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- October 25
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- Jon Anderson announced for RoSFest
- Dream Theater release new video for the epic Awaken The Master
- Elton John on his notorious temper: "It’s still in me to explode at any moment"
- DragonForce go 80s glam metal in cheesy new video for Strangers
- Watch the trailer for new Tom Petty documentary Somewhere You Feel Free
- Paul McCartney will no longer be signing autographs: “We both know who I am”
- Green Day unearth rare live-in-the-studio tracks for new The BBC Sessions album
- Watch Ian Anderson unbox new book Silent Singing in new video
- Niko Tsonev releases brand new video for Glitchy Gremlin
- Blink 182's Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian roleplay Sid and Nancy
- Nirvana win court case over copyright dispute on 1989 ‘Vestibule’ T-shirt design
- “This is a 44-year-old man remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in 1991”: watch Coldplay cover Pearl Jam in Seattle
- Björk's upcoming album is "for people making clubs in their living room"
- Guns N’ Roses have written no new songs in the five years since Slash and Duff rejoined
- Genesis announce European tour dates for 2022
- The Cadillac Three launch video for the smokin' Devil's Lettuce
- October 24
- October 23
- October 22
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- Slash reveals 28 city North American headline tour with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
- Trivium postpone UK/Europe headline tour to 2023 due to Covid-19 restrictions
- Jerry Cantrell shares third single from solo album Brighten, the epic Siren Song
- Slipknot to livestream their November 5 Knotfest Los Angeles show
- Held By Trees release stunning video for new single Mysterium
- Reformed Retreat From Moscow to release new album
- Deity's Muse deliver hard-hitting new video for Into Their Clutches
- Is any Metallica collection truly complete without ‘Doris’? Finally, a Lady Justice statue is coming
- Nightwish update European tour dates, postpone Dublin and Birmingham gigs
- Space rock legends Hawkwind celebrated in the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Watch the lyric video for new Feeder single Wall Of Silence
- Slash and Myles Kennedy share The River Is Rising, the first taste of new album 4
- Rob Reed releases video for delightfully gentle Mr. Penning Standing Blue
- Steve Harris' British Lion announce swiftly arranged UK tour of pubs and clubs
- October 21
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- Listen to the raging Deceiver, Deceiver, Arch Enemy’s first new music in four years
- Soup announce new album Visions
- Dani Filth laughed off Bård ‘Faust’ Eithun’s murder confession thinking the ex-Emperor drummer was talking ‘crap’
- Big Big Train announce surprise new album Welcome To The Planet
- Metallica share trailer for The Black Album in Black & White photo book
- Listen to the crushing, beautiful HEALTH x Poppy collaboration Dead Flowers
- Dave Grohl was “scared” to write about Kurt Cobain’s death in The Storyteller
- Soen announce England and Scotland dates on European tour
- Mastodon stream reflective new single Sickle And Peace
- The Darkness engage cattle to star in frisky video for It's Love, Jim
- October 20
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- Deftones’ Chino Moreno on Stephen Carpenter’s flat Earth theories: "I’m surprised he’s not more of a meme"
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson launches new Psycho Schizo Espresso podcast
- Slow Crush release the stunningly sleepy new single Lull
- Green Carnation release lyric video for newly remastered My Greater Cause
- Watch Bodega’s gloriously sardonic video for Doers mocking self-help guru bullsh*t
- Listen to Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs gleefully murder disco classic Hot Stuff for charity
- Fragile's Max Hunt releases new video for Dark Age Techno Dream
- PFM stream new single Worlds Beyond (Mondi Paralleli)
- David Ellefson is “disappointed… not bitter” about being fired from Megadeth
- Watch Poppy fill her bag with black metal and doom albums while record shopping
- Måneskin share bloody NSFW video for Mammamia, announce surprise free London show
- SEIMS premiere eye-catching new video for Showdown Without A Victim
- “I wasn’t walking around with jackboots and a whip!” Jimmy Page shares 50th anniversary memories of Led Zeppelin IV
- King Crimson announce new 2021 live album
- Guitarist repeatedly plays Enter Sandman while wearing more and more pairs of rubber gloves
- Man falls to his death during Phish show in San Francisco
- October 19
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- Vended drop explosive new rager Burn My Misery
- Genesis reschedule London shows for March
- Willow releases music video for Grow, featuring Avril Lavigne
- Venom Prison announce new album Erebos
- Slash teases new song The River Is Rising in behind the scenes video clip
- Tom Morello defends unlikely friendship with Ted Nugent: "I reserve the right to be friends with anybody"
- Turns out James Hetfield wasn't the first choice for Metallica's lead singer
- Big Big Train stream new song Made From Sunshine
- Epic Daily Deal: Amazon rock the price of the Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones
- Corpsegrinder's World Of Warcraft character has been cancelled
- God Is An Astronaut release atmospheric new video for Luminous Waves
- Dikajee releases mesmerising new video for Misery
- Robert Fripp announces Music For Quiet Moments box set
- Live album and guitar launched to celebrate Chuck Berry's 95th birthday
- October 18
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- Outrun The Sunlight release video for uplifting Emerald Joy
- Wolfgang Van Halen hits back at fans over using VH initials: "Last I checked it was my f**cking name"
- Watch System Of A Down debut their two new songs live for the first time
- Black metal musician Andrea Meyer among five killed in Norway attack
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back and we're scarred for life
- Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo teases new solo music
- Career-spanning six-disc box set on the way from Hawkwind
- Tom Morello hails Zack de la Rocha as "the greatest frontman of all time"
- Cynic tease new song 6th Dimensional Archetype in video
- Rob Halford is in remission from cancer
- October 17
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- It's 2021 and Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger are trading jibes
- Simon Gallup has returned to The Cure after a brief intermission
- Jimmy Page criticises Phil Collins' contribution to Led Zeppelin's Live Aid show
- Video: Vince Neil falls off stage, taken to hospital with broken ribs
- The Csides Project release new video for Beneath The Sky
- Check out Poppy Ackroyd's reflective new video for Stillness
- October 16
- October 15
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- Bloodstock Director "steps back" from festival after coming under fire for transphobic comments
- Watch David Draiman and Nita Strauss join forces on killer collaboration Dead Inside
- Jadis release video trailer for upcoming November gigs
- “I was terrified!“ Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott recalls AC/DC‘s “unbelievably exciting“ Highway To Hell tour
- Yes release brand new video for Future Memories
- Listen to Götterdämmerung, single four from the new Zeal & Ardor album
- Roger Waters shares wedding photos, declares Kamilah Chavis, his fifth wife, “a keeper”
- Listen to the Genesis Piano Project's version of Fountain Of Salmacis
- Kerry King teases post-Slayer comeback: “It will be f**king good!”
- Steve Harris’ British Lion withdraw from Darkness tour support citing “completely unacceptable” protocols
- New prog band Giant Walker release video for The Fact In Fiction
- Watch trailer for stunning film about era-defining photographer Jim Marshall
- October 14
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- The Pineapple Thief release live video for "special" Someone Pull Me Out Of Here
- Rob Halford "still shook up" by Richie Faulkner's onstage near death experience
- The Big Moon announce headline UK tour for 2022
- Groundhogs to issue previously unreleased 1969-1972 triple live album
- Aurora's new single Giving In To The Love is the best Kate Bush song you never heard
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch teams up with We Are PIGS for a powerful new video
- Watch Master Of Puppets performed in the style of Phil Collins, Queen, JS Bach and Harry Styles
- Rick Wakeman opens up the vaults for fans
- The new Metal Hammer dives into the story behind Bullet For My Valentine's heaviest record yet
- Babymetal share chapter-closing Stairway To Living Legend video
- Watch Knocked Loose’s nightmarish animation for A Tear In The Fabric Of Life EP
- Watch the official trailer for new docuseries The Beatles: Get Back
- Should Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?
- Red Hot Chili Peppers excited to launch “balls out” new chapter says Chad Smith
- Ozric Tentacles collect first four official albums in new seven-disc set
- David Bowie pop-up stores to open in London and New York
- October 13
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- Paul Gilbert is here to save Christmas
- AC/DC: the fast and furious story of Bon Scott's final tour - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Watch the epic trailer for Sabaton’s new board game A Battle Through History
- Yoko Ono and metal riffing is the best combination since marmalade on toast and we think the world deserves to hear it
- Emma Ruth Rundle releases new single Blooms Of Oblivion and announces European tour
- New study exposes systemic and institutionalised racism in British music industry
- Zakk Wylde once pranked Ozzy by hiding a bag of his own s**t inside his sofa
- Motley Crue were “probably” a sexist band in the ’80s, Nikki Sixx admits
- Amazon slash the price of the awesome Sennheiser HD 450BT headphones
- Nightwish announce US tour for 2022
- Slayer “quit too early” says Kerry King
- Leslie Hunt announces release of second EP
- The Witching Tale introduce themselves with self-titled new video
- Nektar premiere new video for the ten-minute Drifting
- Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell retires after footage of chaotic show goes viral
- October 12
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- Machine Gun Kelly pelted by bottles and tree branches after flipping off disgruntled festival audience
- Slash, Wolfgang Van Halen guitarist Frank Sidoris involved in 'serious car accident'
- Airbag announce new live in the studio release
- The Watch announce eight UK live shows for November
- Asia announce 10-disc live bootleg box set
- Watch The Rolling Stones perform Connection for the first time in 15 years
- Eddie Van Halen memorial plaque unveiled in hometown Pasadena
- Baron Crâne steam new album Les Beaux Jours ahead of release
- Luke Machin announces Francis Dunnery as new guest on upcoming solo album
- October 11
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- Mercury X release video for new single Lonely
- Lindsey Buckingham joins Halsey for touching rendition of her song Darling
- Scientists name 469 million year old fossil in tribute to Tony Iommi
- Meet Me @ The Altar announce 2022 European tour
- Ice Nine Kills share Pet Sematary-inspired video for new single Funeral Derangements
- You can now hear Highway To Hell and Stairway To Heaven with added farts
- Bryan Adams shares title track from new album So Happy It Hurts, announces UK tour
- Paul McCartney insists John Lennon to blame for Beatles split
- Parents demand Iron Maiden-loving school principal is sacked over her Satanic allegiances
- Gandalf's Fist release brand new compilation
- Ozzy Osbourne says that worshipping Satan protected him from Covid-19
- New Peter Gabriel album "closer than you think"
- At last! Every Pink Floyd album explained by The Simpsons
- Watch Bruce Springsteen blast through Sherry Darling at No Nukes show
- Gene Simmons survives Spinal Tap-style platform failure, carries on heroically
- October 10
- October 9
- October 8
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- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2022 tour dates
- Kirk Hammett wanted Enter Sandman to be “the next Smoke on the Water”
- Toundra launch new album with video for El Odio. Part I
- Genesis postpone final UK shows due to Covid
- Listen to Måneskin’s “careless, silly” and raunchy new single Mammamia
- John Lodge reveals guests Jon Davison and Graeme Edge on new live album
- ‘Jane Doe’ has revealed herself, and she wants to talk to Converge
- Esmé Bianco’s lawsuit accusing Marilyn Manson of sexual and physical abuse to proceed
- Faust release video for Morning Land, from their unreleased Punkt album
- Slipknot to return with “let’s bludgeon everybody” music soon says Corey Taylor
- Steven Wilson's Last Day Of June to get vinyl release
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release atmospheric new single High And Lonesome
- “Mr Faulkner is alive today because the stars aligned” says surgeon who saved Judas Priest guitarist’s life
- October 7
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- Lars Ulrich almost apologises to Jason Newsted for the sh*tty treatment which led him to quit Metallica
- Tangerine Dream release video for brand new single Raum
- Big Scenic Nowhere team up with Reeves Gabrels and Per Wiberg for The Long Morrow
- “I'm trying to do my best here without you, but it’s really f**king hard”: Wolfgang Van Halen pays tribute to his father Edward
- Odin Dragonfly release video teaser for new album
- Marillion ask fans to crowdfund insurance for forthcoming tour
- Nick Mason compares Roger Waters to Stalin over Pink Floyd bullying claims
- Tears For Fears announce first new album for 17 years
- October 6
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- Deap Vally announce new album and share its first single, Magic Medicine
- Science suggests that Lisbon is apparently the best place in the world for metalheads
- Say hello to the world’s first true portable record player
- Can release excerpt from upcoming Live In Brighton 1975 album
- Vended announce a run of US tour dates for this winter
- Nancy Wilson shares extended take of her Eddie Van Halen tribute, 4 Edward
- Tame Impala to release deluxe version of The Slow Rush
- Blondie postpone November UK tour until 2022, Garbage drop off bill
- Mick Jagger responds to people who think The Rolling Stones should break up
- Deep Purple announce Turning To Crime album, launch cover of Love's 7 And 7 Is
- Eddie Van Halen once gifted Mark Tremonti an electric guitar backstage
- Courtney LaPlante reveals “mental breakdown” while recording Spiritbox’s debut album
- Nine Inch Nails’ Closer mashed-up with Hall & Oates and Iron Maiden is a yacht rock masterpiece
- Daniel Tompkins announces live dates and solo live band
- Internet genius creates Radio Disney version of Slipknot's Wait And Bleed
- Want to hear Techno and House versions of Nirvana hits? Here’s 27 new takes on Kurt Cobain’s best songs
- Arjen Lucassen relaunches Star One
- Richie Faulkner details terrifying onstage aneurysm
- October 5
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- Pennies By The Pound release eye-catching new video for The Waters
- Maybeshewill premiere video for brand new song Refuturing
- Ringo Starr teams up with Nandi Bushell, Chad Smith and more to perform Come Together
- Ever wanted to know what lyrics your favourite band uses most? We've got good news
- Watch the video for Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes’ trolls-slaying new single Off With His Head
- Dave Grohl once invited AC/DC and Paul McCartney to dinner and got everyone dancing to jazz
- Jonas Lindberg releases new video for the epic Oceans Of Time
- Roger Taylor reveals why Freddie Mercury would never let Queen write political songs
- Listen to the emotional new AFI single Caught
- Dave Grohl to read bedtime stories on children's television channel CBeebies
- Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton and more to feature on Ozzy Osbourne's new album
- Brandi Carlile wants to be Soundgarden’s new vocalist
- BrewDog crack open a cold one early with their awesome 2021 advent calendar
- Slash teases new album as “the best one we’ve done so far”
- Axl Rose thanks fans after completion of US tour in 'stressful times'
- October 4
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- The 20 Million Club podcast: Is Fleetwood Mac's Rumours the ultimate breakup album?
- Turns out Jimmy Page is a secret Korn fan
- Hasse Fröberg shares new song To Those Who Rule The World
- Watch this metal musician savagely drum to the sound of a death-growling walrus
- Watch Corey Taylor play shock-jock DJ in exclusive clip from new horror anthology Bad Candy
- Listen to Avenged Sevenfold's spooky cover of Misfits’ Hybrid Moments, just in time for Halloween
- Paul McCartney gave Dave Grohl's daughter her very first piano lesson
- Keith Moon once broke into Mick Jagger's hotel room dressed as Batman
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen play Paradise City on stage with Guns N' Roses
- Archive's Dave Pen shares experimental solo track Death Of Adele
- Mama, just killed a mouse: Bohemian Rhapsody + Cats = Bohemian Catsody
- The Rolling Stones launch previously unreleased song Troubles A’ Comin
- October 2
- October 1
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- Watch Trivium’s dramatic, dark fantasy video for The Phalanx
- Adam Lambert “deserves the chance to record a Queen song” says Roger Taylor
- Elbow release brand new single, The Seldom Seen Kid
- Blanket reveal sinister new video for Romance
- Enslaved release new video for Ruun II - The Epitaph – watch it here!
- The Metal Hammer Podcast Episode 183: Reader Q&A on Latin America, festivals and dogs
- Listen to addictive new Bullet For My Valentine single Rainbow Veins
- Watch Mastodon's new video for Teardrinker here!
- Tool add second London date to 2022 UK tour “due to huge demand”
- Zeal & Ardor, The Armed, Mclusky and more bolster ArcTanGent 2022 bill
- Andy Summers releases new video for Chronosthesia
- Outrun The Sunlight drop new video for Awareness
