Here are the 12 biggest music stories of the week
Get up to speed with everything that’s been happening in the world of rock, metal and prog over the past seven days with our weekly news roundup
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Evanescence and HeadCount join forces for the Use My Voice campaign
Evanescence and HeadCount join forces for the Use My Voice initiative to urge Americans to check or update their voter registration status ahead of November's election
Sabaton share live video for The Attack Of The Dead Men
Sabaton continue to support their latest album The Great War with new video for The Attack Of The Dead Men
Listen to The Sword’s sludge-filled cover of Rush classic Working Man
Texan outfit The Sword get together remotely once again for their Conquest Of Quarantine sessions - this time to record their take on Rush’s 1974 track Working Man
Kjartan Sveinsson releases Volcano soundtrack
Former Sigur Rós member Kjartan Sveinsson releases second film soundtrack for Volcano
Experimental composer Roopam Garg launches Dark
Dark is the new ambient experimental guitar project from guitarist knows as The Surrealist
Circuline release video trailer for upcoming live release
New live album from US prog rockers Circuline captures the band live at ProgStock
Steve Hackett announces Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live
Steve Hackett will release Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith later this year - watch performance of Deja Vu
Watch Tame Impala’s trippy video for Is It True
Kevin Parker releases new Tame Impala video for The Slow Rush track Is It True
The Who Join Together for six-weeks of archive performances
The Who’s Join Together @ Home series will start this weekend with highlights from the band’s set at Shea Stadium, New York, in 1982
Unwound and Household Gods bassist Vern Rumsey dead at 47
Vern Rumsey’s Household Gods bandmate Conan Neutron confirms the news that the bassist has died
Tim Bowness releases haunting new video for Northern Rain
No-Man's Tim Bowness will release new Late Night Laments album in August
Robert Reed releases video cover of Chi Mai in tribute to Ennio Morricone
Robert Reed's reworking of Morricno's Chi Mai is released today
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Shavo Odadjian on his new band North Kingsley and the future of System Of A Down
EXCLUSVE! “My heart is in this because System is not working,” says SOAD bassist Shavo Odadjian of his new band North Kingsley
The wisdom of Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden's frontman on creativity, cancer and cocaine
Highlights from the feverish brain of Iron Maiden singer and polymath Bruce Dickinson
Johannes Eckerström’s track by track guide to Avatar’s new album Hunter Gatherer
How Swedish metal heroes Avatar made their darkest, angriest albums yet – and roped in Corey Taylor for the year’s most unlikely cameo
Watch Tallah tear nu-metal a new one on monstrously heavy new single Placenta
EXCLUSIVE Nu-core stars Tallah drop brand new single Placenta – and you can see it here first
The 10 best Elliott Smith songs, by the White Buffalo
The White Buffalo picks 10 moments of lyrical genius from the great Elliott Smith. "His lyrics were a gift that kept giving," he says
Joe Satriani interview: the soundtrack of my life
Guitar superstar Joe Satriani on the first gig he played, the most underrated band ever, and why you should give Greta Van Fleet a break
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water: inside Limp Bizkit’s obnoxious masterpiece
Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water sent nu metal supernova and changed everything for the band that made it – and not necessarily for the best
9 best budget turntables 2020: spin your vinyl records on our pick of sub-£300 decks
The best cheap record players from Rega, Pro-Ject, Audio-Technica, Sony, Lenco and more – including USB and Bluetooth turntables
Trivium’s Matt Heafy: “M Shadows saved my voice”
From metal’s need for unity to the joys of Tiger King, this is the world according to Trivium’s Matt Heafy
The Top 10 best albums of 1994
From Korn and Pantera to Emperor and NIN, this is the soundtrack to 12 crazy months
This blues rock version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy will make Joe Bonamassa consider a career change
A bluesy cover that's good enough to make Slash jealous and raise the ghost of Gary Moore
The new video by Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse is a trippy vision of lockdown bliss
TRIPPY! Bored? Let this slice of smooth-country-jazz-reggae and a promo filled with dolphins, buffalo and acid-fried wonder lift your spirits
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Theatrical metal kings Avatar take a turn for the darker on new album Hunter Gatherer
Avatar park the theatrics and for a circus of horrors on eighth album Hunter Gatherer
Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past
Pixies' classic third album Bossanova, now available in delicious red vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary
Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Now - a debut album re-sung and embellished
Joe Bonamassa’s debut album revisited and remastered on A New Day Now
Deep Purple's Whoosh!: confident, mature, and superb
And still they rise. With Bob Ezrin producing again on Whoosh!, Deep Purple have fun, stretch out and shine brighter
Selbst’s Relatos De Angustia: black metal anguish meets Jungian psychology
Epic black introspection from the heart of South America from Chile’s Selbst
Shadowy Portuguese cult Gaerea open up a thrilling new black metal front on new album Limbo
Gaerea’s new album establishes them as one of the newest visionaries in metal
Steve Von Till’s No Wilderness Deep Enough: gothic Americana for hardcore insomniacs
Not yet ratedNeurosis man Steve Von Till takes an existential walk on the wild side on new solo album No Wilderness Deep Enough
Dee Snider’s For The Love Of Metal – Live: rock’n’roll’s greatest ringmaster in untouchable form
Twisted Sister legend Dee Snider shows the kids how it’s done on new album For The Love Of Metal Live – and throws in an AC/DC cover too
Zombi’s 2020 is the soundtrack to the greatest sci-fi movie never made
Proto-synthwave wizards Zombi return after five year absence and strike cinematic gold with 2020
Septicflesh’s Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX: orchestral death metal gets its own S&M2
Epic death metallers Septicflesh get the orchestral treatment on new live album Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX
Primal Fear’s Metal Commando: the power metal Jedi Masters return
Power metal warhorses Primal Fear show their class on lucky thirteenth album Metal Commando