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- January 31
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- The Black Keys announce Dropout Boogie North American tour
- Black Country, New Road split with singer Isaac Wood
- Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo has built his own "Spotify-like player" known as Weezify
- Metallica’s Enter Sandman reimagined as a Slipknot anthem is an absolute beast
- Red Hot Chili Peppers bless fans with 18 whole seconds of John Frusciante guitar sorcery
- Author & Punisher cancel UK tour, re-book European dates
- Saxon announce 14-city Seize The Day tour across the UK
- Alice Cooper releases spooky spoken word record, says he’s working on two new albums
- Machine Gun Kelly teases Willow collaboration about falling "in love with an emo girl"
- Corey Taylor invites Machine Gun Kelly to “suck every inch of my dick”
- Pattern-Seeking Animals release video for I Can't Stay Here Anymore
- Unto Others announce 20-date UK tour
- This stunning Flamenco version of Ozzy’s Crazy Train is a perfect tribute to the genius of Randy Rhoads
- Camel add more live dates to 2023 run
- January 30
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- Toyah and Robert Fripp continue to take everyone's mind off everything else
- U2 release acoustic video of Sunday Bloody Sunday to mark massacre's 50th anniversary
- Spotify responds to Joe Rogan controversy with plan to fight misinformation
- Beth Hart releases thundrous version of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog
- January 29
- January 28
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- Nicolas Cage outs himself as a "goth" and says he owns a pet crow that insults him
- Listen to Twin Temple’s enchanting new single Let’s Have A Satanic Orgy
- This emo cover of Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever is taking the internet by storm
- Hear Greg Puciato’s collaboration with Carpenter Brut, Imaginary Fire
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones break up ahead of their 40th anniversary
- Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson calls The Who and Rolling Stones “generic”, recalls Led Zeppelin and Hendrix’s love of sex and drugs
- Arch Enemy announce eleventh studio album Deceivers
- Kaprekar's Constant release new video for Victorious
- Listen to the new Meshuggah single, The Abysmal Eye
- Asia get ready for 40th anniversary tour
- January 27
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- Inside Ghost's first US show of 2022: new songs, new look, new era
- Von Hertzen Brothers premiere video for new single All Of A Sudden, You’re Gone
- Laibach stream brand new song Ich will ein Deutscher sein
- Svalbard announce March UK tour
- The Beatles are finally streaming the audio of their final live performance
- Monuments release video for Lavos, their first new music for four years
- Listen to CLT DRP’s new “non-stop racket” single TORX
- Marilyn Manson’s former assistant speaks of threats and intimidation as singer’s lawyers attempt to shut down her lawsuit
- VOLA release new live clip of Straight Lines
- John Mitchell announces intimate London show
- Foo Fighters’ horror film Studio 666 will be screened in UK cinemas in February
- Ghost’s new album Impera features a song about serial killer Jack The Ripper
- Nordic Giants release striking short film for Faceless
- Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs launch Wicked Mind video
- Neil Young's music has been removed from Spotify following misinformation spat
- January 26
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- Voivod drop powerful video for new single Synchro Anarchy
- Johnny Knoxville suffered brain damage following horrific stunt on the filming of Jackass Forever
- If you thought Disney's Encanto soundtrack was catchy, wait 'til you hear this viral pop punk version
- Dream Theater share new video for Transcending Time
- Biffy Clyro line up first tour of the US and Canada since 2017
- Ramblin' Man Fair postpones to 2023
- Shinedown tease new album Planet Zero with the release of its title track
- FM announce new album Thirteen and share its first single Waiting On Love
- Watch Architects perform Impermanence from upcoming album For Those That Wish To Exist at Abbey Road
- This viral drummer has seriously chaotic energy and we're fully here for it
- Marilyn Manson denies raping Evan Rachel Wood on Heart-Shaped Glasses video set
- Skunk Anansie's new single Piggy is a rage-fuelled, government-slating banger
- Sabaton postpone UK/European tour due to COVID-19 restrictions on live events
- Korn announce special An Evening With… Q&A event in London
- Jo Beth Young announces new single Brigid for February
- Bryan Adams launches video for optimistic new single Never Gonna Rain
- Keith Richards releases live video of How I Wish to celebrate Main Offender reissue
- Exclusive: watch clip from Flag Day featuring Eddie Vedder's stirring version of R.E.M classic Drive
- Joe Satriani launches The Elephants of Mars album with epic Sahara single
- January 25
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- And So I Watch You From Afar stream IV In Air, their first new music for five years
- Slash praises Axl Rose for his “phenomenal” stint in AC/DC: “I was blown away”
- Brody Dalle testifies that Josh Homme headbutted her, shared fantasies about killing her
- Inglorious, Stone Broken and Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons to headline Heretic Fest 2022
- Neil Young demands his catalogue be pulled from Spotify, says the platform spreads false information on vaccines
- John Lodge releases live clip of Moody Blues classic Isn't Life Strange
- Måneskin postpone UK/Europe tour citing changes in Covid-19 protocols
- Queen’s Brian May helps reunite English schoolboy with his lost guitar
- Solstice and Tiger Moth Tales step up for Fusion 3.5
- January 24
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- Listen to this doomy AF metal version of David Bowie's Station To Station, featuring Marty Friedman and more
- Kid Rock and Foreigner team up for Bad Reputation tour
- Jenny Hval releases video for new single Year Of Love
- Watch Melvins’ trippy video for their cover of Soundgarden’s Spoonman
- Covid fears force Beartooth to postpone UK/European tour until 2023
- “It was like finding out you dated a serial killer”: Evan Rachel Wood shares horror at hearing Marilyn Manson abuse allegations
- Rick Wakeman announces English Rock Ensemble UK tour
- Judy Dyble Memorial Festival announced for July
- Eric Clapton says vaccinated people may be victims of "mass formation hypnosis"
- Ozzy Osbourne's NFT buyers may have been scammed for thousands of dollars
- Breaking: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp show no sign of letting up
- January 23
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- January 21
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- Meat Loaf's death: the world of music reacts
- The Algorithm streams sinister new single Object Resurrection
- Hear the first single from Matt Heafy's Japan-themed black metal solo project Ibaraki
- Listen to Papa Roach’s powerful new protest anthem Stand Up
- Indian metallers Bloodywood's epic Aaj video will give you travel envy
- Ghost light up London landmarks to promote new album Impera
- Damian Wilson and Steve Walsh guest on new LALU video for Paint The Sky
- Listen to King Diamond’s cameo on new HammerFall single Venerate Me
- Every Time I Die split gets messier as bassist Steve Micciche breaks his silence
- Teramaze stream foreboding new single Ticket To The Next Apocalypse
- Kaprekar's Constant release teaser video for new album
- Meat Loaf dead, aged 74
- Former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan announces final tour dates
- January 20
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- MWWB stream title rack of upcoming album The Harvest
- Nova Twins, Deap Vally and more to feature on New Moons XVI charity compilation album in aid of Reclaim These Streets
- Wet Leg's cover of Madonna's Material Girl is deviously dingy and we can't get enough of it
- Queen’s Brian May to make acting debut as the Godfather of Rock in BBC drama
- Listen to 65daysoftsatic remix of Crass's Women
- Loathe share dreamy reworking of Is It Really You? in collab with Teenage Wrist
- Poppy announces huge 2022 world tour
- Patti Smith to perform livestream at New York's Electric Lady Studios
- Listen to new Ghost single Call Me Little Sunshine, from forthcoming album Impera
- Voyager release video for Eurovison entry Dreamer
- January 19
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- Australian djent guitarist Keyan Houshmand premieres video for Black
- New US prog outfit Vast Conduit announce debut album with new trailer
- Sonic Youth rarities compilation In/Out/In coming in March, hear In & Out now
- Haken announce return of original keyboard player Pete Jones
- Mick Fleetwood signs on as Executive Producer for new Fox TV music drama
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian jamming classic Sepultura with his 10-year-old son is the most wholesome thing you'll see all week
- Arjen Lucassen's Star One premiere 'zany', Bill & Ted-inspired video for Revel In Time
- Keith and Jordan Buckley offer conflicting accounts of Every Time I Die split
- January 18
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- The golden age of emo returns as My Chemical Romance, Paramore and more sign up for When We Were Young Festival
- Slipknot announce 40-date Knotfest Roadshow tour for North America
- Machine Head invite fans to watch the recording of their new album
- Headphones for heavy metal? These might just rock your world
- Darkher unveils video for brand new single Lowly Weep
- Former Hawkwinder Niall Hone launches new outfit Lords Of Form
- This newly-colorised footage of Pink Floyd on American Bandstand in 1967 is a trip
- Robert Reed releases video for the emotive Sendlinger's Song
- Big Big Train release poignant live clip of Welcome To The Planet
- Watch Tool’s mesmerising live premiere of Fear Inoculum epic Culling Voices
- Watch Cassetteboy‘s brutal takedown of Boris Johnson feat. Rage Against The Machine
- The Flower Kings release new video for 'accessible' A Million Stars
- Every Time I Die have broken up
- January 17
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- Moron Police drummer Thore Pettersen dies after car accident
- Playgrounded unveil new video for the brooding The death Of Death
- Watch Chris Cornell blow the roof off a LA recording studio with Audioslave
- Meshuggah tease new album Immutable, ’their wildest sonic adventure yet’
- Roger Eno releases video for title track of new album The Turning Year
- Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side release video for Why I'm Here
- Red Hot Chili Peppers and Motley Crue among the 10 best paid artists of 2021
- Watch the lyric video for The Rasmus’ Eurovision entry bid Jezebel
- IO Earth split with singer Rosanna Lefevre
- Listen to emotive new Scorpions single Rock Believer
- Detroit Cobras singer Rachel Nagy has died
- Heart's Ann Wilson finally launches "maggots and war" video for cover of Alice In Chains' Rooster
- Eddie Vedder releases emotional new single Brother The Cloud
- Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators release exuberant single Call Off The Dogs
- January 16
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- January 14
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- Somebody has made a mash-up of Aqua's Barbie Girl in the style of System Of A Down and now our brains hurt
- Keith Richards and former Rolling Stones cover artist Ruby Mazur get in on the NFT craze - for charity
- Silent Skies release snowbound video for 'dark, brooding' new single Leaving
- Shadow Universe unveil new video for Hymn For The Giants
- Coheed And Cambria announce new album Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
- Cyan and Omega Point make live debuts at new Robin all dayer
- Frank Zappa's Fillmore East 1971 gets expanded 50th anniversary release
- January 13
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- Steve Vai launches explosive track Zeus In Chains from upcoming Inviolate album
- Tangerine Dream release video for new song You're Always On Time
- Empire Springs share new single Broken Glass
- Mark Hoppus, Machine Gun Kelly and more to feature on Avril Lavigne's new album, Love Sux
- Machine Gun Kelly got engaged to Megan Fox and then they apparently drank each other's blood
- Muse share anti-bully anthem Won’t Stand Down, reveal UK summer festival headline slot
- Venom Prison drop ferocious new single Nemesis
- New Yes book covers the 80s and beyond
- Magma announce coloured vinyl edition of Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
- New Evan Rachel Wood documentary to explore Marilyn Manson abuse allegations
- Listen to killer new Korn single Forgotten, the opening track on Requiem
- Watch this p*ssed off cat sing along to Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
- Rosalie Cunningham premieres video for new single Tristitia Amnesia
- Eddie Vedder’s dead father sings on the Pearl Jam vocalist’s new solo album
- Lifesigns replace Pendragon as headliners for Winter's End
- January 12
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- Singer Ronnie Spector dead at 78
- Anna von Hausswolff streams live version of The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra
- Alex Lifeson returns with Envy Of None and streams new song Liar
- Abbath unveil video for Dream Cull as taster for new album Dread Reaver
- Rolo Tomassi share new single Closer, cancel European shows, add UK dates
- Every Time I Die cancel UK shows, but An Evening With Keith Buckley tour is go
- SOM release video for "heavy, pretty" new single Center
- Listen to new Fontaines D.C. single Jackie Down The Line
- Jethro Tull release video for title track of new album The Zealot Gene
- Metallica, King Diamond, Motorhead pay respect to Budgie’s Burke Shelley
- Bjorn Riis releases video for suitably epic new song Everything To Everyone
- January 11
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- This Slayer versus Prince mashup will bring joy to humankind
- Watch demonic Dave Grohl in the trailer for Foo Fighters horror flick Studio 666
- Wolverine to release first new music in six years!
- Bring on the riffs! Paramore to put 'emphasis back on the guitar' for new album
- Susanna releases brand new video for Alchemy of Suffering
- Tool play (near) career-spanning set in first show in almost two years
- Watch Sharon Osbourne's dramatic video featuring Ozzy freaking out over NFTs
- Listen to previously unreleased Pavement song Be The Hook
- D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings release video for uplifting new single Everything I Am
- Saxon honour Covid-19 dead with new single Remember The Fallen
- Palaeontologists name fossils in tribute to Deep Purple and Meshuggah drummers
- The Rolling Stones' 60th anniversary to be celebrated with special Royal Mail stamps
- Kvelertak cancel UK shows and strip back their European tour
- This cat has gone viral for looking like Freddie Mercury
- Placebo burn down the world and start over on new single Try Better Next Time
- Budgie legend Burke Shelley dead at 71
- Andy Sneap says Judas Priest's decision to become a four-piece is "incredibly disappointing"
- January 10
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- Odin Dragonfly premiere breathtaking video for new single, Driving
- Corey Taylor promises ‘Big Sh*t Coming’ in 2022, with music, movies and more
- Spiritualized release Warhol-inspired video for new single Crazy
- Watch previously unseen footage of The Rolling Stones at 1969’s Altamont festival
- Judas Priest to tour as quartet as Andy Sneap refocuses on his production work
- Cecilia :: Eyes stream new album Sore Memories Always End
- Watch Tool’s final band practice before embarking on their US arena tour
- Drummer pays tribute to Neil Peart with incredible 175-song Rush medley
- Metallica and Tool are using Covid-sniffing dogs to keep safe on tour
- January 9
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- January 7
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- Spock's Beard postpone UK shows due to ongoing uncertainty over Covid
- Muse tease heavy new single Won’t Stand Down, coming January 13
- Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick unveils hip-hop side project Hu$h Money
- Michael Romeo prepares to Divide & Conquer with new solo single – watch the video here!
- Slash: “I was resentful when Izzy left Guns N’ Roses. He thought we were going to die”
- Nordic Giants return with their second studio album, Symbiosis
- New Year, New Heavy: Spiritbox, Sleep Token, Loathe and Zeal & Ardor make their Metal Hammer cover debuts
- Watch Toundra's brooding video for El Odio Part III
- ‘Definitive’ New Wave Of British Heavy Metal history gets February release date
- January 6
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- Eddie Van Halen’s former wife Valerie Bertinelli reveals his final words
- The latest trailer for the Pam & Tommy miniseries is here
- Stop what you're doing, Loathe have just dropped a huge new single
- Black Country, New Road go sci-fi on new video for Concorde - watch it here!
- BrewDog hop into Dry January with up to 25% off their range of alcohol-free beers
- Lollapalooza co-founder and former Tool/QOTSA manager Ted Gardner dead at 74
- Rayna Foss’ daughter Kayla denies ex-Coal Chamber bassist is missing
- Tom Morello shares memories of Chris Cornell: “He had a dark poetry to him”
- Victrola get 2022 off to a roaring start with the Music Edition Bluetooth speakers
- Henry Rollins cancels all UK and European dates on his Good To See You tour
- 80s prog outfit Craft have sole album reissued
- Slash on Guns N’ Roses’ past, present and future: “None of us were prepared for what it turned into”
- January 5
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- Avatar postpone UK tour until 2023
- Voivod release new video for complex and twisted Paranormalium
- Pendragon cancel all 2022 tour dates
- Avenged Sevenfold’s new album is “very influenced by Kanye West” says M Shadows
- Watch Thin Lizzy and the Sex Pistols join forces for riotous 1979 TV performance
- Vinyl shows no sign of slowing down as sales continue to surge across the UK
- Brody Dalle’s boyfriend claims Josh Homme threatened to kill him on Christmas Eve
- Kraftwerk's Wolfgang Flur announces new star-studded solo album
- Rush release trailer for official pinball machine
- Slash: the ultimate interview - only in the epic new issue of Classic Rock
- January 4
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- Status Quo's Francis Rossi tells Bruce Dickinson about the time he served ice cream containing his own blood
- US police seek information on ex-Coal Chamber bassist Rayna Foss, who has been missing for four months
- Every song on Metallica’s Ride The Lightning now has stunning bespoke artwork
- ‘Emotional’ Ronnie James Dio documentary set for release this year
- Lowden Guitars is looking for four UK music acts to perform at Expo Dubai 2020 in February
- Gene Simmons' New Year's Resolutions are pretty much the most Gene Simmons thing ever
- Betty White once performed a metal version of the Golden Girls theme tune and it's just about the best thing ever
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford on alcohol: "I was bad to people... I don't wanna feel that way again"
- Nevermind baby’s lawsuit against Nirvana dismissed by judge
- Machine Gun Kelly was an answer on Jeopardy but no one knew who he was
- Chas Cronk to release new solo album Liberty
- January 3
