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Review: Featuring as it does six discs of live recordings, Music Portrait is veritable feast for Depeche Mode fans. All of the material was originally recorded for radio broadcasts. Discs one and two feature what appears to be an almost complete 1998 concert featuring such perennial favourites as 'Policy of Truth', 'Personal Jesus', 'It's No Good' and 'Just Can't Get Enough' (a triumphant, sing-along conclusion all told), while CD three offers up 11 songs from a set recorded in 2005. The other three discs feature recordings of solo outings from Dave Gahan, with big Depeche Mode hits being joined by personal favourites and deep cuts from the Basildon Band's 40-plus year career.

Review: Depeche Mode's Radio Transmission 2001 encapsulates the band's evolution and enduring influence on the electronic landscape. The album showcases their mastery of blending dark, brooding atmospheres with pulsating rhythms and haunting melodies. Depeche Mode's signature sound, characterised by introspective lyrics and innovative synth textures, is fully realised here in an album that, here pressed up on pink wax, contains the 'Hits Walking In My Shoes,' 'Enjoy The Silence' and many more that have more than stood the test of time.

Review: A genuine treat for goth-rock fans, here, as Laser Media presents a six-disc box set featuring live performances - all originally recorded for radio broadcasts - by arguably the genre's most famous and celebrated band, Leeds legends The Sisters of Mercy. It moves back and forth through the years, with the earliest recordings (featured on disc five) dating from 1981 - when they'd yet to fully define the "goth" sound - and the most recent 1991 (discs three and four). It's a good reflection of their live sound and career evolution, with fine renditions of singles and fan favourites being joined by deeper cuts and covers of such classics as 'Knocking On Heaven's Door', 'Gimme Shelter' and 'Jolene'.

Review: Slayer's album Mind Control was recorded for public radio broadcast in 1990. It was captured in 1994 in Brazil and finds the legendary trash metal kings right at the very top of their game and showing why they were unanimously regarded as one of the most mighty metal outfits ever. This limited edition blue vinyl version of the live album is packed with intense metal weaponry and includes serval of their most well known and loved hits such as 'Hell Awaits,' 'Mind Control,' 'Dead Skin Mask' and several others. An essential and raw collection from these guitar heroes.

Review: American alt-rock masters Tool still hold a dear place in the hearts of fans who loved them the first time around. The unique band released several now classics albums - often with quite large gaps in between. This vast six-CD collection, amusingly titled Box (just don't try and google Tool - Box for any further info because, if you are anything like us, you will get distracted by the brilliant array of storage options you're presented with) collects plenty of their most standout tunes from all across their fulsome discography. A great one for collectors that brings everything together in one place.