Hear Ritchie Blackmore’s Christmas present to the world, Blackmore’s Night’s Here We Come A-Caroling By Paul Brannigan ’Tis the season to be jolly, apparently. So let’s get festive with Blackmore’s Night
Light up your Bonfire Night with this electrifying unboxing video for AC/DC’s deluxe Power Up lightbox By Paul Brannigan AC/DC’s Power Up album will arrive on November 13. Here’s a look inside the deluxe edition
Eddie Vedder recalls rivalry with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain: ‘I probably could have agreed with some things he said’ By Paul Brannigan Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder looks back on the early grunge scene, his relationship with Kurt Cobain, and Chris Cornell’s death
Scientists name new fossil species after Rotting Christ By Paul Brannigan The fossil brittle star, Brezinacantha Tolis, is ‘pure black metal’, apparently
‘Vote with courage in the face of fear and intimidation’ says Axl Rose By Paul Brannigan As voting begins in the US presidential election, Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose urges his fellow Americans to ‘make a stand’
Maynard James Keenan plays Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Kiss and King Diamond albums to his grapes By Paul Brannigan Tool/Puscifer vocalist Maynard James Keenan reveals his very specific vineyard soundtrack secrets
The Chris Fehn Vs. Slipknot legal case has been settled By Paul Brannigan Ex-Slipknot percussionist Chris Fehn’s lawsuit against the band was voluntarily discontinued on October 29 ‘with prejudice’
Listen to Ivankkka Is A Nazi by Green Day’s ‘biggest nemesis’ The Network By Paul Brannigan The Network’s first new music in 17 years concerns a NRA-loving Nazi named Ivankkka
Go behind-the-scenes on AC/DC’s Shot In The Dark video shoot By Paul Brannigan Watch how AC/DC’s Shot In The Dark video came together in an Amsterdam studio
Freddie Mercury once hired a limo to bring a starving Gary Numan a Big Mac in a Tokyo sushi restaurant By Paul Brannigan Gary Numan recalls kindness of Queen: ‘they were all such lovely, down-to-earth people’
Johnny Depp loses libel case over newspaper article labelling him a ‘wife beater’ By Paul Brannigan Hollywood Vampires guitarist and film star Johnny Depp fails to win court case against the Sun
‘Making amo was a real ball-ache,’ admits Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes By Paul Brannigan Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes says that the creation of 2019’s amo album was a slog
Watch John Lennon freak out at The Rolling Stones’ first live performance of Sympathy For The Devil By Paul Brannigan New footage of the Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus has emerged, and it shows John Lennon having a ball
This Megadeth/Slayer update on AC/DC’s Riff Raff is a brilliant way to kickstart your week By Paul Brannigan Megadeth’s Dave Ellefson and Slayer’s Dave Lombardo team up for a scorching version of Powerage classic Riff Raff
Hello darkness my old friend… Nothing deliver the most 2020 album of 2020 with The Great Dismal By Paul Brannigan Philly shoegaze quartet Nothing embrace the void on the none-more-black The Great Dismal
Listen to the synth-pop demo that got a pre-Korn Jonathan Davis viciously bullied at high school By Paul Brannigan Before he joined Korn, Jonathan Davis was a Depeche Mode-loving New Romantic – and early synth pop demo What Have I Done proves it
Rob Zombie’s new single The Triumph of King Freak… is so good it’ll make you forget every sh*tty thing about 2020 By Paul Brannigan Rob Zombie releases The Triumph Of King Freak… as a taster for new album The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
Hear Fever 333’s incredible new cover of Linkin Park classic In The End By Paul Brannigan Fever 333 and Grandson cover Hybrid Theory classics for Spotify Singles
Trent Reznor, Perry Farrell, Billy Corgan to play Bowie tribute concert By Paul Brannigan Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction and Smashing Pumpkins men to feature in David Bowie celebration event
Hear new music from three-quarters of Tool By Paul Brannigan Tool guitarist Adam Jones ropes in bandmates Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey to record the score to a new short film, The Witness
Alice Cooper wants to play a terrifying game of truth or dare with you By Paul Brannigan Alice Cooper unveils Horror Box, his horror-themed card game. Snakes and spiders not included
AC/DC once tried to smoke out the Loch Ness monster with fireworks By Paul Brannigan AC/DC’s Brian Johnson recalls a doomed mission to catch the Loch Ness monster. Drink was involved
Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe is the gothic death disco you never knew you needed By Paul Brannigan Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming Trees) and Joe Caradmone (ex-Icarus Line) join forces for sinister electronica project
The seeds for AC/DC’s reunion were sown at Malcolm Young’s funeral By Paul Brannigan The estranged members of AC/DC bonded anew at former band leader Malcolm Young’s funeral in Sydney in 2017
Scott Weiland's 10 favourite Scott Weiland songs By Paul Brannigan In 2015, late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland picked 10 favourite songs from his back catalogue
