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- July 31
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- Avenged Sevenfold singer M Shadows picks his ten favourite concept albums
- The Darkness: Every album ranked from worst to best
- Big Big Train sign new multi-album deal with InsideOut Music
- Brian May: "Humans are pretty much eliminating all species except the ones that we think are useful to us"
- "I know Dad would have been really proud": Wolfgang Van Halen explains why he played two Van Halen songs to honour Taylor Hawkins
- "I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion" - Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother
- "I didn’t listen to any of the same music as my friends. I didn’t fit in.” How heavy metal helped Rhea Ripley grow from school misfit to world champion and one of WWE's biggest stars
- "Get that f***ing Siri or whatever out of your house": John Lydon warns against the dangers of AI, which he claims has "infiltrated young people’s minds now to the point of total domination"
- Beats Flex wireless earbuds review
- "Finally the big four will clash and thrash together!" The 'Big Four' of German thrash metal - Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard - announce first ever show together
- In 1974 Steve Miller played The Joker and Fly Like An Eagle on US TV and transformed them into something entirely new
- "I hope girls see it's OK to do what you want." How Indonesia's Voice Of Baceprot shook off religious pressure and misogyny to become one of their country's most exciting young metal bands
- “This is what I can’t bear about fans: they assume songwriters are writing about themselves all the time” - Brian Eno’s quest to deliver “interleaved stories”
- "I just love the freedom to get to do whatever you want": Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante looks to the future, and teases "new stuff on the horizon"
- A beginner's guide to speed metal in five essential albums
- “We probably did about as much as we could have... but I have a regret or two”: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects on what he might have done differently with Syd Barrett
- Periphery announce first European tour for over four years
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Duff McKagan, Pretenders and more
- Watch Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette join forces to perform tribute to Sinead O'Connor during Japanese festival appearance
- "We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army
- John Wetton's An Extraordinary Life eight disc box set out in November
- "Too hot to handle": Watch Disturbed accidentally set sprinklers off with pyro at Houston show during performance of, yes, you guessed it, Inside The Fire
- "I just carried all this anger and horror." From his grandmother's experiences in Nazi Germany scarring his childhood to Godflesh being labelled the 'new Nirvana', Justin Broadrick is an extreme music icon like no other
- Moshpits, violins and Sweet Caroline samples: The Callous Daoboys’ UK festival debut was the wildest metal show we’ve seen all year
- Shvininiai Sharvai are one of the wildest, most unique things to hit thrash metal in years - and they’re only getting started
- July 30
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- "We had the opportunity to reimagine what we do to a certain degree." Big Big Train and the making of Common Ground
- “It was an apex moment in the history of live rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello on the night that he teamed up with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to perform an AC/DC cover
- "If you haven’t been ripped off, you haven’t been in the music business”: How personal tragedy, the demands of touring and the pressure to make money destroyed Alex Harvey
- "When Dahmer hit the news I thought, ‘I have a lot of stuff to work with here!'" Tom Araya explains Slayer's fascination with serial killers
- “It was exhilarating – it felt like an illicit liaison”: the true story of Brian May and Eddie Van Halen’s Star Fleet Project collaboration
- July 29
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- “Right Here, Right Now captured the optimism of the Berlin wall coming down. We’re at the other end of the spectrum now”: How Prince’s Sign O’ The Times inspired Jesus Jones’ biggest hit
- "I am the founding father of progressive symphonic rock". Robert John Godfrey states his case
- Sigur Rós announce Átta film experiment
- “The goal was to make music that was so extreme we’d never even get a gig”: Tom Morello on the early days of Rage Against The Machine
- "We’re fried": Thom Yorke on keeping it together as OK Computer blew up big
- “Randy Rhoads embodied everything I love about the guitar”: Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on the music that changed his life
- Sleep Token’s biggest festival headline show just proved they’re ready for arena stardom
- “Everyone thought the maestro was totally off his rocker”: when Stevie Wonder invoked flower power for his own Dark Side Of The Moon
- “Led Zeppelin was responsible for bigging it up. We had no choice… it was insane”: Robert Plant on how Led Zeppelin invented stadium rock
- July 28
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- “Dave said, ‘No, not doing it’”: Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen once wrote a brand new Van Halen song, only for David Lee Roth to refuse to sing it
- The best new metal songs you need to hear right now - starring KK's Priest, Slaughter To Prevail, Sevendust, Dying Wish and more
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Ashnikko, Dream Nails, Lynks and more
- "I held him against the wall and spit in his face... then all hell broke loose": the night Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was arrested for fighting and locked up in New Orleans
- The 50 best metal albums of the 2000s
- “Cameron Crowe said, ‘This is killer, it’s awesome!’”: Jerry Cantrell on how he wrote Alice In Chains’ classic hit Would?
- "Amazing!": Watch this Bon Jovi-approved cat accidentally (sort of) play the introduction to Livin' On A Prayer
- The Fierce & The Dead - News From The Invisible World: "Taut songs with glorious, air-punching choruses."
- Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week: brand new music from Einar Solberg, Kyros and more
- “Bon Scott was a bit of a gangster, and that stuff is very linked with rock music”: Saxon’s Biff Byford on how AC/DC changed his life
- Watch Fall Out Boy pay tribute to Sinead O'Connor with a live cover of Nothing Compares 2 U
- "The sight of Cliff wading into the insane mass of scrapping people with a hammer was legendary:” Cliff Burton's hammer, the Finnish schoolgirl, and the Metallica gig that turned into a mass brawl
- “If it hadn’t been for music, I’d have ended up killing myself”: the epic life and turbulent times of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler
- District 97 announce new album Stay For The Ending
- Former Eagles bassist Randy Meisner dead at 77
- “It is, ultimately, a ridiculous, vomit-smeared, gleefully violent good time”: Remembering the brilliantly daft Cradle Of Filth horror movie, Cradle Of Fear
- July 27
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- Bruce Soord announces third solo album Luminescence
- "We’re heading somewhere beautiful and peaceful, but it may take some time to get there and there may be some fighting on the way": A tribute to Sinead O'Connor, pop star, protest singer and eternal rebel
- “I’ve taken my lack of proficiency into the spotlight… unless you push yourself, I can’t see the use in a solo album”: Trevor Rabin’s desire to take risks
- What's it really like taking your kids to a festival?
- A beginner’s guide to Metal Blade Records in five essential albums
- Five things we’re looking forward to at Radar Festival 2023
- Rock’s 20 greatest one album wonders: the bands that made one album then vanished
- "Playing our songs in t-shirts and jeans is not the way." Brothers Of Metal look like vikings, play power metal and are annoying elitists - and they're loving every second of it
- "It was us saying, This is us, we're here to kick your door down": The tortured birth and eternal genius of Smashing Pumpkins' masterpiece Siamese Dream
- Watch hilarious footage of an orchestra audience's wild mosh-pits at a recent UK music festival
- "All her pain, all her beauty, those incredible songs, she deserves sainthood": the rock world pays tribute to Sinead O'Connor
- "It was a magical and very inspiring time.” Max Cavalera reveals his favourite Sepultura album, whether he'd ever reunite with the band
- “It might take a few people by surprise". Michael Romeo and his second solo album War Of The Worlds Pt. 1
- Hanabie's colourful, genre-mashing Reborn Superstar! has confirmed the arrival of Japan's next great crossover metal stars
- 10 bands whose best album was recorded live
- July 26
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- "He was one of the best drummers the metal world has ever seen." The wild life, incredible career and tragic end of Slipknot legend, Joey Jordison
- Liberté, egalité, solidarité: The night four "mean Frenchy bitches" lit up London with Brutal Pop, discothèque-noir and punk rock fire
- 10 terrible nu metal albums with one classic song
- “It would have been a rip-off”: How Iron Maiden recorded their first great live album – then scrapped it
- “Nova Twins, The Linda Lindas, Wet Leg… all the girls are rocking out, none of the boys are doing it”: Elton John on the new artists that excite him
- Trevor Rabin to release first vocal-led solo album for over 30 years
- Corey Taylor has the most disgusting story you’ll ever hear about Dimebag Darrell, Clown from Slipknot and a urinal cake
- “A lot of people turned up just to see what we could get away with, the sheer nerve of it all… we weren’t pretending to be very good at what we did”: the implausible rise of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- “I ate an entire chorizo sausage and woke up covered in sick”: Matt Bellamy looks back on Muse’s lowest point
- Wolfgang Van Halen: 11 albums that changed my life
- "People were spitting at us": How one of Alice In Chains' worst gigs ever earned them the respect of hardcore Slayer fans
- “A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years
- R.E.M. have picked their 40 favourite R.E.M. songs, and Everybody Hurts and Losing My Religion haven't made the cut
- The 30 best Brian Johnson AC/DC songs
- “Fans haven’t seen something like this since the late ’80s”: Meet the new bands making Glasgow the UK’s death metal capital
- July 25
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- "What a creep!" The day that Prince broke Trent Reznor's heart
- Watch Metallica defeat a superfan in a TV pop quiz then rifle through his wallet in search of a cash prize
- A beginner's guide to death-doom in five essential albums
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Skindred, Chris Stapleton, Royal Blood, In This Moment and more
- “I got rick rolled but it was worth it”: Someone has covered Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up in the style of Deftones and it’s actually shockingly good
- “I cleaned the beach and dumped the rubbish in the mayor’s parking lot”: Gojira’s Joe Duplantier remembers his early environmental protests
- "It feels like we're poised to take the reins." We got Wargasm, Loathe, Heriot, Ithaca and Blackgold together to discuss why British metal is entering a new golden age
- Roger Waters to premiere Dark Side Redux at London Palladium in October
- “Doctors put something down my neck and straight to my groin”: Ozzy Osbourne offers first health update since cancelling Power Trip festival show
- 10 times metal bands re-recorded their classic songs – and it actually went well
- “He didn’t like to be reminded of the past… he went to his sister’s to watch a documentary about him and Pink Floyd, but left, complaining it was too loud”: Syd Barrett was more than just another mad genius
- July 24
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- “I thought I’d bitten off more than I can chew”: how Yes guitarist Steve Howe accidentally ended up playing on a Queen hit single
- System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian shares snippet of new solo music
- Jason Becker is selling the guitar gifted to him by Eddie Van Halen to raise money for his ongoing medical care
- "Fripp-ishly brainy" - the magic of Japan's Tin Drum
- ELO performing In The Hall Of The Mountain King with an exploding cello on The Midnight Special is peak '70s TV
- “Half the buggers would write the album for you if you let them!" - Mostly Autumn and the making of The Ghost Moon Orchestra
- Lego just sent a cease and desist to a post-hardcore band and we’re as "wildly confused" as they are
- “The greatest album of all time? AC/DC’s Back In Black”: this is the soundtrack to Buckcherry singer Josh Todd’s life
- “It’s always some fabricated, over-exaggerated bulls**t”: Why Slash doesn’t want a Guns N’ Roses biopic (yet)
- 'Here Lies Geezer Butler': How a falling out between ex-Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler turned bitter, nasty and personal in the '90s
- Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt and Richard Fortus from Guns N’ Roses are having an online bust-up over Slash and Rihanna
- “He gave metal bands the exposure that a mainstream act would murder for”: Why Conan O’Brien is metal’s greatest unsung champion
- July 23
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- Disturbed show in Arizona cancelled at last minute due to excessive heat
- “The hardest thing in the world is to write a simple song”: Lars Ulrich on why Noel Gallagher is his favourite songwriter
- “Ozzy had been to school with Tony and they hated each other.” Geezer Butler on the fractious early days of Black Sabbath
- “Joey asked me, ‘Do you like Slipknot?’ I said, ‘Not really’”: Wednesday 13 on meeting Joey Jordison and launching Murderdolls
- 10 terrible Britpop albums with one classic song
- How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs
- "If Bruce Springsteen saw Slipknot live, he'd be into it." A conversation with Slipknot drummer and one-time E-Street member, Jay Weinberg
- Pomegranate Tiger ponder life with AI on their return
- “The minute I met him, I thought he was a special guy”: Tony Visconti looks back on working with David Bowie
- “I feel like everyone is culpable”: How Eddie Vedder reacted to the news that Amy Winehouse had died
- July 22
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- Listen to violinist Lindsey Stirling's rousing cover of Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir
- “Dime was still upset about Pantera”: Zakk Wylde recalls inspiring Dimebag Darrell to carry on in the early 2000s
- Watch Steely Dan tear up The Midnight Special with a killer version of My Old School taped in the summer of 1973
- Cults, drugs and religion. The story of Oceans Of Slumber's Starlight And Ash
- "My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener
- "So, what, we're just casually accusing people of being a paedophile now for entertainment?": The 1975's Matty Healy rages against TikTok conversation before his band have festival set shut down for "non-compliance"
- “Ziggy Stardust was the first song I ever performed”: Perry Farrell on his pre-fame days as a David Bowie impersonator
- A beginner's guide to sludge metal in five essential albums
- “They crawled up their own bums”: The album that made Butch Vig lose faith in Radiohead
- “Phil Lynott could sing you into bed”: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie on his love of Thin Lizzy
- “Joe Walsh branched out – a genuine progressive instinct at work”: when future Eagles icon went prog with The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
- “It was like being fired out of a cannon”: Wolfgang Van Halen looks back on joining Van Halen
- July 21
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- “Lizzy were a man down…”: Pat Travers on the time he nearly joined Thin Lizzy
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I used it as a doorstop, then I had it on the back of my toilet”: Inside the night Slipknot won their first Grammy Award
- “We’d just play through it…”: Greta Van Fleet on the biker gang brawls at their early shows
- "We never felt like we were in anybody's scene". How System Of A Down invaded nu metal, baited Slayer fans and created a classic debut album in 1998
- "It sounds like a Nickelback song": This AI James Hetfield cover of Seal's Kiss From A Rose is both ridiculous and impressive
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: brand new music from Queensryche, Teeth Of The Sea and more
- “AC/DC are the real deal”: Kiss frontman Paul Stanley picks his favourite AC/DC album – but what’s he gone for?
- Jean-Michel Jarre shares new version of Synthy Sisters with British composer Adiescar Chase
- Roger Waters will release Dark Side Of The Moon Redux on October 6
- Watch Ghost play their first-ever show in 2010 and see just how far the Satanic Swedes have come
- "He’s a desperate, untalented piece of s***": Nirvana on the time Bon Jovi wanted to look like them
- The new issue of Classic Rock is a star-studded celebration of 50 years of AC/DC
- “We didn’t arrive on a magic carpet. He was a little heartbroken over that… his followers gathered outside and they were close to stoning us”: the Moody Blues’ weirdest fans
- July 20
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- "I said, 'Can we have flames coming out of it?'" Cyborgs, Samurai and gun battles: backstage and front row for Iron Maiden's massive Future Past tour
- The genius of Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden
- "Boo!" Watch Corey Taylor get a taste of his own medicine as someone in a spooky mask gives him a fright
- Jon Anderson recalls his drink-fuelled gig with Keith Emerson in 1969!
- There’s a new thrash metal band obsessed with pizza, for some reason
- “Thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music”: Queen receive a BRIT Billion Award
- Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman Gentle Giant, Strawbs and more on new Tony Visconti box set
- “It would have been career suicide”: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on why he refused to audition for Limp Bizkit
- Watch The Cure's Robert Smith burst into tears during a recent US show
- "I feel myself hyperventilating... he sounds like a demon!": Watch this vocal coach analyse Will Ramos' brutal delivery on Lorna Shore's To The Hellfire
- A beginner’s guide to Britpop in five essential albums
- Roger Waters teases new Dark Side Of The Moon redux
- 10 metal b-sides and bonus tracks so perfect that they should have been classics
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of the 2000s
- July 19
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- New video released for Vivian Stanshall's Dog Howl In Tune
- Alice Cooper releases new single White Line Frankenstein featuring Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello
- “We used to travel in Clark Gable’s Cadillac, refurbished by Rolls Royce. We had a TV in there, and two bars, just for the band”: Secrets of Rick Wakeman’s excess
- "Geddy didn't understand what a blues scale was." Gene Simmons recalls the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee a bass lesson on tour
- 10 up-and-coming British metal bands that every self-respecting metalhead needs to know
- Jacoby Shaddix names Papa Roach and two other bands as the "next Metallicas"
- The history of Iron Maiden as told in 10 groundbreaking gigs
- Ten songs that fought back against the PMRC
- These are the rock and metal songs that have achieved a billion or more streams on Spotify
- July 18
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- Alice Cooper and Demi Lovato have written a song together, according to Nita Strauss: "they both said that it went amazingly well"
- Watch Megadeth's Dirk Verbeuren smash out The Killers' Mr Brightside perfectly on drums after hearing it for the very first time
- "If Slash jumps up and he’s got to play a clean intro to Rude Boy, it ain’t happening.” Nuno Bettencourt explains why playing guitar for Rihanna is way harder than you might imagine
- Yes announce Classic Tales Of Yes US tour dates
- "It was the one were we felt, 'wow, we’re there'": Joe Perry settles an eternal debate between Aerosmith fans
- Teeth Of The Sea announce brand new studio album Hive
- The one thing missing from the new Barbie movie soundtrack is this Barbie Girl x Slipknot mash-up that everyone needs to listen to immediately
- “We discovered we had an audience out there and it numbered in millions”: How Focus secured TV music show The Old Grey Whistle Test’s future
- “In those days, you didn’t talk about those kind of things”. Rob Halford's reaction to becoming metal’s first gay icon
- "Understand this – the band will read what is written about them": The rules Led Zeppelin gave to journalists who joined them on the road
- Geezer Butler recalls the time a stage invader with a knife tried to "sacrifice" Tony Iommi at a Black Sabbath show
- “For three days we had people screaming at us as if we were The Beatles”: Jarvis Cocker on the time that Pulp and Radiohead formed a supergroup to appear in a Harry Potter film
- “Ozzy would be running down the hallway, completely out of his mind…” Robert Trujillo on the time he joined Ozzy Osborne's band
- Watch this singer nail The Darkness' classic I Believe In A Thing Called Love a whole octave higher than the original - alongside Justin Hawkins' brilliant reaction
- House of Marley keep the positive vibes alive with their new over-ear headphones
- “He smashed up my parents’ house three times”. Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman on how Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was a regular guest at his family home
- “I had to punish my vocals constantly”. How George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher perfected the death growl
- July 17
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- Corey Taylor says he "completely backed" Metallica and Lars Ulrich's Napster battle: "if more people realized how badly artists were paid, they might say something"
- The 50 greatest Guns N’ Roses songs ever, and the stories behind them
- This insane drone footage of Lamb Of God smashing Now You’ve Got Something To Die For at Inkcarceration shows why they're still one of metal's greatest live bands
- 80s glam, vampires and 'Ska-mericana': these are the best new rock songs you need to hear this week
- Justin Hawkins was chosen to become the frontman of The Darkness after doing an interpretive dance to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at a party
- Galahad ready new album The Long Goodbye
- "When I’m happy, I’m writing the heaviest riff possible." From his deeply religious upbringing to fronting the world's biggest metal band, the life of Metallica's James Hetfield, in his own words
- Bassist Charlie Cawood joins UK proggers Kyros
- July 16
- July 15
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- Demi Lovato: I've always wanted to work with Corey Taylor
- "You will remember this show for the rest of your life": Pulp's triumphant homecoming sees Jarvis Cocker's Britpop heroes shoot for the moon
- “Our days of easily digestible folky paeans are behind us. Goodbye chamber pop, hello folk prog”: When Fleet Foxes acted like men driven mad on Crack-Up
- "It's going to be chaotic!": Brian May shares amazing rare footage of Queen rehearsing for Live Aid, and being interviewed ahead of their iconic Wembley Stadium performance
- "Some people will be like, ‘That’s not what metal is’. I know. That’s the point." Meet Scene Queen: innovator of 'bimbocore' and the artist calling out predators in the metal scene
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Faith No More
- July 14
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Demi Lovato, Royal Blood, Wargasm and more
- “The others realised they couldn’t stop me because it was too close to the show… I got away with it, although it was a close-run thing”: How Peter Gabriel developed his Genesis frontman act
- Every Enter Shikari album ranked from worst to best
- Sammy Hagar recalls exposing his genitals onstage while supporting Kiss in 1977: "I pulled my pants down, shook it at them and then smashed my guitar to bits"
- "It’s the most shambolic performance by Blur possible": Watch Blur perform on Italian TV with a cardboard cut-out of guitarist Graham Coxon
- "I find the world a very strange and screwed up place. I don’t feel comfortable in the world as it is now": Queen's Brian on why Britain's political landscape makes him depressed
- Brian May + Friends’ Star Fleet Project mini-album is the sound of two guitar giants having the time of their lives
- 15 bands to check out if you miss Motorhead
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: brand new music from Soen, Devin Townsend and more
- “All the excesses of rock’n’roll stardom – the sex, the drugs, the parties – were open to us”: Extreme’s Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt on the highs, the lows and the hedonism
- Steve Hackett previews Foxtrot At Fifty live album with Watcher Of The Skies video
- "I think this song is about Dave Mustaine considering moving to Colombia": Megadeth and The Offspring take on Shakira in one of 2023's best mash-ups
- "It doesn't matter what you go through, there's always hope." Royal Thunder were one of the underground's most exciting metal bands. Then addiction almost destroyed them
- “I looked at drugs as a short cut to the subconscious”: an epic interview with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry
- The night The Beatles were guarded by Christ and Moses
- July 13
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- "It was a labour of love": Brian May reveals his favourite Queen album
- "It was a lot of work writing this book. I'm not gonna say it was easy. I was a mess": Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna announces 'raw and insightful' memoir Rebel Girl
- Starbenders share seductive new single Body Talk
- "John just looked at us and said, I can’t do this any more”: Brian May on why John Deacon walked away from Queen
- "He was Slayer. He affected a lot of people and he didn’t even realise it.” The life and tragic death of Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman
- Corey Taylor reacts to Duff McKagan describing him as a young Bruce Springsteen: "That meant so much to me, 'cause I have not always been the easiest person to like in this business"
- “Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident
- Avenged Sevenfold frontman M Shadows: "technology overuse is killing metal and killing rock"
- Watch Hayley Williams deliver soulful Beyonce cover at recent Paramore show
- Prime Day is over but I've picked out the best deals that are still alive and kicking
- PVRIS embrace change and dualities on EVERGREEN, but at the cost of that spark which initially made them so irresistible
- Listen to Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen play on Ryan Gosling's '80s-style power ballad I'm Just Ken from the Barbie soundtrack
- 10 brilliant but overlooked albums turning 40 this year
- Hedvig Mollestad unveils new band with Elephant9 keyboardist Ståle Storløkken
- 10 times stand-up comedians made brilliant references to heavy metal
- July 12
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- Here's a collection of classic album covers made out of Lego
- “I don’t know if Prince was really odd or playing at being odd”: how a future Foo Fighters member accidentally ended up in a Prince video in 1985
- Blur's Damon Albarn pins Arctic Monkeys as "the last great guitar band", says no band has been as good as them since
- Amazon's top 100 Prime Day deals list is live – these are the 7 genuine bargains I would recommend
- Inside the lost Tony Visconti-produced U2 album that never was
- "It was an utterly ridiculous idea": Geezer Butler on the embarrassing truth behind Black Sabbath's infamous Stonehenge set, their unfortunate 'devil baby' and Spinal Tap
- I’m a whisky geek who has too many bottles, but I'm all in on these Prime Day booze bargains
- Dani Filth admits he would feel "uncomfortable" wearing Cradle Of Filth's infamous Jesus t-shirt today: "I don't want spit in my food"
- 4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
- TesseracT return with 11-minute epic War Of Being
- “There was an extraordinary amount of tension...” Inside Led Zeppelin’s final US tour
- Watch Bruce Dickinson break gong mallet at Iron Maiden show, before pretending to play it like a flute and giving it a lick
- 10 songs by 'one hit wonders' that are actually way better than their most famous hit
- Rock and ‘roll’ this Prime Day with these epic band and pop culture Monopoly deals
- "Why don’t you give Jimmy Page a ring?" How John Paul Jones came to join Led Zeppelin
- Amazon’s Prime Day AirPods Pro lowest price ever deal is music to my ears - with an impressive $50 saving
- "There definitely will be an end, but I don’t see it any time right now." Rumours of Sevendust's demise have been greatly exaggerated:
- "Bonehead started it!" Watch Noel and Liam Gallagher discuss getting barred from the Columbia hotel in this 1994 interview
- 10 terrible punk albums with one classic song
- Rina Sawayama appears to call out The 1975's Matty Healy onstage for the second time: "Why don’t you apologise for once in your life without making it about yourself? "
- How Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple album captured a band at their peak, before everything started to go wrong
- Watch Mastodon portray violent cinema snacks in the most metal movie opening of all time
- Hayley Griffiths Band return to the road with Metamorphosis tour
- John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"
- “We made a protective circle of candles around us”: how Michael Monroe ended up duetting with Axl Rose on a Guns N’ Roses cover of punk rock classic
- July 11
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- "We are excited and ready to raise double horns way up high": Judas Priest replace Ozzy Osbourne on heavyweight Power Trip festival bill
- Diego Tejeida and Eric Gillette announce new band Temic
- My vinyl record picks are still rocking hard even though Prime Day is over
- The ironic story of when Slipknot’s Clown almost gouged his eye out playing, you guessed it, Eyeless
- "I was working in a hamburger joint... when he left, I had to clean up after him": Joe Perry on the first time he met Steven Tyler
- Two of my favourite in-ear headphones are on sale for Prime Day - here's why you need them
- That time Thom Yorke formed a glam rock band with members of Radiohead, Suede, Roxy Music and, umm, David Gray’s drummer
- “It was a feeling of betrayal – they buy your record then come to a concert and whistle and hoot and screech… it all felt quite vulgar”: The time Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson nearly quit music
- Demons, hair metal and Ozzy Osbourne playing a priest: Why Trick Or Treat is the 80s’ unsung metal horror classic
- Here’s everything we know about Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s new band so far
- These Prime Day Audio-Technica turntable deals have put us in a spin
- Helmet announce UK and Europe tour dates in support of Left, their first studio album in seven years
- Beatrix Players announce joint headline shows with Amanda Lehmann
- Jack White labels Donald Trump a "fascist, racist con man", calls out "disgusting" celebrities who ‘normalize’ the former US President
- Focus return to the UK for November live dates
- Watch Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li nail the notoriously hard Through The Fire And Flames solo...while underwater
- Corey Taylor announces UK/Europe tour dates, shares intense new single Post Traumatic Blues
- Rick Wakeman announces new London date for 2024 UK tour
- July 10
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- Oli Sykes is animated as a vampire as Bring Me The Horizon team up with Corpse on video for CODE MISTAKE
- Ozzy pulls out of Power Trip Festival: "My body is telling me that I’m just not ready"
- Watch Nita Strauss get engaged at her album release show in Los Angeles
- Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto rips on nu metal, sparks big debate: "it was a very, very bad genre and anyone saying otherwise is a sicko"
- Watch Elton John play the final song on the final show of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour
- The best new rock songs you need to hear this week
- Depeche Mode announce new shows for 2024
- "We’re proud to show our commitment to thrash metal." The bizarre moment Napalm Death turned up on 90s TV staple TFI Friday to smash out three songs in 90 seconds
- Slash is apparently BFFs with Insidious actor Patrick Wilson: "I bug him all the time"
- "Ancient aliens? I'm open to the idea." The incredible life, career and beliefs of Testament frontman and thrash metal legend, Chuck Billy
- Roger Waters said he “couldn’t care less” about Van Halen, forgetting that he once appeared on a song with Eddie Van Halen
- Lana Del Rey at BST Hyde Park: enchanting, delightfully strange and worshipped like a queen
- "They're going to pull the plug again!" Bruce Springsteen sparkles in the summer rain at BST Hyde Park masterclass
- Nene Valley Rock Festival granted licence but Cambridge Rock Festival cancels
- Metallica's Reload gets an underwhelming score from Classic Rock's readers in the Album Of The Week Club
- Voyager share video for dark new single Ultraviolet
- The man who designed the cross on the cover of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction has died
- July 9
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- The strange story of the song that some people thought ‘inspired’ Enter Sandman (but probably didn’t)
- Every Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit film ranked
- Remembering the time MTV got a bunch of unsuspecting college students to review Nirvana's In Utero
- “Ray visited him just before he died and apologised for putting him at the centre of the story”: It took five decades for the Kinks’ Arthur to come of age
- Hostile Tool crowds, a demonic Dave Grohl, pirvate jet rides with Slash and pissing off Lemmy: How Tenacious D became the world's most successful comedy metal band
- Wolfgang Van Halen loves him some Meshuggah to help him get to sleep
- Watch Homer Simpson singing System Of A Down's Chop Suey!
- July 8
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- Human skulls, ghostly witches and Satanic invocations: the mysterious story of Pagan Altar, the greatest doom metal band the world doesn’t know about
- A beginner's guide to Earache records in five essential albums
- 10 non-famous bands who have the same name as a way more famous band
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Smashing Pumpkins
- "Wherever you go, the Metallica family is there": Front row and in the snake pit at the opening night of Metallica's blockbuster M72 tour
- “Personally, I’d love to get to where Steven Wilson’s at". Luke Machin welcomes you to the Maschine
- Thom Yorke on the Radiohead and Massive Attack album that never happened
- The Flower Kings announce sixteenth studio album Look At You Now
- July 7
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- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Goat, KennyHoopla, CHERYM and more
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The 10 best Stevie Nicks solo songs
- “He gave people permission to be themselves”: 10 of the best David Bowie songs, picked by Bowie keyboard player Mike Garson
- A beginner's guide to Creation Records in five essential albums
- "Musically Scheherazade And Other Stories is the one.” Annie Haslam on Renaissance's 1975 masterpiece
- 10 bands proving that NWOBHM is alive and kicking
- Listen to Ghost's new single featuring Patrick Wilson - a cover of Shakespears Sister’s Stay, as featured in the new Insidious movie
- What happened when Avenged Sevenfold released a prog metal concept album
- Remember the time The Simpsons took a hilarious potshot at Woodstock 99?
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Tusmorke, Silent Skies and more
- Listen to Van Halen blaze through a cover of Queen’s Now I’m Here… in 1975
- Watch Journey and Herbie Hancock elevate Junior Walker's Road Runner into the funkosphere
- Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: the soundtrack of my life
- "Zeppelin wasn’t safe, but we had such a following that virtually everything was accepted" - How Robert Plant made peace with the end of Led Zeppelin
- "I was still up at seven in the morning, howling away at the top of my voice" - How Lemmy wrote Motorhead by Motörhead
- Bullet trains and atomic bombs: what happened when Iron Maiden went to Hiroshima
- Expansive and ambitious, The Dust Coda's Loco Paradise is much more than just a bit good
- Nita Strauss lines up the special guest vocalists to augment the shredding on impressively slick album
- July 6
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- Spiritbox and Loathe's Birmingham show just showed that metal's new stars are ready to take over
- “Look at Kate Bush or Queen: sometimes when you don’t do the norm, that’s what changes the world a little bit” - How Midge Ure finally embraced his prog tendencies
- "They're just beautiful, musically." Watch George Michael defend Joy Division against Morrissey and Tony Blackburn in this peak 80s exchange
- “There has always been friction between me and Roger… I think, ‘Why do you have to say these things?’” Richard Wright’s personality clash with Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters
- The Beatles' Ringo Starr names the song that he believes defines his career
- “This has to be the weirdest thing that’s ever been named after me!”: Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi presented with sculpture of 469 million-year-old fossil named in his honour
- The Eagles announce The Long Goodbye farewell tour: "Everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle"
- "I thought I was going to be making a regular album. Then I heard this yelling, and saw Chris throw a glass of champagne in John's face": The inside story of the messy birth of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
- "Saying no to someone offering you money to make one seems psychotic.” How Rob Zombie ended up making movies
- "We were young, hotheaded and everything boiled over." The reason Max Cavalera left Sepultura
- Cellar Darling and Iamthemorning hook up for October European tour
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly make a fan's dream come true by punching him in the face
- "I appreciate you." See the heartwarming personal message Dolly Parton sent to Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx following their recent collaboration
- July 5
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- A beginner’s guide to Nuclear Blast records in five essential albums
- "I felt like I'd run a marathon": Architects' Sam Carter on supporting Metallica
- "Hayley and I have been friends since we were teens in Nashville and now we get to frolic around the UK/Europe next summer? I’m screaming": Taylor Swift announces Paramore as support on her 2024 Eras Tour
- A beginner's guide to Factory Records in five essential albums
- Remembering the crazy time 50 Cent got bottled off stage in 20 minutes at Reading Festival
- Jethro Tull announce 40th anniversary reissue of The Broadsword And The Beast
- “He’s took over the songs, but he’s not took over me": Watch Liam Gallagher explain how Noel changed Oasis in this lost 1994 interview
- Two owl chicks rescued from beneath Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage after Guns N' Roses set have been named Axl and Slash
- "It's the sound of acoustic guitars in your face and unapologetic": Why I ❤️ Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, by Frank Turner
- “The drama's gonna be there, always": Serj Tankian on the turmoil that makes System Of A Down tick
- "If you didn’t know I was in it, you’d miss me." When Rage Against The Machine legend Tom Morello turned up in Star Trek (twice!)
- Miranda Sex Garden announce UK tour
- Bruce Soord announces solo tour of EU and UK
- "I'm really starting to get the itch. I want to headline arenas" - Rival Sons on the album that should take them to the next level
- Sweet & Lynch: "We're proving to the world that even if you're polar opposites, you can still work together"
- The 50 best rock albums of the year... so far
- July 4
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- More electrifying footage from The Midnight Special's Steely Dan treasure trove has surfaced
- “Ozzy did a great big turd on his car”: how Ozzy Osbourne got his revenge on a promoter who refused to pay him after a disastrous gig
- A beginner’s guide to hair metal in 5 essential albums
- Have internet sleuths figured out the new Slipknot keyboardist's identity?
- "A ferocious shot across the bows": How Love's Da Capo album blew the 60s wide open
- "It's Spiderman again!" Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme reunites with masked superhero at European festival
- Floor Jansen cancels shows, reveals she collapsed after Nightwish concert: "my health is not good enough to responsibly perform"
- How Keith Moon-loving, kimono-wearing multi-instrumentalist Steel Beans became Tenacious D’s favourite new band
- "Some guy jumped onstage with a carving knife": Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth on the time Scandinavian Satanists came for him
- Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash reveals the horror movie that "scared the ****" out of him
- Cave In's Anchor: how the "emo-metal Radiohead" helped put the final nail in the nu metal coffin
- "He screwed up bad…" In the 70s, members of Little Feat grabbed our writer by the throat for asking about Lowell George. After his death, they were able to look back honestly
- "Brian always had to have an enemy, he always had an imaginary foe": Five years after Brian Jones' death, Keith Richards was ready to talk about the myths surrounding the late Rolling Stones' guitarist, and he did not hold back
- "Run DMC made me want to rap." These are the albums that mean the most to Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda
- Bassist Mo Foster, who played on over 400 albums and singles, dead at 78
- GOAT to release their sinister proggy soundtrack to The Gallows Pole
- David Longdon's debut solo album Wild River gets expanded reissue
- 10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened
- People are losing their minds over Lil Uzi Vert's bizarre cover of System Of A Down's Chop Suey
- Every Coheed And Cambria album ranked from worst to best
- Meet Wytch Hazel, the faith-driven rockers making religious music for non-believers
- Local council threatens to cancel Download Festival over "unprecedented" traffic chaos and 600 missed flights
- "I've spent six months making a recording of a song that I've thrown out" - Tom Scholz on the secrets of Boston's first album
- "This is my first album where nobody dies" - The White Buffalo
- July 3
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- The Tubes: Fee Waybill on departed band members, the Hollywood Vampires, and why the 80s will never die
- The best 10 Eddie Vedder impressions you'll ever see
- Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith had mixed feelings about their iconic mascot Eddie: "I thought, 'Is this overshadowing the band?'"
- "The other kids in school voted me 'Class Clown'". From taking English lessons to becoming a thrash legend, the life of Slayer's Tom Araya, in his own words
- “David Bowie’s Lodger was supposed to be called Planned Accidents… I was the accident!” Adrian Belew on being poached from Frank Zappa’s band
- The Darkness announce UK and Ireland leg of their Permission To Land 20 world tour
- 10 metal one hit wonders
- Keith Emerson celebrated with 20-disc box set Variations
- Adam Lambert: "There's no replacing Freddie Mercury. It's impossible. Freddie Mercury is a mythic rock god"
- Listen to Peter Gabriel's poignantly reflective new single So Much here
- Corey Taylor thinks he has "maybe five years” of touring with Slipknot, says he'll help the band find a replacement
- Winger have taken the knocks and they've been knocked out, but at least Metallica have apologised
- Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek - Album Of The Week Club review
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- That time Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones appeared on Conan O'Brien with an alt-rock supergroup and it wasn't Them Crooked Vultures
- July 2
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- Watch Axl Rose take a tumble during Guns N' Roses show in London's Hyde Park
- The Guess Who, American Woman, and Burton Cummings in a glorious white suit
- “Sir, are you married?”: the unlikely connection between Queen’s Brian May and punk band X-Ray Spex
- "We got stones thrown at us". Sahil ‘Demonstealer’ Makhija helped India finally embrace heavy metal - but the scene is facing more challenges than ever
- Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/Obits frontman Rick Froberg dead at 55
- "For some bizarre reason, women seem to feel compelled to take their shirts off when we play it..." How Florida's strippers made Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me a hit and saved the band's career
- Watch a young Queens Of The Stone Age tear up an unsuspecting CBGBs in this rare early footage
- WWE Money In The Bank hits London: world class entertainment that shows once again it's time to give the UK a Wrestlemania
- "We freaked everybody out": Why no one wanted to work with Guns N' Roses on Appetite For Destruction
- Peter Criss and Ace Frehley decline offer to return for last ever Kiss shows
- Stone Sour's future more uncertain than ever as Corey Taylor slams band's "hindrances"
- July 1
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- "We want to give people anxiety": how Avenged Sevenfold made 2023's strangest, most divisive heavy metal record with Life Is But A Dream...
- Shagged-out chic and avant-garde pop: How Godley & Creme became Britain's weirdest popstars
- Motley Crue rock London's tiny Underworld club (and no, there wasn't any miming)
- A beginner's guide to 90s UK indie in five essential albums
- "It gets in the way of originality": Why Kurt Cobain thought it was a bad idea to get good at guitar
- “You could record yourself on a computer”: John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter asking him to appear on his best friend’s album
- 12 examples of the songwriting genius of Lou Reed that aren't Perfect Day or Walk On The Wild Side
- Mötley Crüe have released some official photos from their secret club gig in London
- "There was something about this music" - Eddie Vedder and the magical intensity of of Pearl Jam
