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October 31
- Robert Trujillo says Metallica haven't given up on slow songs: "At some point there will be a ballad"
- The 10 spookiest heavy metal songs of all time
- "Pearl Jam used to hire out bars to drink with us": Idlewild's Roddy Woomble on how four punk rock kids from Scotland emerged from the wreckage of Britpop, gatecrashed the UK charts and got adopted as Pearl Jam's new favourite band
- Biffy Clyro, blast-beats and Brexit: how Simon Neil and Mike Vennart made one of the extreme metal albums of the year with Empire State Bastard
- "They presented the idea to me, that it would be Skate Jam": Tony Hawk once almost starred in a skateboarding sequel to Space Jam
- The most played live songs by 10 iconic alt rock bands
- 5 things to consider when investing in a pair of earplugs
- 18 of the darkest, most terrifying prog rock songs ever made
- Pentangle's Jacqui McShee and Robert Plant to appear at Bert Jansch 80 celebration concert
- Every Nightmare On Elm Street movie ranked from worst to best
- 3000 fans, confetti cannons and a phallic piano: Electric Callboy just put on the wildest metal party in town
- The 10 scariest heavy metal album covers of all time
- Nikki Sixx once claimed that Mötley Crüe were in secret negotiations with the US State Department to travel to Baghdad during the Iraq War to perform a Rolling Stones song
- "My voice will go at some point, but until then I’m about customer service and rock'n'roll": the oddball story of Rush's "little brother band" Max Webster
- "The farewell tour was us wanting to put Kiss out of its misery:" How Kiss's long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe
- Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings from The Guess Who are suing the band currently touring as The Guess Who for $20 million
- Mick Mars releases video for surprisingly heavy debut solo single Loyal To The Lie
October 30
- 10 great classic rock songs that were huge hits in America but largely ignored in the UK
- Creed announce their first tour in over a decade, taking in 40 cities next summer
- “The most wonderful ideas can come from people you might call amateurs… they haven’t been playing long enough to get bogged down in the rules”: King Crimson ex David Cross loves jamming with students
- A death metal band got their fans to play fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering in the moshpit
- Show No Mercy with DC Shoes’ killer range of Slayer merch
- "There was always an undercurrent of youthful exuberance, violence and piracy": Why The Cult's Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury aren't scared of summoning the ghosts of their past by resurrecting Death Cult
- The 10 greatest Universal monster movies, ranked
- "It touched my heart so much and made me feel so much emotion." Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea reveals the album that he thinks defined 70s LA punk rock - and what it taught him about less sometimes being more
- The 10 greatest ghost movies ever, ranked
- Green Day are playing a tiny surprise show in Paris this weekend - and it looks like more European shows could follow
- 10 up-and-coming progressive metal bands every self-respecting metalhead should know
- “Their best work under the banner has always been the result of collaboration rather than dictatorship”: King Crimson’s 50th anniversary version of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
- "Among bass fishermen, our next guests are considered the preeminent heavy metal band": In 1998, the original lineup of Black Sabbath appeared on TV together for the first time in more than 20 years
- "I just played f***ing bass with the Stones – and I’m a f***ing Beatle:" it turns out Paul McCartney got quite excited playing on the new Rolling Stones album
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Lucifer, DeWolff, The Hives and more
- There’s a Facebook page recreating classic metal album art in MS Paint and it’s our new favourite thing
October 29
- "The judicious use of sound effects adds to the occasionally claustrophobic atmosphere": Crime Of The Century by Supertramp - Album Of The Week Club review
- "We are bathing in innuendo": Whitesnake's Lovehunter artwork was knee-jerk response to their critics, but the album itself was a game-changer
- “With British crowds, it was: ‘We want Jon! Get Jon back!’ People were aggressive about it”: how Yes faced down the haters and made the classic Drama album
- "I’d heard this one thing, Smoke On The Water or something. But I’d never actually seen them": the night an ex-Beatle gatecrashed a Deep Purple show for an impromptu jam
- "Music is one of my acting tools." Orange Is The New Black star Jessica Pimentel reveals the metal, goth and rock artists that helped her through some of the show's more emotionally turbulent scenes
- “We had 35 labels pass!” Through The Ashes Of Empires at 20: The groove metal monster that saved Machine Head’s career
- “Our ideas were more solid than our ability to play them! We had to raise our game”: The lessons Rush learned from Hemispheres
October 28
- 10 massively successful British bands who failed to crack America
- “Peter Sellers wanted to change places with me on part of my tour. Only if I could play Inspector Clouseau in a movie”: the outrageous story of Alice Cooper’s Welcome To My Nightmare
- “That level of success was like nothing we had ever experienced before. It was such a huge record for us”: how Rush’s prog classic Moving Pictures marked their great reinvention
- "The curtain across the control room went back and there was Rick with his dick in a wine glass going, 'Coq au vin, anyone?'." David Paton's life in music
- The 10 most imaginative covers of Metallica songs
- “He released the set without even bothering with a single to precede it, preferring fans to hear it as a whole entity – an archetypically progtastic move”: Prince’s Around The World In A Day
- "We had broads in our trailer. The refrigerator was loaded with beer. We were into coke. We were animals": Why Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park was destined to be rock'n'roll's worst movie
October 27
- Former WASP / LA Guns drummer Steve Riley dead at 67
- "He grabbed me and said, I like you. You've got a lot of nerve": ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on the night his teenage band supported Jimi Hendrix, and closed their set with Foxy Lady and Purple Haze
- Australia guitarist Plini announces new EP, Mirage, for December release
- “There’s some good music, of course, but most of it was reshaped for expediency rather than for aesthetic reasons”: Yes compilation Yessingles
- "An exceptional debut album from perhaps the most ferocious new punk band on the scene": meet Problem Patterns, your new favourite band
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Iron Maiden announce huge North America tour for 2024
- “I think we cross a lot of boundaries and I think our fans are very open-minded.” Ne Obliviscaris and the making of Urn
- "Prog to me means taking something a step further." Joey Eppard on 3 and their Revisions album
- "Mustaine held his Flying V guitar by the neck, and swung it like a baseball bat at the head of a teenager who was spitting at him": the true eyewitness story of the Megadeth gig which inspired Holy Wars
- From aggro industrial to nu metal rage to glitchy alt pop, Zig is Poppy making music by her own rules - and it's wonderfully unhinged
- Great new prog music from Moon Safari, Chelsea Wolfe and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "Childish. Chaotic. Random." Devin Townsend and the return of Ziltoid The Omniscient
- VOLA, Plini, Dirty Loops and The Omnific all announced For Radar Festval 2024
- “We knew we were good, and you could feel it when we got onstage." Dave Lombardo remembers Slayer's first ever show - and the craziest thing he's ever seen at a gig
- If you were expecting Poppy's fifth album Zig to deliver metallic thrills you'll be disappointed, but then second-guessing Poppy is always a fool's game
- “Polished so slickly it denies the friction which draws your ears in… once that fine film of funk is discerned, it can’t be undiscerned”: Steely Dan’s Aja remastered
- The 10 greatest zombie movies ever, ranked
- “So many of my peers are like cover bands of their own selves these days… I didn’t want to be a museum. So this is a kind of reinvention”: The return of Edgar Broughton
- The Darkness have a released a trailer for their upcoming documentary and we might just have a classic on our hands
- "We were four separate guys at the beginning of the afternoon, and by the end of the evening we were a band": Paul Rodgers on life with Free, Bad Company, The Firm and Queen
- "It would have been the most stupid and self-destructive thing we could possibly have done": Why the man who signed Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones failed in his repeated bids to sign Fugazi, not even for 10 million dollars
- Tarot cards, a ouija board and a demonic pottery candleholder: the deluxe version of Mötley Crüe's best album is an OTT wonder
- "By the end of the album, Fallon is still fundamentally tortured": comeback album History Books finds The Gaslight Anthem reflective but utterly revived
- More heartache than hell-raising: The Cadillac Three have tampered with their hard-drinkin', southern-rockin' template
- Dokken's signature sound lives on but Heaven Comes Down has a surprising sting in the tail
October 26
- "The feeling that chaos was about to erupt was palpable": Thurston Moore's memoir Sonic Life is a fascinating insider account of life-changing outsider art, and one music geek's insatiable lust for the loud
- Doro's latest celebration of all things heavy metal brims with power, pride and passion
- "We’re getting there, but we’re not in a rush." Haken and the making of Vector
- Watch as Rush legend Geddy Lee goes native with bassists from Metallica, Primus, Nirvana and Hole in new TV show Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?
- Oliver Wakeman to debut music from Yes' From A Page at Winter's End Festival 2024
- Watch guitar maestro Sophie Lloyd's super-spooky cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman
- Members of Suicide Silence, Abiotic and Job For A Cowboy did a deathcore cover of Africa by Toto and it’s proving divisive
- Pink Floyd announce Special Edition release of Atom Heart Mother
- "I and the rest of the guys in the band had to give him the space that he needed." Lars Ulrich explains how Metallica worked through James Hetfield's stint in rehab
- A new Beatles song titled Now And Then is being released next week as their "final" single: "There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear. It’s quite emotional."
- 10 times classic metal songs sounded surprisingly beautiful on acoustic guitars
- "When things do go off the rails, I just lean into it": Meet Cuticles, New Zealand's hotly-tipped purveyors of weird pop
- “Maverick in scope and enormous in scale… but it owes much of its sprawling nature to its contributors”: Steven Wilson’s The Harmony Codex
- The 40 best power ballads of all time
- Fred Abbott's new album may sound like the work of a denim-clad heartland rocker from some obscure corner of the American Midwest, but it was recorded in a South London basement
- "He reckoned we could conjure a demon. We tried it every night on stage, but it never worked": the story of Black Widow, rock's original pretend Satanists
- "Roger punched me once, and I’m sure I asked for it": How The Who overcame internal strife and a drummer behaving like 'a Saudi prince' to make their most poignant album
October 25
- Earlier this year Billy Idol played a spectacular show at the Hoover Dam: now it's heading to the cinema
- "We’re definitely not your typical prog band." Leprous and the story of Pitfalls
- 10 rock anthems only played live once
- "I learned that any innocent little comment can be twisted to make it seem something that it isn’t": Mike Portnoy on his departure from Dream Theater
- “Colin Moulding was deemed the good-looking one who wrote the singalong stuff, so he mostly got the A-sides. And because I was the weird specky one, I used to get the B-sides”: XTC’s Andy Partridge looks back and forward
- “I am overwhelmed with joy to be returning home and reuniting with my brothers!" Dream Theater announce the return of Mike Portnoy to the band after 13 years
- The 10 worst creative decisions in heavy metal history
- Jethro Tull share suitably lupine new video for Wolf Unchained
- 10 up-and-coming stoner and doom bands every self-respecting metalhead should know
- Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Steve Albini recall Nirvana's prank telephone calls to Eddie Vedder and Gene Simmons during the making of In Utero
- Slick, heavy and anchored by the brilliant Maria Brink, Godmode is the album that, if there's any justice in the world, will take In This Moment further than ever
- "We’re never gonna see Taylor Swift money": Corey Taylor discusses Slipknot's finances, and says the band "don’t make a lot of money"
- "It’s almost like you’re on borrowed time now." Lars Ulrich on taking Metallica into their fifth decade, and how The Rolling Stones are going where no rock 'n' roll band have ever gone before
- "It’s that time of year where Zacky, Johnny and Brooks transform into fiends": listen to Avenged Sevenfold cover Misfits classic Astro Zombies for Halloween (and show Zacky Vengeance is a hell of a singer)
- “It’s ostentatious and even maddening at times, but there’s no faulting the ambition”: XTC’s The Big Express
- "In the last five-to-ten years I’ve seen more promising new bands and artists than in a very long time": Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes is hopeful about the future of rock music
- Yngwie Malmsteen: "Each night on stage I play songs that I wrote forty years ago, and I challenge myself to play them differently. I’m not a jukebox. And that’s what makes things exciting"
- We've tried counting the number of vinyl variants of the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds and there's at least 43 of them
October 24
- "Someone bid a huge amount of money for him to sing this song": Robert Plant's recent performance of Stairway To Heaven was reportedly prompted by a six-figure charity donation
- Heart announce first show in more than four years
- “It’s an homage to all the fans who stayed with us for all these years.” Galahad and the story of The Last Great Adventurer
- Roadburn Festival 2024 announces its first acts
- Chelsea Wolfe announces brand new album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
- Brutal 90s death metal band Mortician have been blowing up on TikTok
- “Darkly beautiful, Floydian in nature… a wonderful listen if the stock of Prozac holds out”: Bruce Soord’s Luminescence
- “A cop knocked at the door and said, ‘You’ve got to stop!’” Ozzy Osbourne once put a chicken full of antifreeze on his neighbour’s fence and the police thought it was a satanic effigy
- Green Day release gruesome video for new single The American Dream Is Killing Me, featuring the band as scary zombie punks, and confirm details for new album Saviors
- "I miss his laconic humour. His taste in music. His elegance. His don’t-care attitude": Mick Jagger is still mourning the loss of his friend Charlie Watts, and Keith Richards says he misses the drummer "every day"
- 10 heavy metal cover songs more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)
- "We have some crazy interludes and instrumental passages.” How Haken made second album Visions
- "Don't get me started on Rick Wakeman!" Rick Astley's never gonna give prog up!
- Watch Dave Grohl join The Breeders onstage in Texas to cover Pixies classic Gigantic
- Fruupp reveal details of new band CD/vinyl stand
- 12 ways to make your home more goth
- 10 times legendary metal bands performed classic albums live in full
- “Vinyl is slightly cheaper to manufacture in Poland, but all the big companies have cottoned on… it’s taken six months to get The Last Great Adventurer pressed”: Galahad on how to keep working as an independent band
- "It was fantastic – it was ridiculous how good it was": In 1987 Eddie Van Halen appeared on Saturday Night Live and displayed the full range of his talents
- At last! A man on the internet has answered the question, "What would it sound like if AC/DC had written Another One Bites The Dust by Queen?"
October 23
- Duran Duran have covered the Talking Heads' classic Psycho Killer with Måneskin bassist Victoria De Angelis and it's not nearly as bad it could have been
- "They thrived on the tension. They walked the precipice and won": the story of the show that propelled Nirvana from the underground to worldwide attention
- At the height of Fleetwood Mac's cocaine-taking madness, Mick Fleetwood would take advice from an imaginary friend, Fred
- Blink-182 announce summer 2024 stadium dates in the US and Canada
- Watch Green Day debut new loser anthem Look Ma, No Brains at When We Were Young festival
- Five bands keeping the spirit of Riot Grrrl alive
- "I was employed to take Jimi Hendrix round Paris for an evening, show him a good time": Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on his adventures in 1960s France, hanging with Jimi Hendrix, partying with Brigitte Bardot and getting arrested with Syd Barrett
- Foo Fighters to headline Hellfest 2024, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Offspring, Megadeth, Royal Blood and more also confirmed
- "I'm actually getting misty eyed as we're talking about it." Metallica's Lars Ulrich gets emotional as he discusses AC/DC's comeback show at Power Trip Festival
- “He reached out to me regarding something completely different." Tobias Forge reveals how Ghost ended up duetting with Insidious and Aquaman star Patrick Wilson for that Shakespears Sister cover
- Every Within Temptation album ranked from worst to best
- “We’ve got to thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year!” Watch Lars Ulrich’s brutal Grammy acceptance speech in 1992
- Everything you need to know about Sleep Token
- Wargasm's Venom: a fun as hell, genre-splicing, relentlessly entertaining ride, and one of 2023's essential debut albums
- “We were hiding in the shower and it was really eerie.” Metallica’s Robert Trujillo once hid from a Manson Family shootout
- “I’m 85 to 90 percent back to strength.” Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain gives health update following stroke
- Watch Steppenwolf perform a banging version of Born To Be Wild on The Midnight Special
- "Their music was played at every party, bush bash, and camp fire you would go to": Fully Completely by The Tragically Hip - Album Of The Week Club review
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, the Cadillac Three, Dirty Honey and more
- Meet cinematically minded alt.rock Brit stars Black Honey: one eye on Courtney Love and another on Tarantino movies
- "An era of decadence began with a hope, passion and joy centred on music": how Los Angeles in the 1980s became the hair metal mecca
October 22
- "You just can’t make it big enough, rude enough or loud enough": Producer Tom Allom on engineering Black Sabbath and helping create the sound of heavy metal
- "Within about 20 minutes I came up with Show Me The Way. Then that afternoon, as the sun was setting, I sat under a palm tree and wrote Baby, I Love Your Way." Peter Frampton remembers his greatest day
- Watch Robert Plant perform a rare version of Stairway To Heaven at a charity event
- Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter: the woman behind Lingua Ignota has produced a radically different but compelling new vision with Saved!
- "It’s the biggest project I was ever involved with." How Steve Hackett made Genesis Revisited II
- "To say it sounds too much like Dream Theater, I just can’t wrap my head around it. What do you want us to sound like?" Dream Theater hit back at the trolls with A View From The Top Of The World
- Watch Green Day, Blink-182, skater legend Tony Hawk, Avril Lavigne and a host of MySpace Top 8 pop-punks go hard at When We Were Young fest in Las Vegas
- “I bought Van der Graaf Generator’s Pawn Hearts second-hand from the school notice board. Who would sell that?!” Andy Jackson on where to find great prog
October 21
- “I was on heroin, I’d torched my marriage, I was homeless and penniless”: the rise, fall and rise again of hard rock survivors Little Caesar
- “I looked out the window, the sun was coming up and I started playing the riff of Sunshine Of Your Love": how Cream made Disraeli Gears in five days and changed music forever
- "I think Damian’s the singer we should’ve had from the very first day.” How Damian Wilson revitalised Arena on The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance
- “I see young people at Guns N’ Roses shows and think, ‘There should be a band that‘s 21 or 22 that you’re losing your mind to’”: GN’R bassist Duff McKagan on whether rock’n’roll has a future
- The 10 best Radiohead B-sides, out-takes and buried-deep treasures
- “Take the album out of the Kiss context, and you have a remarkably coherent work”: Why Music From The Elder is a prog metal masterpiece
- “Keith Emerson said, ‘Why do I need to join Yes when I have ELP?’”: the story behind Yes’ delirious Relayer album
October 20
- Baroque 'n' roll stars: Britain's most exciting new bands - The Last Dinner Party and Picture Parlour - unite for homecoming celebrations in the capital
- Post Malone's haunting cover of Alice In Chains classic Them Bones is further proof that he'd have made a great rock star if he weren't already a hip-hop icon
- Hurricanes, sound issues and religious repression be damned: Indonesia's Voice Of Baceprot reign triumphant on their debut US tour: "The world awaits their encore"
- "When I joined the Yardbirds all I kept hearing was... 'Eric wouldn't have done that'": For Jeff Beck, replacing Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds was a challenge, not least because Clapton wanted the band to fail
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Go Ahead And Die's Unhealthy Mechanisms: Max Cavalera's latest release is billious, ferocious and headbangingly good fun
- The second biggest hits by 10 one-hit wonders
- “There were days he couldn’t come in. But when he got in front of the microphone, he sang his balls off": Tony Visconti on the making of David Bowie's final album Blackstar
- “A mature viewpoint without sounding remotely irrelevant or unwelcome”: Galahad’s The Long Goodbye
- Warm, bright and packing some wonderful collaborations with Robert Smith and El-P, Crosses' new album Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. is a welcome return from Chino Moreno and Shaun Lopez
- “If you want to put a band together, I’ve worked with all the greats”: Ozzy Osbourne once tried to recruit a backing band for Rick Astley
- "Billy Corgan's got an ego bigger than my arse": Inside the Smashing Pumpkins vs. Sharon Osbourne feud that made Mrs O "sick"
- The Pineapple Thief announce European tour dates
- Cool new prog music from District 97, Teramaze, Gandalf's Fist and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Bleed Out is undoubtedly Within Temptation's heaviest record to date. It may also be their best
- "We have some very big songs!" Elbow announce new album and tour dates for 2024
- "This is the first club gig we’ve played in a long time in New York." Watch The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga perform new single Sweet Sounds Of Heaven at a star-studded surprise set in NYC last night, celebrating their new album, Hackney Diamonds.
- Green Day just played a surprise, intimate show in Las Vegas featuring Dookie in full, rarities and a brand new song (videos inside)
- The 10 Metallica songs most played live
- Dave Lombardo explains why Slayer were the best thrash metal band: "Our mantra was to blow everyone away"
- Order your limited edition Creeper bundle – featuring a signed art print and a temporary tattoo sheet
- Keith Emerson's on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- “His work with Gentle Giant surely seals his prog reputation”: Produced By Tony Visconti box set
- “People won’t make a connection between Rush and Napalm Death, but we’ve included some of their more odd timings into our music”: Shane Embury, prog fan
- The Screaming Eagles on their new album, sharing a slash with Myles Kennedy, and Brian Johnson as babysitter
- "A guy in a wheelchair calmly eating live locusts out of a cigar box": five shock rock bands from the 1970s you should definitely know
- Duff McKagan's Lighthouse: "A long way from the howling urban venom and party-hard hedonism of GN'R in their prime"
- "In among the messy tangle of human souls, Rival Sons prove there is always room for the light to get in": Lightbringer album review
- Joe Bonamassa fires on all cylinders on the unfailingly upbeat sequel to 2003's Blues Deluxe
October 19
- U2 schedule another 11 shows at revolutionary Las Vegas Sphere
- "A whistle-stop tour through the best-loved parts of the band’s storied career, marked by the inescapable turbulence of life": the reunited Blink-182 return older, wiser and stronger for their scars on One More Time...
- 10 classic Queen songs you won’t hear on the radio
- “Chris and Jon often didn’t get on… I didn’t want to be the leader, but to be a strong voice on the team, brave enough to speak up”: Steve Howe learned to play peacemaker in Yes
- Wishbone Ash announce limited edition signed fine art Argus print
- The 10 greatest metal power ballads ever
- Metal For Good: the Rob Halford-approved metal charity looking to make positive change
- "I did not save your life, but I can be an avenue that helps you": Beartooth's Caleb Shomo is a reluctant rock star, but the one metal desperately needs
- Tim Bowness and Butterfly Mind announce 2024 live dates
- "It was like making friends with the devil:" When Guns N' Roses took Faith No More on tour it got messy, to the point where Axl Rose confronted his support band to ask, "Why do you hate me"
- Italian football fans have created a mind-boggling tribute to Pink Floyd
- Neal Morse confirms UK Morsefest for Brentwood's Trinity Church
- "A great solo has that Beavis and Butt-Head thing where you can sing it": Baroness' Gina Gleason talks Cirque Du Soleil, Smashing Pumpkins and why watching her bandmates is like listening to Zeppelin
- "Burn, Indio, burn!" Watch fiery, pro-shot footage of Metallica smashing out Fuel in style at Power Trip Festival
- The Final Cut by Pink Floyd explored themes of loss, disillusionment, and the human cost of conflict: It was also popular with chickens
- 10 amazing heavy metal albums that you can’t find on Spotify
- “Natural ability counts for nothing… One of the problems progressive music has had is it never encouraged everyone to have a try”: Peter Gabriel’s guide to success
- "I went to my neighbour's house, told them my name was Lola Vasquez, an orphan from the 1930s, and could I please come inside and have a Pop-Tart." Six things you need to know about Grace Potter
October 18
- Steve Howe to release second Motif collection in November
- Oni's The Silver Line is an ambitiously frantic patchwork of ideas that pays off - and it's packing one hell of a dinner party guestlist
- 10 times metal bands made masterpieces late into their career
- “They demanded a great deal from their audience”: 10 Pink Floyd concerts that show how they cemented their reputation for live brilliance
- How the mutual love affair between The Prodigy and Rage Against The Machine spurred both bands on to make harder, heavier, darker music
- Rising UK doom stars Green Lung say their upcoming album This Heathen Land is their Number Of The Beast
- "Damnation is a special record!" Opeth celebrate album's 20th anniversary with vinyl reissue
- 10 heavy metal replacement singers that just couldn’t live up to their predecessors
- "The paramedics said, ‘If it had been another 10 minutes, I don’t think he would be here": From having glasses thrown at him in Wolfsbane to trial-by-fire in Iron Maiden, Blaze Bayley is heavy metal's ultimate survivor
- Peter Gabriel announces December 1 release for new studio album i/o
- "He's an ***hole!" Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne disagree on Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx (and whether that infamous Ozzy story about the ants ever actually happened)
- Nine Skies announce Charlie Bramald as vocalist for UK live dates
- “The teacher’s hatred of my guitar probably goes a long way to explaining why I persevered with it”: How Genesis’ Mike Rutherford survived boarding school
- The UFO albums you should definitely own
- Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators announce 2024 touring schedule
- "I love to just get up and shake every demon out of my soul": The Glorious Sons' Brett Emmons on mental fortitude, scuppered sessions and his livewire stage persona
October 17
- "We resisted the offer of a million pounds to reunite": the magical Zombies' song that was only a hit after they broke up
- Your essential guide to every album by The Smiths
- "It probably read like I was some kind of malevolent psychopath": the truth behind that entertainingly one-sided Mogwai vs Blur feud
- "There's a lot to be said for going inside": the time that Ian Brown got sent to prison for threatening to cut off an air hostess' hands
- "Getting addicted to drugs and alcohol was never my intention... I was lucky to survive": Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on the brutal realities of rock 'n' roll excess
- “I now toy with the dilemma of either just going along with her or embarrassing her”: Rick Wakeman explains how to deal with strangers on a train
- Blank Manuskript announce English tour dates for November
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford on the persecution experienced by the LGBTQ community: "You can't get rid of bigots; you can't get rid of that kind of mentality...but don't give them a bigger voice."
- "There are so many phenomenal ladies and great singers." Heavy metal legend Doro Pesch reveals who else she thinks deserves the title of 'Metal Queen'
- 10 hard rock and heavy metal farewell tours that weren’t actually farewells
- Spock's Beard and Pain Of Salvation to headline Midwinter Prog Festival in 2024
- “I was furious...those kids were really, really upset”: Tobias Forge's reaction to a venue banning face paint at a recent Ghost show
- Myrkur's new album Spine is her magnum opus and a riveting, emotional odyssey
- Watch a fully healed Zack De La Rocha and a hilariously dramatic Jack Black make two very different - but equally great - surprise appearances with Run The Jewels at the hip hop duo's tenth anniversary shows
- Johnny Marr reveals why giving Oasis' Noel Gallagher a guitar 30 years ago inspired him to quit drinking alcohol
- “Like an old dog or an old horse, gotta put it down.” Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has stopped flying commercial jets
- “I am not singing about dolphins!” WWE legend Triple H had to talk Motorhead’s Lemmy into covering David Bowie and the Rolling Stones
- “Thanks for the love, y’all!” Papa Roach’s Last Resort has hit one billion Spotify streams, confirming it as one of the biggest metal songs of all time
- “It really wasn’t emotional… We walked to the front of the stage together and waved at the audience. He walked off, got into a car and drove off. That was it”: How Kansas survived Steve Walsh’s departure
- "The days of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed being dark and wayward and fascinating are long gone": Philip Seth Campbell on the Temperance Movement, sobriety, and being broken
- "They do this crazy thing – they write good songs! And it doesn’t sound dated!": My 80s Mixtape, by Clutch's Neil Fallon
- Six songs to understand the electrifying genius of Mitch Mitchell
- "We didn't look like hobbits and we hadn't been to public school": how Marillion, IQ, Pendragon and more kick-started the unlikeliest of prog rock revivals
October 16
- Half of Bandcamp’s staff have been laid off
- Rob Halford has revealed who he thinks is the first ‘definitive’ heavy metal band. And it’s Judas Priest
- Watch Devin Townsend's relaunched new Podcast here
- “When I started out I thought: ‘I’ll be able to play guitar, drink, take drugs and shag as many women as I can!’ But we ended up in the prog vein”: Pye Hastings’ lifelong urges
- Rick Wakeman announces charity Saving Strays At Christmas concert
- "Someone said that they were in a Portaloo while we were on stage, and the bass rumbled some excrement out of them.” Getting to know Wargasm, the genre-splicing, Fred Durst-approved duo making major waves in modern metal
- Jack Black has been flying the heavy metal flag in the mainstream for nearly 30 years. It’s time we gave him his flowers.
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce summer 2024 UK and Ireland tour dates with Weezer
- New prog supergroup Cyan return with second album
- “The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you”: Liam Gallagher announces massive UK and Ireland tour to celebrate 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe
- "There was a pub called the Aston Arms, and some Saturday nights there would get pretty hairy outside in the parking lot." Bernie Taupin discusses the (not total) inspiration behind Elton John classic Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- The 10 hardest death metal songs to play
- "It was a critical mistake, and ultimately it broke up the band": How Creedence Clearwater Revival fell to pieces
- "Passages of beautiful, haunting music, mellow vocals, and lyrics that conjure images of darkness, loss and betrayal": Heritage by Opeth - Album Of The Week Club review
- David Lee Roth launches exuberant, previously unreleased track Manda Bala
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Bush, Joanne Shaw Taylor, CJ Wildheart and more
- Nirvana launch "quasi-psychedelic visualiser" for In Utero classic Dumb
October 15
- "Electric Ladyland was one of those albums that I look back on now and think 'Good grief! What the hell were we doing?'": the road to Jimi Hendrix's final studio masterpiece
- "You don't look like a rock star, you don't write music like a rock star": how Joe Satriani confounded his label and recorded the one-take wonder that changed his life
- “I’ve always said it’s not just ‘progressive anything’. It’s progressive rock and it needs to rock." How Glass Hammer turned it up to 11 with Skallagrim – Into The Breach
- Frostbitten fantasy kingdoms, Spinal Tap mishaps and kidnapped cats - forget Lords Of Chaos, we want to see the Immortal movie: "I’ve even been offered to do it, but Blashyrkh belongs to Immortal"
- “It was like an ego thing. It did make me wonder if Bruce was right for the band”: how Iron Maiden rose above bickering, booze and exhaustion to make The Number Of The Beast, the album that defined them
- The 7 songs Metallica have only played live once
- 10 cover versions absolutely hated by the people who originally wrote them
- “We got to be crushed by a huge corporate giant right up close”: Eddie Vedder on the time Pearl Jam took on Ticketmaster
- “A few progressive leaps too far, with its experimentation and sheer audacity… but the future understood”: The Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat
October 14
- “Black Sabbath? Anyone?” Watch Jack Black absolutely nail singing War Pigs on The Tonight Show in 2011
- “We wanted to show how much Babymetal evolved.” Inside Babymetal's bold new era - and why, with new member Momometal, three is once again the magic number
- "Yes’s double and triple albums were seldom off my turntable!" Thomas Dolby opens up on his love of prog rock!
- Jean-Michel Jarre releases Zeitgeist Take 2 with French artist NSDOS
- "You can be a girl boss and a sugar baby at the same time": Scene Queen lays down the law on Bimbocore, the UK and being pitted against other women
- “Nobody is perfect. But people really don’t understand what I’m doing”: Yngwie Malmsteen on why he’s the guitarist people love to hate
- “She was the mentor who made R.E.M. a band in the first place”: Michael Stipe on the time R.E.M. roped in his hero Patti Smith as a guest singer
- “I wanted to define the archetype messiah rock star. That’s all I wanted to do”: the epic oral history of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album
- “The studio was next door to the Chinese Embassy. We received their Morse code signals through our amps!”: how Status Quo accidentally picked up secret messages from China in the 1970s
October 13
- Heroin, groupies and a court order: the story of the controversial documentary the Rolling Stones didn’t want the world to see
- "I may not leave the same amount of blood on the floor every night, but I'm still happy to bleed": Bob Mould on identity, community, bringing punk to the people, and taking no nonsense from anyone, ever
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “Adam's wife cottoned on that we would work for maybe 20 minutes then climb over the wall to go to the pub”: The world of Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman
- Great new prog music from Ozric Tentacles, The Flower Kings, Tiger Moth Tales and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "I don't think any of us particularly liked it. It was an interference in the workplace": Paul McCartney discusses Yoko Ono's "disturbing" presence during The Beatles' recording sessions
- "We certainly weren’t going to destroy the band because Heather left." How Mostly Autumn steadied the ship with Go Well Diamond Heart
- Fight Songs: 10 rock anthems attacking well-known rock stars
- Colin Edwin announces new album with Robert Jürjendal
- Ghost return to the cover of Metal Hammer – and there are two covers to collect!
- “Getting to Architects’ or Bring Me The Horizon’s level would be a huge step up.” How Tesseract pushed themselves further than ever to become prog metal's most ambitious modern band with War of Being
- Keith Emerson celebrated in new Lucky Man video
- Five rock stars, three songs and only one concert: The story of Damnocracy – the most bizarre and disappointing supergroup of all time
- Meet Akilla: the new face of UK melodeath
- 50 years of Status Quo's classic Hello!, in their own words: only in the action-packed new issue of Classic Rock
- Twin Temple's Satanic doo-wop-powered God Is Dead is the empowering, blasphemous and devilishly fun album the rock world needs right now
- “A remarkable legacy that’s celebrated in this impressive collection, warts and all”: Keith Emerson’s Variations
- Judas Priest launch epic new single Panic Attack
- Aerosmith helped Karen Lawrence on her way, and she wrote a four-times-platinum hit single… but then Barbra Streisand stole all the glory
October 12
- Creeper's Sanguivore: a blood-drenched Bat Out Of Hell for goths and vampires
- "I'm not going to thank anybody. None of you f**kers have ever given us a hand. You didn't do anything": Why Motorhead's Lemmy always hated the Grammy Awards
- Goat's new album Medicine: you want an alluring mix of hypno-rock, mysticism and death-cult menace? You got it
- "It worked, and it was good, and that was it:" Robert Plant looks back on Led Zeppelin's legendary 2007 reunion show
- "Like a red snake in the water... Listen to the silence over the fear": Listen to French football legend Eric Cantona's Nick Cave/Leonard Cohen-inspired debut single The Friends We Lost
- Kiss are being sued for negligence and wrongful death by the family of Paul Stanley's guitar tech, who died from Covid during their End Of The Road tour
- "Your favourite prog rock albums can take you back in time." Glass Hammer and the story of Chronomonaut
- “You find a certain sound and you write some songs around the sound, and then you get tired of being there and you move to another place." How VOLA tackled the 'difficult second album' syndrome
- "A shocking portrayal of the different accounts of what went on." A Channel 4 documentary series exploring the Marilyn Manson abuse allegations is in the works
- They've collaborated with Perry Farrell and count Iggy Pop, Damon Albarn and Iron Man as fans: Sleaford Mods on becoming broken Britain's best cult band
- "Sure, we missed a few boats, but if you are willing to push yourself to the bone, you’ll get the next one.” How Code Orange's refusal to stand still helped them craft masterful - and catchy as hell - new album The Above
- "We went through everything, from homelessness to starvation.” Megadeth at 40: how Dave Mustaine's "revenge" on Metallica lay the foundations for a thrash metal dynasty
- No-Man's OLI label years explored in new five-disc set
- “I drink a box of red wine if I want something really morose, and cider if I want something more upbeat”: Robert Smith’s boozy approach to songwriting in the 80s
- Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman announce album number three
- Blink-182 at the London O2: silly, puerile, epic, cathartic and, on more than one occasion, surprisingly emotional
- Daniel Cardoso and Kristoffer Rygg's Head Control System album to be reissued
- “David Gilmour doesn’t show anger often… that night, if he knew karate he’d have broken the table”: Fight over Comfortably Numb’s inclusion on The Wall was key moment in Pink Floyd’s history
- Former blues wonderboy Oli Brown didn't touch his guitar for a year: now he's back, and things are very different
- "The eighties was permission to be your biggest, loudest self": My 80s Mixtape, by Halestorm's Lzzy Hale
- The Fleetwood Mac albums you should definitely own
- "My symbol was about invoking and being invocative": Everything we know about the origins of Led Zeppelin's mysterious four symbols
- "I kind of wished Kiss would sound like AC/DC": The Hives' Pelle Almqvist on the soundtrack of his life
October 11
- "He's the ultimate songwriter, singer, lead guitarist and soundscaper... I don't think anyone can touch him": Why I ❤️ Neil Young, by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard
- Essex deathcore, Mumbai post-metal and an underground noise supergroup: these are the best new metal bands you need in your life this month
- “Imploring humans to explore a deeper understanding of everything”: Tool’s proggiest moments
- "I’m not Nostradamus": Keith Richards on the future of The Rolling Stones
- "Lemmy showed me the importance of being aggressive. He didn't take any bulls**t, and I loved that": Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on what Lemmy from Motorhead taught him
- “Every Breath You Take was going in the trash until I played on it": Andy Summers suggests "watch the press" for future developments in a long-simmering dispute about the songwriting credits on The Police's Every Breath You Take
- "I feel as though I'd given Stanley Kubrick a live grenade and he heroically threw his body on it": Watch Stephen King give his honest opinion on Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation of The Shining in this 1980 TV interview
- This is why I’m waiting until Black Friday to buy the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones
- "When I walk I'm almost in constant pain": Slipknot's Corey Taylor on the possibility of his near-future retirement
- In 2007, an unknown gothic/dark wave anthem broadcast on German radio in the '80s was shared online. Sixteen years on, no-one still has any clue as to the identity of, and truth behind, The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet
- Beartooth's The Surface is a sharp, poignant and blazingly cathartic celebration of life, warts and all
- Black Sabbath to release vinyl box set, Hand of Doom, featuring their first eight albums on picture discs for the first time
- These are the 9 bargains I’m considering in Amazon’s October Prime event
- "All the people that I looked up to are now considered my peers." Meet nothing,nowhere.: the former Soundcloud rapper collaborating with Lorna Shore, Fall Out Boy and more to bring Myspace vibes back to alternative music
- "It’s a concert with something else combined." Ghost are making a movie - and they've already shot some scenes
- “Air disasters – a strange fascination that actually makes me feel better to do as much flying as I do”: A snapshot of producer and multi-instrumentalist Fernando Perdomo
- "Brilliant... so out there that it's wonderful": Sharon Osbourne delivers her verdict on Black Sabbath – The Ballet
- "The new, sober Alice was much more dangerous than the old Alice:" How Alice Cooper cleaned up and became a pop star all over again
- "It's the worst business decision that was ever made in the history of Jethro Tull": Martin Barre speaks out about his break with Ian Anderson
- "Let's face it, getting somewhere in this business has become so difficult": Vega on the perils of being in a band, losing key members, and the love of the road
October 10
- Tool announce 20-date US tour
- The Krokus albums you should definitely own
- "We pull out sandwiches and sodas, and we start having a picnic on their stage": Mike Shinoda on the time Linkin Park pranked Metallica mid-show
- “Playing the second-ever single alongside brand-new compositions brings a degree of eccentricity that’s important to Soft Machine”: The new line-up’s new album Other Doors
- 10 classic heavy metal songs only played live once
- I'm a graphic novel addict and these are the 5 best you can buy on Prime Big Deal Days
- With 20% off my go-to earplugs for gigs, Amazon just made it way cheaper to protect your hearing
- “The dark sound on the Alien soundtrack… That’s my reference, not Larks’ Tongues In Aspic!” John Mitchell says he can count the prog bands he likes on one hand
- The 10 greatest masked bands in heavy metal history
- I’m all in on Etsy’s feel-good $10/£10 off everything sale - here’s 6 items I love
- Bryan Adams announces special London residency, plus UK tour dates
- Sanguivore is a magnificent, goth-punk rock opera that confirms Creeper as one of the most vital British bands of their generation
- "Is it true you're planning a rock musical called Ring Ring based on the life of Alexander Graham Bell?" When Alan Partridge met Oasis' Noel Gallagher (and future Mission Impossible star Simon Pegg)
- “I thought it was a heart attack.” Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner remembers 2021 emergency heart surgery
- Of Mice & Men's Tether: another assured, mature offering from one of modern metalcore's most reliable names
- "I think you will be really, really excited." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson reveals that he's been working on upcoming solo album The Mandrake Project for almost a decade
- "Somehow, in our thirties, we’ve still maintained the ability to tap into the 11, 12, and 13-year-olds that we each were when we met": Paramore's Hayley Williams on her band's 'inner teenager'
- Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days get under way with up to 67% off their Echo Buds
- “We had to pick the single before we recorded anything.” Run To The Hills: How a rallying cry against colonialism became Iron Maiden’s signature song
- The 20 best British albums ever, according to Lemmy
- "Our name symbolises fear, paranoia and death": What happened when Anthrax claimed to be changing their name to Basket Full Of Puppies and CNN believed them
- "I knew I had to say something, and that I didn't have many words to say it in": a track-by-track guide to King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King
- "The psychedelic scene was largely over by the summer of 1968, but that spirit of musical adventure was still running rampant": A beginners' guide to the origins of prog rock
October 9
- Hackney Diamonds is the Rolling Stones' most quintessentially Stonesy album in 40 years: it's also a 21st-century record for a 21st-century audience
- System Of A Down, Slipknot, Alice In Chains, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Lamb Of God and dozens more announced for absolutely stacked Sick New World 2024 lineup
- “Steve Harris of Iron Maiden loves A Passion Play. I’m glad someone liked it!” Every Jethro Tull album in Ian Anderson’s words
- Watch a trailer for Pink Floyd's new Eclipse documentary
- Tool at Power Trip: a mind-melting, triumphant showcase unlike anything else on stage this weekend
- "These bands are responsible for what Metallica are." Metallica bring Power Trip festival to a close on a colossal high
- “This is where the real politics takes place – on the streets!” What happened when Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine became a political correspondent
- Every The Gaslight Anthem album ranked from worst to best
- Footage and images of Metallica rocking out to Judas Priest at Power Trip festival are going viral, and honestly, judging by how much fun they're having, we're not surprised
- 10 up-and-coming death metal bands every self-respecting metalhead should know
- 10 heavy metal replacement singers even better than the original
- “Staying felt like a death sentence”: Evan Rachel Wood opens up on Marilyn Manson abuse allegations in new interview
- Death, hurricanes and Slayer cameos: The surprisingly emotional story of glam metal splatter-comedy Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre
- “There was quite a lot of pressure. Those demands have bordered upon insult – largely from my wife”: Trevor Rabin’s return to action with Rio
- The John Lennon albums you should definitely own
- "This song is so powerful and still makes me emotional": My 80s Mixtape, by Def Leppard's Phil Collen
- "One of those magical instances of capturing lightning in a bottle": Vol. 1 by Traveling Wilburys - Album Of The Week Club review
October 8
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Cadillac Three, Sophie Lloyd, Vixen and more
- Blues legend Junior Wells has just released an official newly recorded single despite dying in 1998
- “My agent called and said, ‘Are you free on Wednesday? We’d like you to shoot the Queen’”: how Bryan Adams ended up photographing the Queen of England
- Judas Priest prove they still stand toe-to-toe with their fellow legends with a blast of a set at Power Trip festival
- AC/DC at Power Trip: if this is the band's last hurrah, they've gone out with an incredible, weekend-stealing set for the ages
- 10 cover versions absolutely loved by the people who wrote them
- The hits, the posthumous tracks, the interstellar space jams: These are the 20 greatest songs Jimi Hendrix ever recorded
- “Otherworldly, intensely powerful and sometimes baffling… the product of an artist they no longer recognised”: Tim Buckley’s Lorca
- "How cool is this? Lovely to see you!": AC/DC have completed their first show in seven years at the Power Trip festival
- Judas Priest to release 19th studio album Invincible Shield in March 2024
- AC/DC honoured with limited edition 'True Music Icons' Scotch whisky
October 7
- Guns N' Roses at Power Trip festival was an epic homecoming that proves they're the ruling class of rock'n'roll (even with the late start)
- Iron Maiden's triumphant set at Power Trip has set the bar for a legendary event
- 10 brilliant punk and alt. rock albums that you won't find on Spotify
- “His mother used to rock him to sleep to Kooks!”: the time David Bowie and Trent Reznor teamed up on tour together
- "We were at a real low point after it... we had to scrap the whole idea": Radiohead once recorded a Bond theme that never happened
- “Steve invited me round to his nan’s house to jam”: the story of Steve Harris’s pre-Iron Maiden bands Gypsy’s Kiss and Smiler and the birth of a legend
October 6
- “There was an interruption to a news broadcast with the voice of this alien… I thought, ‘What if it were real?’” I Am The Manic Whale bring an old storybook to life
- "This is always the first place I try to get to when I go to the UK." The time that Guns N' Roses legend Duff McKagan revealed his deep love for Pret A Manger
- 11 iconic guitars and the legendary guitarists who played them
- The best new metal songs you need to hear this week, featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Lamb Of God, Mike Shinoda, Health and more
- Blackberry Smoke release rollicking new single Little Bit Crazy, announce UK and European tour dates
- Meet the Mavon Safia, the Finnish proggers uniting talent and taste through guitar-driven instrumentals
- Avenged Sevenfold team up with Pussy Riot for new single, are raising money towards helping LGBTQ+ people under attack in Russia
- Jethro Tull's long-delayed War Child II to be released in November
- Steve Hackett's To Watch The Storms and Wild Orchids get debut vinyl releases
- Manic Street Preachers and Suede announce co-headline tour of British and Irish castles, colleges and parks
- Great new prog music from Gong, TesseracT, Maer, Pattern-Seeking Animals and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “It could become a slow-burn grower like Yes’ Talk album”: Trevor Rabin’s Rio
- Roger Waters’ Dark Side Of The Moon Redux: “Audacious, affecting, annoying, dull in places… certainly worth investigating”
- If there's anything more joyous than Peter Gabriel singing Solsbury Hill while gleefully whizzing around the stage on a bicycle, then we haven't seen it
- “If you're going to be a rock star, go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage, they want to see a being from another planet": Lemmy's life celebrated in new photo book
- Eddie Van Halen: game-changer, tone-chaser, riff machine, songwriter, composer, avant-garde artist and genius
October 5
- Queen + Adam Lambert release official photos from hit-stuffed first night of Rhapsody Across America tour
- Fancy having a "ritualised feast" with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman? Bookings for his bespoke Supper Club are now open
- "It’s a bad combination to be really loud and have no fans if you’re playing at a bar": how Dinosaur Jr. overcame indifference to became one of the 80s most influential bands
- “I always get depressed at the beginning of the year and I thought this would be something to do and take my mind off it." Tiger Moth Tales and their A Song Of Spring
- The most played live songs by 25 iconic metal bands
- Metallica’s US coloured vinyl collection to get international release from November
- “It was either this or nothing - when you get to that point, there’s no fear to have”: Avenged Sevenfold needed to make divisive album Life Is But A Dream…
- Best turntable speakers 2026: Take your vinyl listening to the next level
- Camel's 32-disc Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 out in November
- Remastered Super Deluxe Edition of The Yes Album due in November
- “I think it’s a quality album; I think it’s sophisticated." Katatonia and the story of Dead End Kings
- "This album was therapy from personal tragedy."Lunatic Soul and the making of Fractured
- "How 'boss' is your website?" Revisiting the bizarre 90s commercial starring Metallica and, erm, John Cleese
- “I always knew that I was going to return to the Amory Wars." Coheed And Cambria and Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
- Rob Zombie, Misfits, Motorhead and Oingo Boingo...this is what Ozzy Osbourne thinks you should be listening to this Halloween
- “Iron Maiden? Don’t make me laugh. We were light years ahead of everyone”: It Bites have no regrets about their 80s arrogance
- The final word on Van Halen's Sammy Hagar era: it's a bit corporate, a bit rock-by-numbers, a bit... uneventful
- 20 years on, Permission To Land... Again recalls the swaggering confidence of a band about to claim their place at pop’s top table
- News just in: Roger Waters' reworking of The Dark Side Of The Moon actually works
- Just four months before the live album that made him a superstar was released, Peter Frampton gave television viewers a hint of what was to come
- "This band has literally cost me everything!": Tigertailz know it's ludicrous to keep dreaming but they're in too deep to stop
- "I think John Bonham is so responsible for a lot of Zeppelin’s songwriting on III": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin III, by Michael Schenker
October 4
- Brian Johnson's 25 best performances, from Geordie to Power Up
- “Signature absurdities, from a local criminal to sentient grease, neglect all pop sensibilities”: The prog nature of Everything Everything’s Re-Animator
- “It was so terrible that they couldn’t even finish it.” The story of the band who made the worst metal album ever – on purpose
- 10 metal cover songs that are unforgivably bad
- John Mitchell announces An Evening With European dates
- Watch Foo Fighters perform a not-entirely-serious cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven at Eddie Vedder's Ohana Music Festival
- Rainburn announce new studio album Vignettes
- “I didn’t stand up for the rest of the night!” The time Metallica’s James Hetfield punched Lars Ulrich
- Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden launch new Veeps service All Access
- Jack Black and a bunch of kids performing Ozzy Osbourne's Mr Crowley for Tom Morello's mum's 100th birthday is the cutest thing on the internet today
- "We’d been working on it for two weeks… Mike Oldfield had wiped it. There was no undo button. I was in shock. It was the only time it’s ever happened to me in 40 years": Trevor Horn's lows and highs
- 10 heavy metal bands that took incredibly long to release a new album
- Ten times massive bands covered punk songs (and didn’t ruin them)
- Your essential guide to every Nirvana album
- "Had somebody predicted we would still be around 45 years later, I’d have told ’em they were stupid:" how Girlschool silenced the doubters, including themselves
- In 1979 Fleetwood Mac hired a 112-piece marching band to enliven a song they were working on: it was the start of a long and beautiful relationship
- Huge if true: It looks like an interactive Ozzy Osbourne museum and cafe is going to open in Birmingham
October 3
- "People would be literally hanging off the roof beams. The excitement was amazing": the story of the London club that launched the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton
- “Once you understand them, and have felt them in your heart, you will struggle to find anything that will ever come so close”: Mike Vennart introduces The Cardiacs
- "An unmitigated disaster which defrauded consumers." When Guns N' Roses (almost) went to war with Dr Pepper
- Nixon pay tribute to Tupac with limited edition watch collection
- "Mentally we could do this for another 20 years": Lars Ulrich looks ahead to the "awe-inspiring" Power Trip festival, and Metallica's future
- King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to headline Wide Awake 2024
- Dave Kerzner teases new solo abum with six track EP release
- “Millions are in love with Metallica and Black Sabbath. I just thought they were great jokes”: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was never a heavy metal fan, but he does have a soft spot for AC/DC
- “We’d got him doing what we’d usually get a stunt man to do!" Superglue, a rigged car and racist skinheads: how Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington became the star of one of Saw's most brutal scenes
- If These Trees Could Talk to headline Portals Festival in first ever UK appearance
- The 10 most perfect final albums in heavy metal history
- Jo Quail and Jon Gomm announce joint UK tour for December and January
- "Found her!!! THANK GOD!!!" Disturbed's David Draiman has been reunited with his missing puppy Charlotte
- "Meat Loaf was really pissed off with Jim Steinman giving me Total Eclipse Of The Heart. He said, That song was meant for me!": Bonnie Tyler on the world's favourite 'vampire love song'
- “A lot of the time, ‘prog’ conjures up images of the yesteryear. It’s interesting that prog metal has become bigger than prog”: Godsticks understand why they have to be classified
- "They were very avant-garde and I thought I was too, and it was all going to be very beautiful, man": how Pink Floyd learned to fly
- "It's A Long Way To The Top tells you everything you need to know about being in a rock band": Why I ❤️ AC/DC, by Saxon's Biff Byford
- In 1973 The Who appeared on Top Of The Pops: their performance ended with carnage and a lifetime ban
October 2
- "I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can't. Without her, what is it?": Stevie Nicks on Christine McVie and why Fleetwood Mac will never tour again
- Foo Fighters announce Everything Or Nothing At All stadium tour for 2024
- "This guitarist is impossible to record": Jimmy Page shares memories of his studio session with Eric Clapton and John McVie, pre-Led Zeppelin, Cream and Fleetwood Mac
- “In the context of Matt’s cancer, and stuff going on in the wider world, why are we worrying about if anybody’s going to like this?” The Fierce And The Dead refocused for News From The Invisible World
- The Weight Of The Mask is both the prettiest and bleakest Svalbard have sounded to date - and it's a stunning monument to the human experience
- You can now listen to an official demo version of Evanescence's breakthrough hit Bring Me To Life without the infamous nu metal rap that the band were later forced to add in
- 10 legendary hard rock and heavy metal bands who’ve never had a lineup change
- Saw, the horror franchise dedicated to grisly and gruesome deaths, is actually responsible for saving the lives of over 360,000 people, thanks to its amazing Red Cross campaigns
- “I’d hear Blur or Pulp on the radio and think, F**k these idiots… We were ready to wipe everybody out": Noel Gallagher on why Oasis were the best band of his generation
- "We Will Rock You can be good for your health. I’m happy about that. But not at all happy that scientists tortured mice to find that out": Brian May hits out at researchers who've discovered that a Queen classic contains unexpected medical benefits
- Watch Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder cover U2 and The Cure at his own festival
- Order your exclusive Babymetal bundle featuring an alternate cover and sticker sheet
- Watch former WWE superstar Adam Copeland (AKA Edge) make his shocking debut in All Elite Wrestling, with his classic Alter Bridge Metalingus theme song very much included
- Disturbed frontman David Draiman pleads for safe return of his family's puppy after it was "taken" from his front yard: "We are absolutely devastated"
- "I was very overwhelmed. Will she be like me? Will she have my spirit? Will she have my heart?": Mattel are hooking up with Stevie Nicks to create a Barbie doll in her likeness
- "When Ashley Holt screams, doesn't it sound like Gillan?": Warhorse by Warhorse - Album Of The Week Club review
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right, now featuring Europe, The Lazys, Florence Black and more
October 1
- Kiss have played a sporting event in Australia: pyro in broad daylight, 500 children in costume, guitar smashing, 100,000 fans, three songs
- "If you're in an abusive situation you need a safe place. I took refuge in music. Rock'n'roll was my safe place": the life and legacy of Tom Petty
- Muse's Manchester AO Arena show proves that whatever route their music may take, they'll always be one of the greatest live bands in all of music
- According to records, these are officially the 10 loudest concerts of all time
- Roger Waters slams documentary that paints him as an antisemite
- Alice Cooper: I'll be up there at 90 if I'm still in good enough shape