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- April 30
- April 29
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- "A rollercoaster of epic musical detours, great songwriting and completely unhinged twists and turns": Halestorm announce upcoming album details and mammoth tour
- Metallica are going to re-release their Load
- Kneecap issue defiant statement amid news that counter-terrorism police are analysing footage from two past shows, as calls for the Irish band to be removed from UK festival bills escalate
- The Alarm's Mike Peters has died after a 30 year battle with blood cancer
- Sleep Token are on the cover of Metal Hammer’s 400th issue – and there are two collectible covers to choose from
- “I came from a subculture of rock that didn’t quite get what all the fuss is about.” Soundgarden's Kim Thayil originally didn't see the point of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, but says Chris Cornell would be “stoked” about Soundgarden being inducted
- Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale says it’s an “honour” to be the only woman performing at Black Sabbath’s farewell show
- "Life has simply caught up with me": Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring
- Rare video of AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson singing Toto's classic Hold The Line is going viral
- April 28
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- "Come up to the bedroom now, honey!" Things get steamy in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen as Robert and Toyah tackle Rod Stewart's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
- "Our message to the government is clear: we’ve only got a summer to save music. Act now." MP Jeremy Corbyn's Peace & Justice Project declare A Summer To Save Live Music in the UK
- Ghost may have banned phones from their 2025 tour, but you can see footage of their latest shows in the new music video for Peacefield
- Jerry Cantrell has an amazing solo song on the Sinners soundtrack and no one seems to be talking about it
- Slayer’s Kerry King admits he isn’t close with Tom Araya: “He’s not the guy I started the band with”
- The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced
- April 27
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- April 25
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- "He can’t wait. None of us can wait.” Oasis start rehearsals next month for their sold-out world tour and Noel Gallagher says he and Liam are mad for it
- The new Yungblud single is basically The Streets meets Blur meets Oasis: watch the entertainingly lairy Britpop-influenced video for Lovesick Lullaby now
- Despite what you might have heard, Jack Black is not in the Weezer film but here’s everything else we know about it
- King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June
- Code Orange are on hiatus: “It’s on the shelf for a good reason, for many reasons”
- "It could have been the end, but it became a new beginning": Fleetwood Mac and the game-changing arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- "Since you’ve been gone, it’s not the same": Listen to the song Sammy Hagar finished after being visited by Eddie Van Halen in a dream
- Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles
- Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars
- Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss announces first solo album in 18 years
- April 24
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- "We had our first rehearsal on Monday. It's gonna be fantastic." The Who's Pete Townshend is excited for next month's launch of the "poignant, tender, poetic and epic" Quadrophenia ballet
- "I hope one day Electric Nebraska does make the light of day." E Street Band legend Max Weinberg on the unreleased "kick ass" album that's become the holy grail for hardcore Bruce Springsteen fans
- "It's gonna be killer. What we're doing is cool." Kerry King has picked the Black Sabbath song that Slayer will cover at Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show, and says it's an "honour' for Slayer to pay tribute to the Godfathers of Metal
- Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas dead at 71
- "Life is beautiful!" Voyager share their first new music since singer Danny Estrin's cancer diagnosis
- Order an exclusive Slaughter To Prevail Grizzly red splatter vinyl variant from the official Metal Hammer store (it comes with cool pop-up art too!)
- Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge may have just revealed how Papa V Perpetua’s tenure will end: “There is nothing that is eternal, except maybe for the memory of someone”
- April 23
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- Bryan Adams announces mammoth North American tour schedule with Pat Benatar and The Sheepdogs
- Days after their singer adopted two bear cubs, Slaughter To Prevail announce new album Grizzly – stream lead single Russian Grizzly In America
- Wheatus to celebrate 25th anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album with UK and Ireland tour
- Blink-182, Weezer, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Knocked Loose, The Beach Boys and more to play Riot Fest 2025
- Steve Rothery reveals details of new Bioscope album with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning
- "Life moves at such a pace these days that we imagine there will be plenty of time to rekindle a friendship, and then suddenly one day it's too late." Queen's Brian May pays tribute to legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker
- Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed
- "A universe in which Karl Marx and Kylie Minogue happily co-exist, that accords Rush and The Clash equal favour, and where Morrissey and Marr meet Torvill and Dean." Manic Street Preachers announce "definitive history", 168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure
- Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones have recorded 11 songs for a new Faces album, and there could be an official Faces documentary with "some rude bits" in the pipeline too
- 50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
- “It’s like a Downton Abbey murder mystery!” Watch Trivium react to a music video so bad they didn’t release it for 20 years
- “It really is like starting from scratch”: Ozzy Osbourne is doing “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show
- This Billie Eilish song inspired one of the UK's most exciting metal bands to write one of their very best tracks
- April 22
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- Billy Idol hooks up with Avril Lavigne for driving pop-punk anthem 77
- Legendary Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78
- Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money
- Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield
- Rick Wakeman To Tour US with Strictly Come Dancing’s Hayley Sanderson
- "My ears are tired from music. It’s more like a job now as opposed to having youthful enthusiasm." Al Jourgensen explains why he's putting Ministry to bed after one final "amazing" album and world tour
- Stoner metal beloveds Orange Goblin announce final tour with support from Grand Magus and Urne
- Fontaines D.C. announce huge Belfast show with local heroes Kneecap
- Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media
- “I’ve been going through some challenging times”: Def Leppard’s Rick Allen is still traumatised by Florida attack two years ago
- Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer
- Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins
- April 21
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- Watch the video for the first new music from the original Alice Cooper Band in half a century
- The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity
- "Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall
- Watch Slayer legend Kerry King make his Wrestlemania debut as he plays Damian Priest to the ring for the most metal WWE entrance ever
- Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance
- "I couldn't care less about other people's opinions." M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold says they'll keeping pushing artistic boundaries
- April 20
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- Zak Starkey shares epic unreleased studio recording of Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr and Elton John covering T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution
- Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole
- "Expect glorious spectacles of foot-stomping, guitar-wailing and face-melting, high-octane joy. Tell your mates. Tell your mum." The Darkness announce North American tour in typically low-key fashion
- “He’s gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us”: Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin doesn’t see estranged singer Mike Patton rejoining the band any time soon
- April 17
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- "I'm not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life": Stevie Nicks is working on a new album and she's not holding back
- Watch UK metalcore firebrands Loathe play an apocalyptic-sounding new song live, with help from Code Orange’s Jami Morgan
- "I have to prove myself with every album. I have to fight every time. But I like getting into the octagon." Gavin Rossdale on Bush's new album I Beat Loneliness, silencing critics, and why bands in 2025 have a duty to make "wild, interesting" records
- “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
- “I made a decision that essentially was very selfish”: Mike Portnoy admits he “hurt” Dream Theater bandmates with 2010 exit
- April 16
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- In this year's least surprising news, Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed
- Heart announce tour with special guest Todd Rundgren
- "Life became dark." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker says that fame became "difficult to handle" for him after he pretended to fart on Michael Jackson's stage
- Order your Those Damn Crows x Classic Rock bundle with hand-signed lyric sheet, art print, exclusive t-shirt and Classic Rock cover variant
- "You won’t want to miss the gig of the year." Fontaines D.C. and Lankum will play a one-off Dublin show together next month, and a tickets ballot is now open
- “There’s a danger we could become slaves to our own equipment – and in the past we have been”: Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon
- Ian Anderson laments Jerusalem's current plight as Jethro Tull share brand new video for Over Jerusalem
- "They'd throw shrapnel at us - coins. I collected enough to buy a beer." Burton C. Bell recalls the trials of supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the 90s
- "At first, they thought it was a marvellous distraction, a joyous kink. Then there was a sense of, 'You can go back to the hole that you crawled out of'." Garbage's Shirley Manson on how the patriarchy seeks to crush women's voices in the music industry
- Linkin Park will headline this year's UEFA Champion's League Final
- “I needed to cleanse my soul from stupidity”: Tobias Forge “shied away” from the media when writing new Ghost album Skeletá
- ZZ Top add yet more dates to ever-expanding Elevation tour as Frank Beard continues to miss shows
- April 15
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- Alice Cooper and Judas Priest announce co-headline tour
- Ghost have played the first show of their Skeletour World Tour - setlist details now online
- "I will not just ask you for money but I will drop some merch with these lil' cutie pies and you will buy it. All money will go to them": Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has adopted two bear cubs and our hearts might just explode
- “I feel a sense of purpose to put something good into the world”: Amy Lee reveals which videogame changed her life – and that Evanescence are hard at work on their new album
- Former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks dead at 73
- Coachella crowd called out for underwhelming response to surprise Brian May performance
- April 14
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- "Axl wants to be in control of everything": Former Guns N' Roses manager claims Axl Rose now takes 50% of the band's income
- Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks announces 2025 tour dates
- Marketing move of the century? This hardcore band just released a music video that’s four minutes of cats being cute
- Rare, recently found 1976 Van der Graaf Generator live footage hailed as "extraordinary" by Peter Hammill
- Watch Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante join Megan Thee Stallion onstage at Coachella to sing their team-up track, TYG
- April 13
- April 12
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- "I think that he was just on one that night, feeling saucy and having a good time." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus says The Cure's Robert Smith tried to make out with him at a party
- Exclusive The Flower Kings LOVE bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
- Exclusive Solstice Clann bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
- April 11
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- Exclusive IQ Dominion bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
- Pink Floyd Release One Of These Days clip from restored Pompeii MCMLXXII movie
- Exclusive Big Big Train Bard bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
- “The idea of Peter Gabriel scared the bejesus out of me!” Chimpan A premiere their cover of Here Comes The Flood
- "I just jumped on the private jet and there we were." The Libertines' Pete Doherty shares his memories of holidaying in Thailand with members of Britain's royal family
- Celebrating 50 years of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time on the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
- "John’s always been super opinionated. It doesn’t bother me." Billy Idol laughs off John Lydon's criticism of his work with Steve Jones and Paul Cook in Generation Sex, gives a thumbs up to the new Sex Pistols line-up
- System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian: “I never knocked out Brent Hinds”
- Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix comments on nu metal revival: “Hair metal never had this!”
- Watch the video for Ghost's triumphant new single Lachryma and get a closer look at Papa V Perpetua
- Bon Jovi are returning to the stage but you might need to sell a kidney to attend
- April 10
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- How to watch the Coachella 2025 livestream: Get ready to watch the second weekend of Coachella
- "No A.I. was involved. This is the best we can do." Pulp announce More, their first new album in 24 years. Listen to opening track Spike Island
- Weezer bassist's wife shot by police and charged with attempted murder
- If you watch just one blistering version of Deep Purple's Highway Star performed by a band of children from the Philippines today, make sure it's this one
- If you'd like to hear Gene Simmons and Rick Rubin talking for three and a half hours, we have you covered
- April 9
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- "It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime." Patti Smith announces new memoir Bread of Angels
- "They still call it Sepultura, but everybody knows that it's not the same." Max Cavalera isn't getting sentimental over the end of Sepultura, says fans feel that he and his brother Iggor carry the true spirit of the band
- "Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness
- "Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands
- "Eventually you run out of steam because you have no money and you’re eating Pot Noodles on Christmas Day." Dr Who and The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi shares his memories of his David Bowie and Cramps-influenced punk band, The Dreamboys
- "It is the commission of my life!" Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman announces new choral work based on the teachings of The Wickedest Man in the World
- "They're incredibly good-looking, just like me": You can buy an Alice Cooper-branded reel-to-reel recorder for just €27,000
- April 8
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- Watch trailer for new documentary Metallica Saved My Life, directed by Lords Of Chaos’ Jonas Åkerlund
- Blink-182 announce Missionary Impossible tour dates, with a former member's band in support
- Hardcore sensations Turnstile announce first album in four years, Never Enough
- New-look Katatonia announce 13th album Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State – watch their video for Lilac
- Exclusive Employed To Serve bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
- "We are the haven for the outcasts and the downtrodden – bring us your losers, because we’re all in this together." Blink 182's Mark Hoppus explains why being in a punk rock band is the most fun you can have with your clothes on, and off
- This was the one “beneficial” thing from the Norwegian black metal church burnings, according to Wardruna’s Einar Selvik
- “I was begging for tickets, now I turn out to be hosting”: Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show
- April 7
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- Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way
- Paul Stanley, Billy Idol and Gwen Stefani are the stars of a series of ads for a corporate AI platform
- Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting
- "Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie." Blondie drummer Clem Burke dead at 70
- Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida
- "Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”
- April 6
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- Watch video for new Babymetal track 'from me to u' featuring Poppy
- "We've been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives": Former Gang of Four and Shriekback bassist Dave Allen dead at 69
- "There will be no event called 'Fyre 2' in Playa del Carmen." Grand plans to revive disastrous event come as a surprise to the resort city supposed to be hosting it
- April 5
- April 4
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- "Ramones perfectly represent and encapsulate the essence of the underground." Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, Ihsahn and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein, Gogol Bordello and more to appear on two forthcoming Ramones tribute albums
- More is all you need! Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been streamed one billion times on Spotify
- Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more
- “Bob Geldof said, No, Queen have peaked. I don’t think they should play.” Queen would never have performed their iconic set at Live Aid if Band Aid mastermind Bob Geldof had his way, and Freddie Mercury initially wasn't that keen either
- "This is the best day of my life!" Watch Kelly Clarkson cover Foo Fighters, then help Jack Black make a dream come true in the most joyous and pure TV segment of the week
- Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here
- Lynyrd Skynyrd announce live album recorded at Gary Rossington's star-studded final show
- April 3
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- “How could it possibly hang together? But it does, brilliantly”: Steven Wilson has remixed Chicago II in Dolby ATMOS
- "I've seen people younger than him in wheelchairs on stage, he probably doesn't want people to see him that way." Ritchie Blackmore's wife Candice Night says the guitarist had a heart attack 18 months ago, won't be onstage in Europe any time soon
- “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now.” Bruce Springsteen is almost ready to share Tracks II: The Lost Albums, featuring seven records and 82 previously unreleased songs, 74 never-before-heard
- Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
- This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect
- April 2
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- "Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled
- Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil: “They’ve always been about mankind’s relationship with the concept of life and death”
- "I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates
- The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates
- This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
- Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11: “Everybody in the front row was like, ‘Why am I here? Tell me it’s gonna be OK’”
- A new trailer for "the Citizen Kane of British pop movies" has been released
- "I'm not a dictator. I'm a good king": Tobias Sammet on the democracy of Avantasia, the late Tony Clarkin, and whispering Bruce Dickinson
- “All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals industry pressure to start a solo career
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox promised fans a new version of a King Crimson classic but gave them bunny rabbits
- April 1
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- "How anyone can be 'deeply disturbed and hurt' by this is beyond me": REO Speedwagon charity show bickering continues as Bruce Hall fires back at Kevin Cronin
- “If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor” Neil Young thinks Donald Trump is the worst president in US history, but fears that saying so could have consequences
- “Contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.” Wet Leg announce second album Moisturizer, share new single Catch These Fists
- Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan lines up shows to celebrate the anniversaries of three classic Smashing Pumpkins albums, but he'll be performing with his new solo band, not Smashing Pumpkins
- The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!
- "Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce unique UK and European tour, split between 'rave sets' and orchestral shows
- “If it wasn’t for those four guys, we might still be wandering around in the dark”: While Kirk Hammett hails Black Sabbath as metal’s founders, Ghost’s Tobias Forge names the “neglected” aspect of their sound
