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- September 30
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- Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
- Vote for the greatest thrash metal album ever
- Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra bolster ArcTanGent 2021 line-up
- Gigs might not resume until at least April, top UK live promoter warns
- Obsidian Kingdom’s Meat Machine: mind-altering menace from post-metal shapeshifters
- James LaBrie announces he's working on a new solo album
- This f**king insane year has just got the perfect soundtrack
- AC/DC confirm line-up, issue first photo of reunited band
- 10 metal bands who deserve way more love than they get
- Ding Dong Merrily On High! Mark Lanegan is releasing a Christmas album
- Hear Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s ferocious unreleased demos for Reign In Blood
- Bill Bailey returns to UK arenas in December 2021
- Why I Love Meshuggah’s Chaosphere, by Carpenter Brut
- AC/DC teaser ads appear in local UK newspapers
- September 29
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- Corey Taylor’s CMFT is music to ride motorbikes into swimming pools to
- Linkin Park recall ‘crying for joy’ hearing Chester Bennington’s voice for the first time
- John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID
- Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases solo single
- Cult Of Luna, Alcest, Mono and A.A. Williams to play ArcTanGent 2021
- Goat Girl announce new album, address disillusionment on Sad Cowboy single
- Daily prog show launches on Internet Radio station Radio Albatross
- David Draiman joins rapper Hyro The Hero to rage against ‘social media soldiers’ on We Believe
- Beabadoobee's new single How Was Your Day? is the best song the 90s never had
- Fight Fire With Finance: Metallica give $250,000 to US wildfire relief
- Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding: 10 albums that changed my life
- The heaviest riff Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter has written this year is not on Ohms. Hear it now
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 2000
- Burton C Bell quits Fear Factory, hits out at band’s “toxic drama”
- Fish denied No 2 chart placing for Weltschmerz
- Have AC/DC just revealed the title of their new album?
- Steve Hackett: the soundtrack of my life
- Soundgarden survivors keen to play together again
- September 28
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- Brian May to introduce Kings Daughters' first ever live show... and you can watch
- Tallah’s Matriphagy: the sound of nu metal being reinvented for 2020
- Motorpsycho - The All Is One review
- 8 things we want from the new AC/DC album
- Could this hard-hitting movie about a troubled drummer be heavy metal’s first cinematic tearjerker?
- "It’ll probably piss Doctor Who fans off" Rob Reed comes clean about that theme tune
- The Top 10 best horror video games
- AC/DC signal their comeback with electrifying social media posts
- Lykantropi announce new album Tales To Be Told
- Previously unseen The Who gig among Teenage Cancer Trust concert streams in October
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Blood, Starbenders and more
- Antimatter move their 20th anniversary shows to 2021
- How Carcass twisted grindcore into repulsive new shapes on Symphonies Of Sickness
- What happened when Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen and Troy Donockley formed Auri
- Skunk Anansie reschedule European tour, add new London show
- Guitarist Anthony Phillips to release Missing Links I-IV collection
- Lars Ulrich has picked one Metallica song that he never, ever wants to hear again
- Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: “I used to eat acid like M&Ms”
- Pink Floyd are embarrassed by how rich they are
- Join Rammstein as they take a trip back in time to 1995
- John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity review
- Yes: Drama - Album Of The Week Club review
- September 27
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- Blue Oyster Cult launch video for epic vampire ballad Tainted Blood
- Apparently Mariah Carey once made a grunge album
- The Cadillac Three launch Hard Out Here For A Country Boy single with extra fuzz
- Amaranthe’s Manifest: rippling riffs meet gleaming razzmatazz on genre-mashing new album
- Smith & Myers confirm second new album, break out Billie Eilish cover
- Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
- Tim Morse to release new compilation The Archaeology Project
- Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020
- Former Trivium guitarist and bassist Brent Young has died
- September 26
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- Spiritbox announce limited edition Holy Roller vinyl and new label deal
- The story behind Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds
- Intervals return with album Circadian – listen to the new single here!
- Watch the new lyric video from ex-Cynic guitarist's band Our Oceans
- Fish - Weltschmerz review
- Get our exclusive, limited edition Motörhead bundle - before they're gone
- September 25
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- District 97 announce virtual Screening Tour this October
- TesseracT announce deluxe vinyl reissue of Altered State
- The 10 most OTT rock and metal stage sets ever
- Joe Satriani has been fighting against the idea that he’s a shredder for his entire career
- The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
- Neil Peart voted the greatest prog musician of all time
- Mick Fleetwood shares re-working of Fleetwood Mac’s These Strange Times
- Voyager announce special online show... live from Australia
- Idles celebrate Ultra Mono release day with intense video for new single War
- The Top 50 best metal debut albums ever
- Dan Terminus just dropped the synthwave album of 2020
- Dream Theater announce new live album and share video for Pale Blue Dot
- I am a white person who benefits from racism, says Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready
- "There are no rules": Gojira's Joe Duplantier hints at what the band's new album might sound like
- Royal Blood unveil new ‘Disco AC/DC’ direction on Trouble’s Coming
- Waterparks' new single Lowkey As Hell dials ups the angst and ditches the neon
- Holy Moses revolutionised the 80s thrash scene. Why don't more people know about them?
- ‘Pop assassins’ The Smashing Pumpkins still hate guitars, apparently
- Good Charlotte: the album that taught pop-punk how to give a sh*t
- Bruce Springsteen summons ghosts of the past on stirring new single
- Watch Steve Hackett’s spellbinding live version of The Cinema Show
- Corey Taylor consoled ‘bawling’ pop stars Daphne and Celeste after infamous Reading festival abuse
- The Greatest Prog Musician Ever unveiled in the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Be the first to hear music from the brand new Enslaved album with Prog and Metal Hammer
- The Flower Kings release video for new single From The Ground
- Ayreon's new album Transitus: where prog rock and Doctor Who finally meet
- Ross Halfin to publish photographic celebration of UFO's Pete Way
- Lou Reed's New York: a compelling cacophony of bad news, now in deluxe form
- Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits: the most dangerous vinyl in the world?
- Deftones' sonic adventures flip between bliss and fury on Ohms
- Bob Mould's Blue Hearts is music for smashing in the news channels
- James Williamson & Deniz Tek's Two To One: timeless, old-school rock'n'roll
- Idles' Ultra Mono is stripped-back, brutal, and lacerating
- Fish's Weltschmerz: ending on a note of beautiful melancholy
- Why John Bonham was a genius, by Mike Portnoy
- Public Enemy: urgency returns on What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
- September 24
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- "Like Mark Lanegan covering the Velvet Underground": the album that's captured the lonesome sounds of lockdown...
- Dyble Longdon - Between A Breath And A Breath review
- HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth
- Lunatic Soul stream brand new single The Passage
- Watch Nirvana play Smells Like Teen Spirit in public for the first time
- Warning: you might never sleep again after watching Mr. Bungle’s disturbing new video
- Obsidian Kingdom stream new album Meat Machine with Prog
- Watch Prince jam with Miles Davis in legendary 1987 gig streaming online tonight
- Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
- You won’t hear another album like Anna von Hausswolff’s All Thoughts Fly this year
- Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder: Restored, re-edited and remixed for new home release
- Ten things we learned in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- We spoke to the metal-loving Satanic High Priestess running for Sheriff in New Hampshire
- Watch history being made as Marty Friedman auditions for Megadeth in 1989
- Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan: “Most of us don’t get to murdering, but we think of it day in and day out”
- Morpheus Project's new single Mozaick marks the arrival of a new force in prog
- The new Nine Inch Nails merch range perfectly captures the weirdness of 2020
- Frost* release video trailer for 13 Winters anthology
- Meet the grime-punk duo the music industry didn't want you to hear
- I was afraid to do therapy, admits Deftones’ Chino Moreno
- Dave Mustaine: “Drugs? Why would I want to glorify something like that?”
- Corey Taylor takes aim at the far right and extreme left on pummelling new solo single Culture Head
- Six things you need to know about... Crown Lands
- Fantastic Negrito reinvents rap classic on sumptuous Searching For Captain Save A Hoe
- Wayne Static sings on Static-X's new single, which is a bit weird when you think about it
- September 23
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- Starbenders continue their inexorable rise with dystopian video for Push
- New Zealand folk proggers Grumblewood release teaser video for new album
- Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses
- The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it
- Fancy a trip into space with Queen’s Brian May?
- US black metal visionaries Akhlys bring you the glorious stuff of nightmares
- Osibisa play London's Jazz Cafe this Saturday
- Dropping ‘negative bullshit’ has given Corey Taylor a new lease of life
- Derek And The Dominos’ Layla set for 50th anniversary deluxe reissue
- Ring Van Möbius announce single and album
- Watch Phil Lynott destroy a Birmingham pub with Lizzy/Sabbath/Wizzard supergroup The Rockers
- The saviours of extreme metal are here, and they will spin your head off your shoulders
- The Great British Bake Off went full on ROCK last night, and Twitter had a meltdown
- You can now buy a scented candle that smells like Lemmy
- Would you pay $7,500 for your own personalised Steel Panther song?
- Derek Sherinian releases Making Of Phoenix documentary
- Sharon Osbourne in quarantine after granddaughter gets coronavirus
- Here are the best releases you can buy on Record Store Day (Drop Day 2)
- Why James Dean Bradfield made an album inspired by a murdered Chilean activist
- How Blues Pills turned burn-out into brilliance and made the best album of their career
- The story behind the song: Budgie's Breadfan
- This reggae cover of a Kiss's Calling Dr Love could be the feelgood hit of the late summer
- This trans satanist anarchist metalhead is trolling the Republican Party hard
- September 22
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- Anathema announce indefinite hiatus
- Heathen’s Empire Of The Blind: never write an old school Bay Area thrash band off
- Myrkur to discuss impact of COVID-19 on metal in livestream event tonight
- Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands
- Fleet Foxes launch surprise new album Shore with film
- Ex-In Solitude guitarist Henrik Palm returns to mess with your mind
- Metz share new single Blind Youth Industrial Park and announce livestream
- Anthrax want to sell you Stop Spreading The Disease hand sanitiser
- Paradise Lost turn the clock back 25 years with Draconian Times reissue
- Jo Quail to reissue Five Incantations on deluxe vinyl
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis didn’t have a fabulous time using crystal meth
- Who is Corey Taylor talking about when he says some of Slipknot don’t care about making music?
- Chris Motionless: 10 albums that changed my life
- Tony Iommi covering Status Quo on prime-time TV is pure gold
- Steven Wilson goes retro pop on his new single Eminent Sleaze
- If Limp Bizkit and Carpenter Brut had a baby, it would sound like Mimi Barks
- US cops covered up Rob Halford’s ‘George Michael moment’ as they were Judas Priest fans
- This action figure is the ultimate tribute to Power Trip singer Riley Gale
- Watch Greta Van Fleet perform epic songs in equally epic Red Rocks setting
- September 21
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- Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album
- Deftones have made a record for every kind of Deftones fan with Ohms
- Jon Anderson's Song Of Seven to get remastered reissue
- Diamond Head re-record classic debut album as Lightning To The Nations 2020
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Black Stone Cherry, Austin Gold and more
- Five Finger Death Punch continue to delve into their past on new album
- Svalbard find new home for their third album following Holy Roar exit
- Efterklang live guitarist Martyn Heyne streams new solo single The Hall
- Dave Grohl’s favourite rock bar is closing and the owners know who to blame
- Joe Bonamassa just played a gig to an auditorium full of cardboard cut-outs
- Hear captivating new single from Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimée
- UFO’s legendary Strangers In The Night live album set for deluxe reissue
- The Queen wants to know why heavy metal has to be so bloody loud
- This all-bagpipe cover of The Final Countdown is either the best or worst thing ever
- Accept: Metal Heart - Album Of The Week Club review
- Lee Kerslake: the last interview
- September 20
- September 19
- September 18
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- Flying Colors reveal live video for You Are Not Alone
- Listen to Sontaag's new single Beyond Forever
- Tears For Fears announce new single from upcoming Seeds Of Love box set
- Black Stone Cherry share video for new single Ringin' In My Head
- Gazpacho share the title track from their new album Fireworker
- Has Muse’s Matt Bellamy outshone Disturbed with his new Simon & Garfunkel cover?
- The Top 10 best albums of 1988
- Watch the new video for Jon Gomm’s Deep Sea Fishes
- Pain Of Salvation to reissue updated version of The Perfect Element, Pt. I
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce new double album Cyr
- We regret to inform you that Van Morrison is at it again
- Cigarettes, alcohol and heroin: the inside story of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid
- The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Ausländer
- TesseracT singer among the final wave of acts announced for Radar Festival 2021
- Omega Point premiere new video for Red Room with Prog
- Kirk Hammett: how Jimi Hendrix accidentally invented Metallica
- Slade didn’t want anyone to hear Merry Xmas Everybody
- Watch Nick Mason talk about Pink Floyd and his Saucerful Of Secrets project
- Flying Colors release electrifying live album Third Stage: Live In London
- The Top 10 best skateboarders of all time
- We have no idea what this new Puscifer song is about, but we love it anyway
- September 17
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- The story of Spock's Beard and Snow
- Pain Of Salvation - Panther review
- Enslaved release video trailer for Utgard release event
- Pain Of Salvation’s Panther is the sound of 21st century prog metal at its brooding best
- Napalm Death’s Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism: grind kings return triumphant
- Depeche Mode reveal plans to revisit Songs Of Faith And Devotion
- Brian Eno announces Film Music 1976-2020
- Watch Maynard James Keenan deal with a stage invader by sitting on him
- Tune into Townsend Music’s massive CD and vinyl sale
- Jimi Hendrix bassist feared racism would torpedo the guitarist’s career
- Beabadoobee's new single Worth It is the sound of Generations X and Z colliding
- Geezer Butler’s solo albums are finally getting the reissue treatment they deserve
- Elton John gathers deep cuts and rarities for his Jewel Box collection
- Every Disturbed cover song ranked from worst to best
- UFO filed monthly $28,000 cocaine bill as medical expenses
- Ayreon release video for Talk of The Town
- What the hell is happening with Korn’s Kovers album?
- The Beatles to publish first official book in 20 years
- Alex Henry Foster launches Alive. Never Alone. initiative
- Lars Ulrich: 'Motorhead united punks, skinheads and metal kids, they blew away all that division'
- Corey Taylor is on the new Metal Hammer cover… and he’s happy?!
- September 16
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- Cult Of Lilith open up a new tech-death frontier on stellar debut album Mara
- Countdown to Christmas early with Brewdog’s epic craft beer advent calendar
- Kev Rowland releases volume three of The Progressive Underground
- Galahad Electric Company release video for Open Water
- Hear Rise Against mourn the death of the American Dream on new single Broken Dreams, Inc
- Neil Peart tribute concert available to stream until December
- Sabaton’s building block recreation of a World War 1 battle is strangely moving
- Teramaze release new video for Here To Watch You
- Extreme metal photographer Ester Segarra wants to realign you with the universe
- Noel Gallagher outs himself as an anti-masker, the music world responds
- Were aliens present at the birth of Jesus Christ? Tom DeLonge has some thoughts
- Megadeth owe everything to Metallica, says David Ellefson
- Beggar: the blackened sludge ragers whose riffs were forged in a war zone
- HRH Prog X reschedules for 2021
- Rob Halford: the night I tried to seduce Iron Maiden’s Paul Di’Anno
- September 15
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- Motorhead: Ace Of Spades, bad blood and mad luck - only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why?
- Adele producer Paul Epworth releases "70s space concept album"
- Alter Bridge to release new song, Last Rites, on Walk The Sky 2.0 EP
- Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Zakk Wylde team up to soundtrack new DC Comics animation Dark Nights: Death Metal
- Corey Taylor to livestream special show from the LA Forum
- Donald Trump thinks GN’R’s November Rain is the greatest video in history. Of course he does
- Inside AOR, the most under-appreciated sub-genre of all time
- Watch Marty Friedman shred a Fleetwood Mac cover with members of Mastodon, Baroness and Lucifer
- Hear Dave Grohl’s superhero theme song for “Rock ’n’ Roll Queen” Nandi Bushell
- Sanguine Hum announce new album for November
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: 10 albums that changed my life
- Are Rammstein back in the studio?
- The 20 best rock albums of 1979
- September 14
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- Gargoyl release video for new song Plastic Nothing
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Fish and more
- Sweet: Sweet Fanny Adams - Album Of The Week Club review
- Skeletal Remains’ The Entombment Of Chaos: old school death metal for a new generation
- How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
- Sid McCray, original frontman of hardcore punk heroes Bad Brains, has died
- Our Oceans announce "dark" second album
- ‘Lost’ Deftones album Eros might never be released, Chino Moreno admits
- 10 essential Viking metal albums
- Billy Idol is on the next Miley Cyrus album
- Hatebreed encourage fans to “make a difference in the world” on new album Weight Of The False Self
- Martin Barre to release personal best of Jethro Tull
- Rob Halford: “If I wanted some action on the road, how the hell was I supposed to go about it?”
- Jason Momoa jamming with Primus’ Les Claypool is a pure and beautiful thing to see
- September 13
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- September 11
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- Iranian metallers Confess escape the death penalty and unleash insurrectionary new track
- Nothing launch Say Less single as first taster of new album The Great Dismal
- Mastodon - Medium Rarities: A trawl through 20 years of long-lost sonic mayhem
- Rise Twain release live video for Oh This Life
- Scardust release video for Tantibus II
- Fish releases video for new single This Party's Over
- Cobalt Chapel stream new track Our Angel Polygon
- The Stray Cats' new live album is the best live music experience you're likely to get this year
- Listen to previously unreleased Tom Petty song Confusion Wheel
- The Flaming Lips - American Head: The dark side of the 70s dream
- Amanda Lehmann releases video for new single Memory Lane
- Here’s what Bruce Dickinson told Dave Mustaine on learning that Megadeth’s leader had throat cancer
- Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: The God Of F*ck gives his demons free rein
- System Of A Down recall surreal 9/11 chart triumph
- Could Disturbed’s new Sting cover be even bigger than The Sound Of Silence?
- Tangerine Dream Virgin Recordings 80-83 box set announced
- September 10
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- Lunatic Soul announce seventh album Through Shaded Woods
- Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones review
- Pain Of Salvation release drum playthrough video for Accelerator
- Venom Prison prepare to unleash all the rage live
- New documentary to chart the bizarre tale of how Jimi Hendrix ended up in Maui
- Skindred are touring with Royal Republic and it's an impossibly brilliant concept
- Katatonia announce new live album
- Amy Lee’s grief over her brother’s death will shape new Evanescence album The Bitter Truth
- Bruce Springsteen announces new album Letter To You
- Flying Colors release live video of More
- The Struts share video for Strange Days, featuring pop superstar Robbie Williams
- Finnish prog metallers External release video for Intertia
- This Muse cover is the wildest thing you'll see online today
- The 10 best Deep Purple songs from 1994 and beyond
- Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard has a new band and they sound nothing like you’d expect
- Marilyn Manson channels Bowie on apocalyptic new single Don’t Chase The Dead
- Former IQ and Frost* men unite in Rain
- September 9
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- Neil Peart tribute concert to take place this Saturday
- The New Empire release video for Life After Life
- Jesse Leach's ultimate hardcore (and metal, and trip-hop) playlist
- Metallica’s cover artist on what it’s like to illustrate one of the biggest bands on the planet
- Pallbearer's Brett Campbell picks his five fave prog albums
- It's taken 50 years, but Mark Lanegan has finally confronted his past
- Think Deep Purple's best days are behind them? Think again
- Bob Mould addresses questions of sexual identity and self-hatred on fierce new single Siberian Butterfly
- Rikard Sjoblom announces live stream show
- Career-encompassing Greg Lake anthology to be released
- Rolo Tomassi lead exodus from Holy Roar after label founder accused of sexual assault
- Ihsahn: “You want artists who don’t give a f**k. That’s what metal is about”
- Slipknot receive pop-punk makeover and it kinda works
- Pink Floyd put the pieces in place for new range of jigsaw puzzles
- Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe dead at 82
- September 8
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- Todd Rundgren streams new single Espionage
- Rob Halford: “Working out your sexuality can be torture”
- Vote for the best Rick Rubin album ever
- Kraftwerk announce coloured vinyl reissues
- Hear Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s once-in-a-lifetime duet
- Ian Anderson announces Jethro Tull book paperback release in new video
- Rïcïnn streams brand new single Doris
- The Top 10 weirdest System Of A Down songs
- Why Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is the greatest live album ever
- September 7
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- The 20 best rock albums of 1978
- How ...And Justice For All changed Metallica forever
- Milk Teeth have split up
- Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and it only took them eight hours
- Susanna releases video for new single The Vampire
- Tracks of the week: new music from Royal Republic, The Struts and more
- Judas Priest are releasing the ultimate heavy metal photo book
- Idles add European dates to 2021 tour plans
- Chilean proggers Aisles introduce new singer with video for Smile Of Tears
- Do we really miss music festivals? (Spoiler alert: yes we do)
- ASMR for metalheads is a thing, and it’s brilliant
- Maxi Curnow releases new video for Fire Eater
- Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t have any interest in another Sabbath gig
- Robert Plant: Pictures At Eleven - Album Of The Week Club review
- September 6
- September 5
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- Marillion Couch Convention: Sunday Schedule
- Nightwish postpone European tour to 2021
- Derek Sherinian releases new video for cover of Buddy Miles' Them Changes
- Gazpacho stream brand new single Clockwork
- Oceans Of Slumber release lyric video for Pray For Fire
- Marillion Couch Convention: Saturday Schedule
- September 4
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- Sólstafir release animated video for Drýsill
- Hear supergroup Killer Be Killed’s lethal comeback single Deconstructing Self-Destruction
- How Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls became an epic triumph over adversity
- Zeal & Ardor have released two new songs, and they’re more pissed off than ever
- Ayreon release lyric video for This Human Equation
- Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber review
- We’re getting new music from Fear Factory next year
- Steve Hackett releases live video for Under The Eye Of The Sun
- Steel Panther summon black metal darkness in grim new video for Let’s Get High Tonight
- Code Orange’s Under The Skin: modern metal visionaries redraw the boundaries again
- Metallica are re-recording Nothing Else Matters for a new movie
- Marillion's Couch Convention starts today!
- Watch System Of A Down destroy a festival with Chop Suey days before Toxicity came out
- Opeth announce 30th anniversary tour, and you get to choose the setlist
- The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Du Hast
- How Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater turned a new generation onto punk and metal
- Fleetwood Mac's 1969 To 1974: a rousing last hurrah for the road not taken
- The Rolling Stones' Goat's Head Soup: retaining the whiff of sex, sleaze and violence
- Zakk Sabbath's Vertigo: you don't need it but you'll love it
- All Them Witches: Nothing As The Ideal - an enticing feast for psychedelic senses
- Nick Cave to release Idiot Prayer live album and film
- Biffy Clyro cover controversial sex anthem WAP
- September 3
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- Deep Purple's Nothing At All video asks the big philosophical questions
- The Who to broadcast rare concert footage as climax to YouTube series
- Ace Frehley covers The Beatles' I'm Down, adds swearing
- UK metallers Wargasm are soundtracking the return of NXT UK
- Touche Amore “overwhelmed” by fans’ memories of dead loved ones
- So it looks like women still aren't allowed to headline Reading and Leeds
- Alex Skolnick Trio announce live stream this Saturday
- Turning Virtue release video for Postulate
- Watch Iron Maiden gatecrash a Polish wedding on the Powerslave tour
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon team up with Yungblud for crushing new song Obey
- How Led Zeppelin plundered music's past to create a blueprint for its future
- Biff Byford: the soundtrack of my life
- Layla and The Man Who Sold The World: the classic albums no one saw coming
- September 2
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- Drums, death and destruction: the story of Mountain's Corky Laing
- The Struts combine forces with Robbie Williams for stirring ballad Strange Days
- The Pineapple Thief release video for new single Driving Like Maniacs
- Code Orange are dropping a new album this Friday
- Trading Boundaries announces more live shows
- Ulver’s Flowers Of Evil: a dark journey into danceable decadence
- Watch an animated Corey Taylor raise hell in video for new solo single HWY 666
- Yes announce new live album for October
- Lacuna Coil were the first metal band caught up in the pandemic. This is how they made it through
- Wobbler release new video for Five Rooms
- The Flower Kings announce new double album Islands
- Lamb Of God are playing Ashes Of The Wake and their new album live in full this month
- How David Bowie returned to orbit and made Scary Monsters
- Guns N' Roses release six live videos from Not In This Lifetime tour
- Thundermother: "I’m gonna be that crazy guitar player!"
- September 1
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- A rare glimpse into the mundane world of Axl Rose
- Could Electric Jesus be the Christian hair metal coming-of-age comedy we've been waiting for?
- Blue Oyster Cult launch That Was Me video with a special guest on cowbell
- Crippled Black Phoenix release new video for Lost
- Oceans Of Slumber’s stellar new album is a turbulent masterpiece for our times
- Watch Korn guitarist Munky team up with The Mendenhall Experiment on defiant anthem Prosthetic
- Gentle Giant announce first ever official t-shirt
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Electric Hydra, Little Triggers and more
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: “If you’re forging a new path it’s lonely”
- Obsidian Kingdom release video for The Pump
- Teramaze release video for new song A Deep State Of Awake
- These $500 Metallica statues are the ultimate metal-loving toy nerd fantasy
- Exclusive: Metallica face their demons in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- The Top 10 best metal albums of 2002
- Pain Of Salvation release lyric video for Unfuture
- Crown Lands launch epic Sun Dance video and it's time to groove like it's 1970
- The story behind Status Quo's Forty-Five Hundred Times
- The 20 best rock albums of 1977
