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- August 31
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- Bauhaus cancel US reunion tour as frontman Peter Murphy enters rehab
- Fit For An Autopsy have managed to make Lamb Of God's Walk With Me In Hell even heavier
- Enter Sandman's lyrics are apparently the most misheard of any song in the US
- My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero launches new emo supergroup L.S. DUNES with spiky single Permanent Rebellion
- Queensryche's classic sound is all over their dramatic new video for seven-minute Behind The Walls
- Go big or go home! House Of Marley go all in with their new XL Bluetooth speaker
- Quicksand share new song Giving The Past Away
- The Alan Parsons Project remastered vinyl box set on the way
- Don't hold your breath waiting for a Stone Sour reunion any time soon
- Prepare to have your childhood ruined: the first trailer for that Winnie The Pooh horror movie has arrived
- Master Of Puppets played in a major key will make you feel like everything is good in the world again
- 10 times rock and metal bands wrote a song dissing another artist
- David Bowie to be honoured on Camden's Music Walk Of Fame
- Songs Of Praise: the gospel truth on King's X's divine debut Out Of The Silent Planet
- Soen share new performance video of Trials
- Terminator 2 star reveals he wanted Nine Inch Nails on film's soundtrack instead of Guns N' Roses
- Relax everyone, we now know what Corey Taylor thinks of the Pantera reunion
- Everything we know about Slipknot's new album The End, So Far
- Justin Hayward premieres video for brand new single Living For Love
- Meet Brave Rival, the piña colada-drinking roots rockers who can't stop head-banging
- Chuck Leavell has played with the Stones for decades but every night is still a thrill
- How Poco invented a brand-new sound, only to have it stolen by the Eagles
- How a song about an imaginary break-up with a twist became The Cars' first classic
- August 30
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- Watch Nita Strauss's video for thrilling shred instrumental Summer Storm
- A Cradle Of Filth/Ed Sheeran collaboration is actually, really happening
- Oli Sykes: "If I weren’t in Bring Me The Horizon, I’d have probably thought we were a bunch of wankers"
- Amy/Senna director Asif Kapadi to make documentary series about Camden music scene
- Steeleye Span 1974 live album to be released on coloured vinyl
- Megadeth’s The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!: what doesn’t kill Dave Mustaine only makes him stronger
- Listen to powerful new CLT DRP single Aftermath
- Watch the first trailer for the new Weird Al Yankovic film starring Daniel Radcliffe
- King's X share video for brand new track All God's Children
- Get your hands on Metal Hammer’s limited-edition Parkway Drive bundle with an exclusive cover and patch design
- The Offspring and Enter Shikari to headline Slam Dunk 2023
- GOAT announce new album Oh Death, share funky single Under No Nation
- Prolific Aussies Teramaze release video for brand new single Gold
- Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst is throwing a Halloween party on a boat
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates: “Hallucinogenic drugs have been the foundation of my wellness”
- Surviving Murderdolls members appear to be feuding over the band's estate
- Ozzy Osbourne opens up on traumatic health issues: "At one point I thought, Oh God, please don’t let me wake up tomorrow morning."
- Måneskin fans are pissed off at MTV for 'censoring' VMA performance following bassist's wardrobe malfunction
- Willow's Reading set was a success - even if the crowd eventually let her down a little
- Enter Shikari confirmed as Slam Dunk 2023 headliners, share video for Wargasm collaboration The Void Stares Back
- Halsey rocks Reading 2022: the crowning of a 21st century superstar
- Arctic Monkeys' new single sounds like a James Bond film theme
- Bring Me The Horizon's Reading set proved they are the breakout headliner rock has been waiting for
- Six things you need to know about… His Lordship
- A tour to the Dark Side: how Pink Floyd built their biggest album on the road
- Watch Tommy Lee prank an entire stadium by pulling out his 'wiener'
- This AC/DC and Bryan Adams mashup is like being thrust into a weird parallel universe
- August 29
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- Yes to celebrate 50th anniversary of Close To The Edge with US extensive tour
- Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti just released the most surprising album of the year, and here’s why
- Jan Rivera announces debut album and shares video for new single Fractional Lineage
- Neurosis co-founder Scott Kelly admits to abusing his wife and children, announces retirement from music
- My Soliloquy unveil video for new single The Great Polarity
- Solstice, Quasar, Landmarq, Karnataka and more set for the Soundle Weekend
- Threshold release video for brand new single King Of Nothing
- Rock Goddess: Rock Goddess - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: Ear-pleasuring proof that rock music is in rude health
- The Rolling Stones release 4K version of drugs bust-themed We Love You video
- Every Bob Seger Album ranked from worst to best
- August 28
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- Ozzy Osbourne to move back to UK as "everything's f***ing ridiculous" in the US
- Blind Guardian’s The God Machine: power metal deities deliver stellar comeback album
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- How Pain Of Salvation battled life-threatening adversity to create Panther
- The catharsis of Tim Bowness and Late Night Laments
- Scott Ian once asked Faith No More’s Mike Patton to join Anthrax
- Slipknot’s Iowa: inside the most brutal Number 1 album of the 21st century
- August 27
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- The story of Motorpsycho's The All Is One
- How John Petrucci reunited with Mike Portnoy for Terminal Velocity
- Robert Plant revisits Led Zeppelin's first rehearsal: "I knew that I was in a room full of giants"
- Interview: Alex Lifeson on grilled octopus, police brutality and disco biscuits
- The 11 best metal songs about wizards
- Finally: proof that Emerson, Lake & Palmer were actually a singles band
- Death, yoga and X-rated fan fiction: inside the head of Motionless In White’s Chris Motionless
- Dinosaur Jr: Seventytwohundredseconds of glorious discharge teetering on the brink of chaos
- Watch Ghost give live debut to Watcher In The Sky on first night of US tour
- Blondie's Against All Odds box celebrates one of the last century's finest bodies of work
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: never has smooth sounded so sublime
- August 26
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- “Doom meets Rock Band!”: inside Metal: Hellsinger, the ultimate videogame for metalheads
- “Articifial Intelligence will defend itself at all costs” Five Finger Death Punch face the future
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Ghost release the alternative version of Mary On A Cross that everyone on TikTok can't get enough of
- Avenged Sevenfold unveil new 'virtual hub', release statement on new album
- Pink Floyd could make over $500 million after expected bidding war for their back catalogue
- Every Rush album ranked from worst to best
- The Pretty Reckless to release acoustic tracks, covers, alternate takes collection Other Worlds
- Gracchus stream brand new single Facelift
- Monolithe Noir pay tribute to Dead Can Dance with new song for Askre
- Watch footage of Corey Taylor's chaotic first Slipknot show
- Darryl Way and Steve Hogarth join forces on new single Morpheus
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- Lonely Robot - A Model Life: "Still a Robot, but still invitingly human."
- Watch Scene Queen bring 'bimbocore' to the masses in crazy, bloodthirsty collab with Set It Off, Barbie & Ken
- Some dude on the internet has erased Eddie Van Halen's keyboard parts from Jump and it's winning him no friends
- Fred Durst and Phoebe Bridgers have been cast in a new A24 horror movie
- Hawkwind legend Robert Calvert is being given a special commemoration in his original hometown
- Muse's spooky You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween video is a horror movie geek's wet dream
- Remembering the time a new punk rock icon was crowned courtesy of a naughty nine year old on Wife Swap
- Jean-Michel Jarre reveals video for "heavy" new single Brutalism
- Devin Townsend launches video for brand new song Moonpeople
- Machine Head's Of Kingdom And Crown: blunt as heavy-force trauma but melodic and rich
- Muse capture the the head-spinning chaos of the age on Will Of The People
- The Kut: punk-pop swagger sprinkled with homages to new wave, melodic metal and grunge
- Datura 4's Neanderthal Jam is a reverent and joyful ode to arena-rock excess
- Watch Jimi Hendrix's historic performance of Dolly Dagger in Hawaii
- The roots of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' can be found in a tragic school fire
- August 25
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- The internet might have discovered the most chill Metallica cover ever
- Muse - Will of The People: "hardly short on flamboyant outlandishness"
- James Warren: from Stackridge to The Korgis and back again
- Pantera announce first reunion shows of 2022
- How Iron Maiden made A Matter Of Life And Death, their best 21st century album
- Enslaved share concept video for brand new single Kingdom
- How Beardfish went heavy with The Void
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan confesses to stealing song ideas from Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor
- Gerard Way wore a cheerleader outfit onstage in Nashville and My Chemical Romance fans are absolutely loving it
- Maraton share new visualizer video for Boltzmann Brain
- Backlashes, anime and My Chemical Romance: 10 things we learned about the new Machine Head album from Robb Flynn
- Stereophonics' Word Gets Around at 25: gritty, evocative tales of small town life, love and loss, shared with rare sensitivity
- Fieldy announces his return… except it’s not with Korn
- A people's history of Fairport Convention to be published
- Sammy Hagar says Eddie Van Halen came to him in a dream and wrote a song with him
- Ozzy Osbourne gave up LSD after talking to a horse for an hour
- Tim Bowness: "I don’t envy any musician starting off in 2022"
- Watch a giddy Freddie Mercury warm up before his last ever show with Queen
- It looks like a beer bong and sounds like a robot: the story of Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way
- August 24
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- The Mick Ronson albums you should definitely own
- Conception to have first four albums reissued
- Master Of Puppets: the man making marionettes of your favourite rock star
- A Killer Klowns From Outer Space video game is coming: watch the trailer now
- 10 rap acts every metalhead needs to know
- Paul Stanley doesn't want to write new Kiss music: "It's setting myself up for disappointment"
- The 30 greatest Nirvana songs ever - and the stories behind them
- The dark allure of Portishead's Dummy: a melancholic masterpiece from a bleak, alien future
- Robb Flynn’s track by track guide to the new Machine Head album Of Kingdom And Crown
- Celestial Son share new video for "melodic synthwave pop rock" song Lord Of Karma
- Arctic Monkeys announce new album The Car
- Loads of people have started adding Linkin Park's What I've Done to classic movie endings and it's hilarious
- Mdou Moctar streams new version of Chismiten
- Panic! At The Disco share video for peppy new track Sugar Soaker, featuring a cameo from Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz
- Nita Strauss: "Demi Lovato is a huge rock and metal fan"
- Blossom Toes We Are Ever So Clean debut to get vinyl reissue
- Charlie Watts: the man who didn't know what all the fuss was about
- Mick Jagger pays tribute to Charlie Watts on the first anniversary of the legendary drummer's death
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine used black magic and sex spells to ease his teenage anxieties
- Dave Brock explains why this year's Hawkfest is the last
- Nickelback are teasing a seriously heavy new song and the internet is loving it
- Meet Amongst Liars, the truth-telling kings of new rock fury
- Fantastic Negrito: the soundtrack of my life
- Judy Teen: the quasi-calypso pop classic that gave Cockney Rebel an unlikely hit
- Why Steven Tyler turned down the chance to replace Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin
- Jimi Hendrix: a tale of 19 nudes and a one controversial album sleeve
- August 23
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- Matt Tuck: 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Watch 2022's hottest metal team-up as Malevolence and Lorna Shore's Will Ramos perform Karma at Bloodstock
- Eric Clapton wasn't happy with Ozzy Osbourne rejecting Jesus Christ on Patient Number 9 collaboration
- 2001 is back: Drowning Pool announce new album and Hoobastank, Lit, Alien Ant Farm and P.O.D. all announce tours
- Steve and Virgil Howe release vibrant new video for the gentle More Than You Know
- Jinjer announce US headline tour
- Sleep have released a new Dopesmoker vinyl containing actual marijuana
- Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual: the messy, chaotic birth of the most important album in alt. rock history
- Major Parkinson announce new album Valesa - Chapter 1: Velvet Prison
- Susanna streams eerie new track Come Avalanche
- This pop punk cover of Master Of Puppets has got enraged Metallica fans baying for blood
- Evanescence's Bring Me To Life is number 1 on iTunes 19 years after its release and no one is quite sure why
- The Vans x Stranger Things footwear and fashion range has the retro vibe we've all been waiting for
- Listen to brooding new Parkway Drive single Darker Still
- Tommy Lee just told a stadium full of Motley Crue fans "Tonight I wanna see everyone's dick"
- Slipknot drop the highly unnerving music video for new single Yen
- Former Cradle Of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis dead at 48
- And So I Watch You From Afar, Jambinai, VLMV announced for Portals 2023
- How David Bowie’s role as the Elephant Man was almost his last
- "He sang like he was testifying": the story of Marshall Tucker Band's evocative classic
- Alter Bridge and Mammoth WVH announce massive US tour
- Watch spectacular footage from Rammstein's first North American Stadium Tour show
- August 22
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- Tears For Fears and The Tipping Point
- On reflection: Gentle Giant and the making of Free Hand
- Lonely Robot takes aim at the 'prog police' in new video for Digital God Machine
- Muse announce summer 2023 UK tour dates
- How a Tony Iommi riff written in a castle rescued Black Sabbath from despair
- The eight best new rock songs given to the world this week
- Pantera share first teaser video for controversial reunion tour
- August 21
- August 19
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Watch previously unseen footage of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'lost' Royal Albert Hall performance from 1970
- Nine must-see artists set to rock the capital at All Points East
- Kurt and Courtney's daughter Francis Bean Cobain posts emotional message on her 30th birthday: "I'm happy to be here"
- Yungblud announces UK arena dates for 2023
- Horslips to perform at this year's Northern Irish Music Prize
- The chaotic, utterly unbelievable story of Black Sabbath's Vol 4: only in the new Classic Rock
- The Gaslight Anthem blow hot and cold at their largest ever UK headline show
- Motorpsycho are primed and eager to flip your metaphorical lid
- Thundermother's Black And Gold glides along on a wave of singalong arena rock
- Five Finger Death Punch are still hitting hard and pummelling heads
- The Chats: a roguish distillation of Aussie rock’s most oikish corners
- David Paich calls in the favours on masterfully produced solo album
- Six By Six: an opening salvo from a supergroup that bubbles with chemistry
- Watch trippy Red Hot Chili Peppers video for new single Tippa My Tongue
- The Hu launch yet another epic video, this time for Black Thunder (Part 2)
- R.E.M.'s Chronic Town: enigmatic jangle rock that sounds like a portal to the ghost dimension
- From hellish childhoods to hometown salvation: Walter Trout still has a lot to say
- Robert Plant: Led Zeppelin don’t really satisfy my needs any more
- August 18
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- Dio: Dreamers Never Die documentary to screen in cinemas in September/October
- Watch Cassyette smash sh*t up in the goths gone wild video for Sad Girl Summer
- The Story Behind The Song: Rage Against The Machine's Sleep Now In The Fire
- Stranger Things' Joseph Quinn names his guitar heroes, reveals the bands he listened to for Eddie Munson role
- Spock's Beard and the making of The Oblivion Particle
- Best budget headphones for music 2025: Wired and Bluetooth headphones from £50
- This rare footage of Slipknot's Corey Taylor recording screams for Iowa will make your skin crawl
- Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody on Tommy Lee's nude photo: "Nobody's that well hung"
- The story of Moon Safari and Himlabacken Vol. 1
- Between The Buried And Me and the making of Colors II
- Dikajee shares video for brand new single In The Blink Of An Eye
- Blink-182's Mark Hoppus is "open to whatever the next phase of Blink is"
- Big Big Train release first track with new singer Alberto Bravin
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week: Five Finger Death Punch, Heilung and more
- Ozzy Osbourne says Jimmy Page never returned his calls about appearing on his new album
- Listen to Billy Idol's snarling new single Cage
- Watch Dave Grohl, Beck, Tenacious D cover yacht rock classic Summer Breeze
- Roger Chapman five disc 1981-1985 box set on the way
- Apple AirPods Max review
- “We’re gonna be the biggest band in the world”: why Vended are more just than The Sons Of Slipknot
- Black Veil Brides' Andy Biersack calls out fans "spewing mean and hateful sh*t" online: "it breaks my f**king heart"
- “It’s a dark record - it's f**king black!”: Machine Head come out swinging in the new Metal Hammer
- Ava Cherry: the 17-year-old singer who changed David Bowie's career
- "Genesis and Queen were in awe of the sounds we were making": The Moody Blues albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
- Man injured after falling from upper level of stadium during Motley Crue show
- Watch an exclusive clip from the new Randy Rhoads documentary
- August 17
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- Relive the moment Angus Young grabbed a fan by the nose after being drenched in beer
- Greg Dulli pays tribute to the late Mark Lanegan: "He was a f**king pussycat and one of the greatest singers to ever sing"
- Julie Driscoll's 1969 to get remastered reissue
- Win tickets to an exclusive Lonely Robot new album premiere
- That brilliant Smokey Robinson versus Armored Saint mash-up you never knew you needed has arrived
- Watch Pink Floyd calmly carry themselves through this spiky interview with a snooty classical music critic
- Death Dealer Union are the injection of epic metal mastery you've been waiting for
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Metallica's Lars Ulrich to join Taylor Hawkins' son Shane at tribute concert for late Foo Fighters drummer
- Caligula's Horse guitarist Sam Vallen announces debut solo single
- South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone playing Team America anthem America, F**k Yeah with a 16-piece band is epic and hilarious
- Machine Gun Kelly zip-lines across stadium, smashes wine glass into his own face and declares "I'm rich, bitch!" at homecoming show
- Watch Korn and Evanescence's Amy Lee play Freak On A Leash together last night on first date of co-headline tour
- An artist has brought every song on Metallica’s Master Of Puppets to vivid, twisted life
- Ashley Hutchings to release his 100th album
- Five Finger Death Punch’s AfterLife: hater-proof modern metal titans get experimental
- Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz: Pink Floyd really helped Ukraine
- What happened when we took Michael Monroe record shopping in Helsinki
- Fired up by riots: how Steve Miller found himself at the heart of a musical revolution
- Dee Snider: my guide to life
- August 16
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- Massive Wagons' new single is a scathing attack on the cost of modern convenience
- Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner hospitalised after heart attack
- The Top 20 best albums of 1995
- Inside the Hear 'N Aid sessions: "It’s one moment in hard rock history that we can all be proud of"
- Watch the cinematic video for Jesse Jo Stark's love-gone-sour tearjerker Tornado
- A new Saw film is officially happening and releasing on Halloween next year
- Watch Voyager's guitar playthrough for Submarine
- Watch Nita Strauss shred at Demi Lovato's first full live show of 2022
- Watch fired-up Bloodstock Festival punters stage a chaotic wheelie bin jousting tournament
- Witch Fever share creepy new single I Saw You Dancing
- Why last night’s Vended show in London proved it’s time to get over the 'Slipknot kids’ tag
- That time President Obama pointed out that he wasn’t the lead singer from Korn
- Always wondered how Master Of Puppets would sound had it been written by Slipknot, not Metallica? You're in for a treat
- A.A. Williams shares atmospheric new track Golden
- Tommy Lee’s wife reacts to the NSFW nude photo that broke the internet
- Robb Flynn remembers Machine Head’s first show 30 years on: “the police came”
- Unbreakable Spirit: the unexpected return of Janick Gers's first band, White Spirit
- Watch an inebriated Ace Frehley wreak havoc during Kiss's interview on The Tomorrow Show
- The trouble with Alice Cooper and the 2,000,000 pairs of flammable panties
- The real story behind the return of Porcupine Tree: "We’re old geezers getting together"
- Some genius has made a guitar out of Ikea furniture and it's fjälkinge great
- August 15
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- Steve Grimmett, singer with NWOBHM icons Grim Reaper, dead at 62
- Conjurer: the band dragging British metal into a new era of heavy
- 10 essential alt-metal albums
- How Faith No More turned a cheesy 70s hit into the easy listening song it’s OK for metal fans to like
- Soilwork’s Overgivenheten album review: melodeath meets AOR from Swedish masters
- Metallica’s Rob Trujillo is “proud” of Rage Against The Machine
- The top 10 best Old New Wave Of American Heavy Metal anthems
- Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows has some advice for new bands everywhere
- How The Beatles became the first band to make a stand for civil rights
- Manowar: Battle Hymns - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best rock songs you need to hear this week
- August 14
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- Tommy Lee posts new version of full-frontal shot as debate rages
- Tony Iommi reveals why Geezer Butler was a no-show at Sabbath reunion
- Japan to release half-speed vinyl remaster of double collection Exorcising Ghosts
- Zoltan Bathory’s track by track guide to Five Finger Death Punch’s new album AfterLife
- Heilung’s otherworldly new album Drif is powerful, hypnotic and unifying
- August 13
- August 12
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- New Years Day are back with a bang(er): watch the video for Hurts Like Hell
- Alice In Chains are releasing just 3000 copies of their 30th anniversary Dirt box set and we'll fight you for one
- Listen to fierce Enter Shikari / Wargasm collaboration The Void Stares Back
- British MPs ask Queen Elizabeth II to honour Black Sabbath for their services to music
- Megadeth and Killswitch Engage to headline Bloodstock 2023
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Machine Head just played a secret set at this year’s Bloodstock festival
- Tommy Lee has put his todger away long enough to appear in new movie The Retaliators
- Remember when Tommy Lee teamed up with Fred Durst and Lil Kim for the most obscene nu metal song ever?
- Alice In Chains have just dropped a deathcore-style T-shirt and we want it
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- Megadeth’s killer new song Soldier On! is the soundtrack to the world marching into the mouth of hell
- Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best
- ZIO return with video for brand new single Close
- Riots! Pornography! Torture! The strange secrets of Metallica’s Black Album
- Alice Cooper: my stories of Lemmy, Raquel Welch, Pink Floyd and more
- The Faust Tapes: just as disorientating now as it ever was
- Goo Goo Dolls have not run out of stuff to sing about yet
- Arch Enemy: blurring the line between turbo-thrash avant-punk extremism and Eurovision
- Osees have mutated again and this time it's explosive punk rock
- August 11
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- Johnny Cash may not have shot a man in Reno but he murdered his wife on Columbo
- Norma Jean’s Deathrattle Sing For Me: pure anguished poetry from metalcore lifers
- Maddy Prior: "We toured with Tull in front of 18,000 people. I was terrified!"
- “Every record is its own universe; we don’t think about whether or not it fits into the grand scheme of things." Mike Patton's world of art rock
- "All this is worth it!" - The Pineapple Thief and Your Wilderness
- The 10 best rock and metal sci-fi concept albums
- Spawn at 25: revisiting the most spectacularly mishandled superhero movie of the 1990s
- Joey Valence and Brae share new single Watch Yo Step to fill that Beastie Boys-shaped hole in your heart
- Rage Against The Machine cancel UK/European tour, including Reading and Leeds festival appearances
- Watch Rush duo Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson play Closer To The Heart with Primus and the creators of South Park
- O.R.k. release teaser video for new album Screamnasium
- Tommy Lee posted a photo of his genitals on social media and now he's trending worldwide
- Peter Jackson wanted hypnotherapy so he could forget The Lord Of The Rings films...so he could watch them again
- Vended's Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan are sick of taking shit for being Slipknot kids: "People can f**k right off"
- Listen to Poly-Math's brand new single Zenith (Vel Cut) here
- Black Honey drop strange, bodybuilder-filled video for defiant new single Charlie Bronson
- Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea says fans asking for photos "ruin" encounters with his band
- David Ellefson reflects on Megadeth dismissal: "You find out who your friends are when the s**t hits the fan"
- Listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's fiery new single Burning
- Malcolm Galloway releases video for epic new song Kites And Darts
- The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon: the soundtrack of my life
- Rival Sons: Scott Holiday on writing new songs, playing with The Stones and buying a puppy
- That time Thin Lizzy recorded an album of Deep Purple covers and saved their career
- A box set of rare LA glam metal is coming out and we couldn't be more delighted
- August 10
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- Måneskin cancel festival appearances, release first part of tour documentary
- Tedeschi Trucks Band release poignant tribute to late keyboardist Kofi Burbridge
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes sing to Rammstein's Du Hast at his Sheffield club night
- Jay Weinberg on how Slipknot make music: "for sure, there's creative tension"
- HRH Prog XIII reschedules to Sheffield in 2023
- Coheed And Cambria premiere new video for A Disappearing Act
- Riots, arrests and a knocked out Geezer Butler: the most chaotic concert of Black Sabbath's career
- Watch some super-rare colour footage of Genesis, Hawkwind and David Bowie from the legendary 1970 Atomic Sunrise shows
- Revisiting the car-crash moment Yes inadvertently performed as a power trio on live TV
- Russian Circles unveil their very first ever video. Watch Gnosis here...
- Steve Hackett shares new live video of The Devil's Cathedral
- 20 years ago, The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato actually took a dump on stage at Reading Festival
- Satyricon’s Satyr: “Church-burnings and murder, they’re a part of our history”
- Listen to new Revocation track Re-Crucified, featuring The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad and Cannibal Corpse's Corpsegrinder
- Sheer Cerebral Power introduce themselves with video for Blow
- Why you should see (and hear) The Retaliators: the ultimate heavy metal revenge thriller
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals Lemmy’s favourite album by him - and some defiant words the Motörhead legend gave him near the end
- Why you should definitely own Workingman's Dead by the Grateful Dead
- “I got a bit emotional seeing Ozzy and Iommi onstage together again": Queen's Brian May speaks for all of us after seeing Black Sabbath legends reunite
- What happened when the FBI tried to decipher The Kingsmen's Louie Louie
- The odd couple: the brotherly battles at the heart of Journey's Freedom
- August 9
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- So many drugs the cows got high: the chaotic festival that heralded Woodstock 99
- Crazy Swedes add Pink Floyd and Billy Cobham covers to debut album reissue
- Hollywood Undead’s Hotel Kalifornia: rap-metal party starters get serious
- Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame to host Machine Gun Kelly exhibit on 'MGK Day'
- Amy Lee reveals the best song to get someone into Evanescence
- Ross Robinson did not like Slipknot the first time he heard them
- The 10 weirdest festival bookings ever
- Dawnwalker premiere their brand new video for R.I.P.
- Crippled Black Phoenix lash out at "unempathetic politicians" on new single Bonefire
- Cats inciting violence to System Of A Down's Chop Suey makes for top tier entertainment
- Why are some Stranger Things fans now trying to 'cancel' Metallica?
- The Halo Effect’s Days Of The Lost: melodeath all-stars salute the Gothenburg Sound on debut album
- Watch this brilliant metalhead accurately sum up every type of metal fan you'll see at a festival
- Fern release video for their very first single Hyperreal
- Watch the trailer for Måneskin's Access All Areas series documenting their wild summer
- Amanda Lehmann: my life in music
- Antimatter announce brand new album
- Paul Samson: remembering NWOBHM's lost star
- Kris Barras used to shout 'Hello Wembley!' at gigs for fun: now he's done it for real
- Whiskey Myers interview: the southern sound hits an exhilarating new peak
- The day John Lennon became a disc jockey on New York's biggest radio station
- 10 historic New York gigs that spun the world of rock'n'roll on its axis
- August 8
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- Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi just reunited to play Black Sabbath classics in Birmingham
- This footage of the teenage Beastie Boys playing punk rock on public access TV is just too cute
- Fleet Foxes announce London Islington Assembly Hall headline show
- David Ellefson reveals the two thrash bands he thinks would make up the 'Big Six'
- Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory compares his band to Queen
- Watch Heart's Ann Wilson performing Barracuda at Wacken Open Air 2022
- Christ Illusion, dodgy crowds and the return of Dave Lombardo: what happened when we went on tour with Slayer in 2006
- New US prog duo Migliori Amici & Co release video for Sun
- Venom to reissue In Nomine Satanas as a 6CD/DVD box set
- Willow drops yet another song that will remain in your head for days, Hover Like A Goddess
- Some freak has mashed up Nickelback, with Earth, Wind & Fire, Ozzy, Fleetwood Mac and more, and we're not mad at this tbh
- Listen to Yungblud's rowdy, infectious new single The Emperor
- Lamb Of God's Mark Morton reveals a quick-acting roadie saved him from a major onstage mind-fart last night
- Red Bazar announce new album Inverted Reality
- Machine Gun Kelly responds to his tour bus being vandalised with homophobic slur: "You’re so dumb"
- Joe Walsh: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to rock literally anyone like a hurricane
- Roger Waters trends on twitter after calling Joe Biden a war criminal on TV
- Whitesnake cancel US and Canada tour as David Coverdale's health issues persist
- August 7
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- August 5
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- The Mars Volta announce first album in a decade
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The Top 20 best albums of 1994
- "F**k you, follow that!": The electrifying story of AC/DC's masterpiece, Powerage
- Our first reaction to Slipknot's Yen: tense, claustrophobic and dripping with atmosphere
- Listen to Slipknot's bleak, moody, cinematic new single Yen
- Prey review: Predator prequel doesn't quite do enough to rescue the franchise
- Jacob Holm-Lupo and the Boozer Cruiser release tragic dementia ‘prog poem'
- These are Dave Lombardo’s three favourite Slayer songs (and they’re not what you expect)
- Teramaze announce fourth new album in two years!
- Reliving the insane moment someone actually booked pop duo Daphne and Celeste for Reading Festival and they got bottled to hell
- Ex-Guns N' Roses man exposes the madness of the Chinese Democracy era: "The chaos never died"
- This cover of Master Of Puppets in the style of Rammstein is the stuff of Eddie Munson’s nightmares
- Check out young Halifax post-rockers L.O.E. and their new single 1001
- Tim Bowness - Butterfly Mind: "full of invention, scope and ambition"
- Robert Fripp takes a bow on the cover on the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Soulfly’s Max Cavalera: “It‘s a f**king miracle that I survived all this sh*t”
- How Peacemaker's opening credits revived the career of faded Norwegian glam rockers Wig Wam
- The Rolling Stones release stunning 4K versions of the Jumpin' Jack Flash videos
- H.e.a.t.: an unbreakable brotherhood grounded in noise, beers and shampoo
- Dub War: thwarted by the arrival of Britpop, their hour may have finally come
- Paul McCartney: 50 years, three McCartney albums, one box set
- Neil Young's Noise & Flowers: a heartfelt tribute to a fallen friend
- Mickey Jupp: Not a wasted word nor a pointless chord from a total original
- Tim Bowness: the Elton John of sublime, avant-garde prog
- Bernie Marsden has delivered another master class in rock history
- August 4
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- New video trailer released for A Sunday In Setpember
- Jeff Berlin to release tribute to the late Cream bassist Jack Bruce
- Johnny Depp, Jeff Beck accused of 'ripping off' lyrics from '60s prisoner's poem
- Watch Ghost's Cardinal Copia hilariously balls up classic movie lines in new video chapter: Ghost Goes Hollywood
- Greg Puciato: “it felt really good when Dillinger split”
- The Interrupters' In The Wild is the joyous, defiant, liberating sound of a fearless survivor living her best life
- Korn's Jonathan Davis opens up on the chaos of Woodstock '99: "when you see it with your own eyes, it is ten times more shocking"
- HMV mark 100 years with mascot-branded Pro-Ject T1 turntable
- “The first transmission of semen by fax”: the story of Bruce Dickinson’s batsh*t crazy horror movie Chemical Wedding
- Box set of music from the films of John Hughes will take us right back to the 80s
- Listen to Cassyette's cover of Harry Styles' As It Was
- Bjorn Riis channels Pink Floyd on new video for Dark Shadows
- Watch Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower do Lizzo lyrics in the voice of Vecna
- Suede roll back the clock on new single 15 Again
- Idles channel creepy Slipknot vibes in the unsettling video for Stockholm Syndrome
- Former Samson frontman Nicky Moore dead at 75
- That Metallica/Stranger Things T-shirt we’ve been crying out for is finally here
- Willow announces new album COPINGMECHANISM, talks up new-found love of Queen
- David Ellefson reveals why Megadeth's Killing Is My Business... is so fast - and it involves Metallica
- Tusmørke return with brand new song for younger listeners, Den nye tida
- Chris Jericho: Jimmy Page on one side and Brian May on the other and I was like 'Oh, f**k'
- The Doors' albums you should definitely own
- Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street, and the sax intro that gave birth to an urban legend
- Vince Neil has made his live debut at the Grand Ole Opry for some reason
- August 3
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- Watch Steve Vai give a young shredder a moment of magic he'll cherish forever
- Ultravox's Midge Ure on his short-lived time in Thin Lizzy: "Was it fun? Was it ever!"
- Soft Machine, Arthur Brown, Curved Air for Hawkwind's final ever Hakwfest
- The 10 most surprising instruments ever used by metal bands
- 11 rock anthems we can't believe weren't written by rock bands
- Every Stone Temple Pilots album ranked worst to best
- Six By Six release video for edgy new single China
- The Blackheart Orchestra share striking new video for The Tide
- Queen's Brian May hails Tony Iommi's "monumental" performance at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony: "So proud of my dear friend"
- Spiritbox are releasing a real spirit box as part of their new merch range
- Dave Mustaine says the period around David Ellefson's dismissal from Megadeth was a "little touchy"
- Keith Richards hopes The Rolling Stones will record new music this year
- Lazuli reveal they're working on their "atmospheric" 11th album
- Meet Torus, the Toni Iommi-endorsed hopefuls with a big sound and bigger plans
- Wicked Lester: how Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons failed before the success of Kiss
- What happened when Saxon underwent reality TV's most surprising makeover
- The Chain: the story of a beloved Fleetwood Mac song built from spare parts
- August 2
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- Alter Bridge release video for electrifying new single Silver Tongue
- Watch the unboxing video for Creedence Clearwater Revival's Royal Albert Hall super deluxe set
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard laughs off the idea that grunge 'killed' hard rock: "I love hard rock, and I always have"
- Wolfsbane guitarist Jase Edwards has been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer
- Woodstock ’99 was supposed to be nu metal’s crowning moment. Instead, it was an epic clusterf**k
- Phil Anselmo believes Dimebag and Vinnie Paul "would want the legacy and the name of Pantera to go on and on"
- Metallica are officially the biggest metal band of the past 40 years, based on ticket sales
- Listen to Jordan Rudess covering Giorgio Moroder's Chase from Midnight Express
- Thanks to Stranger Things' Eddie Munson, the internet is thirsting over metalheads like never before...and it's getting weird
- Why Korn on South Park remains the greatest cartoon music cameo ever
- How the hell did we miss Toyah and Robert Fripp covering Slipknot’s Psychosocial in their kitchen?
- Watch the trailer for Big Big Train's Summer Shall Not Fade – Live At Loreley
- Radar Festival announces a new location for July 2023
- Nick Oliveri says it "took time to heal" after firing from Queens Of The Stone Age, reveals last time he saw Josh Homme
- Watch St. Vincent cover Fleetwood Mac's Dreams to inject some sunshine into your day
- Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas: ““When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, I was like, ‘That motherf**ker!’”
- This crowd-surfing, power metal-loving security guard is the greatest thing you’ll see today
- Dub War’s Westgate Under Fire: metal’s original soundclash kings return to reclaim their crown
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: why you should never take the moon for granted
- James Gang to reunite for final show at veterans event with Dave Grohl
- Six Things You Need To Know About... Dorothy
- The Chambers Brothers and the acid classic that psychedelicised black American folk music
- August 1
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- Music business legend Mo Ostin dead at 95
- Every Public Enemy album ranked from worst to best
- Green Day’s epic setlist at their Lollapalooza warm-up gig was one for the ages
- The Story Behind The Song: Yes’s Close To The Edge
- Tom DeLonge is hinting that he has rejoined Blink 182
- This clip of Synyster Gates beatboxing in the studio has us deeply concerned for the new Avenged Sevenfold album
- Chloe Trujillo, wife of Metallica bassist Rob, is releasing a new EP
- This metalhead teaching his baby how to scream is utterly adorable
- House Of Marley reveal their sustainably crafted Get Together 2 speakers
- New app wants you to prove how big a fan you are to gain access to concert tickets and more
- Girih premiere new track The Ring with Prog – stream it here
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Dee Snider slams anti-abortion politician for using Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It at rally
- Listen to a new version of NEU!'s Weissensee from upcoming 50th anniversary box set
- Hayley Williams reveals 'number one' influence behind Paramore's forthcoming album
- This video of Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan proudly watching their sons killing it onstage is wholesome AF
- Watch the stunning video for Ryo Okumoto's Chrysalis
- In Flames release thrashy new single The Great Deceiver, announce huge Euro tour with At The Gates
- Exit Stage Left: Inside Rush's final show
- Kate Bush fans around the globe celebrate Kate Bush while dressed as Kate Bush
- Dio: Holy Diver - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Meet Robert Fripp and Toyah and their magic disappearing pancakes
