New Years Day are back with a bang(er): watch the video for Hurts Like Hell
Ash Costello says New Years Day's new single is "an acceptance and celebration of my relationship with chaos."
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New Years Day are back with a bang(er): watch the video for Hurts Like Hell
Ash Costello says New Years Day's new single is "an acceptance and celebration of my relationship with chaos."
Alice In Chains are releasing just 3000 copies of their 30th anniversary Dirt box set and we'll fight you for one
Grunge giants Alice In Chains announce special 30th anniversary limited edition Dirt box set
Listen to fierce Enter Shikari / Wargasm collaboration The Void Stares Back
Enter Shikari team up with Wargasm for hard-hitting collaborative single The Void Stares Back
Megadeth and Killswitch Engage to headline Bloodstock 2023
As day one of Bloodstock 2022 draws to a climax, two of 2023's headliners have been revealed
Machine Head just played a secret set at this year’s Bloodstock festival
A three-piece Machine Head surprised the UK’s Bloodstock festival with a secret mid-afternoon set in a packed tent
Tommy Lee has put his todger away long enough to appear in new movie The Retaliators
Members of Motley Crue, Ice Nine Kills and Asking Alexandria team up for 21 Bullets, the theme to new horror/thriller The Retaliators
Alice In Chains have just dropped a deathcore-style T-shirt and we want it
Grunge icons Alice In Chains get their deathcore on with an unexpected spiky logo T-shirt
Megadeth’s killer new song Soldier On! is the soundtrack to the world marching into the mouth of hell
Megadeth drop the latest new track from upcoming album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
ZIO return with video for brand new single Close
UK-based prog rockers ZIO will release a new album later this year
Joey Valence and Brae share new single Watch Yo Step to fill that Beastie Boys-shaped hole in your heart
Pennsylvania hip-hop duo Joey Valence and Brae follow up July's irresistible Startafight single with Watch Yo Step
Watch Rush duo Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson play Closer To The Heart with Primus and the creators of South Park
Primus had a nice surprise for South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone when they brought out a couple of pals to perform at the South Park 25th anniversary shows last weekend
O.R.k. release teaser video for new album Screamnasium
Prog supergroup O.R.k. – featuring Colin Edwin and Pat Mastelotto - will release new album Screamnasium in October
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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
Megadeth, New Years Day, Delain, Avantasia and more - these are the 10 best new metal songs this week. Plus: vote for your favourite!
Remember when Tommy Lee teamed up with Fred Durst and Lil Kim for the most obscene nu metal song ever?
"Seventy seven million dollars made from watching me c** under the sun"
5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
Arch Enemy, Hollywood Undead, Norma Jean and more – these are the killer new metal albums that have dropped this week
Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best
Twelve songs, 53 cover versions - we rank all the tracks on Metallica’s epic Blacklist covers album in order of greatness
Riots! Pornography! Torture! The strange secrets of Metallica’s Black Album
There's so much more to Metallica's best-selling Black Album than meets the eye. Here's 20 strange things you might now know
Alice Cooper: my stories of Lemmy, Raquel Welch, Pink Floyd and more
Alice Cooper got drunk with Jim Morrison, auditioned for Frank Zappa, made a movie with Mae West and pointed a loaded gun at Elvis Presley. These are his stories
Johnny Cash may not have shot a man in Reno but he murdered someone on Columbo
Just one more thing... The story of the time Johnny Cash played country-gospel singing murderer Tommy Brown on Columbo, taking the Man In Black places he'd never been before.
Maddy Prior: "We toured with Tull in front of 18,000 people. I was terrified!"
The Steeleye Span frontwoman reflects on a life in music from the folk clubs of St Albans to working with David Bowie
Mike Patton: "Prog? I've been called worse..."
No one's really suggesting Mike Patton's a cape-wearing prog rocker. But he admits that with some of his musical ventures, he does come close...
The Pineapple Thief and Your Wilderness.: "All this is worth it!"
Bruce Soord tells how he overcame extreme stage fright to push The Pineapple Thief onwards to album number 11
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The Faust Tapes: just as disorientating now as it ever was
A 2022 reissue for the cut-price 1973 classic from Hamburg renegades Faust. Pop it certainly ain’t
Goo Goo Dolls have not run out of stuff to sing about yet
Iris hitmakers Goo Goo Dolls are still dizzying up the girl on Chaos In Bloom
Arch Enemy: blurring the line between turbo-thrash avant-punk extremism and Eurovision
Serious death metal Swedes Arch Enemy indulge their symphonic Eurovision side on 11th album Deceivers
Osees have mutated again and this time it's explosive punk rock
Album of high velocity punk from Californian name-changers Osees obliterates all before it
Norma Jean’s Deathrattle Sing For Me: pure anguished poetry from metalcore lifers
Album review: metalcore vets Norma Jean step out of their comfort zone on new album Deathrattle Sing For Me
Hollywood Undead’s Hotel Kalifornia: rap-metal party starters get serious
Album review: rap-rockers Hollywood Undead fight the trials of modern life on new album Hotel Kalifornia
The Halo Effect’s Days Of The Lost: melodeath all-stars salute the Gothenburg Sound on debut album
Album review: ex-In Flames members assemble to relive the old days on The Halo Effect’s debut album Days Of The Lost
Joe Walsh: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get - Album Of The Week Club review
Credited to Joe Walsh, Barnstorm's second album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get was their last before Walsh jumped ship fly solo
Prey review: Predator prequel doesn't quite do enough to rescue the franchise
While Prey's intentions are honourable, it's a prequel that spins its wheels too much to leave a lasting impact
Tim Bowness - Butterfly Mind: "full of invention, scope and ambition"
Not yet ratedGold standard art-pop.
H.e.a.t.: an unbreakable brotherhood grounded in noise, beers and shampoo
The classics never go out of style for old-school Swedish crew H.e.a.t. on seventh album Force Majeure
