Ace is back, and when you get hit with the attack of his strident new record Anomaly, you’ll realize that his couple of decades away from his solo career in earnest did not constitute time wasted. Sure, Ace has been wasted more times than Def Leppard has deferred to song doctors, but now clean and sober, he’s found himself making strong stadium-rock statements sure to trade punches with those on the Kiss album arriving in October. ►