Ever wondered what Smoke On The Water would sound like if it was on Metallica's St. Anger album? No? Well here it is anyway
Deep Purple's 1972 anthem Smoke On The Water gets the St. Anger treatment
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Ever wondered what Smoke On The Water would sound like if it was on Metallica's St. Anger album? No? Well here it is anyway
Deep Purple's 1972 anthem Smoke On The Water gets the St. Anger treatment
Are Pink Floyd about to recreate the Animals sleeve at Battersea Power Station?
Cryptic message appears on Pink Floyd's social media accounts hinting that something special could be taking place at Battersea Power Station in late September
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan attacks music industry "exploitation": "Think of all the people my generation has lost to addiction and suicide"
In a new interview,. Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan claims that the music industry is "designed to mess with your head"
Roger Waters announces UK arena shows for his "first farewell tour"
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters will play three UK shows next year as part of his This Is Not A Drill world tour
Listen to Stevie Nicks' cover of '60s protest anthem For What It’s Worth
Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks has returned with a new single, a cover of Buffalo Springfield's 1966 protest song For What It’s Worth
Red Hot Chili Peppers share emotional tribute song for the late Eddie Van Halen
Red Hot Chili Peppers release new single, Eddie, inspired by their love for the late guitarist Eddie Van Halen
Ozzy Osbourne explains why he "didn't feel important" in Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne has opened up on why he sometimes felt like "a sideman" for Black Sabbath's shows
Watch Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus IV throw off-target first pitch at MLB game
Tobias Forge threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Major League Baseball matchup between the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Guardians
Poignant photo series shows late musicians as they might look today
A new art project features portraits of Freddie Mercury, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix as if they were still with us
Sammy Hagar says "everyone turned back into sheep" during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sammy Hagar offers his thoughts on the fall-out from the global pandemic: "we lost our freedoms during that time"
Ghost release uplifting live video of Mary On A Cross
Tobias Forge and the Nameless Ghouls have shared a live video of Mary On A Cross to sign off their US tour
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus "grateful" as latest cancer scan "came back clean"
Blink 182 bassist Mark Hoppus reveals that he remains cancer-free after undergoing tests following last year's lymphoma diagnosis
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Monsters, Metallica and Keith Moon: meet Eddie Munson actor Joseph Quinn
Stranger Things' Eddie Munson actor Joseph Quinn talks heavy metal, guitar heroes and why Dave Grohl should write a Corroded Coffin EP
Watch the classic heartwarming moment David Draiman made one Disturbed fan's year
Nice guy Davey Draiman struck in style when he noticed a disabled fan in the front row who had a limited view at a Disturbed gig in Auckland
Anthrax’s Scott Ian on Alice In Chains: “They were just f**king goofballs”
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian salutes the genius of Alice In Chains in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer
Vote for the best track on Metallica’s Load and Reload albums
Time to show a little love to Metallica’s controversial mid-90s albums Load and Reload
Every Hellraiser film ranked from worst to best
With the Hellraiser reboot landing in October, we rank the ten films that make up the horror franchise so far
The Joan Jett albums you should definitely own
The leather-clad leader of the gang, Joan Jett was a teenage sensation with The Runaways and the ultimate queen of noise. These are her best albums
Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The debauched tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge
The Beatles queued up to give Joe Cocker their songs, but drink, drugs and wild times on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring circus almost finished him off
Timothy B. Schmit: no one wants to hear new music from the Eagles
Eagles vocalist/bassist Timothy B. Schmit on the Eagles and seventh solo album Day By Day, made with little help from his famous friends
10 things you never knew about Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss
From playing the songs wrong live to f**k-ups that made the album even better, here are all the eye-opening facts you need to know about Slayer's fifth album
The death of Gram Parsons: a story of drugs, theft, and a burning corpse
The strange and true story of the death of Gram Parsons, told by the people who were there
The story of the out-of-focus shot that became one of rock's great album covers
The cover of London Calling by The Clash features one of punk's most iconic images – so why doesn't photographer Pennie Smith enjoy talking about it?
Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin? Quite possibly
Jacob Deraps was inspired by videogames, met his drummer on YouTube and played with him for the first time during a Toto soundcheck. His band's pretty good too
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Billy Idol's The Cage is compact, catchy, precision-tooled pop-rock
Stanmore’s finest Billy Idol gets his motor running on his second EP in a year, The Cage
Troy Redfern continues breakneck creative pace on The Wings Of Salvation
The Wings Of Salvation is Hertfordshire bluesman Troy Redfern's sixth album in two years
Dr. John is in tip-top form on posthumous album Things Happen That Way
Dr John raves from the grave on star-studded album Things Happen That Way, completed after his death
Steve Howe pays tribute to late son Virgil on lovingly rendered Lunar Mist
Lunar Mist finds Yes guitarist Steve Howe presenting a fresh set of instrumentals written by his late son Virgil
Nikki Lane chronicles youthful follies on defiant Denim And Diamonds album
Country music's Nikki Lane is alive, kicking and rockier than before on Josh Homme-produced fourth album Denim And Diamonds
Rise by The Rasmus is not the fightback album against covid you were looking for
The jarring Rise is the tenth album from metallic Finnish Eurovision also-rans The Rasmus
If Britain is going to hell in a handcart then Kid Kapichi are the soundtrack
Here's What You Could Have Won is a series of potent rants from Kid Kapichi, Hastings’ four angriest young men
Sonics In The Soul is the sound of Buzzcocks rebooted and reinvigorated
Mancunian punk legends Buzzcocks keep the flag flying on riotous 10th album Sonics In The Soul
Rock, metal and horror make prefect companions on The Retaliators soundtrack
Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills, Five Finger Death Punch and more add music to film dialogue and screaming
Fierce and artful to the end, Joe Strummer's music resonates more than ever
A second volume of former Clash man Joe Strummer’s vital history, covering the Mescalero years
