Watch Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH play live for the first time
Wolfgang Van Halen unveils Mammoth WVH with performance of debut single Distance on Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Watch Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH play live for the first time
Wolfgang Van Halen unveils Mammoth WVH with performance of debut single Distance on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Dave Mustaine is recording “killer” vocals for the new Megadeth album
Could the new Megadeth album nearly be finished?
C'mon! Hot sauce! Billy Gibbons proves he's still way cooler than you are
Watch the video for blues classic Rollin’ and Tumblin’, from Billy Gibbons' album The Big Bad Blues
Jazz fusion legend Chick Corea dead aged 79
Former Miles Davis musician and Return To Forever leader Chick Corea has died, aged 79
Queen have tried recording a new song with Adam Lambert
Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal unfinished recording session in Nashville with Adam Lambert
Game Of Thrones actor Esmé Bianco accuses Marilyn Manson of physical and psychological abuse
Actor Esmé Bianco joins the list of women alleging Manson abused them
Les Claypool and Robert Trujillo’s bass-slapping face-off is the funkiest thing you’ll see today
The Primus and Metallica bassists get gold rush fever in the Spaghetti Western-inspired short film Precious Metals - directed by Claypool’s soon, Cage
The Prodigy are making a music documentary to tell their “chaotic and troubled” story
The film will document the band’s journey from their origins to their historic success as one of the world’s leading electronic acts
Ex-White Lion singer Mike Tramp aims for Eurovision Song Contest glory
Mike Tramp has entered the Danish Song For Europe competition, decades after his band Mabel represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest
Discovered: rare film from the day the Beach Boys were banned from San Diego Zoo
The cover of The Beach Boys' classic Pet Sounds found them feeding goats at San Diego Zoo. Now newsreel footage shot on the day has emerged
Greta Van Fleet launch uplifting new single Heat Above
Greta Van Fleet's enigmatic Heat Above is taken from upcoming album The Battle At Garden's Gate - tracklist now announced
Fleetwood Mac’s debut live album from 1980 set for 2021 encore
Rhino Records will reissue Fleetwood Mac Live on 3CD and 2LP featuring demos - listen to previously unreleased version of The Chain
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10 things we want from Iron Maiden in 2021
If anyone can turn 2021 into an epic year, it’s Iron Maiden
Wolfgang Van Halen’s debut album has the greatest giant crab-themed cover you’ll see this year
Because a giant crab attacking a parking lot could not be more 2021
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford: “We’re going to kill this COVID and have the best time of our lives"
As Judas Priest release an epic new photo book, we talk to Rob Halford about life in lockdown, diamond-encrusted high heels and heavy metal sea shanties
Watch the 1986 NY hardcore scene go to war with TV chat show Donahue
What happened when a bunch of New York punks were invited onto a day time chat show
How Pavlov's Dog were poised for megastardom but let it all slip away
There was a time when Pavlov's Dog were bigger than the Stones or Zeppelin in Missouri. But life conspired to stop them in their tracks
Drugs, drink and disorder: UFO look back at the making of Strangers In The Night
UFO's Strangers In The Night captured a great rock band at their peak, and is one of the all-time great live albums. But by the time it was released, they were no longer the band who’d made it
Watch 80s punk brawlers Fear upset everyone on Saturday Night Live in 1981
Mosh pits, slam dancing and stage diving...not what you'd usually expect from your standard Saturday Night Live, but Fear were bound to cause chaos
Scott Ian: the time I got arrested with Cliff Burton
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian looks back on his friendship with late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton
Mark Kelly interview: from Marillion to Marathon and beyond
Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly talks his new record with Marathon, lockdown, and former bandmate Fish’s album Weltschmerz
Foo Fighters: a guide to their best albums
25 years into a career that's turned Foo Fighters into perhaps the most successful second act in rock history, we guide you through the best albums from Dave Grohl and the gang
A metal fan has turned his dead uncle’s skeleton into a guitar, because why not?
Yes, this is a guitar made from actual human bones
The 12 greatest prog drummers ever
From legends to latter-day stars, these are the progressive rock drummers you need to know
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Dio live albums: repackaged but still offering more Heaven than Hell
Ronnie James Dio's live albums Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City and Holy Diver Live get taken out for another spin
Death By Unga Bunga's stellar songcraft shines on Heavy Male Insecurity
Heavy Male Insecurity is the fifth album from muscular Norwegian power-poppers Death By Unga Bunga
Nu-metal lovers rejoice! Love And Death revive memories of parachute pants on Perfectly Preserved
Love And Death's Perfectly Preserved is a polished lesson in melodic alt.metal
We Will Ride by Inglorious: breathing fresh life into an irresistible 70s rock template
Inglorious's difficult album number four We Will Ride is worth the trouble
Drones rage hard on Our Hell Is Right Here, an album born of tribulation
Drones album number two Our Hell Is Right Here: scorchio!
DeWolff's Wolffpack conjures up pandemic-defying feel-good rock’n’roll
On Wolffpack, Dutch rockers DeWolff party like it's 1969
Downes Braide Association's Halcyon Hymns is a welcome escape from a turbulent real world
MOR prog project Downes Braide Association gets dewy-eyed for old England on Halcyon Hymns
Walking Papers lose half a band for The Light Below with no loss of quality
The Light Below is the compelling third album from Walking Papers, the unconventional Seattle blues swingers
Transatlantic's The Absolute Universe: not one technically flawless concept album, but two
Acclaimed proggers Transatlantic go for broke on fifth album The Absolute Universe
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets overwhelm and bamboozle on Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
Worlds collide on Psychedelic Porn Crumpets' fourth album Shyga! The Sunlight Mound, in a cornucopia of multi-coloured, high-speed sound
Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight spikes grunge ballast with pop panache
Foo Fighters' Medicine At Midnight is Dave Grohl’s tightest set yet, with supernatural aid
