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- August 31
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- Bauhaus cancel US reunion tour as frontman Peter Murphy enters rehab
- Fit For An Autopsy have managed to make Lamb Of God's Walk With Me In Hell even heavier
- Enter Sandman's lyrics are apparently the most misheard of any song in the US
- My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero launches new emo supergroup L.S. DUNES with spiky single Permanent Rebellion
- Queensryche's classic sound is all over their dramatic new video for seven-minute Behind The Walls
- Go big or go home! House Of Marley go all in with their new XL Bluetooth speaker
- Quicksand share new song Giving The Past Away
- The Alan Parsons Project remastered vinyl box set on the way
- Don't hold your breath waiting for a Stone Sour reunion any time soon
- Prepare to have your childhood ruined: the first trailer for that Winnie The Pooh horror movie has arrived
- Master Of Puppets played in a major key will make you feel like everything is good in the world again
- David Bowie to be honoured on Camden's Music Walk Of Fame
- Soen share new performance video of Trials
- Terminator 2 star reveals he wanted Nine Inch Nails on film's soundtrack instead of Guns N' Roses
- Relax everyone, we now know what Corey Taylor thinks of the Pantera reunion
- Justin Hayward premieres video for brand new single Living For Love
- August 30
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- Watch Nita Strauss's video for thrilling shred instrumental Summer Storm
- A Cradle Of Filth/Ed Sheeran collaboration is actually, really happening
- Oli Sykes: "If I weren’t in Bring Me The Horizon, I’d have probably thought we were a bunch of wankers"
- Amy/Senna director Asif Kapadi to make documentary series about Camden music scene
- Steeleye Span 1974 live album to be released on coloured vinyl
- Listen to powerful new CLT DRP single Aftermath
- Watch the first trailer for the new Weird Al Yankovic film starring Daniel Radcliffe
- King's X share video for brand new track All God's Children
- Get your hands on Metal Hammer’s limited-edition Parkway Drive bundle with an exclusive cover and patch design
- The Offspring and Enter Shikari to headline Slam Dunk 2023
- GOAT announce new album Oh Death, share funky single Under No Nation
- Prolific Aussies Teramaze release video for brand new single Gold
- Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst is throwing a Halloween party on a boat
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates: “Hallucinogenic drugs have been the foundation of my wellness”
- Surviving Murderdolls members appear to be feuding over the band's estate
- Ozzy Osbourne opens up on traumatic health issues: "At one point I thought, Oh God, please don’t let me wake up tomorrow morning."
- Måneskin fans are pissed off at MTV for 'censoring' VMA performance following bassist's wardrobe malfunction
- Enter Shikari confirmed as Slam Dunk 2023 headliners, share video for Wargasm collaboration The Void Stares Back
- Arctic Monkeys' new single sounds like a James Bond film theme
- Watch Tommy Lee prank an entire stadium by pulling out his 'wiener'
- This AC/DC and Bryan Adams mashup is like being thrust into a weird parallel universe
- August 29
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- Yes to celebrate 50th anniversary of Close To The Edge with US extensive tour
- Jan Rivera announces debut album and shares video for new single Fractional Lineage
- Neurosis co-founder Scott Kelly admits to abusing his wife and children, announces retirement from music
- My Soliloquy unveil video for new single The Great Polarity
- Solstice, Quasar, Landmarq, Karnataka and more set for the Soundle Weekend
- Threshold release video for brand new single King Of Nothing
- The Rolling Stones release 4K version of drugs bust-themed We Love You video
- August 28
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- August 26
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- Ghost release the alternative version of Mary On A Cross that everyone on TikTok can't get enough of
- Avenged Sevenfold unveil new 'virtual hub', release statement on new album
- Pink Floyd could make over $500 million after expected bidding war for their back catalogue
- The Pretty Reckless to release acoustic tracks, covers, alternate takes collection Other Worlds
- Gracchus stream brand new single Facelift
- Monolithe Noir pay tribute to Dead Can Dance with new song for Askre
- Watch footage of Corey Taylor's chaotic first Slipknot show
- Darryl Way and Steve Hogarth join forces on new single Morpheus
- Watch Scene Queen bring 'bimbocore' to the masses in crazy, bloodthirsty collab with Set It Off, Barbie & Ken
- Some dude on the internet has erased Eddie Van Halen's keyboard parts from Jump and it's winning him no friends
- Fred Durst and Phoebe Bridgers have been cast in a new A24 horror movie
- Hawkwind legend Robert Calvert is being given a special commemoration in his original hometown
- Muse's spooky You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween video is a horror movie geek's wet dream
- Jean-Michel Jarre reveals video for "heavy" new single Brutalism
- Devin Townsend launches video for brand new song Moonpeople
- Watch Jimi Hendrix's historic performance of Dolly Dagger in Hawaii
- The roots of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' can be found in a tragic school fire
- August 25
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- The internet might have discovered the most chill Metallica cover ever
- Pantera announce first reunion shows of 2022
- Enslaved share concept video for brand new single Kingdom
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan confesses to stealing song ideas from Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor
- Gerard Way wore a cheerleader outfit onstage in Nashville and My Chemical Romance fans are absolutely loving it
- Maraton share new visualizer video for Boltzmann Brain
- Backlashes, anime and My Chemical Romance: 10 things we learned about the new Machine Head album from Robb Flynn
- Fieldy announces his return… except it’s not with Korn
- A people's history of Fairport Convention to be published
- Sammy Hagar says Eddie Van Halen came to him in a dream and wrote a song with him
- Ozzy Osbourne gave up LSD after talking to a horse for an hour
- August 24
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- Conception to have first four albums reissued
- A Killer Klowns From Outer Space video game is coming: watch the trailer now
- Paul Stanley doesn't want to write new Kiss music: "It's setting myself up for disappointment"
- Robb Flynn’s track by track guide to the new Machine Head album Of Kingdom And Crown
- Celestial Son share new video for "melodic synthwave pop rock" song Lord Of Karma
- Arctic Monkeys announce new album The Car
- Loads of people have started adding Linkin Park's What I've Done to classic movie endings and it's hilarious
- Mdou Moctar streams new version of Chismiten
- Panic! At The Disco share video for peppy new track Sugar Soaker, featuring a cameo from Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz
- Blossom Toes We Are Ever So Clean debut to get vinyl reissue
- Mick Jagger pays tribute to Charlie Watts on the first anniversary of the legendary drummer's death
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine used black magic and sex spells to ease his teenage anxieties
- Dave Brock explains why this year's Hawkfest is the last
- Nickelback are teasing a seriously heavy new song and the internet is loving it
- August 23
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- Watch 2022's hottest metal team-up as Malevolence and Lorna Shore's Will Ramos perform Karma at Bloodstock
- Eric Clapton wasn't happy with Ozzy Osbourne rejecting Jesus Christ on Patient Number 9 collaboration
- 2001 is back: Drowning Pool announce new album and Hoobastank, Lit, Alien Ant Farm and P.O.D. all announce tours
- Steve and Virgil Howe release vibrant new video for the gentle More Than You Know
- Jinjer announce US headline tour
- Sleep have released a new Dopesmoker vinyl containing actual marijuana
- Major Parkinson announce new album Valesa - Chapter 1: Velvet Prison
- Susanna streams eerie new track Come Avalanche
- This pop punk cover of Master Of Puppets has got enraged Metallica fans baying for blood
- Evanescence's Bring Me To Life is number 1 on iTunes 19 years after its release and no one is quite sure why
- The Vans x Stranger Things footwear and fashion range has the retro vibe we've all been waiting for
- Listen to brooding new Parkway Drive single Darker Still
- Tommy Lee just told a stadium full of Motley Crue fans "Tonight I wanna see everyone's dick"
- Slipknot drop the highly unnerving music video for new single Yen
- Former Cradle Of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis dead at 48
- And So I Watch You From Afar, Jambinai, VLMV announced for Portals 2023
- Alter Bridge and Mammoth WVH announce massive US tour
- Watch spectacular footage from Rammstein's first North American Stadium Tour show
- August 22
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- August 19
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- Watch previously unseen footage of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'lost' Royal Albert Hall performance from 1970
- Kurt and Courtney's daughter Francis Bean Cobain posts emotional message on her 30th birthday: "I'm happy to be here"
- Yungblud announces UK arena dates for 2023
- Horslips to perform at this year's Northern Irish Music Prize
- The chaotic, utterly unbelievable story of Black Sabbath's Vol 4: only in the new Classic Rock
- Watch trippy Red Hot Chili Peppers video for new single Tippa My Tongue
- The Hu launch yet another epic video, this time for Black Thunder (Part 2)
- Robert Plant: Led Zeppelin don’t really satisfy my needs any more
- August 18
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- Dio: Dreamers Never Die documentary to screen in cinemas in September/October
- Watch Cassyette smash sh*t up in the goths gone wild video for Sad Girl Summer
- Stranger Things' Joseph Quinn names his guitar heroes, reveals the bands he listened to for Eddie Munson role
- This rare footage of Slipknot's Corey Taylor recording screams for Iowa will make your skin crawl
- Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody on Tommy Lee's nude photo: "Nobody's that well hung"
- Dikajee shares video for brand new single In The Blink Of An Eye
- Blink-182's Mark Hoppus is "open to whatever the next phase of Blink is"
- Big Big Train release first track with new singer Alberto Bravin
- Ozzy Osbourne says Jimmy Page never returned his calls about appearing on his new album
- Listen to Billy Idol's snarling new single Cage
- Watch Dave Grohl, Beck, Tenacious D cover yacht rock classic Summer Breeze
- Roger Chapman five disc 1981-1985 box set on the way
- Black Veil Brides' Andy Biersack calls out fans "spewing mean and hateful sh*t" online: "it breaks my f**king heart"
- “It’s a dark record - it's f**king black!”: Machine Head come out swinging in the new Metal Hammer
- Man injured after falling from upper level of stadium during Motley Crue show
- Watch an exclusive clip from the new Randy Rhoads documentary
- August 17
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- Greg Dulli pays tribute to the late Mark Lanegan: "He was a f**king pussycat and one of the greatest singers to ever sing"
- Julie Driscoll's 1969 to get remastered reissue
- Win tickets to an exclusive Lonely Robot new album premiere
- That brilliant Smokey Robinson versus Armored Saint mash-up you never knew you needed has arrived
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Metallica's Lars Ulrich to join Taylor Hawkins' son Shane at tribute concert for late Foo Fighters drummer
- Caligula's Horse guitarist Sam Vallen announces debut solo single
- South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone playing Team America anthem America, F**k Yeah with a 16-piece band is epic and hilarious
- Machine Gun Kelly zip-lines across stadium, smashes wine glass into his own face and declares "I'm rich, bitch!" at homecoming show
- Watch Korn and Evanescence's Amy Lee play Freak On A Leash together last night on first date of co-headline tour
- An artist has brought every song on Metallica’s Master Of Puppets to vivid, twisted life
- Ashley Hutchings to release his 100th album
- August 16
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- Massive Wagons' new single is a scathing attack on the cost of modern convenience
- Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner hospitalised after heart attack
- Watch the cinematic video for Jesse Jo Stark's love-gone-sour tearjerker Tornado
- A new Saw film is officially happening and releasing on Halloween next year
- Watch Voyager's guitar playthrough for Submarine
- Watch Nita Strauss shred at Demi Lovato's first full live show of 2022
- Watch fired-up Bloodstock Festival punters stage a chaotic wheelie bin jousting tournament
- Witch Fever share creepy new single I Saw You Dancing
- Always wondered how Master Of Puppets would sound had it been written by Slipknot, not Metallica? You're in for a treat
- A.A. Williams shares atmospheric new track Golden
- Tommy Lee’s wife reacts to the NSFW nude photo that broke the internet
- Robb Flynn remembers Machine Head’s first show 30 years on: “the police came”
- Some genius has made a guitar out of Ikea furniture and it's fjälkinge great
- August 15
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- August 12
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- New Years Day are back with a bang(er): watch the video for Hurts Like Hell
- Alice In Chains are releasing just 3000 copies of their 30th anniversary Dirt box set and we'll fight you for one
- Listen to fierce Enter Shikari / Wargasm collaboration The Void Stares Back
- British MPs ask Queen Elizabeth II to honour Black Sabbath for their services to music
- Megadeth and Killswitch Engage to headline Bloodstock 2023
- Machine Head just played a secret set at this year’s Bloodstock festival
- Tommy Lee has put his todger away long enough to appear in new movie The Retaliators
- Alice In Chains have just dropped a deathcore-style T-shirt and we want it
- Megadeth’s killer new song Soldier On! is the soundtrack to the world marching into the mouth of hell
- ZIO return with video for brand new single Close
- August 11
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- Joey Valence and Brae share new single Watch Yo Step to fill that Beastie Boys-shaped hole in your heart
- Rage Against The Machine cancel UK/European tour, including Reading and Leeds festival appearances
- Watch Rush duo Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson play Closer To The Heart with Primus and the creators of South Park
- O.R.k. release teaser video for new album Screamnasium
- Tommy Lee posted a photo of his genitals on social media and now he's trending worldwide
- Peter Jackson wanted hypnotherapy so he could forget The Lord Of The Rings films...so he could watch them again
- Vended's Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan are sick of taking shit for being Slipknot kids: "People can f**k right off"
- Listen to Poly-Math's brand new single Zenith (Vel Cut) here
- Black Honey drop strange, bodybuilder-filled video for defiant new single Charlie Bronson
- Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea says fans asking for photos "ruin" encounters with his band
- David Ellefson reflects on Megadeth dismissal: "You find out who your friends are when the s**t hits the fan"
- Listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's fiery new single Burning
- Malcolm Galloway releases video for epic new song Kites And Darts
- A box set of rare LA glam metal is coming out and we couldn't be more delighted
- August 10
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- Måneskin cancel festival appearances, release first part of tour documentary
- Tedeschi Trucks Band release poignant tribute to late keyboardist Kofi Burbridge
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes sing to Rammstein's Du Hast at his Sheffield club night
- Jay Weinberg on how Slipknot make music: "for sure, there's creative tension"
- HRH Prog XIII reschedules to Sheffield in 2023
- Coheed And Cambria premiere new video for A Disappearing Act
- Watch some super-rare colour footage of Genesis, Hawkwind and David Bowie from the legendary 1970 Atomic Sunrise shows
- Russian Circles unveil their very first ever video. Watch Gnosis here...
- Steve Hackett shares new live video of The Devil's Cathedral
- Listen to new Revocation track Re-Crucified, featuring The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad and Cannibal Corpse's Corpsegrinder
- Sheer Cerebral Power introduce themselves with video for Blow
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals Lemmy’s favourite album by him - and some defiant words the Motörhead legend gave him near the end
- “I got a bit emotional seeing Ozzy and Iommi onstage together again": Queen's Brian May speaks for all of us after seeing Black Sabbath legends reunite
- August 9
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- Crazy Swedes add Pink Floyd and Billy Cobham covers to debut album reissue
- Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame to host Machine Gun Kelly exhibit on 'MGK Day'
- Amy Lee reveals the best song to get someone into Evanescence
- Ross Robinson did not like Slipknot the first time he heard them
- Dawnwalker premiere their brand new video for R.I.P.
- Crippled Black Phoenix lash out at "unempathetic politicians" on new single Bonefire
- Cats inciting violence to System Of A Down's Chop Suey makes for top tier entertainment
- Why are some Stranger Things fans now trying to 'cancel' Metallica?
- Watch this brilliant metalhead accurately sum up every type of metal fan you'll see at a festival
- Fern release video for their very first single Hyperreal
- Watch the trailer for Måneskin's Access All Areas series documenting their wild summer
- Antimatter announce brand new album
- August 8
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- Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi just reunited to play Black Sabbath classics in Birmingham
- Fleet Foxes announce London Islington Assembly Hall headline show
- David Ellefson reveals the two thrash bands he thinks would make up the 'Big Six'
- Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory compares his band to Queen
- Watch Heart's Ann Wilson performing Barracuda at Wacken Open Air 2022
- New US prog duo Migliori Amici & Co release video for Sun
- Venom to reissue In Nomine Satanas as a 6CD/DVD box set
- Willow drops yet another song that will remain in your head for days, Hover Like A Goddess
- Some freak has mashed up Nickelback, with Earth, Wind & Fire, Ozzy, Fleetwood Mac and more, and we're not mad at this tbh
- Listen to Yungblud's rowdy, infectious new single The Emperor
- Lamb Of God's Mark Morton reveals a quick-acting roadie saved him from a major onstage mind-fart last night
- Red Bazar announce new album Inverted Reality
- Machine Gun Kelly responds to his tour bus being vandalised with homophobic slur: "You’re so dumb"
- Roger Waters trends on twitter after calling Joe Biden a war criminal on TV
- Whitesnake cancel US and Canada tour as David Coverdale's health issues persist
- August 7
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- August 5
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- The Mars Volta announce first album in a decade
- Listen to Slipknot's bleak, moody, cinematic new single Yen
- Jacob Holm-Lupo and the Boozer Cruiser release tragic dementia ‘prog poem'
- Teramaze announce fourth new album in two years!
- Ex-Guns N' Roses man exposes the madness of the Chinese Democracy era: "The chaos never died"
- This cover of Master Of Puppets in the style of Rammstein is the stuff of Eddie Munson’s nightmares
- Check out young Halifax post-rockers L.O.E. and their new single 1001
- Robert Fripp takes a bow on the cover on the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- The Rolling Stones release stunning 4K versions of the Jumpin' Jack Flash videos
- August 4
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- New video trailer released for A Sunday In Setpember
- Jeff Berlin to release tribute to the late Cream bassist Jack Bruce
- Johnny Depp, Jeff Beck accused of 'ripping off' lyrics from '60s prisoner's poem
- Watch Ghost's Cardinal Copia hilariously balls up classic movie lines in new video chapter: Ghost Goes Hollywood
- Korn's Jonathan Davis opens up on the chaos of Woodstock '99: "when you see it with your own eyes, it is ten times more shocking"
- HMV mark 100 years with mascot-branded Pro-Ject T1 turntable
- Box set of music from the films of John Hughes will take us right back to the 80s
- Listen to Cassyette's cover of Harry Styles' As It Was
- Bjorn Riis channels Pink Floyd on new video for Dark Shadows
- Watch Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower do Lizzo lyrics in the voice of Vecna
- Suede roll back the clock on new single 15 Again
- Idles channel creepy Slipknot vibes in the unsettling video for Stockholm Syndrome
- Former Samson frontman Nicky Moore dead at 75
- That Metallica/Stranger Things T-shirt we’ve been crying out for is finally here
- Willow announces new album COPINGMECHANISM, talks up new-found love of Queen
- David Ellefson reveals why Megadeth's Killing Is My Business... is so fast - and it involves Metallica
- Tusmørke return with brand new song for younger listeners, Den nye tida
- Vince Neil has made his live debut at the Grand Ole Opry for some reason
- August 3
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- Watch Steve Vai give a young shredder a moment of magic he'll cherish forever
- Soft Machine, Arthur Brown, Curved Air for Hawkwind's final ever Hakwfest
- Six By Six release video for edgy new single China
- The Blackheart Orchestra share striking new video for The Tide
- Queen's Brian May hails Tony Iommi's "monumental" performance at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony: "So proud of my dear friend"
- Spiritbox are releasing a real spirit box as part of their new merch range
- Dave Mustaine says the period around David Ellefson's dismissal from Megadeth was a "little touchy"
- Keith Richards hopes The Rolling Stones will record new music this year
- Lazuli reveal they're working on their "atmospheric" 11th album
- August 2
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- Alter Bridge release video for electrifying new single Silver Tongue
- Watch the unboxing video for Creedence Clearwater Revival's Royal Albert Hall super deluxe set
- Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard laughs off the idea that grunge 'killed' hard rock: "I love hard rock, and I always have"
- Wolfsbane guitarist Jase Edwards has been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer
- Phil Anselmo believes Dimebag and Vinnie Paul "would want the legacy and the name of Pantera to go on and on"
- Metallica are officially the biggest metal band of the past 40 years, based on ticket sales
- Listen to Jordan Rudess covering Giorgio Moroder's Chase from Midnight Express
- Thanks to Stranger Things' Eddie Munson, the internet is thirsting over metalheads like never before...and it's getting weird
- How the hell did we miss Toyah and Robert Fripp covering Slipknot’s Psychosocial in their kitchen?
- Watch the trailer for Big Big Train's Summer Shall Not Fade – Live At Loreley
- Radar Festival announces a new location for July 2023
- Nick Oliveri says it "took time to heal" after firing from Queens Of The Stone Age, reveals last time he saw Josh Homme
- Watch St. Vincent cover Fleetwood Mac's Dreams to inject some sunshine into your day
- This crowd-surfing, power metal-loving security guard is the greatest thing you’ll see today
- James Gang to reunite for final show at veterans event with Dave Grohl
- August 1
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- Music business legend Mo Ostin dead at 95
- Green Day’s epic setlist at their Lollapalooza warm-up gig was one for the ages
- Tom DeLonge is hinting that he has rejoined Blink 182
- This clip of Synyster Gates beatboxing in the studio has us deeply concerned for the new Avenged Sevenfold album
- Chloe Trujillo, wife of Metallica bassist Rob, is releasing a new EP
- This metalhead teaching his baby how to scream is utterly adorable
- House Of Marley reveal their sustainably crafted Get Together 2 speakers
- New app wants you to prove how big a fan you are to gain access to concert tickets and more
- Girih premiere new track The Ring with Prog – stream it here
- Dee Snider slams anti-abortion politician for using Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It at rally
- Listen to a new version of NEU!'s Weissensee from upcoming 50th anniversary box set
- Hayley Williams reveals 'number one' influence behind Paramore's forthcoming album
- This video of Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan proudly watching their sons killing it onstage is wholesome AF
- Watch the stunning video for Ryo Okumoto's Chrysalis
- In Flames release thrashy new single The Great Deceiver, announce huge Euro tour with At The Gates
- Kate Bush fans around the globe celebrate Kate Bush while dressed as Kate Bush
- Meet Robert Fripp and Toyah and their magic disappearing pancakes
