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- February 28
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- Modern Life Is War drummer Luke Rauch has been diagnosed with cancer
- Steve Harris will be touring with Iron Maiden and British Lion at the same time this summer
- Metallica to release If Darkness Had a Son on March 1
- Foo Fighters announce more headline shows
- Blackfield announce seven disc CD set covering 2004-2017
- Dave Grohl spent 16 hours cooking 450 meals for the homeless in LA last week
- Mike Shinoda shoots down the rumour that Chester Bennington hated Linkin Park’s biggest hit single
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals the awkward moment he met Whitney Houston: "She’s gonna come over and tell me I’m a c***"
- How Metallica's James Hetfield helped Ghost become the biggest metal band of the decade
- Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says bands are told to "reject Jesus Christ and pledge yourself to Lucifer" before signing records deals
- Born from rage, U2's War was intended to "give people a slap in the face". It ended up making U2 superstars
- Six cool new prog songs you must hear this week!
- How to keep your earplugs clean so you can use them time after time
- Electric Wizard announce details of new book
- Cellar Darling, Threshold and Oliver Wakeman to headline Summer's End
- This orchestral version of Linkin Park's track Lost is nothing short of spellbinding
- Listen to Benefits' seething anti-establishment single Warhorse, from their forthcoming debut album Nails
- Damon Albarn reveals where he got the iconic hook for Gorillaz's Clint Eastwood, and fans can't quite believe it
- Here are the 20 greatest Babymetal songs ever as voted for by you
- Animals As Leaders reschedule UK and European dates for November
- Watch Fear Factory play their first show with new vocalist Milo Silvestro
- Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, Rina Sawayama amongst 80 new names added to Reading and Leeds festival
- Paul Stanley knows the End Of The Road is nigh, but he's determined to out with a bang
- Van Morrison and Billy Bragg are engaged in a bizarre discussion about Covid on Twitter
- Heavy Metal Love: The story of Helix, Canada's mightiest hair metal heroes
- February 27
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- Metallica tease new 72 Seasons track through series of TikTok duet videos
- Every album by The Cult ranked from worst to best
- Here's what Slayer would sound like playing Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer
- Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin charged with trespassing at his former Los Angeles home
- Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has released a grunge single that sounds like Nirvana
- Mystery share video for brand new single Behind The Mirror
- Ricky Warwick on The Almighty's wild and wonderful rock 'n' roll adventures: "We were the real deal. We were like Vikings!"
- The 10 most emotional Slipknot songs
- Watch Megadeth perform with Marty Friedman for the first time in 23 years
- Nine Skies announce Adam Holzman to guest on upcoming album The Lightmaker
- Roger Waters concert cancelled by the City of Frankfurt over claims of anti-Semitism
- The Almighty reform original line-up for UK shows
- God Save The Streets: UK rapper Avelino and Sex Pistol Glen Matlock on why rap is the new punk
- Watch this rare video footage of Stevie Nicks singing and dancing at Mick Fleetwood's wedding in 1988
- This pro-shot footage of Lorna Shore's triumphant appearance at Bloodstock shows exactly why they are one of the most exciting deathcore bands in a generation
- Watch Lizzo sing Rammstein's Du Hast, the most fabulously unlikely musical crossover we never knew we needed
- Someone appears to have hacked Avenged Sevenfold, used an AI voice changer to replicate M Shadows and announced that they're cancelling festival appearances
- The 10 best Southern Rock deep cuts according to Johnny Van Zant
- Jimmy Page: Outrider - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs you'll hear this week
- Watch The Struts play unplugged versions of Oasis and Michael Jackson classics
- Rob Halford on Dolly Parton: "She's a walking beacon of love and happiness and joy"
- February 26
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- Trapeze's new box set transports the listener back to a time of wide-eyed rock’n’roll wonder
- Review: Stöner come up half-baked as they run out of puff
- Rick Wakeman: A Gallery Of The Imagination album review
- Alan Reed rejoins Pallas for new studio album
- Bill Kelliher says Turnstile are influencing new Mastodon material
- Fear Factory's first show with new singer cancelled by extreme weather
- Def Leppard's Joe Elliott hospitalised by altitude sickness in Colombia
- February 25
- February 24
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- Always wanted to record a Kiss song with Gene Simmons? For £5000, now you can
- We really want one of these Foo Fighters pinball machines
- Watch David Bowie tease David Gilmour before joining him onstage for a spine-tingling duet on Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb
- The 10 best Motorhead songs (that sound nothing like Ace Of Spades)
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil teases the first music from his side band Empire State Bastard
- Listen to Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen's ethereal new solo single Daydream
- This AI generates artwork and album titles for fake metal bands and it's scarily spot-on
- This stunning orchestral version of Stairway To Heaven, featuring Orianthi on guitar, will make you fall in love with Led Zeppelin all over again
- Slowthai announces UK / European UGLY tour
- A "sleazy metal" zombie horror movie featuring Randy Blythe, Tom Araya, David Vincent and Norman Reedus is out to watch right now
- Watch Fall Out Boy play a hardcore festival way back in 2002
- "Where is my dog poop?": How porn, poop and chicken coops derailed Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- Indie rock supergroup Boygenius announce their first ever UK shows
- “I really didn’t expect the scale of the success”: The story behind Asia's self-titled debut album
- Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the "utter terror" of his two minute 'death' after a heroin and cocaine overdose
- "Almost Joker-esque": watch this vocal coach react to Ghost's Mary On A Cross after hearing it for the first time
- There's extended footage of Cannibal Corpse's appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and it's pretty incredible
- Watch the trailer for Disney's new U2 documentary with David Letterman
- Crown Lands release video for suitably epic new single Lady Of The Lake
- Liam Gallagher thinks everyone should stop whining about 'nepo babies': "zip it ya jealous ugly f**ks"
- Kevin Ayers' daughter Galen proves to be a chip off the old block!
- Listen to Trivium's Matt Heafy and guitar virtuoso Sophie Lloyd team up for heavy metal anthem Fall Of Man
- The Strokes' singles collection is a box set without a single wasted note
- Kashmir: the story of the song Robert Plant calls "Perfect Zeppelin"
- Steel Panther: The joke is finally over for the flaccid comedy-metallers
- Bernie Marsden: a fair case for career reappraisal?
- Gene Simmons says rock is dead: We asked Paul Stanley what he thinks
- Ashley Morgan Smithline recants accusations of abuse against Marilyn Manson
- Turns out Steve Vai doesn't actually have an unreleased Ozzy Osbourne album ready to go
- February 23
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- Carmine Appice: my stories of Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, John Bonham and more
- "I was never a show off!" - Tony Banks in The Prog Interview
- "It's Rant City all the way!": The Mute Gods and how tardigrades will inherit the earth
- The story behind Tool’s Lateralus: "A real moment of experiment and risk”
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets return to headline Night Of The Prog
- 5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month
- Watch Wednesday channel the spirit of PJ Harvey in the video for new single Bath County
- David Bowie Is V&A exhibit to become a permanent fixture in London
- Watch Babymetal's intense live video for Light And Darkness
- From Russia with love: the story of Gleb Kolyadin's debut solo album
- “So much prog is prog by numbers". How John Mitchell launched Lonely Robot
- Someone’s turned a classic Alex Jones meltdown into an emotional Midwest emo banger
- Check out the fret-bendingly good video for Firebird from US math rockers Covet
- Light Up The Sky: How Hundred Reasons rose from the dead to make the comeback of the year with Glorious Sunset
- Blood Ceremony return with first new album for seven years
- Listen to Cassyette's chaotic new single Boom
- Watch the moment emo peaked as Paramore's Hayley Williams sang Sugar, We're Goin Down with Fall Out Boy
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea is launching a podcast to explore the inspirational origin stories of music industry legends
- This rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Limp Bizkit's Nookie shows why it remains nu metal's most chaotic video
- Lovebites' Judgement Day: Japan's rising stars "perfect the power metal recipe"
- How Anthrax's cameo on Married With Children was inspired by real life chaos
- The Doors in London: "Jim was enigmatic and almost unbelievably beautiful"
- Iggy Pop: "Once you’re my age, every day has to carry some risk"
- The Velvet Underground's Loaded is to be reissued as a nine-album vinyl set
- Laibach to become first international act to play Kyiv since start of Ukraine war
- February 22
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- Listen to Yusuf/Cat Stevens' cover of The Beatles' Here Comes The Sun
- Ross Robinson has revealed what his favourite two Slipknot songs are and we're not complaining
- New book reveals Mark Lanegan co-wrote Nirvana's Something In The Way
- Henry Rollins: "I don’t like anything that gives a racist a leg to stand on"
- Voivod to release a special 40th anniversary album this summer
- Watch Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz as trapped mermaid in PETA campaign
- Watch Shinedown in video for new single A Symptom Of Being Human
- The Story Behind Soulfly's nu metal anthem Jumpdaf***up: "We were the Wu-Tang Clan of metal"
- One Step Beyond: How Rancid, Sublime, No Doubt and a generation of US ska-punks spread the Two Tone gospel to the world
- Focus reschedule UK live dates
- A Bob Dylan fan accidentally bought tickets to see UK pop star Dylan, so she covered Knockin' On Heaven's Door just for him
- Meet Me @ The Altar's new single Kool is the peppy injection of modern pop-punk you need in your life
- Jethro Tull share cool new animated video for new single The Navigators
- Listen to new Shame single Adderall, featuring a secret cameo from Phoebe Bridgers
- Aisles stream new single Time (A Conversation With My Therapist)
- Slipknot's Jay Weinberg discusses the differences between playing with The Nine versus playing for Bruce Springsteen: "Playing with Slipknot is like jumping out of an airplane"
- Killswitch Engage's Adam D and former singer Howard Jones are working on a new project together: "it's happening"
- The new Guns N' Roses NASCAR has already been in a multi-car wreck
- Six great new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- Nick Cave offers advice to teenager on living life to the full: "be a little vampire"
- Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda discusses the emotional impact of losing Chester Bennington: "there's points where I felt angry"
- The long awaited Led Zeppelin documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has undergone a name change and is being re-edited
- Watch Nessa Barrett detail her murderous revenge fantasies on new single Bang Bang
- Sam Ryder: The soundtrack of my life
- Paul Stanley: What I love about Gene Simmons
- Paul McCartney reportedly plays bass on the next Rolling Stones album
- From the sublime to the ridiculous: What happens when drummers go solo
- February 21
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- Metallica offer fans a look behind the scenes on set of Screaming Suicide video
- Graham Nash announces first studio album in seven years, releases new single
- Here's what Rust In Peace would sound like if James Hetfield fronted Megadeth
- Voyager chosen to represent Australia at Eurovision 2023
- Fear Factory officially announce their new singer
- If you're among the select group of music fans who loves Taylor Swift and ska-punk we have some excellent news for you
- Bob Vylan, The Murder Capital, Dry Cleaning, Black Midi, Yard Act and more join Latitude bill
- Best Lego kits for adults: Guitars, band logos, pop culture and more
- 10 legendary metal musicians we'd love to see rejoin their former bands (even if only for one night)
- Gryphon announce live dates to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Max Cavalera weighs in on Pantera reunion: "I don't really think it's Pantera without the brothers"
- The Reasoning pull out of Fusion Festival
- Peter Gabriel adds Nottingham date to UK tour
- Stack 'em high: Marshall Middleton lets you link multiple speakers for the “heaviest portable sound"
- The 67 songs that forged modern heavy metal
- Denim and Leathür: How Mötley Crüe made the album that kick-started glam metal
- February 20
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- 10 insanely collectable Vertigo swirl albums you should always buy if found in junk shops
- The Mars Volta plot short summer UK tour
- This Iron Maiden x Taylor Swift mash-up really shouldn't work but it's 200 seconds of soulful genius
- Glenn Hughes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Deep Purple's Burn with UK tour
- Watch Ozzy play Horizon Call of the Mountain on the new Playstation VR 2 headset
- Clive Nolan and Laura Piazzai plan From The Outside In follow-up
- Kevin Ayers reissues on the way
- Arch Enemy's Michael Amott thinks metal should stay underground: "I don't want it in the mainstream: this is an alternative to the mainstream"
- Someone received over 1000 emails meant for Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes because they have the same name
- Sid Wilson proved he was "crazy" enough to join Slipknot by headbutting Clown multiple times at a show
- Steve Vai reveals he recorded a whole album with Ozzy Osbourne in the '90s that was never released
- The 1975's Matty Healy mocks Yungblud for his 'woke' social conscience as the pair's online squabble escalates
- Here are the essential metal releases for Record Store Day 2023
- Jimmy Page recalls violent threats from US police during Led Zeppelin's first American tours: "You go out there, boy, and I’ll bust your head"
- Blondie accidentally confirm their spot at this summer's Glastonbury festival
- Hypno5e share video for 13-minute epic Slow Steams Of Darkness
- Former Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson releases covers EP after winning TV's The Masked Singer as 'Rhino'
- Architects are leading calls for bands to go on strike in protest at "insane" venue merch cuts
- Watch Ice-T get inducted into the Hollywood Walk Of Fame accompanied by pals Ice Cube and Chuck D
- Brian May suggests Queen's Stone Cold Crazy could be the "birth of thrash metal"
- Babymetal's Moametal says she was "scared of the audience and the way they looked at us" when the band became a duo
- Chinese proggers OU share video for latest single Dark 暗
- Buffalo: Volcanic Rock - Album Of The Week Club review
- Listen to the eight best new rock songs of right now
- February 19
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- 10 amazing rock tracks featuring the flute but only one's by Jethro Tull
- Roger Waters comes to David Gilmour's defence, slams journalist after "crappy" article
- The Cadillac Three release Hillbilly, a party song with a warning
- Sammy Hagar: Metallica owe me $200
- Tony Hawk unearths Kurt Cobain's skateboard with hand-painted Iron Maiden art
- February 18
- February 17
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- "I’ve never made a deadline in my life. They’re finished when they’re finished.” Spiritualized and the story of their first four albums
- The story of Tim Bowness' Lost In The Ghost Light
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Watch a corpse-painted Kim Dracula and a zombie dance crew throw down in the fabulously strange video for Seventy Thorns, featuring Korn's Jonathan Davis
- Paramore score their third UK number 1 album with This Is Why
- A.A. Williams announces UK headline tour
- Brian May says that Queen could release an album with Jesus Christ on vocals, but fans would still prefer to hear Freddie Mercury
- Maynard James Keenan’s 8-year-old daughter Lei Li releases her video for Puscifer remix A Singularity
- Paramore share eccentric and surreal music video for Running Out Of Time
- Thin Lizzy's November 14, 1976 'Live And Dangerous' Hammersmith Odeon set to get first vinyl release on Record Store Day
- Dee Snider laughs off 'outrage' over his comments on Robert Plant and Ronnie James Dio not being 'performers': "People were like, How dare you!"
- Eivør shares suitably atmospheric video for new single The Beloveds
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler will publish his "dramatic" autobiography Into The Void this summer
- Peter Green's guitar collection to be auctioned online
- It looks like Ghost are about to kill off Papa Emeritus IV in new Chapter 16 video Tax Season
- Metallica's gloomy epic The Unforgiven given a sunny makeover with saxophone and a '60s pop groove is a mind-altering trip
- Manic Street Preachers: the rise of the Generation Terrorists
- Warning: Mötley Crüe's Crücial Crüe collection is by no means crucial
- Transatlantic's unwavering consistency will delight fans: others may find it wearisome
- Depeche Mode add 29 new North American tour dates
- Not that sort of kinky! Dave Davies calls out Elon Musk over Kinks Twitter warning
- February 16
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- Barclay James Harvest's expanded Once Again hits the big fan target
- Record Store Day's Prog Releases
- Rob Halford on Iron Maiden's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nomination: "It’s absolutely overdue.”
- Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch and many more added to Download Festival 2023 line-up, day splits revealed
- Trampled Under Foot: This vinyl-inspired Led Zeppelin rug has a Whole Lotta Love to give
- Exploring Birdsong reveal striking video for Bear The Weight
- Arjen Lucassen unveils new Supersonic Revolution project
- Radio X launches new radio station dedicated to classic rock music
- Lifesigns, Arthur Brown, Curved Air and more lined up for Nene Valley Festival
- Need workout inspiration? This corpsepainted bodybuilder will show you how it's done
- Wait, Rihanna nearly appeared on a Hoobastank song back in 2006?
- Sleep Token confirm brand new album Take Me Back To Eden, release new single Vore
- Bruce Springsteen tosses guitar off stage, strikes guitar tech on head
- T-Pain to cover Black Sabbath and Journey on upcoming album
- The Canterbury scene albums you should definitely own
- February 15
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- Here's The Police classic Roxanne, but it's just Rocks
- Chase The Dragon: the true story of Magnum's magnum opus
- Frank Turner's song I Still Believe has popped up on the new Ted Lasso trailer and now we can't wait for season 3
- Is Eddie Van Halen the most famous guitarist of all time?
- Gojira's Joe Duplantier vows mythical Sea Shepherd EP will see the light of day
- 10 brilliant goth songs every metalhead needs to hear
- Guns N' Roses' epic November Rain video now has more than two billion views on YouTube
- If you needed reminding that Doom Eternal has the most metal game soundtrack ever, the man behind it has just posted this ripper of a video
- Now that S Club 7 have reformed, here's a look back to when Paul Cattermole quit the group to focus on his nu metal band
- The 10 best Bring Me The Horizon songs
- Watch Paramore perform Running Out Of Time on US TV
- 13 musicians declaring their undying love for Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
- We've just found our favourite vocal cover of Disturbed's Down With The Sickness, like, ever
- Yellowcard announce Ocean Avenue 20th anniversary US tour
- Beabadoobee's Glue Song is the cutest love song you'll hear all year
- Tame Impala's Lonersim to get tenth anniversary box set release
- Chad Kroeger credits Nickelback's "haters" and "keyboard heroes" for keeping the band relevant
- Why a gig featuring no hit songs whatsoever is heaven for Elvis Costello super-fans
- The Band albums you should definitely own
- Rush producer Terry Brown: "they were pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone"
- Meet Spell: they've had enough of fighting dragons and swinging swords
- A sped-up version of Aerosmith's Dream On is massive on TikTok: we've figured out why
- February 14
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- Richie Sambora says he's in talks with Bon Jovi to rejoin the band
- Genesis and Sting made more money last year than The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, the South Park guys and you and me
- The victorious rebirth of goth metal's dark prince Ville Valo: "VV had a ‘V for Victory’ kinda vibe"
- Type O Negative release live footage of Love You To Death just in time for Valentine's Day
- Dave Mustaine says his influence on Metallica was "pretty f**king deep"
- Six new prog tracks you must hear this week!
- Unsane announce UK / Europe dates for their Early Cuts tour
- Tenacious D's classic track 'Tribute' is now certified Platinum in the UK
- Nick Cave shares his thoughts on songs getting 'cancelled': "I like the fact that some songs are controversial enough to be outlawed"
- Drummer Jay Schellen joins Yes on a permanent basis
- Dry Cleaning preview new EP Swampy with two new songs, Swampy and Sombre Two
- Watch the trailer for Meet Me In The Bathroom, a new film chronicling New York's 'New Rock Revolution'
- The debate around Gojira's merch prices are a stark indicator of what it means to be a touring band in 2023
- Listen to Rot, the thrillingly intense debut single from Therapy? frontman Andy Cairns' new post-industrial supergroup JAAW
- Haken celebrate Valentine’s Day with video for new single Lovebite
- Rock fans are stoked that Nuno Bettencourt got some TV time with Rihanna at the Super Bowl (for about three seconds)
- Morrissey claims Capitol Records are proud to promote Sam Smith’s “satanism” but view his unreleased album as “their biggest threat”
- Thunder's Danny Bowes: "I'm getting a bit better every day, but it’s a very slow process"
- Justin Hawkins on songwriting: "There’s always got to be an intangible ingredient"
- Lou Reed: New York - Album Of The Week Club review
- "I am not a robot!" - Roger Daltrey abandons show to avoid damaging voice
- February 13
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- Here's the iconic Seinfeld TV show theme, but it's Freddie Mercury singing Another One Bites the Dust over the top
- Megadeth to stream live show from Tokyo Budokan with special guest Marty Friedman
- Have you always wanted to dance to rock but weren't sure how? This YouTube video will change your life, once you've stopped cringing
- "I can't afford to waste any time": Horror legend John Carpenter on making albums in his 70s
- Garbage and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds pair up for summer North American arena tour
- Metallica joke about Rihanna Super Bowl ‘snub’: ‘We can’t believe she didn’t ask us to be her backup singer”
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds launch website, share live gig footage in celebration of Push The Sky Away's 10th anniversary
- Ghost announce massive Re-Imperatour arena run across America
- Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel on the Iron Maiden seal of approval: “Steve Harris came and watched us every night”
- Paramore's Hayley Williams isn't buying into today's "rose-tinted" nostalgia for the noughties emo scene: “It was an alternative scene for a reason – it was weird.”
- Trivium announce intimate UK summer tour
- The 1975 announce their biggest UK headline show ever
- Slash: “Most of everything that Guns N’ Roses did would've gotten us cancelled in this day and age”
- Soft Machine announce new studio album
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly get 'electrocuted' on stage during pre-Super Bowl performance
- Moby nearly formed a supergroup with members of Pantera and Mötley Crüe… and a metal band with Bjork
- "We lost another legend of hip hop music and culture": music world pays tribute to De La Soul's Trugoy
- Benoit David: "Yes have a way to make you feel funny about the way things happen."
- The greatest new rock songs you'll hear this week
- U2 to launch mysterious spherical venue in Las Vegas without drummer Larry Mullen Jr
- The new Guardians Of The Galaxy trailer uses Since You've Been Gone in absolutely epic style
- Purple Rain in a deluge: How Prince stole the Super Bowl
- February 12
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- In 1969 man landed on the moon: back on Earth, rock got rolling
- Watch Richie Sambora perform Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah while dressed as a jacket potato
- “This is my vision of what Keith Emerson and I could do, according to what he and I talked about.” The story of 3.2, Robert Berry's project with Keith Emerson
- “Love, friendship and camaraderie”: how heavy metal saves lives
- Metal? Punk? Jazz? Avatar’s Dance Devil Dance hits a lot of musical buttons – maybe too many
- Rush and the story of Moving Pictures
- February 11
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- Watch Cliff Burton Day celebrations in honour of late Metallica bassist
- Watch footage from John 5's first show with Motley Crue
- Watch Paco De Lucia's Buana Buana King Kong from Montreux
- “Kingston Wall only did three albums but they had a huge influence on us.” The story of Amorphis and 2022's Halo
- "The Wake was so well received because we went down a prog rock path with that album, so with the new album we continued down that path.” Voivod and the making of Synchro Anarchy
- Jared James Nichols: "After making this record I felt like I’d just got out of a rugby game"
- Cuffs' To Hell And Back is a snapshot of Grey Britain getting bleaker and harsher, and rewarding only the very worst of us
- How Steel Panther's search for new bassist ended in reunion with old friend Spyder
- Charlie Benante is sick of being judged over his role in Pantera
- Def Leppard offer fans unique insight into latest album Diamond Star Halos
- Watch Weezer, Taylor Momsen and The Struts' Luke Spiller cover The Beach Boys at star-studded LA tribute show
- February 10
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- On what would have been Cliff Burton's 61st birthday, a new action figure of Metallica's iconic bassist has been revealed
- Watch Fall Out Boy perform with a string section at the NHL All Star Game
- Watch a fresh-faced, pre-fame Måneskin cover Amy Winehouse classic Back To Black as teenagers
- Starbenders' huge new single The Game is really quite something
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Vote for the best Babymetal song ever
- eMolecule release video for title track of new album The Architect
- Kite Parade return with video for new song Retro
- Polinski shares video for Distant Friend, I Love You!
- Lesoir raise money for Turkish and Syrian earthquake victims
- Think Elden Ring is tough? This streamer is trying to complete it using an acoustic guitar
- MONO share video for gentle new single Silent Embrace
- “In 10 years time, this album will be a classic”: how In Flames fell in love with melodeath again
- Watch the hilarious moment Kiss legend Ace Frehley learned that he's never actually won a Grammy
- Einar Solberg launches solo career with video for Grotto
- Listen to previously unreleased Linkin Park song Lost, complete with a dazzling new animated video
- Lamb Of God and Kreator have teamed up for a badass new collab single - listen to State Of Unrest now
- "We were living on next to nothing and weren't even able to pay the gas bill": The song that transformed Dire Straits' fortunes and set them on the path to global fame
- The Hu launch video for This Is Mongol with Alice In Chains' William DuVall
- The John Waite albums you should definitely own
- The story of the man who jammed with Led Zeppelin then sold Jimmy Page his most famous guitar
- Recovering emo kids rejoice! Paramore emerge with new music fit for a new era
- Vital, urgent and utterly fearless, Paramore's This Is Why is the sound of a grown band boldly defining their own path
- Steven Wilson: proof that the received wisdom of punk-versus-prog is bunkum
- February 9
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- The Rolling Stones launch six-part YouTube series looking back at the 60s
- Watch The Who perform Baba O'Riley at Wembley Stadium with a full Orchestra
- Pierce The Veil's The Jaws Of Life: Endlessly exuberant, wondrously versatile, and never predictable
- The 10 bands saving deathcore
- “After Nirvana, anything seemed possible”: Quicksand's Walter Schreifels on Slip, the greatest '90s rock album that you've probably never heard
- Watch the video for Ghosts Again, the first single from Depeche Mode's forthcoming Memento Mori
- Post-rock collective Silver Moth release video for debut single Mother Tongue
- 5 bands every metal fan is going to be talking about in 2023
- Blazing squad: A deep dive into Rammstein’s fiery cameo in xXx
- Engineers' Mark Peters releases video for new song Alpenglow
- Listen to Midas Fall's powerful cover of Radiohead's Creep
- New book on 70s proggers Fusion Orchestra to be published
- Enter Shikari celebrate the wisdom and strength gained from failure on empowering new single It Hurts
- Run to the chills: This Eddie ice bucket has left us Losfer Words
- Melvins announce 40th anniversary tour dates for the UK and Europe
- David Draiman offers to explain to Joe Rogan why perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes leads to "dangerous and disastrous consequences"
- The Church Of Satan throws shade at Sam Smith’s ‘Satanic’ Grammys performance: “Nothing special”
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith cover AC/DC classics in an Australian pub for an audience of just 17 people
- Ville Valo: "There’s no time for a hangover in the music business these days"
- Ugly Kid Joe's Everything About You: a story of MTV, beer drinking and escaped sex dolls
- Watch Kelly Clarkson nail Whitesnake's Here I Go Again
- Scorpions video for Wind Of Change hits one billion views on YouTube
- Alter Bridge announce May US tour dates with Sevendust
- February 8
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- Roger Waters has rerecorded The Dark Side of the Moon without Pink Floyd
- Axl Rose tweets wholesome thank you after receiving lots of lovely birthday messages
- Watch Måneskin rip through The Stooges' classic I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Squid share new single Swing (In A Dream), announce second album O Monolith, reveal UK tour dates
- Metallica's recent All Within My Hands Foundation concert and auction raised $3,000,000
- Fall Out Boy announce UK and European tour
- Philip Selway shares title track from new album Silent Dance
- Yes, this is Slipknot's Psychosocial reimagined as a cheesy eurodance banger
- Megadeth are being sued over the cover of The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
- Tommy Lee is trending because he has, once again, posted his genitals on social media
- Limp Bizkit's new video is a deepfake nightmare 'starring' Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Tom Cruise and more
- Pendragon announce new mini album North Star
- Steve Albini is loving the angry reactions to his brutal, hilarious Twitter savaging of Steely Dan
- Brand Of Sacrifice's new track Dynasty is deathcore at its most wonderfully chaotic
- Iron Maiden are lagging behind Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Soundgarden and more in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame fan vote
- Watch Slowthai surprise gobsmacked fans in their own homes in Feel Good video
- Ghost’s Call Me Little Sunshine as a piano ballad is today’s epic Satanic weepie
- Machine Gun Kelly to headline London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall
- Delain’s grandiose new album Dark Waters is the sound of a band utterly reborn
- Ice-T on the new Body Count album: “Dave Mustaine has got at us already – he wants to write a song”
- This newly viral footage of an insane, circle-pitting System Of A Down crowd makes us want to mosh to Toxicity ASAP
- The Pretty Things announce career-spanning 13 album vinyl box set
- Russia invites Roger Waters to speak to United Nations about Ukraine: "What next? Mr. Bean?" mocks U.N. diplomat
- Faster Pussycat: "If I did an album we’d all be dead before it came out"
- Joanne Shaw Taylor interview: "I’ll always be a blues guitarist at heart"
- Foo Fighters announce another festival appearance
- Magna Carta Cartel sound a helluva lot like Ghost - and there's a very good reason
- Rejoice! Birmingham Royal Ballet announces Black Sabbath - The Ballet
- February 7
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- Hayley Williams says Paramore’s new album is the band at their "most political"
- Soundtrack your journey through a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland with this metal version of The Last of Us theme
- Beastie Boys’ Sabotage cop show pastiche reimagined through old Sesame Street clips might be the best thing you see this week
- Watch Ozzy, Paul Stanley, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Gary Clark Jr. poke fun at corporate 'bro-speak' in hilarious 'Rock Star' TV ad
- Transatlantic share new live video of We All Need Some Light
- Roger Waters seeks legal advice on "incendiary" tweet by David Gilmour's partner Polly Samson calling Waters "antisemitic to your rotten core": Gilmour says accusation is "demonstrably true"
- Why Taipei Houston's Ulrich brothers are more than just 'Metallica nepo-babies'
- Watch pro-shot footage of Ice-T, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Missy Elliot, Grandmaster Flash and dozens more legends perform in huge Grammys hip hop tribute
- Big Big Train announce live dates for Autumn 2023
- Sony WH-CH700N headphones review
- Watch Cypress Hill perform with Deftones, System Of A Down members in LA
- Bassist Phil Spalding, who worked with GTR and Mike Oldfield, has died
- Megadeth are doing a special livestream show from one of the world's most famous arenas
- Jethro Tull announce London show for May
- What’s the hell is going on with The Quireboys?
- Gene Simmons interview: "How do I say this without sounding inhuman? I don’t have friends"
- Billy Idol is playing a show at the Hoover Dam: tickets start at $1200
- Mick Fleetwood on the future of Fleetwood Mac: "I think we're done"
- February 6
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- Linkin Park are set to release an unreleased song on February 10
- The Sisters of Mercy set to make their return to North America after almost 15 years
- If you’re looking for a Michael Jackson song played in the style of Slayer, stop scrolling now
- Ozzy reacts to Grammy triumph: "I'm one lucky motherf**ker"
- The Ocean announce 10th studio album Holocene
- Here are all the new metal albums coming out in 2023
- Nightwish are working on a “pretty heavy” new album, according to Floor Jansen
- We’re completely in love with Marshall’s Valentine’s Day speaker sale
- David Draiman is a big fan of Sam Smith's 'Satanic' Grammys performance: "I don’t want anyone ever saying that heavy metal live performances are too extreme for the Grammys"
- Kojey Radical live in London: UK rap's next breakout star has arrived
- Jo Quail announces first ever headline tour
- In Flames have finally remembered how to write melodeath bangers on killer new album Foregone
- Mike Portnoy: "Would I play with Dream Theater again? Sure..."
- We Came From Space share video trailer for new album
- The 10 best Maneskin songs
- Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is returning to metal with two new projects: “I’m stepping back into the heavy”
- Watch surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear accept Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs of this week
- Ozzy Osbourne wins Best Rock Album at the Grammys
- February 5
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- "He sings to tracks" - manager clears up confusion over Paul Stanley vocals, kind of
- Fantastic Negrito's Grandfather Courage: an intriguing stop-gap on a fascinating journey
- On the Winery Dogs' third album it's the wizardry that lingers, not the songs
- Watch in awe as Toyah and Robert mangle White Punks On Dope as it's never been mangled before
- Peter Gabriel launches new single The Court
- Dream Theater Finland show cancelled on short notice over stage safety concerns
- February 4
- February 3
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- Slipknot, Metallica and Korn are adorable stars of heavy metal Valentine's Day cards
- Watch this 6-year-old slay with cover of Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name
- Transatlantic and The Absolute Universe
- Lifesigns in the beginning: the story of the band's debut album
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Maybeshewill announce first two albums on vinyl for the first time
- Hip-hop/R&B superstar Doja Cat says she now wants to make "raw, unfiltered, hardcore punk"
- Late Twelfth Night singer Geoff Mann celebrated in new book
- Given To Fly: How Yield taught Pearl Jam to chill the f**k out and fall back in love with being a killer rock 'n' roll band
- The top 20 best Nightwish songs ranked
- Zakk Wylde offers Ozzy Osbourne support in his retirement: "When you are ready to roll – we roll"
- Babymetal release epic live performance video of Metal Kingdom
- Hawkwind announce 35th studio album
- The 1975's Matty Healy tells Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher to "grow up" and get "the coolest band in the world" back together
- Enslaved, Swans, Empire State Bastard and more announced for ArcTanGent
- Prince once invited Shania Twain to make "the next Rumours" together
- Kerry King: "Metallica certainly influenced me"
- Judas Priest release short statement on Ozzy Osbourne's tour retirement, future shows
- Ginger Wildheart has released a new album but it's only available for 24 hours
- The ultimate all-star tribute to Jeff Beck: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Rick Wakeman's on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- The Damned announce new album Darkadelic, share video for The Invisible Man
- The Joni Mitchell albums you should definitely own
- Steven Tyler named as defendant in sexual assault lawsuit
- Wishbone Ash to release expanded 50th anniversary edition of classic album Argus
- February 2
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- John Fogerty to headline festival held at a castle on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides
- Stoner rock godfathers Fatso Jetson and Nebula join heavyweight Desertfest London bill
- TesseracT's Portals is now available to rent and buy on digital platforms
- Slipknot have surprise-released brand new song Bone Church and it's chillingly soulful
- Here are the 28 songs Bruce Springsteen played to kick off his 2023 world tour
- Jon Anderson confirms European dates for July
- Slowthai announces 'Best Night Of Your Life’ UK pub tour, with tickets priced £1
- Newsflash: metal bands are cool with non-metalheads wearing metal shirts, so you should be too
- A Skindred song from 20 years ago is suddenly going viral and it's making everyone, including frontman Benji Webbe, bust out their best moves
- Pamela Anderson reveals that Borat caused the break-up of her marriage to Kid Rock
- The Dave Foster Band stream brand new single Dive In
- Memorial concert for prog fan Spike Worsley announced
- Slipknot, Pantera, Limp Bizkit to headline Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival 2023
- M(h)aol's exhilarating debut album Attachment Styles has the power to break down walls and kick over statues
- Def Leppard have just had one of their biggest years... but Joe Elliott thinks 2023 may top it
- Taylor Hawkins' son Shane wins Performance Of The Year prize at drum awards
- “Life is short”: Nightwish singer Floor Jansen opens up – only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Megadeth announce European summer tour
- February 1
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- A new documentary series about Perry Farrell's alt. rock festival Lollapalooza is in the works
- Paul Gilbert has turned Dio's Holy Diver into an instrumental and it's kinda freaky
- Bryan Adams announces US tour with Joan Jett
- 20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023
- Karda Estra reimagine 2006 album The Age Of Science And Enlightenment
- Crown Lands share video for 18-minute Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II
- 12 times rock stars gatecrashed another band's video
- Are Babymetal teasing a new member? 10 things we want from the Japanese metal stars in 2023
- Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine, Soundgarden, Willie Nelson, Missy Elliot and more nominated for Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2023
- The Orb announce new studio album
- "When I’m onstage, it’s my world": what happened when we joined Ozzy Osbourne on his final ever tour in 2018
- Kelly Clarkson smashes out a dazzling cover of Arctic Monkeys' Do I Wanna Know? on her daytime show, and we want an official version, like, now
- Jon Anderson announces London show for July
- Watch Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe cover Rob Zombie's Dragula on a cruise ship
- Breaking down The Beatles: Giles Martin and the miracle of the Revolver de-mix
- Ozzy Osbourne has retired from touring
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce new Raising The Roof dates
- John Lennon screamed and he screamed, and he learned to feel his fear and pain
- Adrian Vandenberg: "I turned down an offer to join Thin Lizzy because I knew they were heavily into drugs"
