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- November 30
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- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson releases first new solo song in 18 years, Afterglow Of Ragnarok
- “The only way we could afford it was to record on New Year’s Eve, because no one else wanted to.” How Iron Maiden made The Soundhouse Tapes
- "I’m not one to be marching in the streets with a sign or holding a gun or a knife, but my words are my tools and my weapons": Dolly Parton on why her heavy metal protest song World On Fire needed to be written
- If the idea of Shane McGowan, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Pete Doherty singing Disney classics together sounds like an acid-fried fever dream, trust us, the reality was even weirder
- Mandalaband's first two albums remastered and reissued
- “Great fun… lovingly dashed off in a few hours, in homage to the way library musicians had to work”: Matt Berry’s Simplicity
- "Its release was welcomed with as much enthusiasm by Californian punks as if a Nazi had yakked on Darby Crash’s grave." How Bad Religion took a prog detour with Into The Unknown
- 10 times major metal stars cameoed in music videos
- Sharon Osbourne once pooped in Ozzy’s weed: “When he found out, he went nuts and chased us down the hallway!”
- "A shared musical magic is rekindled." Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno release teaser for new single
- Pogues singer Shane MacGowan has died aged 65
- Voyager reschedule Australian tour dates for June
- "I really didn’t know what I was doing": Watch horror icon Stephen King's awkward fanboy interview with AC/DC
- “You don’t need big orchestras and lots of notes to make things come alive. Just three notes will do, if they’re the right ones”: How to horrify, by movie soundtrack specialist Claudio Simonetti
- "Not being able to play gigs probably saved us": Meet Geese, the New York noiseniks who found themselves at the centre of a bidding war just as they were about to break up
- Roger Waters had a little black book with his poems in – and he turned them into a massive, multimedia masterpiece that ultimately destroyed Pink Floyd
- "I'm sure I was appreciated, but it wasn’t hero worship or anything like that": Christine McVie, the calm eye of the Fleetwood Mac storm
- When audience members attack: Six times a rock star was injured by someone in the crowd
- November 29
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- A round sleeve for a round record: how The Small Faces' Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake broke the mould and tested the patience of record stores worldwide
- Judas Priest take to the woods for Trial By Fire video
- Every Napalm Death album ranked from worst to best
- "Gee I’m sorry I ruined your night": John Lennon's killer issued a weird apology straight after shooting him, witness recalls in new true crime documentary
- The Pineapple Thief announce brand new album It Leads To This
- Kiko Loureiro explains Megadeth absence: I’m someone who “needs freedom”
- “The esteem in which his talent was held is reflected… Yet some of the most fascinating tracks here are by his pre-fame 60s bands”: Greg Lake’s Magical box set
- "Probably the most precious intimate capture ever of Mr. Mercury at his full awesome power": Brian May salutes the majesty of Freddie Mercury as Queen Rock Montreal gets 2024 IMAX screenings
- “It’s the end of Sabbath, believe me”: The story of Black Sabbath’s abandoned 20th album
- Rush's Geddy Lee scores top five placing on the Sunday Times Bestseller List with My Effin' Life memoir
- "We have a lot of fun on stage!" Lindisfarne announce spring UK tour dates
- "We were always looking out for a producer, but the trouble was that most of them took a lot of drugs": Ian Anderson on the recording of Aqualung, and why it really isn't a concept album
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard reached out to James And The Cold Gun via Instagram and signed them: now they've supported Guns N' Roses
- Soundgarden dispute with Chris Cornell's estate is not over after all – and late frontman's last batch of songs remain shelved
- November 28
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- The John Mayall albums you should definitely own
- 10 times metal musicians covered their own songs in other bands
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor is making a film score: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time”
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee: “50 Cent hates my guts”
- Avenged Sevenfold announce North American tour dates for 2024
- ”I was pretty much ordered to go and play with Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and John Wetton. I was told that if I didn’t, I’d be dropped”: Trevor Rabin’s challenging road to Yes
- 35 of the hottest Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals still going - headphones, vinyl, speakers, turntables and more
- 10 heavy metal supergroups that actually turned out super
- Richard Wileman unveils new prog and folk horror concept album
- "Evanescence breaking out proved everybody wrong. It gave me hope, it was a huge middle finger.” Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on why Evanescence's Fallen was such an important, empowering album for 21st century rock, and the advice Amy Lee once gave her
- Kyros announce brand new album Mannequin
- Corey Taylor has brutally shot down those new Slipknot drummer rumours: "He’s not even on the list."
- "He was a huge influence on me." Metallica's Kirk Hammett pays tribute to Killing Joke's Geordie Walker
- Swedish proggers Beardfish are back!
- Hellfest release insanely huge 2024 lineup announcement: Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Head, The Prodigy, Corey Taylor, Tom Morello and dozens more now confirmed
- “We did two days recording… he fired the whole band on the first day”: Tony Levin recalls the “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
- "We got high without drink or anything. It's a record that still takes me to another sphere": Doro picks the soundtrack of her life
- "We realised that anything, from that moment onwards, was possible": The first time I heard The Beatles, by Jon Anderson
- Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks will appear in the upcoming Spinal Tap movie
- November 27
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- Wrestling fans! If you're quick, you can still grab WWE and AEW shirts for up to 60% off in Hot Topic's Cyber Monday sale - and yes, it includes a CM Punk one
- I’m on a self-imposed bottle-buying ban, but I just can’t resist this Cyber Monday Wild Turkey deal
- Amp up your stereo set-up with these massive Cyber Monday savings from World Wide Stereo
- This great JBL Charge 5 speaker is waterproof, dustproof, super-portable and, best of all, up to 33% off for Cyber Monday
- 10 awesome Cyber Monday deals under £50 that I'm all in on: Cut-price headphones, speakers and more
- "Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic
- Marshall products are selling out fast in their Cyber Monday sale... get in quick before the deals are gone for good
- Unbeatable Cyber Monday $2.99 Disney+ and Hulu deal: 6 music films and shows that justify signing up
- I'm using Cyber Monday to find an alternative Christmas jumper, and I'm struggling to choose between these hilarious options from EMP
- When you get the call to come play at Disney World, you don't want to play any weird old Smashing Pumpkins songs": Watch "Disney mark" Billy Corgan cover Bing Crosby with Smashing Pumpkins
- Quick! You can still save almost £150 on the Lego Millennium Falcon, one of the most legendary Lego sets of all time, for Cyber Monday
- King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it
- "I never realised how funky Dave was!": Watch a jazz professor at elite music school Juilliard try to play Dave Grohl's drum parts on Nirvana classic In Bloom without having ever heard the song
- "These will be incredibly special shows": Nickelback announce UK/Europe Get Rollin' dates across 8 countries in 2024
- Hallowed be thy flame: Etsy has massive Cyber Monday savings on these infernally brilliant hand-made Iron Maiden fire pits and BBQs
- These Cyber Monday deals on a range of Dr Martens shoes might convince you it's finally time to invest in a pair - or add to your collection
- Fancy a new guitar? Check out my guide on what to buy at Fender's huge Cyber Monday sale
- Manic Street Preachers remix Steven Wilson's Economies of Scale
- "They smelled like L.A. and I smelled like San Francisco": Former Megadeth guitar hero Marty Friedman explains why he "failed miserably" auditioning for Ozzy Osbourne in the '80s
- "There has rarely been a band that has thrived when their backs are so far up against the wall as The Prodigy": Liam Howlett's electronic punks smash out their greatest hits at The People's Palace
- "In the mid-1970s, Berlin was a terrifying place to be. At Hansa Studio, you looked out the window and there was an East German machine gun turret": King Crimson's Robert Fripp looks back on recording "Heroes" with David Bowie and Brian Eno
- Peter Gabriel releases Live And Let Live, the final single from i/o
- "The cold, hard truth is that, for all the hard luck stories, they simply aren't that great as a band": Metal On Metal by Anvil - Album Of The Week Club review
- “Am I Prog’s Taylor Swift? That’s a debate that could run and run”: why Peter Hammill re-recorded his Enigma-era albums
- "My advice? Buy records. And when you think you’ve bought enough, buy more": Danko Jones on barbecuing, karaoke, and why you should buy more vinyl
- "He used to stand at the side of the stage and watch our every move": How Johnny Kidd & The Pirates made one of the great British rock'n'roll records and inspired Jimmy Page
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Måneskin, Bernie Marsden, Saxon and more
- Geezer Butler disputes Ozzy Osbourne's claim that he didn't reach out during Ozzy's illness: "Sharon responded but I didn’t hear back from Ozzy."
- November 26
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- Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker dead at 64
- There's so much music merchandise on sale right now this Cyber Monday at Hot Topic - check out what's in my basket
- A WCW wrestling match taking place on a beach, while Fear Factory played live in the background, with Kid Rock on commentary, all broadcast on MTV, is about as 90s as life ever got
- We trawled Etsy to find Cyber Monday deals for the funniest, strangest and straight-up coolest heavy metal gifts so you don't have to
- “That was it for me, I knew I wanted to play rock’n’roll”: Skindred’s Benji Webbe on the moment he realised he wanted to be a rock star
- If you've somehow not played Stray yet (where have you been?!), you can bag it right now for less than £17 for the Playstation 5
- 10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged
- “After the first couple of years the darkness descended. There were some volatile individuals. We’re almost talking asylum levels”: how cult ’70s rockers The Babys blew their chance to be the next big thing
- “I met a gorgeous Steven Wilson fan. I then introduced her to my girlfriend… the story is told in my song Beautiful Night”: Franck Carducci’s life in prog
- November 25
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- Save $190 on the Marshall Uxbridge and Kilbun II
- There are still some great Lego Black Friday deals to be found - here are some of our favourites
- I didn't take ear buds seriously until I started wearing Sony's WF range, and now that you can get the WF-C500s for up to 51% off, you'll wanna start taking them seriously too
- Dire Straits, Metallica, The Beatles, Iron Maiden and more: get massive savings on these 10 classic - and future-classic - albums with EMP
- “Diamonds are made under pressure!”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the band's songwriting dynamic when they made Purple
- “Peter Grant had tears in his eyes. He gave a little speech and then said, ‘Now get the f**k out of here and knock them dead’”: how Bad Company‘s classic debut album won over the US and turned them into the next Led Zeppelin
- “For those of you looking for the Siamese Dream lead sound, pick one of these…”: Billy Corgan’s guide to getting that classic Smashing Pumpkins guitar sound
- Here's the 10 Amazon deals I'm considering this Black Friday weekend - books, games, t-shirts and more
- I just bought this tiny Bluetooth amp for less than £50 in the Black Friday sale and it’s already changed the way I listen to music
- The 10 longest songs by 10 iconic heavy metal bands
- “We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: Revisiting Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance 30 years on
- “An album that refuses to wallow in self-pity… Having gained their musical chops in the dance arena, they wisely apply those dynamics to their newfound idiom”: The prog heart of Doves’ Lost Souls
- “Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever
- Kiss cancel string of shows on farewell tour as Paul Stanley struggles with flu
- Sharon Osbourne: Ozzy should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist
- November 24
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- “Gene looked like a transvestite, Paul looked like some whore and Ace looked like Shirley Maclaine”: the outrageous story of Kiss’s first 12 months
- Save on the best metal albums 2023 has to offer with Amazon UK
- If I didn’t already have one, I would buy the Positive Grid Spark Go this Black Friday. Yeah, it’s a serious bit of kit – but it’s also perfect for beginners and rubbish guitarists like me
- Spruce up the crypt with this pick of gothic home decor and gifts on Etsy, now available with up to 60% off in the US and UK
- AC/DC, Pearl Jam and Iron Maiden: 10 brilliant but oft-overlooked albums you can save on with Amazon's Black Friday deals
- Mike Portnoy explains Dream Theater return: “We’ve been reconnecting through the last few years.”
- I wear earplugs at live events - and a pair of my favourites are down 20% for Black Friday
- “Tony Iommi has been so supportive of me since my illness. Geezer Butler hasn’t given me one phone call": Ozzy Osbourne is gutted that his ex-Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler doesn't want to know him anymore
- There's a huge Black Friday sale at Converse right now, with 40% off in UK and 30% off in US - here's what I'm buying
- Squeeze announce huge 50th anniversary tour
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “The kids who wanted to buy our records were like, ‘Cool! The religious right’s burning them!’” The track-by-track guide to Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast
- "There was so much emotional static and fear and paranoia": Geddy Lee on the Rush album that was the most difficult to make
- Looking for a vinyl bargain this Black Friday? Let me help you part with the best £12 you’ll ever spend on vinyl: Silver Sun’s debut album
- EMP has some amazing Black Friday deals on t-shirts, jackets, jeans, shoes, beanies, Pop! Vinyl and just about everything else - but you may have to be quick to get the specific deal you're after
- You don't have to be a wizard, Harry, to be excited that this immense Lego Hogwarts set is 24% off for Black Friday
- Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) vs Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Gen): What's your best option this Black Friday?
- "Don’t tell him I said this, but Sting is a genius": Stewart Copeland on the hateful tensions within The Police, and the therapy which allowed them to stage their hugely-profitable reunion tour
- 10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)
- Midas Fall to release first new album for six years
- The long wait is over: Jethro Tull's Warchild II is finally available on vinyl
- "I've lived, I really have. I've done it all. I love the fact that I make people happy": The life and times of rock's most outrageous star, Freddie Mercury
- Von Hertzen Brothers announce new live album and on-demand concert
- “We didn’t want to be extras, we didn’t want to be bit men… If you haven’t got an ego, you shouldn’t be doing this”: Rick Wakeman on the Keith Emerson collaboration that never happened
- Yes grace the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Marshall Emberton vs Marshall Emberton II: We put both portable speakers to the test
- This year Dolly Parton celebrated thanksgiving by dressing as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and performing Queen covers for 80,000 football fans
- "She may be the hardest-working, most consistent musician I’ve ever been around": Needtobreathe on what they learned from Taylor Swift
- In 1997 John Lydon's drummer sued him for lost wages and assault: it was a case only Judge Judy could resolve
- "Where all this repackaging and repurposing is headed is anyone's guess, but we're surely beyond the point of diminishing returns": The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition)
- November 23
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- Reading and Leeds Festival 2024 lineup announced: Blink-182, Liam Gallagher, Lana Del Rey, Fred Again, Catfish And The Bottlemen and Gerry Cinnamon to headline, Spiritbox, Skrillex and more also confirmed
- Every Spider-Man movie ranked from worst to best
- Order your limited edition Evanescence bundle – featuring a exclusive Fallen patch and print
- “I was worried - what would if nothing came out? That didn’t happen… I was singing melodies, Ian was putting in riffs and lyrics were flying all over the place”: How Karnataka’s new line-up just clicked
- Watch The Cure play on board The Orient Express in this vintage British TV footage
- Galahad and IO Earth announced as headline acts for Prog For Peart
- "People who want to tell you what to do?They should shut the f**k up": Josh Homme on Queens Of The Stone Age providing a "safe space" for personal expression
- “I tried to write the heaviest thing I could think of”: The track-by-track guide to Metallica’s Black Album
- Leicester's DanFest announces stage times
- "It's the ultimate Nektar feelgood track, because everyone – onstage and in the crowd – loves it so much”: the late Roye Albrighton’s six favourite songs to play
- "This has given me a whole new reason to live": Former Nymphs frontwoman Inger Lorre wants to shine some light into a very dark world
- Goosebumps alert: Watch Thomas Gabriel conjure up the ghost of his grandfather Johnny Cash with an eerily familiar cover of Folsom Prison Blues
- Brian Jonestown Massacre show in Australia ends in chaos after a vicious onstage brawl
- November 22
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- Axl Rose accused of violent sexual assault in lawsuit by former Penthouse model
- "In five years the music industry will be viewed the same way as the Catholic Church or the Boy Scouts - a powerful force that also enabled and shielded sexual predators for decades": Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane sued for sexual assault
- Daryl Hall obtains temporary restraining order against bandmate John Oates
- "They're Led Zeppelin - and I got the balloons!": It turns out Dolly Parton has wanted to go into the studio with Jimmy Page for decades
- Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi remembers writing Paranoid riff: “The producer said, ‘Can you put another song together?’ I went, ‘Well, no.’”
- "I love you Foos": Watch Scott Ian's 12-year-old son Revel play Everlong with Foo Fighters at Dave Grohl's studio
- "I'm ready to go. Let's do this": David Lee Roth says he's up for joining Sammy Hagar on tour next summer to honour Van Halen
- “We speak out together in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equal rights": Rage Against The Machine, Mogwai, Pulp among 4000 artists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
- Metallica played Iron Maiden classic Prowler during the Black Album tour, and it’s the best cover they never recorded
- Magenta replace Lifesigns for Fusion 2024
- “I think that this record is sort of the best of everything that Green Day has." Billie Joe Armstrong says forthcoming Green Day album "bridges the gap" between American Idiot and Dookie
- "Ultimately, the whales would catch on." Sailors have been using extreme metal to try and scare away aggressive orcas - except they may actually be attracting them instead
- “I said, ‘Really? You don’t practise any more?’ He said, ‘One day I just sort of realised I could play.’ I’m wondering if I’ll get to that level… we’re about to find out!” Pat Metheny just wants to understand music
- "I wanted a safe room where I could go and pick my nose and squeeze a zit if I want to without being on camera:" Ozzy Osbourne explains why The Osbournes TV show will never be rebooted
- Master & Dynamic’s superb premium headphones are within reach for mere mortals with up to 40% off for Black Friday
- The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history
- Watch Alex Lifeson join Tool on stage in Toronto
- 10 incredible non-metal albums made by metal bands
- "Anyone who was there will remember because they probably got pink-eye." Actress and metal musician Jessica Pimentel on licking Meshuggah’s faces, Orange Is The New Black and why Peter Steele was like a big brother to her
- "They’re both extreme, and they can be intimidating to an outsider." Svalbard made one of 2023's most personal and emotional metal albums. It was at least partly inspired by rollercoasters
- Level up your gig wardrobe with up to 77% off Levi's jeans for Black Friday
- "Yep, it smells like me." Watch Metallica's James Hetfield take part in the most wholesome heavy metal unboxing video you'll see this year as he lifts the lid on his new guitar book
- You can always get what you want, as Nixon have 25% off their range of Rolling Stone watches and accessories
- "Between burn-out and a looming crisis, Sabbath somehow hit their greatest high." Which is Black Sabbath's best album? Metal Hammer's writers argue it out
- “Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education
- London mayor rejects plans to build Las Vegas-stye Sphere venue in Stratford
- "I said, 'I'm glad the music meant something to you,' and she burst into tears!": On the road with Rush's Geddy Lee
- November 21
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- "George Harrison had set fire to an ashtray and was running around the studio with it above his head": the chaotic creation of The Beatles' wildest song
- “I grew up with a lot of metal, so the heavier side of prog is where my roots are." Southern Empire and the making of Civilisation
- Axl Rose goes viral after attending the Las Vegas Grand Prix, hanging about with Red Bull Racing and Robert Trujillo, and giving a rare interview
- “I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together and I can’t play them all”: Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is selling off his guitar collection
- This cover of Alice In Chains' It Ain't Like That performed by Jerry Cantrell and Nickelback in 2002 packs more meat than a butcher's shop
- Hot Topic’s sizzling Black Friday sale has up to 50% off band merch, stocking fillers... and Christmas jumpers that rock
- “We started seeing this crossroads in the progressive metal scene. Bands were going towards art-rock – more technical. We wanted to preserve that metal vibe”: Soen keep it heavy with latest album Memorial
- "Get a knife and cut them off!": Watch Kate Bush chaotically fight her own legs in the bizarre 1993 short film that she later regarded as "a load of old bollocks"
- "I looked to John Lennon as a father figure when I was a kid": watch Chris Cornell discuss the influence of John Lennon, and perform a beautiful acoustic version of Imagine, on the Howard Stern show in 2011
- The Rolling Stones announce Hackney Diamonds stadium shows in North America
- "We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112
- "We’d build our own pyro - there was a lot of smoke and chaos": Dave Lombardo talks Cuban heritage, befriending Mike Patton and why Slayer were the greatest thrash metal band
- Earthside take us through new album Let The Truth Speak, track by track
- Marshall just turned the volume up on Black Friday – get up to 48% off our favourite speakers and headphones
- "Be careful what you wish for!" Rat Scabies returns to The Damned, as the punk legends announce UK tour with their early '80s line-up
- "When you look at touring acts in heavy metal, you don’t see crews rolling in with all women." In This Moment's Maria Brink on why she uses her platform to help empower women in the metal scene
- Watch Metallica remind everyone of the power of The Black Album courtesy of this pro-shot footage of them battering Detroit with Through The Never earlier this month
- "Riluo’s true success lies in how genuine its emotions feel." Taiwanese symphonic black metallers Laang have channelled a horrendous, life-changing event into one of this year's most compelling albums
- "Every second of this debut album has something to say and ensures you remember the message long after it meets its squalling end." Hawxx's Earth, Spit, Blood And Bones is the righteous racket heavy music needs right now
- "That little bastard had chops!" The Police's Stewart Copeland explains why Slipknot's Joey Jordison was one of the greatest drummers of his generation
- “Ian Anderson does have a face that lends itself to illustrating… He doesn’t have to do much to look evil!” The creation of Jethro Tull’s The Broadsword And The Beast Cover
- Watch Robert Fripp and Daryl Hall play King Crimson's classic Red without rehearsing together first
- "He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour
- Dave Mustaine reveals Megadeth will move forward without Kiko Loureiro
- Life of Bryan
- A German politician just leaked news of the first confirmed AC/DC show in Europe in eight years, sparking hopes of a 2024 tour
- November 20
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- "With music, you seem to take it all in and it becomes immersive. Music has a power all its own": The Cure's Reeves Gabrels picks the 10 records that changed his life
- Block out the Black Friday noise and protect your ears at gigs with 36% off our favourite earplugs
- It looks like The Rolling Stones are about to announce their first batch of Hackney Diamonds tour dates
- “He may be lauded by some as a genius, but without this team’s heavy lifting, these pieces might fail”: Frank Zappa’s Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary Edition
- Ozzy Osbourne: “I’ve got no fear of going to Hell – I’ve been going there and back for the past five years"
- "Someone said that I sounded like the damned howling in Hades": Geddy Lee on why Rush shunned their record label and management's wishes that they'd become the next Led Zeppelin or Bad Company
- “We are turning the amps on... This will be Songs For Fighting!" U2 on the “unreasonable” guitar-heavy record they want to make next
- “'Cocaine buffet?' they would say. 'Just help yourself'”: Gene Simmons, Dave Grohl and The Darkness make surreal cameo appearances in singer/songwriter James Blunt's outrageous 'non-memoir' Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story
- Deck your hall with metal posters this Christmas with up to 41% off epic music designs in the Displate Black Friday sale
- "I’m not so lonely now, there are other girls to talk with and exchange tips and tricks on how to survive a tour!" Heavy metal Queen Doro on a career in rock, near-death experiences and, erm, fighting ducks
- "For one whole year, me and some of the other guys decided to take heroin to see if it inspired us creatively": JJ Burnel on The Stranglers' unorthodox heroin experiment
- "In the beginning it was a little rattling until I found out his face expressions." This is what it's like being Lars Ulrich's drum tech
- On Halloween 1990, Billy Idol played the final show of his Charmed Life tour in Seattle. The night would feature Faith No More dancing naked, 600 dead fish, five miniature pigs, a goat, and a visit from the Seattle police department
- "It’s been a long time coming." In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork are teaming up for the ultimate melodeath tour across Europe
- “A plan to work with guest contributors has resulted in a fairly tortuous journey… but the struggle has been worth it”: Earthside’s Let The Truth Speak
- "An eye opener for those who think Elton John and Bernie Taupin are a trivial pop act": Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John - Album Of The Week Club review
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blackberry Smoke, The Answer, Crossbone Skully and more
- November 19
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- "For a while I was bummed out about the fuss it caused because I was worried my mum would find out:" the story behind L7's Pretend We're Dead
- "He's out cold. I think he's gone and eaten something he shouldn't have eaten": What happened the night a Who fan was pulled from the crowd to fill in for Keith Moon
- "Their eye-catching if shamelessly transparent spin is to dress as sexy undead fetish nuns while churning out 80s-inspired Euro-metal": Dogma by Dogma
- Dolly Parton releases surprise new version of Jolene featuring Måneskin
- “Life began to imitate art, for better or for worse…”: how The Struts came back from the brink on their ambitious new record
- “Through the years I thought one day I’d do a rock record”: Dolly Parton on why she’s made an album with Paul McCartney, Rob Halford, Stevie Nicks and more
- “Though quintessentially punk records, their first two albums featured tricky time signatures, a four-part musical suite, and songs that clocked in at seven minutes”: The Stranglers were always more prog than you thought
- Why are there a load of random Chelsea players hidden on old Reading Festival line-up posters?
- Campaign targets AC/DC's Thunderstruck for UK Christmas Number One
- AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd selling off rare memorabilia in honour of friend who is dying of cancer
- November 18
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- Geddy Lee names the Rush album that he hopes to see turned into a film
- “I don’t want to live my life closeted”: US country-rock siblings Brothers Osborne on sexuality and overcoming personal turmoil
- "He called Chad Smith 'drummer'. Like, 'Drummer, can you hit that on the up beat?' And this is Chad Smith!" Duff McKagan on what it’s like being in a band with punk rock don, Iggy Pop
- “I don’t even know where you’d put us. I guess ‘American symphonic art-prog-pop’?” The sound of Pattern-Seeking Animals
- "There's a lack of occasion in music these days." How Threshold are trying to right that with Dividing Lines
- “I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure
- Watch every song from Led Zeppelin IV being played live
- If you can sing prog, you can dub foreign-language movies: the satisfying double career of ex Kayak vocalist Edward Reekers
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Napalm Death extend their Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour into the UK and mainland Europe with new dates for 2024
- November 17
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- “We could never be Nirvana, but we could make an album that would fit in with the times without us looking like stupid old farts”: how Def Leppard survived tragedy, grunge and the turbulent 1990s to make two of their most underrated albums
- "It's done": The final, last ever, over-and-out dates of NOFX's 40 Years, 40 Cities, 40 Songs farewell tour are in
- “As many times as I've heard this song this is the first time it made me tear up”: Listen to Dolly Parton's epic 10 minute 50 seconds version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, featuring Ronnie Van Zant and one of Gary Rossington's final guitar solos
- The 10 best covers by Iron Maiden
- “If I ended up in jail, I knew I wouldn’t be able to play guitar”: the secret history of Jimi Hendrix’s pre-fame years
- "We figured, if we make this record some of our heroes can get some royalties": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the making of "The Spaghetti Incident?"
- “I took my in-ear monitors out and the whole theatre was deathly silent. It was a proper goosebumps moment”: How IO Earth learned to shut up and trust their audience
- Great new prog music you must hear from Cyan, DiVirgilio Morse Jennings and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Original Dream Theater singer Charlie Dominici dead at 72
- "It's been wayyy too long!" Spock's Beard announce UK tour for January
- "I got married two years ago and this was on par with that." On Trivium's last tour for "quite some time", we learned two things: 1) their shows are still some of the most intense in metal and 2) fans really love their 'Pig Pen'. Erm...
- "He said there were two things I needed to be aware of: first of all, it would be a lot of touring. The other thing was, 'You’re not going to have many guitar solos!'" A former Nameless Ghoul reveals what it's like to play with Ghost
- "Why would this make a good set? Here are two reasons: Lego and Lars Ulrich." A Metallica Lego set has been entered into Lego's official ideas portal - and it needs your help to be brought to life
- “There are some good things on it… I just find it hard to believe we called a prog album Love Beach, and the three of us look like the Bee Gees. That’s a prog cover?” Carl Palmer on ELP’s most misguided moment
- "There's no denying the impact when Shepherd does let the blues off the leash": Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 1
- "We have one rule: you can have body punches and choke-holds and throw bottles at each other, but we never crack each other in the face": What happens when bands fight
- "There are so many variations on the Sabbath influence and that is what keeps it exciting and evolving": How stoner rock sparked a musical revolution
- "Let's give them a record that they can lose themselves in": Steven Wilson doesn't think rock belongs in 2023 but he'll still try and make that million-seller
- "If an apocalypse is on the horizon, this is one album that should be turned up loud before our time runs out": Muse's Absolution (XX Anniversary Edition)
- "Hardly likely to convert Dylan doubters, but it's an interesting curio all the same": Bob Dylan: The Complete Budokan 1978
- "A towering wedding cake of syrupy excess and Elvis-in-Vegas naffness": Dolly Parton's Rockstar is monumentally hideous, yet strangely glorious
- "Musically it didn't match its predecessor but Vs. had its moments": Pearl Jam's Vs. (30th anniversary edition)
- November 16
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- "As the tour wound down, the mood started to change and it split into two camps... we were quite divided by the end": Geddy Lee recalls the internal tensions on Rush's final tour, R40
- Haunt The Woods admit their music “isn’t really that accessible” – but you get to hear it thanks to Peppa Pig…
- 10 brilliant indie bands from the 2000s who should have been massive
- The Beatles' final song Now And Then is the fastest-selling vinyl single of the century so far in the UK
- "It’s just the way it sounds when you read the lyrics." Amy Lee on the Evanescence song that she's "grown out of"
- Minor Threat to release Out Of Step Outtakes to mark the 40th anniversary of the original EP
- Louder’s favourite five-star Sony headphones are back to their lowest-ever price for Black Friday
- Louise Patricia Crane releases 'love letter' cover of King Crimson's Ladies Of The Road
- “21st Century Schizoid Man – the first track on the first prog album – is a political protest song! Anyone who says prog and politics don’t belong together never realised what it was about”: The Tangent’s Andy Tillison on why prog should challenge you
- "For a long time there was a sense of imposter syndrome, but now we know we’re a force to be reckoned with": While She Sleeps aim to take their rightful place as metalcore icons with new album Self Hell
- 10 songs proving that metalcore is back and that it's more diverse and exciting than ever
- Meshuggah and Animals As Leaders announced for ArcTanGent
- Steve Hackett to release first new concept album for 48 years
- Ihsahn to release self-titled concept album presented in two versions
- “Dolly Parton is tickling my beard! I thought: ‘Well, this is off to a good start!’”: how Rob Halford ended up appearing on Dolly Parton’s new rock album
- "We had a real human skull. Its name was Govinda, and it used to sit on top of a mic stand at gigs, like a mascot" the story of Radio Birdman, the original Oz punks
- "In Scorpions days I sometimes ran out of frets because I wanted to play higher": Uli Jon Roth on his iconic guitars, onstage danger, and reconnecting with an old friend
- "We've got loads of songs there in pieces": Ray Davies reveals he's recorded "about 20" new Kinks songs with brother Dave, and he plans to finish them
- On the night David Bowie said goodbye to glam rock he was accompanied by The Troggs and a stoned Marianne Faithfull dressed as a nun
- November 15
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- Iron Maiden merch alert: the 40th anniversary Piece Of Mind graphic novel includes a story by Bruce Dickinson
- Watch Corey Taylor perform Slipknot song Before I Forget with solo band during recent UK tour
- Metallica release new live footage of Harvester Of Sorrow from 72 Seasons tour
- Gene Simmons says that he's "totally open" to the idea of a future version of Kiss existing without any members of Kiss: "Why not pass the baton, pass the crown to four new, young people who are deserving?"
- "Ozzy was on his hands and knees with these Rottweilers behind him. But what I didn’t realise was that Ozzy was terrified of dogs": how Ozzy Osbourne was transformed into a big scary werewolf for Bark At The Moon's iconic cover
- Pantera were one of America’s most important metal bands. Now they’re little more than Phil Anselmo trying to whitewash his own legacy
- "We didn’t take it seriously until the armed SWAT team arrived”: Ithaca's Djamila Azzouz talks visibility, nightmare gigs and auditioning for Ithaca by singing Break Stuff
- The guitar Kurt Cobain played at Nirvana's last show is up for auction, with an estimated price-tag of two million dollars
- “Served up as ‘hi-def’ – but should that be hi-deaf? The raw, frantic energy might be too much for some”: Meshuggah’s Chaosphere 25th Anniversary edition
- Jack Osbourne doesn’t think his dad Ozzy will ever tour again – but doesn’t rule out “one-off shows”
- There's 55% off this budget-friendly House Of Marley turntable, but the sub-£100 price won't hang around for long
- "When we signed to a major, one guy wrote to tell us he hoped we died in a firey van accident": Your ultimate guide to every Jawbox album in the band's own words
- "There have been pivotal moments, like playing with Metallica or Iron Maiden for the first time, where you go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’" We went to LA to see Ghost's world takeover reach yet another new peak
- "I can still remember the three of us sitting there on the bed in utter awe": Geddy Lee recalls the day that Rush listened to Led Zeppelin for the first time
- "Then, we heard, 'Okay, Megan's heard it. And she wants to put it out tomorrow.'" Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante reveals the chaotic turnaround that led to their surprise collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion
- Get 100 million songs for free with this bonkers Amazon Music Unlimited 3 month trial
- Opeth share previously 'lost' video for Windowpane
- The Roxy Music albums you should definitely own
- “We categorise it as ‘bleaktastic’… how and what I sing often stem from my frustrations with my bloody back!” New monster stories from Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate
- That episode of Married With Children where Al Bundy pretends his name is Axl, plays a pastrami sandwich, and records a charity single with some real-life rock stars
- "The misbehaving goes on after I've gone to bed. And I'm always the first to bed": Phil Campbell on touring with his three sons
- That time Suzi Quatro appeared as Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days and played the classic Devil Gate Drive at Arnold's Diner
- November 14
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- Slipknot fans think they already know who the band’s next drummer is
- Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson celebrated his birthday by seeing Metallica
- Motörhead leader Lemmy Kilmister could be honoured with statue in Stoke-On-Trent birthplace
- Judas Priest announce more Invincible Shield tour dates
- "People said we ruined music": How The Used's The Taste Of Ink helped emo kick nu metal to the curb
- “It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played these songs with Van Halen": Sammy Hagar announces The Best of All Worlds Tour with Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Jason Bonham
- 11 legendary heavy metal bands with only one original member left
- “We didn't emulate Mudhoney's behaviour because we might not be alive if we had!" Superchunk look back on the decade that helped birth and destroy US alt rock
- “On a few occasions I didn’t bother turning up at the early Hawkwind gigs - I earned more money busking at cinema queues”: Dave Brock’s life and times
- "I went up to Dave and said, I don’t understand what the problem is": Bush's Gavin Rossdale on how he and Dave Grohl buried the hatchet on their '90s feud
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- I’ve poured dozens of pints from my Philips PerfectDraft and saved loads on beer - now you can get 45% off this Black Friday
- Dream Theater’s James LaBrie comments on Mike Portnoy return: “Gonna be one hell of a ride for all.”
- Bring Me The Horizon fans riot after show gets cancelled halfway through
- "Here's to Hell. May we have as much fun there as we had getting there": watch Steven Tyler, Slash and Dave Grohl serenade Howard Stern at his 60th birthday celebrations
- David Jackson re-records Van der Graaf's Pioneers Over C for new album
- "Oh God, it was so embarrassing!" Why watching their support act Jimi Hendrix get booed off stage every night was mortifying for The Monkees
- "I look just like WHO?!" Watch Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody get recognised in public...as the singer from Disturbed. Whoops!
- Tool announce UK and Europe tour for 2024
- ”Jethro Tull influenced me a lot in the later years of Rush - that attitude of taking your music seriously but not taking yourself seriously”: Geddy Lee’s prog stars
- "People talk about how brilliant it was that grunge wiped out hair metal. Listen, hair metal was way more fun:" Creeper are bringing character back to rock'n'roll and somewhere Jim Steinman is applauding
- "We've lost so many people from around the band, in the end we said: Yeah, let’s do this": The original line-up of The Almighty gear up to play their first shows in more than 30 years
- "I will go to any lengths to protect my family": Nikki Sixx reveals that his wife and child have been threatened by stalkers
- Revisiting that Led Zeppelin / Limp Bizkit / Puddle Of Mudd collaboration you'd probably forgotten all about
- November 13
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- There's a problem on Planet Rock and only Brian May and Nandi Bushell can help: the future of rock depends on it
- An Ozzy Osbourne documentary featuring Slipknot, Slayer and System Of A Down is finally coming out “after 20 years”
- My Chemical Romance to play The Black Parade in full at When We Were Young Festival 2024, Fall Out Boy, A Day To Remember, Jimmy Eat World, The Distillers, Coheed And Cambria and many more also announced
- 10 times massive metal bands appeared in video games
- "It's never been a phase!" Watch Public Enemy's Flavor Flav casually turn up in the middle of a circle pit at emo club event Emo Nite last month
- The beginner’s guide to djent in five essential albums
- 10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot
- “Not my finest hour… but if you can forgive my codpiece and tights in the 70s you can forgive me getting out a coffin in a cloak and comedy fangs”: Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull’s 80s era
- It’s not a trap! There’s a huge 42% off the Lego Star Wars AT-AT Walker at Amazon
- "It’s absurd that I have Bruce Springsteen's number. It's like me as a seven year-old having Batman's phone number": How a pizza date with The Boss played a part in The Gaslight Anthem's triumphant return
- Hawkwind reveal title of new album Stories From Time And Space
- Air to perform the whole of Moon Safari live throughout Europe next year
- "Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce a friend of ours." Watch Trivium's Matt Heafy guest with Bullet For My Valentine for a special version of Tears Don't Fall
- Our favourite festival-friendly Marshall speaker has been slashed by up to 40% at Amazon for a limited time
- Jane Weaver returns with new single Love In Constant Spectacle
- “Occasionally one of their legs would go up slightly. Were they playing or checking emails? I thought it would be fun to have them doing The Hokey Cokey”: Bill Bailey’s Kraftwerk sketch
- "I've seen them and loved every over-the-top minute of it... but this album just doesn’t cut it": Alive II by Kiss - Album Of The Week Club review
- Watch Meshuggah's entire headline set from Bloodstock Open Air 2023
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Record Company, Laura Jane Grace, Måneskin and more
- Drummers offer support for axed Slipknot man Jay Weinberg
- Barbra Streisand confirms she's the unwitting inspiration for Aerosmith's I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
- November 12
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- The final ever Kiss show is to be streamed as a pay-per-view event
- X Japan release statement about death of bassist Hiroshi "Heath" Morie
- Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV and Stairway To Heaven, by Goldray guitarist Kenwyn House
- Tesseract’s cinematic live show just proved that, 12 years since debuting, they’re in the finest form of their lives
- Legendary comedian Bill Bailey wants to do another heavy metal album: "I’d be well up for another!"
- “Though Dave Mustaine might claim he wrote Leper Messiah, he didn’t”: The track-by-track guide to Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
- "The neighbours are a little weirded out by us. They’re wary of the neighbours who moved in and painted the house black." I spent an evening at the fascinating secret home of Twin Temple, the Satanic couple who make doo-wop for the Devil
- 10 amazing metal albums that are only one song long
- “You oughtta see if you could get somebody to send you money”: we wondered how ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons got his nickname ‘The Reverend’, so we asked Billy Gibbons to tell us
- “Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate
- “Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album
- November 11
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- "Know it's been the joy of a lifetime to spend the last 10 years with you": Jay Weinberg releases statement about dismissal from Slipknot
- Architects, Enter Shikari, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and more sign an open latter asking for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, while Bob Vylan call IDLES and Sleaford Mods "cowardly" for not speaking out on the bombing of Palestine
- “I always wanted an opportunity to get out there and rock!” Wicked Wisdom: The story of Jada Pinkett Smith’s short-lived nu metal band
- Vote for the best metal album of 2023
- "Lambasting it as 'selling out' directly contradicts its musical integrity and emotional vulnerability. It's all killer, no filler." Metal Hammer's writers battle it out over which is Metallica's best album
- "They were the only band that kicked our ass." Better Loves are the Every Time I Die/Dillinger Escape Plan supergroup you didn't know you needed, but will be so happy to have in your life
- The 10 greatest solo albums in heavy metal history
- “It was like having Billy Joel try to sing with Queensryche or Iron Maiden. It just didn’t work”: Watch five examples of Dream Theater’s early live struggles
- Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson
- Green Day cancel London show on short notice with fans lining up at venue
- November 10
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- “We set up outside Frank Zappa’s bedroom door and played so loud the pictures on the wall ended up crooked. I thought he’d shoot us”: the forgotten psychedelic beginnings of Alice Cooper
- The Grammys are still failing heavy metal – with so many new bands releasing incredible music, it’s never been more unforgivable
- 10 A-list Hollywood directors who have directed music videos
- Metallica, Paramore, Ghost, Spiritbox and Foo Fighters among the rock and metal bands nominated for next year's Grammy Awards
- ”It could have made for a disconcerting experience, but her ethereal vocal presence binds it all together”: Myrkur’s Spine
- "It’s certain that they aren’t going to be contained in venues this small for much longer." Creeper soak Manchester's Academy in buckets of blood, brilliant songs and one hell of a stage show
- "Museums have a constant struggle to find a new audience. Here we go!" Swedish power metal heroes Sabaton are teaming up with museums around the world for special screenings of their epic new history movie, The War To End All Wars
- "Thank you lovely DCC ladies. What a blast!": watch Queen perform Fat Bottomed Girls with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
- The best new prog music you must hear from Mariusz Duda, The Anchoress and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "A rush of almost spiritual ecstasy": Death Cult find joy in dragging skeletons from the closet on 40th anniversary tour
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- 5 wireless speakers we rate just got Black-Friday beating discounts
- “It’s a place where outsiders live. When you’re getting hit in the face for being a dirty grunger, it’s a world to escape to.” How UK goth-punks Creeper crafted a deliciously dark new world for outcasts everywhere to hide in. With vampires.
- Gandalf's Fist to release special edition of Songs From The Solway
- Dolly Parton: The Queen Of Country on assembling rock's A-List for her mammoth, hugely anticipated rock album: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Caligula's Horse return with new album Charcoal Grace in January
- I've been going to metal gigs for over 25 years. So why are all the craziest crowds now at pop, hip hop and dance shows?
- Linkin Park are being sued by their former bassist, who says he never received a penny for playing on more than 20 songs
- “A lot of the things we see within our genre are all setting and no story… we’re more like Star Trek – all story and no real setting. I’ve just outed myself as a proper geek!” TesseracT on pushing technological and musical boundaries
- "We are Green Day, and this one's called Welcome To Paradise": Watch Green Day play a surprise secret acoustic show in a London pub
- I've always wanted to ask you, Rod...
- "Their detractors slapped them down as cynical bandwagon jumpers... A great primer for a band who eventually proved their worth": Bush's Loaded - The Greatest Hits
- "The sheer firepower of the Jimi Hendrix Experience is palpable throughout." The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Live At The Hollywood Bowl, August 18, 1967
- "A love letter to the bravado and larger-than-life swagger of 80s rock... with a bevy of 21st-century rock singers": Sophie Lloyd's Imposter Syndrome
- "Guitar subtleties astound and vocal harmonies soar in surprisingly spacious mixes leaving 2009's stereo remasters sounding weedy and gutless": The Beatles' Red and Blue albums
- "A young buck trying to find his musical feet as he flits through styles": Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)
- "Still making music that could have appeared any time between 1971 and now": Foghat's Sonic Mojo
- “Rock’n’roll is dead. It’s a toothless old woman. It’s really embarrassing”: how David Bowie turned his back on glam rock to make his ‘plastic soul’ masterpiece Young Americans
- November 9
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- “People like bits of what we do, then they don’t like bits… and the reality is that half of the band don’t like half of what we do”: Steeleye Span never stop taking risks
- "Maybe we could play a show at Stonehenge? That would be very cool.” Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly and the making of Friendship
- “Whenever King Crimson is in active mode there is nothing else I can do with my life… to be able to focus on being more of a guitarist is the right place for me”: Robert Fripp’s new lease of life
- Spiritbox released the hottest metal debut of 2021. The Fear Of Fear EP shows they're only just getting started
- “What do they call that thing? Imposter syndrome! I definitely felt like I’d snuck in the back door and somehow got to the Grammys." Amy Lee on why Evanescence's early success led to a lot of insecurity
- Cynic announce The Focus Of Valediction European tour for March
- "The blare of the great horn shall resound once again!" Enslaved announce UK and European tour for March
- There’s only one metal headliner at Download 2024 - and as a dedicated metalhead, I think that can be a good thing for the genre
- Forget Rage Against The Machine and Faith No More: Helmet are nu metal's unsung architects and Left is the best record they've done in nearly 20 years
- Tool are teasing European and UK tour dates for 2024
- Steeleye Span announce Christmas tour and new The Green Man Collection
- "I need to be able to show my true self." Sleep Token return to the cover of Metal Hammer as we head to LA to uncover the secrets of masked frontman Vessel
- Wild crossover klaxon: Spiritbox have remixed Megan Thee Stallion's Cobra, and yes, it's a banger
- The 50 best collaborations in rock
- "I'll say goodbye to the boys and they can get someone else in to do the job. And I really mean it": Revisiting Black Ice, the album that saved AC/DC's career
- November 8
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- "We're buddies and brothers first and a band second": Twenty years and eight albums in, Black Stone Cherry reflect on life, love, and what they've learned
- Welcome To Rockville announces Slipknot, Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Limp Bizkit and more for 2024
- Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best
- “I speak like I do because I spent years trying to impersonate Vivian Stanshall”: Comedian and musician Ade Edmondson’s prog record collection
- The best metal albums of 2023 so far
- If you ever wondered how Rage Against The Machine would sound with Godfather of Soul James Brown on vocals and Eddie Van Halen on guitar, we finally have the answer
- Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is to star in an Abba tribute band-themed horror film written by his son, ex-Rise To Remain frontman Austin Dickinson
- “It almost didn’t happen!” Dragula: how a last-minute demo turned into Rob Zombie’s immortal horror hit
- "Belfast in 1980 was intense. The army were throwing you up against the wall and beating you with batons": The Cult's Ian Astbury on what he learned as a teenage punk squatting in N. Ireland
- Robert Reed pens soundtrack to new horror movie Little Brown Bird
- Steven Wilson shares "gothic horror story" video for Beautiful Scarecrow
- Masters Of Reality and Godflesh among first 25 bands announced for Desertfest 2024
- "I want to make a record where I don’t have to play by the rules or have any hit singles": Bruce Springsteen on his acoustic masterpiece The Ghost Of Tom Joad
- “I was interested in being on stage with people who are not only comfortable with not knowing what’s going to happen next, but would rather not know”: Bill Bruford’s journey through jazz and prog
- Black Sabbath and Napoleon are a match made in Heaven (and Hell)
- Every Rolling Stones album ranked from worst to best
- An original photograph of the mysterious figure on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been discovered in an old photo album - and he's been identified
- November 7
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- Download 2024 lineup announced: Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to headline, plus Royal Blood, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Babymetal, Bad Omens and dozens more bands also confirmed
- The 20 greatest Download festival sets ever
- 10 amazing UK metal bands that couldn’t break America
- "We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'
- The 11 greatest final shows in heavy metal history
- Bruford's One Of A Kind to get vinyl reissue
- Dolly Parton reveals that her duet with Stevie Nicks on Rockstar was originally written for Fleetwood Mac, inspired by an affair Nicks had with someone "famous and rich" in the rock 'n' roll world
- Watch new posthumous Vivian Stanshall video for I’d Rather Cut My Hands
- "It's time to do it": Richie Sambora says that a reunion with Bon Jovi "definitely could happen" as part of the band's 40th anniversary celebrations
- “The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s hard enough for trained singers, let alone an audience who will massacre it”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull stage shows
- Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more
- "He threatened to take me apart piece by piece if I didn’t back off": How bubble-glam producer Mike Chapman turned Blondie from punks into pop stars
- 10 albums that changed the life of Pulitzer prize-winning author and Star Trek showrunner Michael Chabon
- November 6
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- "We reinvested in the band to the point where we probably shouldn't have. We made a lot of personal sacrifices": Kirk Hammett on how Metallica's "almost delusional" attitude to success ultimately paid off
- And So I Watch You From Afar, Plini, Textures and more announced for ArcTanGent Festival 2024
- Slayer's Kerry King drops major tease that we may finally be seeing his new band soon
- “If you’ve got a boss, join a union. If you’re an anarchist, throw a brick. If you’re a soldier or a cop, follow your conscience not your orders": watch Tom Morello's speech as Rage Against The Machine are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- He took guitar lessons from Robert Fripp, set out to destroy his old self with an album he hoped would fail, then made the resulting niche his own – Al Stewart's prog credentials ring loud
- "I listened to Running Up That Hill every morning as I rode to school on my bike. I was that kid from Stranger Things." Watch Outkast legend Big Boi's incredible speech inducting Kate Bush into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Machine Head announce 2024 European festival appearances
- "I did see a few tears": Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo discusses reuniting with his former Suicidal Tendencies bandmates in Mexico City recently
- "When we played it to people, some cried, some said, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s a Beatles record!’": Paul McCartney on the reaction to The Beatles' final song, Now And Then
- "Sophie Lloyd is now unleashing what so many of her peers are unable to: a well-produced full-length, taking her career to the next stage." Sophie Lloyd's Imposter Syndrome: the Metal Hammer review
- Porcupine Tree release new live video for Harridan
- Bruce Dickinson announces UK and European tours, reveals details and preview of brand new single Afterglow Of Ragnarok: "it's a heavy song!"
- The Beatles look set to score their first UK number one single in 54 years with Now And Then
- Green Day announce club shows in London and Milan
- “The rise of a fledgling group, but a collapse of an old one… A forensic timeline of how prog turned into punk”: Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries
- An hour of stunning Peter Gabriel-era Genesis footage has received the 4K treatment
- Still wondering what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love? Then read the lyrics
- "Keep writing me words, keep giving me things, I will sing, I will sing": A look back at Freddie Mercury's final Queen album, Made In Heaven
- "It had a profound effect on me": Jimmy Page reflects on Link Wray's Rumble and his surprise performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including The Struts, The Hot Damn!, Deap Vally and more
- November 5
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- Jay Weinberg is no longer in Slipknot: "We wish Jay all the best"
- From Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce: 10 Eddie Vedder duets you need to watch
- “You hear bombs, a baby being born, an eagle flying, you hear things that people don’t normally hear”: how Jimi Hendrix pulled back from the brink of disaster at Woodstock and sealed his legend
- “For a while, I got jealous." Christine McVie on playing second fiddle to Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac
- “The world of music was going through some serious changes and we were not embracing them”: how Yes’s Going For The One and Tormato almost ended things for good
- “A chance to work with him would be incredible. But in a way I do… he always raises the bar a bit higher”: Why Peter Gabriel is Kip Winger’s prog hero
- Sammy Hagar says it's "ugly" that a tribute concert in honour of Eddie Van Halen hasn't taken place
- Lamb of God "deeply saddened" as search called off for man missing from Headbangers Boat cruise
- November 4
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- “We were the same side of the coin – we were just different coins." Eddie Vedder on Kurt Cobain, and the time they slow danced together
- The 10 best Lynyrd Skynyrd songs that aren’t Free Bird, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke
- Watch Jimmy Page make his first live appearance in 12 years at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony
- “We’ll fight Foo day and night to make sure you receive the compensation you deserve." Watch the brilliant moment Foo Fighters posed as lawyers in a fake TV commercial
- “It’s all done out of straight lines and that is not the mark of a good lettering designer”: the man who created AC/DC’s iconic logo on how it came about
- “It was strange to pick up a tape and find titles like Sex Type Thing”: the time the mum of a 90s grunge fan made him go on Oprah to clean up his look
- “Certain people might think that – the type of person that wears only denim, has a lot of tattoos and doesn’t wash”: meet the man who ‘ruined’ Status Quo
- “Not just an amorphous stream of swirly pothead trance rock… In fact, this album feels more focused than its predecessor:” Gong’s Unending Ascending
- Search underway for man missing from Headbangers Boat cruise
- Someone made a life-sized Ozzy Osbourne cake
- November 3
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- “I wouldn’t say we were trying to create another Close To The Edge or A Night At The Opera, but there are definitely some of those elements on the record." The making of the Von Hertzen Brothers' War Is Over
- 10 new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Guns N' Roses premiere unreleased Chinese Democracy song The General at the Hollywood Bowl
- “Rock is the cult music of the 21st century, in the same way that jazz became a cult. Maybe that’s not a bad thing”: Steven Wilson says the days of rock bands selling a million records are over
- Bruce Springsteen adds a second show at London's Wembley Stadium to his summer 2024 UK and Ireland tour
- “The universe and self and the inside of ourselves is all the same thing, depending on which end you look down the telescope”: Gong continue a “loose trilogy” with Unending Ascending
- Great new prog music you must hear from Gong, Tarja, Exploring Birdsong and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Watch the the hilariously weird moment that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a trumpet solo with Nirvana
- Every The Wonder Years album ranked from worst to best, by vocalist Dan 'Soupy' Campbell
- Pallas release video trailer for new album The Messenger
- "My lifelong love of The Beatles collided into a wall of sheer terror at the thought of letting everyone down": Peter Jackson's video for Now And Then is now online
- "So Jaco Pastorius and Joni Mitchell walk past and ask, ‘Hey, is there a party here?’." The story of Italian prog legends PFM
- Fall Out Boy at the London O2: emo's poppiest graduates have evolved into a slick, showy, hit-stacked rock 'n' roll machine
- Watch Spiritbox's one-take video for Ultraviolet, from new EP The Fear Of Fear
- 10 new albums coming in 2024 to get incredibly excited about right now
- “A standard teen rebellion story - on paper, at least… But this is a musical concept, where pieces join to form a narrative in which things get weird”: Why The Who’s Quadrophenia is a prog epic
- Every Rainbow album ranked from worst to best
- "Morrison is like a guest on a musical chat show, turning these songs into musical anecdotes": Van Morrison's Accentuate The Positive
- King Crimson: Music Is Our Friend album review
- "Wrapped up in a black cloak of thunderous doom rock, full of spectacle, bombast and fog-choked atmosphere": Green Lung's This Heathen Land
- "Like mid-70s Aerosmith with a dash of Led Zeppelin": Dirty Honey's Can't Find The Brakes
- "Epidemically catchy, fearlessly camp and glam, air-punch anthemic and just the right level of daft": The Struts' Pretty Vicious
- "I thought it was going to be the usual boring day, then suddenly The Yardbirds knocked on the door": the day rock'n'roll took on the British establishment
- November 2
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- “The perception of what kind of band you are can count for so much… The hard lesson to learn is that the quality of the music counts for very little”: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree’s slow rise to success
- "We’re all really happy with the way things are": why watching U2 reminded Mike Mills why R.E.M. will never reunite
- Get in the groove with 43% off the Beats Studio Pro headphones before Black Friday
- Dream Phases to tour UK with Syd Arthur's Josh Magill in November
- "As unmistakable contemporary backing vocals from McCartney intertwine with Lennon, an involuntary emotional response is utterly inevitable." Classic Rock's Reviews Editor and biggest Beatles fan gives his verdict on Now And Then
- 12 songs that brought horniness back to heavy metal (without the cringe)
- As a millennial metalhead, I was laughed at for loving nu metal. In 2023 it's filling festivals and influencing more young bands than ever - and I couldn't be happier about it
- “There’s a tendency for people to cherry-pick tracks or create playlists… we prefer our music to be listened to from the opening track to the final notes”: Downes Braide Association on the album as art form
- It's here! Listen to Now And Then, the last ever song from The Beatles
- "Let's thrash!" Green Day announce massive 2024 world tour celebrating 30 years of Dookie and 20 years of American Idiot, release new video Look Ma, No Brains!
- "Absolutely incredible biblical celestial heartbreaking and heartwarming": Liam Gallagher gives 'final' Beatles song Now And Then a glowing review
- "John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever
- "You’ll probably go through a lot of red." Death metal legends Cannibal Corpse are releasing an official colouring book - and it's so graphic it's already been banned in Germany
- The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history
- “This was the Prime Minister we were dealing with, and we were very naughty boys:" a story of The Move, acid, axes and a 55-year-old political scandal
- "It remains a touchstone of art-rock genius, a true masterpiece": Why you should definitely own The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
- November 1
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- "It was opening people’s minds": Songwriter Desmond Child sees Aerosmith's Dude (Looks Like a Lady) as an early trans anthem
- The Beatles launch 12-minute Now And Then film as anticipation grows ahead of the release of their "last ever" song
- "It's a perfect match. Forest Green Rovers is a team that really follows Grateful Dead values": The world's greenest, most vegan-friendly football club have launched a range of Deadhead merch
- Slipknot just released a pro-shot video of an entire 2023 headline set
- Pentangle got a bit of stick and still does... but music is about putting ideas together and understanding them, not making sounds you think are trendy”: Why John Renbourn always stood up to the purists
- “A serene and soothing affair – a kaleidoscopic rush of instrumental escapism with nothing but good intentions”: Ozric Tentacles’ Lotus Unfolding
- Steve Rothery Band and Karnivool to headline Midsummer Prog Festival
- 2000 Trees announces Manchester Orchestra, Kids In Glass Houses, Boston Manor and more for 2024
- Save up to 50% on JBL headphones and more in Best Buy's early Black Friday sale
- “It was a very weird beast because all the bands were our mates, but the managers were greedy": Sharon Osbourne reveals why we can't have Ozzfest any more
- Green Lung's This Heathen Land: London's stoner-doom heroes have brewed up a beguiling, surprisingly diverse concoction of killer riffs, bewitching folklore and knockout songs
- 10 brilliant rock bands from the 2000s who should have been absolutely massive
- Metal Hammer's writers battle it out to decide which is Iron Maiden's best album
- “Like the Velvet Underground playing an early Black Sabbath riff, but in the desert. At night… it’s bonkers. And it’s also rather beautiful”: Goat’s Medicine
- 10 amazing metal albums that were too ahead of their time
- “The sounds of plucked elastic bands and scraping broomsticks are the last hurrah for the old Pink Floyd”: Household Objects, the lost album that nearly followed Dark Side
- "We would race cars and listen to The Eagles and Led Zeppelin": Susan Tedeschi picks the soundtrack of her life
- Watch Alice Cooper perform a heartfelt but extremely abbreviated version of Only Women Bleed on The Midnight Special
- "It's a huge gift that I’m still here and I’m still doing what I did:" How Rick Allen fought trauma and found happiness
- "So bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are": the story of the incomprehensible Bob Dylan musical that was killed by Bob Dylan fans
