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- October 31
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- Watch Journey tear up Lollapalooza with sparkling version of Be Good To Yourself
- Jello Biafra pays tribute to the late Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro
- Iron Maiden release video thanking fans for the success of the Legacy of the Beast tour
- Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin gives patient fans a groovy treat this Halloween
- Crippled Black Phoenix tap into cult horror for eerie new video for Bonefire
- Dub War’s Benji Webbe on the assault that changed his life: “My girlfriend was holding my neck and blood was squirting out”
- Corey Taylor on the future of Slipknot: “This is the end of what was”
- A needlessly deep dive into The Offspring’s cameo in cult horror film Idle Hands
- Ranking every Hannibal Lecter film (and TV show) from worst to best
- The Cult's Ian Astbury says no recent rock album comes close to the "essential" new album from... The Cult: "It's a gift"
- Clutch’s Neil Fallon: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Plini announces prog guitar fest UK and European live dates
- The horror film that's had people fainting and puking in the cinema is now doing insane numbers at the box office
- The guy from The 1975 calls Metallica the “worst band of all time”
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Parkway Drive
- Lulu revisited: why Metallica and Lou Reed's controversial album is far better than you remember
- Wanna Rina Sawayama unleash hell with her inner demon in the freaky, nightmarish video for Frankenstein
- Queen vs Sex Pistols: How Freddie took on punk and won with News Of The World
- Batman, Beetlejuice, The Simpsons and Wes Borland: Danny Elfman just put on one of the most mind-bending live shows of 2022
- Watch Kelly Clarkson's full-hearted cover of Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun
- Dolly Parton wants to re-record Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for her forthcoming rock album
- TesseracT singer Daniel Tompkins announces live stream show
- “The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal was a marketing trick”: Chimaira’s Mark Hunter looks back on the NWOAHM’S glory days
- Porcupine Tree announce UK outdoor show for Summer 2023
- Dave Grohl once named the band who were his 'biggest songwriting influence'
- Watch a painted-up Avenged Sevenfold cover Misfits' Last Caress in brand new video
- Fanny: Fanny Hill - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Kings Of Chaos, Nickelback and more
- October 30
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- Halloween chaos as Toyah and Robert Fripp mutilate Black Sabbath's Children Of The Grave
- IT, Pandamoanium and Tom Slatter to play new venue The Camden Club
- Massive Wagons's Triggered!: successfully straddling the pub and the enormodome
- Garbage's Anthology: a quarter of a century of pushing boundaries and brutal, beautiful trash
- Sodom's 40 Years Of War: a brutal and bruising re-thrash of four decades of diehard metal
- Against expectations, Joe Lynn Turner has made an intense and thrilling heavy metal album
- If you ever considered fishnets a fashion necessity then you probably need Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip
- Brant Bjork's Bougainvillea Suite: the sweet spot where The Doors and Iron Butterfly meet
- Nikki Sixx: 'John 5 checks all of Mötley Crüe's boxes'
- Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro dies after accidental fall at 63
- October 29
- October 28
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- Floor Jansen recovering well from breast cancer surgery
- How The Flower Kings made Islands
- Mastodon: "Hushed And Grim is our proggiest album."
- Every Halloween film ranked from worst to best
- We asked a load of bands to tell us their spookiest real-life stories...and the results will keep you up at night
- Vote for the greatest Anthrax song ever
- Major Parkinson singer suffers heart attack
- Jerry Lee Lewis dead at 87
- Four things we learned from Dry Cleaning's intimate two night stand in Kingston
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Mimi Barks drops abrasive new single, UNDEAD IT, featuring Envious
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson: "I’ve said from day one that we’re not actually a black metal band"
- The Nightmare Before Christmas' This Is Halloween and Sally's Song undergo metal makeovers with monstrously impressive results
- The 50 greatest horror movies of all time
- Pulp announce UK and Ireland shows for 2023 as part of their second reformation
- This video of Linkin Park's In The End on new trombone-simulator game Trombone Champ is fabulously nonsensical madness
- Polyphia share eye-catching video for new single Fuck Around And Find Out
- Around The Fur at 25: the sound of Deftones gleefully detonating a bomb under nu metal
- Arjen Lucassen and the Theory Of Everything
- This post-apocalyptic, AI-generated music video for Slipknot’s Psychosocial is a bone-chilling, dystopian nightmare
- The Who's Roger Daltrey wants Oasis to get back together, says Yungblud reminds him of Liam Gallagher
- Watch Måneskin debut their new punk song Kool Kids live in Mexico City
- Watch Iggy Pop, Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith team up on new single Frenzy
- Friends star Matthew Perry says he once had a "long, elaborate make-out session" with actress Valerie Bertinelli in front of her then-husband Eddie Van Halen
- 11 things you never knew about Skid Row's Slave To The Grind
- Jean-Michel Jarre to release remastered reissue of The Concerts In China
- Iron Maiden add more dates to The Future Past Tour 2023
- Rob Halford on new Judas Priest album: “In essence, it’s done”
- Dave Ellefson on online trolls: "At some point, you've gotta be a little detached from that stuff"
- The making of The Flower Kings Desolation Rose
- The Beatles release psychedelic new videos for every track on Revolver
- The Beatles Revolver Special Edition: so good, divorce papers will be filed if this isn't in certain stockings this Christmas
- Watch Taylor Hawkins reveal how his drumming was influenced by the Grateful Dead
- Gibson launch Metal And Monsters Halloween Special starring Kirk Hammett
- Tony Iommi rescues injured dove, subsequently becomes patron of wildlife hospital
- Cardinal Black: debut albums seldom sound so impeccably assured
- Motley Crue's Mick Mars: 10 albums that changed my life
- October 27
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- "It was ugliness personified": How anarchy, acrimony and apathy killed the Sex Pistols just 78 days after the release of Never Mind The Bollocks
- Flogging Molly, Wargasm, The Menzingers and more join Slam Dunk 2023 bill
- It's official: John 5 confirmed as new Mötley Crüe touring guitarist
- Keith Emerson book to be published in November
- “We could have called it F**k You”: why Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come still sounds like the future, and still matters
- Mogwai to reissue first two albums on vinyl and CD
- Listen to the first Hundred Reasons single in 15 years, Glorious Sunset
- The Cure's Robert Smith once sent an urgent message to his record label requesting 'video nasty' horror movies, and his wish list is quite something
- Loudest headphones 2026: You want volume and lots of it? You got it
- Hellbender: meet the family metal band who made one of 2022's coolest horror movies on a shoestring budget in lockdown
- Someone made music by hooking mushrooms up to a synth and the results are pleasingly trippy
- 70s Kosmiche outfit Twogether have rare lone 1973 album reissued
- How David Bowie's authoritarian Thin White Duke persona inspired Scott Weiland
- From doomed to in-demand: meet Spirit Adrift, the rising stars of trad-metal
- Rush's Alex Lifeson and The Doors' Robby Krieger jamming on a Santana classic is guitar geek heaven
- The Lou Reed albums you should definitely own... and one to avoid
- Metalhead mayor reps Soulfly at the ballot box
- Fucked Up return with new album One Day, written and recorded in just 24 hours
- Black Veil Brides announce 2023 UK tour
- October 26
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- Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars officially retires from touring
- Down under Maggots! Slipknot have announced the first Australian Knotfest
- DevilDriver's Dez Fafara does not agree with Bruce Dickinson's views on smoking weed during Iron Maiden shows
- Enter Shikari, Arch Enemy and Misfits to appear in animal rights documentary
- Here's that medieval version of System Of A Down's Chop Suey! you ordered
- It turns out that Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody isn't retiring from metal after all
- Philip Selway releases lyric video for new song Check For Signs Of Life
- Gleb Kolyadin announces new solo album The Outland
- 10 African metal bands that are challenging heavy metal as we know it
- Nickelback get nostalgic with the video for pensive new single Those Days
- Jello Biafra's 10 finest post-Dead Kennedys albums, ranked worst to best
- Lacuna Coil's Heaven's A Lie gets a sock puppet makeover with lyrics adapted to pay poignant tribute to lost socks
- Katatonia return with video for uplifting brand new single Atrium
- Watch Nirvana troll a prime-time TV chat show host with a riotous performance of the most punk rock song on Nevermind
- Listen to Rage Against The Machine's Zack de la Rocha at his furious best on new Algiers single Irreversible Damage
- Get your exclusive signed Lamb Of God lyric sheet with our new Metal Hammer bundle
- Nightwish singer Floor Jansen reveals she has cancer
- Architects' Sam Carter hits back at fans using Tom Searle's death to criticise new album: "Because you don’t like a song you think it’s OK to bring up the most traumatising moment of my entire life"
- Kiss performed 'in the raw' on their Kiss Kruise without make-up or stage clothes and it feels kinda wrong
- Tiger Moth Tales reveal video trailer for new live album
- Verbal Delirium announce fourth album Conundrum
- A new study has ranked the ten scariest horror movie villains ever, thanks to 'science'
- Serj Tankian casts doubt on future System Of A Down tours: "it's not really something where I'm at right now."
- Morgan Reid shares new video for The Champ
- Ten songs you need to know by WASP
- The Black Halos announce first new album in 14 years, How The Darkness Doubled
- On the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Atlanta Rhythm Section: a story of guns and homicidal bass players
- In 2003 AOL needed a new face for their Instant Messaging software: Metallica got the call
- October 25
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- Meet Elegant Weapons, the new Judas Priest/Pantera/Rainbow supergroup
- Watch this Slipknot bass cover then silently make plans to throw your instrument in the bin
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson shoots down the rumour that Bon Scott wrote lyrics for Back In Black: "I want to put this baby to bed"
- Watch Emma Ruth Rundle's new tour documentary All I Know of Love
- Listen to Trivium frontman Matt Heafy cover that song from the Cars movie soundtrack
- The emo/pop-punk revival continues as Blink-182 and Paramore are booked for another monster US festival
- Devin Townsend releases epic new video for Lightworker
- Cassyette announces European / UK 2023 tour
- Pomegranate Tiger returns with stunning AI video for The Cryptographer
- Marshall celebrate ’60 years of loud’ with new Black Diamond headphones and speaker
- Ozzfest 2022 to be staged in the Metaverse via virtual reality
- Every Incubus album ranked from worst to best, by vocalist Brandon Boyd
- Tobin Bell to reprise his role as Jigsaw in the new Saw movie
- Clive Mitten announces new classical album Transcriptions
- The Monster Mosh, a metal version of the The Monster Mash, is here to soundtrack your Halloween
- My Chemical Romance's former drummer is selling his Black Parade uniform on eBay
- John Lodge announces Days Of Future Passed live dates for US
- Watch Nita Strauss and Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz team up for heavy metal banger The Wolf You Feed
- Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle: "five years of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll took its toll"
- Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: the soundtrack of my life
- A 'rock circus' featuring the music of AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden and more has launched in Spain and it looks wild
- "Overcoming darkness is a beautiful thing": How My Chemical Romance battled ghosts, addiction, the Daily Mail and Kasabian to take over the world with The Black Parade
- Bono wants U2 to record a "f**k-off rock'n'roll album" inspired by AC/DC
- October 24
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- Kiss played a private party for less than 100 people at the weekend and there's video
- Watch Corey Taylor absolutely, definitely, undisputedly neither confirm nor deny Slipknot are playing Download 2023
- Robert Fripp says his Sunday Lunch videos with Toyah have upset King Crimson fans
- Ex-Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels: "It doesn’t have to be a f***ing priority to look a certain way all the time"
- Ajren Lucassen announces star-studded guestlist for Ayreon 01011001 live shows
- Watch Jack Black give a rousing preview of his take on Bowser in the new Super Mario Bros. movie at New York Comic Con 2022
- Great outta Compton: how Kendrick Lamar revolutionised hip-hop with the darkly poetic concept album Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
- That time Parkinson challenged Elton John to write a song on the spot for the silliest lyrics ever - and he absolutely nailed it
- Watch My Chemical Romance dress in their iconic Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge outfits at When We Were Young Festival - with a bizarre twist
- "I even saw some fans doing heroin outside one of those shows" - the real story behind Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory
- Hawklords announce new live album
- Watch Paramore play All I Wanted for the first time ever at historic When We Were Young set
- The Hollywood Vampires announce UK arena tour
- Bono says he's sorry for putting a free U2 album on everyone's iPhone: "The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do"
- Pearl Jam: Vs. - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Those Damn Crows, Jaws The Shark and more
- Watch Bruce Dickinson admonish fans for smoking weed during Iron Maiden Show
- Toyah and Robert Fripp take things "back to normal" with maniacal Korn cover
- October 23
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- Thunder launch JustGiving page to pay for singer Danny Bowes' medical treatment
- Rick Rubin has chosen the eight songs he'd take to a desert island
- David Crosby calls Iron Maiden "noise", provokes eloquent response from Testament's Alex Skolnick
- Devin Townsend’s Lightwork album: arena rock eccentricity with a prog metal heart
- Brian Johnson couldn't watch Axl Rose perform with AC/DC
- Fieldy says there's 'no beef' with Korn bandmates
- October 22
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- When We Were Young festival day one cancelled due to "dangerous" weather
- “Corey Taylor knows his horror”: an interview with Hellraiser's original Pinhead, Doug Bradley
- Newtown Neurotics still want to kick the Tories out on Cognitive Dissidents
- Hugh Cornwell: Moments Of Madness album review
- Architects add power-glam polish to their arsenal on The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
- Goat's Oh Death: bending the world into wild, ritualistic shapes
- "We are the rock Muhammad Ali”: how punchy Swedes The Hives delivered a knockout with Your New Favourite Band
- Black Space Riders: laser-blasting stoner rock warriors widen their remit
- O.R.k pitch gentle dexterity against bludgeon on the beautiful Screamnasium
- Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxymore: an album that asks more questions than it offers answers
- Ugly Kid Joe do everything and do it well on fifth album Rad Wings Of Destiny
- Simple Minds's Direction Of The Heart: elder statesmen with nothing left to prove
- The Libertines' expanded Up The Bracket is an 85-headed reminder of their greatness
- October 21
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- Watch Stillwell's homage to Beastie Boys in Rock the House video
- ‘Magic’ Randy Blythe saved Children of Bodom's tour bus from drugs bust
- Poly-Math share live video for new single Velociter – watch it here!
- 10 essential new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "We wanted to capture the magic of prog's classic era" – Wobbler: the story of From Silence To Somewhere
- TikTok users are now soundtracking their cozy autumnal videos with a song by, erm, notorious cult leader Charles Manson
- Jonathan Davis says he never wants to sing Korn’s Daddy again: “I realised how dark it is – it’s some depressing shit”
- O.R.k. announce European tour dates for spring 2023
- Blink-182 recorded an album with Matt Skiba which we may never, ever hear
- Paramore announce 2023 UK and Ireland tour
- Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Celebration to be released on DVD and Blu-ray
- Listen to John Lennon singing a never-before-heard acoustic version of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine from 1966
- Maynard James Keenan: “Pink Floyd’s Animals changed everything”
- Watch this woman magically transform into Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes with the help of a wig, makeup and, er, fangs
- Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner on the “mania” of the '90s grunge explosion: “It was frightening... it scared the hell out of me"
- Tarja to release Best Of collection – listen to new song Eye Of The Storm here!
- Eivor: from teenage TV star and avant-jazz queen to The Last Kingdom
- Limp Bizkit blowing up boats, Incubus hanging with Britney and Korn's Jonathan Davis in a top hat: 10 times nu metal took over MTV's iconic Total Request Live show
- 11 years since its release, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim may well be metal's most influential game ever
- Kid busker absolutely nails Master Of Puppets on guitar, receives stamp of approval from Metallica
- 10 things to look out for at this weekend's When We Were Young festival
- Riverside announce new album ID.Entity – stream first single I'm Done With You here!
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee: “I’d do anything to work with Tim Burton”
- Galahad and Abel Ganz announced for Prog For Peart 2023
- Judas Priest will perform at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with three guitarists and two drummers, according to former drummer Les Binks
- PVRIS release two new singles, Anywhere But Here and Animal, alongside a haunting short film
- Rumours that John 5 is replacing Mick Mars in Mötley Crüe just won't go away
- It's Six Of The Best from Genesis on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- The story of Metallica and the ‘obscene’ punk cover that got them banned from MTV
- Queen launch new video for uncovered Freddie track Face It Alone
- The Roy Harper albums you should definitely own
- "Out, demons, out!" The historic day The Fugs attempted to levitate the Pentagon
- October 20
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- Six songs you need to know by Placebo
- Bob Rock thinks “the rules of metal are very confining”, says “Metallica stretched the boundaries” on Load and Reload
- “Arrogant, misogynistic and full of testosterone”: 10 nu metal musicians hating on nu metal
- Molybaron drop video for brand new single Vampires
- Babymetal share new single Divine Attack - Shingeki - and, surprise, surprise, it's a banger
- Def Leppard and Motley Crue announce The World Tour
- Hear The Jesus Lizard's David Yow as 'Horror Host' on new compilation Sounds To Make You Shudder
- Rock out on the go with House Of Marley’s Get Together Solo Bluetooth speaker
- Blurred Vision reissue Pink Floyd cover in support of the people of Iran
- Ozzy Osbourne on his health struggles and what the future holds: “I’m 73, I can’t do this once I’m dead”
- Alice Cooper tried to convince Kermit the Frog to sell his soul to Satan
- Mdou Moctar releases trippy new video for Ibitilan
- Best vinyl record storage 2026: Take good care of your vinyl purchases with this selection of storage solutions
- Wheel stream brand new song, the reflective Synchronise
- The 5 worst metal collaborations of all time
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis: "I felt whole putting cocaine and heroin in me... until I had to pay the toll"
- A deep dive into Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst repeatedly and inexplicably turning up in early-2000s fighting games
- Klone return with video for brand new single Within Reach
- Karin Park shares video for atmospheric new single Traces of Me
- The Godfathers are back with a new line-up, a new album, and a disdain for poodle hairdos
- Avenged Sevenfold Deathbat added as character in Iron Maiden mobile game
- Rock star, interrupted: the unsung story of grunge pioneer Tina Bell and Bam Bam
- Liam Gallagher blames "sad little dwarf" Noel for the fact that his Knebworth 22 movie won't include Oasis songs
- Classic Dave Grohl drum intro blows up on TikTok
- October 19
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- Watch Lzzy Hale play Clitaurus Maximus The She Bull in blood-soaked GWAR video
- Randy Blythe is obsessed with The Crown, and nine other things we learned from Metal Hammer’s epic Lamb Of God interview
- Best headphones for vinyl 2026: Our selection of the best headphones to pair with your turntable
- Charlie Griffiths shares brand new video for Crawl Walk Run
- "Get outta my f**kin' face!" How Pearl Jam's furious, confrontational Vs. album saved the band's soul
- New Frank Zappa box set Waka/Wazoo to be released in December
- Kurt Cobain's estate attacks Royal Opera House's Last Days production for attempt to "profit" from Nirvana frontman's death
- Rick Wakeman to perform live with Jazz Sabbath in Birmingham
- Polyphia announce UK and European tour dates
- Hear Turnstile soundtracking a new Taco Bell advert
- A daytime radio station accidentally played Steel Panther’s Glory Hole, and you can guess what happened next
- Downriver Dead Men Go share video for epic new track Line In The Sand
- This YouTuber has covered eight classic pop songs in the style of Amon Amarth and the results are suitably epic/ridiculous
- Keep the conversation going with the new Loop Engage Plus earplugs
- Watch Corey Taylor and his band play Slipknot classics at solo show in London
- Circles release video for moody single Echoes
- Zakk Wylde hasn’t even started learning Pantera songs yet
- Watch Sebastian Bach rapping Outkast, Snoop Dogg and Run-DMC classics on one of the most surreal reality TV shows ever
- Goo Goo Dolls: Johnny Rzeznik on vintage gear, inequality, and why America is moving backwards
- Why I ❤️ The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails, by Steven Wilson
- Queen's Radio Ga Ga: how a song inspired by a swearing toddler proved the power of television
- Watch a giant sad clown bring new depths of emotion to Black Sabbath's War Pigs
- Spandex, mullets and profanity: the eternal genius of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
- October 18
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- See Iron Maiden's Spitfire replica droop during Aces High in Massachusetts
- Greta Van Fleet vocalist Josh Kiszka has ruptured his eardrum
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante compares Genesis to The Beatles, praises Kurt Cobain and Eddie Van Halen
- Babymetal to return to the UK and Europe in April
- Every Paramore album ranked from worst to best
- 10 things we learned about the stellar new King Crimson documentary
- Kate Bush makes rare statement to acknowledge passing of Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane: "we've lost one of our great treasures"
- What are the best earplugs for concerts in 2026? Here are my top picks as a gig-going regular
- Watch Carrie Underwood absolutely nail Guns N' Roses' Welcome To The Jungle in a way that would make her friend Axl Rose proud
- Heilung add more live dates to upcoming European tour
- Watch Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes sing about the horror of cocaine abuse on new single The Drugs, featuring Jamie T
- Jinjer frontwoman Tatiana Shmayluk reveals Russia's war on Ukraine left her "creatively paralysed": "I cannot write about that"
- The Wolves Of Avalon share trailer for new album Y Gododdin
- Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba says the star-studded emo/punk festival When We Were Young was announced before a single band on the bill agreed to play
- Susanna shares striking live video of Songs from Baudelaire & Piano and Elevation
- Spunk, willies and arrests: remembering Rammstein's most notorious show ever
- A new horror film is so brutally gory it has audiences "fainting", "vomiting" and getting ambulances called
- Gary Moore: leaving Thin Lizzy, the story of G-Force, and the terror of success
- Bono reveals he's had death threats from the IRA, Dublin gangsters and the far right
- Unseen footage of Tom Petty's famed 20-night run at the Fillmore released
- October 17
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- Black Sabbath are now available as a set of $666 statues
- Brian Johnson names his favourite Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath songs
- After serving time for hiring a hitman to murder his ex-wife, As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis admits "I could have handled this a thousand different ways"
- This Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Cake vs R.E.M. mash-up is the best alt. rock anthem we've heard in months
- Did Marvel and Disney just rip off a Dutch hardcore band’s artwork?
- Journey announce 38-city Freedom Tour 2023
- Architects’ The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit: former metalcore heroes shoot for arena rock success
- Sharon Osbourne on Ozzy's Parkinson's disease: "When I look at my husband, my heart breaks for him"
- Corey Taylor expands the Corey Taylor Empire by buying iconic horror mag Famous Monsters
- A member of One Direction has released an angsty electro-punk single, and it won't make you want to slice off your ears
- Rainbow Chasers: how 60s duo Nirvana caught Salvador Dalí's attention
- Fans can now bid to own a piece of Yungblud's chewed gum inside a necklace and no, we're not joking
- Nytt Land share "Western" version of U-Gra - watch the video here!
- Attention Iron Maiden fans: this new Where's Wally?-style Where Is Eddie? book looks like fiendishly good fun
- Loudest Bluetooth speakers 2026: The best wireless speakers loud enough to shake your foundations
- Watch a nude, blood-soaked Mimi Barks' raise hell in a pit full of goats in her devilish video for new single Abyss
- "Youth is a funny thing, isn’t it?" Clannad: their final chapter
- Watch Blink-182 bounce around with bunny rabbits at a circus on their bizarre new video for Edging
- Jim Root reveals his reaction to early versions of Slipknot's new songs: "Oh f**k, this doesn’t sound like Slipknot to me"
- Marjana Semkina and Anna Murphy launch Maer's Sister - watch the video here!
- 10 killer metal songs inspired by the Hellraiser movies
- Watch Jack Black personally serenade a young School Of Rock fan in this heartwarming new video
- Tributes pour in for Clannad co-founder Noel Duggan
- Trivium's Matt Heafy reveals how Iron Maiden's Steve Harris recently compared his band to Metallica
- This kid band's brilliant cover of Ghost's Square Hammer is all the proof you need that the future of rock is bright
- Watch the moment Rammstein's Till Lindemann brought his own, leashed-up BDSM gimp to a book signing
- Ivan Moody says he’s ‘retiring from heavy metal’ after one more Five Finger Death Punch album
- How David Coverdale Americanised Whitesnake and sold 8 million albums
- 25 things only hardcore fans know about Led Zeppelin III
- The Doors: Other Voices - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, The Answer and more
- October 16
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- David Longdon's Door One: a poignant reminder of a great talent in full, unfettered flight
- Gun's The Calton Songs: a rum affair indeed
- Corky Laing: still hard rockin' after 50 years
- A cultural artefact from Yugoslavia's communist past for the Zappa-ophiles
- Orianthi falls short on album that feels uneven and unfinished
- Watch a latex-clad Toyah, Robert Fripp in a Hannibal Lecter mask and a punk rock Chesney Hawkes cover Stacy's Mom
- October 15
- October 14
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- KK Downing confirms he'll play with Judas Priest at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony
- Roger Waters, David Gilmour share their memories of late Pink Floyd bandmate Syd Barrett in new documentary
- Meat Loaf, Guns N' Roses and Oasis albums listed among the 20 best-selling debut albums in UK chart history
- Brian Johnson: "When Malcolm Young left AC/DC in 2014 the heart of the band stopped beating"
- Oi! Wanna buy Johnny Rotten's handwritten lyrics to Sex Pistols' Holidays In The Sun? Now's your chance
- Lazuli take Prog on the fantastic journey of Dieter Böhm!
- Watch Yes' Jon Davison make a cameo in Glass Hammer's new video All Alone
- Mostly Autumn: the emotional story behind Graveyard Star
- Green Day's Nimrod at 25: how Billie Joe Armstrong learned to stop giving a f**k about punk rock rules
- Meet Major Parkinson: the Norwegian septet who are very big Cardiacs fans
- Pond make a splash with Live At The BBC EP
- Threshold keyboard player announces his autobiography in time for Christmas 2022
- M. Shadows admits to accidentally ripping off Metallica, defends Avenged Sevenfold’s Hail To The King from the haters
- Kansas celebrate their half-century with Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas
- David Longdon – Door One: "a truly mesmerising posthumous release"
- Watch kids lose their minds to Metallica, Slipknot and more at this metal-themed puppet show
- That Joe Payne: from no future to a life full of hope
- Sendelica release trailer for new double album One Man’s Man…
- Watch a clip of one of Taylor Hawkins’ final interviews
- The 10 best things we saw at California’s Aftershock festival
- Get Prog's exclusive Crippled Black Phoenix bundle with signed art print and more
- Mark Morton reveals the new Lamb Of God album was influenced by hip hop
- Blink-182 return with the peppy new single Edging
- Hayley Griffiths to release two new albums in January
- Rival Sons launch new album with Tarantino-style video for Nobody Wants To Die
- Alter Bridge: The rise and rise of rock's reluctant superstars - only in Classic Rock
- Skid Row have released a full-on, victory or death, maximum rock’n’roll album
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers continue red hot creative streak
- Space Force: a revealing glimpse into the peculiar musical mind of Todd Rundgren
- Alter Bridge's Pawns & Kings: this is the Rolls-Royce of Alter Bridge records
- 10 post-rock albums you should definitely own
- October 13
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- Arjen Lucassen announces live 01011001 shows for September
- Here's why Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe isn't all that fussed about the Pantera reunion
- Dave who? Watch ex-Megadeth trio David Ellefson, Chris Poland and Jeff Young play Peace Sells... and Wake Up Dead
- Joe Satriani hails Wolfgang Van Halen's Taylor Hawkins tribute gig performances as "the most natural, beautiful thing I’d seen in a long time"
- Nova Twins, Cassyette, Lynks to play 'Anti-Prom' charity show in London
- Tribe Of Names announce debut album Evolver
- Watch an amazing time-lapse video of Hellraiser’s Jamie Clayton become the new Pinhead
- Audioslave’s Like A Stone hits one billion views on YouTube
- After 19 years together, F**kwolf announce debut album Goodbye, Asshole
- The Cult share arty video for new single Mirror
- Watch Bruce Dickinson drag a stage invader offstage during an Iron Maiden show without missing a beat
- JFDR celebrates new record deal with video for lush new single The Orchid
- Queen's Brian May on The Miracle, why he loves AC/DC, and the high price of fame
- Queen launch unheard song featuring Freddie Mercury, Face It Alone
- Witch Fever bare their teeth on fierce, riff-heavy new single Beauty And Grace
- The Fierce And The Dead announce new single Photogenic Love
- Grab some tissues because Måneskin’s heart-breaking video for The Loneliest is here
- Lamb Of God rise up in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Massive Wagons take to the water on Yacht Rock-inspired video for Please Stay Calm
- Guns, drugs and Australia: the story of The Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray
- Pink Floyd song catalogue sale reportedly threatened by band infighting
- October 12
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- This Metallica x Stranger Things light show has just ruined Halloween decorations for everyone everywhere
- Time is running out to get a cheap Echo smart speaker this Prime Day
- Christ on a mic: meet the band who baptise their fans with blood
- Save up to 37% on the raucous Marshall Stanmore II Bluetooth speaker this Prime Day
- Listen to Tigercub's filthy-riff heavy new single The Perfume Of Decay
- Guns N' Roses tease snippet of never-performed Use Your Illusion song during soundcheck
- Star Wars, Transformers, Batman & Marvel Lego kits on sale during Amazon Prime Day
- Stormzy's new album This Is What I Mean is coming next month
- Shane MacGowan says the success of Fairytale Of New York made life "boring" for The Pogues
- AC/DC are being used to teach kids the alphabet
- Yes announce Relayer tour dates for June 2023
- Grab the Bose QuietComfort earbuds with an epic saving of £117 this Prime Day
- Sebastian who? Skid Row are back to their hard rocking best on The Gang’s All Here
- A punk rock museum is opening in 2023, funded by members of NOFX, Bad Religion, Foo Fighters... but not Green Day
- Best Prime Day tech deals and more for music fans under $50/£50
- 10 iconic TV and movie goth icons
- Ayreon streams remixed and remastered And The Druids Turn To Stone
- Listen to Jan Rivera's new album Existential Paranoia for free right here...
- Everyone is making raunchy thirst-trap videos to Nickelback, and Chad Kroeger is loving it
- Every Blink-182 album ranked from worst to best
- Lacuna Coil’s Comalies XX: a goth metal classic reconstructed
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells goes on tour to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Roadrunner United’s The All-Star Sessions album is finally being reissued
- Horror icon John Carpenter reveals his favourite Metallica song, says he doesn’t care about Ozzy Osbourne
- Ozzy Osbourne once covered a hotel room in the blood of a dismembered shark because he’s Ozzy Osbourne
- Gojira are teasing brand new song Our Time Is Now
- This Winter Machine headline Highway To Hull progfest
- Australian guitar prodigy Keyan premieres video for new single Pulse
- How 'Ken Hensley' accidentally ended up on the cover of Uriah Heep's Firefly
- Watch AC/DC tearing up London in 1977 in glorious 4K
- Walter Trout gave himself to rock'n'roll... and it almost killed him
- October 11
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- Video: Red Hot Chili Peppers give live debut to moving Eddie Van Halen tribute
- Paul Stanley slams Kanye West over controversial antisemitic tweet
- The Dark Side Of The Moan: watch Pink Floyd work – and argue a bit – in this amazing archive studio footage
- No-one had a clue that Rivers Cuomo was Weezer's frontman when he studied at Harvard
- Amazon Prime Day 2022 just got a little louder with up to 51% off Beats Studio3 wireless headphones
- Green Day and Blink-182 to headline When We Were Young Festival 2023
- Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia: "in the music world, if being sexy is the only thing that you have to offer, that’s kind of sad.”
- Amazon Prime Day 2022 has epic price drops on the House Of Marley Stir It Up turntable & speakers
- Corey Taylor has some advice for whinging Slipknot fans: "Shut the f**k up and listen to what we give you"
- Hear System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian and Cypress Hill's B-Real kick out the jams on new Los Angeles Football Club anthem
- Amazon Prime Day 2022: Get ready to rock with massive savings on Sony headphones
- King Diamond's revealed what he spent his Metallica royalties on, and it was a pretty baller move
- Blink-182 welcome back Tom DeLonge, announce world tour, new single Edging
- Deadly Circus Fire release video for new single Medicine
- Watch the nightmarish animated video for explosive new Architects single A New Moral Low Ground
- In Flames, Anthrax, Sepultura, Biohazard among latest Bloodstock 2023 additions
- Fenella share new video for the tripped out Stella In Spectra
- A new Queens Of The Stone Age album has already been recorded
- Temples On Mars share video for new single Daydreamer
- Could K.K. Downing play with Judas Priest at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance?
- Jonathan Hultén launches The Forest Sessions with new trailer
- Babymetal announce return with new concept album The Other One and brand new shows
- Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow - Album Of The Week Club review
- Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan: the soundtrack of my life
- Donovan: my stories of The Beatles, Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix and more
- Relive the historic pie attack Alice Cooper called "one of the greatest moments of my life"
- October 10
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- Guns N' Roses release electrifying 1991 live video for You Could Be Mine
- Tedeschi Trucks Band covered Harry Styles and it's pure goosebump territory
- Corey Taylor says he exchanged "strained but civil" text messages with Joey Jordison before the drummer's death
- Here's that AC/DC money you've always wanted
- Tom Morello's ex-bandmate has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Watch Rammstein guitarist Richard Kruspe play Du Hast to fans on a street in Mexico City
- There's a Grinch horror movie arriving just in time for Christmas
- Watch a triumphant Thin Lizzy play four Chinatown cuts in this rare 1981 footage rescued from VHS
- Oceanica stream new single Equations
- Watch Metallica doing motion capture for Guitar Hero's version of Master Of Puppets
- Lorna Shore’s Pain Remains: brutality, bombast and ballads on 2022’s most audacious deathcore album
- That time Elton John, Axl Rose and Queen played the most brilliantly chaotic version of Bohemian Rhapsody ever
- Listen to Cage Fight’s brutal collab with the late Trevor Strnad on new single Eating Me Alive
- Listen to Boy Destroy's new single Two Faces
- Blink-182 are up to something, as they promise 'Your Future Is Cumming'
- This AI-generated death metal video featuring a demonic Homer Simpson is total nightmare fuel
- Kaipa to release Notes From The Past on vinyl
- Marvel's Werewolf By Night: a solid (but not scary) attempt at the MCU embracing horror
- “The Cowboys From Hell bottled it”: the chaotic story of the Tattoo The Planet festival
- Watch Willow bring heavy metal fury to US TV institution Saturday Night Live
- Someone has mashed up Slipknot's Duality with the Space Jam song and it...actually works. No, really
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Larkin Poe, Måneskin and more
- Yes, Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson are still talking smack about each other
- Mike Portnoy thinks the new Slipknot album is "their Sgt Pepper"
- Watch Journey play Metallica's Enter Sandman with Kirk Hammett in Hawaii
- Cynic release instrumental version of Ascension Codes
- This lovely video of Ozzy Osbourne leaving his cane behind to dance with wife Sharon will warm your blackened heart
- Alter Bridge’s Pawns & Kings: more colossal anthems from the modern kings of arena rock
- October 9
- October 8
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- "It was the way to go in the early days, doing longer and longer tracks. To revisit that is a good experience." The story of Caravan's It's None Of Your Business
- Kerry King names favourite Alice In Chains song
- King Crimson announce physical release for new documentary
- Winter's End announces day splits for next year's event
- October 7
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- A new horror series on Netflix has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the most jump scares in a single episode
- Lamb Of God's video for the their new, heavy AF track Ditch is dirty, wild chaos
- Watch Jack Black as Bowser in the new Mario movie trailer everyone's talking about
- A history of every single Eddie from every Iron Maiden single and album
- This footage of a pre-fame Layne Staley sticking it to the PMRC in 1985 is a piece of grunge history
- Listen to Måneskin's angsty and emotional new ballad, The Loneliest
- Nightwish share new video for Noise from their An Evening With Nightwish In A Virtual World event
- The 10 greatest Hollywood cameos in metal videos
- We went to Måneskin's tiny surprise London show last night and it was...kinda weird
- Threshold drop video for brand new single Complex
- Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance: "They remain in rude health"
- A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests: "One of the UK’s most compelling young solo acts."
- Hawkwind - We Are Looking In On You: "There’s plenty of life in the old bird yet!"
- The Blackheart Orchestra share new video for Astronaut
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals the rock stars that have reached out to him during health issues: "when you get sick...people don't call anymore"
- Someone in the crowd at a rock show was grating cheese over everybody and no one is quite sure why
- Jon Anderson announces US tour dates with The Band Geeks for Spring 2023
- How Oceans Of Slumber turned childhood trauma and religious cults into a prog metal epic
- Incubus' Brandon Boyd says being called nu metal hurt his feelings
- Wednesday 13: “Joey Jordison was like a brother to me”
- Drugs, drugs, drugs, and the making of Black Sabbath's miraculous Vol 4
- The Cult return to their magical best on 11th album Under The Midnight Sun
- Lamb Of God continue to break heads and educate on ninth album Omens
- Queensryche's new album finds them trudging where they once soared
- The debut alum from Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners is exultant, introspective, and a joy
- Some people still don't take Bush seriously and it's their loss
- Hawkwind continue to wig out furiously on new live album We Are Looking In On You
- "Somebody f**ked up" - vinyl copies of Slipknot's new album have the wrong title
- October 6
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- Watch The Cure play new songs Alone and Endsong at first show in three years - plus setlist
- Dead & Company announce The Final Tour
- Tim Bowness guests with Saro Cosentino on You Are The Story
- Keyboards and guitars engaged in mortal kombat: the story of Pomp Rock
- System Of A Down fans keep "scaring the sh*t" out of Serj Tankian by yelling Chop Suey! lyrics at him in public
- Lost In Kiev team up with The Ocean's Loic Rossetti for Prison Of Mind
- 10 legendary lost metal side-projects we'd kill to hear
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis has launched a pet company called Freak On A Leash
- At last we have the answer to the age-old question 'How would Judas Priest sound with James Brown on vocals?'
- Dave Lombardo names five greatest punk albums ever, reveals first time he met Mike Patton
- Bury Tomorrow announce new album, The Seventh Sun, drop brutal new single Abandon Us
- Iron Maiden announce UK, Ireland and Europe arena shows for 2023's The Future Past Tour
- Arch Echo release performances from Genshin Impact 2nd Anniversary Concert
- Eddie Van Halen: January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020
- Stevie Van Zandt: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Miles Davis and more
- LostAlone: what happens when you've been fed a diet of Queen records your entire life
- Amberian Dawn's supercharged version of SOS is everything you could wish for in a power metal tribute to Abba
- October 5
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- Larkin Poe release video for cathartic soul-blues anthem Strike Gold
- Remember the time Adam Sandler jammed with Deftones and Incubus?
- Atmospheric rockers Black Honey share trippy new video Out Of My Mind, featuring prom dresses and decapitated clones
- Dungen release trippy video for new single Höstens Färger
- Lamb Of God's Laid To Rest played on the saxophone goes surprisingly hard, and here's the proof
- Watch a previously unseen performance of Nick Cave's Earthlings, live in London
- Måneskin announce intimate last-minute London show
- Pro-Ject Primary E turntable review
- Watch Nita Strauss make surprise return appearance with Alice Cooper at Colorado show last night
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim premiere new video for Attacus Atlas
- Roger Waters: "I'm on a kill list supported by the Ukrainian government"
- Listen to Nickelback reminisce about A Nightmare On Elm Street, prank calls and Purple Rain on nostalgic new single Those Days
- Longheads stream new nine-minute single Longherder
- Always craved a bat-shaped eyeshadow palette? Well, rejoice, for Ozzy Osbourne has launched his own makeup collection
- Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Wet Leg to feature on abortion rights benefit album available for one day only
- Corey Taylor dedicates Slipknot's new album to Joey Jordison, and says "We were hoping to mend fences with him"
- Hans Zimmer's 40 year career to be celebrated with new BBC documentary
- Why I ❤️ David Coverdale, by Lucy Porter
- Revealed: the secret and dangerous life of AC/DC's Brian Johnson
- "I've done my best, and I'm happy" - How Ozzy Osbourne made Patient Number 9
- Mike Tramp on singing in Danish, the demise of White Lion, and how to spoil a dinner party
- October 4
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- Slade prepare for World Cup with bonkers new video for 1978 single Give Us A Goal
- A fan threw a dead rat onstage during a Full of Hell gig and we have questions
- Alter Bridge share lyric video for This Is War
- Fever 333 will continue despite losing guitarist and drummer, vows vocalist Jason Aalon Butler
- The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction kick off 32-date North American tour
- Rage Against The Machine cancel 2023 North American tour due to Zack de la Rocha's leg injury
- Rancid's Lars Frederiksen: "I wasn't allowed off the bus or I'd have a punch-up"
- Myrath headline France's Ready For Prog Festival in October
- A legal document signed by John Lennon on the day of his murder is up for auction
- The Official New Wave Of Classic Rock Volume 2 compilation album is coming next year
- Every film in the Living Dead series ranked from worst to best
- Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best
- Depeche Mode announce European stadium tour, North American arena shows and new album Memento Mori
- Gary Husband and Alf Terje Hana share Two Foxes from The Trackers project
- Ty Segall, Osees, A Place To Bury Strangers confirmed for Wide Awake festival 2023
- Even Flow share lyric video for Revelation Day
- Willow shares love for Deftones and Lamb Of God, says metal has been gatekept by old white men for too long
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly pay tribute to Linkin Park's Chester Bennington in London
- Black Sabbath to release deluxe editions of Dio-era classics Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules
- Watch the moment Metallica swapped instruments on stage and Lars Ulrich showed he'd actually make an awesome frontman
- Meet the ex-Christian pagan folk vocalist on a mission to help metal fans discover their inner shaman
- Six things you need to know about... Thundermother
- Watch an emotional Ozzy Osbourne on TV just six days after Randy Rhoads' death
- Paice Ashton Lord: Malice In Wonderland - Album Of The Week Club review
- October 3
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- Ringo Starr cancels shows and puts tour on hold after testing positive for Covid
- Grab some popcorn, because Ronnie Radke has beef with Sebastian Bach and Eddie Trunk over the use of laptops on stage
- The Story Behind The Song: U2's One
- London instrumental trio Cabiria added to Prog The Forest bill
- Slipknot are in a three-way battle for the UK's number 1 album with The Snuts and... George Michael
- Wolfgang Van Halen suggests VH reunion is off the table, says former members are too "dysfunctional" to organise it anyway
- Riverside, Soen, Voivod, Iamthemorning and more for Prognosis Holland and UK
- U2’s Bono announces 14 nights of "words, music and mischief" as his Stories Of Surrender tour
- My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero's new band L.S. DUNES announce UK tour
- Corey Taylor once wanted to become a history teacher instead of a musician
- Lindsey Buckingham cancels remaining UK/European tour dates due to "ongoing health issues"
- Charlotte Wessels’ Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II is the sound of singer throwing off her own past
- Celebrating the time Lemmy and Pinhead played poker in the coolest Motörhead video ever
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett shares latest chapter of his increasingly dark online horror story
- Doom band Messa involved in serious head-on tour van crash
- Paramore deliver the hits at first live show in four years, return Misery Business to their setlist
- Kavus Torabi announces solo Swindon live show for October
- Watch Courtney Love guest with The Lemonheads in London, thanks to super model Kate Moss
- Nandi Bushell shares moving debut single, The Shadows, written to cheer up her dad
- Mountainscape share video for epic new track Atoms Unfurling
- How Three Dollar Bill Y’all transformed Limp Bizkit from wannabes to nu metal superstars
- Wednesday 13’s Horrifier: sleaze is out, sludgy noise and bowel-trembling breakdowns are in
- Rush share pro-shot footage of their performance with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith at the Taylor Hawkins LA tribute concert
- The story behind the all-time classic The Zombies recorded as an afterthought
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse announce new album World Record
- Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer has gone AWOL from the US authorities
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Skid Row, Tuk Smith and more
- A one-man blues explosion is currently detonating on social media
- The Beatles launch extremely trippy first take of Tomorrow Never Knows
- October 2
- October 1
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- Evership release video for new single The Law Of Ages
- In Bloom: the making of Rachel Flowers' Bigger On The Inside
- The story of Guy Manning's Charlestown
- “I wanted to help Yes reinvent itself." The story of Yes and The Quest
- Jean-Michel Jarre reworks Brutalism with Deathpact
- So yeah, Metallica covered a Slayer song once and there’s footage to prove it
- Lamb of God mix it up without scaring the horses on new album Omens
- The story of Pap Smear – Slayer’s forgotten 80s punk side project
