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June 30
- "If you're one of those self-satisfied old bores who thinks that music doesn't mean as much to younger generations as it does to you, you're flat-out wrong, and here's the proof." Olivia Rodrigo dazzles in the summer sun at BST Hyde Park
- “If anybody brings as much noise as this, I’ll retire!” The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
- Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
- Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica
- Red Arrows, mosh pits and goth kings: our 8 favourite moments from Glastonbury 2025
- "Karla Chubb looks every inch the star." Newly signed to Sub Pop, the label who brought the world Nirvana and Soundgarden, Irish post-punks Sprints tease their next chapter at Glastonbury
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- “We’ve been in the studio. We’ve been living in the studio, is what we’ve been doing”: Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way
- "Their chaotic charm hasn’t dulled one bit." The Libertines roll back the years at Glastonbury with a classic scrappy, rough-around-the-edges set
- Hot off stealing the show at Glastonbury festival, Turnstile announce UK/Europe tour dates with The Garden and High Vis
- Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week
- “A double-down on the downerism… desolately lovely, miserably minor-key music, with production being their not-so-secret weapon”: Nosound’s To The Core
- Iron Maiden release video to thank fans after huge London show
- "It polarises fans' opinions for certain, but isn't that what great music is supposed to do?": Motörhead ring the changes on Another Perfect Day, initial dismay now a distant memory
- “As a composer I’ve needed and wanted to evolve. As I grew, hopefully my writing was growing too”: Five great Al Di Meola albums
June 29
- Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp return to action with maniacal Ramones cover
- "This is a generational, once-in-a-lifetime moment for a heavy band at a festival that has an awkward history with rock, punk and metal." An awestruck Glastonbury discovers Charli XCX was bang on the money when she predicted the coming of Turnstile Summer
- "It’s refreshing to experience music so pure." Legendary 'Godfather of Grunge' Neil Young closes out Saturday night at Glastonbury, still burning, not fading away
- The guys are dressed as good ol’ boys and the girls have gone full Cowgirl. What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
- “As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
- “Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
- “We became the pariahs of the Christian community. They hated me. I still get mail going: ‘Come back to Christ’ There’s no way I’m going back to that”: The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
- Marilyn Manson UK show cancelled following protests
- “We never thought of ourselves as pioneers. But we grew up in a parallel universe to our peers”: Voivod weren’t trying to invent prog metal – they were just trying to be like Van der Graaf Generator
- Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… and it actually isn’t very different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
- “A homecoming for the ages”: Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
June 28
- "We can finally be what I've always wanted to be": Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth drop WVH from name after acquiring trademark
- Founding Black Sabbath members visit Birmingham mural ahead of epic hometown show
- Surprise! Glastonbury's worst-kept secret is revealed as 'Patchwork' aka Pulp remind Worthy Farm exactly why they're one of Britain's best-loved and most brilliant bands
- "The Melbourne crew have Glasto by the baps and balls." Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers just ripped Glastonbury a new one
- "Hooks big enough to snag a kaiju and basslines so irresistible they could land people in rehab." One of the world's hottest edm bands just fcuked Glastonbury festival
- "We’re devastated." Deftones cancel Glastonbury festival appearance due to illness
- “He said, ‘I’ve never seen so many women in my life. We just get men at our gigs”: The night Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris joined Def Leppard to cover Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “The English press used to call us ‘hate metal’. It fit the music”: How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map
- "Glastonbury, I'm a free man!" Kneecap draw massive crowd at Glastonbury, as BBC refuse to livestream the festival's most talked-about performance, but insist "the BBC doesn’t ban artists"
- How to watch Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2025 - from anywhere
- “He was the kind of guy who liked confrontation, and I would always give it to him”: This is what Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore really thought about Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham
- “We start stomping in each others’ faces, and getting lower and lower like two sumo wrestlers”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo reveals the inspiration behind the ‘Crab Walk’ – and it involves Ozzy Osbourne
- "Like Gogol Bordello getting pegged by Killing Joke." Missed out on seeing Fat Dog at Glastonbury? Then you messed up
- "It’s so day-glo, coke binge, shell suit wearing, '80s kitsch that you wouldn’t be surprised if Timmy Mallet turned up onstage." The 1975's Glastonbury headline set is as every bit as wild, weird, wired and wonderful as you'd expect
- Alan White's Ramshackled to be reissued in expanded and remastered form
- John Lee's Barclay James Harvest announce first new studio album for 12 years
- How to rewatch The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025 from anywhere
- “The pursuit of immortality, I’ll chase that as hard as the next guy”: The epic story of Born In The USA and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s
- "We refused to believe we didn't have something special." From triumph to tragedy and triumph again, how Linkin Park became the first true metal breakout of the 21st century
- “New sonic depths and dynamics confer an extra gravitas upon a gleaming collection of winsome melodies”: Mike Oldfield’s personal bravery shines throughout Hergest Ridge: 50th Anniversary
- “To have Kurt’s beautiful voice over one of my songs would have been amazing”: the story behind every track on Foo Fighters’ monumental debut album
- "You worry for anyone that has to follow them." Biffy Clyro's magnificent Glastonbury set serves notice that they're more than ready to headline Britain's biggest and most beloved festival when the call comes
June 27
- How to watch Deftones at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- How to watch Weezer at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
- Great new prog you must hear from Karnivool, Nad Sylvan, Sonechko and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
- Get an exclusive Marillion Afraid Of Sunlight t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else, with Prog!
- "I told him, 'You saved my life.'" Faith No More's Mike Bordin recalls his words of support to Ozzy Osbourne in 1990
- "Baba Yaga is my spirit animal." How Hollywood star and horror icon Vera Farmiga discovered a love for metal with The Yagas
- Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong join forces with Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols to perform Anarchy In The UK
- When Sabbath had the blues: Black Sabbath's early recordings as Earth to be released as The Legendary Lost Tapes
- "This collection is a breathtaking gift that Springsteen acolytes will cherish": Bruce Springsteen's staggering Tracks II - The Lost Albums makes you wonder why lesser records were released instead
- "I knew that if it failed then I would have no one to blame but myself": How Boston were almost pulled apart by turmoil and tragedy
- “After King Crimson ended there was a kind of inertia. I’d lost confidence musically, like, ‘Who am I now?’”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with solo album Son Of Glen
- “Lyric-led, with music that may seem in contrast with the King Crimson work he’s best known for”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his memoir
- "It's beautiful, pensive and immersive, then turns into doolally dynamite": Mike Oldfield's softly spoken follow-up to Tubular Bells now sounds better than the big beast
- "Brutal, high-velocity, downright mean and no-nonsense hard-rockin'": 1976 Motörhead sound like the real deal on The Manticore Tapes
- “He was bedrock to the Yes sound; an incredibly creative player who has inspired so many. It’s unlikely that we’ll see his like again”: Chris Squire’s greatest musical moments, by bandmates, friends and fans
- AC/DC add more dates to Australian PWR⚡️UP tour
June 26
- Native James just brought grime metal to Glastonbury - and Glasto lapped it up
- How to watch Biffy Clyro at Glastonbury no matter where you are in the world
- How to rewatch Alanis Morissette at Glastonbury 2025
- "I've actually talked about it a few times." After years of shooting down the idea, Josh Homme now says that a Kyuss reunion is "possible"
- I have my Glastonbury weekend TV schedule sorted - here's how to plan ahead so you don't miss a thing
- “No government on stolen land should have the power to decide who is 'legal' and who is 'illegal', or who lives and who dies." Rage Against The Machine slam US politicians over "racist terror" caused by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids
- “My uncle would drink, say he was possessed and run after people with knives”: Why heavy metal is turning its back on booze
- Pelagic Fest share their 2024 After Movie celebrating last year's post-rock and prog metal event
- "It made me feel empowered!" That time pop superstars Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Pink dressed up as gladiators and covered Queen's anthemic classic We Will Rock You now seems like a weird fever dream
- “It’s an invisible bond that can’t be broken”: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
- Watch Good Charlotte play new single Rejects on Jimmy Kimmel Live as they announce their first new album in seven years, Motel Du Cap
- How to rewatch The 1975 at Glastonbury - no matter where you are
- "I don't sit around listening to Metallica." Kirk Hammett has a new book, a new album in the works and absolutely no plans to retire
- Wolfgang Van Halen backs out of Black Sabbath farewell show
- "He's the real deal. He came in reeking of pot": Johnny Van Zant on Lynyrd Skynyrd's new live album, life without Gary Rossington and new music
- The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs
June 25
- "Won't miss being in a sh*t band with horrible humans." Ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds hits out at his former bandmates on social media
- Oasis say additional tickets for their sold-out reunion tour could go on sale "in the coming days"
- Who are Patchwork? The whole world is trying to guess the identity of the mystery artist playing a secret show at Glastonbury festival this weekend
- Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman to publish career-spanning memoir, Giant Steps, in October
- Vangelis's epic 1492: Conquest Of Paradise soundtrack to be reissued on coloured vinyl and CD
- The 10 best artists to see at BST Hyde Park, London this summer from Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee to Neil Young and Stevie Wonder
- "My mom was a shaman." Japan's Kuunatic mix doom, psychedelia and folk with sci-fi concepts - and are one of the most brilliant bands you'll hear this year
- "Futique is an exploration of ideas, objects or relationships that exist across time." Biffy Clyro announce new album Futique
- Black Sabbath offer first glimpse of rehearsals as they prepare for bow-out concert Back To The Beginning next week
- "After I saw him live I wanted to give up playing the guitar. It took me about a year to get over that": This is the soundtrack of Robin Trower's life
- "I could have died three times since 2010": It's been 18 years since the last King Diamond album and he's getting impatient
- “I don’t worry about labels and I’ve ended up in the premier prog band of all time. If I’d listened to haters I’d have stopped after my first record”: Billy Sherwood’s journey to Yes started with the wayward World Trade
- AC/DC, Kiss, Stryper, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe and more collide in ultimate hell-themed mashup
June 24
- "He has no job security, no savings, no pension, and when he can't work, no income": Fundraiser set up for leading rock music journalist after heart attack
- The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland
- AFI announce 24-date North American tour
- The Zombies announce documentary screenings for June and July
- “Why not go out swinging with the angriest sounds you can?”: Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse
- Sprints announce new album All That Is Over, share first single Descartes, outline UK and Ireland headline tour
- Thom Yorke shares mind-bending video for new TV theme Dialing In
- "Babymetal inspired me!" Poppy explains the meaning behind her collaboration with the Japanese metal superstars, from me to u
- “It’s scary putting your voice on something when people are attached to hearing someone else. There will be people who won’t come with us – that’s totally fair”: Black Country, New Road battled steep odds to make Forever Howlong
- Ex-Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler is “estranged” from brother Willie following 2019 exit
- "We decided to stream on Saturdays, have a drink and pretend we were playing a gig": Six things you need to know about When Rivers Meet
- "That's evil, beyond any concept I can relate to": John Lydon on the haters who buy tickets just to abuse him
- “We both understood from the beginning that this was a journey into long-form music. It’s time for this kind of music again. It elevates you”: How Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt made Invention Of Knowledge
- "They've got a sound that lifts your heart up": Every Steely Dan album ranked, from worst to best
June 23
- Mott The Hoople and Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs dead at 81
- "The World Heavyweight Champions re-unite for a tour of straight up ruckus." The Prodigy announce UK and Ireland tour with special guest Carl Cox
- "A limited series of very special one-night-only evenings at a curated selection of North America’s most historic theaters." Queens of the Stone Age announce The Catacombs Tour
- "At a self-described 'post-punk festival', they've put the guy who defined both punk AND post-punk on a little stage in a car park. Lydon is raging…" PiL, Johnny Marr and Death Cult thrill at 'post-punk festival' Forever Now
- "The council has a responsibility to take action where there are risks of discrimination, harassment and victimisation." Brighton MP calls for Marilyn Manson gig in the city to be cancelled
- "One of the most vital creatives working in the metal scene right now." A guide to every Poppy album so far
- These are the UK cities that will host Black Sabbath: The Ballet in autumn and winter 2025
- Heaven Shall Burn are one of metal's most criminally overlooked bands. Heimat is the perfect gateway album to fix that
- The Lemonheads announce Love Chant, their first new album in 19 years: hear new single in The Margin now
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- 12 alternative acts you should try and watch at Glastonbury 2025
- Watch Muse jam a Gojira riff during recent headline performance at Hellfest in France
- Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones review
- "We never thought we'd make it this far and neither did you": The Damned announce massive 50th anniversary show
- Matt Tuck names the song that “encapsulates what Bullet For My Valentine is”: “It’s heavy, it’s melodic, it’s anthemic, it’s intricate”
- "We could have ended up as mementoes bricked up in his walls": The night The Kinks partied at John Wayne Gacy's house
- “We recorded with him, but the song was demoted to a bonus track. I’ve had to add him to the list of people who’ll never speak to me again”: Dan Hawkins hates how The Darkness treated Ian Anderson
- "It sounds like an effective pastiche of Phil Spector, but lacks both Spector's passion and his genius": The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is revered by the critics - but not everyone is on board
June 22
- AC/DC announce Australian leg of PWR⚡️UP tour
- "He'll be sacking me next." Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey and why Zak Starkey was fired by The Who
- “They were stuck down a blues-soul blind alley, but these songs are fuelled by a cartoonish punky energy”: Atomic Rooster’s Atomic Rooster, remastered and expanded
- 10 brilliant songs that prove Johnny Marr is one of the most influential guitarists of his generation
- Linkin Park fans in Switzerland left heartbroken by last-minute cancellation
June 21
- “Perhaps the strangest recording session of the era”: Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins and the novelty single no one talks about
- “No one else does this with such a lightness of touch yet such a definitive sense of purpose – a double victory”: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s Luminal and Lateral
- “Their version was very Middle America”: The Kinks could never fully get on board with Van Halen’s cover of You Really Got Me and here's why
June 20
- "I was looking for something darker." Bruce Springsteen reveals that he's never been happy with his world-conquering Born In The USA album, and says the 30-million-selling collection didn't "connect" like his other records
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Six of the newest, coolest proggy sounds around from Sam Vallen, Heather Findlay, Esoterica and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "Total bollocks!" Contrary to what you may have heard, Rick Wakeman wasn't responsible for the Sex Pistols getting dumped by their record label in 1977, just seven days after signing their contract
- “The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense
- How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Local council leader hopes to cancel Bournemouth date of Marilyn Manson UK tour due to sexual misconduct allegations
- Muse share suitably bombastic new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years
- We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Sunset Strip meets Nashville as Mötley Crüe and Dölly Partön team up for unexpected version of Home Sweet Home
- “His previous work only hinted at a distinct musical personality… now he seems determined to prove he can sound unlike Genesis”: Nad Sylvan’s Monumentata
- "It's been a mission statement from day one": Why Sparks continue to do things other bands don't
- “In Nazareth the crew do everything for us. But he’s there himself half the day, for the sheer love of his instrument”: Carl Sentance isn’t much of a prog fan, but his respect for Don Airey is limitless
- "It was a very slow descent, but it was a descent - we were going in the wrong direction": How Skunk Anansie saved themselves from sickness and uncertain times
- "Fired up, furiously fashioned and bug-shit crazy": His Lordship define rock'n'roll on Bored Animal
June 19
- "Its perfection is that it loves the cracks that we all fall down." U2 frontman Bono on the Lady Gaga song that saved his life
- Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Fly On A Windshield with Marillion's Steve Rothery
- "I’m not an idiot." Johnny Marr reveals why he turned down a recent offer of "an eye-watering amount of money" to reform The Smiths
- "This is how you make a comeback, not pandering, not acquiescing to expectations, but reconfiguring your art with fearlessness and quiet confidence." Nine Inch Nails' Peel It Back tour is a breathtaking spectacle, and a personal triumph for Trent Reznor
- “The rest of the band saw something there, something real from deep inside”: James Hetfield says that Mama Said was never meant to be a Metallica song
- 10 classic rock and metal tunes you (probably) forgot were released as movie tie-ins
- “Someone made up something and said, ‘If you believe in this, you’ll be better off when you die’”: Paradise Lost won’t offer any religious enlightenment on new album Ascension
- Metal Hammer has teamed with rock festival Radar to design the cat pyjamas your wardrobe is incomplete without
- Massive Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds box set to be released in October
- "What a treat this album remains": Steve Harley shows who's boss on the 50th Anniversary edition of The Best Years Of Our Lives
- The Blue Stones: How the films of Christopher Nolan and the Netflix drama Suits helped create a big Canadian noise
- "It was some extreme magic": How Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham saved Fleetwood Mac
- “Obviously there’s some songs you get bored with. We go off on tangents, then come back into the old vocal refrain. That’s the way out”: What’s left for The Mighty Hawkwind to achieve? They have a few ideas
June 18
- Deep Purple celebrate 50th anniversary of Made In Japan with another mammoth box set
- Javier Bardem once saw a Bruce Springsteen show with Brad Pitt after being invited along by Bono, is cooler than you in every way
- Did someone say free music? Right now, you can score an impressive 4 months FREE of Amazon Music Unlimited
- Watch The Offspring play one of the biggest pop-punk anthems of the '90s on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- How to watch the Isle of Wight festival 2025: Catch live sets, highlights and more from anywhere
- "He's going to repair the entire world." Watch the first trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White from The Bear
- Korn say Sleep Token “shut up” the haters with Download festival headline set: “They went bigger than a Slipknot stage”
- The 16 greatest Glastonbury Festival performances ever
- Deluxe nine-disc box set of Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill to be released in August
- “It’s not about fame or money. It’s about fulfilling your dreams, and if someone gets joy from it, you’ve won”: Solstice’s 45-year journey to success with their positive prog
- Meet Erja Lyytinen, the Finnish blues guitarist inspired by seventies classic rock, eighties thrash and the pursuit of happiness
- "I was terrified that Ed was going to kill himself": Chaos and carnage with Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza 1992
- “The band had already drifted from its original vision. The group broke up…Somehow we absorbed the fact and kept going”: The story of King Crimson’s remarkable Beat era
- Hollywood Star John C. Reilly stars in new Jack White video after convincing him to make it
June 17
- "It's supposed to be like a gnarly fever dream": Noah Weiland releases extremely trippy video for cover of Velvet Revolver's Slither
- "This line-up represents the present and future of heavy music." Trivium announce Ascend Above The Ashes tour with Jinjer and Heriot in support
- "Clone me, you bastards!": If you've ever wanted to clone Ozzy Osbourne for future generations to enjoy, we have good news
- "They could be on the brink of becoming the next big shock success story in heavy music." Malevolence have put together another absolute crusher of a record with Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
- "The radio reported a terrible tragedy in which we all died": Heart's Ann Wilson on the show at which everyone thought her band had been killed
- I'm a Glastonbury Festival veteran of over 20 years - here are 5 things I never go to Worthy Farm without
- 8 things we learned at Download Festival 2025
- JBL Tour One M3 review
- "It was pretty awful." Before she found fame fronting Blondie, Debbie Harry was in a 'baroque folk rock' band called The Wind In The Willows. Listen to the never-released Suzy Snowflake, the first professional recording she ever made
- "We gotta leave some at the back for the party, baby!" Watch Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong shave a fan's head live on stage at Rock For People festival
- "My dad has a cupboard full of gold and platinum records and he doesn’t have a pot to piss in": A bathroom full of snakes and Slash's road to compromise
- “Journalists who’d said we were Genesis copyists suddenly went, ‘This is a happening band!’” One TV smile made Marillion’s name, and made Misplaced Childhood a hit
- Ian Anderson says it's possible Robert Plant wanted to replace him in Jethro Tull
June 16
- Stevie Nicks confirms more dates for 2025 tour
- "We had a punk-rock mentality, we were never afraid of a challenge." How former LA 'gangbangers' turned hip hop superstars Cypress Hill conquered America's 'alternative nation' on 1992's grunge-heavy Lollapalooza tour
- "Barracuda is a powerful piece of music that was never intended for political use." Heart's Nancy Wilson hits out at Trump administration over use of their 1977 hit single during Washington DC military parade
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "I would be trying to convince my friends who are listening to Mariah Carey and Backstreet Boys to listen to Black Sabbath." Lzzy Hale on why it was "different" for her growing up as a Black Sabbath fan
- "This is so beautiful." Turnstile fly high in the summer rain with superb headline performance at Outbreak London
- Watch Nine Inch Nails play Closer, Head Like A Hole and Hurt on the opening night of their Peel It Back world tour
- Watch latest masked metal sensations President play their first ever show at Download this past weekend
- “We did the whole album at festivals – the opposite of what you’re supposed to do. In some ways there was boldness, but it was also self-sabotage”: The Decemberists’ prog credentials
- "We’ve been up, we’ve been down...now look where we are!" Korn have finally headlined Download - and it was an absolute triumph
- "What happened was I got it right and Roger got it wrong": Zak Starkey reveals the story behind his departure from The Who... and says he might yet return
- "The world needs some good rock'n'roll music at the moment": Why Split Dogs could be the new/old sound of punk to come
- “I told Chris Squire, ‘I really owe you for being an influence.’ He said, ‘Well, pay up, mate!’” When Styx ex Ricky Phillips met his hero, it all went well
- "The main difference between Future Shock and a Deep Purple record is the trimming of self-indulgent and meandering solos": Gillan's Future Shock pays sonic tribute to their singer's illustrious past
- U2's Bono reveals Noel Gallagher is "shocked" by how good Oasis are sounding ahead of reunion world tour
June 15
- "If you were there, you’ll probably be talking about it for years to come." Orbit Culture might have just given Download a taste of metal's next major breakout band
- "Once you hear their stories, it's hard to not love them." Metallica pay tribute to the "deep emotional human stories" shared by fans, at the premiere of their Metallica Saved My Life documentary
- "How many times do you say you're gonna give something up and you don't?": Aggression and anger on the road with Thin Lizzy across America and Europe
- "Like it or not, Sleep Token are the metal sensation of the decade." Vessel and pals prove their doubters wrong during spellbinding Download headline set
- “The more successful we become, the lonelier it gets”: Why your favourite British metal bands are breaking up
June 14
- Here's what Sleep Token played at their first ever Download headline set (videos inside)
- Whether John Lydon likes it or not, Sex Pistols' Download set proves the true spirit of punk still lives large
- YouTube instructor claims Slash learned some blues guitar by watching his videos
- “When the hits dried up they made a poignant, multi-layered swansong for the 60s”: The Zombies’ final album Odessey And Oracle is a proto-prog classic
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen shares 15-minute mini-movie as he announces apocalyptic new solo album Songs No One Will Hear
- "Ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping into fascism. It’s up to us to fight back!” Green Day mark their long-awaited Download debut by calling out Trump and Musk and playing all the bangers
- “You wonder if any other drummer could have glued together all the impulses and influences at play”: Alan White’s 10 best performances with Yes
- “The goal was to die onstage!” Why retirement is a four-letter word for Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
- "Trying to work it all out, that's what makes us human": Those Damn Crows and the search for meaning in uncertain times
- “You deserve more”: Pulp spoil London with two sets, marvellous production and every hit in their catalogue
- "Obviously, I’m gonna buy him a beer or two or three." Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell thanks stem cell donor after getting cancer all clear
- "It is a wonderful honour for me": The Who's Roger Daltrey reacts to receiving a Knighthood in King Charles III's Birthday Honours list
June 13
- "This is a band reaching the apex of their powers." Within Temptation blow Download away with a theatrical, emotional set
- "Rivers Cuomo even looks like he might smile at one point. Truly a momentous occasion." Weezer smash out the hits for a flawless debut at Download Festival
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- OceanGate CEO wanted Pearl Jam to be in doomed Titanic submersible, according to new documentary
- Get an exclusive Chris Squire t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else with Prog!
- Great new music you need to hear from Chimpan A, Whispers Of Granite, Leoni Jane Kennedy in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
- The world's first Ozzy Osbourne exhibition will open in Black Sabbath's hometown, Birmingham, this summer
- Judas Priest kick off Painkiller anniversary tour with rarities-stacked setlist – see what they played and watch videos here
- Watch Muse premiere new single Unravelling on the opening night of their European tour
- Watch 90s pop crew Vengaboys pull an insane crowd at Download, the UK's biggest rock and metal festival
- “A reminder of their singular magic that stemmed from Rick Wakeman-like piano flair along with an agile, crystalline voice”: Renaissance’s Running Hard – The Albums 1974-1976
- "The astonishing, histrionic Liar that tears the roof off": Queen's debut album gets more intense on Dolby Atmos Blu-ray edition
- "My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
- “He was disillusioned by wealth clashing with his principles. His fans thought riches were a good thing. Their reaction was the basis of everything else he did”: Roger Waters as seen via his Pink Floyd lyrics
- "An oddball genius proffering words of hope as the world burns": Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts take aim at Trump & Co. on Talkin To The Trees
- "Still pumping out bottle-rocket earworms": Buckcherry are rollickingly focused on Roar Like Thunder
June 12
- "There was not going to be a Led Zeppelin for me, but this was a parallel": Jimmy Page and Black Crowes discuss Live At The Greek in revealing short film
- We went to Poland's biggest metal festival Mystic - this is what it was like
- How to watch Bonnaroo 2025: Megadeth, QOTSA & more set for annual music and arts festival
- The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever
- Between The Buried And Me announce new record deal, new album and share new single
- "Kids saw the video on MTV and thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly and they're tearing up their high school.' It attracted some riff-raff." Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube
- "Edge left. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit." How Bono and The Edge's faith in Jesus almost destroyed U2
- Roger Waters shares new trailer for This Is Not A Drill - Live from Prague The Movie
- Lars Ulrich has (maybe) seen your Metallica memes
- “I saw us in a direct line from big band or modern jazz – but with complex interactive rock rhythms plus improvised solos”: Five Colosseum songs that prove the jazz-rock pioneers’ pedigree
- "It's purely experimental, with zero regard for commercialism": How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
June 11
- Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times I've forgotten it"
- "A one-of-a-kind genius from another world": The world of rock reacts to the death of Brian Wilson
- Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
- Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
- "Everybody on the black side of my family was like, What is your problem?" In 1990, Slash broke his silence and shared his true feelings about Guns N' Roses' most controversial song, One In A Million
- “When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history
- "We understand you've been patiently Counting Out Time..." Genesis shift release of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box set back to late Autumn
- “There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads
- "Apparently pretending to play guitar on a public path is a criminal offence." British metalcore crew Malevolence are beefing with UK nature charity The National Trust
- Todd Rundgren announces live dates for London and Birmingham for October
- "He would have been so perfect in it." Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made
- "We went platinum and Warner Brothers told us we owed them two million dollars": How Van Halen followed one of rock's greatest-ever debuts
- "The police car rolled down a nearby slipway into the river": Wild times on the road on Rory Gallagher's most iconic tour
- “That’s the real boot in your privates – you’re focused on an album and then you’ve got to do two!” Mostly Autumn don’t just make records. They also make full-length, full-quality limited-edition companion records
- "He lit up the room like the sun. Then, just like that, he was gone": Glam-punks Starbenders release tribute to the mysterious Chantilly Boy
- "I went upstairs to show the person how to play the riff... and it was John McEnroe!" David Bowie on the art and process of songwriting
June 10
- "I remember thinking, This is ridiculous. Johnny finally said, 'This isn’t working'." Rick Rubin once tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's US number one single Addicted To Love
- Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
- Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
- "The songs are the same, but you will just not recognise the vibe." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces More Balls To Picasso, a heavier, expanded, remixed and remastered update of his 1994 solo album Balls To Picasso
- "I thought it was a joke. To get that nod was really nice." Turnstile's Brendan Yates on pop superstar Charli XCX's prediction that this could be 'Turnstile Summer'
- "The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don't know what's going to happen." Tony Iommi admits that he's feeling "excitement mixed with fear" as Black Sabbath's last ever gig draws near
- "It's the opening credits to a long, 90-minute musical film..." Mariusz Duda shares new Lunatic Soul single The World Under Unsun
- “We started out as a Pink Floyd tribute and evolved from that. Artists who claim to be original are lying through their teeth”: Airbag’s Bjørn Riis used classic prog inspirations to chart a nervous breakdown
- "Metallica rented our equipment but the sound guy wasn't up to his job." Former Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala on the 10 songs that changed his life
- “Bad songs do not go viral in metal – that may happen in other genres, but not in metal”: The Bloodywood guide to internet fame
- “It’s a really loveable ball of barbed wire”: Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall praise the wholesomeness of heavy metal fans on Australian TV
- “Amnesiac was seen as having all the tracks that weren’t good enough for Kid A. But I loved it”: Charlotte Wessels hails Radiohead, although she doesn’t listen to them often
- “I really like Frantic! Killer song!” Wrestling legend Adam Copeland names his favourite track on each Metallica album
- "It's a new album now": Deep Purple launch 20th anniversary refurbishment of Rapture Of The Deep
- Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
June 9
- Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
- "Lucky gal right here!" Watch three absolute metal queens unite on stage as Sharon den Adel and Simone Simons surprise Cristina Scabbia for her birthday in the middle of a Lacuna Coil set
- "It felt like a revolution could happen." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker on the '90s indie-rock explosion, and why he hates the word Britpop
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan
- "People need to know the sacrifices bands are making to play a live show.” UK metallers Vexed are showing everyone just how much it costs to be a touring band - and the numbers are eye-watering
- "We're gonna warm you up!" You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now
- “Suddenly we’re at a 24-hour Esso garage with a red TR7. Pickled Onion Monster Munch and Quatro for everyone!”: Jeff Wayne didn’t just fight Martians – he sold you the 80s via his TV music
- "I really like Slipknot." Watch Babymetal reveal their three favourite metal bands ever and discuss some of the surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth
- "The All-American Boy just didn't translate as a solo artist": Rick Derringer's debut album might contain his biggest hit, but is that enough?
- “The first time I played Rush’s YYZ I almost broke my fingers!” Epica bassist Rob Van Der Loo’s prog timeline, from Jon Lord to Dream Theater
June 8
- Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
- Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
- Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda
- “I love what they have brought to the metal scene. They have a completely different spin on a genre that often runs on the same cart tracks”: Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
- “Not the work of the blues bruiser some supposed him to be, but of an expert in judging precisely when to hang back and when to hit hard”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row
- Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
- “This one was really hard, we had massive arguments”: Radiohead on the making of Hail To The Thief, the record that got away from them
- “The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics
June 7
- “He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC
- Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
- "It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
- “No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again
- “Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- “They use their standing to its fullest potential, both as entertainers and campaigners”: Massive Attack’s LIDO festival extravaganza was protest art at its finest
- Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow
- “You have to know Donald’s sense of humour. It was a total set-up”: Did Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen really tell the people behind the Yacht Rock movie to “F*** off”?
- Rush announce limited edition box set of their final four albums
- “We went on our lunch break and when we got back, Tony had come up with the Paranoid riff. It was literally 25 minutes of work. People went nuts about it!”: How Black Sabbath made Paranoid, the iconic album that rubber-stamped their greatness
- “Nothing in this band does what it's supposed to do”: how R.E.M. showed the world they were the real deal on 1985’s Fables Of The Reconstruction
- Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever
June 6
- The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more
- Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"
- "It's an album of soul food, and I've never been so grateful, right here, on planet Earth": Glenn Hughes announces first album in nine years
- Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
- Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
- "I want it to be like a religious experience." Yungblud announces UK and Ireland arena tour
- New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
- "Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan
- “In the last 10 years no one has stepped up. Being the sole songwriter is sometimes very lonely”: Jonas Renske hopes Katatonia’s new era includes more input from his bandmates
- “Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
- Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
June 5
- Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu
- "He told me, You've got this opportunity to be a rock star because you're not afraid to say the things other people won't." Yungblud reveals the career advice he received from a machete-wielding rock star who sees him as a kindred spirit
- Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
- "There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned
- "The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
- Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”
- Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same
- "Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
- "I can allow myself to be a bit sexier and say what’s on my mind": How Taylor Hawkins and a nameless girl inspired The Struts frontman Luke Spiller to make his brilliant and beguiling solo album
- “A tad dated today – but there’s no denying the compositional prowess”: Greenslade’s Large Afternoon returns in an expanded edition
- "An album as full of joy as it is of craft": The Doobie Brothers bring back Michael McDonald on Walk This Road
- “They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments
- "They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them
June 4
- "These instruments are more than just tools of our trade - they're extensions of our musical souls": Nancy Wilson offers "no questions asked" reward for return of stolen Heart guitars
- Steve Perry launches sale of personal artefacts to raise funds for victims of Los Angeles fires
- “It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.
- The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
- "We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS
- “It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
- The Best of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells I, II & III tour announced for February and March 2026
- "We have lift off." Oasis have started rehearsals for their world tour, and Liam Gallagher says it's "spiritual" playing with his brother Noel once again
- "Shave my head, let’s just go for it!" How Hollywood superstar Matt Damon channelled his inner Henry Rollins to make a surprise cameo as an obnoxious punk rock singer in cult teen comedy EuroTrip
- This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
- “We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger
- "Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more
- On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo
- A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums
June 3
- Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online
- "Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
- "Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic
- A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week
- Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader
- Ozzy Osbourne to make public appearance at Comic Con days after retirement gig
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else
- Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”
- The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before
- "He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life
- "We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness
- “My hand ran off the keyboard… I ground to a halt, threw my hands in the air, and everyone looked at me. My father thought I was taking a bow and was very proud!” Genesis’ best and worst moments on stage
- "These are films I've waited years to work on": 40 minutes of newly scanned footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Tokyo in 1971 has appeared online
June 2
- "It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more
- "It’s a completely different thing to a band where I’m hiding in the back." Lars Fredrik Frøislie and the story of his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger
- "I don't want to pretend everything's hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"
- "Partially responsible for hastening the demise of nu metal." We've ranked every Killswitch Engage album from worst to best
- "I remember showing the lyrics to my grandmother, saying, Look at this, this is like poetry!" Gavin and Stacey and Would I Lie To You? star Rob Brydon on his life-long love of Bruce Springsteen
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "We had already split up and still had to do a tour." How Within Temptation became one of symphonic metal's biggest success stories
- "There would be shootouts down the street." Machine Head's Robb Flynn takes us on a tour of Oakland, California - and 30 years of metal history
- "There’s a lot less ‘James Hetfield strangling a goat’ in the singing department." New Volbeat album God Of Angels Trust won't surprise you, but it will get you banging that head
- “Knowingly progressive and endearingly archetypal in a way that only two young pop historians could fathom”: If you thought Ween were taking the piss with The Mollusk, you were wrong
- "Ritchie Blackmore gave me a wave as he fell backwards. That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo": Don Airey on Rainbow, Deep Purple and his awesome solo album Pushed To The Edge
- “In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve
- "After nearly 50 years, this album still packs a punch - vital, visceral and contemporary as hell": Ian Dury becomes an unlikely pop star on New Boots And Panties!!
June 1
- “An essential live experience for the modern metalhead, equal to anything you’d see from KISS, AC/DC or Rammstein.” Babymetal’s biggest ever UK headline show at London's O2 Arena proves they’re future festival headliners
- "It took Bring Me The Horizon 10 years to get into arenas. Sleep Token did it in less than five." Inside the rise of Sleep Token, by those who were there
- “I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record
- Watch Linkin Park thrill fans at UEFA Champions League final in Munich
- "I wish you nothing but a very sore arm!" Iron Maiden manager on fans who ignored plea not to use mobile phones