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October 31
- Are Rammstein teasing something big?
- Slipknot are back with ferocious new single All Out Life
- Hear Sabaton roar in The Lion From The North lyric video
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets reveal North American tour dates
- Master Of Puppets voted best Metallica album of all time
- Brutai release new Stranger Things-inspired single Upside Down
- Jordan Rudess reveals when we can expect the new Dream Theater album
- Blanket take John Carpenter’s Halloween theme and give it a ghoulish makeover
- Elementary. It's King Crimson on the cover of the new issue of Prog!
- Watch Wednesday 13's entire Bloodstock festival 2018 performance
- King 810 share eerie video for their haunting new single Heartbeats
- Mr Big want one more record with guest drummers before calling it a day
- Watch Kiss perform explosive live version of Love Gun on US TV
October 30
- This heavy metal Mariachi version of Bohemian Rhapsody may burst your brain
- Nektar announce surprise return
- Ozzy: I should have been dead 10 times
- Afghan metal documentary Rockabul to premiere in London
- Watch Alex Lifeson revisit Rush classics with Chicago ex Jason Scheff
- Win tickets to see Within Temptation and meet the band
- Metallica look to 50th anniversary and beyond
- Dutch rockers DeWolff challenge fans with fancy multi-smartphone single
- Cancer Bats to headline Silence Festival
- Watch Avenged Sevenfold dismantle The Stage piece by piece
- Ghost kick off A Pale Tour Named Death with spectacular Royal Albert Hall footage
- Code Orange and 3 more artists confirmed for Bloodstock 2019
- Queensryche announce their return with new album The Verdict
- Foreigner set to headline Ramblin' Man Fair 2019
- Gene Simmons: Kiss are the most fabulous band in the world
October 29
- United Progressive Fraternity return with new album in early 2019
- High On Fire’s Matt Pike needs to have toe partially amputated
- 69 Windmills premiere debut video for UFO John with Prog
- Avatar want to tell the full story of Avatar Country… and they need your help
- The official Vinnie Paul online store is taking orders
- Watch Lzzy Hale and Nita Strauss open the show at WWE Evolution
- Ozzy thanks fans for their support after hand surgery
- Check out The Lemonheads’ chilled-out cover of Yo La Tengo’s Can’t Forget
- Kiss reveal End Of The Road world tour dates
- Hypophora premiere new video for Sorcerers with Prog
- Hawkwind's Stacia to release t-shirt and poster in conjunction with Barney Bubbles
- While She Sleeps are back with a new single, album and tour dates
- Clutch frontman Neil Fallon hospitalised after collapsing in New York
- Saxon’s Nigel Glockler has half his nose bitten off in horrific dog attack
- Architects launch video for their intense new single Modern Misery
- Bon Jovi announce UK and European tour
October 28
- Nik Turner to hook up with Hawklords on November tour
- Gary O'Toole departs Steve Hackett band
October 27
- Watch Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody performed in 42 different styles
- Heather Findlay releases third and final Wild White Horses trailer
October 26
- Manowar’s Karl Logan arrested on child pornography charges
- Blues guitarist Samantha Fish announces 2019 UK tour
- New Year’s Eve Ozzfest confirms second stage artists
- Star-studded Keith Moon tribute night will raise money for National Deaf Children's Society
- Volbeat to release concert film Let’s Boogie! Live From Telia Parken
- Mostly Autumn announced as headliners for Trinity IV
- Rod Stewart to Jeff Beck: Let’s make an album
- Trivium recruit Howard Jones after Matt Heafy leaves tour to be with pregnant wife
- Gerard Way gets down to the bare bones in Baby You’re A Haunted House video
- Arena release their first-ever video single for Poisoned
- Swamp Rock legend Tony Joe White dead at 75
- AFI are back with new single Get Dark
October 25
- Queen launch final Bohemian Rhapsody trailer
- Swervedriver are back with a new album and single
- Bruce Dickinson: The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is a "complete load of bollocks"
- William Shatner and Iggy Pop’s Silent Night is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving
- Mono, Myrkur and a Holy Roar showcase added to Roadburn festival 2019
- Steve Hackett announces new studio album At The Edge Of Light
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett opens up on his horror obsession
- Metal Hammer Podcast: What Will Happen To Babymetal Now?!
- Fish shares his first-ever lyric video for his new track Man With A Stick
- Toundra premiere new documentary with Prog
- Charlie Benante: New Anthrax album will be more “extreme and angry”
- Dave Mustaine wants a Megadeth cover band for Megacruise
- Tom Morello: Unreleased Audioslave tracks will see the light of day
October 24
- Bob Mould announces new album and tour
- Former Purson singer Rosalie Cunningham launches Pledge campaign
- Greta Van Fleet: Rock'n'roll is an endangered species
- Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison begins work on his autobiography
- Sammy Hagar “on a campaign” to get Montrose into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Static-X trio reunite for new album featuring vocals from late frontman Wayne Static
- Chris Squire tribute album to be released in November
- Brian May felt "joy, horror, sadness" watching Bohemian Rhapsody movie
- The Claypool Lennon Delirium are back with a new album and single
- Heart announce star-studded Atlantic City live package
- Ben Stiller reforms his teenage punk band and releases first song in 36 years
- Ed Sheeran loves a bit of Korn and Marilyn Manson... who'd have thought it?
- Of Mice & Men ex Austin Carlile: Everything that I was, was that band
- Tool announce 2019 European tour
October 23
- Barock Project play two Trading Boundaries shows this weekend
- Rob Halford: Babymetal are one of the most unique metal experiences in the world
- Jeff Lynne’s ELO to tour North America in 2019
- Neil Young raids the archives for new album Songs For Judy
- Esben And The Witch premiere new video for Golden Purifier with Prog
- Ozzy, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie & more confirmed for end of year Ozzfest
- Slipknot announce European 2019 tour
- Def Leppard, Slipknot and Tool to headline Download UK 2019
- Nergal: Behemoth’s new album could kill emo kids
- The Cure announce their first Scottish show in 27 years
- Geddy Lee: Rush have "zero plans to tour again"
- Mastodon announce UK and European tour
- Go behind the scenes with Halestorm on their spooky Do Not Disturb shoot
October 22
- In Continuum release star-studded new video for Scavengers
- Fleetwood Mac announce UK and European dates
- The Pineapple Thief announce more live dates
- Bring Me The Horizon's new album Amo features three guest appearances
- Peter Hammill to release live album X/Ten
- Glamour Of The Kill return with new song Fire Fight
- Cave In announce one-off UK show
- Ozzy Osbourne talks horror of pus-filled 'giant thumb'
- Roine Stolt's The Flower King release first song Lost America
- Dave Grohl invites blind child to play guitar on stage
- Greta Van Fleet release single you can only listen to in local parks
- AlithiA stream ten-minute epic The Sun
- Ted Nugent slams 'outrageous and disgusting' Hall Of Fame
- Manic Street Preachers announce This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20 year tour and box set
- Bring Me The Horizon release new song Wonderful Life featuring Dani Filth
October 21
- Biters go on 'indefinite hiatus'
- Bob Seger Boulevard opens in Detroit
October 19
- Yuimetal releases statement regarding her split from Babymetal
- Slipknot will bring some metal mayhem to the Iowa State Fair next summer
- Watch Blackberry Smoke team up with Amanda Shires for Tom Petty cover
- The Laze stream Cryptic Plumage with Prog
- 50 years of Yes celebrated in new video
- Halloween just isn’t Halloween without this ghoulish Slash Horror Night playlist
- Yuimetal has left Babymetal
- Greta Van Fleet: Modern music is broken - and we’re here to fix it
- Marilyn Manson is selling a dildo with his face on it
- Haken premiere video for their frantic new track A Cell Divides
- New Babymetal single Starlight is everything you hoped it would be… and more
- Thunder announce new album Please Remain Seated and reveal UK tour dates
- Nergal: I can imagine a world without God but not a world without Slayer
- Chris Cornell: Watch animated unboxing video for career-spanning collection
October 18
- Disturbed announce North American, UK and European 2019 tour dates
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Should Bands Come Back After Farewell Tours?
- Inglorious detail their new studio album Ride To Nowhere
- Listen to acoustic version of the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Ozzy confirms new dates for his 4 postponed US shows
- Check out new trailer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland reissue
- Blurred Vision unveil new-look line-up with London headline show
- Tides Of Man premiere video for their atmospheric new track Mercury Fields
- Slipknot: We’ve just written one of the heaviest songs of our career
- Watch Queen create We Will Rock You in new Bohemian Rhapsody trailer
- Bloodstock 2019 announces Sunday night headline slot
- All That Remains guitarist Oli Herbert’s death the result of "an accident"
October 17
- Inglorious return with thundering new song Where Are You Now?
- The Algorithm stream brand new single Binary Space
- Rival Sons announce 2019 European tour
- Distorted Harmony release live clip of Awaken
- Paul McCartney shares the feel good factor in Come On To Me video
- Rob Zombie: I kinda miss Charles Manson being around
- Greta Van Fleet take their foot off the gas on new track You’re The One
- New prog outfit UMÆ stream debut single with John Wesley and Haken's Conner Green
- All That Remains guitarist Oli Herbert has died
- Former Ghost members lose lawsuit against Tobias Forge
- Check out Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly perform Anna-Lee and Polymixia live
- Take a trip to the moon with Queen’s Brian May
- Architects premiere online documentary ahead of Holy Hell release
- ZIO replace Tin Spirits at Winter's End
- Def Leppard: When Love Bites hit no.1 we had never played it together
- Watch Ghost’s origin story unfold in bewitching Dance Macabre video
- Slam Dunk reveal headliners and first wave of 2019 artists
October 16
- Thom Yorke backs Greenpeace campaign for Antarctic sanctuary with new solo single
- Godsmack postpone Euro tour after unexpected death of guitarist Tony Rombola's son
- Heather Findlay releases second trailer ahead of new album
- Are you ready to take a tour through Slipknot’s gruesome Slaughterhouse?
- Atreyu: We invented metalcore
- Gene Simmons: I sang like my grandmother on I Was Made For Loving You
- James LaBrie guests as Last Union album finally gets official release
- Jane’s Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell plots first solo album in 18 years
- Behemoth’s Nergal: There's some Adolf Hitler in all of us
- The real story behind Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins get spooked taking the Haunted House Challenge
- The Neal Morse Band invite fans to join them on The Great Adventure
- Watch Ace Frehley Rockin' With The Boys in his brand new video
- Fleetwood Mac respond to Lindsey Buckingham’s lawsuit
October 15
- 22 release new single Call Me Trimtab
- Bullet For My Valentine visit Tokyo in new Not Dead Yet video
- Nikki Sixx promises a “surprise” as Motley Crue continue work on 4 new tracks
- Jethro Tull’s rich history will be celebrated in first ever official book
- Behemoth brew up another batch of blasphemous beer
- Dave Mustaine & Joe Satriani lead star-studded lineup for Experience Hendrix 2019 tour
- Nothing More challenge the spread of misinformation in Let ‘Em Burn video
- Exploring Birdsong release new video for The Baptism
- Slipknot have 20 demos in the bag and hope to start touring again next summer
- Greta Van Fleet mixed with Led Zeppelin is as insane as you'd imagine
- Dream Theater keyboard maestro Jordan Rudess plots solo piano tour
- Here’s why Disturbed’s David Draiman no longer has his iconic chin piercings
- Watch 10-year-old join Foo Fighters onstage and crush Metallica classics
October 12
- Twelfth Night recording new version of Sequences
- The nation's all-time favourite driving albums revealed...
- Iron Maiden will revisit their past with new CD series
- Listen to the Metal Hammer Meets Nergal podcast
- Mass Hysteria as Def Leppard unleash Christmas collections
- Here’s how Coheed And Cambria created new album The Unheavenly Creatures
- Watch things take a disturbing twist in A Perfect Circle’s Eat The Elephant video
- How Nicolas Cage channelled his inner Dave Mustaine for new movie role
- Lindsey Buckingham sues Fleetwood Mac over sacking
- Disturbed show their Evolution on new single The Best Ones Lie
October 11
- Remaining US dates on Ozzy's 'No More Tours' tour cancelled on doctor's orders
- Kayak announce European tour dates
- Ayreon share stream of their sprawling epic The Garden Of Emotions
- Machine Head put the hammer down in lyric video for Triple Beam
- Check out Jack White’s “rude” punk cover of a Blondie classic
- ZIO release first ever video for debut single X-Ray
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Does Anyone Care About The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame?
- National Album Day is almost here - find out everything you need to know
- Pavlov's Dog to release new album in December
- Disturbed reveal city names for UK and European tour
- Kiss won’t record another album before taking their final bow
- Jonathan Davis’ wife Deven: Cause of death revealed
- Anneke van Giersbergen shares trailer for live orchestral album Symphonized
- Slash on his love of art, horror, dinosaurs and discovering the key to ever-lasting life
- Asking Alexandria strip back Alone In A Room in new acoustic video
October 10
- Watch Tesseract create 'weird fantasy vibe' with new 4K Juno video
- Halestorm star in fright-filled Halloween video for Do Not Disturb
- Greta Van Fleet announce 2019 world tour
- Listen to Gama Bomb's new album Speed Between The Lines in full
- Jason Becker unleashes new album and single. Both are stuffed with guitar heroes
- Heather Findlay announces new album Wild White Horses
- Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett produces Wank
- System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian: I didn’t join a band to stop playing music
- Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott reacts to Rock Hall nomination
- Marillion announce 2019 orchestral UK tour
- Megadeth’s Megacruise: First wave of artists confirmed
- Led Zeppelin’s 50th anniversary photo book launches - watch new video trailer
October 9
- King’s X set to release their first album in more than a decade
- The Metal Hammer Podcast is now on Spotify
- Watch Shvpes go on an eerie BMX adventure in new Afterlife video
- Def Leppard, Todd Rundgren & Stevie Nicks lead nominees for 2019 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Watch Evanescence perform live version of The Open Door track Lacrymosa
- Ozzy forced to postpone more shows after hand surgery
- 10cc confirm 2019 UK tour
- Watch Haken try and solve the riddle of the Puzzle Box in new video
- Bloodstock 2019 just got even better with the addition of 6 more artists
- AlithiA release video for their brand new track Diamonds
- Surviving Soundgarden members “would love” to work together again
October 8
- Watch Robb Flynn talk “new beginnings” for Machine Head
- Watch Metallica’s headline set from Austin City Limits in full
- UK musicians unite to call for Brexit rethink
- Wooden Shjips announce 2019 European tour
- Steve Perry rules out reunion with Journey's Neal Schon
- Slipknot hint at plans to mark debut album’s 20th anniversary
- Slash: I was sceptical about Axl’s AC/DC stint
- Voices From The Fuselage detail new album Odyssey: The Founder Of Dreams
- Chris Cornell statue unveiled in Seattle
- Check out Tenacious D’s filthy and NSFW single Making Love
- Ozzy recovers in hospital after undergoing surgery
October 7
- BirdPen release video for new single Eyes In The Sky
- Pond release new single Sixteen Days
October 6
- Ulver will release new EP in December...
October 5
- Rush announce 40th anniversary deluxe editions of Hemispheres
- Watch Amon Amarth deliver epic live version of Twilight Of The Thunder God
- Bad Wolves’ Bristol show will go ahead with Tommy Vext
- Anneke van Giersbergen shines in new track from live album Symphonized
- Listen to the Metal Hammer Meets Tom Morello podcast
- Evanescence share live orchestral performance of 2017 track Hi-Lo
- Danko Jones are back with foot-stomping new track We’re Crazy
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Who Could Join The New Machine Head?
- GWAR take their Viking Death Machine out for a spin in Wacky Races-inspired video
- Watch Paul Is Dead, a short film inspired by the infamous Beatles conspiracy
- Marshall Amplification turn it up to 11 with launch of 3 new craft beers
- Imagine Dragons return with new album Origins
- The Tangent share new song A Case Of Misplaced Optimism
- Tom Morello teams up with suicide prevention charity for new single
- Greta Van Fleet embrace their softer side on new single Anthem
- Papa Roach surprise everyone by releasing two brand new tracks
October 4
- Tommy Vext hospitalised on UK tour
- Vola talk us through their forthcoming new album Applause Of A Distant Crowd
- Rami Malek talks “immense responsibility” of playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Watch Coheed And Cambria stage a heist with a difference in Old Flames video
- Creedence Clearwater Revival finally release decent box set
- Is a Heart reunion tour on the cards?
- All 10 of Kate Bush’s studio albums set for reissue series
- Watch Beth Hart perform Good As It Gets at the Royal Albert Hall
- Guns N' Roses targeted by orangutan protest
- Stormy Daniels: I had sex under Vinnie Paul’s drum riser
- Steven Wilson announces one-off cinema screening of Home Invasion
- Australian prog trio The Omnific stream new track Erin
- Watch Nick Menza’s Megalife autobiography trailer
- Watch animated trailer for Led Zeppelin’s new digital collection
October 3
- Deluxe editions of Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass detailed
- Muse announce Royal Albert Hall show
- Rolling Stones launch Beggars Banquet 50th anniversary limited vinyl edition
- Avatar announce 2019 UK and European tour
- John Lydon slams 'turgid' Green Day
- Nel Unlit release first single from 'folk opera' based on Neil Gaiman's Worlds' End
- Doyle Bramhall II hooks up with Eric Clapton for smooth blues funk excursion
- Vola release animated video for atmospheric new track Alien Shivers
- Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel on why he’s quitting the band
- David Bowie’s Glastonbury 2000 performance set for home release
- Rammstein: New studio album coming in spring 2019
- Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and Pop Will Eat Itself to tour UK in 2019
- Architects premiere video for new single Royal Beggars
- Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick dead at 72
October 2
- Prog takes a bow at this year's Louder Than Words music writing festival
- Smashing Pumpkins announce 30th anniversary tour dates
- The Breeders team up with actor Richard Ayoade for Spacewoman video
- Shattered Skies release new video for Shut In
- Shinedown announce US tour with Papa Roach and Asking Alexandria
- Tiger Moth Tales announce new album Story Tellers Part 2
- Behemoth: New track Bartzabel’s beat is 100% Danzig
- The Amorettes announce headline UK tour
- Listen to new Ghost Against Ghost track Todeserfahrung
- Aussie Mint issues AC/DC coins... and some have been struck by lightning!
- Roxy Music's Andy Mackay to release 3Psalms on Novmber 23
- Avenged Sevenfold: We’re anxious to get back to work
- Paul Weller premieres video for his beautiful new track Gravity
- Steve Hackett announces Selling England By The Pound UK tour
- Watch Metallica deliver epic live version of One from 1996
October 1
- Blues legend Otis Rush dead at 84
- Joanne Shaw Taylor announces new album Reckless Heart
- Dave Grohl to auction instruments for children’s charity
- Behemoth share NSFW video for atmospheric new track Bartzabel
- All That Remains return with new album Victim Of The New Disease
- Beth Hart announces live Royal Albert Hall package
- Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra dead at 70
- Premiere: Pijn release stream of soaring, atmospheric new track Squander
- Rainburn release video for new song Suicide Note
- Arjen Lucassen’s Ayreon to play 4 Into The Electric Castle shows in 2019
- Korn brew up their own coffee blend
- Watch Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss in video for her electrifying new solo single
- Paul Stanley: Kiss beat the odds and kicked everybody’s ass
- Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly launch lyric video for new single Ghost Of Vanity
- Machine Head issue statement to say they’re not splitting up