John Mitchell announces An Evening With European dates
John Mitchell's plays 'An Evening With - Songs And Stories Live And Acoustic 2023' live dates in November and December
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John Mitchell's plays 'An Evening With - Songs And Stories Live And Acoustic 2023' live dates in November and December
Rainburn announce new studio album Vignettes
Indian prog rockers Rainburn will release their second album Vignettes in November
Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden launch new Veeps service All Access
Artists including Metallica, Slipknot, Aerosmith, Def Leppard and the Rolling Stones are among the artists on the new live and on-demand subscription service
Nixon pay tribute to Tupac with limited edition watch collection
After collaborations with Metallica, the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead, Nixon share details of their five-watch 2PAC range
"Mentally we could do this for another 20 years": Lars Ulrich looks ahead to the "awe-inspiring" Power Trip festival, and Metallica's future
Metallica's Lars Ulrich is looking forward to some sweet hangs with friends and heroes at the Power Trip festival this weekend
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to headline Wide Awake 2024
Melbourne pysch-rock kings King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard will play Brockwell Park on May 25
Dave Kerzner teases new solo abum with six track EP release
US prog rocker Dave Kerzner will release new solo album Heart Land Mines Vol. 1 in October
“We’d got him doing what we’d usually get a stunt man to do!" Superglue, a rigged car and racist skinheads: how Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington became the star of one of Saw's most brutal scenes
Chester Bennington's appearance in the Saw franchise might have been brief, but it was definitely memorable
If These Trees Could Talk to headline Portals Festival in first ever UK appearance
Portals Festival 2024 takes place at EartH in Hackney on May 25-26
Jo Quail and Jon Gomm announce joint UK tour for December and January
Cellist Jo Quail and acoustic guitarist Jon Gomm take their Parallel Worlds tour in the road late this year
"Found her!!! THANK GOD!!!" Disturbed's David Draiman has been reunited with his missing puppy Charlotte
David Draiman shares puppy love after locating his missing golden retriever Charlotte
"Meat Loaf was really pissed off with Jim Steinman giving me Total Eclipse Of The Heart. He said, That song was meant for me!": Bonnie Tyler on the world's favourite 'vampire love song'
With over 1 billion plays on YouTube alone, Total Eclipse Of The Heart is one of the world's most popular power ballads: no wonder Meat Loaf was annoyed at not getting to sing it
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“Signature absurdities, from a local criminal to sentient grease, neglect all pop sensibilities”: The prog nature of Everything Everything’s Re-Animator
Manchester band’s 2020 album demonstrated they’d never really lived inside the indie rock community
“It was so terrible that they couldn’t even finish it.” The story of the band who made the worst metal album ever – on purpose
New England metalcore band Drowningman wanted out of a horrible record deal. So, they deliberately made the worst music they could – and they got Converge and Cave In to help.
10 metal cover songs that are unforgivably bad
From nu metal favourites like Korn and Spineshank to heavy metal icons like Megadeth and Machine Head, these are some of the covers that should have never seen the light of day
“We’d been working on it for two weeks… Mike Oldfield had wiped it. There was no undo button. I was in shock. It was the only time it’s ever happened to me in 40 years”: Trevor Horn’s lows and highs
Known as ‘the man who invented the 80s,’ producer and musician always enjoyed sneaking prog into the mainstream
10 heavy metal bands that took incredibly long to release a new album
Sometimes waiting three years for a new album is torturous enough – so imagine how fans of Guns ’N’ Roses, Black Sabbath and At The Gates have felt
"Had somebody predicted we would still be around 45 years later, I’d have told ’em they were stupid:" how Girlschool silenced the doubters, including themselves
Coming to prominence when “Girls can’t play rock” prevailed, Girlschool have long since proved otherwise
In 1979 Fleetwood Mac hired a 112-piece marching band to enliven a song they were working on: it was the start of a long and beautiful relationship
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, and the Greatest Marching Band in the History of the Universe
“Once you understand them, and have felt them in your heart, you will struggle to find anything that will ever come so close”: Mike Vennart introduces The Cardiacs
Biffy Clyro and Empire State Bastard guitarist Mike Vennart lists his top 10 songs from the late Tim Smith’s catalogue
“An unmitigated disaster which defrauded consumers.” When Guns ’N’ Roses (almost) went to war with Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper promised a free can of their drink to everyone in America if Guns ’N’ Roses released Chinese Democracy in 2008. When the much-delayed album actually came out that year, the giveaway went south and lawyers got mad.
The best metal albums of 2023 so far
Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Sleep Token, Code Orange and Tesseract are amongst the best metal albums of the year to date
“Millions are in love with Metallica and Black Sabbath. I just thought they were great jokes”: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was never a heavy metal fan, but he does have a soft spot for AC/DC
The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards: great guitarist, brutal critic
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The Weight Of The Mask is both the prettiest and bleakest Svalbard have sounded to date - and it's a stunning monument to the human experience
Svalbard's incredible new album unwraps further layers of beauty and pain
"When Ashley Holt screams, doesn't it sound like Gillan?": Warhorse by Warhorse - Album Of The Week Club review
After being sacked By Deep Purple, bassist Nick Simper took up with Marsha Hunt’s backing band and gradually turned them into a hard-rockin' force
“Imbued with otherness… steeped in drama and grandeur, but it feels tethered to a very specific point on the earth”: Haunt The Woods’ Ubiquity
Quartet’s second album shapeshifts among its folk, prog and alt rock influences
“Hearing each concert side by side demonstrates just how well rehearsed the presentation was, while allowing for individual improvisation”: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Box Set
Complete with the previously unreleased third concert recording, 11-disc collection goes beyond the wildest dreams of even the most avid Hawkfan
The Black Sabbath ballet shows Sabbath are still pushing heavy metal into unchartered territories after half a century
Black Sabbath - The Ballet isn't just a meeting of worlds, it's a celebration of one of metal's most iconic groups
Graveyard's 6: inward-looking and melancholy, but a masterclass in psychedelic light and shade
More psychedelic raves from the grave on Graveyard's enticingly titled sixth album 6
"All grinding desperation and lank-haired perspiration": the new album by KK's Priest confirms that they're not a viable alternative to the real thing
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In Screamin' At The Sky, Black Stone Cherry have made the album where they remind us why we fell for them in the first place
On Screamin’ At The Sky, album number eight, Black Stone Cherry’s formula remains reassuringly simple: songs that pack a ferocious punch
"I'll fight you till I win": Kae Tempest, Heartworms and Viji steal the show at Speedy Wunderground's thrilling 10th anniversary celebrations
Cutting edge London record label Speedy Wunderground serves up fascinating state-of-the-indie-nation snapshots at 10th birthday bash
EarLabs dBud review
I take a look at the EarLabs dBud to see if these premium ear plugs can keep the noise down while maintaining quality audio
Blood Command's World Domination: 20 tracks, almost half being a minute long or less, yet one of the most exciting, unique, genre-bending metal albums you'll hear this year
Norway's Blood Command might be reliably brilliant, but new album World Domination is as unpredictably genre-smashing as ever
