Welcome to the final issue of 2020. What a year it’s been, eh? When I was writing a similar editorial this time 12 months ago there was no way I (or anyone else for that matter!) could have predicted how 2020 would pan out. It’s the understatement of the century to say that it’s thrown everyone for a loop. Over the page we turn the spotlight on that in relation to the world of rock. But the more things change, the more things stay the same (thankfully). So it’s time for our annual look at what went down in rock over the past 12 months – the new albums and songs that got us excited, the reissues that put the spotlight on old favourites, and much more. We caught up with rock’s prime movers and shakers: Brian and Angus from ’DC on their incredible return; Lars Ulrich tells us how he’s spent the year in lockdown (and we eavesdropped on a conversation between him and Diamond Head’s Brian Tatler); we talked to Fish about retirement, grabbed Massive Wagons to tell us about making the UK Top 10, and more.