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- September 30
- September 29
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- Slash interview: rejoining Guns N’ Roses; Lemmy’s last days and the #MeToo minefield
- Jimi Hendrix voted Greatest Guitarist Of All Time
- The 50 Best Guitarists Of All Time
- The 10 best Machine Head songs
- What happened when Devin Townsend interviewed Steve Vai?
- What does it take to be a guitar hero?
- Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin dead at 76
- September 28
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- Machine Head split up
- Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven case likely to go to re-trial
- Sex Pistols' Steve Jones: 5 essential guitar albums
- Should I get into buying vinyl again?
- Does vinyl sound better than CD?
- Everything you need to know about buying a turntable
- The 11 best guitar solos of all time, as chosen by Santa Cruz
- Devin Townsend: My Top Five Guitarists
- Watch Monster Magnet put the hammer down in new lyric video
- Summer's End announce stage times for this year's event
- Go out on the road with Tremonti in new lyric video for Trust
- The days of big metal bands are gone and that's a good thing: an open letter to Steve Souza
- Marduk banned from entering Guatemala for being “satanic"
- Led Zeppelin’s 50th anniversary celebrations continue with 3 new digital releases
- The 100 greatest guitar solos in rock
- King Crimson add dates to Uncertain Times UK tour
- Babymetal to release Distortion 12-inch vinyl
- That Joe Payne to release new EP What Is The World Coming To
- The 50 Best Metal Riffs Ever
- Inglorious announce UK headline tour
- The Black Queen – Infinite Games album review
- Listen to Metallica’s The Shortest Straw - recorded in Lars Ulrich’s garage
- Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror album review
- Listen to brand new Coheed And Cambria track Old Flames
- Eagles announce 2019 UK and European tour
- Black Stone Cherry share video for foot-stomping single Carry Me On Down The Road
- September 27
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- Highway To Hell by AC/DC: why you need it
- The Struts' Luke Spiller picks his favourite Queen songs
- Testament's Alex Skolnick: 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Eagles announce career-spanning Legacy box set
- Watch Opeth hook up with Devin Townsend in new Garden Of The Titans trailer
- Paul McCartney to release new children’s book Hey Grandude!
- Voices From The Fuselage premiere new track Nine Levels
- Ace Frehley “hoping” to be part of final Kiss tour
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Do We Still Need CDs?
- Why should you buy over-ear headphones?
- Victorian black metallers A Forest Of Stars stream their new album in full
- What are noise cancelling headphones?
- You Me At Six to open pop-up kebab shop
- Matt Tuck: "I don’t give a f*ck what people want to hear, it’s what I want to write"
- Slipknot call on fans for anniversary video shoot
- Australian's Red Sea premiere new video for The Art Of Transcending with Prog
- Who was the greatest keyboard player in the history of prog?
- Jean-Michel Jarre launches podcast series
- Behemoth share trailer for God = Dog dog food
- Saxon planning on celebrating 40th anniversary with "special shows" in 2019
- September 26
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- Ace Frehley: 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Neil Innes launches PledgeMusic campaign for new collaborative project
- Skindred cancel upcoming US tour dates
- Mudhoney take aim at social media obsession in satirical video for Kill Yourself Live
- Star Trek icon William Shatner boldly goes into rock territory for Christmas album
- Louise Lemón releases new song Cross
- Papa Roach promise album no.10 will be "a banger of a record”
- Bandcamp to donate Friday's proceeds to help protect voting rights in the US
- Slash: The world is a lesser place without Lemmy
- “I’ll never rest on my laurels”: the life and times of Kirk Hammett
- Check out Kikagaku Moyo’s dreamy new track Nazo Nazo
- Bruce Dickinson: The day I joined Iron Maiden
- Rolling Stones announce Voodoo Lounge Uncut live package
- Moose Blood announce hiatus after “traumatic past year"
- Megadeth to set sail in 2019 on first-ever Megacruise
- The alternative 90s: A guide to the best albums
- September 25
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- The Ocean, Skyharbor, Monuments announced for Australia's Progfest 2019
- Steel Panther's Satchel: 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- The Twilight Sad announce first shows of 2019
- The 20 best albums of 1985
- Watch lyric video for Joe Strummer’s Czechoslovak Song / Where Is England
- Mark Knopfler shares video for his new track Good On You Son
- UK Guitar Show to feature performances from Jon Gomm and Mike Dawes
- Mono announce new album Nowhere Now Here and premiere short film
- Atreyu share video for anthemic new single The Time Is Now
- Epic Greek black metallers Lucifer's Child unveil an infernal new video
- The genius of Jeff Hanneman, by ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo
- Watch Slash ft Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators transform into puppets in Driving Rain video
- Michael Livesley announces dates to celebrate 40 years of Sir Henry At Rawlinson's End
- Gary Numan cancels Cleveland show after fatal tour bus accident
- Steel Panther announce Sunset Strip Live UK and European tour dates
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is planning autobiography
- The Top 10 greatest Led Zeppelin John Bonham songs
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets announce 2019 UK dates
- Watch Sister Imperator and Papa Emiritus Zero in new Ghost video The Call
- September 24
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- Yes - The Yes Album: Album Of The Week Club Review
- Edensong reveal 7-date UK tour
- Goldray announce winter UK tour dates
- New Band Of The Week: Taken By The Tide
- How The Beatles' White Album changed everything
- The Beatles’ White Album set for deluxe reissue
- Dödsrit streams new album Spirit Crusher in full
- Enter Shikari celebrate The Spark anniversary with remix and book details
- Watch Korn rehearse for Follow The Leader anniversary shows
- Within Temptation release official video for The Reckoning
- CD sales plummet as vinyl resurgence continues
- How Nita Strauss became a 21st century guitar hero
- Here are 7 reasons why you can’t miss the UK Guitar Show
- The 10 albums that changed my life, by Sabaton's Joakim Brodén
- Halestorm: Lzzy Hale's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Thee Deadtime Philharmonic: “These songs actually mean something..."
- Gösta Berlings Saga launch new single The Shortcomings Of Efficiency
- Watch video for Avenged Sevenfold’s Call Of Duty track Mad Hatter
- Listen to Greta Van Fleet’s groove-filled new single Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer)
- Metallica announce UK and European stadium tour
- September 23
- September 22
- September 21
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- 50th Anniversay Edition for The Moody Blues' In Search of The Lost Chord
- Tremonti announce UK and European tour
- Desertfest announces seven bands for 2019
- Watch trailer for Amon Amarth documentary The Pursuit Of Vikings
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Rival Sons, The Struts, DeWolff and more...
- Magenta announce new live package We Are Seven
- Listen to R.E.M. play Orange Crush for 2003 BBC Radio 1 session
- The Blackheart Orchestra to support Hawkwind
- Listen to previously unreleased Tom Petty track Gainesville
- Billy F Gibbons: The Big Bad Blues album review
- The Stories Behind Six Classic Slipknot Songs
- Mike Shinoda teams up with K.Flay in video for Make It Up As I Go
- Listen to stirring new Disturbed track A Reason To Fight
- Corey Taylor on why Knotfest could become a touring festival
- Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Living The Dream album review
- Voivod – The Wake album review
- Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators – Living The Dream album review
- Steve Perry premieres video for beautiful new single We’re Still Here
- Riverside premiere video for new single Lament
- Wolf Alice celebrate Mercury Music Prize success
- Therapy?'s Cleave: a track-by-track guide by Andy Cairns
- Watch lyric video for previously unreleased Chris Cornell track When Bad Does Good
- September 20
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- Grunge wars: The rise and fall of rock's most troubled genre
- Iamthemorning premiere video for 5/4
- Watch The Struts take Las Vegas by storm in Primadonna Like Me video
- Neal Morse and Soft Machine headline Progtoberfest IV
- Vandenberg's MoonKings announce new album Rugged And Unplugged
- Bergen's epic black metallers Orkan release a haunting new video
- Metallica to play rare acoustic concert for charity
- Bob Dylan bootleg series continues with Blood On The Tracks 6CD release featuring complete New York sessions
- Jadis announce live dates for November
- Therapy?: Cleave album review
- Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows in recovery after vocal cord scare
- Joe Bonamassa: Redemption album review
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy praises “fantastic” metal scene
- The Top 10 best Within Temptation songs
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Mechanical Animals And Cheesy Sandwiches
- Aborted – TerrorVision album review
- Sumac – Love In Shadow album review
- Babymetal graphic novel set for October launch
- Instrumental prog guitarist Schiermann to support Sons Of Apollo
- Saxon team up with Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg in Predator video
- Disturbed tease new single A Reason To Fight
- Kiss announce End Of The Road farewell world tour
- September 19
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- The 2018 Monster Rock Auction is ON
- Billy Idol lines up Las Vegas residency
- Uriah Heep's Mick Box: 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Smashing Pumpkins say they're preparing to unload the archives
- John Carpenter shares chilling Halloween track The Shape Returns
- The Reasoning announce dates and vocalists for farewell shows
- UK black metallers Crimson Throne unveil an enthralling new track
- Kiss to release solo albums box set to celebrate 40th anniversary
- Mark Knopfler returns with new album Down The Road Wherever
- The Amity Affliction: If this doesn't work, we're f*cked
- Jesse Leach is “putting in some major work” on new Killswitch Engage album
- UK Guitar Show masterclasses with Focusrite - everything you need to know
- Therapy? – Cleave album review
- Madder Mortem – Marrow album review
- Renaissance featuring Annie Haslam line up US tour dates
- The 10 best songs inspired by Talk Like A Pirate Day
- Win tickets to a Lacuna Coil screening and meet the band
- We Came As Romans play first show since Kyle Pavone’s death
- Sleep turned down Coachella to play Roadburn
- Ozzy, Judas Priest, Slayer, Ghost and more confirmed for Download Australia 2019
- Ray Luzier clarifies Korn release date comments
- September 18
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- Led Zeppelin: Celebrating 50 years of the biggest rock band ever in the new Classic Rock
- Ministry release psychedelic visualiser video for new single AmeriKKKa
- Suzi Quatro on playing Vietnam, marriage proposals, and her famous niece
- Threshold forced to change live London location
- Watch Evanescence deliver spellbinding live version of My Immortal
- The 20 best albums of 1984
- England and Focus head up new-look three-day Fusion Festival
- The Joy Formidable dazzle in video for new track The Better Me
- Bob Seger announces farewell tour
- Kiss to perform on America’s Got Talent final
- Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent: Album Of The Week Club Review
- Metallica, Slipknot, BFMV and more for WWE 2K19 soundtrack
- The Bluffer's Guide to Within Temptation
- Avenged Sevenfold to release Black Reign EP on Friday
- New Korn album to be released in March
- Roine Stolt’s The Flower King announce new album Manifesto Of An Alchemist
- Wars are opening Progress Wrestling's Wembley arena show
- You Only Live Twice: An Interview With The Scientists
- Sabaton to headline Bloodstock 2019
- Every Song on Black Sabbath's Paranoid ranked from worst to best
- Damon Johnson quits Black Star Riders
- Jonestown release video for brutalising new track Blunt Force Nihilist
- How Jimi Hendrix died - and the mysteries surrounding his death
- Rammstein check in with studio update
- Slash ft Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators premiere new single My Antidote
- September 17
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- Do you lose sound quality with wireless headphones?
- 90s College Rock: A guide to the best albums
- Metal Allegiance to perform Black Sabbath’s debut album in full at Brooklyn show
- Within Temptation: We almost quit after Hydra release
- Glass Hammer premiere video for new track Melancholy Holiday
- Synthwave pioneer Perturbator announces 2019 European tour
- Should I buy wireless headphones?
- Dave Grohl to appear on Sesame Street
- Listen to Avenged Sevenfold’s new Call Of Duty track Mad Hatter
- Jon Hiseman tribute show set for London
- In Pictures: Bleed From Within's special beer launch show
- The Cranberries will split following new album release
- Slipknot planning All Hope Is Gone 10th anniversary reissue
- New Band Of The Week: Godeater
- Metallica release Lady Justice Pop! Vinyl figure
- Watch this heroic metalhead take on Hurricane Florence with the power of Slayer
- 65daysofstatic launch video for new track Z1
- The Tangent launch audio trailer for new album Proxy
- Listen to Soulfly’s Dead Behind The Eyes - featuring Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe
- Jimmy Page: 12 Unsung Classics
- Dee Snider premieres video for gritty new single American Made
- September 16
- September 15
- September 14
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- This is Korn's setlist from their Follow The Leader anniversary show
- Watch Slash ft Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators blow Jimmy Kimmel crowd away
- Got some cash to spend? Then join Joe Satriani at the G4 Experience
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland set for deluxe anniversary reissue
- Finnish death/black diabolists Archgoat stream their new album in full
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Austin Gold, Hands Off Gretel and more
- WWE superstar Paige: 10 albums that changed my life
- Listen to Seasick Steve's new single Sun On My Face
- Jean-Michel Jarre reveals new album Equinoxe Infinity
- The Struts announce emphatically-titled new album Young&Dangerous
- Within Temptation release new single The Reckoning
- Smashing Pumpkins are back with a new album and single
- Slipknot announce home town haunted house experience
- Rival Sons launch gritty new single Do Your Worst
- Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses album review
- Watch Aerosmith play Walk This Way on kids’ instruments
- Motley Crue confirm studio return is for The Dirt soundtrack
- The big BB King question: Which is better - Live At The Regal or Live In Cook County Jail?
- Five Finger Death Punch premiere hard-hitting video for When The Seasons Change
- Steven Wilson, Caravan & Steve Howe among Progressive Music Award winners
- September 13
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- Hawkwind - Road To Utopia album review
- Monster Truck - True Rockers album review
- The Doors - Waiting For The Sun (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) album review
- Progressive Music Awards 2018: Live Blog
- Motley Crue heading back to the studio, says Vince Neil
- Go behind the scenes with Opeth on Garden Of The Titans concert film
- How to watch tonight's Progressive Music Awards
- Nergal ready to record black metal project with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford
- Brant Bjork – Mankind Woman album review
- The future is now: Within Temptation score their first ever Metal Hammer cover
- Uriah Heep - Living The Dream album review
- Listen to new Crippled Black Phoenix album Great Escape in full
- Historic George Harrison guitar sells for £347,000
- Vote for the band you want to play Progress Wrestling's Wembley arena show
- Cave In, Old Man Gloom, Thou and more announced for Roadburn 2019
- The Osiris Club launch new single Island Of Stone
- Watch Lacuna Coil deliver Blood, Tears, Dust live in London
- Try out and buy all the latest gear at the UK Guitar Show
- Within Temptation announce new album Resist
- Steven Wilson to release Royal Albert Hall show in November
- Metallica share live Blackened video from 1989
- September 12
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- Bill Bailey and Peter Gabriel at the Progressive Music Awards
- Meet Dream Nails, the feminist punk witches who couldn't give a sh*t what you think
- Deicide – Overtures Of Blasphemy album review
- Greta Van Fleet announce more live shows
- Proggy death metallers Irreversible Mechanism stream new album Immersion in full
- Emma Ruth Rundle shares video for new track Light Song
- Seminal progressive metallers In The Woods... return with a stunning new track
- Paul McCartney recalls masturbating with John Lennon
- We Came As Romans to honour Kyle Pavone on Bullet For My Valentine tour
- Attan – End Of album review
- Corey Taylor: Stone Sour have “great material” for next album
- The first reaction to Architects' new song Hereafter
- Fish releases new single Man With A Stick
- Periphery members share new track from their electro-ambient project Four Seconds Ago
- Watch Ghost perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall
- All Them Witches launch eerie video for new single Diamond
- Listen to new Joan Jett & The Blackhearts single Fresh Start
- Architects return with new album, single and UK and European tour
- September 11
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- Rick Wakeman wins Live Event at the 2014 Progressive Music Awards
- Cinderella box set to launch this month
- Watch Herman Li play a guitar solo underwater
- Vote for the greatest guitarists of all time!
- The 20 best albums of 1983
- Jordan Rudess completes keyboards for new Dream Theater album
- AlithiA release new video for single Empress
- Krokus to call it a day following 2019 farewell tour
- In the studio with While She Sleeps as they work on album number four
- Watch Mike Myers recreate Wayne’s World scene at Alice Cooper show
- Alter Bridge – Live At The Royal Albert Hall review
- Watch Metallica perform No Leaf Clover live in Minneapolis
- Loud Women Fest 2018: 10 must-see bands
- Watch Haken discuss the origins of new album Vector
- The Wild Things launch retro video for new single You're Really Something
- Paul McCartney shares video for new single Fuh You
- Listen to Lemmy and Würzel on Leader Of Down track Paradise Turned Into Dust
- September 10
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- Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle: Album Of The Week Club Review
- Tony Banks and Peter Gabriel at the 2015 Progressive Music Awards
- 17 facts about Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Bauhaus to release The Bela Session EP
- The best wireless speakers you can buy right now
- Get 40% off this Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction box set
- Mushroomhead ex Jeffrey Nothing returns with new single Fragile Mind
- Rebuilding an Empire: How to survive life as a 'hype band'
- Former HIM and Amorphis members unite in Flat Earth
- New Band Of The Week: MSRY
- Anthrax reveal State Of Euphoria 30th anniversary deluxe edition
- This is the setlist from Ghost's epic Royal Albert Hall show
- Opeth share live video for Demon Of The Fall
- How to buy headphones: everything you need to know
- How Bob Seger changed the face of American Music
- Pete Way rules himself out of UFO’s 50th anniversary tour plans
- Neal Morse reveals prog rock opera project
- Mastodon and Gojira pay tribute to manager Nick John who has died after cancer battle
- Ghost share video to announce A Pale Tour Named Death 2019
- September 7
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- Andy Latimer's acceptance speech for Lifetime Achievement
- Heather Findlay announces live dates
- Exploring Birdsong to support Godsticks on UK tour
- Watch Kris Barras cover the theme from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
- How cyberpunk influenced Shading's new song The Scent
- Metallica share remastered stream of Dyers Eve
- Arabrot – Who Do You Love album review
- Long Distance Calling premiere video for Like A River
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Andrew WK, Greta Van Fleet and more
- Watch new trailer for upcoming Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody
- Clutch – Book Of Bad Decisions album reviewed
- Judas Priest promise “something special” for 50th anniversary celebrations
- Watch Disturbed record Are You Ready in new studio video
- Riverside share atmospheric new single River Down Below
- Slash ft Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators announce UK and European tour
- Greta Van Fleet announce debut album, Anthem Of The Peaceful Army
- September 6
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- Blink-182 cancel North American tour on medical advice
- Intense hardcore mob Portrayal Of Guilt stream new song A Burden
- Meet Bloodywood, the Indian metal act with a feel-good hit and a serious message
- Ozzy Osbourne offers fans a VIP experience to remember
- Voivod premiere video for new single Always Moving
- Carl Palmer, Rick Wakeman and Justin Hayward at the very first Progressive Music Awards
- Watch Rolling Stone Mick Jagger preview “new tunes” on harmonica
- Gama Bomb release new video for Bring Out The Monster
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Should Metal Bands Surprise Release Albums?
- Metallica confirm…And Justice For All remaster
- Marillion’s Clutching At Straws set for deluxe box set
- Higher Power's essential hardcore mixtape
- Krisiun – Scourge Of The Enthroned album review
- Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan: Cause of death revealed
- Metal Allegiance – Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty album review
- Korpiklaani – Kulkija album review
- Watch Metallica pay tribute to Prince at Minneapolis show
- Alter Bridge – Live At The Royal Albert Hall album review
- Therapy? premiere lyric video for new track Wreck It Like Beckett
- Behemoth unleash video for blistering new single Wolves Ov Siberia
- Meshuggah are headlining ArcTanGent festival 2019
- September 5
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- The 20 best albums from 1982
- Former Jethro Tull member Dee Palmer plans charity single
- Listen to The Primals' raucous new album All Love Is True Love
- Michael Schenker: UFO are trying to fool their fans
- Watch video trailers for upcoming Ronnie James Dio auction
- Ohhms release new song Shambles from their upcoming album Exist
- Queen to release official Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack
- Expansive blackened hardcore crew Attan stream new album End Of in full
- Tenacious D return with YouTube series and new album Post-Apocalypto
- The Parallax Method premiere video for You Gotta Be Squiddin' Me! with Prog
- Vola premiere video for new single Ghosts
- The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark album review
- Mastodon's Brent Hinds hates being part of music industry machine
- Skyharbor – Sunshine Dust album review
- Andrew WK challenges negativity in You’re Not Alone video
- Steve Perry shares video for his new song No More Cryin’
- Stone Sour premiere video for acoustic version of Mercy
- September 4
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- Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same album review
- Jon Spencer announces headline solo tour and premieres new single I Got The Hits
- Warped Nordic noise rockers Årabrot stream their brilliant, new album in full
- Metallica offer fans free show downloads on North American tour
- Post-black metal visionary Sylvaine releases new song Mørklagt
- Watch lyric video for spellbinding Ayreon track Across The Rainbow Bridge
- The Cult – Electric: Album Of The Week Club Review
- Foo Fighters reschedule Canadian dates after Dave Grohl loses his voice
- Ash premiere video for new single Confessions In The Pool
- Meet the guitarist who won the first competition show for shredding
- Ghost to play special Milwaukee show in honour of fallen fan
- Iron Maiden: how we made The Book Of Souls
- Listen to ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons cover Muddy Waters
- Voivod: The Wake is one of the most intricate albums we’ve ever done
- Serj Tankian is mixing “some rock songs” for a future release
- Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions album review
- September 3
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- Steely Dan announce UK and Ireland tour with Steve Winwood
- Nothing More clear up confusion over “new” album release
- Iron Maiden: 16 facts about Powerslave
- Former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic reunite onstage in Seattle
- Matt Heafy covers Tears Don't Fall by Bullet For My Valentine
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage dead at 58
- We talk Heather Findlay, the Prog Awards, Cropredy and Bloodstock in the new Prog Magazine podcast
- Collection of Rory Gallagher’s guitars set for UK Guitar Show
- “Iron Bloke? Is he smoking dope”: Ozzy Osbourne is interviewed by Slipknot, Korn, Ghost and more
- We head into the studio with Ohhms as they work on new album Exist
- Should I get a bluetooth speaker?
- Anneke van Giersbergen announces live album Symphonized
- Paul McCartney – Egypt Station album review
- New Band Of The Week: Black Fast
- We Came As Romans vocalist Kyle Pavone: Cause of death revealed
- Pink Floyd's The Wall: The secrets behind 1980's best-selling album
- Watch Tommy Vext and Five Finger Death Punch prank fans at Indiana show
- Ozzy Osbourne announces UK and Ireland tour
