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June 30
- Shinedown paint a bleak, chilling picture of the future on Planet Zero
- Def Leppard: the making of Diamond Star Halos and the return of the electric warriors
- Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton to release debut solo album
- Green Carnation release video of cover of Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle
- Watch Benny from Abba play Foo Fighters' Learn To Fly
- Carpenter Brut: "I thought it would be cool to make a metal album without guitars"
- Max Cavalera talks Korn, moonshine and black metal in updated autobiography My Bloody Roots
- Ian Neal announces release of fourth album Barkton Ash
- Daniel Tompkins releases video for brand new single The Abyss
- Pink Floyd to finally release new mix of Animals in September
- The Anchoress relases video of new collaboration with Band Spectra
- The Prodigy's The Fat Of The Land at 25: the electronic punk record that put a bomb under heavy music
- Tim Bowness, Noel McCalla and Ms Amy Birks guest on new rock opera
- Crowd brawl breaks out during Eagles performance of Take It Easy in London
- Gene Simmons thinks Ace Frehley and Peter Criss no longer have the stamina to play a full Kiss show
- Total Eclipse Of The Heart - how Bonnie Tyler became the ultimate power ballad diva
- A pop music radio station in Canada is playing Rage Against The Machine nonstop and won't say why
- The Monster Magnet albums you should definitely own
- Halestorm: the challenging journey that brought them Back From The Dead
- Bill Ward has made a masterpiece and no one wants to release it
June 29
- The Mighty Bard stream brand new single Magician
- Tommy Lee plays first full set with Mötley Crüe since breaking his ribs
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Watch a death metal choir terrify America's Got Talent judges with a demonic take on Britney Spears' Toxic
- Esthesis announce second album Watching Worlds Collide
- Lifelong hip hop fan listens to System Of A Down's Chop Suey for the very first time and his reaction is brilliant
- Listen to Iggy Pop and Danny Elfman's savage critique of celebrity and fame on Kick Me
- Oceans Of Slumber's Cammie Gilbert: "My dad was the choir director for a cult"
- Jellyfish release video trailer for new vinyl box set
- Apple Music vs Amazon Music Unlimited: which streaming service rocks hardest?
- How Änglagård, prog's most reclusive band, made third album Viljans Öga
- R.E.M. to re-release debut EP Chronic Town to mark its 40th anniversary
- Yes, Benoit David and the making of Fly From Here
- The Metallica vs Megadeth feud is reignited on TikTok as 'Kirk Hammett' takes on 'Marty Friedman' in epic guitar battle
- Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
- My Favourite Things: The stuff Justin Hawkins can’t live without
- VLMV stream haunting new single The Navigator
- See Oli Sykes as a futuristic cyborg in collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao on Believe The Hype
- Metallica cancel show due to Covid
- Stevie Nicks on Roe v. Wade repeal: "History is repeating itself… and it's even more frightening this time…"
- "My hands were covered in blood": the violence and pain behind Slipknot's debut album
- Big Big Train announce Live At Loreley album
- Watch Yungblud engage in a joyous water fight with fans in the video for Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today
- 8 years after the film, Spinal Tap appeared on US TV and were fantastic all over again
- Pamela Des Barres: my stories of Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and more
- The 40 best rock albums of the year... so far
June 28
- Whitesnake's European tour stumbles as David Coverdale falls ill
- A fan has trimmed the fat from Metallica's St. Anger and it sounds all the better for it
- Sun, Skin and saxophones: 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2022
- Slash is entering the metaverse to host a virtual reality concert
- Prog guitarist Jan Rivera shares video for his debut single The Encounter
- The Hu announce UK and European tour for 2022
- Pale Waves find beauty in obsessive relationships on new single Jealousy
- Brutus return with crushing new single Dust, announce UK tour
- Marshall crank up the volume - launch 3rd generation of Bluetooth speakers
- This cringey 2002 Slipknot interview makes us want to die inside
- Hekla releases atmospheric video for new single Enn og Aftur
- Listen to brand new trailer for upcoming David Longdon solo album
- Six things we learned from Twenty One Pilots' UK 'Takeover'
- This Red Hot Chili Peppers medley set alongside Indian singing duo the Nooran Sisters is one hell of a trip
- Ozzy Osbourne to install bat conservation boxes at his UK home
- Fly On The Wall is the great lost AC/DC album and here’s why
- House Of Marley Redemption ANC 2 earbuds review
- Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and the true story that's almost too good to be true
- Kiss thank Austrian fans by showing Australian flag
- Tool to release triple vinyl edition of Fear Inoculum with new artwork
- Voivod need your help to build a monument to late guitarist Piggy
- Pour some powder on me! Def Leppard launch their own makeup and candle collection
June 27
- Yungblud’s Glastonbury set was another step to inevitable world domination
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Rammstein's Coventry gig was so loud it could apparently be heard over 10 miles away
- Elbow - Flying Dream 1: "rich with an honest warmth"
- Volbeat announce Euro/UK arena tour with Skindred, Napalm Death and Bad Wolves
- People are losing their minds over this recent and highly questionable viral Guns N' Roses performance
- Turnstile’s incendiary set steals the weekend at Glastonbury
- Dana Dentata transforms into a murderous bodybuilder in new video for Dstock '99
- Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong says he’s renouncing US citizenship following Roe v. Wade repeal
- Watch Herbie Hancock wow London’s Barbican with live version of Chameleon
- Thor: Love and Thunder almost got the Kate Bush treatment, but her music was cut from the film
- Jakko Jakszyk explores his heritage in new spoken word show at Edinburgh Fringe
- Coheed And Cambria to donate all profits from Oklahoma concert to Center For Reproductive Rights
- The day Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it
- Dave Grohl joins Paul McCartney for first public performance since Taylor Hawkins' death
- Paul McCartney and Wings: the 10 best songs
- Steely Dan: Can't Buy A Thrill - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new songs of right now
- Toyah and Robert Fripp cover Foo Fighters classic aided by gold leaf and squirting paint
June 26
- Rock musicians express dismay at overturning of Roe v. Wade
- Def Leppard confirm Stadium Tour will come to Europe
- The 10 best albums on Epitaph Records
- Demians and the making of their second album Mute
- That time Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson from The Nice visited the Prog office!
- Mansur stream new album Oscuras Flores in full
June 25
- The 10 moments which have defined Ghost’s spooktacular career (so far)
- Five things we learned as London welcomed Elton John home for show 223 on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour
- Watch Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley bicker like an old couple during this awkward 1993 interview
- Goblin guitarist Massimo Morante dead at 69
- How Panic Room made their "dark and personal" third album SKIN
- King's X release first new music in 14 years! Listen to Let It Rain
June 24
- Someone's messed around with a Pantera classic and the results will hurt your mind
- Alestorm's Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum: "all the joyless enthusiasm of a dog licking its balls"
- 10 metal bands who went heavy again - and were (mostly) better for it
- Ever thought Adele's Hello could do with an alt. rock makeover? Avril Lavigne is on it
- Scott Ian: "Nobody thought Metallica would be bigger than Iron Maiden"
- Metallica donate €130,000 to the victims of Germany's 2021 flood disaster
- Willow's emo new single Maybe It's My Fault is utterly dazzling
- Zola Jesus - Arkhon: "a feast of many flavours"
- Arthur Brown - Long Long Road: "one of music's true greats"
- Leah Kate gives a classic nursery rhyme a savage makeover on cutting pop-punk anthem Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine opens up on David Ellefson dismissal: "I'll forgive him, I just won't play music with him anymore"
- Ozzy Osbourne announces new album, Patient Number 9, releases title track
- Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation: "another exceptional record"
- Christine McVie says the stories of Fleetwood Mac's infamous fights are over-exaggerated
- Bill Nelson's Red Noise celebrated in new six-disc set
- Lonely Robot stream brand new single Recalibrating
- Queensryche share video for brand new single In Extremis
- Motorhead legend Lemmy's ashes are enshrined in statue of him at Hellfest
- Noisy US quintet Candy push the post-hardcore envelope on Heaven Is Here
- Faith No More revisit Angel Dust at 30: "Our label called it commercial suicide"
- Pink Floyd's Dark Side: Inside the tour that road-tested rock's greatest album
- Porcupine Tree's gorgeous comeback album is an elegant and accomplished treasure
- Songbird is not the Christine McVie collection she deserves
- Black Stone Cherry join the ranks of the Royal Albert Hall legends
- Supersonic Blues Machine are the sound of modern blues in the ascendant
- Canadian post-hardcore kings Alexisonfire have made a comeback album to be proud of
- Brian Jonestown Massacre: still frayed, still imperfect, still out on their own
- If you like deep-thinking Canadian art-rock, then Motherhood might be for you
- Petrol Girls' Baby is an exhilarating, incandescent rebel yell of an album
- How Brownsville Station made the goofy hit that gave Motley Crue a goofy hit
June 23
- For those who missed it first time round, Alice Cooper's reunion show live album is coming out again
- Helmet's Meantime at 30: The alt.rock masterpiece still shaping modern metal
- Red Hot Chili Peppers get the funk back to basics in Manchester
- The REAL reason The Damned were thrown off the Anarchy In The UK tour
- Pendragon announce acoustic vinyl version of Love Over Fear
- Alan Parsons releases video for brand new single I Won't Be Led Astray
- Watch Rob Halford be the classiest guy in the room on a 1994 TV debate about obscene lyrics
- Ryo Okumoto shares eye-catching new video for The Watchmaker
- Steve-O says Jackass was a bad-influence on children: "Little kids were showing up in hospitals all over the country"
- Fear Of The Dark and the bitter battle for Iron Maiden's soul
- People are losing it over this restaurant's 'elitist' (and hilariously specific) music policy
- Katatonia sign wordwide record deal with Napalm Records
- Pink Floyd to release physical version of Hey Hey Rise Up
- Jesse Jo Stark drops scuzzy, scathing new single Modern Love
- Listen to the blistering We'll Be Back, the first taste of new Megadeth album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
- Dave Mustaine reveals all on Megadeth's next chapter, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee pairing up with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart to cover The Everly Brothers is a collab we didn't see coming
- Listen to Bring Me The Horizon's teaser for new single Strangers
- Like Black Midi? Check out Cross Country Locomotives by experimental progger Levi Nice
- Shadow Academy takes a trip to The Other Side with their new animated video
- My Favourite Things: The stuff Jah Wobble can't live without
- Heilung release spellbinding video for new single Anoana
- The Black Dahlia Murder release memorial T-shirt for Trevor Strnad
- John Coghlan interview: Status Quo and the real end of the road
- Drugs, alcohol and goofing around: The making of Fleetwood Mac's Mirage
- Motley Crue Stadium Tour show delayed as severe weather hits venue
- Little girl sings with Trey Anastasio of Phish, heart-melting cuteness ensues
- Spiritbox surprise release new three-song EP: watch the video for title track Rotoscope
- Fight for your right to create havoc: How the Beastie Boys caused a crime wave
June 22
- "I need support, not criticism": Watch a snippet of the new Vince Neil documentary
- 10 obscure but brilliant hard rock bands you need in your life
- Watch Roger Waters' intense performance of Pink Floyd classics on late night US TV
- Watch the spooky animated teaser for new Ozzy Osbourne single Patient Number 9
- The 10 best albums on Nuclear Blast
- "The tour bus was not a good place to be..." The real story behind Marillion's Clutching At Straws
- Satan wants a new song from Ghost, and these internet piss-takers think they've cracked Tobias Forge's secret formula
- Save big on streaming with up to 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited, totally free
- Every Jimmy Eat World album ranked from worst to best
- We asked Tobias Forge how much he uses social media and he gave us a mini-lesson in how brains work
- Jinjer bassist Eugene Abdukhanov details terrifying drive to Kyiv amid falling bombs
- The story behind Arena's 2018 album Double Vision
- Amazon Music Unlimited review: get your streaming fix on a budget
- Hiroe share moody video for new single Doom Moon
- Kate Bush says she never listens to her old music
- Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante jokes that she is quitting music, and it's all Beyoncé's fault
- Ecstatic, chaotic, intoxicating: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis reclaims the King. But is it too good to be true?
- The Darkness and Black Stone Cherry announce co-headline UK tour for 2023
- Turnstile share video for new single New Heart Design, announce US tour
- Why it's time to add Queen's Live Killers to the pantheon of truly great live albums
- Judas Priest announce extensive run of 50 Heavy Metal Years tour dates
- It could have been a gorilla suit: How Angus Young became rock's most iconic schoolboy
- Carmine Appice details Christian epiphany, writes songs for faith-based film
June 21
- Watch Tool's Danny Carey change a broken drum during a song without missing a beat
- O.R.k. tease new single As I Leave – watch the cosmic video here!
- The Mars Volta release 11-minute video to accompany new song after a decade away
- Here's Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time as you've never heard it before
- What really happened when the Sex Pistols appeared on the Bill Grundy show
- Check out the new single Átfordul from Hungarian post-rockers Törzs
- New Pink Floyd book documents the band's Animals tour
- Watch this beast of a drummer smash Slipknot's Eyeless using only one hand
- This is how 'normal' people think metalheads talk to each other
- Ed Wynne celebrates the Summer Solstice with new video for Seen The Sun
- Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Brett Tuggle dead at 70
- Cellar Darling announce UK dates for October
- Ghost at Hellfest: more menacing and seductive than ever, despite the early finish
- Mystery release brand new video for 1992 song In My Dreams
- Alice Cooper isn't unhappy that rock music isn't for everyone: "We're back to the point of being rebels again"
- Watch The Gaslight Anthem thrill surprised fans at secret comeback show
- Watch Muse jam Slipknot's Duality at epic Isle of Wight festival show
- Devin Townsend reveals artwork and release date for new album Lightwork
- 10 alternative artists you won't want to miss at Glastonbury 2022
- Megadeth tease new music on mysterious website
- Machine Head drop killer new track Unhallowed
- Mick Fleetwood: my stories of Jimmy Page, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more
- False starts and a whole lotta cash: how Appetite For Destruction was made
- "I looked at the cover and puked" - the bizarre story of Black Sabbath's Born Again
June 20
- Deep Purple: the turbulent story of Stormbringer and Ritchie Blackmore's exit
- Watch the historic interview that introduced the real David Bowie to the world
- Remembering Kevin Ayers
- Steve Rothery announces two solo dates for July
- Nirvana's producer just won $196,089 at the World Series Of Poker
- Every Blur album ranked from worst to best
- Nine Inch Nails at the Eden Project: what happened when Trent and co played the world's biggest greenhouse
- Is black metal without distortion just surf rock? Yes, and this guitarist proves it
- Sowulo share video for new single Æt Wega Ġelætan
- Justin Hayward promises "old songs and new" on upcoming UK tour
- Watch Matt Bellamy play a robot glove at Muse's outrageous Isle Of Wight headline show
- Biffy Clyro announce UK and Ireland arena tour, with Architects in support
- Santana: Abraxas - Album Of The Week Club review
- Eight songs to change your world right now
June 19
- Toyah and Robert Fripp controversially resort to miming in this week's video
- Watch Starcrawler record new album title track She Said
- Watch Dave Grohl try to keep his cool during this adorably awkward meeting with Slayer in 1998
- "Size doesn't matter!" How Echolyn made 2012's self-titled echolyn album
- How Protest The Hero got their groove back with Palimpsest
- There’s no “crystal ball” for Fieldy’s return to Korn, says Ray Luzier
- Watch Ghost cut Hellfest headline set short after Tobias Forge loses his voice
- Jerry Cantrell has learned to be patient with unfinished songs
- Gunge, flan-flinging and... Kate Bush?
- Sevendust have decided when to break up
- Novena announce new singer with video for Ghosts
- The Stadium Tour first night - in pictures
- Meshuggah’s Fredrik Thordendal didn’t play for three years before tracking Immutable solos
June 18
- Watch I Prevail’s Body Bag single from third album True Power
- “It isn’t simple radio-friendly rock.” How Styx brought prog to Crash Of The Crown
- The return of The Flower Kings and Banks Of Eden
- Watch Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain take on Sooty in a tense drum battle in 1988
- Learn safe sex with GWAR leader Blothar’s PSA video
- Serial killer Richard Ramirez was pissed off that he missed Metallica playing San Quentin Prison, as he was on death row
- Korn’s Untouchables: the $4 million blowout that marked nu metal’s end point
- Don’t ignore Matt Tuck when he tells you to “ignore everyone”
- Porcupine Tree take aim at ego in crazy new video for Rats Return
- Listen to Matt Heafy’s solo single Perpetual Hate, featuring One Direction drummer
- What happened when Shooter met The Wolf
- The Dillinger Escape Plan don’t legally exist anymore
- Kirk Hammett is afraid to listen to Lulu again, but not for the usual reason
June 17
- Nikki Sixx says Tommy Lee is a "f**king animal" after performing with broken ribs
- The Internet has spawned a Michael Jackson/Ted Nugent funk jam and nothing makes sense anymore
- It's official: Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill is the UK number 1
- Today’s weather? You should expect a Tropical F*ck Storm
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Ever wondered how Harry Styles' As It Was might sound if covered by Bring Me The Horizon? If so, you just got lucky
- Discovering Coheed And Cambria is like discovering Star Wars, says Claudio Sanchez
- Måneskin share cover of If I Can Dream from Baz Luhrmann's Elvis soundtrack
- Machine Gun Kelly feels that the world hates him
- God Is An Astronaut share new live video for Coda
- Major Parkinson announce London headline show
- John Frusciante explains “Faceoffs” with Flea
- Watch Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen join forces onstage to play a 1963 Rolling Stones single
- Nova Twins' Supernova is the album leading alt rock into a new future
- Nirvana and Led Zeppelin members, P!NK and more added to Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts
- Trent Reznor was winded on the stage floor, so Billy Howerdel made his Nine Inch Nails debut
- New Pink Floyd book looks at the band's success in the States
- Watch: The crazy kids’ TV show that threw pies at Iron Maiden, Robert Plant and Lemmy
- Watch GWAR’s Pustulus Maximus name the 10 people on his death list
- The Smile have just released the best Radiohead album in over a decade
- Anthrax’s Frank Bello to release debut solo EP Then I’m Gone
- Science alert - going to festivals can make you a better person
- Future-metal duo Nova Twins crank up the noise and they're only getting started
- Lit have returned to the party
- 925 days on: the first night Stadium Tour setlists are in and Tommy Lee retires hurt
- Soulfly's new box is five discs of straight-up brutality and explosive, esoteric rackets
- Dan Reed Network's new album is funky, dripping with melody, and a joy to hear
- Tommy Lee replaced five songs into Motley Crue's opening Stadium Tour set
June 16
- Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition: "their most endearing album to date"
- Oceans Of Slumber release cinematic post-apocalyptic video for The Lighthouse
- Zeal & Ardor announce winter UK tour
- Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich's sons, aka Taipei Houston, to play Reading/Leeds fests
- Head’s problem with Korn’s Untouchables album
- There's now an emo version of Running Up That Hill, because of course there is
- If you like Opeth you might like flamenco and tango music
- Watch Indonesian metal trio Voice Of Baceprot rip through a cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman
- D’Addario and EarLabs bring down the noise with their sleek new earplugs
- Metalcore pioneers Norma Jean return with a state of the art single and album
- Why I ❤️ Ziggy Stardust, by Be-Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson
- "I'm unapologetically bisexual": Lzzy Hale shares powerful message for Pride Month
- Maraton slam online abuse in video for new single Contranym
- Max Cavalera staged a real-life Cavalera Conspiracy to steal his first microphone
- Esthesis release their first ever video for new single Place Your Bets
- Watch Rina Sawayama outrage public decency in the fabulously OTT video for This Hell
- Simon Neil nearly quit Biffy Clyro because he forgot how to be Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro
- Review: Ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato digs deep into his psych on Mirrorcell
- Cosmograf return with video for new single British Made
- Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant reveals why he turned down Game Of Thrones role: "I started that sh*t!"
- Metallica kicked off their European tour with a monster of a setlist
- Five Finger Death Punch lineup changes are “healthy”
- Bruce Dickinson’s airships will soon hit the skies
- Misfires and mistakes: the luckless story of Shy, hair metal's ultimate nearly men
- Why I ❤️ Ziggy Stardust, by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott
- Russian rock fan builds guitar out of McDonald’s fries
- Every song on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, ranked from worst to best
- Get off your ass and jam! The ferociously funky story of Parliament-Funkadelic
- Joey Tempest: When Europe reunited, we bonded over Audioslave
- Record Store Day, June 18: the 44 best releases
- Six things you need to know about Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse
June 15
- Ozzy Osbourne updates fans following surgery
- Listen to beabadoobee's fizzing new alt.pop single 10:36
- Dry Cleaning share new single Don't Press Me, announce second album Stumpwork
- Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Rage Against The Machine members and Miley Cyrus amongst names for Taylor Hawkins LA tribute show
- Watch videos for two new ...Trail Of Dead singles Penny Candle and Contra Mundum here...
- A nine year old girl just covered Spiritbox's Holy Roller on America's Got Talent and totally crushed it
- Kate Bush on track to score UK number one with Running Up That Hill - thanks to a sudden change in the rules
- Post Malone performs touching acoustic cover of Pearl Jam's Better Man
- Watch Lorna Shore vocalist Will Ramos scream from a camera inside his throat
- Boss Keloid share live in the studio video for Hats The Mandrill
- Nova Twins go full Mortal Kombat in gnarly new video Choose Your Fighter
- Lonely Robot reveal new album title and artwork
- Foo Fighters, Brian May, Geddy Lee, Liam Gallagher and more to play Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in London
- Napalm Death once appeared on a children's BBC TV show in 1989, just after a cartoon about cats
- Brent Smith interview: Iron Maiden, chocolate cake, and being terrified on stage
- The crazed story of rock's ultimate folly: Rick Wakeman and King Arthur... on ice
- Peter Green: the superstar with the human touch who sent Fleetwood Mac into orbit
- Nikki Sixx: "rock’n’roll is embarrassing – as it should be"
June 14
- Ozzy is "doing well" after major surgery
- Giant Walker: "The last thing the world needs is another love song"
- Clutch announce North American tour with Helmet and Quicksand
- Ever dream of jamming with Metallica? Because we have some good news
- Ozzy Osbourne shares link to his song I Love You All ahead of major surgery
- Take a bottle, shake it up: Def Leppard launch their own premium gins
- Joan Jett attacks SeaWorld over alleged sexual abuse of marine animals
- Petrol Girls take aim at radical left crusaders on the abrasive Preachers
- Download festival goer dies following medical issue on site
- Rick Wakeman announces his Grumpy Christmas Stocking Tour
- Tim Bowness releases video for new single Only A Fool
- Debbie Harry gives rapturous approval to Jenson Ackles' Blondie cover in The Boys
- Man arrested after allegedly trying to burn down Satanic Temple in Salem
- We saw Yes play a tiny venue as a warm up for their upcoming tour
- Never mind the meatballs… here’s Ikea’s new turntable
- A bizarre new AI app has gone viral, so we flooded it with metal icons. The results will haunt your dreams
- The Rory Gallagher albums you should definitely own
- Watch Queen's Brian May cry after duetting with Freddie Mercury 'hologram'
- Post Malone asked Frances Bean Cobain's permission to play Nirvana fundraiser set
- Why Heavy Trip is the funniest metal movie since This Is Spinal Tap
- Watch Jason Statham get electrocuted by Maynard James Keenan in a wig
- How Spiritbox's first ever UK show proved they are metal's most exciting new band
- Dim Gray share new video for the uplifting Avalon | The Tide
- Simple Minds launch new album Direction Of The Heart with vision Thing single
- The Rolling Stones call off two stadium shows after Mick Jagger tests positive for covid
- Billy Gibbons: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Al Jourgensen and more
- 12 times rock stars went busking in public, with varying degrees of success
- The butcher cover: the story of The Beatles' most controversial sleeve art
June 13
- Slipknot announce more US Knotfest Roadshow dates
- Radiohead side-project The Smile announce first ever North American tour
- Which music streaming service pays artists the most?
- Bruce Dickinson wants to choose his replacement in Iron Maiden when the times comes that he can't commit fully
- Download will celebrate 20th anniversary in 2023 by moving to four days
- Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux launches Yacht Rock side-project Soft Captain
- John Petrucci has made more bourbon whiskey
- Here's what happened when UK drag superstar Bimini rocked Download Festival
- Watch Alissic's fabulously freaky video for Everybody’s Dead Inside
- Listen to William DuVall’s "highwire act" live album
- Testament tried to get Dave Lombardo to audition… he refused
- John Lydon hasn't seen Sex Pistols TV drama Pistol, says it's "dead against everything we once stood for"
- Download fans blamed for drones shutting nearby airport
- Watch Lemmy's classy reaction to the most rude and obnoxious interview ever
- Deadly Circus Fire explore "needless conflicts" on new single Bombs Away
- Watch the time Kate Bush duetted with Mr Bean himself
- Ace Frehley snarks at Paul Stanley over Kiss lip-syncing claims
- Now Halsey has covered Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill
- If Limp Bizkit had recorded The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air theme, it would probably be like this
- Tygers Of Pan Tang: Crazy Nights - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs of right now
- OMG Toyah and Robert Fripp have covered Killing In The Name
June 12
- Dan Reed used to live in a buddhist monastery: now he's made his angriest album
- "How utterly brilliant!" Kate Bush responds to global success of Running Up That Hill
- Rush and the secrets of Clockwork Angels
- Watch Kreator look back in Become Immortal video
- Prepare to cringe at this Maynard James Keenan interview years before he was famous
- Iron Maiden just reminded Download Festival why they are still heavy metal's true masters
- After the Burial, Suicide Silence co-headline Never Say Die tour
- Watch smooth jazz star Kenny G play metal with Imperial Triumphant
- Loathe to tour UK and Europe
- Watch In Flames debut new song State Of Slow Decay live
- Black Sabbath had four days to teach Vinny Appice their set, so they went to the pub instead
- The new Muse album is partly inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement
June 11
- Papa Roach don’t regret going independent for Ego Trip release
- Watch Burton C Bell guest with The Silverblack on Judgment
- A strip joint once saved Billy Howerdel’s job
- Here’s what happens when Taking Back Sunday tie in with an EDM star
- Satyricon collaborate with long-dead painter Edvard Munch because “black metal’s true nature is being limitless”
- Bullet For My Valentine don’t mind if it takes 20 years to become the next Metallica
- Metallica mistakes make life easier for James Hetfield’s son
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here are 6 ways science has proven metal is good for you
June 10
- Rise Against surprise-release new EP Nowhere Generation II, share video for Last Man Standing
- Shearwater - The Great Awakening: "a remarkable, atmospheric set"
- Watch the unsettling trailer for Get Out/Us director Jordan Peele’s new horror movie Nope
- Zola Jesus shares stunning new single Into The Wild
- Happy songs “don’t make sense” to Oli Sykes
- Chris Poland had to work in a diner after quitting Megadeth
- Watch the hard-hitting video for Demi Lovato's grungey new single Skin Of My Teeth
- Lamb Of God unveil new single Nevermore
- Motionless In White’s Chris Motionless: “Religion continues to show itself for how vile it is”
- Black Sabbath were once told they were “too scruffy” for Birmingham club
- Saga, Saxon and 3 members form prog supergroup SiX By SiX, share debut single Yearning To Fly
- "And then things got weird..." Johnny Depp on how music saved his life
- Watch this 9-year-old guitarist totally nail a cover of Tool epic 7empest
- Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp confirm their collaboration album
- Listen to Machine Gun Kelly's moody collaboration with teenage hyperpop rapper Glaive, More Than Life
- See Corey Taylor in new hip-hop video with Kid Bookie
- The Utopia Strong - International Treasure: "a triumph of foraging spontaneity"
- Shinedown announce Planet Zero European tour
- Five Finger Death Punch release new track Welcome To The Circus
- Jimmy Eat World are back with Something Loud
- The Sky's the limit: The return of rock'n'roll heroes The Hellacopters
- The Sheepdogs release 70s-inspired performance video for I Wanna Know You
- Kiss at Donington 1996: officially not as underwhelming as it seemed at the time
- Kreator's Hate Uber Alles sounds like a knife fight waiting to happen
- Kula Shaker: still stuck in a world of pot, patchouli and letting it all hang out
- It’s business as usual for Michael Monroe and business is feisty
June 9
- Ozzy Osbourne to have "major operation" next week and it might change his life
- Metallica, Blade and demon Venom...Midnight Suns looks like the most heavy metal Marvel game ever
- The Prog Collective tackle late 60s and early 70s rock on latest collaboration
- The Flaming Lips on prog rock, drugs and writing six hour songs
- Watch Kate Bush maintain the patience of a saint in excruciatingly awkward 1985 interview
- Watch Ramones try to keep their punk rock cool on a cheesy European TV pop show
- Mothica announces new album Nocturnal, shares ethereal two-song single Bedtime Stories and Blood
- Best festival tents: Budget, pop-up and inflatable tents for the summer of music
- DevilDriver reveal Clouds Over California box set
- Anthrax offshoot Living Wreckage launch Endless War video
- Stranger Things bosses’ gambled on Kate Bush letting them use Running Up That Hill
- 10 nu gen songs you need to hear right now
- The internet is hell bent on trying to work out what song Eddie Munson is shredding in Stranger Things vol.2
- Voivod announce new box set with previously unreleased video of Psychic Vacuum
- Voyager share live clip of White Shadow from upcoming live release
- Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn add Obituary and Malevolence to rescheduled tour
- Remember the time Slipknot tried to sue Burger King over a Chicken Fries ad?
- Heard that viral Louis Theroux rap everyone is obsessed with? Well someone's remade it in the style of Linkin Park
- Watch Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe take part in an unusual TikTok science experiment
- Listen to new Pixies single There's A Moon On, from forthcoming album Doggerel
- Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera to release second collaborative album
- You need to watch Tenacious D's hilarious new The Who medley (and eat their new cereal bars, apparently)
- Kristen Stewart makes cast call out for her new "super gay" queer ghost hunting show
- Rob Halford’s going to photobomb Dolly Parton
- Watch Alice In Chains legend Jerry Cantrell’s life on the road in Had To Know video
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan has now had covid four times
- Till Lindemann has a nose bleed: the story of Rammstein's first TV appearance
- Edgar Winter and the album that transformed his suffering into joy
- Mark Tremonti on Creed, Alter Bridge, Frank Sinatra, and the bungee jump initiation
- Melodic rock titans Journey release new video Don't Give Up On Us
- Blondie release long-lost Doors cover to celebrate launch of mammoth 10-album box set
June 8
- The story of Scale The Summit's The Migration
- That time Rob Halford fell off his bike on stage (and barely missed a beat, because he's Rob freakin' Halford)
- Watch the teaser trailer for Rob Zombie's new movie, The Munsters
- Every Bad Religion album ranked from worst to best
- Pale Waves go full pop punk with angsty new single Reasons To Live
- Zakk Wylde picks the 10 songs that have defined his career
- Crippled Black Phoenix share stark video for new track Blackout 77
- Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill and more on WOMAD 1982 live album
- Watch the first trailer for Black Adam as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson enters the Superhero game
- Kiss caught lip-syncing at recent show
- Foo Fighters to host Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts in LA and London
- Kalandra release hauntingly atmospheric video for Mørke Skoger
- Mike Portnoy and District 97 cover of Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know
- Jinjer to leave warzone and tour as official ambassadors for Ukraine
- Venom Prison cancel all 2022 shows
- Coheed And Cambria drop Dance Gavin Dance from tour following assault allegations
- Watch the amazing moment Korn played Blind with Joey Jordison
- A love letter to Airheads: one of the great metal cult classics of the 90s
- Look lively maggots, there's new Slipknot music coming very soon
- Devin Townsend "wanted to hate" his new album
- Dragonforce’s Herman Li: rock isn’t dead...it’s just too serious
- Geezer Butler has defended one of Black Sabbath's most maligned albums
- Arena announce new album The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance for September release
- The Devil Wears Prada confirm new album Color Decay
- Closed-back vs open-back headphones: What's the difference and why does it matter?
- Meet prog-metal-blues men Moon Tooth, Dennis Rodman's accidental backing band
- Guns N 'Roses are at it again: they've covered another AC/DC song
- Alex Lifeson: the journey to Envy Of None and profound moments with Neil Peart
- Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on Instagram guitarists and the brilliance of Jimmy Page
- Dynasty and drama: How Kiss snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- Velvet Revolver's Contraband: a triumph of faith over circumstance
June 7
- Jim Seals of soft rock icons Seals and Crofts dead at 80
- Watch Rick James and Judas Priest get Super Rock Hard together
- Now that's what I call demented: Watch Focus play Hocus Pocus stupidly fast on Midnight Special
- King Diamond is "honoured" to have inspired Metallica
- Ghost's Tobias Forge reveals his thoughts on ever playing Glastonbury
- The Progressive Undergound Volume Four is released
- Pennies By The Pound premiere video for uplifting new single Burning Wish
- New trailer for Predator prequel Prey packs suspense, action and a big scary bear
- Watch Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Harkonen members cover Botch
- Watch the heartwarming moment Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows took a stage dive - and got a very special t-shirt as a result
- Paddy McAloon on prog rock and trawling the megahertz
- Fear Factory have added real drums to one of their previous albums
- Zakk Wylde reveals the "mount riffmore" that inspired his playing
- Suicide Silence's new album is ‘heavy as possible’
- Greek proggers Naxatras announce UK dates for September
- John Lydon, the man who co-wrote Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The U.K., now thinks "anarchy is a terrible idea"
- Watch Muse debut heavy new track Kill Or Be Killed
- Corey Taylor names his favourite song to cover - and he did it with its original writer
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante friendship with former guitarist Josh Klinghoffer is "non-existent"
- Cancer Bats detail UK tour
- Queen unearth "beautiful" unreleased song featuring Freddie Mercury
- Motorpsycho announce new album Ancient Astronauts for August
- "Spitting ain't cool" - people are losing it over this hilarious Dave Mustaine 'concert etiquette' video from 1997
- Eargrace High Fidelity Earplugs review
- A.A. Williams shares brand new video for the intense Evaporate
- Watch Parkway Drive get trapped among teddy bears in video for new single, Glitch
- Watch Serj Tankian’s video for pro-unity song Amber
- Arch Enemy's international lineup is "worst idea ever", says Michael Amott
- Deborah Bonham on her covers album, Mark Lanegan, and her bond with Robert Plant
- Kirk Hammett: the upside of covid is a half a billion new guitarists and a bright future
- The Kansas albums you should definitely own
- Black Star Riders hook up with roller derby team for Better Than Saturday Night
- How Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin combined for Dave Grohl's "greatest dream"
June 6
- The 10 Best Albums on Earache Records
- Charlie Griffiths releases new animated video for Luminous Beings
- Watch the first teaser for Tim Burton's new Addams Family series, Wednesday
- Ten cool King Crimson songs from the 80s
- The pandemic, the rise of the right, the war against truth: Jon Spencer has a lot on his mind. So how come his new album is so much fun?
- The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II's infamous Chris Holmes pool scene was a dark glimpse inside 80s metal excess
- Watch the time Metallica replaced Lars Ulrich with a 13 year old
- Like Dua Lipa backed up by the Black Keys: The rise of JJ Wilde
- Loop Experience earplugs review
- Lamb Of God announce new album Omens and share US tour dates
- Outrun The Sunlight share new live video for Emerald Joy
- Jon Anderson releases video for brand new song So Limitless
- Ozzy Osbourne sees a lot of himself in Yungblud, apparently
- Holly Humberstone announces biggest UK headline tour to date
- Watch a four-piece Nirvana kickstart the grunge revolution in a tiny US record shop
- This insane live footage of Måneskin at Rock Am Ring shows why they're rock'n'roll's most exciting band right now
- Composer Hannah Peel shares Cuckoo from Midwich Cuckoos soundtrack
- Ronnie James Dio’s estate gifted Stranger Things' Eddie Munson the Dio patch featured on his jacket
- Nebala share atmospheric new video for 15-minute Ant Mér Sjalfri Þér
- Stop calling Lemmy a Nazi, says Motörhead’s Phil Campbell
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler got fired from first job for being drunk all the time
- Maynard James Keenan is either "psychic or psycho"
- Kiss' Paul Stanley thinks 'cancel culture' is "more dangerous than what it wants to cancel"
- Alter Bridge: Blackbird - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: eight great songs you need in your ears right now
- Kate Bush breaks silence to comment on Stranger Things success
- Guns N' Roses' return to the road setlist: some surprises, and an AC/DC cover
- Hell is unleashed in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen with barmy INXS cover
June 5
- Founding Bon Jovi bassist Alec John Such dead at 70
- Lzzy Hale: "I have a case of the f***-its, that can be dangerous"
June 4
- Best non-alcoholic beers 2024: Alcohol-free beers that rock
- Is Peter Gabriel's new album finally going to be released?
- Anathema and the making of Distant Satellites
- Nad Sylvan: W.B. Yeats, music and me...
- Lesoir, Maud The Moth, EBB and more announced for A Sunday In September
June 3
- The stories of Peter Gabriel's solo albums, told by his collaborators
- Run The Jewels remind London why they're one of music's most essential live acts
- Caligonaut shares new video for epic new single Because We Are Not Apart
- The story behind Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill - the song everyone's talking about
- 10 Modern Hip-Hop Albums Every Metalhead Should Own
- The 10 best new metal songs you need the hear right now
- Candlemass: one of heavy metal’s crown jewels gets a polish
- Argent's latest collection reveals them to be ripe for rediscovery
- John Carpenter on his love for 90s Metallica
- Corey Taylor says new Slipknot music is coming “very f**king soon”
- Crobot's Feel This is an energetic celebration of straight-up, fat-free riffery
- The Sheepdogs' mid-70s jams are purpose-built to banish woe
- Fantastic Negrito's new album was 270 years in the making: its story changed his life
- Fantastic Negrito's visionary White Jesus Black Problems sounds like everything else and nothing else
- Wind Of Change: the story of the most monumental power ballad ever
- Jimmy Page reveals Led Zeppelin were asked to do an Abba-style avatar show
- Amon Amarth announce new album, launch video with pro wrestler Erik Redbeard
June 2
- Ten reasons Metallica are now officially the nicest band in metal
- Derek Sherinian shares video for new fusion single Scorpion
- Big Big Train announce book launch event for June
- Pink Floyd's tribute to Syd Barrett and the moment that moved the band to tears
- Fish reflects: loss, longevity, and hanging on in an unkind industry
- Some flamenco dancers have interpreted the Red Hot Chili Peppers and it's highly expressive
- The 10 most sampled rock acts in hip hop
June 1
- The Bo Diddley albums you should definitely own
- Wolfgang Van Halen slams TV show about his fathers death and anyone who might watch it
- Heilung announce details of new album, Drif
- Kurt Cobain asked Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis to join Nirvana – twice!
- Panic! At The Disco announce new album Viva Las Vengeance, share video for its sparkling title track
- Every Panic! At The Disco album ranked from worst to best
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs announce new album Cool It Down, share video for single Spitting Off The Edge Of The World
- Van Halen's David Lee Roth drops hint that he'll be coming out of retirement
- The 20 Greatest Roadrunner Records Albums Ever
- Watch an animated Muse lead a people's rebellion in a dystopian future in the video for Will Of The People
- SikTh tackle mental health issues in psychedelic video for Behind The Doors
- Watch a baby-faced Red Hot Chili Peppers get all over-excited on their first ever TV appearance
- Best gifts for beer lovers 2023: Present ideas for your ale-loving friends
- Kiss' Gene Simmons was asked to clarify his 'rock is dead' statement again and you'll never guess his answer
- Yes pay tribute to late drummer Alan White
- The making of The Pineapple Thief's Someone Here Is Missing
- Avril Lavigne reflects on early career: "I just wanted to rock out...I didn’t want to be all bubblegum pop"
- Two of a kind: the story of Squackett
- Tony Banks: Genesis never really changed, we just got better at the short stuff
- Megadeth: meet the new bassist, same as the old bassist
- "It's the best hard rock record since Appetite For Destruction" - Scott Ian
- Tedeschi Trucks Band premiere epic I Am The Moon: Crescent film
- Music Venue Trust launches initiative to protect small UK venues
- Boston's More Than A Feeling: a happy-sad fantasy song of lost love and nostalgia