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- February 28
- February 27
- February 26
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- Mogwai celebrate first ever No. 1 album with As The Love Continues
- Wheel stream brand new single Fugue
- Marilyn Manson faces new abuse accusations from former partner, who says she is speaking to the FBI
- Richard Barbieri releases artful video for atmospheric Flare 2
- How Eddie Van Halen taught Yngwie Malmsteen not to give a f**k
- Anneke van Giersbergen gets behind the wheel in new video for I Saw A Car
- Journey’s Don't Stop Believin’ passes 1 billion streams on Spotify
- Watch Sabaton march to glory on epic new song Livgardet
- Liquid Tension Experiment get anthemic in new video for Beating The Odds
- We might not have to wait too much longer for Avenged Sevenfold’s new album
- The Hayley Griffiths Band to release live DVD and CD in April
- The brand new Metal Hammer podcast is an Architects special
- Megadeth‘s new album will feature a mystery cover song
- This genius Van Halen vs Stevie Wonder mash-up is the party anthem 2021 needs
- Tico the parrot’s squawk ’n’ roll version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman is the perfect way to start the weekend
- Voivod, Napalm Death and more join Jim Smith for new Cardiacs cover
- Tom Morello and the creators of Game Of Thrones are teaming up for a new metal movie
- Watch Steven Tyler & Billy Gibbons burn through Rattlesnake Shake with Mick Fleetwood & Friends
- Watch the 49-year-old Led Zeppelin film discovered in a shed in New Zealand
- AFI detail upcoming album Bodies, launch two new songs
- February 25
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- Metal-lovers unite, Beavis And Butt-Head will return to the big screen
- Listen to this spooky mashup of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) in the style of Type O Negative
- Renaissance announce 50th anniversary tour live box set
- UK music industry celebrates court victory over two hundred million quid-stealing ‘pirates’
- Nick Cave releases ‘brutal, beautiful’ surprise album, Carnage
- Rare Bird celebrated with six-disc box set
- Remembering that Halloween night Ozzy Osbourne nearly blew up Slash and Tom Morello
- Cosmograf premiere brand new video for I Stick To You
- Wolf Alice announce highly-anticipated third album Blue Weekend
- David Coverdale is hoping to sweet talk Jimmy Page into collaborating on new music
- The Fierce & The Dead and more feature on new Chaos Theory fundraising compilation
- Rick Astley covers Slipknot’s Duality – no, we're not joking
- Paul McCartney's new book will explore his career through his lyrics - watch launch trailer
- Dave Grohl and Dave Grohl’s mum to host new TV music show
- February 24
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- Sammy Hagar says he'll drop everything to play an Eddie Van Halen tribute concert
- Duff McKagan’s pre-Guns N' Roses’ band The Living have resurrected their debut recording
- Can release new live clip from upcoming Live In Stuttgart 1975 release
- Reading and Leeds festivals will go ahead in August, organisers insist
- Mono premiere ten-minute live clip of Nowhere, Now Here
- Guitar heroes Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen show their Scars, a second taste of forthcoming collaboration
- Blackberry Smoke announce You Hear Georgia album - watch video for title track
- Spiritualized announce vinyl reissues of first four albums
- Chester Bennington was feeling ‘on top of the world’ in the days before his death, former bandmate insists
- Porcupine Tree to release four LP vinyl box set of Octane Twisted
- Watch Axl Rose’s surprise cameo in Scooby-Doo And Guess Who?
- The Offspring share first new music in six years, tenth album title track Let The Bad Times Roll
- Trope release dark new video for Pareidolia
- February 23
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- Chris Adler: Lamb Of God was “toxic”
- Suzi Quatro announces The Devil In Me – her "best album to date"
- Jon Anderson's Animation to get remastered reissue
- Dinosaur Jr announce Sweep It Into Space, their first new album since 2016
- Slam Dunk Festival pushed back from May to September
- Dee Snider slams ‘arrogant, elitist a**holes’ at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Angus Young reveals that a British poet inspired one of AC/DC’s biggest anthems
- Aerosmith postpone European tour, but accidentally confirm Glastonbury 2022 appearance
- Mick Fleetwood lost two years in a cocaine blizzard following the success of Rumours
- The Omnific bassist Matt Fack releases new single The DiabeT1c Dilemma
- Mick Jagger-narrated Royal Albert Hall video is a poignant reminder of what we're missing
- Roger Taylor: “George Michael was never going to join Queen”
- Watch Halestorm blast through The Who's Long Live Rock
- Bruce Springsteen teams up with Barack Obama for new podcast
- February 22
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- Introducing This Band Isn’t Real, a metal band name generator that uses artificial intelligence
- Courtney Love quit acting after experiencing “a bunch of #MeToo” moments
- Pete Townshend hints he could release a new album with The Who after lockdown
- ChimpanA to take part in virtual concert to honour Carole King's Tapestry
- If you’ve better things to do than watch Transformers crush Heart’s Barracuda then sure, carry on with your day
- Corey Taylor officially hates new rock music
- Motorpsycho announce new album Kingdom Of Oblivion
- Faire Warning: Ritchie Blackmore celebrates ‘bombastic pageantry’ in epic new video
- Green Day release new single Here Comes The Shock alongside punk-rock inspired aerobics video
- Heavy metal dad teaches his kids how to death growl, and it’s pretty damn sweet
- Watch a teenage Chino Moreno and Deftones play reggae-metal in 1992, three years before Adrenaline
- Watch Evanescence perform Wasted On You on US TV
- Man celebrates mayonnaise on an escalator in a hilarious parody to AC/DC’s Back In Black
- Hellfest cancellation delivers latest blow to summer festival season
- The 20 Million Club podcast: Is Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell the most ridiculous album of all time?
- Metallica livestream audio replaced by royalty-free plinky-plonk
- Toyah and Robert Fripp add wind-assisted Alice Cooper cover to their catalogue of chaos
- February 21
- February 20
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- Fireproven take on bullies in new video for The Maze
- Saga enlist fans for emotional video for new single Always There
- Todd Rundgren to release vinyl live version of A Wizard, A True Star!
- Yes, this is Enter Sandman in the style of Rammstein
- Unreleased Gary Moore songs compiled on How Blue Can You Get album
- February 19
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- Watch Bon Jovi's "deeply personal" new video for Story Of Love
- Scardust unveil new bass player and keyboardist
- Solstice headline Prog For Peart with Eyes Of Albion and The Gift added to the bill
- Riverside release live clip of epic The Same River from 2015 Tilburg show
- LA Sheriff's Department confirms they're investigating Marilyn Manson abuse allegations
- Watch an 8-year-old girl incite a suburban riot with her brutal cover of Slipknot’s Before I Forget
- Kayak launch video for brand new single Mystery
- Watch Dave Grohl’s highly entertaining track-by-track guide to Foo Fighters’ Medicine At Midnight album
- Hear Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda marry alt.pop, hip-hop and the hope of a 2021 to remember on Happy Endings
- Jonathan Hulten releases haunting new video for Wasteland
- Something “massive” is on the way from Slipknot according to Corey Taylor
- February 18
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- Illuminae premiere bold cinematic video for Blood On Your Hands
- Before his death, AC/DC’s Bon Scott told friends he’d ‘had enough of the whole circus’, claims former bandmate
- Leprous take fans behind the scenes of making last single Castaway Angels
- Ex-Iron Maiden legend urges fans to ignore Bruce Dickinson and vote them into Hall Of Fame
- You can finally watch The White Stripes’ rare From The Basement performance
- Ozric Tentacles announce 6-disc Vitamin Enhanced box set with video trailer
- Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum unveils Man On Man debut album, shares tender, loved-up video for 1983
- The Flower Kings get romantic in video for new single All I Need Is Love
- Watch Freddie Mercury’s final public appearance onstage with Queen
- Want to own Bruce Dickinson’s handwritten Iron Maiden lyrics, Dave Grohl’s snare drum or a guitar signed by Muse? Step this way
- Marillion release studio update video on new album
- Ozzy Osbourne reacting to a hip hop track that samples Crazy Train is comedy gold
- February 17
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- Vicky Cornell sues Soundgarden after receiving "villainously low" offer for her stake in the band
- Julien Baker to perform new album Little Oblivions via streamed online concert
- When even Andrew W.K. no longer seems interested in partying hard, then what’s the point of anything at all, really
- Jethro Tull announce 40th anniversary box set of 1980 album A
- Watch this tiny baby drum to Slipknot’s Unsainted for your daily dopamine boost
- Gojira announce their long-awaited new album and drop single Born For One Thing
- A Cheery Wave label to release new post-rock compilation in April
- Taylor Momsen: ‘I’m not arrogant enough to call myself a rock star’
- Tangerine Dream and Pendragon to headline HRH Prog XII
- Wilderun release epic cover of Iron Maiden's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- Ronnie James Dio’s autobiography will lay bare bitter fights with Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi
- February 16
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- Wire's Graham Lewis teams up with poet Ted Milton for avant-garde project Elegiac
- Rick Armstrong to release star-studded solo album
- Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna has sung the latest riot-grrrl inspired WandaVision theme song
- Myles Kennedy returns with new album The Ides Of March - check out video for first single In Stride
- There’s another Motorhead live album coming, because 13 official Motorhead live albums just isn’t enough
- Davy O'List to reissue second solo album Second Thoughts
- Watch Metz share skate park spills and thrills in Sugar Pill video
- Watch a teenage guitarist perform the greatest cover of Led Zep’s Kashmir ever
- Osibisa premiere video for new single Douala
- Tool’s Adam Jones had a Texan cop plant cocaine and a gun on a terrified musician pal, just for a laugh
- Peter Hammill announces first ever covers album
- Starbenders release expanded edition of Love Potions album, launch Angel single
- February 15
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- Two members of Iced Earth quit in wake of Jon Schaffer's Capitol Riot arrest
- Delain splinter as four band members depart
- Yes offshoot Arc Of Life stream new song I Want To Know You Better
- Winter's End 2021 postponed until 2022
- Alice Cooper hoped to terrify parents with a band who made the Rolling Stones ‘look like choirboys’
- Hayley Williams is ready to resurrect Paramore: "Let's go!"
- Shot 50 years ago, the earliest live footage of Neil Young gets a March release date
- Chelsea Wolfe unveils gothic new video featuring Emma Ruth Rundle
- The Who cancel UK and Ireland tour
- Dave Grohl wants to resurrect his ‘dream band’, Them Crooked Vultures
- Cosmograf cancel live October shows with Gungfly
- Steven Wilson discusses possible Storm Corrosion II
- This synthwave cover of Alice In Chains’ Man In The Box is honestly much, much better than you might imagine
- Jehnny Beth reveals haunting video for new single French Countryside
- Lazuli reschedule all live dates to 2022
- February 14
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- February 12
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- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH play live for the first time
- Nad Sylvan releases video for new single The Stolen Child
- Lewis introduces himself with video for Time Money And Fear
- Dave Mustaine is recording “killer” vocals for the new Megadeth album
- Anneke van Giersbergen releases lyric video for the emotive Agape
- C'mon! Hot sauce! Billy Gibbons proves he's still way cooler than you are
- Ozzy Osbourne launches "wildly animated" video inspired by Sabbath drug raid
- February 11
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- Jazz fusion legend Chick Corea dead aged 79
- Exist Immortal premiere uplifting new video for "rallying call" Come Alive
- Here’s the Cradle Of Filth comic book series and action figure range we’ve been waiting for
- The late John Wetton features on new District 97 live album
- Matt Heafy has unveiled his metal sea shanty in its full glory, because it’s what the internet wanted
- Queen have tried recording a new song with Adam Lambert
- Alex Henry Foster releases video for The Son Of Hannah from the Montreal Jazz Festival
- Game Of Thrones actor Esmé Bianco accuses Marilyn Manson of physical and psychological abuse
- Watch Geoff Downes and Chris Braide discuss their new album Halcyon Hymns
- Watch a pre-SOAD Serj Tankian play keyboards in his very first band
- Les Claypool and Robert Trujillo’s bass-slapping face-off is the funkiest thing you’ll see today
- The Prodigy are making a music documentary to tell their “chaotic and troubled” story
- Hypno5e release video trailer for first ever live concert stream
- Ex-White Lion singer Mike Tramp aims for Eurovision Song Contest glory
- Discovered: rare film from the day the Beach Boys were banned from San Diego Zoo
- February 10
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- Greta Van Fleet launch uplifting new single Heat Above
- Clive Mitten releases teaser video for Suite Cryptique solo album
- Alexi Laiho’s final recordings will be released in April
- John Mitchell covers Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know in new video
- Fleetwood Mac’s debut live album from 1980 set for 2021 encore
- Iron Maiden have finally been nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- BirdPen stream new single Life In Design
- Francis Dunnery adds new solo to title track of Big Big Train's The Underfall Yard
- Queen and Adam Lambert move UK and European Rhapsody tour into 2022 - add new dates
- Cats losing their sh*t to Down With The Sickness is what Disturbed were invented for
- Acolyte release epic new video for the ten-minute Entropy
- Get a limited edition Epica gift bundle only with Metal Hammer
- Neil Young producer Elliot Mazer dead at 79
- February 9
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- Kitten Pyramid detail new album KOOZY!!, inspired by frontman's late mother
- Game Of Thrones star Jason Momoa learned to play bass because of Tool
- John Renbourn Group 1978 German live performance to be released
- Tomorrow is officially Cliff Burton Day
- 50 years of Jethro Tull's Aqualung celebrated in the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- February 8
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- Gene Simmons is the self-proclaimed god of cryptocurrency Dogecoin
- Radar Love hitmakers Golden Earring split 60 years after forming
- Lars Ulrich’s 92 year old dad has released an album
- The Hirsch Effect strike symphonic note with live video for Kollaps
- Alex Henry Foster releases video trailer for new live album
- This cover of Blink-182 in the style of Korn is today’s gift from the internet
- Watch Metallica’s first live performance of 2021
- The 20 Million Club podcast: How did The Dark Side Of The Moon become the 4th best-selling album of all time ?
- Serj Tankian’s nutso new song Elasticity will fill the System Of A Down-shaped hole in your life
- Toyah and Robert Fripp grapple with Jimi Hendrix in latest Sunday Lunch incident
- February 7
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- February 5
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- Clive Mitten details his new album Suite Cryptique
- Lunatic Soul confront their fears in new video for Hylophobia
- Devin Townsend launches new live album with acoustic clip of Hyperdrive from Leeds
- Downes Braide Association unveil emotive video for new single Today
- Kerry King: “Alexi Laiho was a guitar god”
- February 4
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- Queen have unearthed a lost tape of one of their earliest gigs
- Official range of Grateful Dead tea promises "comfort and positive energy"
- Nightwish move date of virtual pub gigs to May
- Trent Reznor: “I have been vocal about my dislike of Marilyn Manson as a person”
- Sinoptik release new video for Apple Tree
- Kim Gordon rails against suffocating suburban America in new video Hungry Baby
- VOLA return with new video for Straight Lines
- Tool’s Maynard James Keenan: I’ve had Covid twice
- Intrøspect premiere video for new single Mjolnir
- Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee "eager to get back together"
- Ian Anderson will release new lyric book in June
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is an emotional tribute to Alexi Laiho
- February 3
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- Wes Borland on Marilyn Manson: "Every single thing that people have said about him is true"
- Slipknot's Clown opens up on a life without tours – and how music is his "medication"
- Wardruna announce First Flight Of The White Raven virtual release show
- UK proggers Azure blow up a storm with new video for Mistress
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy has turned Wellerman into a metal song, because he’s Matt Heafy
- Metallica are performing a Super Bowl set this Sunday
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman announce Tales By Gaslight box set
- Watch AC/DC get creative in behind-the-scenes footage from the Realize video shoot
- Big Big Train announce new reissue of The Underfall Yard
- There’s an online listening party for Iron Maiden‘s Powerslave, and everyone’s invited
- Robert Reed reaches for the stars with new video for Man Of Feathers
- You want excavators ballet-dancing to Nothing Else Matters in the snow? You got it
- February 2
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- Cannibal Corpse’s gut-ripping new song Inhumane Harvest will smash your pandemic blues into tiny pieces
- Acoustic guitar trailblazer Jon Gomm releases video for The Ghost Inside You
- AC/DC’s Angus Young and Motorhead’s Lemmy power up brand new Funko range
- Queen + Adam Lambert's Live Around the World movie now available to download
- Former members of Caspian, Junius and Constants unite in SOM
- Brian May and Roger Taylor celebrate 50 years of Queen in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Serj Tankian is releasing the songs intended for the System Of A Down album that never was
- Dream Theater and Opeth honoured by DC Comics
- RoSfest set to return with new organisation
- US Senator calls for FBI investigation into Marilyn Manson
- February 1
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- Ozzy, Ghost and more star in DC Comics' Dark Nights: Death Metal – Band Edition
- Marilyn Manson dropped by label in wake of Evan Rachel Wood abuse allegations
- An elephant featured on Bring Me The Horizon’s new album – no, seriously
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Trivium’s Matt Heafy join forces on epic new track
- Evan Rachel Wood: Marilyn Manson horrifically abused me for years
- Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus in the style of Motorhead is here to fill the Lemmy-shaped hole in your life
- Solstice discuss new album Sia in new video
- Steven Wilson releases disturbing deepfake video for Self
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release warped video for new single Pukebox
- Black metal pioneers Emperor to play exclusive UK show at Incineration Festival 2022
- Alan Hewitt & One Nation release video for new single We're One Nation
- Tony Iommi on Eddie Van Halen: We used to just chat all bloody night
