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- June 30
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- Frank Marino retires from touring due to "debilitating medical condition"
- Matt Berry's first two albums to get vinyl reissues
- Marilyn Manson faces rape, human trafficking, unlawful imprisonment lawsuit from another ex-girlfriend
- Clown says Slipknot "hated each other" when they made Iowa
- This Aerosmith vs Aretha Franklin mash-up is the best song you'll hear today
- A Colombian artist is painting brutal artwork for every song on Kill ‘Em All
- Jason Isbell has turned Metallica‘s Sad But True into a gritty country-rock rave-up
- Giancarlo Erra releases soothing new video for Previous Tape
- Drowning Pool’s ‘Bodies’ reworked as a happy-clappy nursery school singalong is a work of evil genius
- You Me At Six prep Suckapunch deluxe reissue with brand new track Read My Mind
- Sammy Hagar apologises for exposing Eddie Van Halen’s ‘dark side’ in memoir
- Mass Sky Raid premiere video for brand new single Arrows
- Cool your Iron Maiden beer in an Iron Maiden beer cooler and chill with the beast
- YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd shreds all over Alice In Chains' Man In The Box
- June 29
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- US prog trio Shumaun release video trailer for new album
- Swallow The Sun release live video clip of Don't Fall Asleep Horror - Part II
- Solstice caught live in Milton Keynes
- St. Vincent shares dirty electro-pop cover of Metallica’s Sad But True
- Judas Priest threatened KK Downing with legal action over his new band name, guitarist claims
- Avatar announce 29-date Going Hunting tour of UK and Europe
- Rob Halford, Sammy Hagar, Sebastian Bach join Ronnie James Dio cancer fundraiser
- Prog For Peart charity event moves to August
- Former XTC man Colin Moulding announces first ever solo single
- Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus says chemotherapy can make him feel like ‘a poisoned electrified zombie’
- Metallica share ‘Take 36’ of Sad But True from Black Album studio sessions
- Scott Weiland's story to be turned into a Hollywood movie
- June 28
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- Peak mashup attained as Motley Crue face off against cast of Dinosaurs
- Peter Gabriel slams UK government as Womad Festival postpones to 2022
- Babymetal announce 10 Babymetal Budokan Encore Global Stream
- This old dude‘s acoustic cover of Alice In Chains’ Nutshell is just beautiful
- Turnstile surprise release four-track Turnstile Love Connection EP and film
- Voivod's Dimenison Hatross Hypercube session review
- Neil Peart’s beautiful classic cars collection to go under the hammer
- Amazon launches vinyl subscription service focusing on “the golden era" of records
- Brexiteer Bruce Dickinson slams UK government over Brexit’s impact on UK musicians
- Cropredy Festival postpones to 2022
- ‘Perfectionist’ Fred Durst holding up new Limp Bizkit album, says Wes Borland
- Head With Wings release video for Contemplating The Loop
- Former Skid Row singer Johnny Solinger dead at 55
- The Hu announce 28-date North American tour
- Steve Lukather: There will be no more Toto albums
- June 27
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- June 25
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- Twelfth Night reissue definitive edition of Live And Let Live
- Industry heavyweights Raw Power Management announce scholarship to support new talent in the music business
- Ringo Starr withdraws from Ring O cock ring battle, maintains stiff opposition to association with sex toy
- Death metal-loving teacher learns to play left-handed after accident, celebrates with wild gig for elementary school pupils
- Mike Portnoy guests on new Between The Buried And Me single Fix The Error
- Employed To Serve become action figures in video for Exist, preview new album Conquering
- Leprous release video for brand new single Running Low
- Limp Bizkit announce two summer 2022 UK shows
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is the biggest Download 2021 review you’ll find anywhere
- Listen to Within Temptation’s anthemic new single Shed My Skin
- Haken singer Ross Jennings releases video for debut solo single Words We Can't Unsay
- We celebrate 20 years of Slipknot classic Iowa in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Watch: The Darkness on tourbus rules, onstage mishaps and the power of live music
- Dee Snider hooks up with Cannibal Corpse's George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher on Time To Choose
- June 24
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- Lotus Eater release brutal new track featuring Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes
- Powerwolf lead the pack with new single, album and tour
- This Doors classic played in the style of Alice In Chains is a doomy acoustic delight
- Listen to Journey’s first new song in 10 years, The Way We Used To Be
- Watch Powerwolf’s dark, cinematic video for Dancing With The Dead
- Before he wrote Nothing Else Matters, James Hetfield considered love songs ‘a sign of weakness’
- Watch 8-year-old ‘K8’ and friends’ killer cover of Sepultura’s Roots Bloody Roots
- Trifecta release video for brooding Have You Seen What The Neighbors Are Doing?
- Friends rally around Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus as he reveals cancer diagnosis: ‘It sucks and I’m scared’
- June 23
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- Quicksand reveal new Distant Populations album, share Missile Command single
- Always wanted to know how to write a Ghost song? We have good news
- This is what Drowning Pool’s Bodies sounds like when remixed with the scream of a very angry pup
- Limp Bizkit announce summer US club tour, with support from Spiritbox
- New Hawkwind book to be published in October
- Here are our 17 favourite Prime Day deals that are still running
- Uriah Heep to release Every Day Rocks box set with T-shirts and wall planner
- Geezer Butler to release solo albums box set Manipulations Of The Mind
- Alcest to support Cult Of Luna on 2022 European tour
- Cult Of Luna announce 2022 European headline tour
- Lotus Eater to drop hellish new single Obliterate featuring Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes
- Ross Halfin to release Metallica: The Black Album In Black & White photo book
- Marillion announce 2022 Weekend dates
- Listen to the Enter Sandman demo James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich recorded in Ulrich’s basement in July 1990
- Mogwai announce Alexandra Palace headline show for 2022
- June 22
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- Brian May Gold Series launched with expanded reissue of Back To The Light
- 30 years of Pearl Jam, and the seven weeks that saved rock: only in Classic Rock Magazine
- Here are our favourite Prime Day headphones deals that are still going
- I'm a self-confessed whisky fanatic and these are the Prime Day whisky deals I’m buying
- Avril Lavigne and Tony Hawk team up for TikTok Sk8ter Boi clip, internet loses its sh*t
- Fozzy announce 11-date UK and Ireland tour in November/December
- Ghost, Corey Taylor, Miley Cyrus, St. Vincent, Biffy Clyro to salute Metallica on epic The Metallica Blacklist album
- Stir it up this Prime Day with £70 off this sustainably crafted House Of Marley wireless turntable
- Jeff Lynne's ELO book Wembley Or Bust on general sale in September
- Van der Graaf Generator stream new single version of Refugees
- Frank Turner ‘honoured’ to receive the Music Venue Trust’s Outstanding Achievement award
- ‘We were just trying to get out of there alive’: Eddie Vedder recalls his fear as fame threatened to destroy Pearl Jam
- Turn up the volume this Prime Day with an awesome saving on the Marshall Monitor II A.N.C headphones
- Killing Joke announce Honour The Fire UK tour
- June 21
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- Best Prime Day headphones deals 2021: These headphone bargains are still live
- Korn bassist Fieldy to sit out US tour so he can work on ‘bad habits’ and ‘heal’
- Prime Day vinyl deals 2025: The main sale is over, but you can still spin a discount if you're quick
- Own a rock icon in miniature with £51 off the portable Marshall Stockwell 2 speaker for Prime Day
- Crank it for less with $125 off the bone-rattling JBL Boombox Bluetooth speaker this Prime Day
- Amazon Prime Day drops some hard rocking Marshall headphones discounts
- Get the Prime Day party started with a huge saving on the Amazon Echo 4th Gen
- Matt Heafy earns more money from Twitch than from streaming Trivium’s music on all other platforms combined
- Selfridges have launched a new range of Grateful Dead merch and, frankly, we’ve no idea why
- Anette Olzon releases video for incendiary new single Parasite
- Cover your ears! The Sennheiser HD 450BT headphones are down 44% for Prime Day
- This 30th anniversary update of Wherever I May Roam is being hailed as the best Metallica cover ever
- Kiss have launched an official gin and you'll never guess what it's called
- June 20
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- June 18
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- O.S.I. to reissue first two albums on vinyl for the very first time
- Listen to The Prodigy’s banging update of electro-punk classic Breathe feat. RZA
- Unto Others are here to give you your 90s-style goth metal fix
- Listen to Kelly’s Meat Emporium, the first cut from new Carcass album Torn Arteries
- Foo Fighters Hail Satin with the release of Bee Gees’ covers EP for Record Store Day
- The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost release new video for I Will Never Hurt
- NMB (Neal Morse Band) release video for Do It All Again
- Michael Woodman releases 70s folk horror-inspired new video for Petrichor
- Dave Mustaine erases all David Ellefson’s bass lines from the new Megadeth album
- Cambridge Audio Melomania 1+ wireless earbuds get their first ever price drop for Prime Day
- Dikajee releases evocative video for Forest
- Watch Bullet For My Valentine’s video for raging new song Knives
- Hellfest announce 350 bands over six stages for mammoth 2022 event
- June 17
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- Mastodon announce special live stream from an aquarium!
- Skindred’s Benji Webbe gets hyped for Download Pilot on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
- Noel Gallagher explains why he thinks “nobody likes” U2’s Bono
- Scientists in South America name a newly discovered frog species after Led Zeppelin
- TesseracT release trailer for upcoming Blu-ray and live album Portals
- Prog The Forest reschedules to December
- Listen to Jinjer’s head-spinning new single Vortex
- The Black Crowes have written 20 new songs but are ‘in no hurry’ to record them
- Queensryche announce remastered reissues of Operation: Mindcrime and Empire
- Lingua Ignota’s new single Pennsylvania Furnace is the most haunting thing you’ll hear today
- The David Bowie World Fan Convention is coming to Liverpool in 2022
- Watch Foo Fighters cover Queen’s Somebody To Love in a California club
- Peter Gabriel fires warning shots over Womad
- Watch The Wildhearts' video for poignant new single Remember These Days
- Creeper share theatrical, haunting new video for latest single Midnight
- Halestorm announce intimate "An Evening With..." European tour
- Nikki Sixx to publish book revealing how he became Nikki Sixx
- KK Downing's new band KK’s Priest unleash Sermons Of The Sinner video
- June 16
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- Twenty One Pilots announce "Global Takeøver" tour
- Meet Me @ The Altar announce new EP and drop cheerful single Feel A Thing
- Foo Fighters accused of "bringing segregation back" as anti-vax protestors picket show
- John McLaughlin announces new studio album
- Soundgarden’s surviving members can finally control their own website and social media
- The legend of Lemmy celebrated in Motörhead: The Rise Of The Loudest Band In The World graphic novel
- My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way hints at new music
- Chelsea Wolfe creates “love letter” to indigenous women with brutal remix of Divide And Dissolve’s Far From Ideal
- Alien Weaponry warn of ecological armageddon with intense aquatic video for Tangaroa
- Slipknot's Jim Root says the band have a ‘couple’ of unreleased albums
- Listen to The Prodigy’s ‘re-amp’ of Breathe, featuring Wu Tang Clan’s RZA
- Bryan Ferry's first six solo albums to be reissued on vinyl
- Chubby And The Gang announce new album and share rowdy new single Coming Up Tough
- Courtney Love issues apology after verbal assault on Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor, promises ‘I will do better’
- The Cyberiam announce new studio album
- Metallica announce 2022 European tour
- Have you got what it takes to make your way out of Black Sabbath's "mind-boggling" escape room?
- Brian May has launched a Queen 3-D competition and would like you to enter
- June 15
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- Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson reveals two brand new songs
- Kurt Cobain’s hand-drawn self-portrait sells for a blush under £200,000
- Angels & Airwaves announce a new album and world tour all the way from space
- Hear Chino Moreno guest on Anti-Life, a new HEALTH x Tyler Bates collab from the Dark Nights: Death Metal soundtrack
- Little Simz releases swaggering new single Rollin Stone
- Coheed And Cambria and The Used announce co-headline US tour for 2021
- Lucy Dacus announces UK and European tour for 2022
- ‘If I had a dick, I would be treated differently’ says Garbage’s Shirley Manson
- Maybeshewill announce announce first London headline show since 2016
- Watch this extraordinary guitarist play Sweet Child O’ Mine with his feet
- Nixon slash the price of their awesome Metallica watches by 30%
- Magenta release live video for Spectral Mornings
- Music Venue Trust issues stark "Don't Fail Now" warning to UK government
- Are Code Orange making beautiful music with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan?
- June 14
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- Roger Waters slams Facebook: "I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg"
- Luke Machin announces Guthrie Govan collaboration
- Watch Kiss deliver ‘all killer, no filler’ set at their shortest-ever headline show
- Watch Wargasm blast back with explosive new single Pyro Pyro
- Courtney Love re-opens old feuds with ‘jack asses’ Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor
- Steve Hackett announces new rock album for September
- June 12
- June 11
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- Russian Nordic folk band Nytt Land release haunting video for new single Ritual
- Therion release new fantasy-themed video for Eye Of Algol
- Listen to James LaBrie cover Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart
- Rick Wakeman honoured by The Queen and made a CBE
- Listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes trade insults with Olivia O’Brien on the bitter No More Friends
- Nightwish announce remastered reissue of Once
- An ‘uber deluxe’ reissue of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass can be yours for a mere £859.99
- Enslaved release new live video of Sacred Horse
- Watch the freaky videos for two new solo tracks from Slipknot’s Clown
- Watch Metallica slay Bulgaria on the Big Four tour
- We’ve found AirPods Pro even cheaper than Amazon ahead of Prime Day
- Hundreds of Led Zeppelin vinyl releases showcased in new art book from photographer Ross Halfin
- Steven Wilson's Personal Shopper remixed by Biffy Clyro
- Devin Townsend announces new album Lightwork
- Metallica sue insurance underwriters over losses from South American tour cancellation
- Big Big Train release video for instrumental prog epic Apollo
- Machine Head release blazing new song Become The Firestorm
- June 10
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- Zeal & Ardor release disturbing video for new single Run
- Wolves In The Throne Room release video for brand new song Mountain Magick
- Destroy Boys share gritty new track Drink
- Jimmy Page reveals how he conjured his solo to Stairway To Heaven from a ‘magical’ guitar
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast reviews Fear Factory, Atreyu, Perturbator and more
- Auri announce second album for September
- Van der Graaf Generator 20-disc box set for September
- Listen to Trivium’s Matt Heafy’s savage cover of Richard Marx’s Right Here Waiting… with Richard Marx on vocals
- Cosmograf release video for Rattrapante
- Wolf Alice share trippy new video for Delicious Things
- Meshuggah postpone European tour until 2022, and add extra shows
- Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron reunite in The Pretty Reckless’ video for Only Love Can Save Me Now
- Faust announce eight disc classic era box set
- Nirvana’s surviving members record ‘really cool’ new music, don’t plan sharing it
- JJ Wilde becomes first woman in 25 years to win Canadian Rock Album Of The Year prize
- June 9
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- AC/DC launch performance video for Witch's Spell and they're inside a crystal ball
- Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz front Powerwolf for new Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend video
- Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes to pay tribute to Ronnie James Dio at Stand Up And Shout fundraiser
- Leprous announce new album and European tour dates
- Poppy surprises fans with release of new EP EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
- Listen to Deafheaven’s new single Great Mass Of Color, a first taste of new album Infinite Granite
- Slipknot’s new ‘God music ‘ album will be finished next month says Clown
- David Gilmour says it’s ‘pretty unlikely’ he and Roger Waters will resolve Pink Floyd feud
- Yann Tiersen releases video for Ker al Loch
- June 8
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- Lindsey Buckingham announces solo album and releases single I Don’t Mind
- Lucy Dacus releases witty and optimistic new single Brando
- Slipknot, Rob Zombie, Limp Bizkit to headline Rocklahoma 2021
- The Flaming Lips want Elon Musk to make them the first band to play in space
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson helps Heavy Metal Truants raise over £1 million for charity
- Susanna streams cover of The Beatles For No One with David Wallumrød
- Listen to the first song recorded by Red Hot Chili Peppers duo Flea and John Frusciante in over a decade
- Want up to 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free? Here’s how
- David Ellefson takes lie detector test in pursuit of ‘revenge porn’ lawsuit
- June 7
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- Bill Bailey confirmed to be writing a song for Eurovision 2022 and we’re expecting it to be gloriously bonkers
- Nektar confirm Vinyl Sides Live tour for September 2021
- Watch Jordan Rudess take on Opal Ocean in playoff video for Polycephaly
- King Crimson announce rescheduled 2021 tour dates for North America
- Watch Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and 20 punks smash Prince’s I Would Die 4 U
- Eagles to play their Hotel California album in full on 2021 US tour
- Van Halen’s lost ‘Jurassic Park’ video surfaces after 40 years
- Rob Halford recalls ‘enormous feeling of freedom’ after coming out as a gay man
- Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love has been voted the Greatest Guitar Riff Of All Time
- IQ postpone their 40th anniversary London show until 2022
- Toyah and Robert Fripp cover ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man and Fripp is "finally broken"
- Brad Whitford: I have my doubts about Aerosmith ever performing again
- June 6
- June 5
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- Listen to Anders Buaas' The Hanged Man from new album Tarot
- Prog acts confirmed for the Wokingham Festival 2021
- Amon Tobin's Stone Giants releases A Year To The Day
- Irji's Meri Tadic launches new project with single Palooka – stream it here!
- Kristoffer Gildenlöw announces new solo album, Let Me Be A Ghost
- June 4
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- Acolyte announce global livestream for Entropy on June 6
- Watch King Laughter, the new video from Langan, Frost & Wane
- Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp teams up with Queen's Roger Taylor on new single Too Much
- Pop-punk sensation jxdn shares Think About Me video, announces debut album Tell Me About Tomorrow
- Watch Nad Sylvan's new video for Sailing To Byzantium
- There’s a new bobblehead of Jimi Hendrix with his Strat on fire. Take our money now
- Amazingly, this Blink-182 vs David Bowie mash-up may be the best thing you'll hear today
- Yello celebrate their 40th anniversary with vinyl reissues
- Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell is in Dave Grohl’s LA studio with Greg Puciato
- Flea to star with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in Whiplash director’s new film
- Listen to Donner's cover of Steely Dan's Night By Night
- Marillion and Alan Parsons confirmed for Cruise To The Edge 2022
- Let rock be unconfined: The Darkness announce new album Motorheart
- Yngwie Malmsteen's unleashes Relentless Fury and frets are burning
- Robert Smith says The Cure have recorded two new albums
- June 3
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- The new Metal Hammer Podcast sponsored by KILLSTAR is a Trivium face-off
- Potter's Daughter to release Close To Nearby this September
- Riverside's Michal Lapaj to release solo album Are You There
- Tickets for Anthrax’s 40th anniversary livestream are on sale now
- Early Prime Day deal: Amazon wipe 25% off the thunderous Sony SRS-XB33 speaker
- Aisles release new single Fast – watch their cyberpunk video here!
- Watch the trailer for Idles documentary Don’t Go Gentle, hitting cinemas in July
- Steve Howe to release Homebrew 7
- Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff reworked as a classic Misfits song is internet gold
- Chvrches announce new album Screen Violence and release new single with The Cure’s Robert Smith
- Nicolas Godin to release expanded version of Concrete And Glass
- Watch these metal dudes brutally scream compliments at one other in a hilarious, wholesome video
- Courtney Love rules out Hole reunion, tells media and fans to ‘get over it’
- Jack Hues to release Electro-Acoustic Works 20:20
- Wolfgang Van Halen cites covid-19 mismanagement as a factor in his father Eddie’s death
- Bad Wolves announce new singer Daniel "DL" Lasckiewicz
- Bassist Jon Lawhon departs Black Stone Cherry
- June 2
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- Alice Coltrane’s Kirtan: Turiya Sings to be released this summer
- “Oh my god, no pressure right?!”: Nancy Wilson on performing Stairway To Heaven to Led Zeppelin
- Prognosis Festival announces more bands for 2022 line-up
- These Eric Cartman-style covers of Green Day and Linkin Park are just as awesome as they sound
- Post-rocker Maebe teases new album and shares clip for Myriad
- “My father was newly sober, dealing with anxiety – I was there to support him”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers touring with his dad
- Public Service Broadcasting return with new album Bright Magic
- There were "penises everywhere" when L7 met Motley Crue
- Listen to Volbeat bust out the saxophones on sh*t-kicking new song Wait A Minute My Girl
- Wacken 2021 has been cancelled
- Vince Neil returns to the stage... then walks off again after voice fails
- Chicago punk legends Naked Raygun announce first album in over 30 years
- June 1
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- Metal Hammer Podcast announces new sponsorship deal with KILLSTAR
- Internet genius covers Rammstein’s Du Hast in a medieval style and it's the most magical thing you'll hear all day
- Slipknot announce Knotfest Roadshow 2021 US tour
- Jane Weaver shares new video for Solarised and UK tour dates
- Foo Fighters announce US dates for 2021 anniversary tour
- The Who’s Pete Townshend shares that he used to be pansexual
- Queen’s Roger Taylor announces new album Outsider alongside 2021 solo tour
- Guns N' Roses announce they're 'F'n back' with summer 2021 tour dates
- Neal Morse Band announce new album Innocence & Danger
- Slipknot’s Clown: “The new album is a cobra in a basket”
- Anneke van Giersbergen announces 2022 European tour
- Watch this brutal bride perform a jaw-dropping drum solo at her own wedding
- Run The Jewels announce UK headline tour for 2022
- Roger Waters shares new liner notes for Pink Floyd's Animals and teases memoirs
- Florida promoter charging unvaccinated people $999 to get into his show
- Maybeshewill announce reissue of I Was Here For A Moment...
- David Lee Roth shares Western-style country tune, Giddy-Up!
- NWOCR musicians unite for rowdy all-star version of Massive Wagons' Tokyo
- Bad news, thrash fans: Jason Newsted isn't joining Megadeth
- Blackberry Smoke announce 2022 European tour dates
- Bullying, bombs and brutal violence: Till Lindemann has a new video out
