Watch Foo Fighters open new club venue with special guest and fiery Bad Brains cover
After Dave Grohl spoke at the opening ceremony, Foo Fighters played the first show at new Washington D.C venue The Atlantis
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Watch Foo Fighters open new club venue with special guest and fiery Bad Brains cover
After Dave Grohl spoke at the opening ceremony, Foo Fighters played the first show at new Washington D.C venue The Atlantis
Guns N' Roses enlist Alice In Chains, The Pretenders, Carrie Underwood for US tour support slots
Guns N' Roses reveal the 'special guests' for their forthcoming North American tour, alongside a handful of new dates
Empire State Bastard announce debut album Rivers Of Heresy
Empire State Bastard, the extreme metal project of Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil with Mike Vennart and Dave Lombardo, share details of their forthcoming debut album
Queens Of The Stone Age drop trippy new track Carnavoyeur
Queens Of The Stone Age release new single Carnavoyeur, lifted from their forthcoming eighth studio album In Times New Roman…
Paramore's Hayley Williams says fans who vote for Republican Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis are "dead to me"
Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams calls out fans who might be thinking of voting for Republican politician Ron DeSantis
20 minutes of rare pro-shot footage of Guns N' Roses in 1992 has appeared online
The footage comes from Guns N' Roses Orlando's Citrus Bowl show during their stadium tour with Metallica
Soen announce return with new studio album Memorial
Swedish-based prog metallers Soen will tour Europe throughout September and October
Watch Foo Fighters reel back the years and revisit old haunts in the trippy video for emotional epic The Teacher
Foo Fighters share the 10-minute The Teacher as the latest preview of their forthcoming 11th album But Here We Are
Watch this husky scream along to Linkin Park's Given Up because... just because
For those unexperienced in husky ownership, know that they are very loud...and also make excellent vocalists for screaming along to noughties nu metal
Trent Reznor is doing the music for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
Director Jeff Rowe reveals “musical heroes” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Watch this epic cover of AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on ancient Asian instruments
NiNi Music and ZuiKo battle it out on ancient Asian instruments for a collaborative cover of AC/DC's Thunderstruck
Bob Rock clarifies situation regarding Nikki Sixx's "replaced" basslines
Turns out that story about Nikki Sixx's bass parts being secretly replaced on the early Mötley Crüe albums isn't quite what it seems
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Pop Evil: "I think back to all those bands that helped when doctors, parents, teachers weren’t there for me"
Pop Evil frontman Leigh Kakaty on getting punched in the face, rock‘n’roll therapy, and teenage run-ins with the law
Disturbed: "Sometimes people cannot handle that a band they loved privately is shared with the world"
Disturbed frontman David Draiman on a divided America, fickle fans, and their plans for Download 2023
Elegant Weapons: "We’re going to do what we can to carry the torch"
Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner has teamed up with members of Pantera and Rainbow in Elegant Weapons, and you best believe they'll carry on when those bands retire
The 10 best metal cover versions of TV show themes
From Game of Thrones to Stranger Things, all theme tunes sounds better when put through a distortion pedal and cranked up to 11
Alice Cooper: "There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past thirty years old"
Godfather of shock-rock Alice Cooper on the Hollywood Vampires, the perks of being a sober celebrity, and launching a Johnny Depp and Amber Heard soap opera
5 new bands to listen to if you love Ghost
Can’t get enough of Ghost? Here are five new bands to check out
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
Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… – the ultimate track by track breakdown
Avenged Sevenfold talk us through their upcoming new album Life Is But A Dream… track by track
5 new bands to listen to if you love Slipknot
Looking for a fix of Slipknot-inspired savagery? These five new bands will instantly give your ’Knot fix
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
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
Halestorm, Sophie Lloyd and Immortal are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
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Avenged Sevenfold’s Life Is But A Dream… is a brilliantly deranged, LSD-soaked psycho-metal musical
Album review: Avenged Sevenfold have made the craziest album you’ll hear this year with Life Is But A Dream…
Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is a defiant, emotional roar in the face of loss
Album review: Foo Fighters’ new album But Here We Are is the sound of 15 months of pent-up emotion being unleashed at once
"Sleep Token fully delivered on their promises": metal fans review new album Take Me Back To Eden
We asked metal fans to weigh in on Sleep Token's new album Take Me Back To Eden - and here's what they thought
Immortal’s War Against All: thrilling riff-powered noise from Norway‘s black metal crusaders
Album review: one-man army Demonaz delivers the black metal goods on Immortal’s new album War Against All
Night one of NOFX’s last ever European tour perfectly illustrates why Fat Mike’s crew will be treasured forever as true punk rock rebels
NOFX launch their '40 years, 40 Cities, 40 Songs Per Day' European tour in Barcelona, and remind us why they're the greatest punk band of their generation
Ghost’s Phantomime covers EP is yet another mad journey through Tobias Forge’s head
Tobias Forge tackles on Iron Maiden, Tina Turner and Genesis on new covers EP
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
Dez Fafara lays his trauma to rest on Devildriver's Dealing With Demons Vol. II
After 21 years and 10 studio albums, Devildriver are moving on from Dez Fafara's turmoil to find fresh pastures
Gojira and Mastodon just levelled a Florida Ampitheater to remind everyone why they're two of metal's greatest bands
One of the most exciting metal tours of 2023 has lived up to the hype and then some
"Their best album since...": Metallica fans review new album 72 Seasons
We asked rock and metal fans to share their views on the new Metallica album 72 Seasons - here's what they had to say
Enter Shikari's A Kiss For The Whole World: the electrifying, genre-smashing sound of the future
St. Albans quartet stake their claim as one of the 21st century's greatest bands with their finest work yet
