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Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo
By Stef Lach published
Caught In The Echo is the third track to be released from upcoming 12th Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy

Fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to
By Paul Brannigan published
US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
By Paul Brannigan published
"This was now or never"

Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate
By Matt Mills published
The death metal vocalist makes a fresh start and teases that the heavy new song is also one of the “lightest” things her new band have been working on

Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
By Matt Mills published
A planned reunion tour was scrapped after the singer walked away due to health concerns, though the band are now coming back with Sebastian Bach on vocals

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
By Matt Mills published
The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
By Fraser Lewry published
The news comes ahead of three scheduled shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September
By Matt Mills published
The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019

Lzzy Hale looks back on the disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album
By Metal Hammer published
The Pennsylvania hard rockers also survived a producer stepping down and their A&R guy being fired by their label

Watch the first trailer for new Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition
By Merlin Alderslade published
We've finally got a proper glimpse of the biggest heavy metal documentary coming in 2026!

At The Gates have posted a moving new tribute to frontman Tomas Lindberg
By Merlin Alderslade published
The melodic death metal innovators have also explained how they were able to record their new album following Lindberg's cancer diagnosis

Gary Holt reckons he's due some cash from Metallica for his role in writing Creeping Death
By Simon Young published
Gary Holt jokes that his lyrics on Exodus' 1983 demo Die By His Hand should entitle him to a cut of those sweet Metallica royalties

Cillian Murphy draws parallels between his Peaky Blinders anti-hero Tommy Shelby and Ozzy Osbourne
By Paul Brannigan published
Why Tommy Shelby and Ozzy Osbourne share common ground

A seventh Linkin Park song has racked up one billion streams on Spotify
By Simon Young published
The band have six other songs in Spotify's elite Billions Club

Korn announce first UK and Europe headline tour in over a decade
By Merlin Alderslade published
This is gonna be huge!

Love Vinnie Vincent? Then you'll probably be OK with the two-million-dollar price tag for his new album
By Fraser Lewry published
The launch of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion's new album comes just months after the former Kiss man received flak for charging $225 for his Ride The Serpent single

James Hetfield proposes to partner Adriana Gillett underwater while swimming with whale sharks
By Fraser Lewry published
She said yes!
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