Here are the 11 biggest news stories of the week
It’s been another busy week in the world of rock, metal and prog – here are some of the biggest news stories
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Venom Prison team up with The Hundreds for new streetwear range
Venom Prison reveal “unholy collaboration” with streetwear brand The Hundreds - t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts now available
Don Dokken has recorded a Celine Dion cover
The Dokken leader reports that he’s recorded a trio of covers - including Celine Dion’s Titanic anthem My Heart Will Go On
Listen to new Tame Impala's shimmering new single Patience
Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala release stream of the new single Patience - as run of live shows are confirmed
Listen to Motley Crue’s new tracks Ride With The Devil and Crash And Burn
Both songs feature on the soundtrack to the Crue’s biopic The Dirt - out today to coincide with the launch of the film on Netflix
Phil Collins announces Still Not Dead Yet Live! US tour
Following his live shows in Europe later this year, Phil Collins will play a total of 15 dates in the US
Nikki Sixx: I’m 100% behind the #MeToo movement
Motley Crue bassist says he stands firmly behind the #MeToo movement - and reveals what he wants people to take away with them after watching The Dirt
Gene Simmons is “continually astonished” by how fans react at rainy English festivals
Kiss star says the differences between how European audiences react compared to those in California is night and day
Alan Parsons shares video for his new track I Can’t Get There From Here
I Can’t Get There From Here features guest vocals from Jared Mahone - video footage taken from the film 5-25-77
Rendezvous Point premiere new video for Apollo with Prog
Leprous man's side project will release second album Universal Chaos in May...
Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz join Mark Morton onstage in Montreal
Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz hooks up with Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton for performance of Truth Is Dead
Motley Crue and The Who classics star in trailer for Netflix's Stranger Things 3
Watch trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s hit sci-fi series Stranger Things featuring tracks by Motley Crue and The Who
John Mitchell's Lonely Robot share video for Ancient Ascendant
Lonely Robot launch video for Ancient Ascendant - the first material taken from the new album Under Stars
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Cosmograf cook up a tasty Hay Man's Bream for the readers...
Supper's Ready with Cosmograf mainman Robin Armstrong...
Eddie Van Halen – the long lost interview
Before Eddie Van Halen became a musical Goliath and a template for other musicians, writer Steven Rosen interviewed their young guitarist
The Rise Of Lenny Kravitz
The record industry claimed he "wasn't black enough or white enough" to become famous - this is how the funk-rock superstar proved them wrong.
“I’m a Bit of an Awkward Bastard”: an interview with Gang Of Four's Andy Gill
Content includes: fighting nazis, his love of Free, why the Chili Peppers gave him a shit in a pizza box and even some stuff about music...
10 reasons why The Analogues are the best Beatles tribute act you'll ever see
They don't look like The Beatles. They don't dress like The Beatles. They're Dutch. There's five of them. But they sound exactly like the real thing
How to buy the very best of ZZ Top
The hirsute Texan rockers have an extensive track record – here we pick out the ZZ Top records essential for any collection
The story of Toxicity: How System Of A Down’s chart-smashing juggernaut came to life
Toxicity was supposed to be System Of A Down’s greatest triumph. Yet its release was also dogged by riots, media attacks and a daft association with the 9/11 attacks that’d change everything
The harsh reality of being a metal band from India
Demonstealer, frontman of Indian metal band Demonic Resurrection, reveals the reality of trying to make it in a country where heavy music struggles to be heard
Coven, blood oaths and the real story of how heavy metal was born
Devil horns, hailing Satan, a song called Black Sabbath. No, it’s not a metal highlight reel: they were all found on Coven's unsung classic from 1969
Here's what happens when you stick 5,000 metalheads on a ship in the Bahamas
We set sail on the 70,000 Tonnes Of Metal Cruise
Finland's melodic metallers Oceanhoarse get up close to the endtimes
Premiere Watch Oceanhoarse's new video for the epic new track, Death Row Center
The Top 10 most underrated Judas Priest songs
The British band have written some of the great heavy metal anthems. But these are the connoisseur’s choices
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Francis Rossi & Hannah Rickard: We Talk Too Much album review
After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?
Venom Prison’s demonic Samsara album is a twisted modern death metal classic
Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album
Mystifier’s first album in 18 years is cult Brazilian metal at its best
Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia
Children Of Bodom’s blackened Hexed album is the sound of a band back on track
Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed
Twin Temple’s debut album is the sound of Amy Winehouse worshipping Satan
Luciferian odes find their calling in music’s golden age on Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop)
LoG guitarist Mark Morton’s Anesthetic album is an all-star show of force and soul
Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything album review
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl
Queensrÿche's The Verdict has all their hallmarks of their early classics
Heavy and progressive, it’s business as usual for Queensrÿche on The Verdict
While She Sleeps’ provocative new album So What? is the sound of genres being mashed
Sheffield’s ever-evolving punk metallers jump off the deep end
Candlemass’ new album The Door To Doom is a masterclass in epic metal
Doom metal pioneers Candlemass enlist Tony Iommi and their original singer on stellar new album
Dream Theater's Distance Over Time is more rock than prog
14th Dream Theater studio album Distance Over Time finds the band veering delightfully off-course
