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- December 31
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- Queen legend Sir Brian May says he's "very thrilled and very touched" by the reaction to his knighthood
- Foo Fighters close out a "difficult, tragic" 2022 promising to see fans "soon", admitting "without Taylor we’re going to be a different band"
- Damanek share new video for A Mountain Of Sky
- Fusion 4 bounces back with IQ, Solstice and more
- Genesis: The story behind The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway's transformational artwork
- December 30
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- Hawkwind take flight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Watch previously unseen footage of one of Layne Staley’s last ever shows with Alice In Chains
- Every The Undertones album ranked from worst to best
- That time John Fogerty was sued for plagiarising John Fogerty
- 'Mother of Punk' and iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood dead at 81
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- December 24
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- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler has pneumonia
- Watch Lovebites in video for new track Judgement Day
- Twelfth Night offer fans free album with brand new recording of Fact And Fiction
- Pink Floyd thank fans after raising half a million pounds through charity single
- Marcus King: If you're worried about the future of rock’n’roll, rest easy
- December 23
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- Slipknot's The End, So Far has been voted the album of the year by Metal Hammer's readers
- The 10 best metal Christmas songs ever
- 10 dancefloor bangers that even the most cynical metalhead will love
- Bruce Dickinson takes us all behind the scenes of Iron Maiden's epic Legacy Of The Beast tour (and we learn some delightful new things)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival and the long road to the Royal Albert Hall
- Clutch won't be putting on the brakes any time soon
- Watch Charlie Benante's view of Pantera performing Walk at Knotfest Chile
- December 22
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- Have Cradle Of Filth and Ed Sheeran just recorded that long-rumoured collaboration?
- "What an honour!" Kate Bush celebrates her 2022 chart success in Christmas message
- Five times prog music brilliantly embraced Christmas
- The 50 best rock songs of 2022 - as voted by you
- Cannibal Corpse's Corpsegrinder hung out with Santa and then won a load of stuffed toys for charity and by god we love this man
- Hypno5e share the title track from biblical new album Sheol
- Here's what Sam Smith's Unholy would sound like if it was written by Ghost (pretty good, actually!)
- Brian Johnson has been "told not to" answer questions about whether he'll play live with AC/DC again: "It's the official line"
- Some rain must fall: The Garbage song that turns broken hearts to gold
- Ville Valo: "I've always liked artists that are a bit mysterious"
- NOFX may still record and release new music despite retiring from touring
- December 21
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- Ozzy Osbourne reveals the question he hates getting asked the most and the new songs he's most proud of
- Watch Enslaved's winter solstice clip of Caravans To The Outer World
- L.S. Dunes is the 00s emo supergroup every My Chemical Romance fan needs in their life
- The 9 best music books from 2022
- Here are Team Louder's favourite albums of 2022
- Fred Durst wants to help Elon Musk save Twitter, because it’s 2022 and the world is absolutely nuts
- Meet Kira Mac, your new favourite providers of glossy, modern-day riff-rock
- Killswitch's Adam D says new Pantera music would be a step too far
- Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain gives laryngeal cancer warning
- Sharon Osbourne "doing great" after medical emergency
- December 20
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- The 10 essential Specials songs you need to know
- Nine Skies share trailer for new album The Lightmaker
- Five new prog acts you must hear this month
- The 10 heavy metal biographies you need in your life
- This wonderfully relaxing cover of Slipknot's Duality is giving us chills
- Watch Dave Grohl and P!nk collaborate on feel-good banger Get The Party Started
- 10 bands we want new music from in 2023
- Pink Floyd share previously unheard Dark Side era live releases on streaming services
- The 10 best hip-hop albums of 2022
- Ghost's Tobias Forge names the album he's been listening to most this year and shares his Spotify Wrapped results
- Watch this super rare footage of a baby-faced Gerard Way, before he was famous, defending comic books on a US chat show
- Primal Scream keyboardist Martin Duffy dead at 55
- "I wanted to be like him": music stars pay tribute to The Specials' Terry Hall
- Ruts DC: "There are people whose heads I would like to see on poles at the Tower Of London"
- "The earth could vomit up its dead and we’d shrug it off": Bob Dylan on modern life, Metallica, Dio, Oasis, 'nose candy' and binge watching Coronation Street
- Greta Van Vleet's new album is "nearing completion"
- Puddle of Mudd's Wes Scantlin admits infamous cover of Nirvana's About a Girl was "sh*t"
- December 19
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- Terry Hall, singer of The Specials, has died aged 63
- Jon Anderson: Olias Of Sunhillow - Album Of The Week Club review
- Scardust turn Disney's Princess into prog metal gold
- The Internet is in L.O.V.E with The 1975's utterly chaotic frontman Matty Healy, and here's why
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- This band has reimagined Rob Zombie's Dragula as a Christmas song and it's surprisingly creepy/festive
- The 50 best metal songs of 2022 (as voted by you)
- Prog's Christmas Tracks Of The Week
- Foo Fighters' publicist discusses the challenges faced in announcing Taylor Hawkins' death
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford salutes Ghost, saying Tobias Forge's band will "refocus and re-energize" rock music
- Here's every song Rammstein have never played live
- Watch St.Vincent join Metallica on stage in LA for a performance of Nothing Else Matters
- Paul Dano explains how Nirvana influenced his portrayal of The Riddler in The Batman, discusses singing with The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Al Jardine
- Eight new songs to end the year with an enormous bang
- Clutch’s Neil Fallon: “Rock’n’roll is no longer king of the hill, and that’s OK”
- December 18
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- The Survivor albums you should definitely own
- 69 Windmills release video for new single Tiny Robots
- Peter Buck on R.E.M: "No matter how good our last record was, it wasn’t really our time any more"
- The 10 best TV shows of 2022
- In Memoriam: remembering the musicians we lost in 2022
- Watch 10-year-old girl absolutely slay in this cover of Slipknot's Heretic Anthem
- Sharon Osbourne taken to hospital after medical emergency
- December 17
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- French Nordic Folk collective SKÁLD share video for Då Månen Sken
- Trilogy and Solstice announce first gig together since 1983!
- The 10 best metalcore albums of 2022
- Watch Metallica play Lux Æterna live for the very first time
- Take a close look at Mother Vulture and you'll find their suits are covered in blood
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard: Chris Cornell is the GOAT
- Watch Megadeth's video for Killing Time
- December 16
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- Watch pro-shot footage of Slipknot at Wacken 2022
- The 10 best music videos of 2022
- A best-selling author and lifelong metalhead was left stunned at his book-signing when Tony Iommi joined the queue
- Threshold announce European tour dates for April
- Iman on husband David Bowie's death: "We lived a very private life and suddenly it felt like there was a target on mine and my daughter’s head"
- Watch Dave Grohl and Billie Eilish perform Foo Fighters' My Hero as a heartfelt tribute to Taylor Hawkins
- This metal band lost $20,000 on a recent tour. Is the entire future of live music in jeopardy?
- Weirdly random study reveals truck drivers who listen to rock and metal have more sex in their rigs than truck drivers who don't
- Klone share video for epic new single Bystander
- The Reasoning return with new line-up
- Listen to Måneskin's punchy new single LA Fine
- “I was a raging alcoholic!”: Jonathan Davis meets Amy Lee
- Nick Mason, Ozzy, Noddy Holder and Andy Taylor team up for charity single
- The 10 best black metal albums of 2022
- Slade: Noddy Holder's personal guide to five albums of beautiful noise
- Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Kiss, Pantera, Motley Crue... yep, Hellfest is killing it once again with their 2023 line-up
- December 15
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- Siouxsie Sioux to play first performance in 10 years at Latitude festival 2023
- We asked AI to write Christmas songs in the style of Slipknot, Cannibal Corpse, Iron Maiden and more, and we're scared by how good some of these actually are
- The Rolling Stones announce star-studded virtual concert with Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, The Black Keys and more
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals why he's never listened to Dio-era Black Sabbath albums: "it's like my ex-wife"
- Watch Twelfth Night perform East Of Eden on TV in 1982
- Tarja Turunen: "I have not needed to grow balls."
- 10 killer horror films you may have missed this year
- The 10 best doom metal albums of 2022
- Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot sold a million: now it's banned from her set
- December 14
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- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: the 10 best songs
- Rejoice! You can now play Metallica's Master Of Puppets in Fortnite
- Watch Gojira drummer play the living crap out of his unique kit
- Pearl Jam have started writing material for 12th album
- Enslaved announce North American tour for April
- Daryl Clark, 1956-2022
- Welcome To Rockville announce Tool, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold and Pantera as headliners for 2023
- Redemption return after five years with video for I Am The Storm
- We got Witch Fever's Amy Walpole to make us a playlist of the songs that influenced her as a musician and activist
- Watch Ghostface stalk Wednesday star Jenna Ortega on the New York subway in the first trailer for Scream 6
- Young Papa Nihil is back in the new Ghost video for Mary On A Cross
- Reliving the insane moment Slipknot's Sid Wilson broke both his heels live on stage - and crawled straight back on to finish the set (and tour)
- Chelsea Grin, Suffocation, Born Of Osiris, Aborted, Loathe and more to play Tech Fest 2023
- Ville Valo reveals the HIM songs he'll be playing on his upcoming solo tour
- Norwegian proggers AVKRVST sign deal with InsideOut Music
- Venom frontman Cronos: “Metallica have had some shit albums – they’d have to admit that”
- Watch this fan breath actual fire in the middle of a mosh pit at Pantera's Knotfest show in Chile
- Santa Claus seems to be driving around LA handing out Ghost merch and no one is quite sure why
- Outrun The Sunlight stream new single Ambivalence 2.0
- The 10 best death metal albums of 2022
- Brant Bjork: "Kyuss was very dysfunctional, but that’s what made the music"
- 20 of the greatest rock duets ever
- The Exploited's Wattie Buchan suffers second onstage heart attack
- December 13
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- Two Minutes to Late Night host Gwarsenio Hall has added the Seinfeld intro to Black Sabbath's N.I.B. and won the internet, just like that
- Russian trolls have been using bogus Kid Rock social media profiles to spread fake news and pro-Kremlin propaganda
- Here are those naked Blink-182 Funko Pop! figures you've always wanted
- Listen to Ozzy Osbourne narrate a moving tale about Christmas during World War 1
- Listen to Iggy Pop's grimy new anti-heroin single Strung Out Johnny
- Ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato will release his debut solo live album on December 20
- Riverside announce European and UK tour for April
- Listen to Adam Lambert's atmospheric cover of Duran Duran's Ordinary World from forthcoming covers album High Drama
- Beabadoobee, Rina Sawayama, Frank Turner, Bob Vylan and more to perform intimate 'underplay' BRITs Week gigs
- Porcupine Tree to release a deluxe four-disc edition of Deadwing
- Def Leppard's Joe Elliott nominates Demi Lovato's Holy Fvck as the best rock album of 2022
- Wargasm's video for their Slipknot-inspired single Super Fiend captures the beautiful chaos of the best rock gigs
- Alan Parson's Project's Turn Of A Friendly Card to get four-disc reissue
- Ghost's Tobias Forge would have loved to play guitar for The Rolling Stones
- Rancid announce EU/UK 2023 tour
- Ozzy Osbourne says he "just can’t walk much now", unsure if 2023 tour will go ahead
- Vote for the best metal album of 2022
- Paul Draper has interim order imposed over alleged stalking of The Anchoress
- 10 essential Christmas horror movies to watch this festive season
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson was so starstruck when he met Paul McCartney he called him "your majesty"
- The top 10 melodeath albums of 2022
- Official: Rex Brown will miss the rest of Pantera’s South American tour after catching Covid - "I do not wanna risk getting my brothers sick"
- Vote for the Best Rock Songs of 2022
- December 12
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- Watch Mike Patton try to destroy a drone during Mr. Bungle's set at Knotfest Chile
- Tim Commerford says he had prostate cancer surgery shortly before Rage Against The Machine's summer tour
- A YouTuber has mixed Rage Against The Machine and Megadeth tracks together and the results are predictably explosive
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen announces debut solo album Paragon
- Muse's Matt Bellamy reveals previously unspoken love for Yngwie Malmsteen and Iron Maiden: "Metal has always been around for us"
- Watch epic behind the scenes footage from Metallica’s Lux Æterna video shoot
- Party season is here and so is this metal version of Vengaboys' Boom Boom Boom Boom
- ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce co-headlining Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour
- Tony Iommi reflects on replacing Ozzy with Ronnie James Dio in Black Sabbath: "It was a bit of a challenge, but we enjoyed it"
- 10 godawful Hollywood movies with killer metal soundtracks
- Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose: "my name is Axl, and yes, I'm a tosser"
- Stuckfish sign with White Knight Records
- Little Simz calls out music industry exploitation on her surprise new album No Thank You
- The eight best new prog track out this week
- Watch Monster Truck give a talented nine-year-old guitarist a surprise music therapy session
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins on Steel Panther's lyrics: "Their humour is fully way past the line and they're not gonna stop"
- Wolfgang Van Halen: "That’s the thing about my dad. He never half-assed anything"
- Can TikTok save metal?
- People are trying to work out the meaning behind an obscure Limp Bizkit lyric from 1999 - and it involves WWE wrestling and, erm, butts
- Tool are releasing a collectible Fetus Skull just in time for Christmas
- 10cc, Strawbs, Toyah and Robert Fripp and more for Cropredy 2023
- Live: Throwing Copper - Album Of The Week Club review
- Kiss announce final ever UK dates
- The 10 best power metal albums of 2022
- Classic Rock's 50 best rock albums of 2022
- Tracks Of The Week: the eight new songs we're listening to right now
- Four dates into the Pantera reunion tour and Rex Brown has just missed a show
- December 11
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- Can someone please go check that Toyah and Robert Fripp are ok, because honestly, we worry sometimes
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy just met Rob Halford for the very first time, and it‘s the feelgood story of the week
- Genesis, Peter Gabriel and Six Of The Best
- The top 10 best prog metal albums of 2022
- Punk duo Slaves announce return to music with a new name, Soft Play
- December 10
- December 9
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- Watch Amon Amarth's video for Oden Owns You All
- Pantera's Rex Brown: "Slayer was the band we were always scared of"
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Kitten Pyramid - Kiddo: "an adventure from start to finish"
- Leprous to release Aphelion tour edition and new live album
- These are Metal Hammer’s Top 50 best albums of 2022
- Slash’s son’s band have just released a single and it sounds nothing like Guns N’ Roses
- Kansas stream 2022 version of Can I Tell You
- Gwen Stefani announces first UK tour in 16 years
- Limp Bizkit officially confirm 2023 European tour
- Nova Twins have done a killer, heavy remix of one of the biggest pop songs of 2022
- Check out the video for eMolecule's new single Beyond Belief
- Kitten Pyramid: Befuddling pro-vegetarian concept prog is the new black
- Mount Westmore's Snoop, Cube, 40, $hort: rollicking, aggressive, old school bluster from some of the most recognisable voices in hip-hop
- Watch Nightwish's Floor Jansen forget the lyrics to a song in the middle of a show before saving the day with some "sick dance moves"
- Haken share video for new single The Alphabet Of Me
- Watch Paramore's freaky, creepy video for new single The News
- Watch the drummer from Municipal Waste’s mom stage dive at one of their gigs
- The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Foals, Billie Eilish and more for Reading and Leeds Festivals 2023
- 10 of the weirdest gigs ever
- Classic Rock writers name Def Leppard's Diamond Star Halos album of the year
- The absolutely unmissable end-of-year issue of Classic Rock magazine is out now
- Listen to Roger Waters' The Lockdown Sessions album, featuring reworked takes on Pink Floyd classics
- Lionheart's eighth album delivers plenty of meat and veg but no spice
- Alabama Shakes: celebrating a decade of a defining rock’n’soul voice
- December 8
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- Pattie Boyd: My Life in 10 Songs
- The Stranglers' founding drummer Jet Black dead at 84
- Ville Valo says working with Cradle Of Filth "was a special treat"
- Sophie Lloyd voted Best Rock Guitarist of 2022
- Motley Crue and Def Leppard add American dates to their 2023 World Tour
- Hayley Williams and Matty Healy tease the prospect of a Paramore/The 1975 collaboration
- This mash-up of Metallica's One and Wham's Last Christmas is the anti-holiday anthem the world needs to hear
- Liam Gallagher says Mick Jagger, Bono and Robert Plant wouldn't be able to headline Knebworth solo like he has, but "Freddie Mercury might"
- Anthrax pull Bloodstock 2023 appearance due to “logistical issues beyond our control”
- Watch Dave Mustaine's very first interview with Metallica back in March 1983
- There's a corner of the internet where actual sentient grown-ups are arguing that The Beatles endorsed child sacrifice and invented 'woke-ism'
- Ghost's Impera is Metal Hammer's album of the year
- Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler just had an Airheads reunion and it was super wholesome: "that was one of the best shoots of my life"
- Terry Draper to release new album Bread And Cirkus
- Cosmograf replace Galahad at Prog For Peart
- Judas Priest's manager says K.K. Downing "seemed a little bit nervous and almost out of his depth" in recent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame performance
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive 2022 celebration – with three free gifts!
- Kiss fans are going nuts over this flirtatious Gene Simmons TV interview from 1978
- Twisted Sister to be inducted into Metal Hall of Fame by Steve Vai and Mike Portnoy
- Every Porcupine Tree album ranked from worst to best
- There's another metal cover of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You. And why not?
- Mother's Finest: "We were paving the way for things to happen in music but we didn’t know it"
- December 7
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- Rolling Stones, Elton John, and Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard among top-grossing tours of 2022
- Massive wagons: "I can walk down the middle of Lancaster now without getting my head kicked in"
- Watch Slipknot's Tortilla Man grapple with security guards who don't know who the hell he is
- Mick Fleetwood's hanging balls sell for over £100,000 at auction
- Listen to two new Zeal & Ardor tracks, Firewake and Cinq
- Converge confirm ArcTanGent 2023 headline slot
- The 'Nirvana Nevermind baby' guy who tried to sue the band is now appealing his case dismissal
- The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band gear up for eventful 2023
- Here's a classic video of Slipknot being introduced by Jimmy Kimmel in a Big Bird costume before playing a crushing set live on late night TV
- Alter Bridge’s Silver Tongue has been voted the best riff of 2022
- Wardruna, Haken and TesseracT all announced for ARTmania festival
- Ghost's Tobias Forge isn't done with death metal: "I still feel that urge to partake in it"
- Bob Dylan has a secret signal he uses when he doesn't want to be spoken to
- Dave Grohl played a secret show in LA this week and the setlist is completely bonkers
- Tuomas Holopainen reveals “major surprises” on next Nightwish album, admits he thought the band “were finished” when bassist Marko Hietala left
- Chris Cornell and the most cringeworthy interview ever: "But it’s so loud!"
- By the time Motörhead made Iron Fist they hated each other, and it showed
- December 6
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- Someone has covered Meshuggah’s Bleed on a computer mouse
- Slipknot announce details of Knotfest 2023 show in Italy
- Watch The Cult's cheeky appeal to record labels at weird 1984 German TV appearance
- Iggy Pop vows to never stage-dive again due to being "too rickety"
- Evanescence's Fallen has now sold over 10 million copies in the US alone
- This new quiz makes you guess the popularity of various metal songs
- Ne Obliviscaris share video for epic 12-minute new song Equus
- Big Big Train share live video for new seasonal single Snowfalls
- Every Primal Scream album ranked from worst to best
- Watch Sid Wilson visit the House Of Masks, the largest collection of Slipknot masks and memorabilia
- Someone’s added that Peanut Butter Jelly song to Turnstile’s Holiday and we can’t get it out of our head
- Spiritbox announce UK headline tour
- Three Steve Jolliffe solo albums to be reissued
- According to DATA, Mötley Crüe were rock's biggest success story in 2022
- Vote for the best metal song of 2022
- In Flames' Anders Fridén: "We were missing that guitar attack"
- Metallica issue official warning as fans fall for crypto scams
- Ginger Wildheart: "It was time to divorce the wife and move in with the bit on the side"
- We asked Artificial Intelligence to review Master Of Puppets and now we may be out of a job
- December 5
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- Remembering the time Limp Bizkit took over the Playboy Mansion for the release of Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
- Watch this YouTuber switch Metallica and Pink Floyd guitar solos with jaw-dropping results
- "We’re finding something completely new": why Africa is the future of metal
- Kid Congo Powers: Some New Kind Of Kick review
- "I felt like an alien in my own music": Why Blind Guardian returned to their heavy metal roots on The God Machine
- Disturbed's Down With The Sickness mixed with The Spice Girls' Wannabe is the most cursed mash-up of the year
- Cannibalism, The Cramps and THAT Wednesday dance scene: the weird story of Goo Goo Muck
- Prognosis adds Leprous singer Einar Solberg, pg.lost and Astronoid to UK bill
- Charlie Benante reflects on first Pantera reunion show: "I think I was metal meditating, don't laugh…I'm serious"
- Dolly Parton is covering Led Zeppelin, Prince, Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd on her 2023 rock album: "I'm a rock star now!"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2023 world tour dates
- Nickelback aren't losing sleep over haters: "Even the a**holes can be really funny"
- James Hetfield on Metallica's return: "There's been a lot of darkness in my life... but without darkness there is no light"
- The best new prog songs you need to hear this week
- Satanic Panic is back but metal music has nothing to do with it
- Robbie Williams might just have ruined Jimmy Page's Christmas by re-igniting their 'Mansion Wars' feud
- The weird but true story of Ministry's unlikely friendship with Steven Spielberg: "He thought we'd be baby-eating, satanic goat herders!"
- Metallica's Lars Ulrich discusses whether he could play drums for Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Rush: "2112 would probably be too much of a bite of the apple for me"
- There's an actual baby who can play guitar on TikTok and it's freaking everyone out
- Here's what Metallica's new single Lux Æterna sounds like with the vocals from Hit The Lights (spoiler: pretty awesome, actually)
- Gerry Jablonski And The Electric Band are the hard-rocking force of nature we need to carry us through the dark times
- Saxon: Metalhead - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs out this week
- The Ike & Tina Turner albums you should definitely own
- Gun: "Fans have told us that our songs helped to get them through difficult times"
- October Drift grew up on Queen and Bowie: now they're climbing trees and having Anvil moments
- December 4
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- A Twisted Sister cosmetics collection has launched, and not before time
- The sons of Iron Maiden's Janick Gers and Radiohead's Thom Yorke have hooked up for a single
- Pain, perversity and Pinhead: the twisted story of cult horror classic Hellraiser
- Soulfly announce 57-date US tour in support of Totem
- Axl Rose responds to reports of fan injured by mic toss: "we don’t want anyone getting hurt"
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 25th birthday remake of his second album is not a surprise party
- Noel Gallagher recalls the moment he knew he was set for success with Oasis
- Neil Young's Harvest: 50 years on, flawlessly imperfect from beginning to end
- December 3
- December 2
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- Guns N' Roses are suing a Texas gun store
- Watch fan-filmed footage of Pantera in soundcheck ahead of first 'reunion' show
- Only one rock artist who began releasing music this century has records among America's 200 biggest albums of 2022
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Corrosion of Conformity, Boris, Crowbar, Unsane among 43 additions to Desertfest London 2023
- UK newspaper prints eerie photos of the allegedly haunted 16th century home abandoned by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour
- Iggy Pop salutes the late Taylor Hawkins: "He had a wonderful career doing what he wanted to do"
- Vitam Aeternam and members of Devil Doll will perform at Prognosis Festival
- Lindsey Buckingham pays tribute to "musical comrade" and "sister" Christine McVie
- How the Alan Parsons Project struck gold with Eye In Sky
- Every The Damned album, from worst to best
- Transatlantic share new live video for Owl Howl
- Katatonia release eye-catching video for new single Austerity
- Ville Valo thinks Metallica's Lars Ulrich is rock's second most "important drummer", after Led Zeppelin's John Bonham
- Paramore preview new song The News
- The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal: where are they now?
- For Christine McVie, writing her greatest track Songbird was a "spiritual" experience
- Elton John to headline Glastonbury 2023
- That Joe Payne reveals video trailer for new Xmas album
- Watch this band of young kids smash Metallica's Eye Of The Beholder in the middle of a street
- Lars Ulrich once gave Machine Head’s Robb Flynn some hard-hitting advice: “The world is going to hate you sometimes”
- Heilung to headline ArcTanGent 2023
- "Oh my God, my face is caved in!" - fan reportedly injured by Axl Rose mic toss
- You can buy a new commemorative Rolling Stones £5 coin - it's, er, only £23.50
- Gene Simmons says Vinnie Vincent played like Yngwie Malmsteen "on crack"
- Brian Johnson pays tribute to Nazareth's Dan McCafferty: "I wanted to sing like him"
- December 1
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- Watch nine-year-old Tool fan weave 15 Adam Jones riffs into a 10-minute epic on the guitar Adam Jones gave her
- Glastonbury teases Elton John appearance in 2023 with webcam image of rocket flying above the Pyramid Stage
- Vinnie Paul’s estate shoots down Pantera “reunion”, call it a “celebration” instead
- Fat Mike won't bullshit you on why he's killing off NOFX: "I don't enjoy it like I used to... I don’t need to be onstage hearing people applaud"
- Watch this witty genius create his own Slipknot song using a lyric generator and some serious guitar skills
- Gentle Giant release new video to celebrate 50th anniversary of Octopus
- Someone has made a movie about a bear going on a cocaine-induced rampage, and we want to see it right now
- Got $7k to spare? Here's what you get when you empty your bank account for an 'Enhanced Experience' on Metallica's 2023 world tour
- Prog guitarist Plini shares new live video for Pan
- Nickelback guitarist Ryan Peake says metalheads are "really protective" over the genre: "if you dip your toe in there without fully being metal, you're just gonna get tore up"
- Guns N' Roses announce huge London show for 2023
- Bones And All: The must-see romantic cannibal road movie of the year featuring music by Trent Reznor and Kiss
- This delightful video of Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks goofing up a happy birthday message to Fleetwood Mac's label shows their dear friendship at its very best
- Ne Obliviscaris return with new album and European tour
- Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes on the albums that changed his life: “King Diamond is my flying music!”
- Bob Vylan win first ever MOBO Best Alternative Music Act award
- Watch Christine McVie's last ever performance with Fleetwood Mac
- A GG Allin biopic is coming - and it's going to be helmed by Lords Of Chaos director Jonas Åkerlund
- Neil Young may not tour again: "I’m not sure I want to"
- The Rolling Stones launch "definitive live hits" album GRRR Live!
- Charlie Benante on recording new Pantera material: "You never know. I've got tons of riffs."
- The rock world reacts to the death of Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie
- Only child Lars Ulrich says Metallica bandmates are the brothers he never had
