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Chemical Brothers

On the JB Stereo

MIDDLE AGE RAVE! The pioneering dance acts of the '90s are just getting better with age.

Joy Williams Venus

Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury Ex Machina OST Like A Storm Awaken The Fire

younger clubbers to the ground-breaking beats of their earlier works. On the flip side, metal has always been a genre which has favoured the veterans. This year, we've already seen great comebacks from the likes of Faith No More, Muse and The Darkness. And in September, it’s going to get a whole lot better, with new records due from Iron Maiden, and also Slayer. Repentless is the speed metal mavens' 11th studio set and was

D ance music is

usually seen as a young person’s

game – but with club culture now in its third decade, some of the genre’s most famous practitioners are proving that age is no barrier when it comes to making innovative grooves. This month sees the release of a terrific new album from dance veterans the Chemical Brothers (see the review on page 46), the latest in a number of iconic ‘90s acts back with a

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8.58

Joy Division Closer

Refused Freedom

Soak Before We Forgot How To Dream Son Lux Bones

Sleaford Mods

produced by hard rock maestro Terry Date, whose credits include Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, Slipknot, Korn and Bring Me The Horizon. The album’s title track is the first single and is a tribute to Slayer founding member Jeff Hanneman, who died in 2013. Meanwhile, The Book Of Souls is British legends Iron Maiden’s first ever studio double album, recorded in Paris with their longstanding producer Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley in late 2014. With the songwriting credits shared among the entire band, it’s shaping up to be one of the metal events of the year. And with Eagles Of Death Metal also surfacing with some new material, the second half of 2015 should be just as good as the first for hard rock aficionados. JB LIstener

vengeance this year. Last month, saw the return of another pioneering UK act Leftfield, while earlier in the year, we saw new albums from Prodigy and former Orbital man Paul Hartnoll, who now works under the moniker 8.58. Incidentally, as you can see below, newcomers Sleaford Mods – who guest on both the Prodigy and Leftfield albums – are not exactly spring chickens either (OK they are hardly your typical dance outfit either, but we can’t wait for their new album, which is due next month). And let’s not forget that Aphex Twin’s triumphant comeback Syro was one of the critical smashes of 2014’, or that Underworld’s Karl Hyde last year issued two new albums with Brian Eno. It’s good to see that these now middle-age ravers are still going strong; let’s just hope their new works also reawaken

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