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- September 30
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- The Cure announce huge summer 2026 UK and Ireland shows with star-studded supporting cast
- "We had a decision to make as to whether we wanted to carry on or not": Steve Harris on Nicko McBrain's departure from Iron Maiden
- Sick Of It All singer Lou Koller says his oesophageal cancer has returned
- An old skit of Ozzy Osbourne acting as Gandalf The Grey in The Lord Of The Rings is going viral, and it’s magical
- “If you persist in doing the things that you want to do to satisfy yourself, you can live your whole life that way”: watch a heartfelt message to a young musician from the late, great Steve Albini
- “People were letting surfers fall hard into the crowd”: Fans at recent Sleep Token show reportedly dropped crowd-surfers, and now everyone is arguing about concert etiquette
- Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever
- Watch Slayer charge through Hell Awaits during the fieriest rehearsal video you’ll probably ever see
- “He said, ‘Between you and I, I’ve written a Coronation Street script’”: Morrissey once accosted a Corrie star, asked to be taken to the set and revealed he’d pitched to write for the show
- Lamb Of God seem to be teasing new music for later this week
- Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s spat was blown out of proportion, says support act: “Whatever was going on, they were professional enough to keep it from affecting the tour”
- "Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne
- "I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked
- “I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress
- The David Bowie albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
- Watch the surviving members of REO Speedwagon's classic lineup reunite for the first time in 37 years
- September 29
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- "It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero
- "There’s really no way you should be ignoring this band." If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it Orbit Culture's excellent Death Above Life
- "It's incredible to see them back together. Paul McCartney was actually there!" Leonardo DiCaprio gives his review of the Oasis reunion show in Pasadena, California
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 29, 2025
- Ghost announce 2026 North American tour
- Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
- New singer announced for Rick Wakeman's upcoming English Rock Ensemble tour
- "Nobody liked the song when I put it in the cut!" Why Peacemaker showrunner James Gunn used a cult Swedish metal band to soundtrack that shocking episode six twist
- “It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning
- "Ten publishers came after us immediately so we pulled it after a week": The story of the great lost Replacements album they never made
- “Dismissed because it doesn’t sound anything like Yes, it’s best to dispense with prog expectations and enjoy the fun”: Alan White’s only solo album, Ramshackled, echoes his earlier times
- "If you wondered how Fleetwood Mac evolved into the Rumours-era juggernaut, look no further than Buckingham Nicks": Lindsey and Stevie invent the future on long-lost now-found album
- September 28
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- Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who
- "I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock
- “I don’t try to point out stupidity, and I don’t like to make people feel bad – unless they annoy me”: The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them
- “This is it, folks. The start of a genuine phenomenon”: The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s
- “The first thing I did in the morning was take a fix… I don’t know why I started. I suppose it was to overcome my insecurity”: He was a member of one of the most famous supergroups of the late 60s. But this forgotten great died in poverty aged just 43
- “She builds songs like Roman roads. She won’t let the hills and rivers of convention or compromise get in the way. It’s a straight line from her heart to yours”: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, by some of the artists it inspired
- September 27
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- “It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade
- Paul McCartney hadn’t played this Beatles classic in full since 1965. That changed last night
- Sonic Youth are teasing fans with the promise of something coming in 2026
- “It’s damn near impossible to adequately explain the impact of this album. We didn’t know what hit us”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1980s
- "I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that." Pumpkins, power metal and the most unexpected reunion in metal: Helloween are better than ever
- “I have to make the responsible decision – there’s just no way I can sing like this”: Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury
- "I watched Ozzy's last concert!" Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley on why he used Metallica, Sabbath, Pearl Jam and more to soundtrack season one
- “We opened with it and the crowd broke through the barrier. We had to stop midway because people were getting hurt”: The game-changing late 80s single that put an obscure band from San Francisco on the map and helped ignite the alt rock explosion
- “Two nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming”: Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up
- Watch King Crimson 80s affiliate band Beat perform Elephant Talk live
- From Taylor to Turnstile and more... Hayley Williams' seven best guest spots
- “You cannot visit the scene. The scene is now in the bedroom. There isn’t a group of people forcing each other to improve”: Roy Harper wants to hear new ambitious music, but knows why he’s struggling
- Rick Wakeman shares video for new single, the gently haunting Melancholia
- September 26
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- “We stand for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard”: Every Propagandhi album ranked from worst to best
- You can now watch the epic metal doc, Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal on Hulu - here's the cheapest ways to watch it, starting from free...
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I’m old. I don’t give a **** what I do anymore!”: Bruce Springsteen has opened up on why he agreed to a film being made about his life
- Jethro Tull announce newly remastered reissue of Aqualung Live
- Linkin Park just did a surprise set on Kai Cenat's record-breaking Mafiathon 3 livestream - watch videos here
- "I liked heavy metal because everyone hated it." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes on dodging plant pots, nearly-severed fingers and why nu metal ruined metal
- Creeper share new single Prey For The Night, another typically understated gem from the goth-punk giants
- Annie Haslam to team up with Renaissance founder Jim McCarty for US live shows
- Sprints All That Is Over review: one of Ireland’s most thrilling bands are reborn with one of 2025's best records
- Hear Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne team up on cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs
- Watch Hayley Williams join hardcore punk veterans H20 onstage in Nashville
- Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious
- Review: What kind of a monster would you have to be not to like Ronnie Wood's Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025?
- “A truly virtuosic and deeply musical homage to King Crimson’s legacy – hugely entertaining”: BEAT LIVE captures the joy of Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey reviving and evolving the 80s
- "Deranged and spooky and full of unexpected songs about sexual peccadillos and the sound of milk bottles clanking": The dark humour and unexpected musical twists and turns of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway still startle 50 years on
- “Marvel again at the ridiculous ambition of the young musicians who came up with this. It gave Peter Gabriel little option but to leave the band”: Genesis’ 50th anniversary edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is even better than the Rael thing
- Bruce Springsteen's band weren't prepared for his now-famous anti-Trump speech in Manchester
- Ace Frehley cancels show on doctor's orders after studio fall
- September 25
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- "I really did spells, like ***ing on a churchyard." From discovering black metal and magic to meeting Mayhem, Witch Club Satan's Nikoline Spjelkavik on the 10 records that changed her life
- “I’m so sorry about last night”: Watch Ghost frontman Tobias Forge apologise onstage for last-minute concert cancellation
- “It’s a cartoon, it’s Looney Tunes”: Gwar singer responds to conservative backlash over onstage Donald Trump ‘killing’
- Calling all Ghost fans! Get your hands on an exclusive array of bookazine bundles with a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt and puff print sweatshirt
- Nixon just dropped a brand new Nirvana watch - here's how you can save 10% on it right now
- "The most ambitious project we’ve ever done!" Snarky Puppy announce new collaboration with Metropole Orkest
- 5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- Paramore and Hayley Williams join No Music For Genocide initiative, removing their music from streaming services in Israel
- "We're not trying to make sexualised music." Deftones' Chino Moreno on the nu metal revival, conspiracy theories and whatever the hell Baddiecore is
- Mike Vennart records new vocals on unheard material for reissue of Oceansize's Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
- Watch Sleep Token cover Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark during sold-out American tour
- Review: Robert Plant continues to play musical hopscotch on Saving Grace's long-awaited debut, "a lovely melding of voices and an arresting sense of musical history"
- Every Bob Seger album ranked from worst to best
- "I think he'd been looking for Paul": Eric Idle gives horrifying account of George Harrison stabbing
- “It’s weird when I look at the list. If you go folk or blues or jazz or rock, I’ve actually been there”: Danny Thompson covered more ground than even he thought possible in a career spanning seven decades
- Brian May says Queen are "having conversations" about a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere
- "The doctor said that I probably wouldn't be on stage again": Vince Neil reveals he's suffered four strokes in recent years
- Watch footage from first live performance in eight years from Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers
- Judas Priest singer Rob Halford reveals he got married last year in front of a small group of friends and a "heavy metal cactus"
- September 24
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- “As soon as he hit the stage, everything changed.” Farewell to Ozzy Osbourne: Metal's first - and greatest - icon
- Pentangle and John Martyn bassist Danny Thompson has died, aged 86
- “People really go ape*** for the dance tracks”: saluting New Order’s imperious 2015 album Music Complete as it turns 10
- Metal Hammer presents the ultimate Ghost fan pack: the story of every album and every era, including an exclusive patch and artcards
- The Rolling Stones announce Super Deluxe Box Set edition of 1976 record Black And Blue
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces first-ever Uzbekistan outdoor show for November
- “She isn’t fit to tie their shoelaces!”: recounting an awkward encounter between Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Madonna at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- “We will not perform; we will liberate”: Heavy metal nuns Dogma to battle oppressive American “doctrines” on autumn US tour
- Ghost cancel show last-minute due to Tobias Forge having food poisoning
- Creed release new career-spanning compilation
- Ozric Tentacles to release new 10-disc collection, Through The Magick Valley, in November
- Oasis release stirring reworking of Morning Glory ahead of anniversary reissue
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford says America is “incredibly” homophobic: “When I go onstage, some guys will say, ‘I love Judas Priest, but I’m not gay’”
- Debut albums as complete, impactful, and thrilling as Something To Consume are vanishingly rare. Die Spitz could be your life
- “When you’re saving lives, nothing else matters”: Metallica team up with Australian Red Cross to encourage blood donation Down Under
- "What does it feel like to be a legend?!?": An awkward encounter with a grumpy, nicotine-craving Ozzy Osbourne
- "That song is actually the answer to the big question - it's got real power": The story of the post-punk classic that defined a band and inspired a Hollywood movie
- “I was familiar with air guitar. I had a giant mirror and a tennis racket. But I’d never conceived that 20,000 humans in a room would be playing air drums!” Ugly Kid Joe’s Whitfield Crane loves Rush
- "The 80s were our most successful period, but soulless, shallower, and less musically rewarding": How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid
- September 23
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- New Rolling Stones podcast launched - first episode includes Andrew Loog Oldham interview
- With Altar's delightfully gothic dream-pop, NewDad have hit new heights, but their triumph has come at a price
- Get your exclusive Biffy Clyro Futique t-shirt only via the official Louder store
- Metal Hammer has teamed with Parkway Drive for an exclusive t-shirt and magazine package
- Imposter syndrome. Burnout. Therapy. How Biffy Clyro almost fell apart – but came back stronger
- Cardiacs announce live dates in support of new album LSD for March 2026
- Ghost have put a spooky mariachi band on a boat to promote this week’s Mexico City shows
- “I know it will pay off in the end”: Stevie Nicks shares letter she wrote to her family whilst recording Buckingham Nicks
- "Nightwish, Him and Lacuna Coil all bow before them." Ranking every Paradise Lost album from worst to best
- The Cure announce new festival show for next summer
- Pixies announce new worldwide tour to celebrate their 40th anniversary
- “He’s the only rock star who’s never done anything to be embarrassed about. He’s never put a foot wrong”: Why Peter Gabriel was the ideal inspiration for fictional prog icon Brian Pern
- Kate Bush to release Best Of The Other Sides on CD and coloured vinyl in October
- Right-wing Twitter is up in arms about Gwar “disembowelling” Donald Trump
- Video: so the new Parkway Drive show looks completely insane
- "Call us tarts or a bunch of cheap Rolling Stones imitations – we're still together and we still love to rock": Wild and weird weekends with Aerosmith's Toxic Twins
- "He made the show feel like a party. So that's what we try to do": Greta Valenti picks the soundtrack of her life
- "I need one!": Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred through a fart pedal
- The Boston albums you need to hear - and one to avoid
- September 22
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- A Freddie Mercury Memorial Garden has opened in West London
- Communication breakdown: Led Zeppelin announce Record Store Day release then delete announcement
- “I was not expecting how open and honest Sharon Osbourne was”: From Randy Rhoads to Chuck Schuldiner, new docuseries Into The Void is bringing heavy metal’s human stories to the mainstream
- Iron Maiden announce epic Knebworth show for 2026 - plus two huge festival dates
- Debate: who are the greatest black metal band of all time?
- Biffy Clyro Futique review: catchy, weird, often warm and occasionally crushingly sad, it's everything that makes Biffy one of the UK's greatest bands
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an I Prevail cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
- My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade 2026 tour
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
- Rick Wakeman celebrated in new set of six stamps designed by Roger Dean
- “Categorically false”: Fleetwood Mac deny reports that they will reunite to play at JK Rowling’s birthday bash
- Kid Rock is banned from performing in California
- Thrice announce UK tour dates for 2026
- Watch Nancy Wilson join Chappell Roan onstage for a rollicking cover of Heart classic Barracuda
- US prog rockers Elder unveil 18-minute new work Liminality/Dream State Return
- "This is the last time we’re going to get on a bus and tour all over North America." Shirley Manson blames record industry "thievery" for forcing Garbage to make a drastic decision on touring
- “I’d had too much to drink and didn’t consider how inappropriate or hurtful it might be”: Emmy-nominated actor apologises for having picture taken with Marilyn Manson
- "When people watch us, it's like somebody checks a box that says ‘anything is permissible’. We've had limbs thrown on stage, wheelchairs…" Five hilarious minutes with Gwar front-thing, Blöthar The Berserker
- "We met somewhere in the crossroads and learned a lot from each other": Rodney Crowell on country royalty, loving Southern rock again and new album Airline Highway
- “Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)
- "If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
- “We were shocked it went so well! But this music has lived within us for a long time – it makes sense for it to be natural”: Auri have finally come to life with III: Candles & Beginnings
- Phish release statement after stabbing incident outside show leaves one dead and two injured
- September 21
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- President King Of Terrors review: Metal's most hyped newcomers show plenty of promise but still have a way to go
- “You could never call us pretentious. We were a rock’n’roll band. A rock’n’roll band that liked to experiment”: The wild story of Family, the British hellraisers that John Lennon loved and Middle America hated
- “Huge, tattooed men were crying”: Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day
- “David Byron refused to be helped. On one occasion he slapped me round the face, kicked and screamed at me. We couldn’t take it any more”: The stellar rise and chaotic fall of Uriah Heep, the 70s rock giants who tore themselves apart
- “Hard rock needed a miracle and it found one in this masterpiece”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1970s
- “The bad blood was there from the start. There was no cohesiveness and the atmosphere between certain people was very toxic”: Trevor Rabin was trapped in hell with Yes as they made Big Generator
- “My first instinct was shock at how much like Pink Floyd it sounded. But I can’t deny how important that record is”: Radiohead, Yes, Can and Peter Gabriel feature in Rock Hall boss Jason Hanley’s record collection
- September 20
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- "It's been a really amazing and bittersweet process." Matt Cameron on the emotion of making a new Soundgarden album using demo vocals recorded by the late Chris Cornell
- "You're surrendering your senses completely to this little fascist in your hand." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson really hates mobile phones
- “To the DEATH and far beyond!”: This iconic black metal band have announced they’re splitting up – but not before one final album
- “It reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. Everything was really pushing forwards”: Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden
- Four-fifths of the Genesis Lamb line-up reunite at Atmos playback in London
- “We want to inspire the next generation." From playing Glastonbury to get the sel of approval from Tom Morello Nova Twins are smashing barriers
- “He just started drinking. We left his drunkenness in there, and it became a thing for us: drink and shred”: How a cult power metal band and an insanely successful video game brought shred guitar heroics to a new generation
- “We were the new outrageous band in town. We were dirty and nasty and had naked girls on stage”: The satirical 70s shock rock anthem that gave Kiss and Alice Cooper a run for their money
- “Nine Inch Nails, man…”: Jeff Bridges speaks for all of us on the excellence of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s Tron: Ares soundtrack
- September 19
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “The process was natural and easy, I could’ve kept on going forever”: Blink-182’s Travis Barker on turning producer for new Alkaline Trio recordings
- “This is the kind of band all of us wanted to be in as we got older”: New supergroup bringing together members of R.E.M., Screaming Trees, QOTSA and more announce first UK shows
- "In some ways it's a miracle that we even had a career at all": With better timing, things might have turned out completely differently for Harem Scarem
- Hear four classic Kittie songs re-recorded on new EP Spit XXV
- Dream Theater announce new 40th anniversary live album
- Metallica may have ‘stolen’ Spinal Tap’s album art, but the comedy-metal legends aren’t bitter about it
- Massive Attack to remove their music from Spotify in protest against CEO’s AI military investments
- "If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal
- Aerosmith and Yungblud share first track from their collaborative new EP
- Nine classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to dust off for their 2026 Run For Your Lives shows
- "Musical insanity comes in many forms. Igorrr are attempting them all at once." French experimentalists Igorrr go wild on new album Amen
- Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
- Debate: Who is the greatest guitarist of all time?
- “The sound universe that Soft Machine opened before me was almost unfathomable. It was a revelation, a musical epiphany”: Meet the Canterbury scene’s international next generation
- Two years into the post-space age, Hawkwind continue to explore music's deeper reaches on Hall Of The Mountain Grill
- “Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins responds to backlash over his criticism of Yungblud's Ozzy tribute
- BBC announces rescheduled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home documentary will be broadcast on October 2
- Warring REO Speedwagon members to reunite as grand marshals at University homecoming parade
- September 18
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- Watch Slash and Steven Tyler guest with the Joe Perry Project in Hollywood
- Dave Cousins 1994 album with Brian Willoughby, The Bridge, gets new makeover
- Lorna Shore don't want to be deathcore's biggest band - they want to be the biggest band in metal
- “This is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world!”: Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer. And it comes with three exclusive gifts!
- Paradise Lost Ascension review: The godfathers of goth metal still find glee in gloom
- Queen detail 50th anniversary editions of A Night At The Opera and Bohemian Rhapsody
- Yes announce new reissue of Fly From Here: Return Trip with Atmos mix
- The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
- Iron Maiden announce more European shows for 2026, including phone-free Paris concert and secret UK date
- “Chances are your favourite musicians owe this band a debt of gratitude”: Your essential guide to every At The Gates album
- "Everything about this band rules hard." Fantasy doom metal heroes Castle Rat have made one of 2025's most epic metal albums in The Bestiary
- Nine albums by The Doors you need to hear... and one to avoid
- "There was just Ozzy and me at my own private show in the middle of a desert": I took photos of Ozzy Osbourne for decades – these are some of my favourite memories
- “I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write
- Slash announces Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival live album and concert film
- Aerosmith and Yungblud confirm collaboration details
- September 17
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- “An aural record of an artist becoming himself”: Bob Dylan's early years explored in forthcoming Bootleg Series release
- Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
- Depeche Mode release trailer for epic new concert film
- Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month – watch the trailer here
- “Often times, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy”: revisiting Chris Cornell’s final album as it turns 10
- "This is what art is": Mike Patton returns to action with new project AVTT/PTTN with folk rock stars the Avett Brothers
- "To Carry The Weight might be one of the most gutwrenching songs that I’ve ever written." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach on buried projects, ska records and how he once met the cast of Friends
- "There are so many elements I never expected to see or hear!" New Van der Graaf Generator film shines light on only US gig from the 1970s
- Frank Turner announces new career compilation The Next Ten Years
- Six reasons to get excited about music in 2026 from the Coachella line-up
- I Prevail Violent Nature review: the metalcore heavyweights' fourth album is a little hit and miss, but the hits go hard
- Sleep Token kicked off their sold-out US tour and performed two never-before-played songs last night – see the setlist and watch videos here
- Rick and Oliver Wakeman to tour together for the first time ever
- "It’s a massive family of geeks, freaks and weirdos." Satanic rituals, burlesque and cowbell - what it was like at Ghost Con, the world's only dedicated Ghost fan convention
- The new movie from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow features an unhinged turn from Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson
- Colin Edwin and John Wesley announce new Porcupine Tree-focused band Voyage 35
- System Of A Down add second UK date to European tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
- “Anyone encountering them afresh may wonder how success largely eluded them”: 60s psych rock duo Nirvana prove they were ahead of their time on The Show Must Go On
- “We’re definitely still a progressive band. Listen to the detail in what we do and the musicianship behind it – it all comes from that legacy”: When Soen’s songs got shorter but not shallower on Memorial
- Chrissie Hynde and k.d. lang hook up for smoky version of soul classic Me And Mrs Jones
- "You only get one shot to do this correctly and I think we nailed it": Joe Bonamassa announces all-star tribute to B.B. King
- September 16
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- Heart add more dates to Royal Flush tour
- The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
- Watch Terrifier baddie Art The Clown ‘kill’ WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley during an Ice Nine Kills concert last weekend
- "There were loads of bands happy to make mediocre records. We never saw this as an option." The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal
- Scottish post-rockers Mogwai announce UK live dates for February
- At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
- Soen announce new studio album, Reliance, will be released in January
- Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
- Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
- Australian prog rockers Karnivool announce first new album for 13 years!
- Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week
- Yes announce first English and Scottish live dates for two years
- Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon
- "Songwriting pulls you out of whatever you're going through": Warren Haynes reveals how the blues can rescue you from misery
- 13 absolute bangers from Status Quo's Frantic Four lineup
- "He'd argue with me till six in the morning - he'd do whatever was needed": How Jeff Lynne built the Electric Light Orchestra
- “For the first time I was meeting resistance artistically. People were saying, ‘She’s gone mad now.’ I was a complete wreck – I’d wake up in the morning and I couldn’t move”: How Kate Bush answered her critics with Hounds Of Love
- Aerosmith to release first new music in over a decade - with Yungblud
- September 15
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- "We’re honoured to collaborate with Iggor & Max": Massive Attack team up with Sepultura co-founders Max and Iggor Cavalera for special South American show
- “It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful”: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce huge Brighton show for summer 2026
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 15, 2025
- Iron Maiden sign up as ambassadors for National Album Day 2025
- "I noticed a guy in a wheelchair swinging his prosthetic leg around in the air!" How Arch Enemy wrote a revolutionary anthem for the masses with Nemesis
- Gerard Way teases new project with US ska-punk band The Interrupters
- “It was an absolute honour to know him and carry his belts”: Liam Gallagher pays tribute to Ricky Hatton after the boxer’s death
- Steve Hackett announces Best of Genesis And Solo Gems 2026 England and Scotland tour dates
- "I started going to rituals when I was 13. My mother made me robes and I had my own staff." Midsommar metal is officially a thing: say hello to Forlorn
- “I was supposed to play guitar on Sweet Leaf, then it was Changes”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers meeting Ozzy Osbourne and reveals his original plan for Back To The Beginning
- "More of a great thing is an even greater thing": Foreigner's 4 is absolutely deserving of the super-deluxe treatment
- "I'm trying to put a little bit of love and just realness into rock music": De'Wayne's been working for 10 years, but people are finally paying attention
- “I’m not a massive fan of all things prog. But I must have listened to the Tarkus album a million times down the years”: Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French wants Emerson, Lake and Palmer to be remembered for ever
- "It's karaoke time and I understand that": Graham Bonnet on the "berserk" response to Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone
- “I hoped we could go somewhere, with all of us making a living. I don’t have that hope any more”: Stubbornness, repurposed Kansas songs and letting a long-held ambition go helped Spock’s Beard make Noise Floor
- September 14
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- Watch Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson sing the Star Spangled Banner for 66,000 NFL fans in Pittsburgh
- "The band's interpretations of other writers' songs are so creative they're essentially new songs with the old lyrics and title": Manfred Mann’s Earth Band mix it up on Nightingales & Bombers
- Nikki Sixx says Mick Mars' claims that Motley Crue don't play live are a "betrayal to the band who saved his life"
- All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
- Watch Foo Fighters return to the stage with their new drummer and a monster 25-song set
- “Drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the 60s – all defiant and distorted”: The story behind the Rolling Stones’ iconic Exile On Main Street album cover
- 10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks
- “I thought, ‘What would people do if they only had five months to live?’ One song is called Shagathon…” Arjen Lucassen decided to be an egomaniac, and the result is Songs No One Will Hear
- Half the world away: what ex-members of Oasis are up to whilst their former group embarks on their triumphant comeback tour without them
- “There’s inevitably repeated songs from Asia, King Crimson and UK, but plenty of variations in arrangement – and he’s in fine voice throughout”: John Wetton’s Concentus II is 10 discs of sumptuous live performance
- September 13
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- “I remember looking up at this big billboard that said, ‘God loves you all.’ I thought, ‘He sure as hell doesn’t like me right now!’”: The prophetic Slayer song that marked the end of one of thrash metal’s greatest songwriting partnerships
- Foo Fighters return to stage for first time in a year with intimate last-minute show in California
- “God? Maybe he’s gone senile”: Lemmy was once asked what he thought about God and religion, and he didn’t hold back
- “At first it felt like a bit of a novelty song. It was a shock that it became so popular”: How an unknown American trio scored a huge hit with the greatest Neil Young song Neil Young never wrote
- "It was the four of us against the world." Behind the curtains of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's historic farewell gig
- “None of it has gone unnoticed – it’s carried me through many nights”: Sharon Osbourne thanks fans for their “overwhelming” support following Ozzy’s death
- “They took big swings, but knew when a lighter touch fitted. It’s like Pink Floyd played by 10cc”: Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? 50th anniversary editions
- “Genuinely shocking, and uninterested in the post-rock status quo”: Jo Quail’s Notan proves yet again that there’s no one quite like her
- The 10 best B-side albums
- "We're probably the truest form of rock and roll there is." P.O.D.'s Marcos Curiel says the band are done trying to prove themselves
- The Who add one 'final' date to their North American farewell tour
- "I had to learn to walk again." Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil reveals he had a stroke in December
- September 12
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Twenty One Pilots Breach review: it's the end of the band as we know them, but it points to an exciting future all the same
- Sabaton x Nothing More is one of the most surprising heavy metal collaborations we’ve heard all year – and it doesn’t sound half bad
- “This is either going to be a nice coda to Van Halen or it’s going to ruin my life”: Wolfgang Van Halen explains the extreme risk that comes with playing his dad’s songs onstage
- Pink Floyd announce 50th anniversary reissue of Wish You Were Here
- These were David Bowie's favourite songs, according to a note found while amassing his new V&A archive
- "I don't care that they hate it, it's the fact that they are talking about it." Why Within Temptation won't shy away from getting political with their music
- Listen to Limp Bizkit's brand new single Making Love To Morgan Wallen, featuring nods to Chester Bennington, David Bowie, dolphins and Donald Trump
- "I got put on a six-man ward, and three of them died": The trials, trauma and triumph of Dinosaur Pile-Up
- “Faintly ludicrous and simplistic – but Humankind should enjoy it while it still can”: Arjen Anthony Lucassen has fun counting down to Armageddon on Songs No One Will Hear
- “If they were Dungeons & Dragons characters, their alignment would be Chaotic Good, breaking all the rules with the best of intentions”: Between The Buried And Me’s The Blue Nowhere brakes for no one
- Motörhead: 50 Years Louder - A celebration, only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- September 11
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- "I can't wait to get this band onstage in front of people": The Wildhearts announce More Satanic Rites Of... tour dates
- Watch Metallica play Master Of Puppets to just 500 people at ultra-intimate show last month
- Spock's Beard return with The Archaeoptimist, their first new studio album in seven years!
- Watch Turnstile's Brendan Yates stage dive during the band's Tiny Desk Concert performance
- "It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere
- Motörhead to be celebrated on punk rock tribute album featuring Pennywise, Anti-Nowhere League and others
- Robert Plant's Saving Grace with Suzi Dian announces UK tour dates
- Flying Colors and Kansas guitarist Steve Morse to release first new Steve Morse Band album for sixteen years
- Debate: who are the greatest thrash metal band of all time?
- "A gigantic, impermeable, orbital black achievement which has intensified with age": Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti receives a 50th Birthday polish
- 'We’ve proved ourselves wrong so many times and got so much bigger than we ever thought we would." Ten years on, the story of That’s The Spirit, the album that sent Bring Me The Horizon stratospheric
- “Some fans want him to make The Raven That Refused To Sing over and over again. Most know he won’t repeat himself”: Chantel McGregor admires Steven Wilson’s risky approach to music
- "It's like watching David Hasselhoff": Justin Hawkins backs brother Dan's criticism of "poseur" Yungblud's Ozzy tribute
- September 10
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- "I'm hoping to go there and watch myself": David Gilmour hints at Pink Floyd avatar show at the Sphere in Las Vegas
- King Crimson offshoot Beat share new live clip of Thela Hun Ginjeet
- "We still wanna rock!": Twisted Sister will tour the world in 2026 to celebrate half a century of Not Taking It
- Lorna Shore's I Feel The Everblast Festering Within Me review: Deathcore's biggest band just made an extreme metal album fit for arenas
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson says he’d have been “comfortable” if cancer treatment irreparably affected his singing voice
- Why have Pink Floyd wrapped their album sleeves on streaming services in black?
- Who are Acid Bath? The chaotic, tragic story of the cult metal band supporting System Of A Down and Queens Of The Stone Age next summer
- "It's up to King Charles, it's not up to us." British rock legends Spinal Tap play down speculation over possible knighthoods, excite US talk show host with surprisingly meaty Big Bottom
- “One of the biggest artists in the world knew who we were. It was awesome!”: Deftones got their first major record deal because Madonna liked their music
- “I understand, I’m paying the price right now.” Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible addresses allegations of having racist and transphobic beliefs in new interview
- "What someone loves about you one day might be cited as a reason they hate you now." Fast-rising US hardcore crew Militarie Gun share new single Throw Me Away, announce UK and European shows for 2026
- System Of A Down announce European stadium tour with support from Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
- "The three of us were put on this planet to make different kinds of music": Stewart Copeland on why it's unlikely The Police will ever reform
- "I don't think she liked my music at all – which is why we bonded": What happened when Joe Bonamassa and Joanne Shaw Taylor were interviewed together for the first time
- “The album happened not unexpectedly – but it was like, ‘Wow, we have enough songs!’” Nosound’s rush return after seven years with To The Core
- “His response to seeing a wilderness being bulldozed, he can’t resist also mentioning Bonnie Prince Charlie, Vikings and an ill-fated brontosaurus”: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s Tomorrow Belongs To Me is a prog epic
- Watch Jeff Beck's mind-boggling version of You Know What I Mean on The Midnight Special
- September 9
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- The 27 current best-selling albums on Bandcamp are all by the same band
- Watch a unique version of Motörhead classic Ace Of Spades, and a killer take on Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, as Lemmy fronts Jools Holland's big band R'n'B Orchestra on British TV in 1995
- Massively expanded edition of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold As Love announced
- Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 SE review
- Are System Of A Down teasing their first European tour since 2017?
- "It’s incredible to feel like part of something." Inside the devoted fanbase of Sleep Token, the biggest metal band of the decade
- “Organised religion is causing the worst genocides and most horrible situations in the history of mankind”: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen goes on vicious tirade against Christianity
- Bryan Adams announces UK leg of Roll With The Punches tour
- “Over-inflated soufflés passing as cinematic wallpaper”: Vangelis’ soundtrack for 1492: Conquest Of Paradise has aged as badly as its parent movie
- “Flying model planes and covering the phone with a pillow was all I was capable of at the time”: The unexpected triumph of Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge, an album he didn’t want to make
- Allen Blickle, founding Baroness drummer, dead at 42
- "Makes me sick how people jump on this sh*t to further their own careers": The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins slams MTV Ozzy tribute
- "This time there will actually be music or your money back": Taika Waititi is working on a Fyre Fest musical
- September 8
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- The man who invented everything cool in rock'n'roll: Alice Cooper albums ranked
- "A collection of material that has been the heartbeat of our journey": Blackberry Smoke celebrate 25th anniversary with album honouring late drummer Brit Turner
- Eagles break venue record by extending run of shows at Sphere in Las Vegas
- "Foo Fighters Assemble!!!" Dave Grohl's band return to the studio, teasing fans with the promise of "info you won’t want to miss"
- "It's been very crazy." How Radiohead, Coldplay, Gorillaz and more came together to make history with an album that went on sale just one day after its songs were recorded
- Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson sing Judas Priest with a busker on the streets of New Orleans
- Much-hyped mystery men President haven’t even released an EP yet and they’re already headlining a festival
- “Ozzy forever, man”: Yungblud wore Ozzy Osbourne’s necklace during tribute performance at the VMAs last weekend
- "There was so much interest in Nirvana. I couldn’t believe it." What Dave Grohl thought of the much-loved grunge exhibition in Seattle which has closed after 14 years
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 8, 2025
- "Being the lone guy at the front was a huge challenge. It was really nerve-wracking." Robert Plant recalls his anxiety during the early days of Led Zeppelin, and admits the band had their off days
- "A much smarter and more socially conscious band than their image and stage show might have you believe": The Alice Cooper Band conjure up a twisted classic on Killer
- "A bank robber put a gun in my face and stole my motorcycle." Nervosa's Prika Amaral picks the 10 songs that changed her life
- In perhaps the first wholesome story in Slayer history, Tom Araya renewed his wedding vows over the weekend – and Gary Holt officiated the ceremony
- “It’s flattering. Do I think that we are? Not necessarily”: Chino Moreno reacts to Deftones being called ‘the Radiohead of metal’
- Big Big Train drummer enlists Steve Hackett for rewiring of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tribute album
- “It was like we’d climbed the mountain. My head was spinning every time I sang it”: Yes created longer songs than Close To The Edge, but none with as much impact
- "All aboooooooard!" Watch the all-star Ozzy Osbourne tribute from MTV's awards show
- Rick Davies, Supertramp co-founder and vocalist, dead at 81
- September 7
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- "Being a rock star is overrated." Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is falling out of love with touring
- “Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If it 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
- "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
- “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
