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- September 30
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- How Bruce Springsteen battled the "black sludge" of depression to make his brutal, lo-fi masterpiece Nebraska
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Rammstein have put a restraining order out against Viagogo, one of the world's biggest ticket reselling platforms
- "I don't know what to do with myself": the internet reacts to Slipknot's experimental new album The End, So Far
- Watch Kate Bush dance in front of a giant lizard on 80s German TV in one of her most delightfully strange moments ever
- Godspeed You!, Elder, Maybeshewill, A.A. Williams and more for AMFest
- L.O.E. share new single Secret Societies Rule The World
- District 97 announce kickstarter for album number five
- That time James Hetfield got onstage to sing a grunge classic with Alice In Chains
- Gandalf's Fist stream brand new single Sacrament
- You'll soon be able to stay in the actual Byers family home from Stranger Things
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Slipknot
- Every Evil Dead movie ranked from worst to best
- Dave Mustaine wants to write with James Hetfield again, thinks there's a "good possibility" of it happening
- Metallica’s James Hetfield is selling cigars now
- Astonishing high quality film of Led Zeppelin at the Bath Festival has surfaced
- Sammy Hagar still wants to do an Eddie Van Halen tribute show - with David Lee Roth
- GoFundMe launched for singer Kenny Collins after brain tumour diagnosis
- Rory Gallagher's Deuce expanded and remixed but still sounding good at 50
- Slipknot return to the apex on experimental maelstrom The End, So Far
- Pixies still blend subtle malevolence with surprise and intrigue
- The Dead Daisies: taut, vibrant rock that ticks every box
- Dead Kennedys's debut: still satirical, still subversive, now with extra shine
- Monster Truck's Warriors offers the escapism we could all do with right now
- September 29
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- The Grateful Dead's new box set costs a fortune, but at least the playing is stellar
- The story behind every Slipknot album cover
- Karin Park shares brooding new single Tokyo By Night
- Muse announce 2023 North American tour with Evanescence
- Listen to the heartwarming voicemail Taylor Hawkins left for Miley Cyrus urging her to cover Def Leppard's Photograph
- Ian Anderson Plays Orchestral Jethro Tull to get vinyl release for very first time
- Good news! We now know what Corey Taylor thinks about Maroon 5's Adam Levine
- Celestial Son release video for Interstellar Intercourse, featuring Gavin Harrison
- Watch Shane Hawkins steal the show again by smashing two Foo Fighters songs at his dad Taylor's LA tribute show
- Remembering the time Jethro Tull were allowed on kids TV and scared the hell out of everyone with a truly bizarre performance
- ZIO announce guest vocalists for new album TRUEWAVES!
- Want to know what your favourite metal song would look like as a yoga pose? You’re in luck
- David Bowie's Hunky Dory to be released as a deluxe reissue featuring unreleased tracks, demos and more
- New video released for emotive David Longdon single Love Is All
- This AI generated music video for Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun is both mind-blowing and seriously creepy
- Pink Floyd light up Battersea Power Station for Animals reissue
- Watch Evanescence's Amy Lee perform a hilariously fun duet with Tenacious D at Louder Than Life
- Watch pro-shot footage of Foo Fighters playing Walk with Blink-182's Travis Barker at Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Corey Taylor talks relationship with Joey Jordison: "we never said to each other what we needed to say"
- Arena release new lyric video for Time Capsule
- 10 things you never knew about Alice In Chains’ Dirt
- The Top 20 best albums of 1998
- Yes frontman Jon Davison: "Taylor Hawkins’ last words to me were ‘I love you’"
- The Verve's Urban Hymns at 25: "a record of phenomenal depth, honesty and complexity"
- The Glenn Hughes albums you should definitely own
- Kate Bush was once the face of Seiko Watches in Japan, and we have the video to prove it
- September 28
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- Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has undergone a second heart operation
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred like a master on a pair of Van Halen classics
- Watch Paramore's manic, 60s-inspired new video, This Is Why - the band's first new music for five years
- Polyphia team with Steve Vai in new video for Ego Death
- Corey Taylor announces charity livestream event Half Sold Out: CMFT Live At The Palladium
- The Prodigy's Liam Howlett on the early days of rave: "I like how rebellious it felt"
- Watch Nova Twins' fuzz-soaked cover of Beyoncé’s Break My Soul
- We think we've found the coolest cover of Rammstein's Deutschland on the internet
- Watch Lars Ulrich, Geezer Butler, Dave Grohl and Sebastian Bach team up for riotous Black Sabbath covers at Taylor Hawkins LA tribute show
- Let's Eat Grandma share shimmering new single Give Me A Reason
- WIZRD premiere their brand new single Fire & Water
- Metal vocalist auditions to be new voice of Tesco's checkout service with hilarious results
- Godsmack drop first new music in four years with new song Surrender
- Animals As Leaders announce European tour
- Von Hertzen Brothers announce live shows in England and Wales
- Watch Taylor Momsen unite with Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Nirvana members to play Soundgarden classics at LA Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- King Crimson documentary to open in October
- Watch Tool's Danny Carey fill Neil Peart's seat with Rush at Taylor Hawkins Tribute
- Here's every song and special guest appearance from the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in Los Angeles
- Watch Pink do Taylor Hawkins and Freddie Mercury proud singing Somebody To Love with Queen at LA Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- Watch Def Leppard and Miley Cyrus nail Photograph at Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
- Violet Grohl opens up Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert with haunting version of Hallelujah
- The Struts' Luke Spiller on Taylor Hawkins, five-year-old fans, and the joy of bowls
- September 27
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- Gibson have made a trippy video for Black Sabbath's Fairies Wear Boots starring a monkey on a quest
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers play three songs at New York's iconic Apollo Theater
- The Tirith release rehearsal video of new song Crystalwell
- Phil Collins' son Nic signs on for Mike + The Mechanics
- Every Venom album ranked from worst to best
- Strigoi’s Viscera: dark, dank death-doom nirvana from Paradise Lost guitarist
- Listen to every F-word from Slipknot's debut album condensed into one song for some pure, cathartic rage
- Bones UK want you to "keep dancing" on motivational new single Cheap Love
- Long Distance Calling to play Manchester and London in February
- Devin Townsend reveals railway-themed video for new single Call Of The Void
- Foo Fighters guitarist thinks the band will make new music, slams "disrespectful" Taylor Hawkins conspiracy theorists
- We've just watched a video of Robbie Williams covering Limp Bizkit's Rollin', and now you have to watch it too
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- 25 Yard Screamer share video for brand new song Inicdent
- Jim Root has issues with the new Slipknot album, takes a shot at Rage Against The Machine
- Obsidious share video for new track Lake Of Afterlife
- Metallica have announced a special 80s show that'll make old school fans weep with joy
- Magenta announce ambitious new orchestral album The White Witch
- Meet The Chats: straight outta the bong shed and into the bar
- The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and a guitar sound that defined the sixties
- Why the failure of Stray Dog is one of the rock world’s biggest conundrums
- How a new singer and producer helped Skid Row rediscover their fire
- September 26
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- Turkish/French proggers Asia Minor have 1979 debut album reissued
- More names added to the LA Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- Death, floods and therapy: how Parkway Drive found their way out of the darkness
- Fans angry as Ian Brown performs to backing tracks with no live band on opening night of headline tour
- Heart's Nancy Wilson shares tribute song for Taylor Hawkins, Amigo Amiga
- Autopsy’s Morbidity Triumphant: gore-metal godfathers are still sick after all these years
- Watch Tony Iommi react to finding out Ozzy's new track Degradation Rules is about masturbation
- Kitten Pyramid to release new album Kiddo in December
- Watch pro-shot footage of Metallica rocking Global Citizen Festival 2022
- This is how Kiss sound to people who hate them, apparently
- Hair plugs, cancel culture and the song he refused to play on: the confessions of Anthrax’s Scott Ian
- Omega Point announce their first live gig
- Watch this guitar hero duet Metallica's One with an adorable sausage dog
- Dio: Dreamers Never Die is the documentary Ronnie James Dio deserves
- Gordon Giltrap announces new album Scattered Chapters
- Sleep Token announce 2023 UK tour
- "It’s my mom trying to hand me to Ronald McDonald": why Rob Zombie really f**king hates clowns
- Nine Inch Nails reunite with original member Richard Patrick for surprise Filter cover
- Roger Waters shows in Poland cancelled over Ukraine stance
- The life, music and troubled times of Status Quo's Alan Lancaster
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hot Damn!, Weezer and more
- Joe Satriani: Surfing With The Alien - Album Of The Week Club review
- September 25
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- September 23
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- Another Motorhead album celebrates its 40th birthday, and it's quite the party
- Billy Idol's The Cage is compact, catchy, precision-tooled pop-rock
- Troy Redfern continues breakneck creative pace on The Wings Of Salvation
- Riverside's Mariusz Duda reveals the story behind his 'lockdown trilogy' of solo albums
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson shares his recipe for In The Crust Of The Crimson Pizza Pie!
- Get immersed in James Johnston and Steve Gullick's haunting album trailer for Everybody's Sunset
- Nick Cave's Ghosteen: a mind-blowing prog masterpiece
- Arctic Monkeys announce massive UK and Ireland stadium tour
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Ever wondered what Smoke On The Water would sound like if it was on Metallica's St. Anger album? No? Well here it is anyway
- Are Pink Floyd about to recreate the Animals sleeve at Battersea Power Station?
- Yearning to hear Green Day, Mariah Carey and Stranger Things' Eddie Munson in a seasonal mash-up? Well, friend, your Christmas just came early
- Poppy unleashes punk rager FYB, announces new EP Stagger
- Gen and the Degenerates drop riotous new single My Perfect
- This husky howling over metal riffs sounds so evil it could possibly summon the Devil
- Vended release explosive live music video for single Ded To Me
- Asia and Eloy album art jigsaws due this out autumn
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan attacks music industry "exploitation": "Think of all the people my generation has lost to addiction and suicide"
- Dead Can Dance's Peter Ulrich to release his memoirs
- Willow jams out to Primus on guitar, gets seal of approval from Les Claypool
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian on Alice In Chains: “They were just f**king goofballs”
- Roger Waters announces UK arena shows for his "first farewell tour"
- Listen to Stevie Nicks' cover of '60s protest anthem For What It’s Worth
- The Murder Capital announce new album Gigi's Recovery: "We lost our minds writing this record"
- Disturbed announce new album Divisive, bring the arena metal power on new single Unstoppable
- Red Hot Chili Peppers share emotional tribute song for the late Eddie Van Halen
- Ozzy Osbourne explains why he "didn't feel important" in Black Sabbath
- Dr. John is in tip-top form on posthumous album Things Happen That Way
- Steve Howe pays tribute to late son Virgil on lovingly rendered Lunar Mist
- Dim Gray announce Oslo album launch show
- Nikki Lane chronicles youthful follies on defiant Denim And Diamonds album
- Rise by The Rasmus is not the fightback album against covid you were looking for
- If Britain is going to hell in a handcart then Kid Kapichi are the soundtrack
- Sonics In The Soul is the sound of Buzzcocks rebooted and reinvigorated
- Watch Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus IV throw off-target first pitch at MLB game
- Poignant photo series shows late musicians as they might look today
- September 22
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- Watch Korn guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch jam Korn classics at an Arizona high school
- 80s proggers Trilogy gear up for 40th anniversary live shows
- Sammy Hagar says "everyone turned back into sheep" during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Satan, social justice and the ‘sh*t mafia’: an audience with Watain, black metal’s most uncompromising band
- Ghost release uplifting live video of Mary On A Cross
- Teramaze release video for For The Thrill, the third single from Flight Of The Wounded
- Exist Immortal drop video for new single Emerge and announce October live dates
- Torture, bondage and snuff movies: the twisted story behind Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP
- Headbanging is out, maggots! This is how you really dance to Slipknot (apparently)
- Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus "grateful" as latest cancer scan "came back clean"
- Jethro Tull share video trailer for new fan history Lend Me Your Ears
- Vote for the best track on Metallica’s Load and Reload albums
- Big Big Train share live video of Brave Captain from Loreley
- “Zakk Wylde saved the day!” 10 things we learned from talking to Ozzy Osbourne about Patient Number 9
- Weezer share 21-track SZNZ: Autumn album, dress up like grumpy Lord Of The Rings extras
- Todd Rundgren announces details of new album Space Force
- There's a new cat-fronted metal band called Cattera and you need to listen to them right now
- Dave Mustaine admits it was "dumb" to punch Metallica's James Hetfield
- Also Eden announce Scottish and English live dates with Comedy Of Errors
- This is what Iron Maiden's The Trooper would sound like if Dire Straits wrote it
- The Joan Jett albums you should definitely own
- 13 years after its release, that film about Anvil is returning to cinemas
- Timothy B. Schmit: no one wants to hear new music from the Eagles
- September 21
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- Jesse Jo Stark shares striking new video for Lipstick, releases debut album Doomed
- Someone's suggested the things Ozzy might be shouting instead of 'All aboard!' at the start of Crazy Train and it's getting silly
- Garbage unveil plans for expansive new compilation, Anthology
- Saro Cosentino shares lyric video for The Joke, featuring Peter Hammill
- Every Papa Roach album ranked from worst to best
- Isis' Oceanic at 20: the post-metal masterpiece which re-defined 'heavy' music
- People are pairing cursed photos of their pets with Ghost's Satanic symphony Year Zero and the Internet can't look away
- We're sorry to inform you that someone has replaced the drums in classic Metallica songs with the St. Anger snare
- Venom Inc.’s There’s Only Black: metal warhorses prove they’re more than a nostalgia act
- “A lot of people think I’m a f**king idiot”: Machine Head’s Robb Flynn comes out swinging
- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso share new music video for La Pianura Rossa
- Elder announce new album Innate Passage for November
- Frost* share new video for Skywards ahead of November tour
- 10 things you never knew about Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss
- Watching this hilarious baby headbang to Iron Maiden is all we need to feel truly alive today
- Watch the first trailer for the much-hyped new Hellraiser reboot
- Gandalf's Fist announce new album Widdershins
- The story of the out-of-focus shot that became one of rock's great album covers
- Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin? Quite possibly
- Uncovered: the cheeky letter Jordan Rudess wrote to Leonard Bernstein
- Def Leppard and Motley Crue’s Stadium Tour sold $173,000,000 worth of tickets
- September 20
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- Metallica announce new Helping Hands charity concert
- The Smashing Pumpkins release the heavy and hypnotic new single Beguiled
- Watch this delightful early interview of a pre-superstardom Yes appearing on early 70s BBC TV
- Watch Haken's Charlie Griffiths tackle lead vocals on new clip for Digging Deeper
- Every Batman movie ranked from worst to best
- Guns N' Roses expand Use Your Illusion I & II with massive deluxe box set
- Renaissance's debut album to be reissued in autumn 2022
- You can now hang out with Serj Tankian in your own living room courtesy of a brilliant new AR app
- Ozzy Osbourne scores first number one album on Billboard chart with Patient Number 9
- Natural Born Killers: the soundtrack that changed the 90s
- Rick Wakeman to perform his classic solo albums at two London shows in 2023
- Watch a young, pre-fame Lzzy Hale explain the importance of Avril Lavigne in this wholesome, unearthed video
- Nytt Land flirt with the old West on new single Dark Country. Ritual – stream it here!
- Willow on moving into rock as a black woman: "music is not just music, it is also activism"
- Bruce Dickinson on the corrupt side of fame: "The big moment is when you realise that you can manipulate people"
- Watch Bad News cause mayhem on a British chat show in 1987
- Ghost haters, keep on hating - Tobias Forge says it's "actually a good thing"
- Gene Simmons admits he doesn't have any friends
- How Kate Bush's Never Forever changed her career... forever!
- We've all been pronouncing Chad Kroeger's name wrong this entire time
- The Aaron Clift Experiment announce new album pre-order campaign
- Canadian leader Justin Trudeau slammed for singing Bohemian Rhapsody in a London hotel
- Why you should definitely own Rock City by Riot
- David Coverdale once named his 20 favourite British albums ever
- The story of Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod: "Gibby threw up, spit up some gibberish and left"
- September 19
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- Van Halen have been memorialised in a park in Pasadena
- The day Dee Snider and Frank Zappa went to war with The PMRC
- Slipknot's The End, So Far: "the world’s most volatile, nine-man wrecking crew are as untameable as ever"
- The Yardbirds: Roger The Engineer - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Stryper, Mammoth WVH and more
- September 18
- September 17
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- "Refused are the Queen of hardcore!" Superstar DJ Steve Aoki goes deep on his nine favourite hardcore albums
- Bush tease new album The Art Of Survival by sharing opening track Heavy Is The Ocean
- Pink Floyd's remix of Animals is hollowed out, brittle and harrowing
- Rock, metal and horror make prefect companions on The Retaliators soundtrack
- The Mars Volta keep the fans guessing on super slinky comeback album
- Fierce and artful to the end, Joe Strummer's music resonates more than ever
- Marianne Faithfull: salvaging treasure from life’s shipwreck
- Marillion's buff and polish suggests Holidays In Eden has aged well
- Starcrawler seek a bigger audience and a travel upgrade on third album She Said
- The Black Angels are the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world
- Disturbed's David Draiman calls out "bigots" outraged at the very idea of a black mermaid
- Jimmy Hall's voice and harp playing are still in fine shape on Ready Now
- September 16
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- Clutch: other bands might as well pack up their tents and think about heading home
- Mariah Carey is finally going to release the long-lost rock album her record company hoped you'd never hear
- New Found Glory's Chad Gilbert has six-hour operation to remove cancer in spine
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "It’s all about making the best music possible." Derek Sherinian discusses The Phoenix
- My life with Genesis: ex-tour manager Richard Macphail spills the beans
- Paramore announce first new music in five years
- Is this the largest collection of Slipknot masks in the world?
- Lacuna Coil share hypnotising music video for Swamped XX
- John Lydon accuses The Sex Pistols of "cashing in" on Queen's death
- Marillion - Holidays In Eden (deluxe reissue): "Steve Hogarth's charismatic presence is palpable"
- Foo Fighters announce new compilation album The Essential Foo Fighters
- Simon McBride joins Deep Purple full-time, band say he's "up there with the greats"
- Solstafir frontman shares first single from post-rock project Isafjord - listen to Falin Skemmd here!
- How The Pineapple Thief made Magnolia and entered a new era
- Demi Lovato salutes Nita Strauss as "a badass rock guitarist in a male-dominated field”
- Ozzy Osbourne is planning a new project to share unreleased material recorded with Taylor Hawkins
- The incredible story of Peter Frampton: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Suede get back to basics on "punk" album Autofiction
- Creedence Clearwater Revival's legendary London choogle can finally be heard
- Words & Music, May 1965 is a captivating examination of Lou Reed's early talent
- Marco Mendoza belts out the anthemic power pop metal on New Direction
- The Godfathers have just released their best album in more than three decades
- Smith/Kotzen come alive on vibrant Better Days... And Nights collection
- David Bowie's Moonage Daydream soundtrack veers from the sublime to the ridiculously sublime
- September 15
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- Kyros, Azure, Inhalo, Grace Hayhurst and more to play High Taste At Home festival
- A Sunday In September announces free live stream
- The Devil Wears Prada's Color Decay: "might just be their finest hour"
- In Flames announce new album Foregone, share brutal lead single Foregone Pt. 1
- According to Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Randy Rhoads "didn't have a nice thing to say about Eddie Van Halen"
- Listen closely to Nickelback's Dimebag Darrell tribute, Side Of A Bullet, and you'll hear a previously unreleased solo from the late Pantera guitarist
- Tusmorke stream new single Kunstig uintelligens
- The 8 things we learned from the new David Bowie film Moonage Daydream
- Jane Weaver’s Fenella collaboration announce second album
- Mediaeval Baebes to release new album of Yuletide carols and Winter hymns
- Wendy Dio says Ronnie James Dio "was always overlooked" during his lifetime
- Nine Slipknot covers to collect! The new issue of Metal Hammer is on sale now
- Why the new album from Dawes is an exercise in not checking boxes
- In Through The Out Door: the last days of Led Zeppelin
- From The Inside: How Alice Cooper went cold turkey and made his most personal album
- Iron Maiden share live photos from opening night of North American tour
- September 14
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- The world's first vinyl album that's also a guitar pedal has launched
- Nickelback share their new video for San Quentin
- Soilwork and Night Flight Orchestra guitarist David Andersson dead at 47
- Clutch's Sunrise On Slaughter Beach: "a joyous conflagration of riffs, grooves and bittersweet wit"
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe has a tip for anyone wanting to front a band: "Make an idiot out of yourself until you become good"
- Ville Valo is returning with his debut solo album, Neon Noir
- Why I ❤️ Uriah Heep, by A-ha's Morten Harket
- Djam Karet share video for new song Arrival
- Hedvig Mollestad streams brand new track All Flights Cancelled
- Listen to Wargasm's chaotic Slipknot-inspired new single Super Fiend
- LA District Attorney offers update on Marilyn Manson abuse accusations
- Solstice to celebrate launch of new album Light Up with all-day live event
- Get Metal Hammer’s exclusive Hammerfall bundle with a beer mat and hand-signed art card
- Haken announce European co-headline tour with Between The Buried & Me
- The story of 1966, the year that built rock
- Why you should definitely own Blues For The Red Sun by Kyuss
- The future is here and it's a video for (Don't Fear) The Reaper created by AI
- Starbenders become one with the chaos on cathartic new single Blood Moon
- September 13
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- Ozzy Osbourne releases full performance video from Rams vs Bills halftime show
- Iron Maiden post live video of Stratego
- David Lee Roth has shared a version of Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
- Halloween Ends with John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies' The Procession
- Total mass retain: How Yes made Close To The Edge
- Bleed From Within: "The new wave of metal is already here"
- Lars Ulrich's sons Myles and Layne to release debut Taipei Houston album in November
- Astrosaur premiere video for eight-minute trip Black Hole Earth
- Rina Sawayama's new single Hurricanes is the sparkling hit of sunshine you need today
- This video of Lemmy and Joey Ramone hanging out and bantering MTV (while on MTV) is the definition of friendship goals
- Oh look, here's that Mötley Crüe versus Steely Dan mash-up absolutely no-one asked for
- A.A. Williams shares powerful video for new single The Echo
- Tommy Lee defends the right of gig-going Motley Crue fans to expose their genitals
- Pearl Jam covering Wet Leg's Chaise Longue at their Madison Square Garden gig sounds as weird as you'd expect
- Zakk Wylde says Black Sabbath’s music turned him into a "full-blown Satanist"
- Oak premiere brand new single Dreamless Sleep
- Steve Howe releases emotive new video for Plexus with late son Virgil
- King Crimson's 80s albums get vinyl reissues
- Former Metallica bassist mocks Dave Mustaine's "alpha male" claim
- Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer: the inside story of a classic album cover
- Why I ❤️ Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell, by Geoff Tate
- Snowy White: washing up with Peter Green and how to wind up Roger Waters
- Interview: Billy Gibbons on Elwood Francis and the bright future of ZZ Top
- September 12
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- Arc Of Life return with new track All Things Considered
- Toyah and Robert Fripp salute Queen Elizabeth II by re-sharing their cover of David Bowie's "Heroes"
- Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Jim Root are planning to launch a new project
- Marjana Semkina and Anna Murphy launch Maer
- Here's why Justin Hawkins almost pulled out of performing Van Halen songs at the Taylor Hawkins tribute gig
- Oli Sykes unearths the self-curated, bootleg mixtapes he used to sell at school, and now we want one
- A deep dive into South Park’s legendary Chef Aid episode
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine says he was "clearly the alpha male" of Metallica back in the day
- Willow drops beautifully reflective new track curious/furious
- Arthur Brown covers Pink Floyd's Lucifer Sam
- For a mere $39.95 per month you now follow Motley Crue's Tommy Lee on OnlyFans
- Listen to Rick Wakeman with Fernando Perdomo on The Crash
- Ozzy Osbourne admits that he used to be "arch-enemies" with Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett is soundtracking a mysterious online horror story, and we're hooked already
- Watch rare, newly uncovered footage of System Of A Down rehearsals from 1998
- Watch Metallica react to their audience booing St. Anger
- Grice releases trailer for new album Polarchoral
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Nickelback, Smith/Kotzen, Doro and more
- Elton John to livestream final ever US show
- September 11
- September 10
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- Styx: "We’ve never moved totally away from our love of prog".
- “It’s a heavier album than I’ve done before..."Steve Hackett on Surrender Of Silence
- Glass Hammer share brand new video for The Years Roll By
- Andy Partridge announces new Christmas EP
- Flames, battles and beers: inside the epic Vikings and Lionhearts tour
- September 9
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- Opeth announce brand new drummer
- Meet Blackbraid, the one-man project telling Native American stories through compelling black metal
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- O.R.k. unveil new video for Don't Call Me A Joke
- Kate Bush is on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, on sale now!
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- PJ Harvey announces career-spanning boxset, B-Sides, Demos & Rarities
- Parkway Drive's Darker Still: Aussies triumph over darkness and shoot for the stratosphere
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen nail his late father's game-changing guitar showcase, Eruption
- Every Children Of Bodom album ranked from worst to best
- DC Comics reveal The Joker's real name is Jack White, the real Jack White responds
- Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett gets back in the saddle with new country single Born & Raised
- The Big Interview: Dave Mustaine
- There's an official, authorised Enter Shikari biography coming next month
- Why you should definitely own Encore: Live In Concert by Argent
- Children Of Bodom are opening a bar and sauna in Finland
- Afghan Whigs: still mixing psychedelic rock and brimstone gospel in fiery fashion
- Patient Number 9 captures the mischievous, defiant energy of Ozzy Osbourne
- Watch an on-fire Megadeth blaze through a scorching three-song set for SiriusXM
- Slade: a box set that questions whether punk really needed to happen at all
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases soul-stirring new single Me Without You
- The Kinks: two albums of urban isolation, cultural paranoia and occasional whinging
- Corey Taylor hails Alice In Chains' Dirt as "one of the greatest hard rock/heavy metal albums of all time"
- Watch Ozzy Osbourne perform Patient Number 9 live for the very first time at LA Rams halftime show
- Kiss's extraordinary rock juggernaut in full flight on official Des Moine bootleg
- Manic Street Preachers' contrary Sandinista moment now refined and repackaged
- From primal emotion to forlorn boogie, GA-20's songs shine
- September 8
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- The world of rock pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
- Jimi Hendrix's estate announce live album documenting iconic Los Angeles 1969 concert
- Watch The Beatles: Get Back for less with this sweet-sounding Disney+ deal - one month for just £1.99
- The world might not yet be ready for this Rage Against The Machine vs Blackpink mash-up
- Why I Love... Rage Against The Machine by Stray From The Path's Thomas Williams
- The Police to release picture disc of 1981's Ghost In The Machine
- King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard release video for new song Ice V
- Brace yourselves, Lamb Of God's ferocious new single Grayscale is here
- Celtic Frost's complete recordings between 1984-1987 celebrated in new box set
- Tim Bowness shares new video for guest-packed We Feel
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins explains why he grabbed the mic from AC/DC's Brian Johnson at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- Cassyette unleashes stunningly powerful new single September Rain
- Mike Patton will return to live action in December following agoraphobia diagnosis
- Brian Eno shares video for haunting new track We Let It In
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals porn link on new album – and it was suggested by Taylor Hawkins
- Charlie Benante teases new Anthrax music
- Watch Master Of Puppets performed in the style of Linkin Park
- What happened when Rob Halford briefly became Black Sabbath's frontman
- The return of The Gaslight Anthem: "This is why I wanted to be in rock’n’roll"
- The Siouxsie And The Banshees albums you should definitely own
- September 7
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- Alter Bridge launch trippy video for towering riff-driven single Sin After Sin
- The Beatles announce long-awaited Revolver box set with unreleased material
- This animated video from Cannibal Corpse's vocalist goes from adorable to apocalyptic in seconds
- The Cult share A Cut Inside as a second teaser for their forthcoming Under The Midnight Sun album
- Jinjer's Tatiana Shmailyuk: "Ukrainian culture is rising up again"
- Glass Hammer announce third and final part of Skallagrim trilogy
- Watch a group of young kids totally own Dream Theater's Pull Me Under
- Every Cancer Bats album ranked worst to best, by vocalist Liam Cormier
- Ayreon releases new video for Into The Black Hole featuring Bruce Dickinson
- Papa Roach and Black Eyed Peas once wrote a nu metal song together, and we have the proof
- Nickelback have finally released that 'heavy' new song everyone's been talking about - listen to San Quentin now
- Hanoi Rocks' original line-up to reunite for Michael Monroe's 60th birthday concert
- Every Machine Head album ranked from worst to best
- Black Star Riders share Pay Dirt as the second single from upcoming Wrong Side Of Paradise album
- Watch this pop drummer hear Slipknot for the first time and then nail playing Before I Forget immediately after
- Steve Hillage announces 2023 UK tour
- Listen to Placebo's cover of Tears For Fears' Shout, "a rallying cry against apathy"
- Trent Reznor opens up on his emotional reaction to Taylor Hawkins tribute show: "I’ve got tears in my f**king eyes"
- The Warren Zevon albums you should definitely own
- Food fights and fistfights: The story of Alvin Lee, the fastest guitar In the west
- The brilliance of boogie: How Status Quo transformed my life
- In from the cold: How H.e.a.t.'s Kenny Leckremo came home
- September 6
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- Emerson, Lake & Palmer to be reunited onstage for video-powered US tour
- Watch the stylish video for explosive new Black Veil Brides single Saviour II
- Godflesh's Justin Broadrick: my life in 10 songs
- Listen to Pixies namecheck Van Halen on infectious new single Dregs Of The Wine
- Spinal Tap 2 director offers update on sequel: "we'd always say no...then we had an idea"
- Sugar's Copper Blue at 30: How alt. rock godhead Bob Mould finally struck gold
- Ten things we learned from the emotional new Ronnie James Dio film, Dreamers Never Die
- Time Is On My Side: Check out the new Rolling Stones x Nixon watch collection
- Jambinai share intense live video for Once More From That Frozen Bottom
- Dave Ellefson claims his departure from Megadeth was influenced by Dave Mustaine's own firing from Metallica
- The Tangent, Knight Area and RPWL to headline Winter's End 2023
- Mogwai announce winter UK tour dates
- Ever wondered how Black Sabbath, Kanye West and The 1975 might sound mashed together? Watch Yungblud deliver the answer
- Real Terms unveil "discombobulating" video for new single Frantically Wrong
- Wholesome alert: watch this son surprise his musician dad with a remastered version of his old band's lost music
- Galahad announce new album The Last Great Adventurer
- Bush announce new album The Art of Survival, share video for single More Than Machines
- AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson's autobiography The Lives of Brian will be published next month
- Watch Metallica legend Jason Newsted cover Knockin' On Heaven's Door at free New York show this past weekend
- How to keep your budget headphones in perfect condition
- Slipknot's next era will be "gloves off, let's just see what happens" says Corey Taylor
- Every Arch Enemy album ranked from worst to best
- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso release video for new track La Pianura Rossa
- Watch a hapless Nameless Ghoul take a tumble off the stage at recent Ghost show
- Watch: astonishing Bohemian Rhapsody fingerstyle guitar cover
- Aerosmith are finally back in the saddle again - videos and setlist
- Bullets, bikers and burnout: the story of Jimi Hendrix's last gig
- Picture gallery: all the action from the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- September 5
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- How Soundgarden's Louder Than Love turned up the volume on Seattle's grunge scene
- Tobias Forge wanted Ghost to be "what Metallica was in the '80s"
- The Taylor Hawkins tribute show proved rock is more powerful than ever – but not in the way you might think
- 7 things we learned at WWE's spectacular Clash At The Castle event
- This 80s interview featuring a mother and her metalhead son discussing heavy metal and satan is gold dust
- Peter Hammill guests on Saro Cosentino's new track The Joke
- Watch Nickelback react hilariously to iconic Nickelback memes
- We interrupt this broadcast to bring you someone covering Britney Spears' Toxic in the style of System Of A Down
- Rock stars react to Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Raze The Maze share video for Letters From The Parking Lot
- Steeleye Span launch new tour with live clip of All Things Are Quite Silent
- Watch Dave Grohl's daughter Violet share the stage with her dad for some gorgeous Jeff Buckley covers at Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- 'Nirvana baby' has Nevermind cover art lawsuit dismissed for the last time
- Hughes/Thrall: Hughes/Thrall - Album Of The Week Club review
- Eight new songs to make your week as great as possible
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen crush two Van Halen classics at Taylor Hawkins tribute
- September 4
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- Holy hell! Toyah and Robert Fripp have only gone and covered Pantera
- The 11 moments that defined Foo Fighters' amazing Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Seven minutes of unseen Led Zeppelin film gathered dust for 50 years: now it's online
- How Fish drew inspiration from family WWI experiences for A Feast Of Consequences
- Grace Hayhurst announces new single I'm In A Battle Against My Brain
- John Holden releases video for Flying Train
- Watch Taylor Hawkins' son Shane steal the show by smashing My Hero at emotional tribute gig for his dad
- Them Crooked Vultures reunite for first time in 12 years at Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- XFM was a tiny radio station that made a big noise: a new film finally tells its story
- Grand Theft Audio's Pass Me The Conch: the 90s-style dance-rock revival starts here
- Epica's We Still Take You With Us collection may well bust your corset
- Watch Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson play Rush classics at Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- September 3
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- Here's every single special guest and song played from Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins tribute show at Wembley
- Blind Guardian: dramatic dispatches from the power metal trenches
- Watch a tearful Dave Grohl lead an emotional Times Like These during Foo Fighters' epic Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- The Pineapple Thief and the making of All The Wars
- Prog songs inspired by Lord Of The Rings and Middle-earth
- Big Big Train and the making of English Electric Part 1
- Jack Hues shares epic live version of Beck's Nobody's Fault But My Own
- Creedence Clearwater Revival release Royal Albert Hall version of Proud Mary
- September 2
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- Ozzy Osbourne to perform halftime set at LA Rams vs Buffalo Bills
- UFO farewell tour cancelled after Phil Mogg suffers heart attack
- 12 rock and metal songs inspired by The Lord Of The Rings
- This guy's hilarious Muse impression means we can never look at Matt Bellamy in the same way again
- Ozzy Osbourne’s Patient Number 9: metal’s greatest icon continues his late-career hot streak
- Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium film to screen in cinemas worldwide next month
- “Fred Durst is the most charming person I know”: how super-producer Ross Robinson defined an era
- Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor has written the scores for two more Hollywood films
- David Lee Roth has released a previously unheard 'studio live' version of Van Halen classic Panama
- Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's return to England is to become a TV reality show
- Mimi Barks drops the shadowy new single nihil, announces Deadgirl mixtape
- Listen to brand new Ville Valo track Echolocate Your Love
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The Atomic Beau Project unleash video for powerful new single Ghosts
- Dim Gray premiere first ever video for Cannons
- King's X - Three Sides Of One: "There’s still plenty of imagination in the tank."
- Get Metal Hammer’s epic Amon Amarth bundle with an exclusive signed lyric sheet and patch
- Every single Alter Bridge album ranked from worst to best
- NOFX will celebrate their 40th anniversary next year by breaking up: "It's been an amazing run..."
- How Haken made The Mountain
- Silverchair's Daniel Johns shares horrifying details of his March nervous breakdown: "I couldn’t tell what was real"
- The 10 heaviest songs featuring Dave Grohl
- Watch Motörhead's long lost short film for the Iron Fist album, complete with previously unheard music
- The new Pinhead from the upcoming Hellraiser reboot has been revealed and now we won't sleep tonight
- Suede share new single That Boy On The Stage
- The Hu’s Rumble Of Thunder: Mongolian folk-metal heroes’ unstoppable march continues
- Fern premiere video for brooding new single Intersubjective
- Steve Hackett shares live video of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
- The Hu's latest epic video features folk dancing plus lots of drinking and fire
- Hu! Hu! Hu! Mongolian metal warriors The Hu continue their epic journey of conquest
- King's X continue the search for truth on Three Sides Of One
- The Best Of Roxy Music: a storied career laid out in reverse
- Mike Tramp's new album is gentle, melodic, and entirely in Danish
- Dave Mustaine: still spitting lyrics, railing at the world, headbanging like a 20-year-old
- The very best of The Gaslight Anthem in six killer tracks
- Bob Dylan adds three more dates to UK tour
- September 1
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- How to watch the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert live
- Pierce The Veil release first new single in six years with the abrasive Pass The Nirvana
- Why Open On Sunday is the essential new landing spot for music catalog owners
- Reliving the chaotic moment Korn and Slipknot teamed up to play Beastie Boys' Sabotage live on stage
- Jonathan Davis: “Ross Robinson was digging his nails into my back. It was real fucked up”
- Gorillaz announce new album Cracker Island and drop sparkling track New Gold
- Magma announce new album Kartëhl
- Corey Taylor has already written a whole new solo album
- Amanda Lehmann releases new video for One Last Spin
- Evile's Ol Drake is doing a twelve-hour 'family fundraiser' stream: "it's no secret that musicians struggle"
- Wheel stream brand new single Blood Drinker
- Dave Mustaine on David Ellefson: "the guy that I know and love was a different person"
- Every Saw film ranked from worst to best
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson comments on upcoming appearance at Taylor Hawkins tribute show: "I'm honoured"
- Rammstein announce 2023 European stadium tour
- Aiming For Enrike: stream new two-part single Empty Airports
- Porcupine Tree reveal new tour film for Herd Culling
- The story of the show that turned Prince into a global superstar
- What happened when Joe Strummer drank 10 pints of beer then ran the Paris Marathon
- Dave Edmunds: my stories of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and more
- There's a metal song about Mikhail Gorbachev and it's the most Russian thing you'll ever see
