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- August 31
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- Mastodon's Brann Dailor ran up $800 phone bill texting movie quotes to Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison
- Watch Billy Idol join members of Green Day and Blink-182 in star-studded performance at Ramones 50th anniversary celebration
- Toyah and Robert Fripp make triumphant return to Sunday Lunch action
- Watch Sebastian Bach sing We're Not Gonna Take It at debut show with Twisted Sister
- "I don't have any regrets." Original Slipknot singer is fine not to be the voice that made the band huge
- August 30
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- Bruce Dickinson mocks Donald Trump's 'Lake America' stunt on opening night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives Tour in Toronto
- Five Finger Death Punch’s Zoltan Bathory opens up about his volatile relationship with Ivan Moody: “Sometimes I want to kill him. Sometimes I’m making plans, thinking about what supplies I need, where I hide the body”
- "She's all that and a bag of chips." Onstage pranks prove Anika Nilles is unfazed by life as Rush drummer
- August 29
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- "Looking forward to tearing it up with The Who again." Zak Starkey and Roger Daltrey confirm drummer's return
- Fear Factory have just released their first new song in five years – and there’s a secret Terminator connection: “We've always sung about the relationship between man and machine, and now it's caught up to reality”
- August 28
- August 27
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- How to watch Fontaines D.C. headline this weekend's Reading Festival
- "She said she could become a rock star - and I watched her do it." Stevie Nicks pays tribute to Dolly Parton, and recalls "best week ever" recording with her in Nashville
- Metal For Nepal launch emergency fundraising appeal following devastating flash flood which left 332 dead, with more than 900 people still missing
- "I think it surprised a lot of people!" Tears For Fears announce Deluxe Reissue of 1989's The Seeds Of Love
- “He and Eddie Van Halen were the only two I really stayed in touch with”: Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi on collaborating with Queen guitarist and “best friend” Brian May for new solo album From The Dark
- Watch Stevie Nicks sing fan favourite Stand Back on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Miss Chile delivers crushing death metal vocal during Miss World pageant. "Getting to bring metal to the Miss World stage was an incredible experience"
- August 26
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- Want to make music like Sleep Token? Bassist III and guitarist IV show off new signature instruments with vocal-free version of Vore
- “We could bring Pink to the dark side”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals her dream non-rock collaborators
- 17-disc Soft Machine box set, Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974, due in October
- "Thank you, Dolly, for a lifetime of giving back and making the world a little brighter." Watch Jack White pay tribute to Dolly Parton onstage in London by covering Jolene
- "You're going to see an oversized bat eat the head off of a human." Take a look inside Universal Studios' Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness haunted house
- August 25
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- Soundgarden announce return to the stage with The Pretty Reckless's Taylor Momsen and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready
- Nightwish have six songs written for their next album: “Every time I sit in front of my keyboard, I’m like, ‘Ah yeah, this is great!’”
- "Every song sounds like it's from a different world." Queens Of The Stone Age announce details of ninth album Perfecth, share new single Insignificant Other
- Dolly Parton dead at 80
- Marshall expand their Jimi Hendrix anniversary range with Purple Haze-infused hardware line-up
- Get the Airbourne x Classic Rock bundle – includes vinyl LP and handwritten and signed lyric card
- “This is going to be one hell of a bill”: Trivium and In Flames announce huge co-headline tour, Paleface Swiss and Vola supporting
- Crowdfunding campaign set up to support Television guitarist Richard Lloyd as he battles cancer
- Mike Portnoy has filed his review of Rush's Fifty Something tour. "Was able to spend some time with the Queen before the show!"
- August 24
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- Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen admits that super-producer 'Mutt' Lange was "about 99%" responsible for the phenomenal success that the English hard rock band enjoyed in the 1980s
- "I needed hope and he gave me it." The vital advice Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson gave Megadeth's Dave Mustaine during his cancer battle
- Bret Michaels cancels all upcoming shows on doctor's orders. "I may have just chosen to go sooner than I should have"
- August 23
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- Carmine Appice names the forgotten rock drummer who “started everything”: “The playing, the showmanship, the twirling – he was a monster player and never got credit”
- Ministry pull no punches in anti-Trump video for We Hate. "We just felt it necessary to give 'Trumplethinskin' a dose of his own medicine"
- "It's with a heavy heart that I'm announcing my retirement from drumming." Former AC/DC man Chris Slade calls time on career at 79
- Watch a young Black Sabbath confuse the hell out of stoned European hippies one week before Paranoid became a hit single
- August 22
- August 21
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- MTV have scrapped the ‘Best Rock’ category at their Video Music Awards after 37 years
- Get an exclusive Ghost puff print t-shirt and Metal Hammer cover variant with this limited edition bundle to celebrate their new concert film 2 Big To Rig
- "I would hope that whoever told you that you are ugly is not anyone you would call a friend." Evanescence's Amy Lee shares some beautiful advice with a fan - and explains why "being an Instagram star" is not the important part of making art
- Nickelback release epic power ballad Leave Me Behind. "There's a lot of weight in this song, but there's also a lot of hope"
- Fundraiser set up to support guitar great Chris Spedding as he battles lymphoma
- August 20
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- Ghost share performance of Umbra from forthcoming Skeletour concert film 2 Big To Rig
- Enslaved share transcendent new single, Solar Will, as they announce new album, Mið
- "I did a donor transplant. Unfortunately, it didn't stick. So the cancer has returned." Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell's cancer has returned, but he's refusing to live in fear
- “I ground myself to the bone for this record." Motionless In White celebrate 20 years with their first ever Metal Hammer cover
- August 19
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- "I didn’t kill anybody, I didn't bully anybody. I just made some stupid mistakes - and I am not a Nazi." Alex Terrible addresses the controversies surrounding Slaughter To Prevail
- Demon Hunter vs KPop Demon Hunters: Christian metal band sue Netflix alleging copyright infringement over hit animated movie
- Queen to show Budapest concert film as "one-day-only, live-gig-style experience. "It's going to be definitively the most real experience ever of us, Queen, in our glory days"
- August 18
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- ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dead at 77
- “We feel that we have been seriously misled and let down”: GoFundMe launched for Indonesian metal bands stranded in Ireland after being allegedly abandoned by promoter
- Lonely Robot issue call to arms with new single Show The Way
- Megadeth have at least two songs left over from their final album – but Dave Mustaine isn’t sure he’ll release them: “If I could play old songs, why wouldn’t I want to focus on new songs instead?”
- Ozzfest confirms return to Birmingham’s Villa Park next year
- Fontaines D.C. announce "mind-altering" fifth album Dopamine Chamber. "This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning"
- August 17
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- “I was just lying on a stretcher with intravenous liquid going in”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge remembers the severe food poisoning that forced him to cancel Mexico gig last year
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce new album title via bloody game of five-finger fillet. "Does it hurt? Of course it hurts!"
- "I was there to heal any wounds." Ritchie Blackmore reflects on "emotional" onstage reunion with Deep Purple
- August 16
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- August 14
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- Slipknot confirm Sid Wilson is no longer in the band in since-deleted social media posts
- EMF keyboardist Derran 'Derry' Brownson dead at 55
- "I’m not supposed to talk about it. But it’s in the can." Weezer will release their own movie starring Keanu Reeves next year
- Get your grunge on this weekend with 25% off Nixon’s eye-popping Nirvana watches - but be quick
- "He said, You’re gonna be attacked from every side." Motorhead legend Lemmy offered brilliant career advice to one of rock's hottest new bands when they were starting out
- The unlikeliest collab of the year? Hear Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick play guitar on new song by pop superstar Phoebe Bridgers
- Pink Floyd: The inside story of the tour that killed the band - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- August 13
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- "I’d sit behind my dad and watch him play and watch people just go crazy. As a kid, you think that’s the coolest thing in the world. Because it is." Taylor Hawkins' son Shane is giving his late father's classic rock covers band a new lease of life
- Dave Grohl, Slash, Ringo Starr, Gene Simmons & more spill the beans on LA's notorious party pad, the Sunset Marquis - here's how to watch If These Walls Could Rock from anywhere
- Roxy Music share previously unreleased 1971 demo of Grey Lagoons as they announce For Your Pleasure Deluxe Edition
- “Managed to avoid dying, so that was a good start”: Gofundme launched for beloved Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog writer Dom Lawson following heart attack at Bloodstock festival
- Slipknot’s producer explains why he recorded Iowa with a broken back: “It put a very next-level diligence into those guys”
- Watch "The Great Legend, the Immortal" Ritchie Blackmore return to the stage with Deep Purple for the first time in 33 years
- Queen's Roger Taylor releases I See You Now, a love song dedicated to his wife
- August 12
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- Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante to team up on new, original song If The Sun Burns Out Tonight
- “Knowing how close I got to not being here, my appreciation for life is something I can’t even explain.” Blink-182’s Travis Barker bares his soul in his new film – here’s how to watch Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear from anywhere
- Ritchie Blackmore is planning on playing with Deep Purple tonight, an occurrence more rare than today's total solar eclipse
- Thunder frontman Danny Bowes announces Under Pressure spoken word tour – and it's going to be entirely unscripted
- Rival Sons' frontman Jay Buchanan announces solo acoustic tour. "I'll be running lean and mean out to see my country and telling some stories"
- Rod Stewart cancels upcoming tour dates after undergoing heart surgery
- August 11
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- Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival next month
- Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker recalls his suicidal thoughts following the horrific 2008 plane crash in which his security guard and assistant died: "There was no light at the end of the tunnel"
- “He felt like a metal uncle, and it’s so sad that he got taken away at such a young age”: Orbit Culture pay tribute to late At The Gates singer Tomas Lindberg
- Amazon Stir It Up by spinning up to 30% off one of my favourite House Of Marley turntables
- Bulgarian media stir up “Satanic black metal” fears as murder suspects wear heavy metal t-shirts in court
- August 10
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- Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt has written a TV show about three brothers - a rock star, a gangster and a FBI agent - and he wants Johnny Depp to take a starring role
- AC/DC's Highway To Hell made Hollywood superstar Javier Bardem a metalhead for life
- "It's heavy as ****!" Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson gives update on new solo album
- August 9
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- August 6
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- Heart have finished recording their first album in a decade. "It's what we were born to do, and do together"
- "Louder Now represents a huge milestone for me and to know it has made an impact on so many other people’s lives as well is something I still struggle to get my head around": Taking Back Sunday reveal Louder Now deluxe reissue
- August 5
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- "I have no desire to be a survivor. I’d rather accept, absorb, adapt, fight and break that which seeks to break me." Henry Rollins announces "searing" memoir Bait Dog Boy
- Pre-order Classic Rock’s ultimate Europe fan package: magazine with exclusive cover, marble vinyl of new album Come This Madness plus signed lyric sheet
- Hear Ghost’s Tobias Forge sing on a brand-new re-imagining of Accept’s classic heavy metal deep cut Save Us, featuring Anthrax bassist Frank Bello and Korn drummer Ray Luzier
- The Cure's video director Tim Pope reveals how working with disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein on cult gothic horror film The Crow: City of Angels scarred him for life
- Linkin Park announce new documentary Unshatter and tie-in album; watch trailer and live footage of Somewhere I Belong here
- Glenn Hughes announces retirement from live performances: "I really have no option and no choice"
- August 4
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- Eagles extend record-breaking residency at Sphere in Las Vegas yet again
- Watch Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and U2 frontman Bono perform at the funeral of Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard: "Everyone who met him, they just remember the day they met him."
- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Dominum cover, brain stress ball and signed art card
- King Crimson unveil 2014 (The Complete US Tour) double Blu-ray set
- Brighten up your music room with the colourful and eye-catching Majority Stylo and Folio turntables
- System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian says drummer John Dolmayan is tired of Donald Trump despite past support of US president: “I know so many Armenians in Los Angeles who voted for Trump and now regret it”
- "It shows off the rockier side of our collaboration." Hackett & Rothery up the tempo on new single, Red Dragon
- Slipknot’s Sid Wilson reportedly sacked for mistreating bandmates, ex-fiancée Kelly Osbourne tears into the DJ: “I want to be happy and I have a beautiful son to raise. Leave me alone.”
- More than 80 minutes of historic 1970 Led Zeppelin footage emerges online: "This is a monumental addition to the Led Zeppelin canon"
- Foreigner launch thousand-dollar VIP tickets that allow fans to sit onstage during shows
- August 3
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- Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Electric Callboy cover and art print
- Five Finger Death Punch, Helloween, Electric Callboy, Knocked Loose, Dragonforce and many more announced for Wacken Open Air 2027 lineup
- Megadeth announce first UK headlining tour since 2015 plus European dates, Black Label Society and Testament supporting
- August 2
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- Sharon Osbourne gives an update on Ozzfest – and confirms there will be a Back To The Beginning film: “Ozzy’s legacy isn’t fading”
- Phil Collins reveals that he nearly died in 2024: “My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up. People were coming to say goodbye”
- Ross Robinson reveals that Slipknot were talking about splitting up just before they made Iowa: “We’re just not getting along. We’re gonna break up.”
- August 1
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- "Rock and metal is one of the few genres that has kept a certain quality." Lacuna Coil singer says metal bands are maintaining higher standards than most in the face of industry challenges
- “If someone says they don’t like something, that makes me embrace it even more”: Steve Harris defends Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying album – and names the one radical thing he’d change about if
- Jim Root responds to rumours that Sid Wilson has been fired from Slipknot: “Don’t believe everything you read. Stop. Think.”
