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- September 7
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- “Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If had Pink Floyd on the cover, it would have sold millions”: BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty’s prog record collection
- Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to be honoured at LA gala for his volunteer work with people experiencing homelessness
- Camel's Andy Latimer releases new material on Bandcamp
- Leprous share dramatic live clip of Like A Sunken Ship as they announce new live release
- "People should get off their asses to topple us. Here’s a guitar – blow us away if you think you can." The track-by-track guide to Metallica's Load
- “There are three more songs somewhere on a hard drive. I will release them before I die!” The story of the star-studded EP Gojira have been sitting on for 15 years
- Six Britpop bands who will never reunite
- “Using sci-fi stuff worked for us – there are no boundaries and you can use all your goofy sounds. There are Marshall stacks and Serbian guitarists using echo machines in space!” The poems, movies and sheep that inspired Rush’s A Farewell To Kings
- September 6
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- “Dear Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, we know what love is." Foreigner make their case to play at upcoming celebrity wedding
- Watch unearthed 1991 Metallica interview in which they insist they are not a thrash metal band
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- I'm a singer in a metal band living with HIV. Here's how my diagnosis has impacted my life and career so far
- "Crime scene teams tested the entrails - they thought they were human." How Florida became the world death metal capital in the 90s
- I’m a lifelong deathcore hater, but these five bands are actually giving me faith in the genre
- “The song was haunted! Dropouts, disks failing, the channels on the desk would stop working. The guitar had just gone. It wasn’t one of my favourite albums”: Marillion producer Dave Meegan’s fight to deliver Afraid Of Sunlight
- It’s been seven years since the last Radiohead tour – here’s what each member has been up to since
- Spiritbox, Turnstile, Cassyette, Disturbed and more to feature on heavy soundtrack to EA Sports' NHL 26
- Yungblud, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Nuno Bettencourt to honour Ozzy Osbourne with performance at MTV Video Music Awards
- September 5
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- “We were what Adam D referred to as riff salad”: Parkway Drive look back on being produced by Killswitch Engage’s guitarist
- “It’s about challenging the norms and showing how strong we are when unified as women”: Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante explain how their generational team-up End Of You came together
- The Last Dinner Party share new single The Scythe, announce shows in Ireland, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand
- President continue to campaign ahead of their first EP with new single Destroy Me
- Watch the video for new Biffy Clyro single True Believer, the third preview of their forthcoming tenth album Futique
- Archivists discover that David Bowie was working on a musical set in 18th Century London when he died
- Slipknot have finally had one of their songs hit the billion-stream mark on Spotify
- "I sent Rob Halford some eight-inch spiky high heels for Christmas": Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more
- The silencing of The Lamb... Genesis are on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
- "Whichever musical hat he wears, its brim casts a darker shadow than before": If this is his final solo album, Glenn Hughes is closing that door with a mighty bang
- “Understated, captivating ebb and flow with a sense of cohesion”: Green Carnation commence a trilogy with the enthralling A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
- Planning an Allman Brothers-themed holiday? You can now stay in Duane Allman's old house in Macon
- September 4
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- "Hey Roger Waters 🦆 You!" Jack Osbourne doubles down on Roger Waters roast with emoji-powered social media post
- "It shocked me because of how different it sounded": Bruce Springsteen releases long-awaited Nebraska version of Born In The USA
- Watch the video for the metal collab of the year as Amy Lee, Courtney LaPlante and Poppy team up for new single End Of You
- “It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange
- "Please don't put it on the internet!" Did Limp Bizkit just tease a new song in the funnest way ever?
- Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman to release his autobiography, Fine Old Tales
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Helloween cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
- Watch the video for Robert Plant's new single Chevrolet, the opening track on the former Led Zeppelin frontman's forthcoming album Saving Grace
- "We are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory." Pulp announce 30th anniversary reissue of Britpop cornerstone Different Class, to include their never-before-released Glastonbury 1995 set
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson collaborates with Blackfeet Nation member Nicholas Rink on new ambient BardSpec song Eternity
- Rick Wakeman announces new album, Melancholia, will be released in October
- “We were the antithesis of Britpop – we really hated all that kind of thing." Every Idlewild album in the band's own words
- "The entire world could burn and we would still absolutely love each other and love what we do." How Lzzy Hale beat her demons with a little help from her Halestorm bandmates on new album Everest
- Mike Oldfield announces double-vinyl, half-speed remaster of Amarok reissue for October
- Beige Against The Machine: Grandson's Bob Vylan-assisted third album Inertia is well-meaning, angry, heartfelt and simplistic enough for pre-schoolers
- “I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth
- "It's so broad a concept that it's impossible to answer objectively": We asked who the 'big four' of classic rock were and you did not hold back
- "I look round and there's puke all over the place, and I thought, this is not going well": How Rainbow's classic lineup came together then fell apart
- September 3
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- Alter Bridge launch first new song in over two years, announce US tour
- "There's a vulnerability to the sound, but strength too, evoking a refusal to settle or submit." Slow Crush embark on an emotional journey with seductive third album Thirst
- “I wanted to make a song I felt like a lot of women can relate to”: Scene Queen drops new single Platform Shoes one day before start of European tour
- "I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."
- "Who knows where this will all lead?" Radiohead announce first live dates for seven years
- The bloodsoaked trailer for Disney Plus series Marvel Zombies features Poppy and Babymetal collaboration From Me To U
- “It was such a shame to leave A Secret Wish on its own. The band still had such great potential – it was unfinished business”: Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag couldn’t dump Propaganda and their prog roots in the past
- Sex Pistols forced to postpone North American and South American tours after Steve Jones breaks his wrist
- Pre-order a gothic purple vinyl of new Creeper album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with an exclusive signed art card – available via the Louder store
- "It's one of the best rock songs ever!" Queen's Brian May talks exclusively to Classic Rock about working with The Struts on their newly reimagined update of their debut single Could Have Been Me
- "We’re not just into camels and palm trees." 20 years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing death metal. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene
- Solstice to reissue remastered version of 1984 debut album Silent Dance
- “There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives
- Bring Me The Horizon have 12 songs left over from their latest album ready for release
- "How pathetic and out of touch you've become." Jack Osbourne issues scathing response to Roger Waters after comments about his father Ozzy
- Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope
- 25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible
- “I once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. You can imagine how I was feeling… I got through YYZ. They told me I was playing too fast!” Taylor Hawkins’ love for prog stars Rush, Genesis, Yes and more
- "The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back
- September 2
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- The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks
- The A-Z of Britpop Anthems
- Mastodon members join The March Of Brent Hinds in Atlanta to celebrate life of late ex-guitarist
- “We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic
- "There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings." One of nu metal's best modern bands are evolving in style on Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
- Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review
- Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it
- Thrilling, unsettling and definitely NSFW: Witch Club Satan's first UK show proved they're the best thing to happen in black metal in years
- "I'm outside of the mainstream, and that's how I like it": Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road
- "One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin
- Pearl Jam albums ranked from worst to best
- “He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight
- "We want to appeal to everybody and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires": How AC/DC's plan to conquer the world began in the back of a squalid bus
- September 1
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- Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well
- "We dreamt of coming here for such a long time." How Bleed From Within went from British metalcore underdogs to Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars
- "Nobody wanted to sign us, because we didn’t sound like Korn or Limp Bizkit." How Daron Malakian went from nu metal misfit to international metal star with System Of A Down and Scars On Broadway
- “Those two are really strong, powerful albums and people will appreciate them later”: Steve Harris defends The X Factor and Virtual XI, Iron Maiden’s most derided albums
- UK stoner/doom champions Green Lung to headline Desertfest London 2026; four other bands also confirmed
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
- 5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “Life changed. Time healed wounds. No more feeling alone or depressed – it’s like, ‘Let’s do something positive. Let’s fight’”: When Mariusz Duda escaped the darkness on Lunatic Soul’s Through Shaded Woods
- Hawklords announce twelfth studio album Faith will be released in October
- British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country
- "It's going to be an incredible night for all the fans!": Def Leppard announce 2026 European tour with brand new show
- "A little more restraint in the number of extra notes would help let things shine": Camel break out the complexity but fail to enthral on Mirage
- Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are back and they're more brightly-coloured than ever
- “Mr Blue Sky is the song I always go back to. It’s such a feelgood track and it’s never aged”: The ELO classic led Crobot’s Brandon Yeagley to Frank Zappa, Protest The Hero and a whole world of prog
- "There are no sprawling fantastical epics here, no dragons or orcs or magical pumpkins": Helloween's Giants & Monsters is a thoroughly modern melodic metal album
- Watch Daron Malakian join stunned System Of A Down tribute band for cover of Cigaro in Chicago
- Watch Brian May and superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli sing Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever
