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Revisiting the best concert recordings from 1972, the year that solidified the live album as an art form.

Revisiting the best concert recordings from 1972, the year that solidified the live album as an art form.

Revisiting the best concert recordings from 1972, the year that solidified the live album as an art form.

Catch up on this weeks eclectic range of guitar-heavy offerings from Jason Richardson & Tim Henson, Orville Peck, Snail Mail, Animals As Leaders, Amon Amarth, Tomberlin, and more

Revisiting the best concert recordings from 1972, the year that solidified the live album as an art form.

Revisiting the best concert recordings from 1972, the year that solidified the live album as an art form.

It might not be as glamorous nor epic as bloodthirsty berserkers or raging thunder gods, but as anyone who has attended an Amon Amarth concert will attest, a vigorous row is as crucial to Vikings as epic battles and gallons of mead. After all, how else are they supposed to go about their daily pillaging?That in mind, Amon Amarth's new single Put Your Back Into The Oar is an ode to the mighty Viking row, but also to the legions of fans who row their way through the band's all-co...

Mader on his reunion with Machine Heads original lineup, love of amp modelers, and recruiting Robb Flynn for a guest spot on Once Humans new album, Scar Weaver

Anecdotally speaking, 1977 is usually accepted as ground zero for punk rock. It was the year the genre truly exploded as it achieved mainstream notoriety and the likes of The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Damned each released their debut albums, kickstarting a youth movement that saw bands burst into life just about anywhere there were kids to form them. Conversely, by 1980 the genre had been declared dead; the media had moved on, the genres of post-punk and new wave had mutated away from its sourc...

Prog drummer says metal "started to go downhill" once grunge came around