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- January 16
- January 15
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- Scardust release video for Mist
- Watch Saxon’s high-octane cover of Deep Purple’s Speed King, a celebration of rock ’n’ roll history
- Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Jon Bon Jovi to celebrate Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration
- Anneke van Giersbergen releases video for new single Hurricane
- Julien Baker’s haunting cover of Fell On Black Days will introduce Soundgarden to a new generation
- Transatlantic release video for new single Looking For The Light
- Eyehategod share sludgy new single Fake What’s Yours
- Listen to Thunder revisit the ’80s with strutting hard rocker Going To Sin City
- White Willow/Wobbler's Ketil Einarsen streams epic new track as Ingelrii
- Hear AFI’s first new music for three years, Escape From Los Angeles and Twisted Tongues
- New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain dead at 69
- January 14
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- Get 50% off an annual subscription to Fender Play and channel your inner Jimi Hendrix
- Downes Braide Association release video for Your Heart Will Find The Way
- Lonely The Brave release Keeper documentary to tee up album number three, The Hope List
- Dave Grohl celebrates his birthday by sharing another new Foo Fighters song
- Eddie Van Halen was moved to tears upon hearing his son Wolfgang’s tender eulogy Distance
- A. A. Williams streams haunting cover of Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
- For just €235 Brian May’s new perfume will make you smell like the British countryside
- Robert Berry releases video for new single A Bond Of Union
- Of Mice & Men preview Timeless EP with powerful new single Obsolete
- Vanilla Fudge and Cactus bassist Tim Bogert dead at 76
- January 13
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- Def Leppard launch world's "first digital rock'n'roll museum"
- Black Sabbath launch deluxe versions of Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules
- The Prog Collective launch new album with single Two Trajectories
- Has Dave Mustaine just revealed the title of Megadeth’s new album?
- Watch Corey Taylor f**k up his one shot at stardom in the video for Samantha’s Gone
- Voyager release video for cover of The Presets This Boys In Love
- Watch AC/DC’s video for Realize, the killer opening track on Power Up
- Meer announce new album Playing House
- Axl Rose and AC/DC recorded no new music together, Angus Young confirms
- Rare David Bowie vinyl demo featuring the track Run Piper Run heads to auction
- Watch Limp Bizkit, Mastodon and In Flames members cover Jane’s Addiction’s Mountain Song
- Japan's Quiet Life to get new vinyl and 3CD reissue
- Black Spiders announce self-titled comeback album
- Neil Young blames social media for divided nation, calls for empathy
- Watch Idles’ savagely satirical, subversive video for anti-monarchy anthem Reigns
- January 12
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- Beach Slang split up as James Alex is hospitalised amid abuse allegations
- God Is An Astronaut release video for new single Fade
- Mogwai release video for new single Ritchie Sacramento
- Watch Gary Numan roleplay as an angry, hostile planet Earth in dramatic video for Intruder
- The Flower Kings release video for Black Swan
- The Pretty Reckless recruit Tom Morello for single And So It Went to help salvage souls from a world on fire
- Magma to release Retrospektïw 1, 2 and 3 on CD
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn is ready to unleash hell on internet bullies, trolls and edgelords
- Get three issues of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock or Prog for only £3
- Jane Weaver releases video for new single Heartflow
- Marko Hietala leaves Nightwish
- Geddy Lee to appear with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in virtual concert
- Toyah and Robert Fripp startle humanity with frisky cover of Enter Sandman
- Nandi Bushell targets Jimmy Page with version of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song
- January 11
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- Senseless Things frontman Mark Keds dead at 50
- Composer Danny Elfman releases video for prog rock-inspired 'Sorry'
- Trainspotting/Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle charts the rise of the Sex Pistols in new TV series Pistol
- Joe Elliott pays a heartfelt tribute to David Bowie with Down ’N’ Outz’ video for Goodnight Mr. Jones
- Scott Weiland’s son Noah ‘let go’ from rising LA rockers Suspect208 due to alleged drug use
- Watch Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan, Adam Lambert perform David Bowie classics at tribute livestream
- Liquid Tension Experiment reveal artwork and tracklisting for new album
- And the winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
- Dave Grohl dreams that Nirvana are still a band, but won’t sing Kurt Cobain’s songs
- Metallica and Anthrax pay tribute to Megaforce Records co-founder Marsha Zazula, dead at 68
- Legendary music fan and naked hippie dancer "Jesus" dead at 72
- January 10
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- Have you seen this power metal guitarist?
- Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor pays tribute to David Bowie, ahead of star-studded Bowie celebration gig
- John Carpenter shares music video for new single Alive After Death
- Listen to previously unreleased The Black Crowes’ track Charming Mess from 1990
- Steve Hackett launches new music video for Sirocco
- Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson share poignant, heartbreaking memories of their friend Neil Peart
- Linkin Park share 100 gecs ‘reanimation’ of One Step Closer, while Numb gets a K-Pop remix
- Cellar Darling stream 11-minute new song Dance
- January 7
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- John Fogerty bids Farewell to the Trump era with Weeping In The Promised Land
- New Pink Floyd jigsaw puzzle range celebrates more of their iconic album covers
- Listen to System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian and RATM’s Tom Morello cover Gang of Four classic
- Premiere: Walking Papers launch epic 12-minute video for Divine Intervention
- Turn up the volume on Dry January with BrewDog’s sale on alcohol-free beers
- Axl Rose bought Dave Grohl a hugely expensive guitar to say thanks for borrowing his ‘throne’
- The Hu, Heilung, Alien Weaponry and Twin Temple make their Metal Hammer cover debuts
- Elton John is playing piano on Miley Cyrus’ new cover of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters
- Corey Taylor will front Foo Fighters/Jane’s Addiction supergroup for David Bowie tribute show
- New Bad Elephant signing Simon McKechnie releases new video for Retro
- Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer was among the angry mob storming the US Capitol
- Watch Acts Of Resistance, a new film showing how metal is inspiring genuine change in Latin America, exclusively via Metal Hammer
- January 6
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- Greg Puciato’s white-hot rage on Don’t Wanna Deal is extremely relatable right now
- Pat Mastelotto and wife to release new King Crimson covers collection
- Watch this Border Collie absolutely smash a dance routine to Evanescence’s Bring Me To Life
- AC/DC, Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Queen are among the UK’s best-selling artists on vinyl
- Watch a TikTok R&B star school angry metal fans by shredding Metallica songs
- Strawbs stream brand new song Settlement exclusively with Prog
- Simple Minds’ Don’t You (Forget About Me) in the style of Type O Negative is a lost goth metal classic
- Vote for the winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020!
- Cosmograf will release new album Rattrapante in March
- Watch one-handed guitar player play two Guns N' Roses solos
- January 5
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- That image of a ‘5G chip’ which idiots claim is in the Covid-19 vaccine is actually a guitar pedal’s electronic circuitry
- Avenged Sevenfold’s new album is ‘wild’, ‘over the top’ and ‘nothing like anything we’ve done’ says M. Shadows
- Ritchie Blackmore summoned Baal, the pagan god of war, during a Rainbow studio session, and it didn’t end well
- Jean-Michel Jarre celebrates 75million viewers for NYE show
- Dave Grohl edits the new issue of Classic Rock - and it's out now
- January 4
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- On the anniversary of his death, listen to Phil Lynott at his brilliant best at Thin Lizzy’s last ever UK show
- The Cult and Manic Street Preachers pay tribute to producer Steve Brown, dead at 65
- Lifesigns tease title track from new album Altitude
- Def Leppard to launch online museum, the Def Leppard Vault
- Watch Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor play X-Japan’s Endless Rain with Yoshiki and Babymetal on Japan‘s biggest TV show
- Osibisa announce first new material in two decades
- Watch Slash and Chad Smith jam an epic version of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs with Post Malone
- Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho dies
- January 3
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- January 1
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- Steven Wilson covers Taylor Swift's The Last Great American Dynasty
- Gentle Giant thank fans for Prog Readers' Poll success in new video
- Keith Richards: I've been writing songs while sitting around watching TV
- ‘I don’t want to be on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit singing f**king Kayleigh’: Fish bows out