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March 26
- “I had to put dirt and filth in the microphone to make it sound grim enough”: Black metal giants Dimmu Borgir have announced their first album in eight years, and they reunited with their classic producer to make it sound old-school
- Judas Priest have started recording their next album: “I don't know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it”
- Slamdancing with John Belushi, supporting Guns N' Roses, duetting with Bruce Springsteen, and entertaining Elton John: the fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest and most under-rated cult artists
- “It's unbelievable we survived.” How a gang of OC punks changed the face of metalcore - and ultimately became one of 21st Century metal's true stadium acts
- "I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?" Paul McCartney announces new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Listen to first single Days We Left Behind
- "Guaranteed to turn any club, field or arena into a writhing mass of sweating, crashing bodies." Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best
- "Eyes pop, brains explode, jaws smack hard on the venue floor." Mogwai summon a post-rock apocalypse in London's most refined concert hall by invitation of The Cure's Robert Smith
- “You’re doing all the work, selling your own merch, but they’ll still come at the end of the night and take 25 percent. For what?!” UK metal band on the cusp of breaking up detail the ludicrous costs of touring in the 2020s
- "Queen, Muse, black metal…I want to be able to be eclectic with it." Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz reveals her surprising influences, clarifies the situation about the next phase of her career
- One of metal’s biggest bands soundtrack a fist-fight featuring Bruce Campbell as Satan in the new episode of Invincible, and TV doesn’t get much cooler than that
- "They sounded like Hanoi Rocks after somebody hit them in the head with a frying pan." 40 years ago The Babysitters were the best-worst band in the World. Perhaps they still are
- “Over the years there have been people claiming I nudged Peter Gabriel out. That’s complete rubbish”: Phil Collins’ first show as Genesis singer, 50 years ago
- "I've always been drawn to the energy and storytelling of heavy metal." William Shatner announces Rob Halford will guest on his eagerly-awaited all-star heavy metal album
- "I think a lot of people in rock culture can smell it." Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix loves how rock is pushing back against A.I.
- "The Island record came out the same time as Bob Marley, and the Epic one at the same time as Boston. We were buried, and both became Frisbees." The story of the southern rock legends who took ten years to become an overnight success
March 25
- "I don't know what to think. This was never on my bingo card." The Beach Boys replace Bruce Johnston with singer found on social media
- "He’s a judge! What do I say? I’m 26, I don’t know **** about the legal system!" How a fake murder story, a lawsuit and one extremely weird phone call got this classic Slipknot song removed from the world and hidden for a decade
- "I did some crazy s**t, you know!" Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's bizarre '90s collaboration with Miss Piggy
- Ever wanted to hear Blink-182, Creed and Chris Stapleton hail Satan? This guitarist is turning pop-punk, country and classical songs into black metal riffs
- "A portrait of determination, self-destruction and redemption": How to watch new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead
- "By writing obsessively in my diary I was admitting, This is madness, you are in danger, be careful." Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry
- “Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches
- Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera declined invitation to perform at band’s final show, claims guitarist Andreas Kisser: “They don’t want to be a part of it”
- “They chose to make this buck-wild album. If Metallica can do that, then we can do that”: Why Avenged Sevenfold “fell in love” with the ever-controversial St Anger
- The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
- “I’d never heard of them before I got the request. But my assistant said they were very good, so I agreed”: The ambition behind Nightwish’s collaboration with Richard Dawkins
- "In pursuing my own fake band I stumbled upon something that had real potential." The miraculous rise of the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke
- "Determined to expand beyond the restrictive confines of goth, they were victims of their own ambition." Nine albums by The Mission to listen and one to ignore
- "Yo, Jim. This is Sylvester Stallone. Gimme a call. We need to talk." How one of Hollywood's great action heroes turned Survivor from no-hopers to heavyweight champions of AOR
- Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more: The A to Z of B.B. King
March 24
- Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89
- "I was like, Get out of this studio right now. And his jaw hit the ground." The day Anthony Kiedis was fired from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and why it was the wake-up call he desperately needed
- "I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell
- They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s
- Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”
- "There was no facade, this was genuine." Take a first look inside Oasis Live ‘25 Opus, the official photo book of "the most anticipated reunion of all time"
- Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame
- "I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory
- How to watch Prime Video from anywhere: Stream award-winning music documentaries, live performances and more
- "He bought a retired police sniffer dog because he kept forgetting where he'd hidden his drugs." Quireboys frontman Spike is currently on an unplugged tour - and he's telling some wild stories
- “I said, ‘It’s more interesting to just hint. We don’t want to give the game away”: The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing
- "There's no reason why you can't get better as you get older." Nine Thunder albums to listen to and one to avoid
- “Marrying the idea of death to an upbeat, singalong chorus has always been interesting”: This band love sneaking prog into record collections
March 23
- "If it were made today, it would sound like Green Day or a metal band." How a neurotic 19-year-old and a guitarist with a razor created the blueprint for metal and punk
- Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar announce extensive run of US shows
- AFI announce UK and European headline shows
- "It has all that weight, all that history, all that pain." How Hollywood superstar Cillian Murphy convinced one of the world's most acclaimed musicians to re-record one of his best-loved songs for the new Peaky Blinders movie
- "I should be dead, but someone up there likes me." Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in '80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit
- "I was kicked out of the Deftones show 'cos I was being too aggressive in the pit. I was like, 'I used to be in this band!'" What it was like being in one of the world's biggest metal bands in their earliest days
- Soundboks raise the roof once again with their latest heavyweight Bluetooth speaker
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026
- "It touched something inside me the moment I heard it, and I’ve never been able to step away from it." The two-woman band from Istanbul bringing the Turkish black metal scene roaring into life
- “A lot of fans and the press didn’t like it. I agreed with them for a while”: The British blues boom band who went prog, with help from John Lennon, heatstroke and weed
- Aftershock is the West Coast's biggest rock, punk and metal festival. Here's why you can't afford to miss it
- "I don’t want my son disrespecting women, but he always says to me, 'Mom! You have a song called Whore!'" The misunderstood singer who became a 21st century metal icon
- “He stopped the proceedings and said, ‘What you’re playing is crap!’” Bill Bruford’s first and best drum lesson as King Crimson recorded Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
- "We were playing the first slot at noon. Nobody comes to the stage at noon but it was full of people. They were waiting for us and chanting!" How four Mongolian pals playing folk metal became their country's biggest ever rock band
- "Open your mind. Wear what you want, sing what you want to sing, be what you want to be. Be happy." Ana Popovic on fixing the craziness in the world, getting Bruce Springsteen's approval and turning funky
- "He said: 'Hold it! Keep playing that, don't stop!' He comes down in his undershorts and grabs his guitar, then completes the riff." How London’s famous clock tower and a flirtatious groupie inspired Jimi Hendrix's last great song
- "On paper, it's hard to imagine Ronstadt as a road-weary trucker, but she completely owns Lowell George's Willin'." Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel
- "I am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother of being 'unevolved' or transphobic in any way." Dave Davies fires back after criticism of The Kinks' classic Lola
March 22
- “When people dismiss it as Spinal Tap, I find that offensive, because these guys were brave and honest and dealt with issues that all creative people go through”: How metal’s biggest band went to the edge and made one of the greatest documentaries ever
- “The Genesis guys said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left. I thought there was no chance of getting them to do it”: How Steve Hackett’s risky solo move paid off
- “Something had changed. The music was becoming more commercial. We’d lost something of our punk-type edge. It was getting a bit too arty-farty”: How Iron Maiden fought back against a press backlash and accusations of “hype” to deliver a classic album
- “We heralded a change that culminated with everyone buying Appetite For Destruction. We were treated badly for saying there’s nothing wrong with rock music”: How a group of AC/DC-loving ex-goths helped make hard rock cool again – with help from Rick Rubin
- "This is a song about one of Ben’s friends that has multiple sclerosis. I am that friend with MS." How one Canadian punk band turned a life-altering diagnosis into an anthem of resilience
- “The Eagles were recording next door, but we were too loud for them. It kept coming through the wall into their sessions”: How Black Sabbath nearly ruined one of the most famous American rock songs in history
- “Melodic death metal didn’t exist when we wrote it. We were just a death metal band and we wanted to incorporate more classic songwriting into our sound”: The Swedish extreme metal anthem that sparked a whole new genre into life
March 21
- “I was working with Pete Townshend just after Moon died. I said: ‘Have you got anybody? I’ll leave Genesis’”: Phil Collins comes clean about wanting to join The Who, Led Zeppelin at Live Aid and the young rock legend who sent him a letter of support
- Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo
- "The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to
- “I said, ‘To be honest, our first single was a fast, punky version of your song.’ They all chorused, ‘Yes, we know!’”: How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music
- “Some bands wouldn’t function without each other, like Led Zeppelin. I was never like that. I was thought of as an egomaniac”: The Swedish shredder who compares himself to Beethoven, hates the blues and loves being rock’s most divisive guitarist
- “We were musicians and we knew how to play. We weren’t just a bunch of hippies running around playing three chords”: This rock icon broke away from her band to launch a solo career with an album that divided the critics. A year later she was dead
- Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon
- “To my shame, I did have big hair when I was a teenager – the full Mötley Crüe. But I could never get with Poison”: The 80s thrash classic Korn guitarist Head calls “the ultimate metal album” – and the record he thinks should be thrown in the trash
- “I was feeling a bit despondent because Free had broken up. I met a lady who was Brazilian and she said: ‘Come down and stay with me’”: How a supergroup formed from the ashes of one of the UK’s greatest bands wrote one of rock’s ultimate outlaw anthems
March 20
- "We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone." Hugely influential post-metal pioneers Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
- "If you ask me what it's like to be a woman in rock, I'll scream." Slipknot, snow fights and sexism: the summer that changed everything for Italy's biggest metal band
- "I started shooting up heroin when I was 13. I didn't want to be left out of all the fun." How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records
- "It's probably the heaviest thing I've written in terms of lyrics." Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “My kids sat me down and said, ‘Please stop, because you are gonna kill yourself’”: Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
- “40 years later, I still get to do the thing I love the most. I truly have to pinch myself.” One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour
- "I remember getting the award from Aerosmith and I went to an afterparty with Bono. It was all mad." How a comedy song about a posh lady getting her kicks from the homeless community became an impossible hit
- "We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record
- Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- “I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself”: Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
- "Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music
- "I had women with babies they said were his, women stripping their clothes off on the doorstep." My chaotic life as Phil Lynott's girlfriend
- "Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk
- Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary reissues for Radio-Activity
- "He communicates at a very deep emotional level with the electric guitar." Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi on the music that has soundtracked his life
- "He is undergoing a full battery of tests": AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
- "It was like something from Mad Max, with all the fires and steaming bodies." Meet the rock'n'roll Forrest Gump, who turned down Jimi Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, and was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend
March 19
- Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album
- "At the height of Britpop, it was like music was a joke." The truth behind the '90s highly entertaining Mogwai vs Blur feud
- “This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together and continuing to make music”: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September
- Pro-Ject E1.2 turntable review: A stellar turntable that's simply hard to beat for the price
- "I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but there's a lot of anger, a lot of despair and a lot of frustration." The story behind the global Phil Collins hit that Genesis wish they'd recorded
- “There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again
- How to watch "raucous, moving, and surprisingly tender" film The Rise Of The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
- “A triumph in prog, and a masterclass in storytelling”: Members of Dream Theater, Nightwish, Gentle Giant and others on the power of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
- "I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation
- "I was afraid of silence, afraid of having to feel." Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl reflects on the aftermath of the death of his best friend and bandmate Taylor Hawkins
- Official Alan Parsons Project 50th anniversary book now available for pre-order: Watch Sally Woolfson explain why it’s special
- “We lived through a mudslide, a flood, a fire and an earthquake, and we were living on 20 bucks a day”: Lzzy Hale looks back on the industry mishaps and natural disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album
- “If he knew karate, he would have broken the table with how hard he hit it. He said, ‘That has to be on the album!’”: Can you imagine Pink Floyd’s The Wall without Comfortably Numb? Roger Waters once did
- "He had to talk down a gun-toting S.W.A.T. team after Ace Frehley accidentally shot himself." For 40 years, Danny Francis kept rock stars out of trouble - and his stories prove it
- "Can you believe it? I only found out in January." Suzi Quatro discovers she's been breaking the law for over half a century
- From child prodigy to platinum star: Nine Steve Winwood albums you should listen to and one to avoid
- "A mix of surreal, supercilious satire and puerile lewdness." Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded
- "Raw, hungry, and already road-honed by years of gigging." The Legendary Edition of Aerosmith's debut album expands the original with live and session tracks
March 18
- "One of America's great bands just got a little bit greater." Tedeschi Trucks Band continue the search for transcendence on the sublime Future Soul
- How to listen to BBC Sounds from anywhere
- “My life was going down the toilet. I was trying to stay out of everybody’s way, just to finish what I’d started." The story behind the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' second album, The Colour And The Shape
- "The view is always better when you leave the wasteland behind." Rising Irish artist Sister Ghost channels Patti Smith and Kate Bush on new EP Oracle, lines up UK shows
- "Gods of metal!" Watch Dune star Javier Bardem, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and more in the first trailer for new Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition
- "I always came home with my head full of blood. They were punching holes in my head with umbrellas." Head wounds, hardcore gigs and homophobes: Paleface Swiss are changing what it means to be masculine in metal
- "It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then and who we are now." Placebo announce reimagined version of 1996 debut album, plus 30th anniversary arena tour
- Quirky YouTube sensations Angine de Poitrine announce new album for April
- "We had friends film us and then went to bed. Imagine our surprise the next morning: we woke up and it was already viral." How one powerful video turned a group of outcasts who'd escaped war into Ukraine's biggest metal band
- "We miss your smile, your warmth, your creativity, your compassion and your humour." Following his death last year, metal legends At The Gates have posted a moving new tribute to their singer Tomas Lindberg
- "When we played Chicago it was like Led Zeppelin. It was all there for us to take." The frazzled story of the stoner rock supergroup who should have been massive - but were crushed by the music business
- "We had expected empty rooms, possibly even bottles of urine, but from the first night everyone knew the words." The sudden rise, spectacular fall and slow road to recovery of America's great lost AOR band
- “It was like, ‘Are we going to work on Peter Gabriel’s stuff or our stuff?’ Everybody said, ‘Our stuff! We just like it better’”: The American band who decided to stick to their own course… and ran aground
- "It was like pulling teeth. Which is among the reasons why we stopped writing together." The story of the Status Quo song that ended a partnership and became a roller-coaster live classic
March 17
- "It's not a whitewash... and we don't try and hide anything." Heart's Ann Wilson confirms In My Voice documentary and screening tour
- "She dumped the baby on me and Joe Strummer and f***ed off for three days." That time a world famous rock star got shocked members of The Clash and The Damned to babysit her daughter while she went out partying
- "She looks happy, but you see a little fear and uncertainty behind her eyes." How a wedding, a shocked Simon Cowell and an iconic horror movie helped a viral pandemic metal video become a modern classic
- "It'll be a fat cheque!" This thrash guitarist reckons he's due some cash from Metallica for his role in writing Creeping Death — and it's not Dave Mustaine
- "What a voice. What a moment." Start your St. Patrick's Day celebrations the right way by watching Jessie Buckley, the first Irish winner of a best actress Oscar, absolutely smash a Primal Scream classic in a bar
- The forthcoming Oasis Live ’25 tour documentary is "phenomenal" says producer Stephen Knight, with Liam and Noel Gallagher delivering "one quote after another"
- "He meant so much to me." The verses on Peter Frampton's new single Buried Treasure are crafted entirely from Tom Petty song titles
- "Kind of rebels, both of them." Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy draws parallels between his Peaky Blinders anti-hero Tommy Shelby and Birmingham's true Prince Of Darkness
- Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien announces second solo album, Blue Morpho, will be released in May
- "The song is about escape." A seventh Linkin Park song has achieved over one billion streams on Spotify
- "I won't go through treatment. I've lived the life of ten men and will die with dignity." Ginger Wildheart diagnosed with cancer, says he has "2-3" years left
- Sole surviving Moody Blues member Justin Hayward announces UK tour for October
- "I’m not indoctrinated anymore." How weird masks, wild rallies and big choruses helped President became one of metal's hottest new bands
- "So there I was slinging names about and accusing them of all sorts of things – dastardly deeds and vile occurrences!" Feuding and in crisis, Deep Purple combined two high-profile figures to create an anti-censorship classic
- “Some fans preferred it to Genesis… I had record labels asking for my next album, and half a band forbidding me from doing it”: The unexpected consequences of Steve Hackett’s Voyage Of The Acolyte
- "They told me to change my name. They also told me to sing other people's songs." How Joan Armatrading refused to compromise, baffled session pros, and made the album that set her on the path to stardom
- "You can hide behind it, but all my favourites play guitar and I wanna be the whole package." James Bruner was drawn into rock by the greats: Now he's ready to become one
- The man who inspired the British blues boom: Nine Muddy Waters albums you should listen to and one to avoid
March 16
- "I don’t know Katy Perry the diva. I know Katy Perry the tomboy who came in picking her nose." How a future pop megastar ended up as a singer for a famous Christian nu metal band
- Audio-Technica AT-LP70XBT review: An automatic turntable all-but guaranteed to go the distance
- "I put the mask on and I immediately understood what it was like to disappear. I was gone and the real me had just shown up." How Slipknot's Clown was born in a shopping mall in the mid '80s
- "I was like, 'Wow, I'm about the same size as this huge animal!'" How a close encounter with wolves, a rough break-up and a Spider-Man director helped Evanescence produce one of their most important singles
- With huge savings on a range of Amazon devices, Spring Deal Days is the perfect time to upgrade your home entertainment set-up
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 16, 2026
- “After all the choirs, orchestras and 700 tracks I’m just like, ‘Guys, it’s been a rough few years. I’m a confused 15-year-old’”: Devin Townsend had to abandon King Crimson, Yes and Gentle Giant for AC/DC and Bon Jovi
- One of our highest-rated Audio-Technica turntables has a brilliant 20% discount for Amazon Spring Deal Days - but you'll have to be quick to grab it
- "They told us we couldn't say anything to Paul about the Beatles. We were bummed out." The day that Toto guitarist Steve Lukather defied orders and jammed Beatles songs with Paul McCartney
- Nu metal legends Korn have announced their first UK and Europe headline tour in over a decade - and they're bringing one of Britain's best metal bands along for the ride
- "Heathen finds Bowie settling into his role as elder statesman of the post-punk art rock movement." David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend
- "One day I came back from delivering the chickens and there was a message. I had to learn 18 songs by Friday." Phil Campbell interview: My life in Motörhead
- "It's been a long time in the making. I am very proud of this very special album." Love Vinnie Vincent? Then you'll probably be OK with the two-million-dollar price tag for his new album
March 15
- "In a sea full of fish, we caught each other." Metallica's James Hetfield proposes to partner Adriana Gillett underwater while swimming with whale sharks
- "They asked if I knew who Johnny Cash was. I was like, ‘Of course I f**king know who he is!" How a punk legend helped resurrect the career of an American icon in less than half an hour
- “There’s a thinking that, to be progressive, every song has to have 14 minutes of musical intellectualism. We don’t agree”: Some say Soen’s new album isn’t prog enough. But they cite Genesis in their defence
- “I have always been interested in the mystery about our existence. I kept my eyes opened during the night to see in the darkness. My imagination went from Heaven to Hell”: The blasphemous Brazilian black metal band who made Sepultura look like Bon Jovi
- “We never really fitted in at all. Most heavy metal bands were riff-based. A thousand bands were copying Judas Priest and Iron Maiden”: The chaotic story of Spider, the unluckiest boogie rock band of the 80s
- “When you’re ahead of your time, it’s a real problem. You can have something extremely unique and labels won’t sign it because they don’t understand it”: The turbulent story of the band who claim to have brought heavy metal to North America
- “We never took advantage of a death. Other bands did it. People tried to make us do the same, but we just wouldn’t”: The southern rock classic covered by Waylon Jennings and Poison that deserves to be up there with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama
March 14
- I had cassette tapes of Muddy’s Chess songs made. “I’d bring them to the studio and he would decide if he wanted to record a song again”: How a blues legend made a stunning return to form in the twllight of his career - with help from a young guitar hero
- "I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls and I apologise if I hurt her." Sebastian Bach sorry for relationship with 17-year-old Christina Applegate
- "It's a way of life. I love my job, so working isn't a problem." Gary Holt has seen it all with Slayer and Exodus – and he's not ready for it to end yet
- "It's our most emotional and moving song." In 1986, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taped something off the TV. Years later, that recording would leave fans wondering what in the name of grunge was going on
- “He listened to the first two tunes, picked up the album and smashed it against the wall. It was the only one we had!” This 1968 hit made a prog pioneer into a global star – but even he didn’t like it at first
- “Lars called and said, ‘What did you do to our song? You covered up the solos, you covered up the drums, you filled every moment with dialogue!’”: How a bleak anti-war song and a massive u-turn pushed the “biggest cult band in the world” to a new level
- “Rory was approached with the suggestion he join Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in a new version of Cream”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Brian May loved them - but this trailblazing Irish blues rock trio lasted just two albums before imploding
- Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64: “His legacy, music and the memories he created with so many will live on forever”
- "I could be talking to you from my Burger King castle. That's my biggest regret." The beloved hardcore band that turned down a big pile of money to wear chicken masks for a Slipknot-aping fast food advert
- “There was a speed-breaking incident. We weren’t even doing anything cool, just coming back from the store. Blame Judas Priest!”: The album that Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale wants played at her funeral – and the pop record that became a drunken karaoke favourite
- “There was something romantic about splitting up when we did. But we couldn’t have gone on anyway. We were killing each other”: How rock’s most volatile band wrote the song that invented the 1990s – and then imploded
March 13
- Metal Up Your Bass! TransAtlantic duo remaster entire early Metallica catalogue with bass parts restored and made louder
- “The song represents a reckless normalisation of a dangerous practice." Romania's nu metal-styled Eurovision Song Contest entry Choke Me under fire for allegedly promoting sexual strangulation
- "I'll see you all around." Ghost appear to have killed off another of their iconic frontmen in a hilarious new video that has everyone talking
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "When a life of excess leads you on a rollercoaster that is doomed to crash but you just can’t see it." The Pretty Reckless announce fifth album Dear God, share new single When I Wake Up, and reveal world tour itinerary
- "It turned out so good that Depeche Mode liked it!" The bold, gothic cover of a 90s classic that helped establish one of Europe's most beloved metal bands - and why it got a seal of approval from some British legends
- "I threw my guitar off, dove into the crowd, and began strangling him to the ground. I remember the look of terror in his eyes." The night that Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan met his future bandmate, and future Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur
- Great new prog you must hear from Devin Townsend, Green Carnation, Midge Ure, Teramaze and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- “What can you say? It’s definitely earned its keep”: David Gilmour on the guitar he sold for $4m – that’s just sold again for $14.5m
- "The masks are sanitised now." Slipknot's former drummer is selling memorabilia collected during his time with Bruce Springsteen, Against Me! and Suicidal Tendencies
- "There’s a guy here who you can pay five dollars to kick in the crotch.” A wild and weird weekend in Las Vegas with metal's most colourful band
- "At one point I felt like soaking myself in vodka, setting myself alight and flinging my body from a balcony in protest." The explosive story of the little-known band who inspired The Who and influenced punk
- "Looking at these things gave me some feelings I wasn't sure about. So I took these things outside and I burned all of them." Why Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan destroyed his past
- David Gilmour's iconic black Strat has just sold for $14.5 million and is now the most expensive guitar ever
March 12
- "I was thinking about all the singers that came from the Seattle scene and how many of them had since died." Pearl Jam's Mike McCready announces rock opera about the history of grunge in Seattle
- "When we recorded that song, Jim was on a huge dose of acid." How a simple break-up song evolved into The Doors' darkest, weirdest and most disturbing freak-out
- With a $50 Amazon gift card to spend in the Big Spring Sale, there's never been a better time to sign up to NordVPN - especially with 74% off AND 4 free months of browsing protection
- “I know Deftones don’t like to be coined as nu metal, but…”: Nu metal favourites Papa Roach have just named the best nu metal songs of all time – and, yes, one of them picked Last Resort
- "I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s." Bruce Springsteen honours the late Shane MacGowan, shares cover of A Rainy Night In Soho from tribute album featuring Tom Waits, Kate Moss
- “Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne”: Jack Osbourne and wife Aree welcome baby daughter and name her after the Prince Of Darkness
- "They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas
- "I wanted to be able to say we are the next big thing.” Army drills, TikTok hits and nu metal: Sleep Theory are metalcore's fastest rising stars
- "A load of old characters came out to see us and one of them got arrested. It was a full-moon vibe." Weird and wonderful alt.rock Brits Marmozets fizz back with a new album after a seven-year absence
- "One guy brought a homemade metal blade to a fight. It lasted about 25 seconds. Phil completely laid the fella out. Phil was tough. You didn't mess." From teenage fan to first-name pals - The Phil Lynott I knew
- "We took a break and made some tea. Within 20 minutes Steve had written the words." How Humble Pie made the ultimate whiplash boogie white boy blues
March 11
- "This prosecution was a legally laughable witch-hunt. Today’s decision brings this expensive circus to an end." Kneecap's Mo Chara will not face terrorism trial
- "It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind the Blondie classic that everyone misunderstood
- “I had rock stars much bigger than Dave coming to my side”: Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson responds to Dave Mustaine’s jab at former member’s past “behaviour”
- "I'll be your 1-900-G spot, baby, you won't last." Violet Grohl shares phone sex-inspired new song, announces debut album Be Sweet To Me
- "I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel
- With up to 33% off vinyl storage in Amazon's Spring Deal Days sale, there's never been a better time to organise your wax. Here's 9 of my top picks for record collectors
- 10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single
- "To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings. It's heaven." Why Prince turned down a partnership deal with Guitar Hero, while Metallica considered it a "no-brainer"
- “I always try to be professional and respectful about people’s decisions. It was their band, so I had to go along with it”: When Yes told Oliver Wakeman not to come back
- “In the 70s the support band had to blow the main act offstage. I thought it was distasteful. There’s room for everybody”: Jethro Tull ex Martin Barre insists he’s not underrated, and explains why he has no time for egos
- 39% off Nevermind is just the tip of the iceberg in Amazon's epic Spring Deal Days CD and vinyl sale – score big savings on Zeppelin, Green Day, The Cure & more
- "She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life
- “I was naked in a shower, they held me upside-down by my legs and they poured bourbon into my mouth”: How this thrash singer became the new frontman of 21st-century metal stars Children Of Bodom
- Ghostly keychains, vinyl box sets & classic tees: Ditch the chocolates and discover an alternative take on Mother's Day gifts
- "Sangria can make you do a lot of things…" How a drunken night, and the support of Samuel L. Jackson, changed the life of Kashus Culpepper
- "I know people don't want to hear me saying such things, but they're true." Francis Rossi comes clean on Status Quo, Rick Parfitt and new solo album The Accidental
- "It wouldn’t be my first choice of nickname now": Gluecifer's Captain Poon on touring with Lemmy, fun with chickens and the origins of that stage name
- Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April
- "One of the most colourful, fascinating, exciting and unusual rock'n'roll albums we've ever heard." The story of the pioneering rockers whose career was scuttled by the Six-Day War
March 10
- "Rich Robinson is an honours graduate from Keef university but he's funkier than the master has been in decades." The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
- "It's the best clapping TV theme song since Friends." Listen to the first song released by US supergroup featuring R.E.M's Michael Stipe, producer Andrew Watt, ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker
- “There was a lot of pain. My love for music was beginning to die”: He’d learned to let his brother be lead guitarist, and that many musicians lose hope. Then he changed his life, wrote a 15-minute prog epic and got signed
- "I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released
- "I was like, 'This is it. This is ****ing it.' I was so obsessed." Here's what Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong thinks about the band's legendary debut album, Hybrid Theory
- "Any scrape of anything interesting or off the beaten path that can be turned into drama is swarmed over and spit out as bait." For the record, despite what you may have read, Jack White doesn't consider Taylor Swift's music "boring"
- "We are completely and utterly blown away." Metallica will now play 24 shows at Sphere in Las Vegas
- "Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England
- "This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays
- “He seemed very polite, kind of gentle." The vocalist who traded tapes with one of black metal's most notorious characters, learned details of his brutal murder from a fanzine
- Amazon kick off Spring Deal Days with 3 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for absolutely nothing - get your free subscription right now
- Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words
- "A raging maniac with a head full of noise, romance and death." Nine Jim Steinman albums you should listen to and one to avoid
- "Into this void of hopelessness and lack of understanding came this perfect amoral act": How a controversial song inspired by a tragic school shooting in the US became a UK No.1
- "The crowd seemed more concerned with the long lines at the beer taps." In 1984 Huey Lewis invited Stevie Ray Vaughan on tour - and he tanked
March 9
- Dead Kennedys legend Jello Biafra hospitalised after suffering stroke
- "Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the Age of Fake News." Alice Cooper announces Devil On My Shoulder autobiography and book tour
- Tommy DeCarlo, the childhood Boston fan who became the band's frontman, dead at 60
- "I’d like to thank all the people who haven't voted for us from the bottom of my heart." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher offers withering commentary on the band's current ranking in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan vote
- “The next evolution of everything I’ve been building toward for years”: Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz launches new band Blue Medusa
- Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September
- "I have the power!" Queen's Brian May is working on the soundtrack to the new, long-delayed He-Man movie, featuring Jared Leto as Skeletor
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- "I was walking down the street and I saw this junkie washing out his needle with wine." How one of the most hyped metal bands of the 90s bounced back from firings, studio disasters and, erm, constipation
- “Anyone who tells you it’s not a Genesis album isn’t a real fan. Come at me!”: Camel’s Peter Jones stands up for two records that others love to hate
- "Now I know that there's an audience for my voice and my songs, I want to present that to as many people as possible." Dan Byrne is ready for the world - but is the world ready for him?
- "I always took a flagon of cider on stage with me. When I'd finished drinking it I played the jug." The extraordinary story of the debut single that sold 73,000 copies before lunch and became a hit all over the world
- "A stylus-melting red-hot riff-o-rama that demands to be played loud." AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
- “He came on stage in a witch’s hat and cape, carrying a sword. In the second song he attacked me with the sword! What’s wrong with this picture, you know?” The flawed genius who even kept Lemmy on his toes
- Woodstock legend Country Joe McDonald dead at 84
March 8
- "Hearing Prince covered it or Taylor Swift hand-picked it for an Apple commercial? What is that?" How an email rant inspired a song worth a billion streams and picked up some iconic fans along the way
- “Slamming started with us because of the speed. When we added reggae, and they started skanking like they’d come to see The Specials”: The cult punk icons who smashed together rock and reggae and influenced Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl
- “I was in an airport and these people went: ‘Hey Steve! Thumbs up, man! Tony Soprano loves Journey!’ It was amazing”: This multi-million selling rock singer disappeared from music for more than 20 years. It took a personal tragedy to bring him back
- “There was a lot of violence. We were fighting off stage moshers, people were running in and crashing into us. Those were violent times”: How a “desperate” band dived into Egyptian myth and made the album that reinvented death metal in the 21st century
- “The label said, ‘We find the cover a bit dark, the logo is ugly and, frankly, we don’t hear a single’”: Amazingly, a prog supergroup soundtracked the summer of 1982. The secret of their success? English church music
- “Oh look, we’re rich. We set out to achieve what we set out to achieve. What do we do now?” How a freak meeting with a lost friend shocked one of rock’s biggest bands to tears - and inspired one of their greatest ever songs
March 7
- "It seems like a really fitting time." Watch hardcore heroes Turnstile perform faithful cover of Stone Roses indie classic I Wanna Be Adored
- "There’s going to be everything from his hairbrushes to his smelly socks to his dirty paint chair." Unique Ozzy Osbourne museum exhibition to go on world tour
- “I met Billy Corgan at a funeral. I said: ‘Are you aware of my band?’ He goes: ‘You kidding? I got your album in my car’”: The cult hair metal band with links to Styx, Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West who had the world in their hands – but threw it away
- “You could barely drive down Sunset Strip because of the drunk people. A couple of my friends got hit. Luciky, they lived and partied on, like good headbangers”: The outrageous movie which captured the debauched 80s scene that “made Caligula look tame”
- "That number-one hit poses the gentle question: 'Should I just kill myself?'" How a "throwaway" lyric written during a dark time helped turn some punk misfits into one of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s
- “Our first logo was a couple of witches throwing stuff into a cauldron. It was mystical – hobbits and the Bible and the Koran. We didn’t know what we were doing”: The cult band who made one of the greatest albums of the 70s – but struggled to match it
- “That bloke’s right – we are crap!” The insult and the instrument that turned a failing pop act into prog giants
- “Lady Gaga is awesome. Have you seen her play piano? She’ll sit down and throw down something. Aside from all the crazy outfits, she’s a great musician”: The classic 1983 album that Zakk Wylde says defines metal – and the unlikely pop megastar he loves
- "I had a lovely chat with Princess Anne about my career and touring. She was quite genned up." Graham Gouldman on royal approval and the chances of 10cc's original lineup reuniting
- "She steps in the room with us, a rock'n'roll band that's fronted by a guy she adores": How a song from Tom Petty's reject pile unwittingly became the massive hit single that launched a Fleetwood Mac icon's solo career
- “Jim could write a song that was so passionate you felt like you were being disembowelled, but he never had that love in his own life”: The epic power ballad that propelled an unlikely singer to stardom – and nearly provoked a “chick fight” in the process
March 6
- The holy grail of '90s post-hardcore, Fugazi's fabled In On The Kill Taker sessions with Steve Albini, has finally been released 34 years after being shelved
- Reggae-rock, Southern ballads and the sound of black metal melting: the 9 heavy new tracks that everyone needs to hear this week
- "If you don't really get the concept of wanting to sing sad songs in the dark, you are never going to be a fan of this band, ever." The story behind the "nursery rhyme" 90s alt. rock classic covered by Metallica for one night only
- "The LAPD chased down some of the miscreants and beat them to the ground with their nightsticks." How one of the worst riots in the history of music got a legendary metal band banned from a major Hollywood venue
- “He was, like me, wanting to focus more on creative work, as opposed to touring, touring, touring”: Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt are going to make another album together
- Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Long Distance Calling, VLMV, Lorenzo Bedini and Amanda Lehmann and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- We celebrate Keith Emerson on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
- "We wanted a song about castles and crossbows." The magical relationship between Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on the monumental Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
- "To us, this was a decent album track, no more. We certainly did not think it could be a single!" Without the support of two American DJs, one of rock's classic singles might never have been released
- "Why have Kiss lasted in a town like Detroit? 'Cos we appeal to the real masses, the great unwashed of America." In 2003, Kiss fans coughed up $1,000 for front-row seats on their 2003 US tour with Aerosmith, and we joined the throng
- “I drove a different Ferrari to the studio every day. David Gilmour and Nick Mason would wait outside to see which one”: How Sammy Hagar tried and failed to become a prog star after falling for Pink Floyd
- Guns N' Roses announce stadium tour in Australia and New Zealand with Airbourne
March 5
- "If you’re getting compared to bands like Genesis, who’s going to complain?” Why UK prog rockers Ghost Of The Machine's 'difficult' second album, Empires Must Fall, wasn't so difficult after all
- “He wanted to do something heavy. My mindset at the time was, I’d rather not”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals why collaboration with Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy hasn’t happened yet
- Fontaines D.C., Lambrini Girls, Geese, Kneecap, Billy Bragg and more donate vinyl to Records For Palestine online raffle to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians
- "We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery
- “I want to die in Lamb Of God!” The new issue of Metal Hammer features Lamb Of God on the cover – and an exclusive all-star interview with Randy Blythe
- "The house had a big electric fence around it and every single window was blacked out." How a progressive rock legend helped make a 90s alt. rock masterpiece at the site of the infamous Manson Family murders
- Heavy metal, hard rock, guaranteed sunshine and a setting like no other – Spain’s Rock Imperium is the one amazing festival you can’t afford to miss in 2026
- "I'd love to hang upside down in a stadium." How Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon and Robbie Williams inspired these rising British rockers to reinvent themselves
- "So do we tell the kids about the tour?" Courtney Love and former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf Der Maur are reuniting
- “In three years we went from folk clubs to the LA Forum. I mean, we fought and got drunk and all that, but it was still a great time”: Approaching six decades in music, these prog heroes never operated as a democracy
- "You are not what you own." Why you still can't buy an official T-shirt from one of the greatest American rock bands ever
- “I was like, ‘I think it’d be cool if I die and spit up blood but I need to play another show the next night.’” How Black Sabbath and ‘major death anxiety’ inspired metal’s new fantasy sensation, Castle Rat
- "I remember listening to it and freaking out – I couldn't believe how authentic it sounded." How The Darkness created the ultimate modern power ballad
- “It’s fortuitous that Viv Stanshall was there – and what a good idea to put the tubular bells in”: 19-year-old Mike Oldfield was planning to defect to Russia before fate intervened
- "He wanted my shotgun – he'd just have these total freakouts. There were so many wonderful moments and terrible mayhem with him." Fuelled by bipolar disorder, the 70s' most outlandish concept album predicted a political meltdown
March 4
- "I've dreaded sharing this news." Godflesh will no longer perform live after Justin Broadrick undergoes significant abdominal surgery
- My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce The Veil to headline Aftershock festival 2026; The Offspring, Queens Of The Stone Age, Babymetal and more than 130 other acts also confirmed
- "I was angry at them for writing that song. I thought, You don’t know. You weren’t there." The tragic and horrifying true story behind one of the biggest rock anthems of the 90s
- “I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it
- “Armour-plated anthems about guns, battles and dudes shooting other dudes”: Every Sabaton album ranked from worst to best
- "I made my bed by leaving the band in 2010." The prog metal master who links Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold and The Beatles (but not Rush)
- Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale sing Black Sabbath covers at Geezer Butler and Paul Rodgers tribute show this week
- "I'm on a pyre, a monk sentences me to death, and I will burn. Burn, burn, burn." Why you should probably go and see Powerwolf this week
- "There were a lot of 'folk musicians' who'd seen A Hard Day's Night and wanted to be pop stars, but they couldn't earn twenty-five dollars in Texas." Nine Steve Miller albums you should listen to and one to avoid
- “Of course, none of us agreed on any of it. Not one idea was liked by us all. So then it was, ‘Which idea do four of us like, which idea do three of us like?’” The story of Marillion’s upbeat lockdown album An Hour Before It's Dark
- "If we were legendary for anything, it was for bringing Jello to a show and getting it all over the monitors." The story of the hate song that kick-started the entire grunge movement
- "It's a long way from me painting the TS logo on the back of my jean jacket in high school in liquid paper to fronting the band." Twisted Sister line up Sebastian Bach as Dee Snider's replacement for reunion shows and he's extremely excited
March 3
- "Eddie completely changed this couple's life." Hollywood superstar Kate Hudson reveals how Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder played a pivotal role in the story behind her new movie
- "Is it crazy? It is crazy. And I'm a crazy ****ing guy. Let's go!" An insane looking new event will mix a metal concert with bare knuckle fighting - with the frontman of deathcore heavyweights Slaughter To Prevail set to take part in both
- "We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game
- "A verbal contract was not worth the paper it was written on." Paul McCartney admits he was fuming after allegedly being lied to by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the '90s
- "It’s very, very exciting." Black Sabbath to be given the classical treatment on UK tour featuring local orchestras
- "We were just snot-nosed punks doing what we were doing. It's pretty amazing that the record has stood the test of time." One of the greatest rock albums of all time celebrates its 40th birthday today
- "Two things I never wanted to be was sober and a Christian. And here I am now — a follower, a sober guy." A nu metal hero says he's fully invested in religion after lengthy battle with addiction
- “There was no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t”: Legendary metal touring festival Ozzfest will “absolutely” return in 2027
- “I don’t know if we’re going to be touring any more after this.” Trent Reznor casts doubt on Nine Inch Nails' future as a live act
- "The noise is deafening. The whole hotel shakes. It’s very frightening." Asia guitarist John Mitchell caught up in Middle East conflict
- “I was always sure we were going to come back. My friends said, ‘You’re still waiting? Are you stupid?’” With Mike Portnoy’s help, Bigelf battled back from tragedy to make Into The Maelstrom
- “I was in the front row. Everybody was pushing and things got really violent”: This is what it was like watching Metallica on their first European tour, as explained by a fellow thrash metal star
- "It’s a song about inventors and invention." New Peter Gabriel single What Lies Ahead was a work-in-progress performed during 2014's Back To Front tour
- "I remember finishing the lyrics and literally feeling sick to my stomach." How Alter Bridge regrouped, faced the dark side, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant album
- "Nothing Is What It Seems was written about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They're the liar and the thief in the song": Brinsley Schwarz on his state-of-the-world album Shouting At The Moon
- “I interviewed him and he denied ever hearing the album. I find that somewhat hard to believe”: Did Jethro Tull inspire a character in Spinal Tap? The actor says no. Ian Anderson’s not so sure
- "We were just snot-nosed punks trying to do something different." Metallica and the making of Master Of Puppets – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- "It's not something I'd like us to be remembered for. It was a thorn in our side but I'm stuck with it." After lacing their neighbour's water supply with LSD, the Small Faces wrote the hit that ended their career
March 2
- "The jams that turned into songs on the album began with us playing out in the woods at night. Crazy spirit." Meet Ever Age: The 21st-century power trio whose debut album might just be a once-in-a-generation record
- Eric Clapton announces US tour dates
- "Our new setlist is full of hope and energy." Mongolian metal sensations The Hu announce their biggest UK and European tour ever
- Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter announce rescheduled and expanded North American tour
- "I think I just played the same song the whole night." Thin Lizzy legend Brian Robertson on his controversial time in Motorhead, and why Lemmy asked him to leave
- "Alanis Morrisette inspired me to express how I was feeling." One of 2000s metal's early stars on being a teenage rockstar, breaking up nu metal's boys club and the art of failure
- “It’s inherent in the fanbase. You’re always measured against this yardstick. People comment, ‘This isn’t Yes!’ Where did we say this was Yes?”: Arc Of Life’s struggle to self-identify
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- "I definitely saw an unidentified flying object that night." Why this heavy metal icon is convinced he saw a UFO one fateful night in North Carolina
- Nine Inch Nails surprise release 44-track Tron Ares: Divergence album featuring remixes and previously unreleased material
- “Where would I be right now if I didn’t have one of the biggest bands in the world spending their time trying to hold me back?” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine claims Metallica and others held him back during early career
- "I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong
- "Future generations will consider it one of the most important recordings of all time." Rising Southern rock star Marcus King picks the soundtrack of his life
- "Those teenage kids could be kind of wild. It could be downright frightening at times." The story of the tongue-in-cheek classic that slammed manufactured pop music, aided by a pair of South African legends
March 1
- "An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
- “I woke up in a panic – a door in my mind had opened which I couldn’t close”: How a psychotic reaction triggered the cult 70s album that fused progressive rock and the blues – and influenced Queens Of The Stone Age, The Damned and Nirvana’s producer
- "There's no tanks, fantastical swordfights or bloody executions, just sweat, songs and almighty sing-alongs: rock'n'roll at its very best." Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in a very sweaty Manchester club
- “We couldn’t have really fitted in with grunge, because we were a different type of a band. We were Irish and from Limerick, and we had our own ideas”: The tragedy that inspired an iconic grunge-era anti-war anthem – and reinvented the band that wrote it
- “Everyone goes, ‘We pour our hearts into these things.’ But this genuinely was us, tears down our cheeks, trying to be manly”: How Big Big Train survived the death of David Longdon
- “What Keith Moon did on drums, he did on keyboards. Without him the genre would be much poorer”: When Geoff Downes saw Keith Emerson live, he found immediate inspiration
- “He was seeing the devil in everything. To him, his whole life had been in service to Satan...” This LA band had the world at their feet. Then their guitarist joined a religious cult while their bassist faced 11 years in jail for trying to rescue him
- "Tyler The Creator made me realise that I don’t need to scream for a song to be heavy.” Freedom-fighting hardcore punk, Victorian doom metal and 'angry dance music': the best new metal bands you need to hear this month