LP reached No. 23 and went platinum, the biggest record in the band’s career. The song climbed to No. 18 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart in 1981.
Triumph released 10 albums before disbanding following the release of Edge of Excess in 1992.
What Songs Are on the Triumph Tribute Album?
In addition to Wilson, Bach and Snider, the tribute album features performances by Joey Belladonna, Mickey Thomas, Jack Blades and Envy of None, the band fronted by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.
The track listing for Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph is below.
‘Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph’ Track Listing 24 Hours a Day – Sebastian Bach Rock & Roll Machine – Sebastian Bach Magic Power – Joey Belladonna Spellbound – Mickey Thomas Lay It on the Line – Dee Snider Somebody’s Out There – Lawrence Gowan Never Surrender – Deen Castronovo Hold On – Jeff Keith Just One Night – Jason Scheff I Live for the Weekend – Dorothy & Tyler Connolly Fight the Good Fight – Nancy Wilson Follow Your Heart – Jack Blades Allied Forces – Phil X Blinding Light Show – Envy of None Fight the Good Fight (encore) – Dino Jelusick
Heart Albums Ranked
This list of Heart Albums, Ranked Worst To Best, wasn’t an easy one to compile, because unlike many long-running groups, the band has never made a bad record.
Parker conceived the project in Perth in 2007.After a series of singles and EPs, Tame Impala’s debut studio album, Innerspeaker, was released in 2010; it was certified gold in Australia and well received by critics.The follow-up, Lonerism, released in 2012, also received critical acclaim, achieving platinum status in Australia and earning a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album.The third album, Currents, released in July 2015, won ARIA Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.Parker won the APRA Award for Song of the Year in 2016 for the album’s lead track, “Let It Happen.”The fourth studio album, The Slow Rush, was released on 14 February 2020.At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards, Tame Impala won five trophies.
Beyond his work with Tame Impala, Parker has collaborated with various artists, including Mark Ronson, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel, and Damon Albarn.He has also written, arranged, and produced tracks for Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Rihanna, Kanye West, and Kali Uchis.
Tame Impala’s discography includes four studio albums, two live albums, four extended plays, and twenty-two singles.The project’s music blends psychedelic rock with elements of indie rock and synth-pop, characterized by Parker’s distinctive production style and multi-instrumental performances.
One of England’s most original and widely-admires musical artists, Kate Bush is a true national treasure. But, in a 1993 interview with Britain’s [now defunct] Q magazine, the then-35-year-old singer admitted that one of her most poetic songs about her homeland made her cringe with embarrassment.
Oh England My Lionheart is the closing song on side one of Bush’s second album, Lionheart, released on November 10, 1978, less than nine months on from the release of her million-selling debut album, The Kick Inside. Featuring lyrics such as “Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park / You read me Shakespeare on the rolling Thames“, the song was described by Bush as “a sort of poetical play, if you like, on the romantic visuals of England, and the second World War.”
“It’s only got acoustic instruments on it and it’s done … almost madrigally, you know,” she told Melody Maker‘s Harry Doherty in November ’78. “I dare say a lot of people will think that it’s just a load of old slush but it’s just an area that I think it’s good to cover. Everything I do is very English and I think that’s one reason I’ve broken through to a lot of countries.”
Ffifteen years on, however, Bush was rather less enamoured of the song. When Q writer (now BBC 6Music presenter) Stuart Maconie mentioned it to Bush the singer-songwriter gasped, “Do you like that one? It makes me just want to die. It’s such an old song.”
When Maconie enquired as to which other old songs made Bush wince, she responded, “My God, loads. Absolutely loads.”
“Either the lyric’s not thought out properly or it’s just crap or the performances weren’t well executed,” she continued. “But you have to get it in context. You were doing it at the time and it was the best you could do then. You’ve got to live with it. Some of those early songs though, you think, What was I thinking about? Did I write that?.
“There’s not just one,” she admitted. “There’s too many to mention. But I was very young, so I can be gentle on myself for that. Having said that, I think some of my lyrics were just, well, mad really. And why not! You’ve got to be prepared to fail and get a bit hurt or bruised along the way.”
In a 1980 interview with Sounds magazine, Bush revealed that when someone from EMI saw the cover of the Lionheart album, with the singer wearing a lion costume, he informed her that it looked “too sexual”. Bush replied that this was intentional and appropriate, because she’d included a song about bestiality on the record. Cue a record label freak-out, which only eased when Bush burst out laughing and said she was joking.
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A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne’s private jet, played Angus Young’s Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.
As part of our cover feature unpacking Sleep Token’s rise from unknown mysteries to the biggest metal band of their generation, the former Issues bassist recalls what it was like taking the British band out for their first US tour in 2019.
“Our booking agent actually introduced us to Sleep Token,” he recalls. “He sent us this EP they’d been working on [Two] and I was blown away. It felt like I could see the future – especially looking them up online and seeing what they looked like. Even though they didn’t have the songs they have now, I could tell there was something special there.”
Running through November and December 2019, the tour saw Sleep Token opening a bill which also featured rapper Lil Aaron and prog metallers Polyphia, with Issues headlining.
“It’s a hilarious bill to think about now,” Skyler says. “If they were opening there was a whole vibe watching the show from beginning to end. Usually, you walk in during the opener and get a beer and talk loud as you can, right? But everyone was engaged.”
Skyler shares some fond memories of the tour.
“It felt great, there was a very close family vibe,” he says. “We shared our bus with Aaron and I think Sleep Token were actually in a van. We were really friendly; we’d all hang out in the green room and we even went to Aaron’s parent’s house for Thanksgiving together. They were really stoked to be on the road and playing in the US. It felt like the last hurrah before shutdown.”
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But he also says not everybody who caught the tour ‘got’ it.
“In Seattle, [YouTuber] Finn McKenty came out to see us and we were like, ‘You’ve gotta see this band.’ But he didn’t understand Sleep Token at all,” he admits. I was stood next to him just going, ‘Bro, trust me!’ It was like seeing Slipknot in ’99 or something. Except, it was different from the nu metal of yore; a lot of that had this trailer park, trashy ‘I’m insane!’ vibe. Sleep Token is poetic; less malt liquor, more wine.”
Sleep Token are set to return to the US in September after a run of summer events including their first headline slot at this year’s Download Festival. The band are currently on track to score their first number one in both the UK and US charts.
Since emerging from the 2000s UK metalcore scene, Brighton’s own Architects have evolved into one of the most consistent and celebrated heavy bands of their generation. Surviving the occasional career misstep (more on that in a mo) and, of course, the devastating loss of Tom Searle in 2016, they remain a powerhouse in the modern metal world: bonafide arena headliners, yet still a creatively intriguing and unpredictable force. Here we take a look back at all eleven of their studio albums to date, separating the great from the not-so-much.
11. Nightmares (2006)
The band’s debut album and only release to feature original vocalist Matt Johnson is a decent enough mathcore album, and probably does enough to be labelled a very good record when considered alongside the company it was keeping at the time. That said, Architects have a far higher level of quality in their discography than most other bands of their era, and in the context of today, it feels much more like an interesting curio than an essential release. Still, if you’re a fan of early Dillinger Escape Plan or long for the days of Johnny Truant and Beecher, the likes of Minesweeper will put a smile on your face.
10. The Here And Now (2011)
Architects’ only real, genuine career misstep — an album that knocked them down the pecking order, only to have them recover spectacularly a year later. The Here And Now isn’t actually a bad record by any stretch of the imagination, but it does see the band not playing to their strengths with enough regularity. The punkier likes of Delete, Rewind aren’t rubbish, but the fantastic riff and pace of the song is somewhat undermined by a far too sickly-sweet chorus, and the emo-tinged An Open Letter To Myself just feels weird on an Architects record. The band deserve great credit for refusing to stagnate and for taking a risk, but on this occasion, it didn’t quite pay off.
9. Ruin (2007)
The band’s first album with vocalist Sam Carter and a considerable step up from debut album Nightmares. Gone were the more blatant Dillinger-worshiping parts, and in their place came a more metallic, weightier sound, and a far more dynamically interesting level of darkness. Obviously, bringing in a world class vocalist like Carter was always going to help things, but the production of the riffs on a song like the sublime Heartless pointed Architects in the right direction. Still very much worth your time.
8. Daybreaker (2012)
An integral step on the road to where they are today, Daybreaker came almost immediately after the confusion surrounding the aftermath of The Here And Now, and helped to address the downward curve. Opener The Bitter End may have had fans thinking that Architects were doubling down on their more melodic tendencies, but as soon as the wonderfully anthemic and superbly heavy Alpha Omega followed, any worries they may have had completely vanished. It was also the point in the band’s career where their music began to reflect the political and socio-political nature of their beliefs. They may have gone on to better it, but Daybreaker is an essential part of the Architects story.
7. For Those That Wish to Exist (2021)
The 2020s was a decade of highs and lows for Architects – one that saw them impacted by tragedy as their star rose to stellar new levels. Their first album of the new decade tweaked the formula laid down on predecessor Holy Hell, rather than reinventing it, embracing their status as an arena band, doubling down on the blockbuster choruses and adding orchestral swells and unashamed grandeur to their sonic arsenal. There are also moments that provide a through-line to their past, presenting this record as the sound of a band utterly at ease with what they have become – even if it was at odds with what a small section of their fanbase wanted them to be by this point.
6. The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit (2022)
Following in the footsteps of their peers in Bring Me The Horizon by streamlining their songwriting, polishing up the production a step further and refining the more grandiose elements that had seeped into For Those That Wish To Exist, Architects produced one of the finest arena metal records of the last few years. The likes of Deep Fake, Tear Gas and When We Were Young sound absolutely colossal, perfectly honing the organic-industrial noise that the band had previously established with Animals while laying down some of the most earwormy choruses of the band’s career. If Holy Hell and …Wish To Exist helped elevate Architects to arena status, …Broken Spirit confirmed that they absolutely belong there.
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5. The Sky, The Earth & All Between (2025)
Seeing the Brighton boys team up with former Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish, The Sky, The Earth & All Between is the perfect amalgamation of the last decade or so of Architects’ output, pairing their most visceral layer of heaviness (Elegy, Whiplash, Seeing Red), with big, shiny hooks befitting of their modern arena status (Everything Ends, Curse). The result is special; capturing the creative ambition of the For Those That Wish To Exist era without losing focus, it’s an all-killer, no-filler collection of modern metal bangers.
4. Holy Hell (2018)
In the aftermath of the tragic death of band leader Tom Searle, Architects had to regroup and start again. The results of that traumatic period can be heard on Holy Hell — a sorrow-filled, soaring, yet ultimately beautiful record. Far more melodic, and with a new found sheen in production, Holy Hell stretched Architects into broader sonic realms while presented a perfectly crafted tribute to Tom, both as man and musician. In the years since the album’s release, pretty much every metalcore band on the planet have had a go at ripping off the incredible Doomsday, all of who have failed miserably.
3. Hollow Crown (2009)
The absolute A-grade example of early Architects. After a couple of promising albums that showed plenty of growth, Architects finally announced themselves as a band to be taken very seriously with Hollow Crown. This is as savage as anything the band have ever put their name to, while showing exceptional levels of ingenuity within their riffs and songwriting. They may not lean into this type of material as often these days, but the likes of Every Last Breath and Follow The Water have lost absolutely none of their potency. The old school fan’s number one choice, and with good reason: Hollow Crown destroys.
2. Lost Forever // Lost Together (2014)
With Daybreaker restoring confidence in the Architects camp, 2014 saw the release of an album of such brilliance that it is as tight a toss-up imaginable between our number one and number two spot.Lost Forever // Lost Together is a world class record, full of brawn, brains, subtle electronic colouring, riffs that could strip paint and some of the most anthemic moments in Architects’ career. Any album that can open with a one-two-three punch of Gravedigger, Naysayer and Broken Cross is already onto a winner. The way that Youth Is Wasted On The Young and The Distant Blue sees the album slow down for its final moments also showed that the band had perfected their dynamic range.
1. All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (2016)
One of the most emotionally-charged and moving albums in the history of heavy music, Architects’ seventh album, and Tom Searle’s swansong, is a genuinely essential, classic record. From the opening roar Sam Carter lets out on the breakneck Nihilist, all the way through to the closing eight-minute-plus post-rock-meets-industrial metal journey of closer Memento Mori, the album is possibly the most complete piece of music the band have ever recorded. Put frankly,All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is as close to a perfect metal record as one can imagine. Their meld of ambient noise, savage tech-metal and pure emotional openness had never sounded so vital – or, as we’d later discover, devastatingly poignant.
Merlin moved into his role as Executive Editor of Louder in early 2022, following over ten years working at Metal Hammer. While there, he served as Online Editor and Deputy Editor, before being promoted to Editor in 2016. Before joining Metal Hammer, Merlin worked as Associate Editor at Terrorizer Magazine and has previously written for the likes of Classic Rock, Rock Sound, eFestivals and others. Across his career he has interviewed legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Metallica, Iron Maiden (including getting a trip on Ed Force One courtesy of Bruce Dickinson), Guns N’ Roses, KISS, Slipknot, System Of A Down and Meat Loaf. He has also presented and produced the Metal Hammer Podcast, presented the Metal Hammer Radio Show and is probably responsible for 90% of all nu metal-related content making it onto the site.
The recording, which also features Fairport Convention members Dave Pegg on bass and Dave Mattacks on drums, features on a compilation album entitled Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s, which was released earlier this year. The quartet have just released a brand new video for the song
“In 1964, I went with Richard to see Chuck Berry at the Astoria Finsbury Park, and on the bill were the Nashville Teens, then The Animals, then Moody Blues, Swinging Blue Jeans, then Chuck B,” explains Cornwell. We heard three recent number ones that night: Tobacco Road, House Of The Rising Sun and Go Now. My first ever rock concert, I was impressed”.
Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s was put together by former Stranglers and Big Country manager Ian Grant, who was motivated to begin the project, alongside music producer Paul Mitchell, in response to his own experience with Parkinson’s disease. Support has come from all over the music world, including Ozzy Osbourne and The Who‘s Pete Townshend.
“My interest in Parkinson’s arose because my beloved father-in-law Edwin Astley, composer, died in great distress of progressive supranuclear palsy which is loosely related to Parkinson’s,” The Who guitarist has said. “Then, a very close friend, James Morgan, another composer, revealed he has Parkinson’s. Since then. I have tried to help raise awareness around this awful illness, and the really terrible side effects of the large amount of necessary drugs every day, and the incredible pain they ameliorate. Many people don’t realise how much pain Parkinson’s can cause.”
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Ed Sheeran has shared a preview of a new song he’s recorded with Dave Grohl and John Mayer.
The collaboration between the three musicians, titled Drive,, will feature on the soundtrack to the forthcoming film F1, and will be released on June 27.
Sharing a snippet of the song on Instagram stories, Sheeran wrote, “Sneak peek of the song I did for the F1 movie. Mayer on guitar, Grohl on drums. A lot of fun making this, coming out next month with the movie x”.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, (Top Gun: Maverick), F1 stars Brad Pitt as veteran driver Sonny Hayes who returns to Formula 1, to mentor rookie Joshua Pearce(Damson Idris) for APXGP, a fictional team on the grid. The film was apparently shot during actual Grand Prix weekends. Seven-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton is credited as one of the film’s producers.
The film’s soundtrack isn’t exactly rock-heavy, but features new songs from artists such as BlackPink’s ROSÉ, Raye, country superstar Chris Stapleton, British-Nigerian rapper Darkoo and more.
The full tracklist is:
1. Don Toliver – Lose My Mind (feat. Doja Cat) 2. Dom Dolla – No Room for A Saint (feat. Nathan Nicholson) 3. Ed Sheeran – Drive 4. Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching 5. ROSÉ – Messy 6. Burna Boy – Don’t Let Me Drown 7. Roddy Ricch – Underdog 8. Raye – Grandma Calls The Boys Bad News 9. Chris Stapleton – Bad As I Used To Be 10. Myke Towers – Baja California 11. Tiësto & Sexyy Red – OMG! 12. Madison Beer – All At Once 13. Peggy Gou – D.A.N.C.E 14. PAWSA – Double C 15. Mr Eazi – Attention 16. Darkoo – Give Me Love 17. Obongjayar – Gasoline
Meanwhile, the wait for Ed Sheeran’s collaboration with Cradle of Filth continues. Speaking about the song last year, Dani Filth said, “People have heard it and loved it. But it is what you imagine – it’s Cradle Of Filth and it’s Ed Sheeran. It sounds like Ed Sheeran, it sounds like Cradle Of Filth. There’s a blast beat in it.”
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A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne’s private jet, played Angus Young’s Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.
The brand new issue of Prog Magazine is on sale now, celebrating the lgeacy of the late Yes bassist Chris Squire on the cover…
Squire, who died ten years ago in June, wasn’t just a fantastic musician, he really was a larger-than-life character. His sense of musical adventure went a long way to help make progressive rock such an enduring artform, but so did his wholehearted embracing of life itself. Many of his former band mates recall Squire with fondness and good humour while his prog peers have chosen his 30 greatest musical moments for you to enioy. And what a playlist that makes!
Elsewhere Robert Fripp and Andy Summers look back on the music they created together in the 1980s, now curated in one set with additional tracks, former Curved Air and Police drummer Stewart Copeland looks back over his fascinating career and Cosmic Cathedral, the new band featuring former Zappa and Genesis drummer Chester Thompson and Neal Morse reveal the secrets of their new Deep Water album.
Plus Cosmograf, Black Country, New Road, Glass Hammer, O.R.k., Held By Trees, Circu5 and Sally Potter bring us up to speed with their latest releases, we review Savatage’s comeback show with Opeth in Brazil as well as Solstice, Amplifer and Ghost Of The Machine and review the new Katatonia album.
There’s a great free sampler from Tigermoth Records and four lovely Chris Squire postcards too!
Inside Prog 160…
Cosmic Cathedral – Neal Morse hooks up with Chester Thompson and pals for a proper prog-fusion shindig.
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Andy Summers & Robert Fripp – two prog guitar gods discuss their collected works of the 80s.
Cosmograf – Robin Armstrong’s reliable prog vehicle returns with more musical adventures.
Prog Metal – a look at the current evolution the sub-genre is undergoing and the bands spearheading it right now, including Jinjer and Blood Incantation
Black Country, New Road – rocked by internal strife, the UK art-rock collective are back stronger than ever with new album, Forever Howlong.
Glass Hammer – prolific US proggers keep the concept albums coming with Rogue.
Held By Trees – the former Talk Talk acolytes spread their own musical wings with Hinterland.
O.R.k. – the multinational prog quartet pack a weighty punch with their latest, Firehose Of Falsehoods.
Sally Potter – filmmaker and sister of late VdGG bassist Nic, on her latest musical journey.
Stewart Copeland – former Curved Air, Police and Gizmodrome drummer Stewart Copeland and his amazing musical career!
Circu5 – mainman Steve Tilling on a prog world full of Hawkwind, Trevor Rabin, Jellyfish and Bucks Fizz!
Plus reviews of new releases and reissues by Katatonia, Gentle Giant, Kevin Ayers, Greenslade, AVKRVST, Peter Baumann, Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Cosmograf, Catherine Anne Davies, Steve Jansen, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, John Hackett Band, Heather Findlay, Red Bazar and loads more.
And this month we’ve seen gigs by Ghost Of The Machine, Savatage, John Lodge, Amplifier, Solstice, Nektar, Martin Barre, Geordie Greep, Penelope Trappes, Heilung and more…
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The Black Keys have confirmed that their 13th studio album, No Rain, No Flowers, will be released on August 8.
The duo also launched the title track from the follow-up to 2024’s Ohio Players. It’s available below, along with the complete track list. The album is available for pre-order now.
Its title may refer to Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s dramatic experiences of 2024, when they were force to abandon a badly organized tour and fired their management as a result. Carney later observed: “Shit happens, and you just have to move through it.”
They ollaborated with songwriters Rick Nowels, Daniel Tashian and Scott Storch on the 13-song collection.
“I had worked with Rick Nowels on Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence,” Auerbach said in a statement. “We’d never really collaborated with a keyboard player or someone who writes on piano the way he does, but it clicked immediately.”
Carney added: “We wanted to go straight to the source – into the room with people known for their songwriting. Daniel Tashian was one of the first people I met after moving to Nashville, and we’ve been fans of Scott Storch forever.”
The Black Keys will support the launch with an extensive run of tour dates, commencing on May 23 in Durant, OK and ending on Sept. 20 in Atlanta, GA, with stops across North America, Europe and the U.K. in between.
Hear the Black Keys Perform ‘No Rain, No Flowers’
The Black Keys – ‘No Rain, No Flowers’ Track List
1. “No Rain, No Flowers” 2. “The Night Before” 3. “Babygirl” 4. “Down to Nothing” 5. “On Repeat” 6. “Make You Mine” 7. “Man On A Mission” 8. “Kiss It” 9. “All My Life” 10. “A Little Too High” 11. “Neon Moon”
Top 25 Rock Albums of 2024
Once again, reports of the genre’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
Very few artists are lucky enough to record 14 studio albums. It’s even rarer for those records to actually be good, or dare to dream, great.
But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In 1978 the Rolling Stones rebounded from a relative mid-’70s creative slump with the sublime Some Girls, which found them not only keeping ahead of encroaching musical trends such as punk and disco but successfully incorporating them into their own unique sound. (Amazingly, the Stones have released 10 more studio albums since that time.)
While iconic bands such as Led Zeppelin and the Beatles only released nine and 12 albums respectively – based on the Fab Four’s UK discography – many other famous classic rock artists have managed to remain creatively vital after releasing more than a baker’s dozen records.
Of course, some of the genre’s most popular names stumbled rather badly at this stage of their career. You won’t find Sammy Hagar‘s Jimmy Buffett-aping Livin’ It Up or Kiss‘ Bon Jovi-imitating Crazy Nights below, although their later (and much better) albums are sure to show up on future editions of these annual lists.
You will find two haunting albums made by supremely talented artists – Queen‘s Freddie Mercury and Leonard Cohen – who worked through debilitating and imminently fatal illnesses to craft their final crowning creative statements.
You’ll also find dramatic rebirths, the last chapters of impressive creative eras and impressively expectation-defying labors of love on our list of Rock’s 20 Best 14th Albums, timed to celebrate Ultimate Classic Rock’s 14th birthday. Thanks for your support over the years, we’re eternally grateful!
Rock’s 20 Best 14th Albums
Not many bands get to make 14th albums. It’s even more rare for them to be great.
