The Mighty Bard stream brand new single Magician
UK prog rockers The Might Bard will release new album Beyond The Gate in October
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The Mighty Bard stream brand new single Magician
UK prog rockers The Might Bard will release new album Beyond The Gate in October
Tommy Lee plays first full set with Mötley Crüe since breaking his ribs
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee is finally fully back in action after breaking his ribs prior to the Stadium Tour
Watch a death metal choir terrify America's Got Talent judges with a demonic take on Britney Spears' Toxic
Simon Cowell hails Canada's Dremeka Choir for their "fantastically creepy" audition on America's Got Talent
Esthesis announce second album Watching Worlds Collide
Poll-winning French proggers Esthesis will release their second album Watching Worlds Collide in August
Jellyfish release video trailer for new vinyl box set
Jellyfish will release the seven disc vinyl box set When These Memories Fade in September
The Metallica vs Megadeth feud is reignited on TikTok as 'Kirk Hammett' takes on 'Marty Friedman' in epic guitar battle
Kyle Norris, the internet hero we've clearly been missing, dresses up as iconic rockstars and challenges himself to guitar battles: watch 'Kirk Hammett' and 'Marty Friedman' now
VLMV stream haunting new single The Navigator
UK Ambient post rockers VLMV will release new album Sing With Abandon in August
Metallica cancel show due to Covid
Metallica have been forced to cancel an imminent show in Switzerland due to a member of the camp contracting Covid
Stevie Nicks on Roe v. Wade repeal: "History is repeating itself… and it's even more frightening this time…"
Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks has issued a statement calling out the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning the law which gave women the right to have an abortion
Big Big Train announce Live At Loreley album
Big Big Train will release Summer Shall Not Fade - Live At Loreley in October
Watch Yungblud engage in a joyous water fight with fans in the video for Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today
Following on from his triumphant Glastonbury appearance, watch Yungblud cause mayhem in London with new single Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today
Whitesnake's European tour stumbles as David Coverdale falls ill
Whitesnake cancel shows after David Coverdale suffers sinus infection as Spanish promotor slams band for festival no-show
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Halestorm: the challenging journey that brought them Back From The Dead
Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger talk getting personal, the trouble with social media, and the difficult road to Halestorm's Back From The Dead album
Bill Ward has made a masterpiece and no one wants to release it
Bill Ward was an integral part of Black Sabbath and of heavy metal’s genesis. In conversation with Classic Rock, he reflects on his eventful life thus far and his piles of unreleased albums
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From mathcore digit-snappers to the Cayman Island resident working with Iggy Pop and Randy Blythe, this is the best new noise around right now
Oceans Of Slumber's Cammie Gilbert: "My dad was the choir director for a cult"
Oceans Of Slumber vocalist Cammie Gilbert talks capybaras, Black Lives Matter and run-ins with cults
Apple Music vs Amazon Music Unlimited: which is best for hard rocking Hi-Fi fans?
Apple Music is the doyen of streaming music, while Amazon Music Unlimited is the aggressive upstart - but which music streaming service is best for you?
How Änglagård, prog's most reclusive band, made third album Viljans Öga
Swedish proggers Änglagård have made just three albums since forming in 1991. 2012's Viljans Öga has been the most recent...
Yes, Benoit David and the making of Fly From Here
In 2011 Yes released their first album in a decade. But Fly From Here featured Canadian vocalist Benoit David, not Jon Anderson. Guess how the fans reacted?
Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
Happy Metal is a brilliant experiment that will have you hearing Metallica, Maiden and Megadeth like never before
"My hands were covered in blood": the violence and pain behind Slipknot's debut album
After Slipknot unleashed their debut album on an unsuspecting world on June 29, 1999, metal would never be the same again
8 years after the film, Spinal Tap appeared on US TV and were fantastic all over again
Appearing on Good Morning America in 1984, Nigel Tufnell, Derek Smalls and David St. Hubbins gave the audience a hilarious reminder of the greatness of Spinal Tap
Pamela Des Barres: my stories of Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and more
Pamela Des Barres on encounters with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and more
The 40 best rock albums of the year... so far
2022 has thrown up more great albums than any reasonable person would think possible, and this is the proof
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House Of Marley Redemption ANC 2 earbuds review
The latest product in House Of Marley’s growing range sees the audio firm take a step up
Yungblud’s Glastonbury set was another step to inevitable world domination
Doncaster’s most excitable rock star holds the world's biggest music festival in the palm of his hand
Elbow - Flying Dream 1: "rich with an honest warmth"
Not yet ratedElbow, Bury’s finest, test the waters of self-reinvention with ninth album, Flying Dream 1
Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill - Album Of The Week Club review
Steely Dan's Can't Buy A Thrill was the debut album from two of music's great smart-asses, or as one reviewer puts it, "Yacht rock captained by two cranky eggheads"
Alestorm's Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum: "all the joyless enthusiasm of a dog licking its balls"
Disgraced UK pirate metallers Alestorm prove the joke is wearing thin for seventh album, Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum
Zola Jesus - Arkhon: "a feast of many flavours"
Not yet ratedDarkwave vocalist delivers stunning sixth album.
Arthur Brown - Long Long Road: "one of music's true greats"
Not yet rated80th birthday celebration from the progressive 60s’ last great voice
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation: "another exceptional record"
Not yet ratedFriends reunited: modern prog icons make the decade’s most unexpected comeback, sounding the same… but different.
Porcupine Tree's gorgeous comeback album is an elegant and accomplished treasure
Closure/Continuation is the much delayed eleventh album from progressive figureheads Porcupine Tree
Songbird is not the Christine McVie collection she deserves
The solo side of Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie celebrated with a solid but flawed collection
Black Stone Cherry join the ranks of the Royal Albert Hall legends
Black Stone Cherry's Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’all is a momentary suspension of real life in favour of incendiary live performance
