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- June 6
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- Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
- Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
- "I want it to be like a religious experience." Yungblud announces UK and Ireland arena tour
- New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
- "Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan
- “In the last 10 years no one has stepped up. Being the sole songwriter is sometimes very lonely”: Jonas Renske hopes Katatonia’s new era includes more input from his bandmates
- “Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
- Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
- Watch pro-shot video of a full King Crimson set from Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey
- June 5
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- Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu
- "He told me, You've got this opportunity to be a rock star because you're not afraid to say the things other people won't." Yungblud reveals the career advice he received from a machete-wielding rock star who sees him as a kindred spirit
- Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
- "There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned
- "The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
- Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”
- Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same
- "Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
- "I can allow myself to be a bit sexier and say what’s on my mind": How Taylor Hawkins and a nameless girl inspired The Struts frontman Luke Spiller to make his brilliant and beguiling solo album
- “A tad dated today – but there’s no denying the compositional prowess”: Greenslade’s Large Afternoon returns in an expanded edition
- "An album as full of joy as it is of craft": The Doobie Brothers bring back Michael McDonald on Walk This Road
- “They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments
- "They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them
- June 4
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- "These instruments are more than just tools of our trade - they're extensions of our musical souls": Nancy Wilson offers "no questions asked" reward for return of stolen Heart guitars
- Steve Perry launches sale of personal artefacts to raise funds for victims of Los Angeles fires
- “It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.
- The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
- "We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS
- “It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
- The Best of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells I, II & III tour announced for February and March 2026
- "We have lift off." Oasis have started rehearsals for their world tour, and Liam Gallagher says it's "spiritual" playing with his brother Noel once again
- "Shave my head, let’s just go for it!" How Hollywood superstar Matt Damon channelled his inner Henry Rollins to make a surprise cameo as an obnoxious punk rock singer in cult teen comedy EuroTrip
- This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
- “We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger
- "Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more
- On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo
- A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums
- June 3
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- Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online
- "Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
- "Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic
- A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week
- Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader
- Ozzy Osbourne to make public appearance at Comic Con days after retirement gig
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else
- Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”
- The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before
- "He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life
- "We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness
- “My hand ran off the keyboard… I ground to a halt, threw my hands in the hair, and everyone looked at me. My father thought I was taking a bow and was very proud!” Genesis’ best and worst moments on stage
- "These are films I've waited years to work on": 40 minutes of newly scanned footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Tokyo in 1971 has appeared online
- June 2
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- "It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more
- "It’s a completely different thing to a band where I’m hiding in the back." Lars Fredrik Frøislie and the story of his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger
- "I don't want to pretend everything's hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"
- "Partially responsible for hastening the demise of nu metal." We've ranked every Killswitch Engage album from worst to best
- "I remember showing the lyrics to my grandmother, saying, Look at this, this is like poetry!" Gavin and Stacey and Would I Lie To You? star Rob Brydon on his life-long love of Bruce Springsteen
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "We had already split up and still had to do a tour." How Within Temptation became one of symphonic metal's biggest success stories
- "There would be shootouts down the street." Machine Head's Robb Flynn takes us on a tour of Oakland, California - and 30 years of metal history
- "There’s a lot less ‘James Hetfield strangling a goat’ in the singing department." New Volbeat album God Of Angels Trust won't surprise you, but it will get you banging that head
- “Knowingly progressive and endearingly archetypal in a way that only two young pop historians could fathom”: If you thought Ween were taking the piss with The Mollusk, you were wrong
- "Ritchie Blackmore gave me a wave as he fell backwards. That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo": Don Airey on Rainbow, Deep Purple and his awesome solo album Pushed To The Edge
- “In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve
- "After nearly 50 years, this album still packs a punch - vital, visceral and contemporary as hell": Ian Dury becomes an unlikely pop star on New Boots And Panties!!
- June 1
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- “An essential live experience for the modern metalhead, equal to anything you’d see from KISS, AC/DC or Rammstein.” Babymetal’s biggest ever UK headline show at London's O2 Arena proves they’re future festival headliners
- "It took Bring Me The Horizon 10 years to get into arenas. Sleep Token did it in less than five." Inside the rise of Sleep Token, by those who were there
- “I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record
- Watch Linkin Park thrill fans at UEFA Champions League final in Munich
- "I wish you nothing but a very sore arm!" Iron Maiden manager on fans who ignored plea not to use mobile phones
