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- October 31
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- Robert Trujillo says Metallica haven't given up on slow songs: "At some point there will be a ballad"
- "They presented the idea to me, that it would be Skate Jam": Tony Hawk once almost starred in a skateboarding sequel to Space Jam
- Pentangle's Jacqui McShee and Robert Plant to appear at Bert Jansch 80 celebration concert
- Nikki Sixx once claimed that Mötley Crüe were in secret negotiations with the US State Department to travel to Baghdad during the Iraq War to perform a Rolling Stones song
- Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings from The Guess Who are suing the band currently touring as The Guess Who for $20 million
- Mick Mars releases video for surprisingly heavy debut solo single Loyal To The Lie
- October 30
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- Creed announce their first tour in over a decade, taking in 40 cities next summer
- A death metal band got their fans to play fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering in the moshpit
- Show No Mercy with DC Shoes’ killer range of Slayer merch
- "It touched my heart so much and made me feel so much emotion." Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea reveals the album that he thinks defined 70s LA punk rock - and what it taught him about less sometimes being more
- Green Day are playing a tiny surprise show in Paris this weekend - and it looks like more European shows could follow
- Watch history in the making: In 1998, the original lineup of Black Sabbath appeared on TV together for the first time in more than 20 years
- "I just played f***ing bass with the Stones – and I’m a f***ing Beatle:" it turns out Paul McCartney got quite excited playing on the new Rolling Stones album
- There’s a Facebook page recreating classic metal album art in MS Paint and it’s our new favourite thing
- October 29
- October 27
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- Former WASP / LA Guns drummer Steve Riley dead at 67
- Australia guitarist Plini announces new EP, Mirage, for December release
- Iron Maiden announce huge North America tour for 2024
- VOLA, Plini, Dirty Loops and The Omnific all announced For Radar Festval 2024
- “We knew we were good, and you could feel it when we got onstage." Dave Lombardo remembers Slayer's first ever show - and the craziest thing he's ever seen at a gig
- The Darkness have a released a trailer for their upcoming documentary and we might just have a classic on our hands
- October 26
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- Watch as Rush legend Geddy Lee goes native with bassists from Metallica, Primus, Nirvana and Hole in new TV show Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?
- Oliver Wakeman to debut music from Yes' From A Page at Winter's End Festival 2024
- Watch guitar maestro Sophie Lloyd's super-spooky cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman
- Members of Suicide Silence, Abiotic and Job For A Cowboy did a deathcore cover of Africa by Toto and it’s proving divisive
- Pink Floyd announce Special Edition release of Atom Heart Mother
- "I and the rest of the guys in the band had to give him the space that he needed." Lars Ulrich explains how Metallica worked through James Hetfield's stint in rehab
- A new Beatles song titled Now And Then is being released next week as their "final" single: "There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear. It’s quite emotional."
- October 25
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- Earlier this year Billy Idol played a spectacular show at the Hoover Dam: now it's heading to the cinema
- “I am overwhelmed with joy to be returning home and reuniting with my brothers!" Dream Theater announce the return of Mike Portnoy to the band after 13 years
- Jethro Tull share suitably lupine new video for Wolf Unchained
- Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Steve Albini recall Nirvana's prank telephone calls to Eddie Vedder and Gene Simmons during the making of In Utero
- "We’re never gonna see Taylor Swift money": Corey Taylor discusses Slipknot's finances, and says the band "don’t make a lot of money"
- "It’s almost like you’re on borrowed time now." Lars Ulrich on taking Metallica into their fifth decade, and how The Rolling Stones are going where no rock 'n' roll band have ever gone before
- "It’s that time of year where Zacky, Johnny and Brooks transform into fiends": listen to Avenged Sevenfold cover Misfits classic Astro Zombies for Halloween (and show Zacky Vengeance is a hell of a singer)
- We've tried counting the number of vinyl variants of the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds and there's at least 43 of them
- October 24
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- "Someone bid a huge amount of money for him to sing this song": Robert Plant's recent performance of Stairway To Heaven was reportedly prompted by a six-figure charity donation
- Heart announce first show in more than four years
- Roadburn Festival 2024 announces its first acts
- Chelsea Wolfe announces brand new album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
- Brutal 90s death metal band Mortician have been blowing up on TikTok
- “A cop knocked at the door and said, ‘You’ve got to stop!’” Ozzy Osbourne once put a chicken full of antifreeze on his neighbour’s fence and the police thought it was a satanic effigy
- Green Day release gruesome video for new single The American Dream Is Killing Me, featuring the band as scary zombie punks, and confirm details for new album Saviors
- "I miss his laconic humour. His taste in music. His elegance. His don’t-care attitude": Mick Jagger is still mourning the loss of his friend Charlie Watts, and Keith Richards says he misses the drummer "every day"
- "Don't get me started on Rick Wakeman!" Rick Astley's never gonna give prog up!
- Watch Dave Grohl join The Breeders onstage in Texas to cover Pixies classic Gigantic
- Fruupp reveal details of new band CD/vinyl stand
- At last! A man on the internet has answered the question, "What would it sound like if AC/DC had written Another One Bites The Dust by Queen?"
- October 23
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- Duran Duran have covered the Talking Heads' classic Psycho Killer with Måneskin bassist Victoria De Angelis and it's not nearly as bad it could have been
- At the height of Fleetwood Mac's cocaine-taking madness, Mick Fleetwood would take advice from an imaginary friend, Fred
- Blink-182 announce summer 2024 stadium dates in the US and Canada
- Watch Green Day debut new loser anthem Look Ma, No Brains at When We Were Young festival
- Foo Fighters to headline Hellfest 2024, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Offspring, Megadeth, Royal Blood and more also confirmed
- "I'm actually getting misty eyed as we're talking about it." Metallica's Lars Ulrich gets emotional as he discusses AC/DC's comeback show at Power Trip Festival
- “He reached out to me regarding something completely different." Tobias Forge reveals how Ghost ended up duetting with Insidious and Aquaman star Patrick Wilson for that Shakespears Sister cover
- “We were hiding in the shower and it was really eerie.” Metallica’s Robert Trujillo once hid from a Manson Family shootout
- “I’m 85 to 90 percent back to strength.” Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain gives health update following stroke
- Watch Steppenwolf perform a banging version of Born To Be Wild on The Midnight Special
- October 22
- October 21
- October 20
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- Post Malone's haunting cover of Alice In Chains classic Them Bones is further proof that he'd have made a great rock star if he weren't already a hip-hop icon
- “There were days he couldn’t come in. But when he got in front of the microphone, he sang his balls off": Tony Visconti on the making of David Bowie's final album Blackstar
- “If you want to put a band together, I’ve worked with all the greats”: Ozzy Osbourne once tried to recruit a backing band for Rick Astley
- The Pineapple Thief announce European tour dates
- "We have some very big songs!" Elbow announce new album and tour dates for 2024
- "This is the first club gig we’ve played in a long time in New York." Watch The Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga perform new single Sweet Sounds Of Heaven at a star-studded surprise set in NYC last night, celebrating their new album, Hackney Diamonds.
- Green Day just played a surprise, intimate show in Las Vegas featuring Dookie in full, rarities and a brand new song (videos inside)
- Dave Lombardo explains why Slayer were the best thrash metal band: "Our mantra was to blow everyone away"
- Order your limited edition Creeper bundle – featuring a signed art print and a temporary tattoo sheet
- Keith Emerson's on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- October 19
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- U2 schedule another 11 shows at revolutionary Las Vegas Sphere
- Wishbone Ash announce limited edition signed fine art Argus print
- Tim Bowness and Butterfly Mind announce 2024 live dates
- Italian football fans have created a mind-boggling tribute to Pink Floyd
- Neal Morse confirms UK Morsefest for Brentwood's Trinity Church
- "Burn, Indio, burn!" Watch fiery, pro-shot footage of Metallica smashing out Fuel in style at Power Trip Festival
- October 18
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- Steve Howe to release second Motif collection in November
- "Damnation is a special record!" Opeth celebrate album's 20th anniversary with vinyl reissue
- Peter Gabriel announces December 1 release for new studio album i/o
- "He's an ***hole!" Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne disagree on Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx (and whether that infamous Ozzy story about the ants ever actually happened)
- Nine Skies announce Charlie Bramald as vocalist for UK live dates
- Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators announce 2024 touring schedule
- October 17
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- "Getting addicted to drugs and alcohol was never my intention... I was lucky to survive": Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on the brutal realities of rock 'n' roll excess
- Blank Manuskript announce English tour dates for November
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford on the persecution experienced by the LGBTQ community: "You can't get rid of bigots; you can't get rid of that kind of mentality...but don't give them a bigger voice."
- Spock's Beard and Pain Of Salvation to headline Midwinter Prog Festival in 2024
- “I was furious...those kids were really, really upset”: Tobias Forge's reaction to a venue banning face paint at a recent Ghost show
- Watch a fully healed Zack De La Rocha and a hilariously dramatic Jack Black make two very different - but equally great - surprise appearances with Run The Jewels at the hip hop duo's tenth anniversary shows
- Johnny Marr reveals why giving Oasis' Noel Gallagher a guitar 30 years ago inspired him to quit drinking alcohol
- “Like an old dog or an old horse, gotta put it down.” Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has stopped flying commercial jets
- “I am not singing about dolphins!” WWE legend Triple H had to talk Motorhead’s Lemmy into covering David Bowie and the Rolling Stones
- “Thanks for the love, y’all!” Papa Roach’s Last Resort has hit one billion Spotify streams, confirming it as one of the biggest metal songs of all time
- October 16
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- Half of Bandcamp’s staff have been laid off
- Rob Halford has revealed who he thinks is the first ‘definitive’ heavy metal band. And it’s Judas Priest
- Watch Devin Townsend's relaunched new Podcast here
- Rick Wakeman announces charity Saving Strays At Christmas concert
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce summer 2024 UK and Ireland tour dates with Weezer
- New prog supergroup Cyan return with second album
- “The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you”: Liam Gallagher announces massive UK and Ireland tour to celebrate 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe
- "There was a pub called the Aston Arms, and some Saturday nights there would get pretty hairy outside in the parking lot." Bernie Taupin discusses the (not total) inspiration behind Elton John classic Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
- David Lee Roth launches exuberant, previously unreleased track Manda Bala
- Nirvana launch "quasi-psychedelic visualiser" for In Utero classic Dumb
- October 14
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- Jean-Michel Jarre releases Zeitgeist Take 2 with French artist NSDOS
- “Nobody is perfect. But people really don’t understand what I’m doing”: Yngwie Malmsteen on why he’s the guitarist people love to hate
- “The studio was next door to the Chinese Embassy. We received their Morse code signals through our amps!”: how Status Quo accidentally picked up secret messages from China in the 1970s
- October 13
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- "I don't think any of us particularly liked it. It was an interference in the workplace": Paul McCartney discusses Yoko Ono's "disturbing" presence during The Beatles' recording sessions
- Colin Edwin announces new album with Robert Jürjendal
- Ghost return to the cover of Metal Hammer – and there are two covers to collect!
- Keith Emerson celebrated in new Lucky Man video
- 50 years of Status Quo's classic Hello!, in their own words: only in the action-packed new issue of Classic Rock
- Judas Priest launch epic new single Panic Attack
- October 12
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- "It worked, and it was good, and that was it:" Robert Plant looks back on Led Zeppelin's legendary 2007 reunion show
- "Like a red snake in the water... Listen to the silence over the fear": Listen to French football legend Eric Cantona's Nick Cave/Leonard Cohen-inspired debut single The Friends We Lost
- Kiss are being sued for negligence and wrongful death by the family of Paul Stanley's guitar tech, who died from Covid during their End Of The Road tour
- "A shocking portrayal of the different accounts of what went on." A Channel 4 documentary series exploring the Marilyn Manson abuse allegations is in the works
- No-Man's OLI label years explored in new five-disc set
- Damian Wilson and Adam Wakeman announce album number three
- Daniel Cardoso and Kristoffer Rygg's Head Control System album to be reissued
- October 11
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- "I’m not Nostradamus": Keith Richards on the future of The Rolling Stones
- "Lemmy showed me the importance of being aggressive. He didn't take any bulls**t, and I loved that": Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan on what Lemmy from Motorhead taught him
- “Every Breath You Take was going in the trash until I played on it": Andy Summers suggests "watch the press" for future developments in a long-simmering dispute about the songwriting credits on The Police's Every Breath You Take
- "I feel as though I'd given Stanley Kubrick a live grenade and he heroically threw his body on it": Watch Stephen King give his honest opinion on Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation of The Shining in this 1980 TV interview
- "When I walk I'm almost in constant pain": Slipknot's Corey Taylor on the possibility of his near-future retirement
- These Prime Day record player deals are an absolute steal – but they won’t stick around for long
- Black Sabbath to release vinyl box set, Hand of Doom, featuring their first eight albums on picture discs for the first time
- These are the 9 bargains I’m considering in Amazon’s October Prime event
- "It’s a concert with something else combined." Ghost are making a movie - and they've already shot some scenes
- "Brilliant... so out there that it's wonderful": Sharon Osbourne delivers her verdict on Black Sabbath – The Ballet
- "It's the worst business decision that was ever made in the history of Jethro Tull": Martin Barre speaks out about his break with Ian Anderson
- October 10
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- Tool announce 20-date US tour
- "We pull out sandwiches and sodas, and we start having a picnic on their stage": Mike Shinoda on the time Linkin Park pranked Metallica mid-show
- I'm a graphic novel addict and these are the 5 best you can buy on Prime Big Deal Days
- With 20% off my go-to earplugs for gigs, Amazon just made it way cheaper to protect your hearing
- I’m all in on Etsy’s feel-good $10/£10 off everything sale - here’s 6 items I love
- Bryan Adams announces special London residency, plus UK tour dates
- “I thought it was a heart attack.” Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner remembers 2021 emergency heart surgery
- "I think you will be really, really excited." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson reveals that he's been working on upcoming solo album The Mandrake Project for almost a decade
- "Somehow, in our thirties, we’ve still maintained the ability to tap into the 11, 12, and 13-year-olds that we each were when we met": Paramore's Hayley Williams on her band's 'inner teenager'
- Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days get under way with up to 67% off their Echo Buds
- October 9
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- System Of A Down, Slipknot, Alice In Chains, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Lamb Of God and dozens more announced for absolutely stacked Sick New World 2024 lineup
- Watch a trailer for Pink Floyd's new Eclipse documentary
- Footage and images of Metallica rocking out to Judas Priest at Power Trip festival are going viral, and honestly, judging by how much fun they're having, we're not surprised
- “Staying felt like a death sentence”: Evan Rachel Wood opens up on Marilyn Manson abuse allegations in new interview
- October 8
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- Blues legend Junior Wells has just released an official newly recorded single despite dying in 1998
- “My agent called and said, ‘Are you free on Wednesday? We’d like you to shoot the Queen’”: how Bryan Adams ended up photographing the Queen of England
- "How cool is this? Lovely to see you!": AC/DC have completed their first show in seven years at the Power Trip festival
- Judas Priest to release 19th studio album Invincible Shield in March 2024
- AC/DC honoured with limited edition 'True Music Icons' Scotch whisky
- October 6
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- Blackberry Smoke release rollicking new single Little Bit Crazy, announce UK and European tour dates
- Avenged Sevenfold team up with Pussy Riot for new single, are raising money towards helping LGBTQ+ people under attack in Russia
- Jethro Tull's long-delayed War Child II to be released in November
- Steve Hackett's To Watch The Storms and Wild Orchids get debut vinyl releases
- Manic Street Preachers and Suede announce co-headline tour of British and Irish castles, colleges and parks
- “If you're going to be a rock star, go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage, they want to see a being from another planet": Lemmy's life celebrated in new photo book
- October 5
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- Queen + Adam Lambert release official photos from hit-stuffed first night of Rhapsody Across America tour
- Fancy having a "ritualised feast" with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman? Bookings for his bespoke Supper Club are now open
- Metallica’s US coloured vinyl collection to get international release from November
- Camel's 32-disc Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 out in November
- Remastered Super Deluxe Edition of The Yes Album due in November
- "How 'boss' is your website?" Revisiting the bizarre 90s commercial starring Metallica and, erm, John Cleese
- Rob Zombie, Misfits, Motorhead and Oingo Boingo...this is what Ozzy Osbourne thinks you should be listening to this Halloween
- Just four months before the live album that made him a superstar was released, Peter Frampton gave television viewers a hint of what was to come
- October 4
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- John Mitchell announces An Evening With European dates
- Watch Foo Fighters perform a not-entirely-serious cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven at Eddie Vedder's Ohana Music Festival
- Rainburn announce new studio album Vignettes
- Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden launch new Veeps service All Access
- Jack Black and a bunch of kids performing Ozzy Osbourne's Mr Crowley for Tom Morello's mum's 100th birthday is the cutest thing on the internet today
- Huge if true: It looks like an interactive Ozzy Osbourne museum and cafe is going to open in Birmingham
- October 3
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- Nixon pay tribute to Tupac with limited edition watch collection
- "Mentally we could do this for another 20 years": Lars Ulrich looks ahead to the "awe-inspiring" Power Trip festival, and Metallica's future
- King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard to headline Wide Awake 2024
- Dave Kerzner teases new solo abum with six track EP release
- “We’d got him doing what we’d usually get a stunt man to do!" Superglue, a rigged car and racist skinheads: how Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington became the star of one of Saw's most brutal scenes
- If These Trees Could Talk to headline Portals Festival in first ever UK appearance
- Jo Quail and Jon Gomm announce joint UK tour for December and January
- "Found her!!! THANK GOD!!!" Disturbed's David Draiman has been reunited with his missing puppy Charlotte
- "Meat Loaf was really pissed off with Jim Steinman giving me Total Eclipse Of The Heart. He said, That song was meant for me!": Bonnie Tyler on the world's favourite 'vampire love song'
- October 2
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- "I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can't. Without her, what is it?": Stevie Nicks on Christine McVie and why Fleetwood Mac will never tour again
- Foo Fighters announce Everything Or Nothing At All stadium tour for 2024
- "This guitarist is impossible to record": Jimmy Page shares memories of his studio session with Eric Clapton and John McVie, pre-Led Zeppelin, Cream and Fleetwood Mac
- You can now listen to an official demo version of Evanescence's breakthrough hit Bring Me To Life without the infamous nu metal rap that the band were later forced to add in
- Saw, the horror franchise dedicated to grisly and gruesome deaths, is actually responsible for saving the lives of over 360,000 people, thanks to its amazing Red Cross campaigns
- “I’d hear Blur or Pulp on the radio and think, F**k these idiots… We were ready to wipe everybody out": Noel Gallagher on why Oasis were the best band of his generation
- "We Will Rock You can be good for your health. I’m happy about that. But not at all happy that scientists tortured mice to find that out": Brian May hits out at researchers who've discovered that a Queen classic contains unexpected medical benefits
- Watch Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder cover U2 and The Cure at his own festival
- Order your exclusive Babymetal bundle featuring an alternate cover and sticker sheet
- Watch former WWE superstar Adam Copeland (AKA Edge) make his shocking debut in All Elite Wrestling, with his classic Alter Bridge Metalingus theme song very much included
- Disturbed frontman David Draiman pleads for safe return of his family's puppy after it was "taken" from his front yard: "We are absolutely devastated"
- "I was very overwhelmed. Will she be like me? Will she have my spirit? Will she have my heart?": Mattel are hooking up with Stevie Nicks to create a Barbie doll in her likeness
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