
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Including Mother Vulture, Sludge Mother, and six other acts whose names don't contain the word 'mother'
Including Mother Vulture, Sludge Mother, and six other acts whose names don't contain the word 'mother'
Bassist recalls the AOR giants’ progressive early years and explains why he thinks the genre is getting stronger all the time
Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce
Inspired by watching a hopeless jazz combo play in a deserted pub, Sultans Of Swing sent Dire Straits on a journey to superstardom
The story of Queen + Paul Rodgers’ one-and-done album The Cosmos Rocks
Overkill’s Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth has spent a life on thrash’s frontlines
She's shared a stage with Jim Carrey and outrun a tornado, but Nita Strauss's proudest achievement is inspiring the next generation of guitarists
In 2008, Metal Hammer climbed aboard Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden on the tour of a lifetime
The indie trailblazers’ second album turns 40 this month and sealed their status as one of the best British guitar groups ever
In 2020, when Pendragon released their eleventh studio album Love Over Fear, we grilled mainman Nick Barrett in The Prog Interview
In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne released his eleventh solo album Scream – and he had reality TV, reunions and “Jesus Freaks” on his mind
Exploding the myth that progressive rock’s ‘dinosaurs’ were finished off by punk
They might draw on depressing subjects, but Scarborough's Ante-Inferno find empowerment in black metal after a turbulent battle with self-identity
He’s jammed with Hendrix, hung out with Peter Sellers and ribbed Bob Dylan – you name them, Stephen Stills knows them
1996 album opens with arguably her proggiest song then delivers figurative lyrics, rhythmic shifts and style change-ups
If you’ve been wondering what connects Disturbed, Kanye West, The 1975, David Guetta, James Corden, Nas, New Found Glory, Foals, Dizzee Rascal and more then this is the list for you. If you haven’t, you might as well read it anyway.
Four years, one near-fatal car crash and an ocean of booze in the making, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is the 80s hard rock album against which all others should be measured
Spiritbox, Arch Enemy and Rivers Of Nihil are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!