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- October 17
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- “No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss
- Sabaton Legends review: If you've ever found the biggest power metal band on Earth too war-obsessed, they've got something new for you
- “There’s zero attempt to update their sound. This album won’t stun, but will stir”: John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest end 12-year silence with Relativity
- We pay tribute to Supertramp and founding member Rick Davies in the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- “We miss you incredibly”: At The Gates urge fans to donate to Swedish cancer charity following death of frontman Tomas Lindberg
- "From hippie-dippy noodling via crunching heavy rock and chart-bothering ballads to grandiose orchestral collaborations": Sixty years of the Scorpions celebrated on From The First Sting
- “A peerless catalogue; a breathtaking, ancient setting; a definitive latterday performance by a band of all the talents”: David Gilmour’s Live At The Circus Maximus is a maxed-out experience
- Farewell to The Spaceman: The world of rock pays tribute to Ace Frehley
- October 16
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- Kiss legend Ace Frehley dead at 74
- Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley reportedly on life support suffering from brain bleed
- Somewhere there's a recording of Ozzy Osbourne duetting with Madonna
- “It was the most amazing thing. I couldn’t have written it better myself because it was just so perfectly me!" How Ozzy Osbourne produced his most emotional anthem with some inspiration from his wife Sharon - and a stunning assist from Lemmy
- "It's my 'I love you' to Joey." The story of Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot bands Vimic and Sinsaenum
- “Our town has been polluted by heavy metal!” Sabaton storm the cover of the new Metal Hammer
- Black Friday MP3 player deals 2025: The MP3 revival is real - and we have the best early deals
- Pure Reason Revolution will play Midwinter Prog Festival as part of their The Dark Third 20th anniversary shows
- Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre to release autobiography in November
- “Everyone was out of their minds. Alcoholic drug addicts. I just remember all the excess”: In a haze of substance use and record label conflicts, Korn made the defining anthem of nu metal’s heyday
- “We’re Indigenous people fighting for our culture”: Endorsed by Slipknot, collaborating with Gojira and battling colonialism – how Mawiza became the most important new metal band of 2025
- Watch Disturbed call for “unity” onstage as David Draiman continues to weather backlash for signing an Israeli bomb
- "We’ve decided not to count drummers anymore, it got depressing when we got to two figures." An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins
- "An alternate reality where Springsteen abandons his mainstream success in favour of a major cult career": Bruce Springsteen strips things back on expanded Nebraska '82
- "One of the great rock voices of her era in her element": Chrissie Hynde & Pals' Duets Special is a quiet, low-key joy to behold
- "I've heard it's responsible for a whole generation being conceived": The epic story of rock's ultimate aphrodisiac anthem
- "We were by no means an overnight success. It took years of struggle and suffering": After 50 years, 38 Special have learned a thing or two about keeping a band together
- “The bassist’s kids were waiting with autograph books because we were pop stars. But some of the fans were pissed off. I would have been too!” This duo were never meant to be a real band, but their hit single had a massive impact on prog
- Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows records video message for freed Israeli hostages
- No Doubt add 6 dates to Las Vegas Sphere residency after "incredible" response from fans
- October 15
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- "The long pause is over...see you in 2026!" One of the best alt rock bands of the 90s have reunited for the first time in 30 years
- So Poppy has gone and made a metal cover of Wham’s Last Christmas and it sounds pretty crazy
- “It’s such a beautiful album cos she wore her pain.” Yungblud picks his favourite albums ever, including some punk, rock and Britpop classics
- How to watch the Mercury Prize album of the year 2025... from anywhere
- "We went on straight after Chappell Roan." From a platinum-selling Taylor Swift cover to hanging out with Post Malone, I Prevail have quietly become one of metal's hottest bands
- “People talk to me on the street about it and say, ‘That song was really there for me when I needed it’”: the stirring 90s anthem inspired by Nazareth and featuring strings arranged by a member of Led Zeppelin that made this band absolutely massive
- Watch Nickelback's Chad Kroeger serenade Sammy Hagar with Metallica's Enter Sandman for his birthday
- "The more the value goes up, the more they're gonna hound us." An iconic 90s metal band are in talks about a possible tribute show in honour of their much missed frontman
- "Yorkshire lads shouldn’t marry American actresses": How MTV – and David Coverdale's wife – made Whitesnake into megastars
- "We are cooking." New Slipknot music is on the way, according to the band's drummer Eloy Casagrande
- "That experience in Vietnam changed him forever. It certainly had an effect on our family, so it was a defining moment in my life, too." How a devastating 90s war song brought its writer and his estranged father closer together
- Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe to broadcast new album, Liminal, into space!
- "Sabbath will not do it, they won't take a chance": How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust
- "It changed everything. After that it was never the same. I had to adjust my life": The story of the career-defining song with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag while stoned
- "I turned a hockey stick into a scythe": Introducing Castle Rat, your new favourite medieval-themed doom-rocking New Yorkers
- “Robert Fripp is a really diddly-diddly man, all the riff stuff, and that works to an extent. But you need to put that in a context to make it accessible”: The secret to making King Crimson work by Peter Giles, the bassist who helped make it happen
- October 14
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- Watch Gene Simmons officiate at 2025's most rock'n'roll wedding
- How big a Ghost fan are you? Take our devilishly hard Ghost quiz to find out!
- “It’s light-hearted, sexually ambiguous – I love it!” Justin Hawkins chooses the 10 best Queen songs you might have missed
- Debate: What’s the best live prog album of all time?
- Marillion/Tangerine Dream offshoot Bioscope cancel December tour plans
- “We had to pay the families of Charles Manson’s victims royalties from the song. And we’ve been doing that ever since”: With the inadvertent help of a notorious cult leader, one band became the kings of 90s goth metal
- Yes guitarist Steve Howe to release limited edition vinyl 10 inch EP of Bob Dylan covers
- "I split my forehead open. He said, 'Can you squeeze it and make it bleed some more? It looks great on the telly.'" Crazed fans, blood, burnout and mummies: the story of Iron Maiden's epic World Slavery tour
- Disturbed say they want their music to “heal” people after their singer signed a bomb and caused their Belgium gig to be cancelled
- "The guys from the record company were jumping up and down and screaming": The beer-soaked, chart-topping anthem that saved a career and became an all-time classic
- “It’s heraldic. It’s funny. It’s virtuoso and also really stupid! I wouldn’t change a note”: Simple ideas and happy accidents propelled a Dutch band’s second album to the pinnacle of prog. And yodelling.
- “There was a small fish that was aggressively following me and poking me… it freaked me out”: the high-school scuba trip that inspired an all-time alt-rock anthem
- “It was just a song that fitted the story. I didn’t choose the singer. Luck was on my side”: A science-fiction concept album has enjoyed nearly 50 years of popularity with help from a song written for a Lego advert
- "A bond exists now and forevermore among Hard-Ons and their fans": Australian punk legends launch vinyl record containing their actual blood
- "Fear is what motivates ignorant people to put words in my mouth": Carlos Santana refutes viral hoax claiming he opposed Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show
- October 13
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- Glenn Hughes announces 2026 US tour
- "We asked him if he wanted to wear a zombie mask and sweat onstage and he was like, 'Sure, let’s do it!'" Don't panic, but it looks like zombie metal is a thing (luckily, Dominum are really good at it)
- "Lady Gaga passes this bottle of Jameson to me, and I just tip the whole bottle over my face. That was a formative moment." Wargasm's Milkie Way makes us a playlist and takes us inside her world of Sabbath, Gaga, Bowie and more
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 13, 2025
- Caligula's Horse share previously unreleased cover of The Beatles' Across The Universe as they announce Bloom tenth anniversary release
- “M***********, you stole my guitar sound!”: the classic Nirvana song that another major 90s artist says ripped him off
- “I’d been living in a dark room, drinking and taking drugs, and I was done with music. My heart was too broken to think about it”: This frontman overcame death and the loss of his band to make one of the 90s’ essential metal songs
- Watch Billie Joe Armstrong join Dua Lipa onstage in San Francisco to duet on a Green Day classic
- "When they heard it, everybody's eyebrows raised - and of course it changed everything": How divine inspiration and a last-minute song propelled a band to the brink of stardom
- "More relatable than Mötley Crüe or Ratt and hipper than Foreigner or Journey": Night Ranger's place in rock history settled by first album Dawn Patrol
- “We thought it would be hard to replace her, so we didn’t. There had always been changes and this was a big one, but our attitude was to soldier on”: The prog pioneers who evaded disaster and reinvented themselves in 1970
- October 12
- October 11
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- Mayor of Belgian municipality reportedly cancels Disturbed show over singer David Draiman's stance on Gaza conflict
- Watch unmasked Slipknot in soundcheck ahead of year 2000 show in South Dakota
- Ex-Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dead at 48 following prison attack
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts drummer Thommy Price dead at 68
- Tattoo designer says Sleep Token's record label had her Instagram shut down over alleged copyright infringement
- "A significant song of hope!" In 2010, with Yes forging on without him, Jon Anderson teamed up with old pal Rick Wakeman for The Living Tree album
- "I play these songs because my soul and heart are in there..." Former Focus guitarist Jan Akkerman will release a new live album in December
- Metal’s hardest-working band just played the biggest show of their lives – naturally, they pulled out all the stops
- “I attended a Rush show and met this thing called merchandising! My work was everywhere – on jackets, T-shirts, tattoos, Neil’s drum heads…” Hugh Syme was shocked when his 2112 art exploded. But it’s not the piece that most resonates with him
- “One of my favourite things about Robert Smith is his ability to really convey the sadness”: the eight best Robert Smith guest spots
- Watch video for new Rob Zombie single Punks and Demons taken from upcoming album The Great Satan
- "He had all the best qualities you’d want in somebody." Zakk Wylde speaks about Ozzy Osbourne for the first time since his death
- October 10
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “It feels like going back in time to relive our history”: No Doubt announce Las Vegas shows for 2026
- Moody Blues bassist and vocalist John Lodge dead at 82
- “I left my car with all the instruments in but I’d left the handbrake off and it rolled onto the motorway”: the tearaway Britpop teenagers whose knack of getting into trouble had Steven Spielberg on the phone wanting to make a TV show with them
- “Before we had a chance to stop, four officers jumped me. One tried to break my arm, the other put a choke hold on my neck”: With one music video, this rap metal band almost brought the financial heart of America to its knees
- “The funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.” Friends star Matthew Perry attended Alcoholics Anonymous at Ozzy Osbourne’s house
- “If you see him live, it’s insane! He’s just ripping his heart out in front of you”: King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk on his favourite prog vocalist – also loved by David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and the guy who did The Sooty Show
- "He's with that meth lab that he designed, his baby - the lyrics back that up and he is at peace with himself": The story of the minor seventies hit that soundtracked the bloody finale of Breaking Bad
- "Some Time In New York City is an album that suffers from being terrible": John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band compiled on Power To The People
- "It showed me what music can do." Eight surprising artists you never knew were inspired by the brilliance of Talking Heads' Remain In Light
- A Night At The Opera: 50 years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen's operatic masterpiece - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Every Rush album ranked from worst to best
- October 9
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- "The past few days have been quite overwhelming": New Rush drummer Anika Nilles reacts to sudden spotlight
- Cool new proggy sounds from L.O.E., EF, Circu5 and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- "There’s still time to come to the States to catch this show..." Dream Theater cancel 2026 UK and European Parasomnia tour plans
- TesseracT announce new concert movie and live album, RADAR
- "He said, ‘Kid, it’s a smash! You gotta trust me!’ I thought he was crazy." The Smashing Pumpkins classic Billy Corgan thought was "stupid" - and that his own label boss had to talk him round on
- JBL Flip 7 portable Bluetooth speaker review
- “There was some mild terrorism going on. They were exploding cars and banks and real estate. There was an ongoing war”: From a climate of violence, this band made one of modern metal’s most conscious, powerful anthems
- Ultravox will release a Deluxe Edition of The Collection in December, featuring new Steven Wilson remixes
- 15 of the best Prime Day deals for music fans are still available - grab them before they're gone
- Everyone thinks this is one of Iron Maiden's worst albums. Here's why you're all wrong
- "He didn’t ask for a receipt or nothing, just sent a cheque for ten grand and said, 'Sorry about that'". The grunge icons who ripped off an 80s classic - only to get busted when they hit the studio with the guy who wrote the original
- “For the whole of this tour, we haven’t played this song”: Bruce Dickinson’s solo band performed another classic Iron Maiden track at the end of their North American tour last week
- Glenn Hughes has played with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion and more - but he should never have left his first band
- “I wish things had panned out differently. The lyrics were a message saying, ‘Meet us in the middle.’ It didn’t work out that way”: An armed robbery, a returning drummer and a new label brought this American band back from near oblivion
- October 8
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- "A decadent yet functional take on wellness": Smashing Pumpkins launch $20 charity smoothie
- Bruce Dickinson gives the US national anthem the air-raid siren treatment again
- "I had a slight fender bender": Gene Simmons recovering at home after reportedly passing out while driving
- Rush add additional dates to Fifty Something 2026 tour
- “We’ve seen this movie before: boost ticket sales, go away, then the bigger offers come”: Former Megadeth member isn’t fully convinced the band are retiring
- “I spotted them and I thought they were a really terrific band.” How David Bowie took one of the 90s' big breakout rock bands under his wing - right before they blew up
- It's your last chance to get Louder's no.1 live music earplugs for less this Prime Day - save up to 25% on the 4.5 star-rated Loop Experience 2
- "We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The story of the underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that almost became a household name
- This Amazon Prime Video sale is a killer with up to 50% off classic horror flicks - grab yours for an early Halloween treat
- The story of every metal album to hit number one in the UK
- “They jammed Cream and Jimi Hendrix at their earliest concerts, and critics compared the thunder of their debut album to Led Zeppelin”: Why Rush are secretly the coolest band on the planet
- The house that Slipknot trashed in their most infamous music video is going to auction
- Marshall turn up the volume on Prime Day with their own Louder For Less sale - save up to $100 on home audio gear
- “I picked up a CD with a quivering lip and was like, ‘When’s grandad coming home?’”: up until the age of 11, Yungblud thought Rod Stewart was his grandfather
- This is the best Prime Day deal I've seen this year - save 56% on the five-star Sony PS-LX310BT turntable
- The Pineapple Thief announce 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of fourth album 10 Stories Down
- Over a decade since their debut, Falling Leaves are back with a new album all fans of death-doom simply need to hear
- I find your lack of Lego disturbing - fix it with up to 30% off Lego Star Wars sets this Prime Day
- "The voice of Ayreon is not here anymore!" Ayreon contributor and former Kayak singer Edward Reekers has died, aged 68
- The 10 most played rock acts on UK radio and TV in the 21st century have been announced: Only two are from the 21st century
- “People say Genesis ended when Peter Gabriel left, or when Steve Hackett left. But he was the anchor that everything else revolved around”: An appreciation of Tony Banks, by John Boegehold
- “A miracle that silenced their harshest critics, even within the band, and opened many minds”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads’ Remain In Light
- "People found out we weren't The Beatles and that came back to haunt us": The curious case of the band whose career was derailed by a rumour
- Watch Anika Nilles demonstrate exactly why Rush have chosen her as their new drummer
- October 7
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- "They're trying to insert themselves into a conversation to obtain some kind of relevancy": Yungblud slams critics of his Ozzy Osbourne tribute
- Preorder Megadeth’s final album on limited copper/emerald vinyl, plus an art card signed by the band only available through Metal Hammer
- Watch: we asked a bunch of fans at Parkway Drive's Wembley show to name the best ever metalcore band
- Amazon still has hundreds of rock & metal t-shirts on sale for Prime Day - but you'll have to be quick to get one
- “There’s a weird sexual energy with a lot of it”: Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags
- There's still time to tie up the Loose Ends in your Springsteen collection this Prime Day with 27% off this epic 9LP vinyl box set - but the clock is ticking
- Hear Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante sing electro-metal banger Ties That Bind, from the soundtrack of new fighting game 2XKO
- “We knocked out ten songs and that ended up being the bulk of the first record, so that first week was pretty good!”: it’s 35 years since Pearl Jam had their very first rehearsal and a generational rock band was born
- The odds of finding a better Lego Star Wars deal this Prime Day? Approximately 3,720 to 1 - save 30% on this C-3PO lego set
- “The further I got away from it, the more I thought, ‘It’s OK. We had 40 years. I’m tired of hanging around a hotel, being away from family’”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee explain why now is the time to reunite Rush
- “Although I won’t be performing again, I’ve already got an idea for a new album”: 11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites
- "It's pretty amazing that rock lasted for seventy-five years": Todd Rundgren on the demise of rock, fighting hate and why listeners don't like albums
- "We’re fortunate that people now appreciate what we do. It hasn’t always been that way. Nothing polarises people quite like we do, for some reason”: The mindset behind Rush’s final album, Clockwork Angels
- The 10 best double albums in rock music history
- "I wish I wrote it - I would’ve made a lot more cash!" The story of the English song that was minor hit in Europe before becoming an all-American classic
- October 6
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- "I think her name is Anika": Geddy Lee was telling people about Rush's new drummer two years ago
- I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums
- How to watch new Paramount documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now - no matter where you are
- "Life is full of surprises!" Rush announce first live shows in eleven years, reveal new live drummer
- "War On Drugs, suck my ****": Six classic indie diss tracks you never knew about
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 6, 2025
- "While younger generations fanny around with cynical pop compromises, they're here to break necks." Looking for the best thrash metal album of 2025? Testament have your back with Para Bellum
- Ozzy Osbourne admitted that he had a “life-or-death” heart problem days before he died of a heart attack
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer
- “Only if it really stinks will we redo it”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to record his next solo album in January
- "Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim
- “I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata
- “There was one troll who slagged it off, but I think he was a fan from the Fish years!” Marillion’s Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning took six years to make Gentō, an album that sounds like neither of their bands
- "Taylor Swift said that was the best song ever written": Goo Goo Dolls launch video of Taylor Swift duetting with frontman John Rzeznik
- October 5
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- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's inaugural Future Ruins film festival cancelled
- "I want to try your clothes on!" Toyah and Robert Fripp explore uncharted musical territory in new Sunday Lunch video
- “He tried to stab Dio with a fork!”: The first time Ozzy Osbourne met Ronnie James Dio it nearly ended in bloodshed
- "They might just be the most essential live show in metal right now." We're not entirely sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was
- “I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics
- “If you strip away the images you could put us beside King Crimson. The musicality and ambition would fit. But for us it’s 50 per cent about music, 50 per cent about hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog indeed
- October 4
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- Watch video for new Megadeth single Tipping Point
- "While this chapter has come to a close, this is by no means the end of my path as a musician." Modern metal heavyweights Trivium abruptly part ways with drummer Alex Bent
- “Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful
- Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years
- “It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig
- “He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s
- “It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral
- “There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated
- October 3
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- "Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single
- Ozzy: No Escape From Now review – an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- One of rock music’s most underrated bands played Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and they’re still cooler than a fridge after 40-plus years
- “I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now”: Listen to Megadeth’s thrash-adocious new single Tipping Point, the first taste of Dave Mustaine and co.’s final album
- Opeth announce one-off UK show for 2026
- “Me and Taylor sat down, and she says, ‘I can’t sing that line’, cos it was a bit too risqué”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on duetting with the teenage Taylor Swift on an 80s rock classic - and the raunchy lyric they had to change
- Foo Fighters just surprise-released a new EP - here's where you can hear it
- "I'm not sure I could have been the flashy guitarist he wanted me to be": Y&T's Dave Meniketti on turning down Ozzy and improving your chances of survival
- AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... review: Davey Havok and his crue have gone full goth, and it's resulted in their best album in over a decade
- “Once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same”: Smashing Pumpkins announce 30th anniversary edition of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
- "He was a guy who would chop the bedroom door down with an axe, like Jack Nicholson": A decade on from the disease that nearly killed him, Walter Trout is on a roll, looking at a world gone wrong
- Review: Still mixing futuristic rock brilliance with Brit-Weezer ballast, Ash venture into space on Ad Astra
- “Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns
- From problem child to golden child: The story behind every song on Radiohead’s Kid A
- Review: Michael Schenker lets rip on new MSG album Don’t Sell Your Soul
- “Largely ignored – but formidable, masterly and substantial”: Darryl Way’s Wolf released three albums in two years. The Cadenza box set proves they should never have been out of the spotlight
- October 2
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- Founding Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja dead at 79
- Order your exclusive Iron Maiden bundle featuring an Eddie T-shirt you won't find in shops
- I say, 'It is an honour to meet you, you are one of my biggest inspirations.' And he says 'kneel' and asks for the cane..." What happened when a goth icon had a surprise encounter with a punk rock hero
- "The most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise": the chart-topping indie anthem that prompted an ex-member of Depeche Mode to write a letter of complaint
- 11 sublimely mellow Smashing Pumpkins cuts
- “I’m never not ready to scream about racial issues.” Hayley Williams on the importance of using her platform and why she’s pulling no punches when it comes to a certain country star
- I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best
- “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Rock band speak out as AI-generated ‘artist’ modelled on their music gets more Spotify listeners
- "He was like a blubbering baby. He was crying. He was devastated": The Who's Roger Daltrey on drugs, fights, death and the music that defined a generation
- I saw Black Sabbath play three days after their debut album was released - and tickets cost 30 pence
- "The place was full of chickens, pigs and goats. The whole thing was fascinating": How an acid-tinged account of a North African adventure became the sound of the counterculture
- “They’re portrayed as unhip, exploitative capitalist men of the rock world. But it’s entirely down to them that the movement can move. And they didn’t get anything out of it”: When Peter Gabriel received death threats, Genesis reunited to help him
- "You forgot the bass!" Metallica's ...And Justice For All producer recalls his shock at hearing album's final mixes
- AC/DC smashed "permitted noise level" during Edinburgh show
- October 1
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- "It's a band I think I have a lot in common with": Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is working on a movie about The Replacements
- New book puts Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod in the spotlight
- Lunatic Soul reveal softer side with album cycle-closing video for The New End
- Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?
- Nine Inch Nails announce new North American tour dates for 2026
- How to watch new BBC documentary Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, from anywhere
- "In Brazil, especially in the early 80s, it was all about Samba – nobody would talk about metal." Five minutes with Sepultura legend Iggor Cavalera
- TesseracT celebrate tenth anniversary of Polaris with new clear vinly remastered reissue
- The long lost album from Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot project Vimic is finally here. But does it live up to his legacy?
- “I stand with the world, in its goodness and beauty”: Nick Cave has just delivered another stirring sermon on the state of the world in 2025
- "The whole day felt bigger than music or sport; it was about women showing strength, power and unity on a global stage." Watch Sophie Lloyd shred Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and more at the Women’s Rugby World Cup final
- New film exploring David Bowie’s Berlin years announced
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “We’re looking back at the good ol’ days”: New Found Glory announce details of forthcoming new album
- Watch the wholesome trailer for new BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which airs later this week
- That acclaimed movie about the Mars Volta and At The Drive-In is coming to UK cinemas
- “You tour for so long. You’ve got a family, a mortgage, and you come home from America after eight weeks with £100. That’s unsustainable”: Dan Tompkins had to leave Tesseract – so what brought him back for third album Polaris?
- “The music needed to be paced differently and we needed a bit more going for us, thematically. We very much realised we needed a new identity to rise above the fray”: Wishbone Ash laid a plan for Argus, and surprised themselves when it worked
- The pride of New York City: A beginner's guide to White Lion in five essential albums
- Ozzy Osbourne's face appears on the side of New Zealand's tallest building
