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- May 31
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- Halestorm's Lzzy Hale serves up new signature Gibson guitar in cooking new video
- Watch Måneskin have the most rock'n'roll handbag fight ever in Supermodel video
- Mike Myers recalls introducing Beyoncé to Led Zeppelin on Austin Powers set
- Jon Anderson releases video trailer for Close To The Edge US summer tour
- This unlikely yet genius mash-up of Linkin Park and Lizzo proves opposites attract
- Birth stream brand new nine-minute song For Yesterday
- Sex Pistols announce release of God Save The Queen Commemorative Coin for the Jubilee
- Remembering the time Kate Bush performed Running Up That Hill with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and made magic
- Amplifier release studio video ahead of new album
- Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett totally screw up playing Nothing Else Matters
- Stranger Things actor "listened to a lot of heavy metal" to get into character
- May 30
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- Cassyette announces Sad Girl Summer UK tour
- Alexisonfire announce headline UK and European tour
- Steve Broughton, of the Edgar Broughton Band, dead at 72
- Watch this jazz drummer absolutely nail Tool's Schism without having ever heard it before
- Oli Sykes says Bring Me The Horizon were unfairly branded as "f**king d**kheads"
- Long Distance Calling release new video for Giants Leaving
- Yungblud, The Damned, The Libertines among new Glastonbury adds
- Everyone is talking about Kate Bush right now, and it's thanks to Stranger Things
- Pink Floyd join video hosting platform TikTok
- Watch Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante perform Chelsea Smile with Bring Me The Horizon
- IQ release new live video for Shallow Bay
- Whitesnake's David Coverdale once made The Darkness' Justin Hawkins vomit in his own mouth after flirting with his mum
- Watch Rancid play AEW wrestler Ruby Soho to the ring at last night's Double Or Nothing show
- Kiss are retiring out of "pride and self-respect" says Gene Simmons
- Toyah + Robert Fripp + Celebrity Skin = Kitchen Carnage
- May 29
- May 27
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- A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
- Måneskin shut down the 'Rock is dead' debate: “Nobody is ‘keeping rock ’n’ roll alive’. It’s impossible to kill"
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases the theatrical and uplifting ballad Storm
- Billy Howerdel releases video for brand new single Selfish Hearts
- How To Watch Danny Boyle’s six-part Sex Pistols drama Pistol
- Acolyte release unplugged video for Resilience
- Bullet For My Valentine's new single Stitches is a brutal sucker punch to the face
- Metalheads are circle-pitting in swimming pools at Bring Me The Horizon's festival in Malta
- It's over! Kiss reach the end of the road: the full story - only in the new Classic Rock
- Tim Bowness to reschedule London live dates to August
- Bill Bruford stars on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, on sale now!
- Gene Simmons says Donald Trump allowed racism and conspiracy theories to get "out in the open"
- Starbenders acclaim the dignity of pain on euphoric new single If You Need It
- Musicians take to social media to pay tribute to Yes drummer Alan White
- May 26
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- Slipknot announce curated UK festival 'Pulse Of The Maggots'
- Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dead at 60
- Talk Talk debut album to get 40th anniversary vinyl reissue
- Yes drummer Alan White dead at 72
- There's a Winnie-The-Pooh horror movie coming and God help us all
- Listen to beabadoobee's sweet, tender new single Lovesong
- My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero: "I didn't know if I would ever be able to play guitar again'
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge: “ABBA deserve a Nobel Prize!”
- The evil that pens do: Join Eddie’s art club with Iron Maiden's new colouring book
- Extreme guitarist books Stone Temple Pilots and Bush to play inside a volcano
- Von Hertzen Brothers announced for Steelhouse Festival
- Watch Creedence Clearwater Revival's electrifying new video for Travelin' Band
- Led Zeppelin fans are losing their minds over this new footage of a legendary 1970 gig
- Winter and Summer's End confirm 2023 dates
- The new issue of Metal Hammer celebrates 30 years of Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark
- Watch 1000 musicians unite for emotional tribute to Taylor Hawkins
- May 25
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- Breasts, puppies, cunning disguises and Lederhosen: Rammstein's bonkers video for Dicke Titten is here
- Skid Row share fan-recorded video for new single The Gang's All Here
- Watch Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet shred the National Anthem at San Francisco Giants baseball game
- Listen to The Interrupters' joyous, uplifting new single Anything Was Better
- Metallica team up with Walmart for range of coloured vinyl releases
- Watch this very relatable cat lose its sh*t to Metallica's Enter Sandman
- Datadyr stream brand new single Daybreaking
- "It's insanity at this point": the metal world reacts to Texas school shooting
- Watch Alanis Morissette join Olivia Rodrigo onstage to duet on You Oughta Know
- Crawlers tackle harsh realities with scuzzy new single F**k Me (I Didn’t Know How To Say)
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong on the Sex Pistols: "They proved that punk rock was not meant for the masses"
- New Tim Bowness album release put back to August
- Bullet For My Valentine announce 2023 UK tour with Jinjer and Atreyu
- Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda: "I’m tired of hearing musicians be told they’re not investing enough in social media"
- Scardust premiere epic new video for Concrete Cages
- At last! Poison's Bret Michaels has released his patented bandana folding tutorial
- May 24
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- Aerosmith's Steven Tyler checks into rehab after drug relapse
- Machine Gun Kelly recruits Sophie Lloyd as new live guitarist
- Irish alt.rockers Just Mustard share dark, ominous new single Seed
- Watch Momma's Green Day and beabadoobee-inspired video for Lucky
- New study finds that only 13 per cent of UK festival headliners are women
- Hiroe premiere video for the brooding The Approach
- Ukrainian prog metal quintet Majesty Of Revival release trailer for new album
- Watch a Limp Bizkit fan cover Rage Against The Machine and sit in Fred Durst's Dad Vibes throne
- Merle Haggard vs Survivor could be country music's feel bad hit of the summer
- My Chemical Romance share on-stage tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale
- System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian is working on “heavy” new solo project
- Yes to play pre-tour club warm-up show
- Jimi Hendrix's penis cast to be displayed in Iceland's penis museum
- Ryo Okumoto launches solo album with teaser video
- New Thor: Love And Thunder trailer teases gnarliest MCU villain yet
- Cassyette's Sad Girl Summer is the ultimate f**k you anthem for getting over toxic exes
- Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band announce European stadium tour
- May 23
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- Ukrainian art rockers Ziferblat share powerful video for Zemlya (Earth)
- Rammstein have released a teaser for the Dicke Titten video and it is… very Rammstein
- Former Fatima Mansions/Microdisney frontman Cathal Coughlan dead at 61
- Want to see your Myspace-era emo phase represented on the big screen? Here's your chance
- Watch the breath-taking trailer for David Bowie docufilm, Moonage Daydream
- Måneskin recruit Jimmy Fallon to play bass for Tonight Show performance
- Reload your vinyl with this astonishing new Metallica turntable
- Watch Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris meet former singer Paul Di’Anno backstage at Maiden’s first gig since 2019
- James LaBrie releases making of documentary for Beautiful Shade Of Grey
- Ice Nine Kills are curating their own horror convention
- Anubis announce remixed reissue of 230503 debut
- VLMV premiere brand new single For Empire
- Dead body found in car park following My Chemical Romance Milton Keynes show
- Pink Floyd Greek style, with added John Coltrane!
- Iron Maiden unveil new ‘Samurai Eddie’ at first live show since 2019
- May 22
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- May 20
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- Dio's classic Holy Diver album to get 'super deluxe edition' reissue
- Deftones will play their UK and European tour dates without Stephen Carpenter
- This all-star Follow The Reaper cover captures Alexi Laiho's virtuosic brilliance
- Ghost's Imperatour line-up unmasked
- Evergrey stream anthemic new single Call Out The Dark
- Cynic release rare live video clip of King Of Those Who Know from Mexico in 2010
- Griff shares stripped-down, re-imagined and beautiful take on Queen’s A Kind Of Magic
- Brand new Serj Tankian song to feature on metal AF video game Metal: Hellsinger
- Porcupine Tree drop video for the frenetic Herd Culling
- Alex Henry Foster premieres video for Lou Reed's The Power Of The Heart
- Listen to Def Leppard's anthemic new single Fire It Up
- Coheed And Cambria announce UK and European tour dates for October
- Man arrested after Johnny Cash water tower springs inappropriate leak
- May 19
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- Vangelis Papathanassiou dead at 79
- God Is An Astronaut drop new live video for From Dust To The Beyond
- Korn share atmospheric live video of Worst Is On Its Way from their candle-lit Requiem Mass
- Watch 'Kiss' rock and roll all nite in teaser for Neil Bogart biopic Spinning Gold
- Jon Gomm shares poignant video for Song For A Rainy Day in memory of lost friend
- Softcult's cover of Nirvana's Been A Son is a classy throwback to '90s grunge
- Alexisonfire release the dazzling Sans Soleil from upcoming album Otherness
- Listen to Rina Sawayama's joyous, tongue-in-cheek new single This Hell
- God of Hellfire Arthur Brown announces live dates for May and June
- The Answer announce return after five year break
- Watch Courtney Love hijack a Madonna TV interview and confuse the shit out of everyone
- Alanis Morissette is releasing a meditation album and it all sounds *very* relaxing
- Pearl Jam cancel shows after two members test positive for Covid
- May 18
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- Listen to Florence + The Machine's magical cover of The Stooges’ Search And Destroy
- Watch Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at his most carefree, jamming a punk classic with Mudhoney in 1992
- Les Claypool reflects on Metallica audition: "I didn't fit and they saw that"
- Held By Trees announce first ever live dates for October
- The Sheepdogs launch magnificent live video of new single Scarborough Street Fight
- Celestial Son dial up the electronica in new video for Fakir
- Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell release touching statements on fifth anniversary of Chris Cornell's death
- Coheed And Cambria share new video for Comatose
- MoonJune Records announces first ever music festival
- Matt Cameron and Chad Smith distance themselves from "misleading" Foo Fighters article
- May 17
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- Eagles Of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes tells Bataclan trial: I forgive the terrorists
- New Yungblud album officially coming this September
- Osees announce new album A Foul Form, share new single Funeral Solution
- Ghost announce huge tour with Mastodon and Spiritbox
- Listen to new Journey single Let It Rain
- Genesis, Rush, Wakeman, Oldfield white label discs up for charity auction
- Sun's Signature release video for mesmeric Underwater featuring Steve Hackett
- Taylor Hawkins was struggling with Foo Fighters’ intense touring schedule before his death, friends claim
- Sinead O'Brien announces debut album, shares new single Multitudes
- Listen to Queen Kwong's dazzling, dreamy new single Without You, Whatever
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction join forces to perform classic alt.rock anthem
- Doom punks Witch Fever announce new album Congregation, unleash hell-raising title track
- New Fates Warning biography to be published
- Eric Clapton tests positive for Covid, cancels shows
- Need a payday loan? Perhaps Vince Neil is just the man to trust
- May 16
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- My Chemical Romance return to the UK: the setlist, the skinny, the social media meltdowns
- Rina Sawayama announces new album Hold The Girl, releases trailer
- Watch Blink-182 fumble their way through What's My Age Again? as if they've only just met
- Matt Bellamy says Muse's upcoming album is “a greatest hits album – of new songs”
- Watch first trailer for new Predator movie, Prey
- James LaBrie releases new video for gentle ballad Am I Right
- That time Queen's Brian May got his emo on to play with My Chemical Romance
- Affirm release new album One More Moment
- Sum 41 announce UK/European tour with Simple Plan
- Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell reveals how he pissed off David Bowie not once, but twice
- John Lydon on Sex Pistol's God Save The Queen: "Everyone presumes that I'm against the royal family...I'm actually really, really proud of the Queen"
- Deftones have announced their most intimate UK show in years
- Watch Metallica's James Hetfield get emotional onstage as he admits to fears that he's too old to play well
- May 15
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- May 13
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- Slipknot's Sid Wilson and Kelly Osbourne are expecting a baby
- Sowulo streams new song Stearcost ealra
- The Tangent release video for brand new song The Lady Tied To The Lamp Post
- IANAI stream haunting new single Khaalo
- The Rasmus make it through to Eurovision 2022 grand final
- Brand new Klaus Schulze track Der Hauch des Lebens - Pt#5 streaming now
- James Hetfield once offered The Darkness' Justin Hawkins support during his alcohol issues
- Hello Cleveland! There's a Spinal Tap sequel on the way
- Five Finger Death Punch launch gnarly new single IOU, confirm album details
- The Hu return with This Is Mongol single and spectacular desert video
- The Alarm's Mike Peters diagnosed with severe pneumonia
- Måneskin continue upward momentum on sparkling new single Supermodel
- May 12
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- Listen to brand new My Chemical Romance single The Foundations Of Decay right now
- Franck Carducci and the Fantastic Squad release new tour trailer
- Ed Wynne announces second solo album Tumbling Through The Floativerse
- House Of Marley add to their audio range with new Redemption ANC 2 earbuds
- James Hetfield makes congratulatory call to woman who gave birth at Metallica gig
- Slipknot are becoming playable characters in a popular battle video game
- May 11
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- Trevor Strnad: the metal world pays tribute
- The Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad dead at 41
- Nine Inch Nails, My Chemical Romance, Misfits head up Riot Fest 2022 bill
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins thinks Jon Bon Jovi needs to stop singing, now
- Æon Spoke release brand new video for Emmanuel
- The President of France tried to get Måneskin kicked out of Eurovision
- Smashing Pumpkins announce '90s alt. rock dream tour with Jane's Addiction
- Rock or bust: We’re all in on these Angus, Axl and Lemmy-inspired sculptures
- Collected works of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera on the way
- Children Of Bodom members open up on split with Alexi, issues within the band
- Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Ghost "genius" Tobias Forge: "He's the most interesting person I've ever met"
- Polyphia release new video for Playing God, their first new music for three years
- Good news mini metalheads, you can now learn the alphabet with Babymetal
- Stomu Yamashta's Island Records albums box set on the way
- Nova Twins unleash swaggering, sex-positive new single Puzzles
- Joan Jett on touring with "misogynistic" Mötley Crüe: "If I had to weed out every band you thought was problematic, there wouldn't be very many left"
- Classic Rick Wakeman 1970s live shows unearthed for new box set
- May 10
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- Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows calls on rock to update its settings: "Old bands are bitter about streaming, it's very weird"
- Ghost's Tobias Forge says bands used Covid fears to scrap tours which weren't proving as profitable as they wished
- Wire share video of Stepping Off Too Quick for first time ever
- The Algorithm streams Multithreading - "how Matrix 4 should've sounded!!"
- Pale Waves sparkle with attitude on new single Lies, announce new album Unwanted
- The Utopia Strong release video for optimistic new single Castalia
- David Bowie tribute show to be staged in the UK's largest planetarium
- Starcrawler want you to run haters over with your car on wild new single Roadkill
- Spiritraiser release video for the powerful Invisible Enemy
- Lenco light up the Bluetooth speaker market with their new 200 series
- Brian May recalls "traumatising" experience of working with Freddie Mercury's vocals after he died, reveals his favourite Queen album
- Scorpions and Whitesnake announce tour with David Attenborough-style wildlife video
- May 9
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- Bon Scott's brother speaks out for the first time: "He never worried about tomorrow"
- Travis Barker hails Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish for pushing pop-punk's boundaries
- Nick Cave confirms death of his son, Jethro Lazenby
- There's now a heavy metal version of Heardle to separate true metalheads from poseurs
- This is what Metallica's Enter Sandman would sound like if the drums were replaced with James Hetfield yelling "yeah!"
- Coronation Street stars dedicate BAFTA win to Sylvia and Sophie Lancaster
- Watch Stevie Nicks perform live for the first time in two years at New Orleans Jazz Festival
- Queen’s Platinum Collection to be released on vinyl for very first time
- Måneskin tease summery new single Supermodel in new pool-side post
- Watch Mothica's film noir video for dark, dazzling new single Last Cigarette
- Nick Fletcher releases video teaser for new album The Cloud Of Unknowing
- Watch Yungblud and Willow have a heated lovers' quarrel in Memories video
- Woman gives birth at Metallica show in Brazil
- Further evidence of Dolly Parton's rock credentials has emerged
- Watch Brian May sing in Spanish in poignant video for Otro Lugar
- May 8
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- May 6
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- Matt Heafy shares video for new Ibaraki single Kagutsuchi
- ...Trail Of Dead drop two new videos for Salt In Your Eyes and No Confidence
- Watch Roger Waters surprise a New York audience with an acoustic collaboration on Pink Floyd's Mother
- King's X to release first new album in 14 years
- Mikael Akerfeldt to release Clark soundtrack album in July
- The Fierce & The Dead premiere video for new single Wonderful
- Robert Fripp vinyl and CD reissues on the way
- The Rolling Stones share live cuts from club shows they played as 'The Cockroaches' in 1977
- Slash & Myles Kennedy premiere April Fool video, announce double live album
- May 5
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- Listen to Dolly Parton's stunning cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, proof of her rock 'n' roll soul
- Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge get smacked with a fiddle in new Netflix show Clark
- Billy Howerdel releases video for Poison Flowers
- Charlie Griffiths lampoons kids TV in hilarious new video for Tiktaalika
- Mantra Vega reunite for charity record to aid people of Ukraine
- Watch Pearl Jam pay tribute to Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins on night one of their US tour
- Dim Gray release new lyric video for Mare
- Watch an actual death metal band soundtrack the Pittsburgh Marathon as it happened
- Black Sabbath-themed collection of hockey clothing launched
- May 4
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- Rammstein targeted by Russian troll factories with pro-war disinformation
- The Parallax Method guitarist Danny Beardsley releases video for Pulling Me Under
- Survivor + Jimi Hendrix + The Whispers = The funkiest version of Eye Of The Tiger you'll ever hear
- You can join the Iron Maiden-approved, million-pound heavy metal charity
- AVAWAVES stream emotive new single The Wave
- At last – Judas Priest will finally make it into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- VOLA stream new acoustic version of Napalm (Re-Witnessed)
- The Afghan Whigs share new single The Getaway, announce new album and UK tour
- VLMV return with haunting Steady Thyself, their first new music for four years
- 'We're not into music, we're into chaos': watch the new trailer for Sex Pistols TV drama Pistol
- M Shadows: “When you see great artists, a lot of them aren't in the metal scene”
- Nova Twins, Wargasm, Bob Vylan amongst new Glastonbury additions
- Career-spanning Jon Hiseman anthology to be published in June
- Watch a man play every single Iron Maiden album track on the drums in epic Medley Of The Beast video
- Joan Jett on Ted Nugent: "He s**t his pants so he didn't have to go to the army"
- May 3
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- Marshall crank up the volume - add two new portable speakers to their range
- Former Kraftwerk man Karl Bartos to publish memoir
- John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies share new song I'll Find You
- Ghost Of The Machine release video teaser for debut album
- A musical based on rock film Almost Famous is being adapted for Broadway
- Watch Rob Halford and Alice Cooper join forces to jam The Doors' Roadhouse Blues at CoopStock 2
- Tim Bowness drops new video for Dark Nevada Dreams
- The Mighty Ra release video for Nothing Comes Too Easy
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