Here are the 12 biggest music stories of the week
Get up to speed with everything that’s been happening in the world of rock, metal and prog over the past seven days with our weekly news roundup
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L7 will celebrate 30 years of Smell The Magic with new anniversary edition
L7 will mark the 30th anniversary of their second studio album Smell The Magic with a new remastered edition later this year
Listen to The Sword’s sludge-filled cover of Rush classic Working Man
Texan outfit The Sword get together remotely once again for their Conquest Of Quarantine sessions - this time to record their take on Rush’s 1974 track Working Man
Steve Hackett announces Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live
Steve Hackett will release Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith later this year - watch performance of Deja Vu
Metallica share lockdown Creeping Death rehearsal footage
Metallica upload video to Instagram Stories showing them back at their HQ and rehearsing together
Watch actor Paul Mescal go wild in Claridge’s in Rolling Stones’ Scarlet video
Rolling Stones release video for their track Scarlet starring Normal People actor Paul Mescal - song featuring Jimmy Page will be on Goats Head Soup remaster
Halestorm and Evanescence’s Amy Lee join forces for brand new Break In video
Halestorm previously shared a stream of their new take on the 2012 track - now they’ve backed it up with a video featuring Amy Lee
Black Stone Cherry are back with a new album and single
Black Stone Cherry detail their new studio album The Human Condition and share video for the single Again
Flying Colors prep Third Stage: Live In London release with video for Kayla
Flying Colors will release Third Stage: Live In London in September - watch their performance of the anthemic Kayla
Black Sabbath's super-deluxe edition of Paranoid album comes to vinyl
Black Sabbath's classic Paranoid gets a vinyl makeover for its 50th anniversary, with two live albums and a rare mix
Brian May joins Generation Axe for wild Bohemian Rhapsody jam
Brian May joined an online jam featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Tosin Abasi and Yngwie Malmsteen to play the Queen classic on AXS TV
Metallica preview S&M2 release with epic Moth Into Flame video
Watch Metallica perform Hardwired... To Self-Destruct track Moth Into Flame - taken from the band’s upcoming S&M2 live package
Jon Anderson: I'd love to get the surviving members of Yes together again one day
Jon Anderson says he’d like to get the surviving members of Yes together onstage again “in the next couple of years”
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The wisdom of Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden's frontman on creativity, cancer and cocaine
Highlights from the feverish brain of Iron Maiden singer and polymath Bruce Dickinson
The 10 best Elliott Smith songs, by the White Buffalo
The White Buffalo picks 10 moments of lyrical genius from the great Elliott Smith. "His lyrics were a gift that kept giving," he says
Joe Satriani interview: the soundtrack of my life
Guitar superstar Joe Satriani on the first gig he played, the most underrated band ever, and why you should give Greta Van Fleet a break
9 best budget turntables 2020: spin your vinyl records on our pick of sub-£300 decks
The best cheap record players from Rega, Pro-Ject, Audio-Technica, Sony, Lenco and more – including USB and Bluetooth turntables
This blues rock version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy will make Joe Bonamassa consider a career change
A bluesy cover that's good enough to make Slash jealous and raise the ghost of Gary Moore
The new video by Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse is a trippy vision of lockdown bliss
TRIPPY! Bored? Let this slice of smooth-country-jazz-reggae and a promo filled with dolphins, buffalo and acid-fried wonder lift your spirits
Hawkwind: a guide to their best albums
For 50 years, the ever-changing line-up of space rockers Hawkwind has consistently created challenging and highly influential albums
You might not rate St Anger, but it single-handedly salvaged Metallica's career
It was very nearly all over for the biggest band on the planet at the turn of the millennium – but with St Anger, Metallica's fortunes were about to change. Here's the story, from rehab-to-rebirth
How The Beatles made Revolver, the album that changed Everything
Studio innovations, sonic trickery, songwriting genius and everything including the kitchen sink (well, a bathtub). This is how The Beatles made Revolver and revolutionised rock
Download 2021 festival tickets, lineup rumours, announcements and more
Everything you need to know about Download festival 2021, including buying tickets and lineup announcements
Metallica: we sacrificed Jason to save ourselves
In 2001 Metallica were on the cusp of extinction – until the departure of bassist Jason Newsted brought them back from from the brink
Marillion's Steve Hogarth: the soundtrack of my life
Marillion frontman Steve Hogarth on the special records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him
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Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past
Pixies' classic third album Bossanova, now available in delicious red vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary
Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Now - a debut album re-sung and embellished
Joe Bonamassa’s debut album revisited and remastered on A New Day Now
The Psychedelic Furs' Made Of Rain: warm, melancholy, and blessed with great songs
Return of 80s big hitters Psychedelic Furs well worth the decades wait on eighth album Made Of Rain
Thundermother's Heat Wave: not a death rattle but a battle cry
Strikingly hooky return on Heat Wave from regenerated Swedes Thundermother
Steve Howe's Love Is: masterly communication with the universe
Steve Howe's first album in nine years Love Is shimmers and glows
NWOBHM Thunder: a no-guts-no-glory tribute to NWOBHM's foot soldiers
NWOBHM Thunder is a superb three-disc celebration of British heavy metal’s last big hurrah
Dee Snider's For The Love Of Metal Live! is brash, bullish and maniacal
Dee Snider's soundtrack to single household lockdown back-garden festivals has arrived
Seasick Steve - Love & Peace: Grizzled layers and earthly delights
Seasick Steve's 10th album, Love & Peace, shows just why he doesn't need a garbled backstory to maintain mass appeal
Primal Fear's Metal Commando: unashamedly brutish and balls-out
Lucky thirteenth for German pure metal stalwarts Primal Fear on Metal Commando
Haken's Virus: the missing link between Slayer and King Crimson
Haken provide many bloodied riffs on sixth album Virus
Lonely Robot's Feelings Are Good: heartache and turmoil burnished bright
When you’ve loved and lost like John Mitchell, Feelings Are Good is the result