This Motorhead-ized version of Megadeth’s Symphony of Destruction will make you miss Lemmy even more
Denis Pauna offers another killer re-imagining of a metal anthem with a Motorhead take on Symphony of Destruction
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This Motorhead-ized version of Megadeth’s Symphony of Destruction will make you miss Lemmy even more
Denis Pauna offers another killer re-imagining of a metal anthem with a Motorhead take on Symphony of Destruction
Steven Wilson releases new track Anyone But Me
Anyone But Me was originally intended as the final track on Steven Wilson's Top 5 album The Future Bites
Iron Maiden fail to make the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame excludes Iron Maiden, with Foo Fighters, The Go-Gos and Tina Turner all set for induction
KK Downing’s new band KK’s Priest look and sound exactly like Judas Priest in video for Hellfire Thunderbolt
KK’s Priest preview debut album Sermons Of The Sinner with the Judas Priest-like Hellfire Thunderbolt
Watch Metallica's St.Anger snare drum become a metalhead's sleep paralysis demon in this hilarious TikTok video
A metalhead is haunted by Lars Ulrich's St. Anger snare drum in his sleep as he's struck by sleep paralysis...no, really
The Stranglers share video for And If You Should See Dave… a tribute to keyboard player Dave Greenfield
The Stranglers preview their 18th studio album, Dark Matters, with tribute to late keyboard player Dave Greenfield
Ozzy salutes the life and legacy of Randy Rhoads in new Ross Halfin photo book
‘He wasn’t just my guitarist, he was my friend’, says Ozzy Osbourne of Randy Rhoads, the subject of a new Ross Halfin photo book
This Motley Crue vs Motown mash-up is the party anthem the world needs right now
Mash-up extraordinaire Bill McClintock returns with another mighty musical concoction, featuring Motley Crue
Iron Maiden and BrewDog raise hell with brand new lager
Rock giants Iron Maiden team up with beer behemoths BrewDog for the "feisty" new Hellcat India Pale Lager
Megadeth respond to David Ellefson online sex scandal
“We look forward to the truth coming to light,” say Megadeth after sexually explicit footage of bassist David Ellefson was leaked online
Pearl Jam release 5404 live tracks from 186 live shows
Pearl Jam have unleashed Deep, an interactive live music motherlode containing thousands of live songs
The internet is turning British politicians into rock stars with disturbing results
Internet jokers on the b3ta.com boards have reimagined the UK’s top politicians as rock stars, with hilarious results
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Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on Permanent Waves, the Rush album that streamlined their songs and gave them their first radio hit
How David Coverdale, Tawny Kitaen and MTV turned Whitesnake into megastars
Whitesnake’s album 1987 sold millions and turned David Coverdale into a rock legend. It also made David’s future wife Tawny Kitaen a star
Ten years of The Treatment: a tale of liquor, vampires, serial killers and Alice Cooper pranks
Shedding band members but swaggering on, The Treatment are betting on their fortunes taking an upturn with fifth album Waiting For Good Luck
The magnificent late-career rise of Cheap Trick, a band too dumb to quit
Illinois Anglophiles Cheap Trick are deep into their fifth decade of existence, and they're enjoying a late-career surge of creativity
Suzi Quatro: the soundtrack of my life
Glam-rock icon Suzi Quatro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the hit song she turned down... just like Debbie Harry
How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
The story of the unlikely rise of German metal, as told by members of Scorpions, Accept, and Doro Pesch
Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”
Gary Kemp on sharing a stage with Pink Floyd members, Spandau Ballet’s secret prog past and the chances of brand new Saucerful Of Secrets songs
Tracks of the Week: new music from Garbage, Seafoam Green and more
This week's freshly carved additions to our weekly Mount Rushmore of rock
10 hair metal bands who should have been massive
10 hair metal bands who deserved to become megastars but ultimately fell short
How Star Wars helped The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot up the charts
The inside story of The Alan Parsons Project's second album, 1977's I Robot
Breaking Brian Warner: The women who refused to let the Marilyn Manson story die
It took years for mainstream media to catch on to the Manson story. But three young women wouldn't let it go – even if they had to endure threats and ridicule to get it out there
Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch
While the return of American band Touch will be a delight for AOR fans, it’s also likely to see the return of people re-telling a 40-year-old story that the band wish would just fly away
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Nancy Wilson bleeds authenticity as You And Me steps outside Heart's boundaries
Nancy Wilson's You And Me is a mélange of ethereal acoustic ballads, eclectic covers and thoughtful tributes
Van Morrison is surprisingly enjoyable on album of grumpy but bouncy R&B
Van Morrison's Latest Record Project: Volume 1 suggests that lockdown wasn’t such a bad thing for some
Pink Floyd repackage the past once more on Live At Knebworth 1990
Wish you’d been there? Pink Floyd's Live At Knebworth 1990 is super slick but lacks mystery
Gary Moore's unreleased blues find a home on How Blue Can You Get
Gary Moore's How Blue Can You Get is patchy proof that blue is still very much the colour
Mick Fleetwood & Friends triumphantly fail to descend into chaos and catastrophe
The big guns come out to play on Mick Fleetwood & Friends: Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green And The Early Years Of Fleetwood Mac
Electric Boys fail to provide the expected good times on Ups!de Down
Ups!de Down is a metal carpet ride from Electric Boys, sure, just not a funky one
Turn Up That Dial is the euphoric sound of Dropkick Murphys' future parties
Dropkick Murphys' Turn Up That Dial is good time music for good times to come
Touch's comeback album Tomorrow Never Comes will exhaust your supply of air keyboards
Long-lost US pomp-rockers Touch scratch their 41-year-old itch with Tomorrow Never Comes
Peter Frampton remembers his guitar on Frampton Forgets The Words
Peter Frampton Band's all-instrumental covers album Frampton Forgets The Words is richly toned and stately
The Mars Volta test rock's limits on La Realidad De Los Suenos
A Mars Volta completist’s dream is realised as long-lost recordings finally see the light of day on the La Realidad De Los Suenos box set
Dumpstaphunk's Where Do We Go From Here is determined and timely
Dumpstaphunk's Where Do We Go From Here funks up a storm for this New Orleans offspring of the Neville Brothers and The Meters
