Not all heroes wear capes. Some drink juice and skateboard while singing Fleetwood Mac
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some drink juice and skateboard while singing Fleetwood Mac
TikTok user doggface208 sets the internet on fire with the carefree video 2020 needs
Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra bolster ArcTanGent 2021 line-up
Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra head up the Friday night entertainment at ArcTanGent 2021
Gigs might not resume until at least April, top UK live promoter warns
Kilimanjaro Live boss Stuart Galbraith targets April 8 for the full resumption of live shows
James LaBrie announces he's working on a new solo album
Dream Theater singer James LaBrie is working on first new solo album for seven years
Hear Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s ferocious unreleased demos for Reign In Blood
Jeff Hanneman’s instrumental demos for Reign In Blood offer new perspectives on a thrash metal masterpiece
Bill Bailey returns to UK arenas in December 2021
Bill Bailey will tour his new En Route To Normal show in December 2021
AC/DC teaser ads appear in local UK newspapers
PWR⚡️UP advertisements appear in newspapers across the UK as whatever AC/DC are doing gains traction
Linkin Park recall ‘crying for joy’ hearing Chester Bennington’s voice for the first time
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson recall their first impressions of future bandmate Chester Bennington
Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases solo single
Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases theme title song from new BBC drama Life
Cult Of Luna, Alcest, Mono and A.A. Williams to play ArcTanGent 2021
Sweden’s Cult Of Luna will headline the opening night of the 2021 ArcTanGent festival
Goat Girl announce new album, address disillusionment on Sad Cowboy single
Goat Girl premiere Sad Cowboy as preview of new album On All Fours
Daily prog show launches on Internet Radio station Radio Albatross
Games Without Frontiers show will be repeated twice daily "exploring the broad canvas of the progressive music and art rock world"
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10 times an artist covered someone else's album, from the fantastic to the foolish
It's not always great news when a band covers someone else's album in its entirety, but we're not complaining when the results are this enthralling
Vote for the greatest thrash metal album ever
Metallica, Slayer, Lawnmower Deth – have your say as we decide the greatest thrash album of them all
Here's everything we know about the new AC/DC album so far
A new AC/DC album is almost certainly on the way, so we've separated fact from fiction, rumour from reality
10 metal bands who deserve way more love than they get
Crossover thrash kingpins Plague Years give a shout out to the underground bands you need in your life
Why I Love Meshuggah’s Chaosphere, by Carpenter Brut
Synthwave kingpin Carpenter Brut celebrates the gold standard of 90s tech metal
Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding: 10 albums that changed my life
The Mighty Boosh and Great British Bake Off star Noel Fielding loves Motörhead, hates Coldplay
Steve Hackett: the soundtrack of my life
Prog-god guitarist Steve Hackett picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the song he's cavorted to
The story behind the song: Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water
Smoke On The Water has the most well-worn back story in all of rock, but there's no denying the Deep Purple classic's place in the pantheon of greats
"It’ll probably piss Doctor Who fans off" Rob Reed comes clean about that theme tune
We find out what really happened when Magenta's Rob Reed and Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman got to grips with the Doctor Who title track
The Top 10 best horror video games
Max Portnoy of nu-core stars Tallah chooses the greatest horror games ever to hit the screen
Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Blood, Starbenders and more
Eight newly formed stars in rock's magnificent constellation
How Carcass twisted grindcore into repulsive new shapes on Symphonies Of Sickness
With their second album Symphonies Of Sickness, Carcass put grindcore through the mincer – and made an underground metal classic
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Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
Prog-metal kings Enslaved soar as high as ever on 14th album Utgard
Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters
Barcelona voyagers Obsidian Kingdom venture into unexplored territories on new album Meat Machine
John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
Tallah’s Matriphagy: the sound of nu metal being reinvented for 2020
Philadelphia nu-core heroes Tallah ramp up the twisted, sadistic sounds on their debut album Matriphagy
John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity review
Not yet ratedDream Theater man John Petrucci shows his range on belated second solo album
Amaranthe’s Manifest: rippling riffs meet gleaming razzmatazz on genre-mashing new album
Power metal, pop, EDM – Amaranthe leave no genre unturned on new album Manifest
Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Fish - Weltschmerz review
Not yet ratedTime gentlemen, please: prog’s great warrior-poet Fish bows out with a career-capping masterpiece
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
