A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
When The Cure performed A Forest on Dutch TV on July 3, 1980, a bored-looking Robert Smith could barely be bothered...
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A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
When The Cure performed A Forest on Dutch TV on July 3, 1980, a bored-looking Robert Smith could barely be bothered...
Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases the theatrical and uplifting ballad Storm
Nightwish frontman Floor Jansen releases the elevating, pop-style new track Storm
Billy Howerdel releases video for brand new single Selfish Hearts
A Perfect Circle's Billy Howerdel will release his debut solo album What Normal Was in June
Acolyte release unplugged video for Resilience
Australian prog rockers Acolyte will release unplugged and orchestral Recovery EP in July
Bullet For My Valentine's new single Stitches is a brutal sucker punch to the face
Bullet For My Valentine unleash seething new single Stiches and share details of their 2023 UK tour
Metalheads are circle-pitting in swimming pools at Bring Me The Horizon's festival in Malta
Bring Me The Horizon's weekend festival kicks off with a splash. Check out the band previewing new song Strangers
It's over! Kiss reach the end of the road: the full story - only in the new Classic Rock
Also in this issue: Robin Trower, Graham Nash, Church Of The Cosmic Skull, The Sheepdogs, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Jones, Simon McBride, Ghost and more
Tim Bowness to reschedule London live dates to August
Tim Bowness recently moved the release of his upcoming album Butterfly Mind back to August
Bill Bruford stars on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, on sale now!
Plus Asia, Jean-Luc Ponty, Klaus Schulze, Pure Reason Revolution, Porcupine Tree, Big Big Train and more...
Gene Simmons says Donald Trump allowed racism and conspiracy theories to get "out in the open"
Kiss legend Gene Simmons remains unimpressed with Donald Trump's legacy as US President
Starbenders acclaim the dignity of pain on euphoric new single If You Need It
If You Need It is "a metallic clash between feathers and switchblades" says Starbenders singer Kimi Shelter
Musicians take to social media to pay tribute to Yes drummer Alan White
Jon Anderson, Carl Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Mike Portnoy, Yoko Ono, Questlove and many more have paid tribute to Yes drummer Alan White, who has died at the age of 72
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Rob Halford: “Metallica were very beautiful guys, just like we all are in metal”
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford on his decades-long love affair with Metallica and their music
"I was out of my gourd": David Bowie duetting (and flirting) with Cher might be the most 70s thing you'll ever see
In 1975, Bowie joined Cher on her new TV show. The result was a flirty, coke-fuelled cheesefest that would end most careers
How two extreme metal legends helped bring the year’s wildest TV crime show to the screen
Netflix show Clark tells the story of a 70s bank robber – and it’s brought to you by Bathory drummer-turned-director Jonas Akerlund and Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
From Rammstein to Trollfest, Floor Jansen and BFMV, these are the week’s best new metal tracks. Plus: vote for your favourite!
“This is a brutalising relationship”: the secrets of Rammstein’s Zeit revealed
Going deep into Rammstein’s brand new album Zeit
Vote for the best metal album of the year so far
Ghost? Rammstein? Wolfbastard? It’s your chance to vote for the best album of 2022 so far
Alan White: 10 Yes performances that show he was a cut above
Yes drummer Alan White died last night, May 26, at the age of 72. Here's are ten reminders of his prodigious talent
The Story Behind The Song: Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole
How Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole turned Trent Reznor into the dark prince of 90s alt-metal
10 metal bassists who can kill it way better than any guitar shredder
Soreption’s Rickard Persson picks the four-string gods who are taking bass playing to the next level
"Let's swap pants!" - What happened when Led Zeppelin met Elvis
Musical giants Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley encountered each other three times - this is what happened, told by those who were there
Why I ❤️ John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, by Eels frontman E
Enigmatic Eels frontman E reckons John Lennon was at his best when he dispensed with the hippy stuff, as on the “timeless” album Plastic Ono Band
Ginger Wildheart: music is the only time I feel like me
Wildhearts frontman Ginger Wildheart – the man the Manics call “the great lost English songwriter” – on that band, working outside of the mainstream and why music really is the best medicine
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Bleed From Within’s Shrine: Scottish ragers deliver a groove-metal wrecking ball
Album review: Bleed From Within offer muscle, class and righteous enthusiasm on new album Shrine
Kreator’s Hate Uber Alles: spite and triumph from Germany’s undying kings of thrash
Album review: age cannot wither Teutonic thrash titans Kreator, as fearsome new album Hate Über Alles proves
Fifty years on, the cheesecloth and flares that shunned glam get another outing
Blowing Free: Underground & Progressive Sounds Of 1972 mines gems from Yes, ELP, Nektar, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Thin Lizzy and many more
Jade Warrior's second album is visionary, pan-ethnic, and worthy of restoration
Half a century on, British prog rockers Jade's second album Released and been re-released
Steve Earle & The Dukes are ragged and true on Jerry Jeff Walker tribute
Songwriter and survivor Steve Earle pays dues to departed outlaw Jerry Jeff Walker
Raven's expanded Rock Until You Drop: energetic proof that 'athletic rock' should have been huge
The flying start of NWOBHM might-have-beens Raven lauded with four disc version of Rock Until You Drop
Another Sex Pistols compilation, another exercise in commercial cynicism
Looking for the ultimate Sex Pistols collection? You’d be better off ignoring The Original Recordings and buying Bollocks
Michael Schenker still scintillates but the songs are overwrought
Rock bottom? Well, almost, as Michael Schenker goes a bit Eurovision on Universal
Liam Gallagher continues his unstoppable rise to mainstream ubiquity
Two albums from enduringly Marmite Mancunian Liam Gallagher, the most irretrievably Oasis of all former Oasis members
Def Leppard have just released their best album in 30 years
Def Leppard studio album number 12 Diamond Star Halos is a sparkling set that proves there’s life in these old cats yet
Coheed And Cambria’s Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind: the alt-prog empire strikes back
Album review: Coheed And Cambria return to The Amory Wars on new album Vaxis II – now with added disco handclaps
