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- April 18
- April 17
- April 16
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- The Struts launch Low Key In Love single with Michael Jackson's daughter Paris
- Acolyte release powerful video for new single Resentment
- Sammy Hagar says he ‘fell apart’ when he learned of Eddie Van Halen’s death
- Iron Maiden and West Ham United launch new football shirt and training range
- Listen to Texan ‘choral rockers’ The Polyphonic Spree’s take on a Rush classic
- Kirk Hammett’s ‘Ouija Board’ guitar is up for sale if you’ve got a spare $350,000
- Netflix are making a Joey Ramone biopic, with Pete Davidson as the late punk icon
- Midsummer Prog Festival reschedules to 2022
- Enslaved announce four live releases and reschedule tour to 2022
- Opeth announce Blackwater Park 20th anniversary reissue
- Mick Jagger is selling an Eazy Sleazy NFT to raise funds for music venues
- New Genesis book chronicles the post-Gabriel era
- Watch a man in a Spongebob hat slay Tool’s The Pot on the saxophone
- Listen to Fear Factory’s slamming new single Disruptor
- Poco frontman and country rock legend Rusty Young dead at 75
- Finally, five Tools riffs as they were actually meant to be heard: on a hurdy-gurdy
- April 15
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- Babymetal are streaming their 10th anniversary Budokan shows
- Burton C Bell’s Linkin Park diss has inspired a brilliant Fear Factory Vs Chester Bennington mash-up
- Alice In Chains’ William DuVall reveals Drag Race icon RuPaul’s secret punk rock past
- De’Wayne shares in-your-face video for the infectious Walking To Work
- Poverty's No Crime release release video for Flesh And Bone
- Watch Rina Sawayama and Elton John duet on powerful LGBTQ+ anthem Chosen Family
- Marillion launch new album art jigsaw
- Watch the video for Apocalyptica’s dramatic Jacoby Shaddix-fronted cover of Cream’s White Room
- If you were hoping to spend $1000 on a Rammstein hoodie today, we have bad news for you
- Slipknot vs Barney The Dinosaur is the mash-up the universe has been crying out for
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer to release Tarkus Picture Disc for Record Store Day
- April 14
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- Black Sabbath to launch super deluxe version of Sabotage
- Exodus drummer Tom Hunting has been diagnosed with cancer
- Graham Bond Organisation box set out in June
- Roger Taylor wants to stick a 20 foot high Freddie Mercury statue in his garden
- Katatonia and Sólstafir announce co-headline tour
- Puscifer’s mind-f**king short film for Bullet Train To Iowa might just be Maynard James Keenan’s finest hour
- This Metallica vs Van Halen mash-up is the sound of two monsters of rock crushing every other band underfoot
- Soft Machine's John Etheridge added to Prog The Forest bill
- The man behind Whitesnake's Come An' Get It cover comes clean about *that* tongue
- Myles Kennedy launches animated video starring a bear, beavers, deer, a ninja turtle and a wise owl
- April 13
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- Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl rail against anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists on sardonic Eazy Sleazy single
- Qello Concerts World Tour is your All Access Pass to the best live performances from rock’s most legendary acts
- Prog talks Frank Zappa with Alex Winter and Ahmet Zappa
- Listen to Quicksand’s excellent new song, Inversion
- Evanescence and Within Temptation push back European tour to 2022
- Lucy Dacus shares Hot & Heavy single as preview of third album Home Video
- Iron Maiden push summer 2021 tour back to summer 2022
- Emperor announce A Night Of Emperial Wrath to mark their 30th anniversary
- Kirk Hammett’s guitar used in Metallica’s video for One sells for £82,000
- Listen to the strangest Queen interview ever, with Freddie Mercury and Brian May at their most charming
- Darryl Way releases video for his Elements Violin Concerto
- Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun in the style of Type O Negative will warm your cold, black goth heart
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is all about the best new music right now
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson to publish "unforgettable" memoir
- April 12
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- Meet the Russian cat setting the world of improvised music alight
- Watch the trailer for new Dave Grohl movie What Drives Us
- Watch restored Genesis 1973 Bataclan show
- Gojira's new single Into The Storm might just kickstart a revolution
- John Lodge announces new single The Sun Will Shine
- Every Time I Die and The Bronx to tour the UK in 2022
- Rina Sawayama reworks her LGBTQ+ anthem Chosen Family with Elton John
- Watch very early No-Man TV performance of Housekeeping
- Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp’s typically enthusiastic take on Judas Priest classic Breaking The Law
- Anthrax are working on ‘something big’ to celebrate their 40th anniversary
- Klone release trailer to announce their first ever live album
- Watch Tool’s rhythm section play Ænema for an audience of college students
- Theo Travis announces new album Songs From The Apricot Tree
- Fender’s new Mustang Micro guitar amp puts the power in your pocket
- Guns N' Roses launch six live classics filmed in front of fanatical Brazilian crowd
- April 11
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- April 9
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- US rapper DMX dies aged 50
- Tigercub announce UK tour, share new single Blue Mist In My Head
- This Winter Machine unveil new line-up and video for Pleasure And Purpose
- Head With Wings return with video for new single In A House Without Clocks
- These classic album covers made of felt are the cutest things on the internet today
- Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory was Fear Factory “for kids”, says Burton C Bell
- Kyros announce UK tour with The Paradox Twin
- Glass Hammer announce new singer and debut NFT drop
- Sabaton travel back 500 years on new single The Royal Guard
- Fightback Lager invites investment in ‘the beer that saves music venues’
- White Moth Black Butterfly release captivating video for new single The Dreamer
- Former Sabaton guitarist jailed after being convicted of child sex abuse and possessing child pornography
- The Pineapple Thief release video trailer for Nothing But The Truth streaming event
- Watch the Avenged Sevenfold cover that’s setting the internet on fire
- Watch David Gilmour make Fleetwood Mac's Albatross even sadder than it was previously
- April 8
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- Roger Waters announces This Is Not A Drill US tour reschedule in new video
- Genesis to release Live At Knebworth EP for Record Store Day
- Megadeth are auctioning a Vic Rattlehead NFT because that’s what bands do in 2021
- Watch the trailer for Heavy Metal Hitchhiker, a new web comedy from the team behind Metal Evolution
- Gentle Giant release rare Italian video clip from 1972
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman release video for Jabberwocky's Coming To Town
- St. Vincent shares trippy video for new single The Melting Of The Sun
- Alice In Chains’ William DuVall is releasing the punk album he made as a teenager
- Motorhead’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre EP is getting a 40th anniversary reissue on picture disc and we want one
- Dennis De Young recaptures Styx's prog glory with new single Isle Of Misanthrope
- Twenty One Pilots announce new album Scaled And Icy, share Shy Away single
- Guitarist Zakk Rizvi quits Kansas
- Ronnie Wood receives the Freedom of London but cannot drive sheep and cattle over London Bridge
- April 7
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- Judas Priest move European tour to 2022, but commit to Bloodstock 2021 headliner
- Megadeth and Thin Lizzy colouring books to be released later this month
- Pixies give seal of approval to Nandi Bushell’s cover of Where Is My Mind
- Watch Brandon Boyd duet on Incubus classics with American Idol contestants
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor release tour video trailer
- The White Stripes announce 20th anniversary White Blood Cells companion album
- New Patto and Ollie Halsall reissues for April
- Psssst! Wanna buy Kirk Hammett’s One video guitar? $30,000 and it could be yours
- The new issue of Metal Hammer celebrates 20 years of Rammstein’s Mutter album
- Foo Fighters’ anthem Everlong sounds fantastic reimagined as smooth jazz
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee wants to follow The Bitter Truth by scoring a nature documentary
- The Damned reschedule UK tour, announce Wildhearts among support acts
- Devin Townsend releases video trailer for new Ocean Machine stream
- Watch Ozzy Osbourne get inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame
- Listen to Corey Taylor, Dave Lombardo, Scott Ian and Lzzy Hale unite for theme to new movie Thunder Force
- NWOCR gets its own compilation album
- April 6
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- If I hadn’t got sober, I was going to die, admits Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe
- Faith No More, Mastodon and Beastie Boy members cover Public Enemy in latest fundraising effort
- The Guru Guru announce UK tour dates
- Watch five teenagers absolutely nail Korn's misfit anthem Freak On A Leash
- Dave Grohl to publish memoir, The Storyteller, in October
- Lil Nas X’s Satanic hip hop track Montero gets the metal makeover it truly deserves
- Alice Cooper says his first drug experience was with Jimi Hendrix on a "spaceship"
- The Offspring announce winter 2021 UK arena shows with The Hives
- Listen to ‘new’ Nirvana song, Drowned In The Sun, created by Artificial Intelligence
- Ride The Lightning or Master Of Puppets? The new Metal Hammer Podcast settles the debate
- Dutch prog rockers Perfect Storm release video for Strength
- Metallica hated Some Kind Of Monster on first sight, and considered burying it
- Focus announce new box set to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Guns N’ Roses reschedule summer 2021 European shows to summer 2022
- Revealed: the greatest Jimi Hendrix song of all time
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- April 1
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- Mdou Moctar unveils the mind-melting title track from upcoming album Afrique Victime
- The 100 most influential guitarists ever: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Journey members past and present resolve legal dispute, reach ‘amicable settlement’
- Pinhdar release new video for the moody Parallel
- Soundgarden accuse Vicky Cornell of changing social media passwords in latest legal tussle
- At The Gates prepare to unleash The Nightmare Of Being
- Slipknot's Clown is selling his first NFT
- Esthesis release live in the studio video for The Awakening
- Steven Wilson releases Nile Rodgers remix of Personal Shopper
- Ex-Misfits vocalist Michale Graves set to defend Proud Boys in insurrection court case
- This is what Iron Maiden’s Fear Of The Dark sounds played like by a 160-piece orchestra
- Andy Summers releases new video as book pre-orders open