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November 26
- “I said, ‘I don’t want to work with him!’ I was bitter that he was doing so well. But I needed the money”: How a prog supergroup with 200 hits between them got together
- "You should have seen us in '93, we were so much worse": The Lemonheads are back and Evan Dando says he's straight and "in heaven"
- Debate: Which is the better album? Highway To Hell or Back In Black?
- From Bondi to the Agora Ballroom: The story of what happened when AC/DC arrived in America
- "One of the most influential and exhilarating players in rock": Nine Zakk Wylde albums to listen to, and one to avoid
- Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus
- Watch The Darkness treat commuters at London St Pancras station to a surprise live performance
November 25
- “Welcome to this new version of your life. Before this, I was fine, and now I’m not”: Claudio Sanchez details the “heartbreak” that inspired Coheed And Cambria’s biggest track
- Fuelled by humanistic thinking and pure, feminine power, Bianca's debut album is more proof that black metal has progressed far beyond Satanism and petulant rebellion
- “It may lack hits, but this set bulges with red-eyed, bright ideas, displaying the ethos that first endeared them to space cadets”: Ozric Tentacles’ anthology Through The Magick Valley
- "What gets you hot under the collar? Is it the implicit, the unsaid, the tension of a subtle exchange…or it is asking someone point-blank to whip it out?" Harpy's debut EP VII is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
- Vote: who are the Big 4 in all of metal?
- I’ve been looking for a no-fuss way to stream my favourite channels - and I just found an affordable solution: Save 50% on the Roku streaming stick this Black Friday
- “Our manager basically kicked us out of his house. We were supposed to go to Europe for the first time, and our gear had gotten stolen”: How Metallica turned tragedy into Fade To Black – the acoustic epic that put the elitists in their place
- “More like an inspired act of creativity than a raging blow-out”: Mike Oldfield’s Amarok began life as a protest against his label. But it turned out to be one of his most skilful sculptures
- "Our fans were starting to say, ‘Hey, these guys are prophets, they’re saying things that hadn’t happened yet.'" 9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the bizarre story behind the System Of A Down classic that became metal's biggest song
- Graham Gouldman announces biggest Heartful Of Songs tour yet
- “Three hours of molten metal, raging pits and life-affirming sing-alongs!” Machine Head announce evening-with Europe and UK shows for spring 2026
- "The record label dyed all of our food black. Black sandwiches!" Three decades in, prophets of doom Paradise Lost still haven't made their best album
- “I sold out three nights at Wembley but it cost me a fortune. It always gets voted biggest spectacular and also biggest folly. I take that as a compliment!” Six myths and legends of Rick Wakeman
- "Who would you rather sleep with, Ozzy or Geezer?": Smuggling, private jets, and expecting the unexpected with the Osbournes
- "I might as well wear a cowboy hat and stick a piece of straw in my mouth!": The story of the boozy Counting Crows classic their drummer detested
November 24
- Guns N' Roses announce two new singles and 2026 world tour
- "People heard it and found it deeply offensive because they didn’t have the brain capacity to realise what it’s about." The story behind Ghost's most famous song - and what it really means
- From Max levitating via Kate Bush to Eddie Munson shredding Metallica, a guide to the very best Stranger Things needle drops
- "He's a legend but he’s also a great person. When I met him, he had a guitar in his hand, and we started playing right away." How a punk rock hero helped Jimmy Cliff spark a late career peak - and write a modern reggae classic
- Former ELO bassist Michael de Albuquerque to have second solo album, Stalking The Sleeper, reissued in January
- Masked metal sensations President have written four songs for their debut album, with a lot more on the way: “It takes bits of the EP, and it’s pushing certain elements even further”
- I'm shopping for an MP3 player this Black Friday and with 38% off, the stylish Activo P1 is high on my list
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 24, 2025
- “This tour is going to be a complete blast." Big Big Train announce Woodcut European and UK tour dates for Autumn 2026
- Cyber Monday MP3 player deals 2025: The MP3 player is back - here's our pick of the best Cyber Monday price cuts
- Watch Tool play a bunch of rarities for the first time in 20 years, plus a Black Sabbath cover, during New Zealand shows over the weekend
- Quiz: How much do you know about Iron Maiden's breakthrough masterpiece The Number Of The Beast?
- “Goths would get up for their songs, then glare when the punks’ tracks came on. No one really mixed”: Paradise Lost’s Gregor Mackintosh, who’s never liked a happy song in his life, escaped genre restrictions and embraced Dead Can Dance
- "Their music was about us, about you, about the big wide world that waited": Every studio album by The Clash ranked from worst to best
- "Radio-ready songs without a hint of indulgence and a powerhouse lead singer at the fore": Foreigner arrive fully-formed and formidable on debut album
November 23
- “It was about the second coming of Jesus, except he’s in a spaceship”: Sammy Hagar on aliens, Jesus and the 70s sci-fi prog album he started then abandoned
- "He walked through the airport wearing a soldier’s helmet, holding two massive boxes that said ‘GUNS’ on the side. The security said ‘What is in there?’ He said, ‘Guns! Can’t you read?!" Inside the top-secret HQ of Sabaton, power metal's biggest band
- “An intense work of dark, progressive beauty staggered out of the wreckage”: Blending Pink Floyd and Kate Bush, this band sustained permanent damage as they tore themselves away from Britpop
- “Wherever there is an end, there is also a beginning”: Arch Enemy split with singer Alissa White-Gluz
- Our top-rated Loop earplugs are on sale for Black Friday - save 25% on the Loop range, including the brilliant Experience 2
- “The bar owners pulled guns on us. It was over whisky and disrespect. We were 22 and hard as steel”: The incredible story of the forgotten Detroit hellraisers who blazed a trail for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and The Stooges
- “The decision to omit early music lends credence to the idea that they’re embracing pop influences”: Leprous’ An Evening Of Atonement live extravaganza
- "We thought we were going to get a Top 10 but we got smoked by Abba and Oasis." Following Bring Me The Horizon, viral mosh pit-starters Malevolence might be Sheffield's next breakout metal band
- “In America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on picketing the gigs. I said: ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said: ‘You!’”: The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era
- "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat - that’s how much I hate Morrissey." The story of the hugely-entertaining, long-running beef between Robert Smith and Morrissey
- According to Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King, the rock and metal talent pool is drying up
November 22
- "This girl walked up to me and stopped like she’d seen a ghost. She said, 'You’re not dead.' And I said, ‘No, you’re right.'" The sad, messy story of Alice In Chains’ final album with Layne Staley - and the beginning of the end of an era
- “When you were in that taxi saying Pink Floyd are w*nkers, my brother was driving it!” How Bob Geldof ended up in The Wall despite everything
- "I found myself at 52, going through my third divorce and fourth financial collapse – from ‘I’m a millionaire’ to ‘I live in my car.'" J.K. Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Limp Bizkit and the adult industry: the wild and unpredictable career of Evan Seinfeld
- Watch Robert Plant perform Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole during Tiny Desk Concert set
- I'm a guitarist and metal obsessive. So why have I only wanted to listen to video game soundtracks this year?
- “I’d like to think that when you die death comes for you however you want, and I feel that it’s your strongest memory”: The bleak but uplifting story behind the emo Bohemian Rhapsody
- "It's definitely different. There's a lot of soul music in there." The story of Luke Machin's debut solo album, Living On The Edge
- “It deals with the fact there’s no hope of escaping The Trump Show. But if Michael League isn’t getting much sleep, his loss is the world’s gain”: Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest reunite for Somni
- “They said, ‘You mean we’ve paid $12,500 for a piano player?’ My publisher said, ‘Yes, but he’s a good piano player’”: The label called it “unsellable”, the critics hated it, but this prog icon’s solo album went on to sell nearly 15 million copies
- “I thought, ‘Enough. I don’t know that I need this kind of thing’”: In the early 90s, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was at war with his label – so he did the most extreme thing he could
- “I thought no one’s gonna buy this because it’s too long. I thought our label would say, ‘Sorry boys, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers’”: How Genesis wrote one of prog’s wildest epics – with help from a rumoured exorcism
- Tom Morello says it's just a matter of time before unreleased Audioslave album sees the light of day
- "I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden
November 21
- "I started feeling the political wheels starting to turn toward conservatism a little bit" How a song on Green Day's most misunderstood album set the groundwork for one of their biggest acts of protest
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest
- Great new prog you need to hear from Einar Solberg, The Blackheart Orchestra, Blanket and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- “I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century
- Charlie Sheen remembers his “private concert” from Eddie Van Halen on the set of Two And A Half Men: “They did five takes of it, and I was like, ‘Are you sure we don’t need a sixth?’”
- "It's abundantly clear that this is some of Aerosmith's best work in nearly a quarter of a century." Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
- The Marshall Black Friday sale is stacked with up to 46% off headphones and speakers – including our favourite AirPods rivals
- "We owed everybody money. We knew that if the next album didn't succeed, the ship would sink": The inside story of the album that saved Queen
- “The first minute confirms that their musical identity is intact – complex and multilayered without becoming bewildering”: Spock’s Beard reference their own past and future on The Archaeoptimist
- The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now
- The first two albums recorded by what became their definitive line-up: Now a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
- "As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology
- "Like the best modern prog rock, The Archaeoptimist reveals more and more at every new sitting": Spock’s Beard are still pushing boundaries on first album in seven years
November 20
- The Stone Roses bassist Mani dead at 63
- "Music is fun when it’s bisexual and sexy and silly and over the top, when an artist struts across the stage like David Bowie." Heavy metal, severed heads and Rocky Horror: an audience with Creeper, Britain's most theatrical band
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- Paramount+ rock 50% off monthly and annual plans for Black Friday - here's 5 unmissable music docs I think are worth a sub alone
- "I let my father know there were no bad feelings. I sorted out a lot of my anger in his departure." A death, Nirvana, U2 and a crucifixion: the surprising story behind Metallica's most successful single (and no, it isn't Enter Sandman)
- Ulver share ambient new single Weeping Stone as they announce "largely instrumental" new album Neverland
- “We knew we were messing with prog royalty. It could have been like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa”: Welsh duo covered Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield and others on their latest side-project album. They think they’ve got away with it
- Six years in the making, you can get a taste of In Virtue's long-awaited new album Age of Legends with epic new single Karma Loop, featuring Charlotte Wessels - watch the exclusive video premiere here
- “People like Elon Musk are looking towards Mars, but I think we have issues to look at here first”: Why is heavy metal so obsessed with space all of a sudden?
- "I didn’t like the stigma of being a YouTuber." How The Darkness' Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer
- "When I left the band, I should have stayed left": Francis Rossi has some regrets about Status Quo's 1985 reunion
- "I felt like Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly eighty": Dave Hill's Slade are hitting the road for the last time, but he isn't finished
- "The way he trusted me gave me the confidence I needed early in my career": Longtime Ozzy Osbourne photographer Mark Weiss remembers the Prince of Darkness
- Ozzy's eldest son Louis Osbourne on being stunned by "awe inspiring" turnout at Prince of Darkness' funeral
- "Do you know how much fun it is to scream, 'I'm never gonna work another day in my life' really loud? It feels good!" How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem
- UK government confirms it will introduce ban on selling secondary gig tickets for a profit
November 19
- "I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre" Legendary hardcore heavyweights Converge have announced their first new album in five years, Love Is Not Enough
- "We are not a political band. Everybody wants to have an opinion, and save the world with their opinions, but it doesn’t change the world." Why Sabaton won't sing about current conflicts
- "If I mess that up, I'll never forgive myself." How Billie Eilish's favourite Paramore song went from being one of Hayley Williams' biggest fears to one of their most powerful live moments
- "Winona Ryder was confused. She wanted to know why we'd write a song about her. I told her: 'It has nothing to do with you.'" How a cult 90s rock band's song about a beaver sparked a surprise encounter with a Hollywood A-lister
- "The music is perfectly in sync with the visuals!" Noel Fielding opens up on his love for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge wants to start scuba diving so that wearing a mask onstage feels less claustrophobic: “In my alternative life, I’m a wreck diver!”
- "I believe it has the potential to be something very special". Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. to be adapted for theatre stage
- After 20 years of thought, a prog metal band recorded three albums in one go. “I wouldn’t recommend it,” says their singer, who has now realised the challenge is just beginning
- “There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years
- “We made bad albums. Two of them should be melted down into flowerpots. But how many great pieces of artwork are you going to create in your career?” What Carl Palmer really thinks of ELP
- Genesis made long, complex, instrumentally elaborate rock for hirsute proggers: Then they wrote the song that brought women to their shows
- "It sounds very pure and sweet. It's beautiful, like a flower child of an album": Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson look back on the album that changed their lives
- The End is only The Beginning: The Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas kicks off a new chapter in Kisstory
November 18
- Mötley Crüe announce mammoth Carnival Of Sins tour with Tesla and Extreme
- "I don't know if she'd heard of us": Cyndi Lauper, Chrissie Hynde, Aimee Mann and the Rush duets that got away
- Jane Weaver to release 15th Anniversary edition of psych folk album The Fallen By Watch Bird
- Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026
- "I still have so much music in my heart." The frontman of one of nu metal's coolest bands has been found living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him
- Pink Floyd share new stereo mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, presented for the first time as a single continuous piece of music
- "Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
- “It’s been three, nearly four months, so it’s still pretty fresh”: Jack Osbourne discusses “shock” of his father Ozzy’s death during latest episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
- "It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar
- “Our connection was so special, I would probably be able to feel him if he weren’t here anymore, and I don’t”: Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie
- Deep Purple announce UK tour with Mammoth
- “Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion
- "The sound of an enduring rock'n'roll firm updating the business": The Rolling Stones' first album without Mick Taylor, now available in super deluxe form
- "In 1985 Theatre Of Pain sounded flaccid and 40 years on it's still drooping": Mötley Crüe's third album gets an undeserved anniversary makeover
- "No question this will be the go-to event of the summer!" Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce Double Trouble Double Vision tour
November 17
- "This isn’t just a screening; it’s a full-scale adrenaline rush." Iconic sci-fi action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be getting a live concert screening - and its premiere will take place in London
- Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta names the essential hardcore bands everyone needs to hear
- "Some kid is driving inside the residence of the president, and you’ve got girls making TikToks in front of burning buildings." Deadly earthquakes, addiction and revolution: the story of Underside, Nepal's biggest metal band
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 17, 2025
- Nu metal kids, rejoice! Full videos of classic Deftones and Linkin Park festival sets have just been released online
- “You’re hanging out with Steven Tyler; James Hetfield is there and Tom Morello and Axl Rose, but everybody was the same. No head was higher”: Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning
- “Think of it as the metal version of Goodbye by the Spice Girls!” Leading lights of the UK underground Svalbard have just released their final song
- "I went to a party in San Francisco...there were all these freaks shooting up and this girl was real sick." How Metallica wrote their most iconic anthem - and how Stranger Things made it relevant to a whole new generation over three decades later
- "There’s nothing quite like playing live in the UK!" Marillion announce UK tour dates in September and October
- "It's not hard to see why they got left behind by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon": Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies
- “Recorded at a time when progressive music was anathema, it deserves recognition alongside some of the more leftfield heroes of the genre”: Why The Only Ones’ Even Serpents Shine is actually a prog album
- “It was beginning to feel like everyone’s mind wasn’t on the job… a feeling that there should be some hiatus”: Jethro Tull’s saddest, darkest album could have been even darker
November 16
- "It was pretty surreal. All of our families, friends and haters saw that live on TV!" The surprise smash hit 90s single that saw an underground punk band beat Alanis Morissette, Weezer and Portishead in one of the biggest award upsets ever
- "I saw they sent a bunch of celebrities into space and I thought 'Well, if them, why not me?!'" Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine wants their final show to be in outer space
- "I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy
- “Pavarotti is our hero, he’s more rock’n’roll than anyone we’ve ever met before”: the story of Bono’s favourite U2 song, even though it isn’t by U2 and features an operatic legend on vocals
- “I’ve been in bands that really felt like you were creating something new – but you were just another band doing what had already been done”: Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start
- "Is it OK if we look like this?": Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
- AC/DC bring earthquake-level noise to first Australian show in 10 years
November 15
- Watch unmasked Kiss pay emotional tribute to late Ace Frehley at Las Vegas show
- "I'm sure he was thinking of Stevie Nicks." From Public Enemy and Tom Waits to Spider-Man, the ten songs that changed the life of Clutch's Neil Fallon
- Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)
- Marillion's Steve Hogarth shares cover of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat as he announces new live album
- "I showed up with Tibetan Singing Bowls, some percussion instruments and champagne, and asked them permission to do some experiments." The strange story behind Deftones and Maynard James Keenan's incredible collab, Passenger
- From someone who’s already seen the show twice, here’s 10 songs Radiohead should try and get into the setlist on their triumphant comeback tour
- Who is the prog-powered creator of “revenge pop” targeting? “All those people who didn’t think I could do it. Isn’t that what all musicians are doing?”
- Amyl and the Sniffers get the drinks in for Melbourne after free show cancelled at last minute
- Limp Bizkit show in Estonia cancelled after Fred Durst's previous support of Vladimir Putin resurfaces online
- "You ready?" Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka's new band Mirador play London for the first time and there's a lot of screaming
November 14
- "What would Van Gogh be worth if he had other artists dabbing their paint brushes on his canvas?" How Trent Reznor wrote Nine Inch Nails' first big hit - and why it annoyed the hell out of him
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years
- “You simply can’t point to anybody and say they’re better than this guy”: Hear John Petrucci add lightning to new Steve Morse Band song Triangulation
- "It really bothers me. I think it's severely inappropriate." The Osbourne family speak out against musicians lying about their final interactions with Ozzy - and "nutters" pretending to speak to him from beyond the grave
- “I think Prince wanted a romance, but I didn’t because then we wouldn’t have had a musical relationship.” Stevie Nicks on why she turned down Prince's biggest song, and how their flirty friendship influenced three hit singles
- Choir of survivors, relatives and witnesses marks 10th anniversary of Paris terrorist attacks with poignant Rival Sons song
- "Someone was dressed up in a big dinosaur suit, we saw him right in the middle of a wall of death!" Inside the wild and wonderful world of Hanabie - Japan's next metal superstars
- “It was an awful mistake to overlook his album. But you could be excused for not sticking with it”: Fired by King Crimson, this prog poet assembled a group of A-list colleagues and took them on a trip into the unknown. They got lost – or so it seemed
- "An all-you-can-eat barbecue that looks delicious at the start but turns into an indistinguishable mush by the end": Blackberry Smoke overcook the recipe on Rattle, Ramble & Roll - The Best Of Volume One
- “He’s full of warmth for those they befriended on their rise, and full of ire for those who crossed them”: Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, the Beach Boys, the Eagles and others in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps
- Platform shoes and skintight jeans: Every David Coverdale and Whitesnake album, ranked from worst to best
November 13
- "I was bullied in 72 by a bunch of hippies": Pete Townshend names his five favourite Pete Townshend songs
- "One of those rare records where I literally love every note": Devon Allman picks the soundtrack of his life
- "We've taken care of the lion's wig": Deep Purple and Whitesnake legend David Coverdale announces retirement
- "Since speaking out, I feel like myself again...never let anyone silence you. Your voice matters." Dogma, the band of heavy metal nuns, have imploded amidst accusations of manipulation and mistreatment. Here's everything we know
- Alan Parsons Project story to be told for first time in official book
- "He said, 'Black Sabbath... I don't know if I like their music.' I said, 'We have $800 in the bank, you love their music.'" Black Sabbath's former manager originally wanted Dio to write and record while Ozzy Osbourne toured with the band
- "He was the Mad Max of rock 'n' roll." Lemmy is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer: we celebrate the man, the myth and the music of Motörhead
- Soft Machine will release new studio album, Thirteen, in March
- Every Predator movie ranked from worst to best, from the original classic to Badlands
- "I haven't seen an outpouring like that since Princess Diana died." Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne share their emotional response to the world mourning their husband and dad, Ozzy
- "We're not running from the law, we're running towards something": Parker Barrow feel connected to Bonnie & Clyde, even if their pursuits are different
- "The ageless thrill of someone getting classic rock right": Cheap Trick's electricity is evergreen on All Washed Up
- Listen to haunting instrumental cover of Madonna's Frozen recorded by late Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner
- "Was it worth it? It was and it will be until my dying day." Hotel chef fired after asking for a picture with Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose
- "We've never done that before, and we're never doing it again!" Watch Blackmore's Night play a rare version of a Deep Purple classic
November 12
- World's largest bagpipe ensemble pays tribute to Bon Scott in Australia as AC/DC break out a classic for the first time in decades
- Get Poppy’s new album Empty Hands on exclusive bone, violet and baby blue vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
- "I think when things happen like the throat cancer, or my neck being fused, or the saturnine palsy in my arm, most people would stop." Dave Mustaine on why Megadeth's final show might still be "three to five years" away
- "I take a lot of pride in starting this band and creating this universe." Black Sabbath, homemade chainmail and Frank Frazetta - getting to know Castle Rat, the fantasy metal sensations everyone's talking about
- “We are calling on everyone – the industry, artists, government and music fans – to come together and invest what they can”: As campaign to save seven grassroots UK venues enters final days, organisers urge fans to donate
- Let's-a go! The Black Friday Nintendo Lego deals are racing in early with up to 27% off Mario Kart, Animal Crossing & more
- "They commenced to destroy, slaughter and wipe the stage with our blood." How a hip hop powerhouse and a heavy metal institution united to create a whole new genre - and spark one of the rowdiest tours in history
- “He sang of partying with such ferocity that suddenly parties seemed like trench warfare…” How we saw, and only just survived, an early performance of the 00s' first rock classic
- “We knew we had to push and push. We did the work ourselves and toured so much, until radio had no option but to play us”: The unlikely story of the last classic nu metal album
- “I had a big lump in my throat when we did the last gigs. A big chapter in my life was coming to an end – and I couldn’t tell anyone”: The curious tale of Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour
- "The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums": The story of the wild tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge
- “When the first riff came together, we locked in and played it for 100 hours.” How a song about a big angry whale helped four Southern misfits hang with Slipknot and Slayer - and become 21st century metal trailblazers
- Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan releases debut solo single - complete with video filmed in abandoned coal mine
- Quiz: How much do you know about Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece Nebraska?
- Watch Blackberry Smoke pay tribute to Gary Rossington with the guitar used during the recording of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird
November 11
- "If I didn't have singing I probably would have murdered somebody": Two of rock's great concert films are now free to watch on YouTube
- "It's an ode to a Goth girl who was so into herself that she once held a mirror over my face so she could see herself climax." Sex, vampires and black lipstick: the story of Type O Negative's goth metal anthem, Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
- "It was just a pub. If they went there to discuss the sick things they were doing, it’s not the pub’s fault." From Mafia-run streets to the Satanic crime that shocked Italy, the incredible life of Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia
- “I’m not mentioned much in documentaries about Ozzy – at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, not a photo”: Jake E. Lee explains why he felt like a “forgotten footnote” in Ozzy Osbourne’s legacy until Back To The Beginning
- “It’s one of the greatest songs ever written, like a Bohemian Rhapsody or a Stairway To Heaven”: What happened when Avenged Sevenfold threw caution to the wind and made an eight-minute necrophiliac symphony
- “Refusing to revel in his own chaos, he proves it’s possible to turn even short compositions into suites”: The emo pioneer who suddenly went prog
- “If you were told to listen to us because you like Tool, that’s a positive. But if you listen just for those similarities, you’ll miss out”: The heart and soul that went into Soen’s Tellurian
- Deftones announce biggest ever UK show for 2026 with Idles, Amyl & The Sniffers, Jpegmafia and more
- "I'll break both yer arms": Memories of life with Lemmy as a friend and neighbour
- Foghat haven't played in the UK for over half a century: This weekend, that changes
- "Sixty years went by in the blink of an eye": Bad Company's Paul Rodgers shares Hall of Fame acceptance speech after missing ceremony
- Watch Brandi Carlile and Taylor Momsen's triumphant Hall of Fame performance of Black Hole Sun with Soundgarden
November 10
- Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup
- "He was a genuine, unforgettable, lunatic presence." How a heroin-kicking, hell-raising, heavy metal-hating genius named Brent Hinds changed the face of metal forever
- “Thank you for the worldwide recognition of my singing, a little piece of my soul that inspires me to keep growing”: The woman who sang death metal at Miss World Chile has just won the competition
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 10, 2025
- “I would have liked to have not chopped the ends of my fingers off. It became a burden”: The Devil, the blues and a factory accident – the story of the Black Sabbath song that kicked off heavy metal
- "One of the best live bands I've ever seen." "Coldplay could never!" A video of New York fantasy metallers Castle Rat staging a live battle on stage has gone viral. Is this heavy metal's next breakout band?
- "I walked up behind him: ‘Hi Brian Johnson, I’m a guitar player. Do you want to go onstage and jam some songs?’ He went, 'Yeah mate!'" How an AC/DC legend and a heavyweight guitarist covered Led Zeppelin at a famous baseball player's wedding
- Ozzy Osbourne was working on a new solo album before he died – this is what it would have sounded like, according to Zakk Wylde
- "He made his point known in a way that scared this guy half to death": Eric Gales' new album pays tribute to the man whose music he grew up with - his brother
- “If you want to play that kind of music, play it on your solo album. I’m not interested”: In 1971 Greg Lake enraged Keith Emerson, who immediately quit ELP. The result was their acclaimed album Tarkus
- “They’d often taken leaps into more powerful, aggressive album tracks at odds with their hit singles. Then they went even further”: When a 70s bubblegum pop quartet surprised fans by releasing a prog album
- "Just about enough charm to pass muster": Four decades down the line, Fastway's debut album falls short of classic status
November 9
- Stanley Simmons – sons of Kiss duo Paul and Gene – announce debut single Body Down
- “It’s hard to watch a friend face down their demons in front of you and come off second best”: The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity
- “Jimmy was up and running and in great shape – he was in fantastic form. I thought, ‘Job done’”: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers’ 80s supergroup should have been huge. The reality was very different
- “People were partying like there was no tomorrow because they were gonna die. It captures that joyous nocturnal life”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge wanted a song to match Queen. Instead, he wrote the greatest plague-inspired metal banger of the last 20 years
- Chris Cornell’s daughter sings an emotional Fell On Black Days as Soundgarden are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- “I had this void in front of me. It was intimidating. Then I realised I had total freedom, and it’s been amazing”: When one of prog’s biggest bands shut down, their guitarist bounced back by releasing three albums in two years
- “Bacchanalian, primal, subversive, translucent… like what might happen if Robert Fripp’s drink had been spiked with acid”: 10 great psychedelic songs that’ll shake any prog fan’s tree (but aren't by Pink Floyd)
- Jack White accepts White Stripes Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction as Meg sends her apologies
November 8
- “I could see downtown Hollywood and all the transformers were blowing. It looked like the city was being bombed”: How Terminator 2, a banned video and a massive earthquake shaped a classic Tool song
- “Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix
- “We all blamed each other, but we never doubted the song”: It took Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers more than 100 takes to nail one of their greatest songs – and it still ended up being “an albatross” around their necks
- Twisted Sister to play first UK show in a decade at Steelhouse 2026
- “If I’d put a live act together we’d have conquered the world. But it was a fear I had – what does a record producer do onstage? It was unfounded. We should have done it”: Studio veteran reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a big name himself
- Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey
- Watch official footage of Lamb of God performing new single Sepsis live at Aftershock
November 7
- How to watch this weekend's 2025 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
- Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees
- This footage of Indian metal sensations Bloodywood playing Halla Bol will convince you they’re the funnest thing in rock right now
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Cool new proggy sounds from Jan Akkerman, Soen, Evergrey and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- "If I could go back in time and smack the **** out of younger me, I would. I didn't know how to ask for help." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach explains the turmoil behind one of metalcore's biggest anthems
- “There’s no special effects – there were kids falling through ceilings, flying through glass, jumping off roofs”: From kicking booze to an anarchic video shoot, the story of Slipknot’s biggest single, Duality
- Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!
- Opeth announce live show at Pompeii's legendary Amphitheatre for July 2026
- "It felt like my head was going to explode." Alligator murder, police raids and abandoned adult theatres: the story of the chaotic video shoot that helped make an underground 90s band cult legends
- “I was getting to the end. I was like, dude, honestly, if this doesn’t work out, I’m going to do something else”: Will Ramos was ready to quit music before joining Lorna Shore
- Get an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the new Big Big Train album Woodcut, only through Prog
- "It was something that hit you like a flash of light, so you write a song about it": The story of the magical Saxon classic inspired by heavy metal music, heavy metal fans and... Toto?
- "A triumphant two fingers to everyone who had written him off": Why Diary Of A Madman deserves to be remembered as more than the album that kicked off Ozzy's crazy years
- “They told me, ‘David Gilmour’s not going to like this. You’re going to hear some thunder!’ You think he’s going to be one way and then he goes completely the other. And that’s good”: Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River
- “Released at a time when many fans didn’t know the band still existed, it contains some of Robert Calvert’s finest material”: Hawkwind’s PXR5 plugs into the more celebrated Hall Of The Mountain Grill
- Building the Beast: Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson on battles, breakthroughs and the birth of a legend – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
November 6
- "Flying between savant inspiration, sporadic silliness, and some very, very good rock music": Paul McCartney & Wings crush the myth that Macca's seventies were mid
- “It’s been an incredible ride”: Journey announce the dates for their epic Final Frontier farewell tour
- Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
- Metallica gave Wolfgang Van Halen a ‘Perfect Attendance Award’ for playing every venue on their 2023 and 2024 tours
- "Jonathan was just bugging out. So we thought, ‘That may work out if Chester sang on the verse’”: The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear – complete with Chester Bennington collaboration
- “I was staring at the LA cityscape wondering what the hell I was doing with my life. I was examining every awful thing about myself”: How My Chemical Romance took alienation, anxiety and hair bleach and turned it into the emo Bohemian Rhapsody
- "It had a second life through social media, eight years after the album!" This is what it’s like when your song goes viral almost a decade after you released it, according to Swedish power metallers Sabaton
- Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art
- "He smells like the inside of your grandmother's purse": Spinal Tap's improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested
- “It’s the moment the cracks appeared and their decline into preposterousness began. It sinks under the weight of its own self-importance”: What members of Marillion, Dream Theater, Asia and more think of Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans
- “We were very aware of creating something that didn’t sound exactly like anybody else. Now, of course, it sounds like everyone else”: This cult Seattle band helped invent 90s emo. Then Dave Grohl poached two of their members for Foo Fighters
- “Dave and I were in a position where there was no Plan B. There was no escape hatch”: Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this thrash classic inspired by Patti Smith and written on a borrowed bass would change everything
November 5
- Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans
- Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist
- "It's loud, the guitars are right to the fore": Francis Rossi unexpectedly returns to boogie-driven Status Quo sound on new single
- Henry Rollins is coming back to music after over 20 years - and has been working with another iconic punk legend
- "I did the entire record in a wheelchair; it was brutally painful.” How a stagediving accident, massive hospital bills and the grunge explosion turned a bunch of "dirtbag punks" into Metallica-approved stoner metal icons
- “Even though Dave might claim that he wrote Leper Messiah, he didn’t”: The story of every song Dave Mustaine co-wrote for Metallica – and what Megadeth did with those riffs
- Cosmic proggers Gong tease upcoming album with brand new single Stars In Heaven
- One of the best British rock bands of their generation just released their first new song in seven years - and it absolutely slays
- "It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all." Robert Plant explains how the mystique of Wales and the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien influenced Led Zeppelin
- Exploring Birdsong return to action with catchy new single Romanticise
- Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister once rammed a cheeseburger into a $2,000,000 mixing desk because he lost an argument
- Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
- "Some killer songwriting behind the blood and raw meat": Nine albums by W.A.S.P you should hear and one to avoid
- "I think the song will resonate for the next hundred years": The story of the Kiss classic Kiss didn't actually write
- “They lock in and deliver really interesting riffs in a way that makes them sound simple, when they’re not simple at all” TesseracT’s James Monteith on the guitarist and band who changed his approach to music in the 90s
- "I think what we have here is failure to appreciate": Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven files lawsuit against the band
November 4
- Watch videos from Radiohead's first live show in seven years - plus full setlist
- A female-fronted band is finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time
- “I’d love to play the battlefields where the song actually happened”: Sabaton’s singer wants to do a gig on the beaches of Normandy, on the anniversary of D-Day
- “Arnold saw me and went, ‘You! Out!’. He didn’t want anybody challenging him”: The incredible story of the 80s heavy metal bodybuilder who bent steel bars with his teeth and links Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page and Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “60 years from now, I can look back and go, ‘I did a song with the dude from Slipknot! And it was good!’”: What it’s like collaborating with Corey Taylor, according to Ho99o9’s Yeti Bones
- Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
- “The edges were bound to fray – we were bound to take from each other. David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The influential folk singer-songwriter who never quite gained stardom, but gained massive respect instead
- Are you the ultimate Bon Jovi fan? Take our quiz to find out
- "We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days
- "Did you ever have one of those days when you want to go out, buy an enormous bag of coke and dive into it face-first?" Memories of a Hollywood night out with Ozzy Osbourne
November 3
- Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
- Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup
- AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025
- “We were never meant to be a professional band...it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?'" A politician's assassination, a motorbike ride and a gothic Western: the story of the song that crowned one of Europe's most unlikely star bands
- Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
- Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday
- Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026
- "Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend
- “There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural
- “I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way
- "I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
November 2
- "A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village
- Campaign launched to posthumously award Ace Frehley honorary astronaut status
- “He couldn’t stand up so I hit him over the head with my bass. He fell to the floor. I ran away… I didn’t know if he was still alive”: The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage
- “It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems
- King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation
- “Learned from the greatest". Watch Ozzy Osbourne's toddler grandson bite the head off a toy bat
November 1
- “I’ve always been kind of an exhibitionist and it was an interesting experience. I took it very seriously”: Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld on the NSFW side-hustle that made him more money than music – and why fans should get over it
- “I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
- “You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I never wanted it to be a single’ to ‘I hated the song’”: The huge Linkin Park hit that Chester Bennington didn’t even want on Hybrid Theory
- “As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end
- “I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died