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October 10
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “It feels like going back in time to relive our history”: No Doubt announce Las Vegas shows for 2026
- Moody Blues bassist John Lodge dead at 82
- “I left my car with all the instruments in but I’d left the handbrake off and it rolled onto the motorway”: the tearaway Britpop teenagers whose knack of getting into trouble had Steven Spielberg on the phone wanting to make a TV show with them
- “Before we had a chance to stop, four officers jumped me. One tried to break my arm, the other put a choke hold on my neck”: With one music video, this rap metal band almost brought the financial heart of America to its knees
- “The funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.” Friends star Matthew Perry attended Alcoholics Anonymous at Ozzy Osbourne’s house
- “If you see him live, it’s insane! He’s just ripping his heart out in front of you”: King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk on his favourite prog vocalist – also loved by David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and the guy who did The Sooty Show
- "He's with that meth lab that he designed, his baby - the lyrics back that up and he is at peace with himself": The story of the minor seventies hit that soundtracked the bloody finale of Breaking Bad
- "Some Time In New York City is an album that suffers from being terrible": John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band compiled on Power To The People
- "It showed me what music can do." Eight surprising artists you never knew were inspired by the brilliance of Talking Heads' Remain In Light
- A Night At The Opera: 50 years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen's operatic masterpiece - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Every Rush album ranked from worst to best
October 9
- "The past few days have been quite overwhelming": New Rush drummer Anika Nilles reacts to sudden spotlight
- Cool new proggy sounds from L.O.E., EF, Circu5 and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- "There’s still time to come to the States to catch this show..." Dream Theater cancel 2026 UK and European Parasomnia tour plans
- TesseracT announce new concert movie and live album, RADAR
- "He said, ‘Kid, it’s a smash! You gotta trust me!’ I thought he was crazy." The Smashing Pumpkins classic Billy Corgan thought was "stupid" - and that his own label boss had to talk him round on
- JBL Flip 7 portable Bluetooth speaker review
- “There was some mild terrorism going on. They were exploding cars and banks and real estate. There was an ongoing war”: From a climate of violence, this band made one of modern metal’s most conscious, powerful anthems
- Ultravox will release a Deluxe Edition of The Collection in December, featuring new Steven Wilson remixes
- 15 of the best Prime Day deals for music fans are still available - grab them before they're gone
- Everyone thinks this is one of Iron Maiden's worst albums. Here's why you're all wrong
- "He didn’t ask for a receipt or nothing, just sent a cheque for ten grand and said, 'Sorry about that'". The grunge icons who ripped off an 80s classic - only to get busted when they hit the studio with the guy who wrote the original
- “For the whole of this tour, we haven’t played this song”: Bruce Dickinson’s solo band performed another classic Iron Maiden track at the end of their North American tour last week
- Glenn Hughes has played with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion and more - but he should never have left his first band
- “I wish things had panned out differently. The lyrics were a message saying, ‘Meet us in the middle.’ It didn’t work out that way”: An armed robbery, a returning drummer and a new label brought this American band back from near oblivion
October 8
- "A decadent yet functional take on wellness": Smashing Pumpkins launch $20 charity smoothie
- Bruce Dickinson gives the US national anthem the air-raid siren treatment again
- "I had a slight fender bender": Gene Simmons recovering at home after reportedly passing out while driving
- Rush add additional dates to Fifty Something 2026 tour
- “We’ve seen this movie before: boost ticket sales, go away, then the bigger offers come”: Former Megadeth member isn’t fully convinced the band are retiring
- “I spotted them and I thought they were a really terrific band.” How David Bowie took one of the 90s' big breakout rock bands under his wing - right before they blew up
- It's your last chance to get Louder's no.1 live music earplugs for less this Prime Day - save up to 25% on the 4.5 star-rated Loop Experience 2
- "We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The story of the underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that almost became a household name
- This Amazon Prime Video sale is a killer with up to 50% off classic horror flicks - grab yours for an early Halloween treat
- Here's every metal album that's ever gone to number one in the UK
- “They jammed Cream and Jimi Hendrix at their earliest concerts, and critics compared the thunder of their debut album to Led Zeppelin”: Why Rush are secretly the coolest band on the planet
- The house that Slipknot trashed in their most infamous music video is going to auction
- Marshall turn up the volume on Prime Day with their own Louder For Less sale - save up to $100 on home audio gear
- “I picked up a CD with a quivering lip and was like, ‘When’s grandad coming home?’”: up until the age of 11, Yungblud thought Rod Stewart was his grandfather
- This is the best Prime Day deal I've seen this year - save 56% on the five-star Sony PS-LX310BT turntable
- The Pineapple Thief announce 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of fourth album 10 Stories Down
- Over a decade since their debut, Falling Leaves are back with a new album all fans of death-doom simply need to hear
- I find your lack of Lego disturbing - fix it with up to 30% off Lego Star Wars sets this Prime Day
- "The voice of Ayreon is not here anymore!" Ayreon contributor and former Kayak singer Edward Reekers has died, aged 68
- The 10 most played rock acts on UK radio and TV in the 21st century have been announced: Only two are from the 21st century
- “People say Genesis ended when Peter Gabriel left, or when Steve Hackett left. But he was the anchor that everything else revolved around”: An appreciation of Tony Banks, by John Boegehold
- “A miracle that silenced their harshest critics, even within the band, and opened many minds”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads’ Remain In Light
- "People found out we weren't The Beatles and that came back to haunt us": The curious case of the band whose career was derailed by a rumour
- Watch Anika Nilles demonstrate exactly why Rush have chosen her as their new drummer
October 7
- "They're trying to insert themselves into a conversation to obtain some kind of relevancy": Yungblud slams critics of his Ozzy Osbourne tribute
- Preorder Megadeth’s final album on limited copper/emerald vinyl, plus an art card signed by the band only available through Metal Hammer
- Watch: we asked a bunch of fans at Parkway Drive's Wembley show to name the best ever metalcore band
- Amazon still has hundreds of rock & metal t-shirts on sale for Prime Day - but you'll have to be quick to get one
- “There’s a weird sexual energy with a lot of it”: Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags
- There's still time to tie up the Loose Ends in your Springsteen collection this Prime Day with 27% off this epic 9LP vinyl box set - but the clock is ticking
- Hear Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante sing electro-metal banger Ties That Bind, from the soundtrack of new fighting game 2XKO
- “We knocked out ten songs and that ended up being the bulk of the first record, so that first week was pretty good!”: it’s 35 years since Pearl Jam had their very first rehearsal and a generational rock band was born
- The odds of finding a better Lego Star Wars deal this Prime Day? Approximately 3,720 to 1 - save 30% on this C-3PO lego set
- “The further I got away from it, the more I thought, ‘It’s OK. We had 40 years. I’m tired of hanging around a hotel, being away from family’”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee explain why now is the time to reunite Rush
- “Although I won’t be performing again, I’ve already got an idea for a new album”: 11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites
- "It's pretty amazing that rock lasted for seventy-five years": Todd Rundgren on the demise of rock, fighting hate and why listeners don't like albums
- "We’re fortunate that people now appreciate what we do. It hasn’t always been that way. Nothing polarises people quite like we do, for some reason”: The mindset behind Rush’s final album, Clockwork Angels
- The 10 best double albums in rock music history
- "I wish I wrote it - I would’ve made a lot more cash!" The story of the English song that was minor hit in Europe before becoming an all-American classic
October 6
- "I think her name is Anika": Geddy Lee was telling people about Rush's new drummer two years ago
- I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums
- How to watch new Paramount documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now - no matter where you are
- "Life is full of surprises!" Rush announce first live shows in eleven years, reveal new live drummer
- "War On Drugs, suck my ****": Six classic indie diss tracks you never knew about
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 6, 2025
- "While younger generations fanny around with cynical pop compromises, they're here to break necks." Looking for the best thrash metal album of 2025? Testament have your back with Para Bellum
- Ozzy Osbourne admitted that he had a “life-or-death” heart problem days before he died of a heart attack
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer
- “Only if it really stinks will we redo it”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to record his next solo album in January
- "Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim
- “I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata
- “There was one troll who slagged it off, but I think he was a fan from the Fish years!” Marillion’s Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning took six years to make Gentō, an album that sounds like neither of their bands
- "Taylor Swift said that was the best song ever written": Goo Goo Dolls launch video of Taylor Swift duetting with frontman John Rzeznik
October 5
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's inaugural Future Ruins film festival cancelled
- "I want to try your clothes on!" Toyah and Robert Fripp explore uncharted musical territory in new Sunday Lunch video
- “He tried to stab Dio with a fork!”: The first time Ozzy Osbourne met Ronnie James Dio it nearly ended in bloodshed
- "They might just be the most essential live show in metal right now." We're not entirely sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was
- “I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics
- “If you strip away the images you could put us beside King Crimson. The musicality and ambition would fit. But for us it’s 50 per cent about music, 50 per cent about hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog indeed
October 4
- Watch video for new Megadeth single Tipping Point
- "While this chapter has come to a close, this is by no means the end of my path as a musician." Modern metal heavyweights Trivium abruptly part ways with drummer Alex Bent
- “Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful
- Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years
- “It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig
- “He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s
- “It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral
- “There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated
October 3
- "Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single
- Ozzy: No Escape From Now review – an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- One of rock music’s most underrated bands played Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and they’re still cooler than a fridge after 40-plus years
- “I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now”: Listen to Megadeth’s thrash-adocious new single Tipping Point, the first taste of Dave Mustaine and co.’s final album
- Opeth announce one-off UK show for 2026
- “Me and Taylor sat down, and she says, ‘I can’t sing that line’, cos it was a bit too risqué”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott on duetting with the teenage Taylor Swift on an 80s rock classic - and the raunchy lyric they had to change
- Foo Fighters just surprise-released a new EP - here's where you can hear it
- "I'm not sure I could have been the flashy guitarist he wanted me to be": Y&T's Dave Meniketti on turning down Ozzy and improving your chances of survival
- AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... review: Davey Havok and his crue have gone full goth, and it's resulted in their best album in over a decade
- “Once we blew apart in 1996, we were never quite the same”: Smashing Pumpkins announce 30th anniversary edition of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
- "He was a guy who would chop the bedroom door down with an axe, like Jack Nicholson": A decade on from the disease that nearly killed him, Walter Trout is on a roll, looking at a world gone wrong
- Review: Still mixing futuristic rock brilliance with Brit-Weezer ballast, Ash venture into space on Ad Astra
- “Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns
- From problem child to golden child: The story behind every song on Radiohead’s Kid A
- Review: Michael Schenker lets rip on new MSG album Don’t Sell Your Soul
- “Largely ignored – but formidable, masterly and substantial”: Darryl Way’s Wolf released three albums in two years. The Cadenza box set proves they should never have been out of the spotlight
October 2
- Founding Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja dead at 79
- Order your exclusive Iron Maiden bundle featuring an Eddie T-shirt you won't find in shops
- I say, 'It is an honour to meet you, you are one of my biggest inspirations.' And he says 'kneel' and asks for the cane..." What happened when a goth icon had a surprise encounter with a punk rock hero
- "The most unsubtle, one-dimensional noise": the chart-topping indie anthem that prompted an ex-member of Depeche Mode to write a letter of complaint
- 11 sublimely mellow Smashing Pumpkins cuts
- “I’m never not ready to scream about racial issues.” Hayley Williams on the importance of using her platform and why she’s pulling no punches when it comes to a certain country star
- I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best
- “It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Rock band speak out as AI-generated ‘artist’ modelled on their music gets more Spotify listeners
- "He was like a blubbering baby. He was crying. He was devastated": The Who's Roger Daltrey on drugs, fights, death and the music that defined a generation
- I saw Black Sabbath play three days after their debut album was released - and tickets cost 30 pence
- "The place was full of chickens, pigs and goats. The whole thing was fascinating": How an acid-tinged account of a North African adventure became the sound of the counterculture
- “They’re portrayed as unhip, exploitative capitalist men of the rock world. But it’s entirely down to them that the movement can move. And they didn’t get anything out of it”: When Peter Gabriel received death threats, Genesis reunited to help him
- "You forgot the bass!" Metallica's ...And Justice For All producer recalls his shock at hearing album's final mixes
- AC/DC smashed "permitted noise level" during Edinburgh show
October 1
- "It's a band I think I have a lot in common with": Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is working on a movie about The Replacements
- New book puts Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod in the spotlight
- Lunatic Soul reveal softer side with album cycle-closing video for The New End
- Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?
- Nine Inch Nails announce new North American tour dates for 2026
- How to watch new BBC documentary Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, from anywhere
- "In Brazil, especially in the early 80s, it was all about Samba – nobody would talk about metal." Five minutes with Sepultura legend Iggor Cavalera
- TesseracT celebrate tenth anniversary of Polaris with new clear vinly remastered reissue
- The long lost album from Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot project Vimic is finally here. But does it live up to his legacy?
- “I stand with the world, in its goodness and beauty”: Nick Cave has just delivered another stirring sermon on the state of the world in 2025
- "The whole day felt bigger than music or sport; it was about women showing strength, power and unity on a global stage." Watch Sophie Lloyd shred Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and more at the Women’s Rugby World Cup final
- New film exploring David Bowie’s Berlin years announced
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “We’re looking back at the good ol’ days”: New Found Glory announce details of forthcoming new album
- Watch the wholesome trailer for new BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which airs later this week
- That acclaimed movie about the Mars Volta and At The Drive-In is coming to UK cinemas
- “You tour for so long. You’ve got a family, a mortgage, and you come home from America after eight weeks with £100. That’s unsustainable”: Dan Tompkins had to leave Tesseract – so what brought him back for third album Polaris?
- “The music needed to be paced differently and we needed a bit more going for us, thematically. We very much realised we needed a new identity to rise above the fray”: Wishbone Ash laid a plan for Argus, and surprised themselves when it worked
- The pride of New York City: A beginner's guide to White Lion in five essential albums
- Ozzy Osbourne's face appears on the side of New Zealand's tallest building