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- May 31
- May 29
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- Live streams from Jo Quail, Fusion 3, Led Zeppelin, Eivor and more
- The Flaming Lips release video for brand new song Flowers Of Neptune 6
- Goldray release video for new single How Do You Know
- Kiss, Meat Loaf and W.A.S.P. guitarist Bob Kulick dead at 70
- Lamb Of God team up with Testament’s Chuck Billy for new single Routes
- Jon Anderson to re-release solo album 1000 Hands this summer
- The Cadillac Three ratchet up the distortion on The Jam (+ Fuzz)
- Download TV announces virtual festival lineup
- Mildlife stream new single Rare Air
- Metal Hammer podcast #117: Paul Gray remembered
- Ebonivory release playthrough video for Introvection
- New Years Day share neon-tinged video for Skeletons
- Watch Behemoth’s bewitching visualiser for blistering new track Evoe
- Joe Bonamassa launches video for epic new track When One Door Opens
- Prog The Forest charity festival forced to go online
- Black Star Riders share lyric video for Candidate For Heartbreak
- Gang Of Four pay tribute to Andy Gill with new single Forever Starts Now
- Listen to Korn’s acoustic reworking of Can You Hear Me?
- May 28
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- Behemoth share video for their ferocious live version of A Forest
- Exclusive: the making of Massive Wagons' bonkers LEGO video
- Cellar Darling to take part in online Tohuwabohu Festival in June
- Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith to release book about his fishing passion
- Within Temptation share video for new single Entertain You
- Kyros release video for new single Two Frames Of Panic
- Official Queen photo book charting their live career set for publication
- The Beatles: celebrating 50 years of Let It Be in Classic Rock - out now
- The Tea Club release new video for If I Mean When
- Online Slay At Home metal and art festival set up to raise cash for charity
- Go inside Rush’s Permanent Waves 40th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
- Slipknot announce Knotfest Roadshow streaming event
- The new Metal Hammer is a tribute to Slipknot’s Paul Gray
- May 27
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- Rammstein postpone North American tour
- Primavera Sound 2021: Tame Impala, Iggy Pop, Napalm Death and more confirmed
- Voyager to reissue 2017's Ghost Mile in July
- Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day set for global watch party
- Watch Overkill and Exodus members jam Megadeth classic Wake Up Dead
- Man crushes Iron Maiden's The Trooper on a ukulele while sitting in a castle
- Doro announces German drive-in concerts
- Joan Jett: I wouldn’t feel comfortable touring right now
- Watch Lonely Robot's lyric video for new track Life Is A Sine Wave
- Charlie Benante reunites with John Bush for Anthrax’s Packaged Rebellion
- Jethro Tull: The Prog Years tour moved to 2021
- Mastodon have written a song for the new Bill & Ted film
- May 26
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- Pay tribute to your favourite road crews with a little help from Motorhead
- Steel Panther’s Michael Starr hopes spat with Nikki Sixx was just a “blip”
- My lockdown with Nad Sylvan
- Amaranthe complete work on album no.6
- Parkway Drive are working on new music during lockdown
- Queen’s Brian May thanks fans for “torrent of love and support” after heart attack
- Alizarin release stream new single Velvet Margin
- Journey bring back bassist Randy Jackson
- Metallica revisit 2014 By Request tour in latest Metallica Mondays video
- Faith No More reschedule UK and European tour
- May 25
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- Morse, Portnoy and George cover Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street
- Watch Nick Beggs' playing bass on Steven Wilson's Personal Shopper
- Brian May: "I had a small heart attack"
- Long Distance Calling release AI-themed short film for Voices
- Listen to Nergal cover Venom’s Satanachist
- Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach’s punk band The Weapon release debut album for charity
- Corey Taylor: my solo album is finished
- May 24
- May 22
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- Prog Streams from Bruce Soord, Green Carnation and Kyros
- Listen to new Lonely Robot song Life Is A Sine Wave
- Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness launch new podcast
- Green Carnation stream Leaves Of Yesteryear launch show tonight
- Shinedown launch video for uplifting single Atlas Falls
- Voivod announce The End Of Dormancy EP
- Live streams from IQ, Fish, Kavus Torabi, Mark Spencer and more...
- The Pretty Things share two unreleased tracks in memory of Phil May
- Haken release video for new single Invasion
- Styx's Tommy Shaw releases cover of Led Zeppelin's Going To California
- Pink Floyd daily “evolving” playlist launched
- Watch Creeper’s video for emotionally-charged new single All My Friends
- AC/DC: Mini-documentary exploring band's early days in Sydney released
- Enslaved release video for new Utgard track Homebound
- Roger Waters’ Us + Them concert film set for home release
- Metal Hammer Podcast #116: Hall Of Fame – Korn
- May 21
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- Coronavirus: tour and festival updates
- Maynard James Keenan says the new Puscifer album is “very close”
- Devildriver announce new album Dealing With Demons Vol. 1
- Kyros line up series of virtual gigs for fans
- Alice Cooper: I always looked at Metallica as being THE metal band
- Kavus Torabi announces debut solo album launch online
- Disturbed move The Sickness 20th anniversary tour to summer of 2021
- Ozzy Osbourne is up there with Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, says son Jack
- Guns N’ Roses, Megadeth and Lamb Of God postpone summer tours
- Massive Wagons launch mischievous Lego video for Bangin In Your Stereo single
- Sammy Hagar on possible Van Halen reunion tour: “I foresee it happening”
- Marillion delay international Weekends until 2022
- May 20
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- My Lockdown with Pattern-Seeking Animals' John Boegehold
- Amorphis announce live streams for June
- Watch all-star rock lineup crush Thin Lizzy’s Bad Reputation
- Don McLean talks about the enduring legacy of American Pie
- Marillion's Steve Rothery to appear on Space Rocks Uplink broadcast on Friday
- Watch Idles get active with Mr. Motivator
- Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer postpone the 2020 Hella Mega tour
- Wardruna to live stream their performance at Nordvegen Festival
- The first socially distanced concert takes place in the US - this is what it looked like
- Dee Snider announces new live album and shares brand new track
- May 19
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- Watch Def Leppard’s unforgettable performance of Hysteria live in London
- Rammstein announce rescheduled European stadium tour
- Wilderun release video for re-arranged version of Hope & Shadow
- Dave Grohl: I've considered writing my memoir for years
- Bullet For My Valentine on new album: The heavy stuff is coming out in masses
- Devin Townsend releases new video for Sprite
- Tool’s Adam Jones shares early demo of Descending
- Galahad to reissue Sleepers on vinyl
- Brian May: “I loved to write for Freddie. I loved to see him do his stuff with us”
- Motorhead support Crew Nation with new video for (We Are) The Roadcrew
- Roger Waters slams David Gilmour for refusing him access to Pink Floyd website
- The fourth winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
- Metallica revisit their first-ever tour in latest Metallica Mondays video
- May 18
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- Bruce Dickinson's estranged wife Paddy Bowden found dead
- Metallica’s new batch of Blackened whiskey comes with limited edition picture discs
- Lazuli reschedule live UK dates for March 2021
- Flash Gordon 40th anniversary set will include Queen soundtrack and Brian May feature
- sleepmakeswaves release new single Zelda
- IQ announce live stream in the wake of cancelled gigs
- Big Big Train cancel July 2020 tour
- Lzzy Hale: Most of the bands you know and love won’t make it out of this
- Watch Rammstein’s mini-film showing how their new album photoshoot came together
- Was Gang Of Four’s Andy Gill an early victim of COVID-19?
- Watch Roger Waters' new lockdown video of Mother
- Go behind the scenes with Slipknot on the Unsainted video shoot
- Ramblin’ Man Fair 2020 cancelled
- May 17
- May 16
- May 15
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- Pretty Things singer Phil May dead at 75
- Static-X launch video for new single All These Years featuring Wayne Static
- Listen to remix of the Rolling Stones' latest single Living In A Ghost Town
- Kansas share video for new single Memories Down The Line
- Live streams and events from Fish, Major Parkinson, Queen, Jordan Rudess and more
- Gösta Berlings Saga announce surprise new live album
- Anathema's Daniel Cardoso teams up with Petter Carlsen for Northern South
- Man slays Iron Maiden's Run To The Hills on ukulele while watched by two dogs
- Queen to stream the Freddie Mercury tribute concert on YouTube today
- Serj Tankian is planning an EP originally slated to become a System Of A Down project
- Listen to Rush play The Spirit Of Radio live in Manchester in 1980
- Chester Bennington’s son Jaime directs video for Grey Daze track Soul Song
- Cairo release lockdown video for Altitude
- Avatar roar back with new single Silence In The Age Of Apes
- Man makes bot write AC/DC song: the result is Great Balls
- Alice Cooper sends message of hope in video for new track Don’t Give Up
- Pearl Jam and Greta Thunberg warn of climate disaster in Retrograde video
- Metal Hammer podcast #115: At the drive-in (festival)
- May 14
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- Live streams from Jordan Rudess, TesseracT, The Cyberiam and more
- Massive Wagons, Bad Touch and more set for Webfest 2
- Frost* announce new six track Others EP
- Watch The Dirt live with Motley Crue and special guests
- TesseracT will present Live In Lockdown tonight at 9pm
- Photographer Perou to release new Marilyn Manson book 21 Years In Hell
- Ian Anderson thanks fans and clarifies comments about his COPD diagnosis
- Simon Collins to release new solo album later this year
- Kiss forced to postpone their Kiss Kruise 2020
- Opeth to headline ArcTanGent 2021 - as festival launches crowdfunding campaign
- Listen to Behemoth’s twisted cover of The Cure’s goth classic A Forest
- May 13
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- Slipknot cancel all summer 2020 tour dates
- Streams and online events from Public Service Broadcasting, Tori Amos and Jordan Rudess this evening
- Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt to score new Netflix series Clark
- Marillion fans unite with band for lockdown video of Made Again
- UK brand Ghost Vodka say they're facing legal action from Swedish rockers Ghost
- Dr. Who star Tom Baker stars on new Ayreon album Transitus
- AIF: 92% of independent festivals could go to the wall unless government take action
- Rick Wakeman announces The Even Grumpier Old Christmas Show tour
- Magenta release trailer video for new album Masters Of Illusion
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 set for remaster with original epic soundtracks
- Lonely Robot announce new album Feelings Are Good
- Pearl Jam tease new Retrograde music video
- May 12
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- Video for all-star lockdown version of John Lennon's Imagine launched
- Jordan Rudess, Brian Kovacs and Marc Artkinson streams this evening
- Reading and Leeds 2020 cancelled
- Yes announce rescheduled UK tour dates
- Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp launch video for cover of John Lennon's Isolation
- Rosalie Cunningham performs Purson's Tempest And The Tide in new video
- Magma record new version of I Must Return
- Scorpions’ Klaus Meine denies Wind Of Change was written by the CIA
- Pattern-Seeking Animals release video for new single Elegant Vampires
- Slash’s hair for sale… on a wedding cake topper
- Metallica celebrate Black album anniversary with 2012 Nova Rock set
- Ian Anderson: I’m suffering from an incurable lung disease
- May 11
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- Asking Alexandria share lockdown video for new single House On Fire
- Guns N' Roses cancel European tour
- 80s pop sensation Tiffany is back, and she's "harder and more punk" than before
- Take a peek inside Def Leppard’s London To Vegas live
- Rainbow’s Ronnie Romero rejoins Lords Of Black
- Oceans Of Slumber release cover of Strange Fruit
- Alex Skolnick, Charlie Benante, Ra Diaz and Brandon Yeagley cover Rush's Red Barchetta
- Live Nation look to 2021 to resume "full scale" concerts - will explore fan-less and drive-in shows
- Suzi Quatro film gets new trailer featuring Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper
- Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets announce rescheduled European tour
- Watch: Keylock – The Story So Far
- Dave Grohl compares new Foo Fighters album to Bowie's Let's Dance
- May 10
- May 9
- May 8
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- Motorhead release new lyric video for classic Ace Of Spades
- Bob Dylan announces new album Rough And Rowdy Ways
- Syd Barrett tribute, Fish, Blackheart Orchestra, Jordan Rudess, David Gilmour and Adam Holzman streams this evening
- David Gilmour streams Live At Pompeii tonight at 5pm
- Heavy Metal Truants announce global virtual ride for charity
- Rammstein cancel 2020 European Stadium tour
- Caligula's Horse stream new single Valkyries
- Dave Mustaine is recording vocals for the new Megadeth album
- Watch a dancing Maynard James Keenan in surreal video for new Puscifer song Apocalyptical
- Listen to Within Temptation’s new single Entertain You
- Brian May taken to hospital after ripping buttock muscles in gardening mishap
- May 7
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- Axl Rose takes on US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in unexpected Twitter spat
- Former Bad Company vocalist Brian Howe dead at 66
- Iron Maiden cancel all 2020 shows, announce 2021 tour dates
- The Blackheart Orchestra announce online gig in video message
- Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield hit the road in style in a selection of his classic cars
- How to get hold of the new issue of Prog Magazine
- Voivod, Insomnium and more conformed for Century Media’s Isolation Festival
- Pendragon reschedule dates for 2021
- Live shows in the UK unlikely to happen in 2020, says medical expert
- Jimmy Eat World to headline 2000 Trees 2021
- Weezer hail frontline workers in lockdown video for new single Hero
- Kyros release new video for new single Phospene
- Genesis are on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Guns N’ Roses to release Sweet Child O’ Mine book for kids
- Soundgarden countersue Vicky Cornell - allege she used cash from charity concert for “personal purposes”
- May 6
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- Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider dead at 73 - music world pays tribute
- Jehnny Beth releases new single Heroine
- Queen's Brian May rules out Bohemian Rhapsody sequel
- Peter Gabriel’s Rated PG album set for general release
- Nightwish's Troy Donockley picks his favourite prog album of all time
- Swallow The Sun announce online acoustic show
- Iron Maiden launch new range of football shirts
- Steven Wilson invites fans to remix Personal Shopper
- Film charting Ozzy Osbourne’s younger years is “absolutely” being planned
- Steve Hogarth launches Corona Diaries podcast
- Metallica launch Month Of Giving charity drive
- Tony Iommi: I’ve got unused material that goes back years
- May 5
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- Morse Portnoy George announce new covers collection
- Metallica revisit their epic House Of Vans show from 2016
- Adrian Smith recruits Iron Maiden’s Killer Krew for Aces High (Lockdown Version)
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever launch video for new single Falling Thunder
- Lamb Of God are back and on the new cover of Metal Hammer
- Glass Ocean release video for single Beyond Us
- Mick Jagger proves he’s a dab hand at chores in quarantine video
- Enuff Z’Nuff detail new studio album Brainwashed Generation
- Brian Johnson sends message to AC/DC fans during Bonfest celebrations
- Golden Caves release lockdown video for Temperature
- Brian ‘Head’ Welch: Korn could revisit covers project
- Steve Hackett recalls the moment he took "a leap of faith” and joined Genesis
- May 4
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- Stranglers' Dave Greenfield dead at 71 after contracting coronavirus - music world pays tribute
- House Of Vans to stream Metallica's blistering 2016 London show
- My Lockdown with Nick Suchak from Coldbones
- Iona premiere video for new version of White Sands
- Motorhead Day 2020: The loudest day of the year is fast approaching
- Stevie Nicks is working on a Rhiannon book and movie project
- Live streams from Moulettes, Jordan Rudess and Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate and more
- Airbag release video for new song Sunsets
- Denmark and Lithuania embrace the drive-in concert
- Mark Lanegan: Oasis quit tour so Liam Gallagher could avoid fighting me
- Chimpan A release mini film for The Calling
- Play along to Tool’s Pneuma with Adam Jones
- Orange Goblin announce 25th anniversary tour
- Bloodstock 2020 cancelled - extra day added to 2021 festival
- Papa Roach entertain family and fans with lockdown video for Feel Like Home
- May 3
- May 2
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- Pattern-Seeking Animals release video for Raining Hard In Heaven
- Devin Townsend, Genesis, Bruce Soord, Eivor, Ray Wilson and more streams this evening
- Nick D'Virgilio releases lyric video for new song Where's The Passion
- Genesis stream Live At Wembley Stadium this evening at 8pm
- Video: Metallica release stripped-down isolation version of Blackened
- Marshmallows, a golden retriever and a view: John Fogerty raises the bar on lockdown videos
- May 1
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- Watch Def Leppard's Paper Sun light up Las Vegas
- Band facemasks go on sale to raise money for musicians' charities
- Haken launch video for melancholy new single Canary Yellow
- Iron Maiden remastered series continues with The Live Collection
- Pink Floyd stream live 1970 San Francisco set at 5pm this evening
- BBC Arts share The Clash: London Calling documentary
- Alcatrazz launch Born Innocent, first studio album since 1986
- The Rolling Stones announce new weekly series Extra Licks
- Metal Hammer Podcast #113: the great Slipknot album deathmatch
- Mogwai surprise release new album to help raise cash for charity
- Alice Cooper wants you to star in his new video
- Maud The Moth releases video for Finisterrae
- Watch Sammy Hagar and The Circle smash AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie
- That Joe Payne shares new video and reveals rescheduled UK tour dates
- Bassist Lee Pomeroy discusses working on Rick Wakeman's The Red Planet
- Jack Osbourne says The Osbournes could return to TV - and he has a plan to make it work
- Deep Purple launch video for epic new song Man Alive
- Queen + Adam Lambert release charity single You Are The Champions
- The Hu launch dazzling new version of Song Of Women with Lzzy Hale
