The Stranglers' founding drummer Jet Black dead at 84
The death of The Stranglers' drummer Jet Black has been confirmed by the band
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The death of The Stranglers' drummer Jet Black has been confirmed by the band
Ville Valo says working with Cradle Of Filth "was a special treat"
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Motley Crue and Def Leppard add American dates to their 2023 World Tour
With The Stadium Tour newly acknowledged as the eighth biggest tour of 2022, Motley Crue and Def Leppard announce a new batch of US shows for 2023
This mash-up of Metallica's One and Wham's Last Christmas is the anti-holiday anthem the world needs to hear
A mash-up of One and Wham's Last Christmas has gone viral on TikTok, but Metallica don't seem so sure about it
Liam Gallagher says Mick Jagger, Bono and Robert Plant wouldn't be able to headline Knebworth solo like he has, but "Freddie Mercury might"
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Anthrax pull Bloodstock 2023 appearance due to “logistical issues beyond our control”
Anthrax will no longer be performing at next summer's Bloodstock festival, but organisers have already announced their replacement
Watch Dave Mustaine's very first interview with Metallica back in March 1983
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Terry Draper to release new album Bread And Cirkus
Klaatu drummer Terry Draper will release his latest album Bread And Cirkus in January
Cosmograf replace Galahad at Prog For Peart
Next year's Prog For Peart Festival takes place the weekend of July 7 and 8
Judas Priest's manager says K.K. Downing "seemed a little bit nervous and almost out of his depth" in recent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance
Judas Priest's longtime manager has weighed in on the metal legends' recent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance
The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive 2022 celebration – with three free gifts!
The brand new issue of Metal Hammer is out now – and it comes with a Ghost badge set, a Stranger Things Hellfire Club patch and a 2023 calendar
Kiss fans are going nuts over this flirtatious Gene Simmons TV interview from 1978
The long-lost interview took place on the Toni Tennille show at the very height of Kissmania
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Every Porcupine Tree album ranked from worst to best
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Mother's Finest: "We were paving the way for things to happen in music but we didn’t know it"
Fronted by vocal powerhouse Joyce Kennedy, Mother’s Finest were simply too ahead of the game: black musicians playing rock. If they’d arrived a decade later they could have been huge
Massive wagons: "I can walk down the middle of Lancaster now without getting my head kicked in"
Dark times won’t stop chart-bothering Massive Wagons, and neither will the bullies, bigots and bent politicians skewered on new album Triggered!
Here are all the songs Iron Maiden have never played live
Iron Maiden have recorded 171 songs. 53 of them have yet to be played live
The story Cinderella's biggest hit – with a little help from Cozy Powell
Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone) came to frontman Tom Keifer on the way to the studio, and he still sings it to his wife today
Every Steely Dan album, ranked from worst to best
Steely Dan boffins Donald Fagen and Walter Becker brought jazz smarts and lyrical sophistication to rock, conjuring up brainiac music that sold millions
Chris Cornell and the most cringeworthy interview ever: "But it’s so loud!"
Watch Chris Cornell remain unflustered during an awkward interview about the weather, Soundgarden's "noise", and Jimi Hendrix
By the time Motörhead made Iron Fist they hated each other, and it showed
Iron Fist was the final album the Three Amigos line-up of Motörhead, and even Lemmy said it was "inferior to anything else we’ve ever done"
Watch The Cult's cheeky appeal to record labels at weird 1984 German TV appearance
The Cult's Ian Astbury adopts an 'If you don't ask, you don't get' approach while miming for German TV show Music Convoy
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The dark Metalhead is another highlight from British metal veterans Saxon's late-career purple patch
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 25th birthday remake of his second album is not a surprise party
This remake of blueser Kenny Wayne Shepherd's second album Trouble Is... might just stick too close to the original
Neil Young's Harvest: 50 years on, flawlessly imperfect from beginning to end
If you’re a Neil Young fan, you’ll want this: an expanded, 50th anniversary edition of the classic Harvest
As pummelling as 12 rounds with Tyson Fury: our first reaction to new Metallica single Lux Æterna
Metallica have surprised the world with a fast blast of speed metal that sounds straight from the Kill 'Em All era
Badfinger: No Dice - Album Of The Week Club review
Badfinger were besieged by Beatles comparisons and beset by bad business dealings, but perhaps No Dice's ultimate legacy is the hits it provided for others
Fleetwood Mac's Alternate Collection is insightful but lacks LA bells, whistles and cocaine pixie-dust
Once more into the archives for alternative takes on old Fleetwood Mac favourites
The Doors' Paris Blues: Is that all there is? Really?
Released as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event, Paris Blues features the last (apparently) unreleased studio recording by The Doors
Eric Burdon & War: a barrier-breaking collaboration from a trail-blazing era
This Record Store Day box set corrals Eric Burdon & War's three albums on multi-hued vinyl
Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything: an epic that's as swoony as it is cerebral
50th-anniversary Record Store Day box of peak Todd Rundgren album Something/Anything
The Grateful Dead thrive in a venue they never intended to play
A hefty Record Store Day hefty document from the Grateful Dead’s Europe ‘72 tour
