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- March 31
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- Queen + Adam Lambert add more dates to North American Rhapsody Tour
- Leprous announced as Sunday headliner for Night Of The Prog XVI
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells to be reissued for 50th anniversary
- Check out these new tunes with Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Watch the moment Kiss’ Gene Simmons set his hair on fire during a 1973 show
- Metallica’s James Hetfield on the “fast” guitar that changed everything
- Keith Richards sent Jimmy Page a magnum of champagne for playing on the first Rolling Stones single co-written by Ronnie Wood
- Amy Lee says having a rap forced into Bring Me To Life was "a difficult pill to swallow", doesn't agree with genre "boxes"
- Danny Elfman shares love for albums by Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Beatles
- Watch Metallica's Rob Trujillo play Black Sabbath's Hand Of Doom with his wife Chloe on vocals and his daughter Lullah on drums
- Here's what Babymetal fans think of The Other One: "Any metal band that chucks sax on a song deserves an 8/10"
- This is Sempiternal: how Bring Me The Horizon made this generation's definitive metal album
- Status Quo's Francis Rossi: "I’d rather have a buttered bread roll with mild cheddar and tomato than cocaine and groupies"
- AVKRVST reveal sombre video for The Pale Moon – watch it here
- The tragic story behind Mastodon's Emperor Of Sand
- Slipknot's Joey Jordison once picked this as his favourite Pink Floyd song: "It freaked the f*** out of me"
- Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump credits Batman as the reason he's a musician
- Steve Hackett's Guitar Noir and Darktown to get vinyl releases for very first time
- 7 killer metal albums you might have missed this month
- "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering!" Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: Chapter One!
- Serj Tankian hooks up with The Hu for impossibly epic new version of Black Thunder
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on learning to overcome self-loathing and negativity: "When I think about what plagued me in the ‘90s, I just laugh"
- Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and Wes Borland unveil bold new looks as Limp Bizkit launch European tour
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler sets 6/6/6 release date for his autobiography Into The Void
- Crown Lands: so deep in 70s Rush you can almost see Geddy Lee’s kimono flapping about
- Empyre's track-by-track guide to new album Relentless
- Angus Young on Eddie Van Halen, the differences between Bon and Brian, and his guilty secret
- March 30
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- Softcult’s See You In The Dark brings empowering Riot Grrrl to a modern audience
- Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid dead at 76
- Hear Jethro Tull's new album RökFlöte before anyone else!
- "I’ve been booted out of King Crimson about three times": Bill Bruford on a life in music
- Five cool new prog acts you need to hear this March
- This is Hardcore: these dark depictions of the damaging, corrosive effects of fame illustrate why Pulp bailed on Britpop
- Tom Morello likens Rage Against The Machine to the one ring in Lord Of The Rings: "it drives men mad"
- Deathcore vocalist wins The Voice Persia
- 10 completely bonkers guest spots from metal legends on non-metal songs
- It's official: AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and Tool confirmed for first ever Power Trip Festival
- Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova has been placed on a 'Wanted' list by Russian authorities
- The Rolling Stones gave Owen Wilson an Access All Areas pass for life. He f**ked up so badly they took it back after one gig
- Listen to the title track from new Metallica album 72 Seasons, alongside a brand new video
- The Atomic Beau Project tackle mental health issues on new single In The Storm
- Seven Impale share brand new single, the ten-minute Ikaros
- A Christian store is stocking a Lamb Of God mug unaware they're a heavy metal band, and guitarist Mark Morton is not happy
- The Internet has gifted us an AC/DC vs Phantom Of The Opera mash-up and that sound you hear is Bon Scott turning in his grave
- Every track on Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal album ranked from worst to best
- "It's almost auto-tuned": watch this vocal coach react to a fiery Babymetal performance
- Motorpsycho announce for English live dates for June
- Sharon Osbourne confirms Ozzy is headlining much-hyped Power Trip festival: "he's back"
- Why Mystic Festival remains one of Europe's most unique and essential metal holiday destinations
- When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained
- The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"
- Ace Frehley claims to keep a 120-page document of "dirt" on Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons in a safety deposit box
- March 29
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- That time Eddie Van Halen appeared on Two And A Half Men exiting a bathroom with his guitar
- The Cult announce European tour, launch video for new single Vendetta X
- The epic story of metal’s love affair with Dungeons & Dragons
- The true meaning behind Radiohead's Creep, the song that made, and nearly broke, Thom Yorke's band
- Wes Borland is auctioning off a load of gear from your favourite Limp Bizkit songs
- Watch Freddie Mercury's final ever interview on camera
- Wobbler keyboard player Lars Frederik Frøislie shares brand new single
- Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello says an injured Zack de la Rocha is "more compelling" than 99% of frontmen
- Jimmy Page shares previously unreleased Led Zeppelin demo The Seasons
- Early Renaissance five disc box set to be released in April
- Solstice announce short tour with Italian proggers La Maschera Di Cera
- Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro has a new extreme metal project, and it just tore London to shreds
- Iron Maiden helped pay for former singer Paul Di'Anno's recent surgery and treatment: "I only had 45 minutes to live"
- Say hello to the Positive Grid Spark Go - a powerful all-in-one Bluetooth speaker and guitar amp
- Queen's Brian May reveals his favourite guitarists of all time
- The Fierce And The Dead announce October album launch show
- Bury Tomorrow have made a metalcore album that could fill arenas, but will make daytime radio listeners crap themselves
- Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd went on tour: knife-throwing, guitar smashing and acid breakdowns followed
- The Ry Cooder albums you should definitely own
- Metallica have released a 30-second sample of upcoming single 72 Seasons
- How Brian Johnson joined AC/DC: a strange German, a hoover ad, and an awful pie
- AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Tool and Ozzy Osbourne release teaser videos for PowerTrip festival
- March 28
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- Fenella announce live dates for June
- Beyond The Black: how a former pop star could be symphonic metal's next megastar
- Nick Cave says AI-generated songs are "insulting", thinks "ChatGPT should just f**k off and leave songwriting alone"
- The Smashing Pumpkins release new single Spellbinding, announce The World Is A Vampire US tour
- Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme releases statement on child custody battle with ex-wife Brody Dalle
- Ross Jennings announced as second stage headliner at Prognosis London
- 12 obscure but excellent 80s rock and metal bands who should have been massive
- Caravan to headline at this year's Wokingham Festival
- 10 things you never knew about The Darkness' Permission To Land
- The 10 most viewed System Of A Down videos on YouTube
- Fruupp announce Twilight Adventure box set
- Will we get new Ghost music this year?
- Rob Trujillo will make his singing debut on new Metallica album 72 Seasons
- Uriah Heep's Mick Box: "I feel like I’ve done ten rounds with Mike Tyson and not got a punch in"
- An Australian punk band have released the world's first urine-filled vinyl album
- Nick Mason says Roger Waters' rerecording of The Dark Side Of The Moon is "absolutely brilliant"
- Mudcrutch co-founder Tom Leadon dead at 70
- March 27
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- Watch King Crimson play blistering versions of Larks Tongues In Aspic Part Two and Easy Money
- Penguin Cafe release new song Second Variety for Piano Day
- Nicolas Cage accidentally drank his own blood on Renfield set, reveals his favourite Dracula
- Let's quietly reflect on that time Dave Mustaine blew a date with Belinda Carlisle due to heroin, pot and breath that smelled "like a skunk’s ass"
- Victrola Journey record player review
- M Shadows credits a "deep" exploration into psychedelic drugs as the reason for Avenged Sevenfold's "bold" new sound
- These are the top five most metal animals on the planet, according to The Internet
- Watch Jason Newsted talk about being bullied by Metallica in this rare 1986 video interview with the baby-faced metalheads
- Alice Cooper's story about Kiss/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin projectile vomiting all over The Who is one for the ages
- Jethro Tull to headline prog day at Walled Garden Music Festival
- IQ release triple vinyl Subterranea Live album
- John Lee Hooker: The Best Of Friends - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, Nita Strauss and more
- Journey's Midnight Special performance of Feeling That Way is a reminder of the brilliance of Steve Perry
- Watch Fleetwood Mac romp through You Make Loving Fun on The Midnight Special in 1977
- March 26
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- Normal service resumes as Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox perform frisky cover of Centerfold
- Former Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley hospitalised after heart attack
- An introduction to Flying Colors
- ChatGPT re-wrote the lyrics to Metallica's Ride the Lightning...and they don't totally suck
- James Hetfield says Metallica are "really average" musicians
- March 25
- March 24
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- Pete Townshend releases Can’t Outrun The Truth, first solo single in 29 years
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "It's over... tours are no longer fun" says Neil Young, as he lays into Ticketmaster on behalf of "ripped off fans"
- Healing Hands: Steve Hackett in The Prog Interview
- Demi Lovato shares banging 'Rock Version' of their two million-selling 2013 single Heart Attack
- Fall Out Boy embark on epic quest to repair the space time continuum in the chaotic video for Hold Me Like A Grudge
- Check out some cool new music with Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Someone has remade Avenged Sevenfold's Bat Country as a 90s dance banger and we hate that we love it
- Rate Babymetal's new album The Other One
- Watch fan-filmed footage of the spectacular first show on Roger Waters' European This Is Not A Drill tour
- The Ed Sheeran x Cradle Of Filth collaboration will arrive this summer Dani Filth promises
- Liam Gallagher on his brother Noel's new single Dead To The World: "How can such a mean spirited little man write such a beautiful song"
- Watch 100 drummers mark the first anniversary of Taylor Hawkins' death with an emotional performance of Foo Fighters' My Hero
- Primus and Tool members unite for charity show
- Queen + Adam Lambert announce Rhapsody Across America tour
- Listen to Linkin Park's previously unreleased Meteora-era banger, Fighting Myself
- The truth behind Gene Simmons' arrest for allegedly 'mooning' a Kiss audience: "I went offstage to adjust my jockstrap..."
- Summer's End progressive rock festival announces day splits
- Biffy Clyro and Vennart side-project Empire State Bastard release debut single Harvest
- Epica's Simone Simons: "I've been called the metal Barbie, but I don't give a damn"
- Floor Jansen goes it alone to seek more mainstream acclaim
- We all share music we adore. Why shouldn't Saxon?
- After 50 years, Pink Floyd's imposing The Dark Side Of The Moon remains a cornerstone of rock
- Nikki Sixx is the latest musician to play on Dolly Parton's much-anticipated rock album
- Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony has a new band with Bon Jovi and Aerosmith men
- March 23
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- Dave Mustaine claims Metallica "has always tried to hold me back"
- Exploring Birdsong share video for new single, the emotive No Longer We Lie
- Babymetal drop sparkling new hyperactive single Mirror Mirror
- Bono has detected traces of Bob Marley in U2's new version of Sunday Bloody Sunday. No, really
- Listen to Rina Sawayama's stomping industrial pop banger Eye For An Eye from the John Wick: Chapter 4 soundtrack
- They Watch Us From The Moon stream new single M.O.A.B.
- Don't mess with Keith Richards' pre-show shepherd's pie ritual, or he might threaten to cut you up and bake you into one
- Watch Slash and Perry Farrell play a song about a heroin addict with a violent boyfriend to an audience of children
- This Queen Live Aid Lego set is awesome… now go Radio Ga Ga with your own amazing ideas
- Also Eden replace Hayley Griffiths Band at Winter's End
- Dave Grohl used to have a super-weird recurring dream about a Speedos-clad Eddie Vedder sucking on his finger
- August Burns Red's JB Brubaker picks his most influential metal albums of the 21st Century
- Turns out Iron Maiden's Hallowed Be Thy Name played on bagpipes is pretty cool
- Jesse Malin: "I like to get under those lights and sweat out the poison"
- From tragedy to triumph: The Allman Brothers and the making of Eat A Peach
- Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny dead at 59
- March 22
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- Watch Fleetwood Mac's gorgeous live version of Why filmed for The Midnight Special in 1976
- Feeling funky? Treat yourself to this slinky Aerosmith vs Peaches and Herb mash-up
- A Kiss biopic, Shout It Out Loud, will be coming to Netflix next year
- Raye wants to form a rock band with Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama and Ivorian Doll: please someone make this happen
- "Guys what should my new name be? Wolfgang Led Zeppelin? Wolfgang AC/DC?" Wolfgang VH shares hilarious new Mammoth WVH video, slays Twitter trolls
- Danny Elfman: "F***ing put me next to the stage where Rage Against The Machine is playing"
- Queen Kwong pole dances for a dirty rat in the video for no-punches-pulled break-up anthem The Mourning Song
- "I woke up to an assault rifle on my nose!" Jerry Cantrell on the day armed police raided Alice In Chains' rehearsal studio
- Steve Thorne shares video trailer for new album Malice In Plunderland
- The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children box set to be released
- Noel Gallagher responds to brother Liam's 'It's happening' Oasis reunion tweet: "He’s got my number, he’s got my manager’s number. Call us"
- Teramaze share video for brand new single Chaos In The Way
- Elton John has just found out what really inspired his track Rocket Man, fifty years after its release
- Nita Strauss has reunited with Alice Cooper for fiery new single, Winner Takes All - listen now
- Skindred have recruited the guy who made them TikTok famous for new video Set Fazers - and it'll make you want to dance your arse off
- Joe Elliott duets with a younger version of himself on new Def Leppard album
- The 10 most viewed Iron Maiden videos on YouTube
- Holy Fawn: meet the heaviest non-metal band you'll hear this year
- Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors
- Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more
- "We aim to re-establish our contact with the people who got us off the ground": What happened when Led Zeppelin went Back To The Clubs
- March 21
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- Watch Bruce Springsteen receive the National Medal of Arts from President Joe Biden
- Steve Hackett announces Foxtrot at Fifty North American tour
- Peter Gabriel announces more North American shows
- O.R.k. share video for Pyre, the very first song they ever wrote!
- Black Country, New Road announce live album and biggest ever London live gig
- "Geddy and Neil wanted to kill me. They were really upset": Alex Lifeson on the truth behind his infamous 'Blah Blah Blah' speech at Rush's Rock Hall induction
- Wholesome death metal news: Obituary drummer Donald Tardy runs a cat rescue charity
- 10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined TV talk shows
- Marillion announce deluxe edition of 1989's Seasons End
- Nu-metal band Silly Goose deliver ripping performance in Subway store as people wait in line for sandwiches
- Mudvayne announce first headline tour in 14 years in dramatic fashion: 'An Event. On the Horizon... You, and the alien seed, MuDvAyNe'
- Watch Bono go on a long apologetic rant about how amazing he is
- Remembering the totally normal moment black metal legends Satyricon played a catwalk during the World Ski Championships
- Torture. Incest. Voyeurism. Why Pixies' Surfer Rosa is the weirdest and most influential alt. rock album of the '80s
- Motorhead's Mikkey Dee: "I'm glad Lemmy doesn't have to experience today's political correctness because he would be going f**king crazy"
- Watch 10 of the craziest mosh pits we've ever seen
- "Mr Richie, there's a Mr Zombie at the door": That time Rob Zombie and Lionel Richie teamed up on a filthy remake of a '70s funk anthem
- Rapper Lil Pump has released a "heavy metal" song and it is quite literally the worst thing we have ever heard
- Hugh Syme exhibition to open in Los Angeles in June
- Why I ❤️ Soundgarden's Superunknown, by Shinedown's Brent Smith
- Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Nick Mason and more join list of artists calling for Roger Waters' concert ban to be reversed
- Bruce Springsteen to receive The National Medal of Arts from President Joe Biden
- Bob Dylan and the strange case of the soy bomb stage invader
- March 20
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- 10 new Irish artists you should be listening to right now
- American Idol judges shocked by exuberant version of Dio's Holy Diver
- Metal Hammer has teamed up with Sabaton for an exclusive bundle featuring a hand-signed lyric sheet
- The Ocean share video for immersive new single Sea Of Reeds
- Beyerdynamic Amiron Home headphones review
- The story behind every single Metallica album cover art
- Wolfgang Van Halen says the Sammy Hagar era of Van Halen "doesn't get any respect"
- The Mon return with eye-catching video for new song Where
- John Young announces solo tour of stories and songs
- Watch this adorable little girl blast out some gnarly scream vocals
- "I had been running, numbing and self-medicating": How The Interrupters turned abuse, trauma and depression into triumph on Into The Wild
- 10 things you never knew about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death album
- Richard Sinclair guests on Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth debut album
- Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett once believed that Alice Cooper's cornflakes were singing and dancing for his entertainment
- Liam Gallagher reveals what he misses most about performing alongside his brother Noel in Oasis
- Chester Bennington would have turned 47 today. In 2017, in his final interview, he gave us these touching words about his friend and hero, Chris Cornell
- Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, With David Letterman: a revelatory, humanising look at U2's past and present
- Motorhead's Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Lemmy before he died: "I couldn't even go over to the funeral"
- Floor Jansen switches symphonic metal for pop melodies and epic balladry on solo debut Paragon
- You can record a song with Gene Simmons at Electric Lady studios for $6000
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Ayron Jones, Elles Bailey and more
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Last Rebel - Album Of The Week Club review
- Def Leppard's Rick Allen releases statement about Florida attack
- March 19
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- The Subways: coming back, coming out, and why the music industry is better than it used to be
- Nandi Bushell pays homage to Meg White with Seven Nation Army cover punctuated by screams
- Nikki Sixx calls out "bottom feeder media" over "washed up drummer" Carmine Appice backing tape claims
- Elvis Presley's grand-daughter Riley Keough credits Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix for inspiring her portrayal of fictional rock star Daisy Jones
- "No Dungeons & Dragons shit!": The Sons Of Apollo story
- Abstract Divinities: Charlie Cawood's solo adventure
- Hawkwind guitarist and founder Mick Slattery dead aged 77
- Parliament-Funkadelic singer Fuzzy Haskins dead at 81
- Tom Morello sets "fools" straight on Meg White debate
- March 18
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- David Bowie once asked his friend Glenn Hughes to sleep with Angie Bowie: the Deep Purple man felt "awful" for doing so
- Kavus Torabi and Richard Wileman announce new album
- EBB replace Mutant Thoughts at Prog For Peart
- Chrissie Hynde dismisses the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as "total bollocks": "It’s absolutely nothing to do with rock ‘n’ roll"
- March 17
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- That story about Rihanna wanting to make a heavy metal album isn't true, despite what you may have read
- The Cure's Robert Smith convinces Ticketmaster to partially refund "unduly high" fees to fans
- The 10 best new songs you need to hear right now
- 10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined mainstream awards shows
- Maid Of Stone festival confirms Glenn Hughes as second headliner
- Courtney Love writes lengthy article criticising Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's lack of female inductees: "the nominating committee is broken"
- Employed To Serve's Justine Jones: "Post Malone invited us to play beer pong"
- Listen to Bono and The Edge's heartfelt cover of ABBA's S.O.S
- Babymetal want to collaborate with Rammstein, Maneskin and The Backstreet Boys (and have already spoken to one of them)
- T-Pain has covered Black Sabbath's War Pigs and it's even weirder than you might expect
- Lordi apparently once said they were better than Kiss and Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper did not hold back in his response
- Voyager announce limited seven-inch vinyl of Eurovision anthem Promise
- No one expected Bad Omens to become the biggest metalcore band in a generation. So what the hell is going on?
- Einar Solberg shares video for uplifting new solo single A Beautiful Life
- The story of Gazpacho's Demon
- Fall Out Boy's intimate, chaotic London show proves why they're still the reigning princes of emo
- Ice-T has a new podcast and he's already recorded a year's worth of episodes: "I don't think I'll ever run out of wisdom"
- Yes postpone Relayer tour yet again
- Metal Hammer have teamed up with Babymetal for an exclusive bundle featuring your very own cut-out Fox God mask
- The 'debate' around Meg White's drumming says everything about the enduring sexism in rock music
- Skindred's Benji Webbe: the soundtrack of my life
- The Answer's Sundowners is the sound of a band with nothing to prove to themselves or anyone else
- Songs Of Surrender: U2 look back over their career with 40 skeletal covers of stadium bangers
- Def Leppard's Rick Allen violently attacked while on tour in Florida
- March 16
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- An unofficial Ghost convention hosted by a cosplayer drag king is to be held in a Peak District cavern known as 'The Devil's Arse'
- Talking Heads announce Stop Making Sense 40th anniversary reissue
- Scene Queen's new track 18+ is a scathing takedown of misogyny and abuse in the rock scene - and it's long overdue
- Six cool new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- As arguments over merch cuts rage on, HEALTH are now selling butt plugs at gigs
- Dave Lombardo has announced his debut solo album, and it's comprised entirely of drums
- Robert Smith says he is "sickened" by Ticketmaster fees after setting low ticket prices for The Cure's upcoming tour
- Watch Deftones perform Passenger with Paramore's Hayley Williams back in 2010
- Seth Rogen recalls the awkward conversation he had when inviting Meat Loaf to be part of his talking-food orgy film Sausage Party
- Brian Auger and Julie Tippetts' Encore to be reissued
- Def Leppard have re-recorded their greatest hits with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: listen to the striking new orchestral version of Animal
- Machine Head's Robb Flynn calls out Rolling Stone over exclusion of thrash legends from 'best metal songs' list: "there are glaring omissions I have to mention"
- A 1978 Black Sabbath/Ramones gig was promoted as 'Punk Rock vs Heavy Metal': it got ugly and dangerously out of control
- Jack White responds to viral debate on Meg White's ability as a drummer
- Why you should definitely own Fried by Julian Cope
- The Stones. The Dolls. Hanoi Rocks. Could Dangereens be the next great rock'n'rollers?
- Derek and the Dominos drummer Jim Gordon dead at 77
- Yusuf/Cat Stevens is up for collaborating with Green Day: "I reckon we could definitely get it on"
- March 15
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- Journalist apologies for criticising White Stripes drummer Meg White after backlash
- Carmine Appice on Mötley Crüe's Stadium Tour show: "Everything was on tape"
- Måneskin announce massive Rush! world tour
- Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold and more confirmed for Louder Than Life
- Babymetal's ambitious concept album The Other One proves the band have truly come of age
- Dream Evil's The Book Of Heavy Metal: how a death metal producer made trad metal cool again
- Avenged Sevenfold: new album is best "served as a whole" to "appreciate its musical breadth and sonic depth"
- Listen to the adorable song My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way wrote for his daughter Bandit
- Metallica's Lars Ulrich believes criticism of Lulu stems from "ignorance", says the Lou Reed collab “took our fans to a place I wish they would go more often”
- Matt Berry shares demo version of To The Floor
- Laura Loriga shares evocative video for Balmaha
- Every Rise Against album ranked from worst to best
- Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water to get new vinyl reissue
- Watching Taylor Hawkins, with house guest Chad Smith, give MTV Cribs a tour of his LA home is amusing and poignant all at once
- Jenna Ortega picks Nine Inch Nails and Deftones classics for her Scream character's 'theme song' and the best track for getting chased by Ghostface
- Suicide Silence fall behind the deathcore pack with new album Remember... You Must Die
- Camel cancel 2023 Europe and UK live dates
- Thunder announce expanded reissues of first three albums
- The 10 most viewed Metallica videos on YouTube
- Connor Selby might be blues music's next big star, and he's off to a flying start
- That time Billy Gibbons showed up on Pawn Stars because someone was selling his $40,000 Nudie suit
- March 14
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- Watch Axl Rose join Carrie Underwood for a lively romp through Welcome To The Jungle
- Queen’s Brian May knighted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace
- Joan Jett used to make frozen urine 'Pissicles' to stop sleazy guys hitting on her and her friends
- Metallica sell so many records that they've now bought their own vinyl pressing plant to keep up with demand
- Watch Elvis Costello and Billy Gibbons jamming on classic ZZ Top songs
- Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Korn and more announced for Aftershock 2023
- The Internet speaks out against attacks on "terrible" drummer Meg White: "Meg White's drumming is a Rorschach test for how you feel about women musicians"
- Watch the macabre video for Avenged Sevenfold's 'comeback' single Nobody, from new album Life Is But a Dream...
- Iggy Pop on the gig that made him want to be a rock star: "I thought, Look how awful they are, and they've got the number one single in the country!"
- The venue for Limp Bizkit's upcoming shows in London has changed
- Watch fan-filmed 4K footage of AFI's one-off Sing The Sorrow 20th anniversary gig
- Here's every single band every single member of Metallica was in before they were in Metallica
- Norwegian jazz proggers Krokofant sign to Is It Jazz?
- Supersonic Festival confirms they won't charge bands to sell merch at their event, calls on venues to do the same
- Courtney Love slams Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for lack of female representation
- Tomorrow's debut album re-mastered and reimagined as Permanent Dream
- “They’ve created a musical realm of their own”: Why the prog world loves Tool
- Trivium's Matt Heafy: “I’ve been bugging Roadrunner for years to do a Roadrunner United 2"
- Dez Fafara reunited Coal Chamber "from his deathbed" when he was battling COVID-19
- The Who's Roger Daltrey offers update on Keith Moon biopic: "People like him are missed because life now is so f**king mediocre"
- AKG K72 headphones review
- Mike Shinoda states that Linkin Park will never do a Chester Bennington hologram tour
- Andy Jackson announces first new studio album for seven years
- This priceless footage of Jimmy Page in Aerosmith's dressing room at Monsters Of Rock 1990 could be a Spinal Tap out-take
- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow: Stranger In Us All - Album Of The Week Club review
- March 13
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- Watch Lynyrd Skynyrd pay tribute to Gary Rossington at first live show since his death
- Slash goes to Hollywood: Guns N' Roses man launches horror film company
- 9 rock and metal songs inspired by mushrooms and fungi
- Gama Bomb recruit The Pogues' Spider Stacey for If I Should Fall From Grace With God cover ahead of St. Patrick's Day
- This video of BABYMETAL performing Monochrome in one take shows off just how amazing their voices really are
- The Stranglers laughed at AC/DC's long hair when they shared a stage in 1976. They weren't laughing after AC/DC played
- Lorna Shore's Will Ramos covering Sleep Token's Chokehold is one of the most beautiful and brilliant things you will hear today
- Metal Hammer has teamed up with Bury Tomorrow for a world exclusive bundle featuring a hand-signed art print
- Lifesigns tease brand new live release
- This band enjoy performing for a field of cows, and the results are adorably epic
- Brendon Urie brings down the curtain on Panic! At The Disco: "Let’s live every day like it’s our last, babyyyyy!"
- The Internet is now obsessing over this dramatic 1997 Fleetwood Mac performance of Silver Springs thanks to the success of TV series Daisy Jones & The Six
- Watch Electric Callboy's spine-tingling performance of Hypa Hypa in front of 20,000 people at their sold-out show in Cologne
- Elder announce UK live dates for November
- The Reels Thing: How Dave Grohl's love letter to a Los Angeles recording studio beautifully captures the magic of music
- Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas inspired an easter egg in Scream 6 that pays tribute to Wes Craven
- "It's not telling a story, there’s no concept or anything." Mike Oldfield and the strange miracle of Tubular Bells
- Avant-garde metal act Igorrr refuses to sell merch at London venue due to merch cut demands
- Wig Wam: "I’d have a bottle of cognac backstage and it was empty when we left"
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Rival Sons, The Damned and more
- The Rolling Stones sued for copyright infringement
- March 12
- March 11
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- Ithaca show in Germany cancelled amid explosions and hostage situation
- Midas Fall share striking cover of Bruce Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark
- The Enid to headline A Sunday In September prog all dayer
- Saxon founding guitarist Paul Quinn retires from touring after 48 years
- Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin dead at 58
- March 10
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- Metallica share artwork created by Slipknot's Clown, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way and more for their 2012 exhibition Obey Your Master
- Watch the first trailer for Yellowjackets season two, soundtracked by Florence + The Machine’s "unsettling" No Doubt cover
- The 10 best new songs you need to hear this week
- The Who have agreed to play a transport festival in exchange for Roger Daltrey being allowed to drive a steam train
- Watch Rammstein demonstrate why they were always destined for greatness at a show in Köln back in 1996
- 10 times rock bands totally ruined Top Of The Pops
- Jenna Ortega wants to "up the horror aspect" and bin the romance for Wednesday season two
- The Last Of Us' Pedro Pascal explains why he wants Prince's Purple Rain to play at his funeral: "I was raised by HBO, Spielberg and Prince"
- Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love spent New Year's Eve 1992 trying to save the life of an unconscious rock star who was turning blue on their hotel room floor
- Stevie Nicks had some thoughts about the singer who replaced her in '90s Fleetwood Mac, and wasn't shy about telling her
- Therapy? share new single Joy, announce Hard Cold Fire album, May in-store gigs
- 5 brilliant new bands you need to check out this month
- Far's Water & Solutions at 25: "We were a mess... and on that record it was a beautiful mess”
- Motörhead's Mikkey Dee says lip-syncing "sucks big time", but backing tracks are acceptable if used in a "proper way"
- Ghost stories: the making of Gazpacho's March Of Ghosts
- The Omnific's Toby Peterson-Stewart shares video for new solo single D.H.D.
- All-star Jeff Beck tribute show lined up for the Royal Albert Hall
- Ritchie Blackmore's "private music" celebrates its 25th birthday with another public outing
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen: "Life is short. Time is not endless"
- Mike Shinoda releases new track In My Head, taken from the Scream 6 soundtrack
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine on his changing vocal ability: "the only thing I have any difficulty doing is getting up in a certain pitch"
- King Crimson's Larks' Tongues at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog
- Yes share video for brand new single Cut From The Stars
- Bullet For My Valentine announced as headliners for 2000trees Festival
- Killing Joke release video for epic new single Full Spectrum Dominance
- Rival Sons launch Bird In The Hand single, announce extensive US tour
- Van Morrison is in fine voice and generous mood as he pays loving homage to Skiffle
- Broken bottles, sliced hands and drunken carnage: the true story behind Lynyrd Skynyrd’s infamous 'Bloodbath In Hamburg'
- Watch Slash, Jerry Cantrell, Perry Farrell and Jason Bonham cover Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love at one of Slash's epic birthday bashes
- March 9
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- John Fogerty announces two UK arena shows
- Phil Lynott calmly explaining on breakfast TV that using heroin can be "very enjoyable" makes for heartbreaking viewing
- Iggy Pop tells Flea how a fan letter from U2's Bono inspired a key song on his new album Every Loser
- Depeche Mode share the dark, spacey My Cosmos Is Mine as single two from Memento Mori
- Emma Ruth Rundle shares unsettling new video for In My Afterlife
- This footage of Slipknot performing at Ozzfest 1999 feels like the start of something truly extraordinary
- Six great new prog tracks you really must listen to!
- The Cure announce 2023 North American tour
- A new docu-series celebrating Britpop is going be to premiering this weekend
- Rocking Horse Music Club line-up guest-packed Trading Boundaries shows for March
- These metal Ghost prints hit us harder than a Square Hammer
- A metal band got their fans to play Twister in the middle of the mosh-pit, and it is absolute chaos
- Enter Shikari drop new single Bloodshot about social media's power to "hypnotise" people towards hatred
- Ghost's Mary On A Cross is now certified Silver in the UK
- Dark electronic prog duo Lethe sign to Dark Essence Records
- Mikkey Dee says Lemmy had "no idea" that he was dying despite health struggles
- Sing The Sorrow at 20: the album that turned AFI from cult punk heroes into gothic rock superstars
- Here are the astonishing US sales stats for every Metallica album
- Susanna Hoffs' cheery version of Under Your Thumb is not like the original
- Steve Vai: "When people take back their freedom, they become themselves"
- Watch Trent Reznor before he was famous singing Billy Idol's Eyes Without A Face
- Diving For Pearls: the band who should have been kings of melodic rock
- March 8
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- Watch David Bowie perform The Who's I Can't Explain on US TV in November 1973
- Take a look inside Iron Maiden: The Paul Di'Anno Years, a new photo book coming this summer
- Eddie Van Halen once drove a tank through Beverly Hills to Fred Durst's house and pulled a gun on him
- 10 essential music books to add to your reading list on International Women's Day
- Post-rock collective Silver Moth stream ethereal new single The Eternal
- Listen to The Cure's Robert Smith's remix of Noel Gallagher's Pretty Boy
- Amid the excitement for the coronation of King Charles III, the 31st anniversary of Mike Patton pooing outside his majesty's London home has almost been forgotten
- Buzzcocks and Lambrini Girls added to Iggy Pop's Dog Day Afternoon in London
- A guitarist played Buddy Holly every day until Weezer duetted with him. Rivers Cuomo finally responded on day 990
- Tears For Fears unveil 40th anniversary edition of The Hurting
- Jamie Lee Curtis thinks bands should start playing matinee concerts: "What about it, Bruce Springsteen?"
- The metal as hell moment Christopher Lee warned us all off black magic: "You not only lose your mind...you lose your soul”
- Periphery V - Djent Is Not A Genre: US progressive metallers prove why they're miles ahead of their peers
- Kelly Jay was on the cover of Rush's Moving Pictures: he never listened to it
- Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous: the real story of the greatest live album ever
- Listen to Billy Squier's first new rock song in 30 years
- March 7
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- Nikki Sixx suggests that Mötley Crüe have another eight years touring to go
- Foo Fighters to headline Outside Lands 2023
- Peter Gabriel announces first North American tour in more than a decade
- Ville Valo: "I’m happy my dad still has a calling in porn. One of us has to."
- Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker once swallowed four ounces of hash so they could set up a drug dealing operation in Iceland
- Watch Avenged Sevenfold get interviewed by Jamey Jasta on Headbangers Ball back in 2004
- Threshold announce one-off London show
- Wobbler keyboard player Lars Frederik Frøislie announces debut solo album
- Prog Magazine teams up with Progzilla Radio to highlight new prog music
- New John Wetton book now available for pre-order
- Watch a teaser for Florence + The Machine's cover of No Doubt’s Just A Girl
- A look back at Mudvayne's brilliant and bonkers appearance at the MTV VMAs in 2001
- Calling all Fleetwood Mac fanatics: put your Stevie Nicks knowledge to the test with this recent Mastermind quiz
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante once phoned Perry Farrell to ask, "How do you get snakes out of your eyes?"
- Gojira’s Mario Duplantier thinks Metallica’s Lars Ulrich deserves way more respect than he gets
- Watch Wes Borland front Limp Bizkit with some random dude on guitar for the weirdest version of My Way ever
- Listen to the new Peter Gabriel single Playing For Time
- The story of the King's X song that could have been "the biggest hit in the world"
- Iron Maiden's Steve Harris: "Having us on stamps is quite a thing for me"
- The rock world reacts to the death of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington
- Gov't Mule announce Pink Floyd tribute tour with Jason Bonham
- March 6
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- Godsmack, Pantera, Rob Zombie, Limp Bizkit and more lined up for Rocklahoma
- Iconic TV show The Midnight Special is now on YouTube and it promises to be a classic rock goldmine
- Ex-Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger was asked to sing Celine Dion's Titanic ballad in the style of Led Zeppelin and she did not hold back
- Hear Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell guest on new Sleaford Mods single So Trendy
- Corey Taylor says that his new solo album is "going to be the best rock album of this year, and the next"
- Nita Strauss is going to be rejoining Alice Cooper for his 2023 US tour dates
- The Black Crowes celebrate their successful reunion with Shake Your Money Maker Live album
- U2 are not turning into AC/DC, The Edge promises, but they want to bring guitar back "from the wilderness"
- Guitarist creates emo song by riffing along to a guy screaming about a scorpion falling on him whilst taking a poo
- A metal band is going to be representing Germany at this year's Eurovision Song Contest and they are quite something
- The 10 best I Prevail songs ever, according to vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe
- This video of Fred Durst playing Korn a demo of Limp Bizkit's Hot Dog in 2000 is pure nu metal history
- Voyager announce London show for April
- Watch a baby-faced Metallica compare themselves to "other hardcore bands" such as Megadeth and Slayer in this classic interview from 1985
- Bad Omens' extraordinary show in London cemented their place as one of metal's most exciting and essential breakthrough bands
- Influential indie label Speedy Wunderground mark tenth anniversary with box set and special London show
- Why Lynyrd Skynyrd are one of Metallica's most important influences
- Cairo share teaser video for new album Nemesis
- Funeral For A Friend to play Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation in full on anniversary UK tour
- AVKVRST reveal debut single The Pale Moon
- Europe: Walk The Earth - Album Of The Week Club review
- Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington: lessons from a life lived to the full
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Elegant Weapons, Extreme, Samatha Fish and more
- Lynyrd Skynyrd founding guitarist Gary Rossington dead at 71
- All aboard! What happened when Status Quo ran their legendary train trip to Butlins
- March 5
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- Chris Spedding: my stories of the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, Roy Harper and more
- Metallica gave birth to thrash metal: within a few years, they wanted to kill it
- Mike Portnoy: The Winery Dogs are a modern day version of The Who
- Watch Cate Blanchett dance in new Sparks video
- Napalm Death's Barney Greenway soldiers on despite breaking ankle on stage
- Sepultura and Soulfly icon Max Cavalera picks his top 3 thrash metal albums
- March 3
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- "In Minor Threat we had zero expectations... it was an after-school activity": why punk rock guitar hero Brian Baker is down for life
- The Struts announce Remember the Name US tour
- Queen Kwong's Carré Callaway hails judge's decision to dismiss lawsuit launched by her ex, Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland, as a victory for free speech
- Listen to U2's new version of anthemic 2000 single Beautiful Day
- Watch the 1996 Deftones' record store gig that got shut down for getting "way out of hand"
- Fall Out Boy announce two tiny UK shows for mid-March
- Rush announce special 40th anniversary super deluxe edition of Signals
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Kiss squash long-standing rumour that their band name is a Satanic acronym: "We're smart, but we're not that smart"
- Watch this metal frontman teach terrified daytime TV hosts black metal growls on live TV
- James Hetfield has been cast in a 'dark western' film with Juliette Lewis and Game Of Thrones' Peter Dinklage
- The making of Deep Purple's classic Machine Head: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Watch grannies rip through some gnarly death metal and shoot fireworks from their backsides in this hilarious advert for Liquid Death iced tea
- Here are the 20 longest-charting albums in the history of the Billboard 200
- Watch Mike Shinoda & Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas star in Demi Lovato's new Scream-inspired video
- Guns N' Roses to headline Glastonbury 2023: Arctic Monkeys, Blondie, Royal Blood, Måneskin, Nova Twins and many more also announced
- Zulu's A New Tomorrow: "The first absolutely essential album of 2023"
- The Hu announce Rumble Of Thunder European tour
- March 2
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- Roger Waters unveils first music from controversial new version of The Dark Side Of The Moon
- Watch Kiss play three classics live on the Howard Stern Show
- David Lee Roth releases new version of Van Halen classic Unchained
- Hollywood legend Ann-Margret returns with Pete Townshend and an all-star cast
- Robb Flynn: "This gang threatened to throw grenades onstage while I played"
- The new issue of Metal Hammer features two different covers: Sabaton and Babymetal!
- 10 times pop stars went metal
- Pulp bassist Steve Mackey dead at 56
- Alien-looking speaker and robot charging companion are simply out of this world
- The world might not be ready for this sassy Beatles vs Beyonce mash-up
- Metallica reveal details of special 72 Seasons global album listening event
- Rob Halford on Ozzy Osbourne's retirement from touring: "he made the right call"
- Gene Simmons hates Kiss' million-selling 1979 single I Was Made For Lovin' You, and not for the reason you think
- Watch Korn's Fieldy show off his awesome house on MTV Cribs back in 2002
- Imaginaerium release teaser video for Rise Of The Medici
- Fake Names' Expendables: members of Refused, Bad Religion, Fugazi and Girls Against Boys unite for a righteous racket
- The Thing That Should Not Be: Someone’s thrashed out a Metallica-themed coffee table from an old oil drum
- Kindred Spirit Band announce new EP and plans for concept album
- Rick Armstrong announces new guest-packed album
- The 10 best songs Jimmy Page has released since Led Zeppelin
- Why you should definitely own Apple by Mother Love Bone
- Meet the woman who let Metallica rehearse in her basement
- March 1
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- Evan Rachel Wood denies allegations that she "manipulated" former Marilyn Manson accuser Ashley Morgan Smithline
- Extreme announce first album in 15 years, unveil video for new single Rise
- Here's everything we know about Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons so far
- M-Opus share video for brand new single Valley Of Elah
- "I want more haters!" Voyager tackle the critics with Colours In The Sun
- Brian May says the idea of making a sequel to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody film is "so tempting"
- Watch teens react to hearing Limp Bizkit for the first time: "Why are they screaming at me?"
- Watch the trippy video for brand new Metallica single If Darkness Had A Son
- Piece Of Mind at 40: inside Iron Maiden's first true fantasy epic
- Kiss announce the dates and venue for the last two gigs they'll ever play
- Abbey Road and Pink Floyd launch exclusive Dark Side merch collection
- Every Nickelback album ranked from worst to best
- Ghost's Tobias Forge: “You have these blockbuster horror films that would never be considered for an Oscar...that is the stigma that metal and rock still has"
- Gong team up with Ozric Tentacles once again for UK tour
- Lizzo's covered Rammstein again - this time complete with a full live band, headbangs and booty shakes
- Biffy Clyro and Vennart side-project Empire State Bastard announce intimate UK tour
- The story of Rush's debut album: "We wanted to be a hard rock band"
- Watch a group of Afghan girls sing Won't Back Down aided by Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit and more
- Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon: 20 things you didn't know
