Iron Maiden kick off The Future Past tour: live debuts for five songs
Watch videos from the first show of Iron Maiden's The Future Past tour at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Iron Maiden kick off The Future Past tour: live debuts for five songs
Watch videos from the first show of Iron Maiden's The Future Past tour at the Arena Stožice in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Watch John Fogerty play Proud Mary for Tina Turner in Manchester
"She was amazing" - John Fogerty pays tribute to Tina Turner before playing Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary
Roger Waters lambasts German police investigation over Nazi-style uniform
Former Pink Floyd man Roger Waters says uniform was "a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry"
Watch first Queens of the Stone Age show in three years
Queens of the Stone Age return to the stage for the first time since 2020 with powerful performance in Ohio
Noel Gallagher dismisses The 1975's Matty Healy as a "slack-jawed f***wit” for calling for an Oasis reunion, advises him to split up his own "sh*t" band instead
Having learned of Matty Healy's comments on a potential Oasis reunion, Noel Gallagher offered some advice of his own to The 1975's frontman
Tom Petty's estate takes legal action against auction house for allegedly selling stolen items
Tom Petty's estate is suing RR Auction house for allegedly selling stolen items, including jackets, vests, T-shirts, sweaters, hats, shoes and more
Watch Metallica dust off I Disappear live for 80,000 French metal fans
Metallica unveil pro-shot footage of them playing live rarity I Disappear at Stade de France
The Pooper: Metalhead makes six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet that's big enough for the devil to take a dump in
The man behind that bizarre Lars Ulrich loo has a new project: a six-by-six foot Iron Maiden toilet
The 50 Greatest Guns N' Roses songs and the stories behind them - only in the new Classic Rock
Also in this issue: Rival Sons, Joe Perry, Glen Matlock & Clem Burke, Extreme, Stone Temple Pilots, Steely Dan, Ayron Jones and more
Ghost’s Tobias Forge pays tribute to Tina Turner: “I always thought she was a fantastic artist”
Ghost’s Tobias Forge salutes Tina Turner a week after releasing a cover of the iconic singer’s 80s hit We Don’t Need Another Hero
Rare Genesis, Camel, Mike Oldfield test pressings up for grabs in charity auction
This year's White Label Auction in Aid of The BRIT Trust takes place on June 6
Kurt Cobain showed up to Nirvana's In Utero sessions with a chunk of the guitar Steve Albini smashed at Big Black's final show
Steve Albini reveals that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain owned a special memento from Big Black's farewell performance in Seattle
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Jimmy Page: the 10 best Led Zeppelin guitar solos
With Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page revolutionised what could be done with the guitar. Here are his 10 best solos
Here are all the songs Iron Maiden have never played live
Iron Maiden just played Alexander The Great live for the first time ever. But there are still 48 Maiden songs that have never been given an airing
The Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty albums you should definitely own
With Creedence Clearwater Revival he turned the Hippie generation on to classic roots and Americana... then John Fogerty went rockin’ all over the world
The story of the historic day heavy metal killed new wave
It's memorial weekend in 1983, and the US Festival is about to change the musical landscape forever
Here are the hardest songs to play by each of the Big 4, as chosen by one of thrash metal’s greatest drummers
Jon Dette has played with two of the Big 4, so he knows exactly which songs by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth are toughest to nail
10 bands who changed the face of music in the 1990s
NY legends Life of Agony guitarist Joey Z picks his top 10 bands that changed heavy music in the 90s
What happened when Metallica went to war with Napster
Lars Ulrich's anti-Napster video remains one of metal's weirdest moments ever
Remembering the late Alan White
Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former John Lennon and Yes drummer Alan White, who sadly died in 2022
How Trompe le Monde proved that like most meaningful things, Pixies were simply before their time
Released the day before Nevermind, Pixies' fourth album helped set a blueprint for alternative music to come – not that they ever really got the credit for it
How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end
“When the brown powder marched in, we were done for” says Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham
13 bands keeping occult rock alive who aren’t Ghost
Ghost might be bringing Satan to the masses, but these bands are putting the 'cult' in occult rock and metal
"America is the most satanic country in the world": How Black Sabbath getting huge in the US opened Ozzy Osbourne's eyes to the cut-throat nature of capitalism
"They've found a way of destroying the world by just pushing a button... At times I don't think it would be a bad idea"
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Countdown To Ecstasy: all hail Steely Dan's idiosyncratic visions of jazz-charged contemporary rock
Steely Dan's initially overlooked sleeper Countdown To Ecstasy is back on wax
If it's big, boisterous, melodic metal anthems you're after, Elegant Weapons may be just what you need
Judas Priest man Richie Faulkner returns, backed by Rex Brown, Ronnie Romero and Scott Travis, on Elegant Weapons' debut Horns For A Halo
Marc Bolan loses the plot on T.Rex's Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?
After a stellar 1972, Marc Bolan had a less successful 1973. Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream? documents the decline
Hanoi Rocks' first five albums repackaged: No bells, no whistles, but what a beautiful noise
Hanoi Rocks: The Days We Spent Underground 1981-1984 celebrates the pre-major label days of the band who reinvented the template for high-energy, sleazy rock’n’roll
Sparks' album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte is living proof that weirdness never gets old
The Mael brothers cement their autumnal resurgence with The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, a strong return to their former UK label
Ghost's Phantomime EP: the devil still has the best tunes, even when they're someone else's
Winking provocateurs Ghost give Genesis, Iron Maiden and Tina Turner the Satanic heavy metal treatment
Neal Schon's live celebration of Journey: supremely musicianly and surprisingly rough-and-ready
A live recording from the Journey alumni show to raise money for victims of the fires that ravaged the North Bay area of San Francisco in 2017
The deluxe edition reissue of Season’s End proves Steve Hogarth was the perfect fit and foil for Marillion
A plush reissue for Season's End, Marillion’s first album with post-Fish singer Steve Hogarth
The world’s loudest bands took over the home of BritPop last weekend and it was beautiful
80 bands, 5001 riffs and a bellydancer: DesertFest 2023 was a blast
Winger fail to reinvent themselves again, but who cares when the choruses are this big?
Reanimated 80s FM rockers Winger return with comfortingly familiar seventh album Seven
Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering
Bloodlines is the unlucky 13th album from the band formerly known as "NWOBHM legends" Tygers Of Pan Tang
