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- July 31
- July 30
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- Slipknot release 8 minute Joey Jordison tribute video
- Ozzy Osbourne to release an expanded digital deluxe edition of No More Tears in celebration of its 30th anniversary
- Queen's Brian May releases tear-jerking alternative version to classic single Too Much Love Will Kill You
- Listen to a previously unreleased take of Isn’t It A Pity offering a fresh perspective on the George Harrison classic
- Cradle Of Filth announce new album Existence Is Futile, share hellish Crawling King Chaos video
- Michael Woodman continues his solo journey with new video for The Levitant
- A Disney film composer has made Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters even more epic
- Leprous release video for new single The Silent Revelation
- TomDeLonge revisits classic Blink-182 vibes with Angels & Airwaves’ amusing Las Vegas-set video for Losing My Mind
- Employed To Serve's new single Mark Of The Grave is a turbulent metal rager
- Listen to David Draiman bringing sexy back on this horny Disturbed/TheWeeknd/Daft Punk collab
- Poppy releases sweetly sinister music video for new track Flux
- Folky progger Dikajee releases video for River Rites
- Vangelis streams brand new single In The Magic Of Cosmos
- ZZ Top's Dusty Hill: the world of music pays tribute
- July 29
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- Watch Jerry Cantrell's atmospheric new video Atone, from upcoming album Brighten
- The Omnific release new video for bass-tastic Scurryfunge
- Swallow The Sun release live video of haunting instrumental 66°50'N, 28°40'E
- The Cadillac Three announce 10th anniversary UK tour, share video for new single Get After It
- Slade announce deluxe vinyl album reissue series
- Early Sex Pistols recordings set for new box set release
- Metallica aim to ‘cut through division and bring people together’ with new album
- Metalhead screams out grocery list while doing his weekly shop, because The Internet
- Genesis to release The Last Domino? collection
- The Offspring launch ‘Cockpit Karaoke’ with mid-flight Come Out And Play singalong on Dexter Holland’s private jet
- Steve Hackett lets rip in new video for the fiery Fox's Tango
- Corey Taylor reckons the new Slipknot album will ‘f**king freak people out’
- Astra members resurface in new prog outfit Birth
- Twisted Sister's Dee Snider tests positive for Covid-19, blames Disneyland
- Stevie Nicks' celebrates 40 years of Bella Donna: "It didn't break up Fleetwood Mac – if anything, it kept us together"
- Watch Rush's Neil Peart's last recorded drum solo
- We discuss the devastating loss of Joey Jordison on the new Metal Hammer podcast
- Kosmogon stream epic 25-minute title track from debut album Mässan
- Levi's® hook up with Grateful Dead for new clothing collection
- July 28
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- Joni Mitchell to release two live sets taped by Jimi Hendrix in 1968
- ZZ Top's Dusty Hill has died, aged 72
- Turnstile reveal video for new single Blackout
- Listen to Mediator, the shape-shifting second single from new Jinjer album Wallflowers
- Dream Theater announce new album A View From The Top Of The World
- Biffy Clyro replace Queens Of The Stone Age as Reading/Leeds headliner
- Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody to release poetry-based graphic novel
- Pallas hard at work on new studio album
- Listen to four pieces from Serj Tankian’s forthcoming classical set Cinematique
- Death threats, flying feces and unwelcome golden showers made prison ‘hell’ for Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer, says lawyer
- John Mitchell teases new project The Kite Experiment
- Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators to release new album via guitar makers Gibson
- Rock band seize control of Wendy's Drive-Thru for impromptu performance
- Joey Jordison: the world of metal pays tribute
- July 27
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- Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison dead at 46
- Volbeat release a soaring cover of Metallica's Don't Tread On Me
- Smashing Pumpkins to release Live At The Viper Room 1998, a 13-song Billy Corgan acoustic set, on vinyl
- Watch previously unreleased footage from Metallica’s Enter Sandman video
- Studio brawls during the recording of Toxicity left two members of System Of A Down needing hospital treatment
- Jean-Michel Jarre releases video for new single Herbaliser
- Listen to Dry Cleaning’s one-off double A-side single, Bug Eggs/Tony Speaks!
- Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen remembers his friend Alexi Laiho: ‘I really miss him’
- Spiritbox release mesmerising acoustic version of 2020 single Constance
- Roger Daltrey skipped sessions for The Who Sell Out as he was afraid of Jimi Hendrix stealing his girlfriend, says Pete Townshend
- VOLA announce Live From The Pool streaming event for September
- Metal Church singer Mike Howe dead at 56
- July 26
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- Lynryd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington recovering after emergency heart surgery
- Slipknot, Killswitch Engage and more to play Knotfest Los Angeles
- Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire "deeply regrets" offensive Michael Stipe AIDS comment
- Spiritualized reveal vinyl reissue of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
- Tamarisk to release new album Suspended Animation
- System Of A Down's Serj Tankian teases new solo track Cyber Criminal
- Black Peaks announce they are splitting up
- Watch Dave Mustaine give Megadeth fan an exclusive preview of new album The Sick, The Dying And The Dead
- Acolyte release epic new live clip of 11-minute Idiosyncrasy
- The Metallica x Vans collaboration is happening right now
- Watch Green Day celebrate emotional live return with cover of Kiss's Rock and Roll All Nite
- July 25
- July 23
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- Bullet For My Valentine release new venomous single Parasite
- Metallica, Eagles, Queen, Kiss, AC/DC and Tool among Billboard's list of highest-paid artists of 2020
- Listen to Korn’s Jonathan Davis’ dark, emotional cover of Pet Shop Boys’ It’s A Sin
- Watch Scott Weiland at his charismatic best fronting Stone Temple Pilots’ 1997 MTV Spring Break Rocks set
- Zeal & Ardor share punishing new single Erase
- Yes release first new music in seven years with new single The Ice Bridge
- This mash-up of System Of A Down's Aerials with Gangsta's Paradise will blow your mind
- Coldplay discover Pink Floyd, share 10 minute prog rock single Coloratura
- Amy Winehouse's Back To Black gets a progressive metal makeover
- Three Colours Dark return with a proggy rework of Duran Duran's Ordinary World
- July 22
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- Crocodile nipple-biting, exploding toilets and wild bears? The Jackass Forever trailer is finally here
- Prince's estate release previously unheard feel-good track Hot Summer
- Lindsey Buckingham releases new single On The Wrong Side, inspired by Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way
- Pistonhead step up to help grassroots music venues by giving away 70,000 cans of beer
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford on surviving the pandemic: "Listen to the scientists, not the politicians"
- Chinese post-rockers Wang Wen premiere live video for Wu Wu Road
- Eric Clapton will not play gigs where proof of vaccination is required
- Bruce Dickinson says Rammstein inspired new The Writing On The Wall video
- NMB (Neal Morse Band) release video for Bird On A Wire – watch it here!
- This metal-loving grandma singing Rob Zombie at karaoke is the best thing you'll see today
- System Of A Down's Toxicity at 20: inside the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Buckcherry’s Josh Todd offers to front Minor Threat reunion
- July 21
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- 30th anniversary of Metallica's Black Album to be celebrated with shoe release
- Liam Gallagher’s son and Ringo Starr’s grandson to be tried for racially aggravated assault and affray
- You can now buy a Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction bong
- Iron Maiden open pre-orders for Senjutsu – and detail super deluxe box set
- Renowned music video director Martin Kahan dead at 74
- Coheed And Cambria share cyberpunk-inspired lyric video for pounding new track Shoulders
- At last! The sound of Paul McCartney chewing celery has finally been unleashed
- Ross Jennings premieres video for new single Grounded
- July 20
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- Jeff Ament says pandemic needs to "turn a corner" before Pearl Jam tour
- Haken drummer Raymond Hearne joins Kyros in video for cover of The Good Doctor
- Thrice announce new album Horizons/East and share hypnotic new single Scavengers
- Blink-182's Mark Hoppus receives the "best possible news" regarding his ongoing cancer battle
- Depeche Mode announce Ultra: The 12” Singles collection
- MONO release short film for brand new single Riptide
- Are rappers the new rockstars? Nikki Sixx has some thoughts
- Nick Cave to tour the UK with Bad Seeds’ Warren Ellis in September/October
- Jane’s Addiction were the most underrated band ever, says Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell
- Hawklords to release new album Time in August
- Aisles stream brand new single Disobedience
- 50 years of Judas Priest, heavy metal's unsung heroes: only in the new Classic Rock
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo perform My Friend Of Misery live with jazz superstar Kamasi Washington
- Tony Kaye announces first ever solo album
- July 19
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- Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant says he's been having dreams about John Bonham over lockdown
- Metal musicians screaming dad jokes is our new favourite thing
- Weezer's Rivers Cuomo shares details on the band's 2022 four-album project
- ‘I’d rather f**king stab my eyes out with a pencil than accept an OBE’ says Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire
- Kansas violinist Robby Steinhardt dies, aged 71
- Iron Maiden announce new album Senjutsu, coming on September 3
- Reading and Leeds festivals say ticket holders must ‘demonstrate their COVID-19 status’ to attend
- Hawkwind head up annual Hawkfest in August
- Faces are recording their first new music since 1973
- Lee Abraham announces new solo album
- Steven Wilson remixes Gary Kemp's Waiting For The Band
- Listen to triumphant new Wildhearts' single Sort Your F**king Sh*t Out
- July 18
- July 17
- July 16
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- New survey reveals how music has helped the UK survive lockdown
- You can now hear Willow's pop-punk rager Grow, guest starring Avril Lavigne
- Get a limited edition Powerwolf bundle only with Metal Hammer
- 2000trees and ArcTanGent festivals unite for special summer weekender event
- Nightwish share new version of Nemo from their An Evening With Nightwish In A Virtual World event
- Manic Street Preachers release summery new single The Secret He Had Missed
- Chvrches drop stylish lo-fi video for Good Girls
- Aspic Boulevard release head-trip new video for Kubernetikós
- Panzerpappa saxophonist Steinar Børve's new project Mythopoeic Mind takes shape
- Watch Dana Dentata’s dark, disturbing and gory video for Pantychrist
- Måneskin share the raunchy video for I Wanna Be Your Slave
- Sabaton cover Manowar’s Kingdom Come as a tribute to the oiled-up Kings Of Metal
- Amanda Lehmann announces debut solo album
- Sex Pistols sue John Lydon for refusing to allow their songs to be used in Danny Boyle’s ‘Pistols’ series
- Enslaved and Ulver members combine in the haunting Drott
- July 15
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- Watch Iron Maiden’s Eddie reborn as a blood-thirsty Samurai in the animated video for The Writing On The Wall
- Metallica share live version of The Unforgiven featuring an injured James Hetfield wrapped in bandages
- Ever wondered what a running tap would sound like if it was voiced by a metal singer? Well, we've got good news
- Tom DeLonge announces his first feature film – confirms it will contain "dick jokes"
- Rory Gallagher's debut solo album to get deluxe 50th anniversary reissue
- Judas Priest celebrate 50 heavy metal years with epic 42-disc box set
- This imaginary Brian Johnson job interview is the strangest thing you'll see today
- Megadeth’s fan club-only Unplugged In Boston acoustic album to get full release
- Toundra to release new album in early 2022
- Waterparks release video for new bubblegum-rock single Fruit Roll Ups
- So, Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes has got permanent vampire fangs now
- Have a drink on me: official AC/DC beers are on the way
- Prog guitarist Schiermann releases video for ten-minute new single Stygian Path
- British MPs demand that musicians are given a ‘fair share’ of streaming royalties
- Katatonia celebrate 30th anniversary with rarities collection
- Cinderella pay tribute to late guitarist Jeff LaBar
- Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar dead at 58
- Foo Fighters and Buckcherry both postpone shows after positive COVID tests
- July 14
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- Killswitch Engage to play livestream event next month
- Andrew W.K. releases triumphant new single Everybody Sins
- Alice Cooper's TikTok account is the most wholesome place on earth
- Turnstile announce new album Glow On, share single Alien Love Call featuring Blood Orange
- Metallica announce 40th birthday shows in San Francisco
- BJH's Time Honoured Ghosts to get expanded, remastered reissue
- Supergrass celebrate 1997’s In It For The Money with new expanded edition
- Bruce Dickinson shares spoken word tour trailer… and teases 2022 Iron Maiden tour
- Watch Trivium’s Matt Heafy add fire and fury to Powerwolf classic Fist By Fist
- St.Vincent announces livestream concert Down And Out Downtown
- Suuns release video for the gentle Krautrock of C-Thru
- Ed Sheeran reveals love of Cradle Of Filth, says he ‘would not be opposed’ to making a death metal album
- Adult film star Stormy Daniels to sell merch at Eyehategod live show
- July 13
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- PVRIS share details on upcoming "new era" and announce US tour
- Iron Maiden’s latest video teaser reveals writing on the wall and not much else
- The Who's career-spanning documentary is available to stream for the first time
- 'Nu metal godfather' Ross Robinson is on the new Metal Hammer podcast
- Chvrches release new single Good Girls and announce 2022 UK tour
- Willow reveals her new album will feature Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker and more
- Ringo Starr's worldwide fanbase create "peace and love" video in celebration of his 81st birthday
- Brian May ‘devastated’ and ‘angry’ as floods leave his home covered in ‘disgusting stinking sludge’
- Big Big Train release video for the topical The Strangest Times
- Blossoms brew up support for the live music industry with new west coast IPA
- While She Sleeps, Loathe and Black Spiders subbed onto Bloodstock bill
- David Bowie's New York apartment has just sold for $16million and this is your chance to take a peek inside
- Jethro Tull to release new album The Zealot Gene in early 2022
- Dave Mustaine says there’s ‘no chance’ David Ellefson will ever rejoin Megadeth
- Frost* lift off with Space Rocks this Thursday
- Almost Famous soundtrack to be released as massive 102-track box set
- Thom Yorke remixes Radiohead's Creep, makes it even more miserable than before
- July 12
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- Removal of Covid-19 restrictions in England means a welcome return for gigs and festivals
- Metallica’s Creeping Death sounds filthy reworked as a Southern/stoner rock anthem
- Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus faces vital cancer tests that could ‘determine if I live or die’
- Ramblin’ Man Fair to return under new management as promoters Spirit Of Rock go into liquidation
- Foo Fighters share fiendishly funky video for Bee Gees cover You Should Be Dancing
- Twelve Foot Ninja release video for Start The Fire and announce European tour
- My Chemical Romance announce new makeup range inspired by Danger Days album
- Lotus Eater disband following allegations of sexual abuse and assault against frontman Paul Collins
- Iron Maiden offer invitation to Belshazzar’s Feast on July 15
- Listen to previously unreleased George Harrison song Cosmic Empire
- Chaos visits the Fripp-Willcox kitchen once again
- July 11
- July 9
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- Crown Lands unveil new video for White Buffalo - watch it here
- Sign language interpreter pays passionate tribute to Nickelback in new Big Wreck video
- Amplifier frontman announces ocean-inspired debut solo album
- Folk prog artist Dikajee reveals the new video for Lily Of The Valley
- Watch Foo Fighters’ emotional mini-documentary The Day The Music Came Back
- Ministry share head-caving single Good Trouble from new album Moral Hygiene
- Plenty release new video for the Japan-like song Sacrifice
- Watch Trivium’s epic, unsettling short film for In The Court Of The Dragon
- More cowbell? Turns out (Don't Fear) The Reaper just needed more Music Box
- Serj Tankian launches Cool Gardens Poetry Suite - a collection of "intimate musical landscapes"
- July 8
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- Official Bon Scott website launched to celebrate his 75th birthday
- Nordic folk duo Nytt Land venture to the frozen woodland for video for U-Gra
- Tremonti announce new album Marching In Time
- Deafheaven release the atmospheric new single The Gnashing and announce US tour
- Paul McCartney looks back on classic Beatles hits in new docuseries trailer
- TesseracT release full performance video of Nocturne (PORTALS)
- There'll be a new Def Leppard studio album in ‘the not-too-distant future’
- Trivium release Game Of Thrones-style trailer and tease new ‘ritual’
- Queen’s latest accounts reveal they earned almost £42 million in 12 months
- The Watch release video for Howl The Stars Down
- Fender to reissue the Kurt Cobain-designed Jag-Stang guitar to mark the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind
- Sonic Youth’s pivotal role in the ’90’s alternative rock explosion to be detailed in new Thurston Moore memoir
- St.Vincent promises her next album will be an "angry" metal record
- French/Irish proggers Molybaron sign worldwide deal with InsideOut Music
- Watch the riotous trailer for HBO’s Woodstock ’99: Peace, Love and Rage documentary
- July 7
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- New Zealand mother names her children Metallica, Slayer and Pantera
- Between The Buried And Me release animated video for new single Fix The Error
- Bob Vylan announce UK 2021 tour, backed by a new industry-saving initiative
- St.Vincent announces run of European tour dates for summer 2022
- Amyl and The Sniffers share aggro-punk single Guided By Angels, announce new album Comfort To Me
- Listen to Biffy Clyro’s joyously disrespectful deconstruction of Metallica’s Holier Than Thou
- Peter Hammill and Isildurs Bane stream new single In Disequilibrium Pt. 1
- Bruce Springsteen's daughter Jessica and her horse Don Juan van de Donkhoeve will be competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Half-naked guitarist arrested following noise complaints for shredding in his driveway
- Fred Durst’s isolated vocals on Limp Bizkit’s cover of Faith will offer comfort to anyone who can’t sing for sh*t
- Always wanted to support Yungblud on tour? We have great news
- The Clash’s iconic London Calling bass to go on display at the Museum Of London
- Watch this outrageously impressive medley of Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U in the style of MCR, Limp Bizkit, A7X and more
- Metallica share rough and ready rehearsal version of Holier Than Thou
- Yes announce brand new studio album The Quest
- Garbage’s Shirley Manson reveals the advice she would give to her younger self
- Marillion announce deluxe edition of Fugazi
- Colin Moulding releases video for The Hardest Battle
- Neal Schon's Don’t Stop Believin’ guitar goes up for auction
- National Lottery and Music Venue Trust team up for £1M grassroots venues initiative
- July 6
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- This genius remix of Slipknot and Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive will be the best mash-up you'll hear all week
- Bright Eyes reschedule UK and Ireland tour to 2022
- Metallica in the style of King Diamond is the stuff your nightmares are made of
- Are Trivium teasing something big?
- The Bevis Frond releases video for new single Little Eden
- Lemmy considered breaking up Motörhead after NME readers voted them The Best Worst Band In The World
- A savage metal version of the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air theme song is here to brighten your day
- Voivod launch Kickstarter for career-spanning documentary
- Sharon Osbourne thanks Ozzy for ‘wonderful, insane times’ as the pair celebrate 39 years of marriage
- Steve Hackett revisits his 1977 exit from Genesis: ‘One person always wants to be the Führer’
- Rosalie Cunningham announces UK tour dates for September and October
- Enter Shikari announce 2021 tour dates and the release of new live film
- Courtney Love covers Britney Spears track Lucky in tearful tribute
- Former Uriah Heep singer John Lawton dead at 74
- July 5
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- Mick Jagger's ghostwriter explains why the rocker's scrapped autobiography was an "awful experience" in the making
- World exclusive video: inside Download Festival Pilot 2021
- Yes to have symphonic album reissued
- Watch an exclusive clip from Idles' "touching" documentary Don't Go Gentle
- Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith was in contention to join Def Leppard in 1991, Rick Allen confirms
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy reveals that he and his family tested positive for Covid-19
- Bring Me The Horizon launch Syko Juice, their own vegan BBQ sauce
- Frank Carter shares new single Sticky, announces album and UK/European tour
- Threshold begin work on new studio album
- Slash celebrates 15 years of sobriety, Nikki Sixx celebrates 20 years
- July 4
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- Toyah and Robert Fripp cover System Of A Down's Chop Suey! and nothing will ever be the same again
- New Yes book to be published in July
- Watch Robb Flynn guest with ex-Machine Head pal Logan Mader’s Once Human
- If you pay him £187.50, Dave Mustaine will record a personalised video for you
- There's no way Rush will ever exist again, says Alex Lifeson
- July 3
- July 2
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- Sabaton announce The Tour To End All Tours for 2022
- Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel is on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
- The Omnific release teaser video for new album Escapades
- Celebrate the new Big Big Train album Common Ground with our exclusive bundle
- Alex Lifeson to release new album later this year
- Steve Hackett releases video for brand new song Wingbeats
- Online sleuths may have cracked a code revealing the imminent arrival of a new Iron Maiden album
- We celebrate 20 years of Tool's Lateralus on the cover of the new issue of Prog!
- King's X announced as RoSFest headliners
- New Gerry Rafferty album to be released, a decade on from his death
- Watch the trailer for We Intend To Cause Havoc, the story of Zambia's fabled Witch
- Watch Tedeschi Trucks Band rip through Derek and the Dominos’ Tell the Truth
- The Cadillac Three release gnarly video for Bridges shot in pop-up skate park
- July 1
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- Poppy’s new single Her might be the finest grunge song since Kurt Cobain died
- The Algorithm to have Brute Force album released on triple vinyl
- Always wanted to know more about the Iowa goat? Slipknot's Clown has answers
- Vennart announce October live dates
- Jon Anderson announces US tour for Yes songs and other classics
- Gojira announce huge UK and European tour for 2022
- Voyager announce new career-spanning live stream
- Within Temptation reschedule their online spectacular The Aftermath: A Show In A Virtual Reality to mid-July
- Haken announce February 2022 European tour
- Ozzy Osbourne's Diary Of A Madman to be celebrated via the medium of Funko Pop! Vinyl figure
