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- January 31
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- Forget Bohemian Rhapsody – Lords Of Chaos is the only music movie you need to see
- AC/DC: the top 10 best post-Back In Black songs
- Steve Morse: Deep Purple are planning a new album
- Motley Crue kickstart Planters' Super Bowl ad with 1989 classic
- Jadis announce pre-orders for Medium Rare 2
- Listen to a previously unreleased live cut of Whitesnake’s Ready An’ Willing
- Go behind the scenes with Kiss on the End Of The Road tour
- The story of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls: "It was like a gift – like: ‘Oh, thanks God!'"
- Slipknot: the triumph and agony of All Hope Is Gone
- Tommy Vext: Bad Wolves have 21 tracks for new album
- Watch David Gilmour play Pink Floyd classics on up-for-auction guitars
- Magic Pie premiere promo video for new song P&C with Prog
- Reading and Leeds add 50 more artists to 2019 bill
- Watch Tom Morello’s stunning video for Every Step That I Take
- Rammstein tease stills from new Jonas Åkerlund-directed video shoot
- Billy Gibbons’ Night of Guitars: inside Gibson’s all-star comeback gig
- January 30
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- Animals As Leaders and Monuments to headline new prog festival
- Metal Hammer Podcast: 50 Years Of Metal!
- Blut Aus Nord members chart an hallucinatory new voyage with Yerûšelem
- Devin Townsend reflects on change in new Empath documentary
- Signed 1978 letter from AC/DC great Bon Scott is up for auction
- Candlemass and Tony Iommi team up for new single Asterolus: The Great Octopus
- Peter Jackson to direct new Beatles film based around 1969 Let It Be sessions
- Quantum Pig guide us through new album Songs Of Industry And Sunshine
- Bring Me The Horizon will share the love on US TV on Valentine’s Day
- Slash: It’s cool to see Greta Van Fleet make an impact
- Win Super-Deluxe Editions Of All Led Zeppelin's Studio Albums!
- Tim Bowness launches podcast series for his new album Flowers At The Scene
- Unique triple bill set to bring a touch of Southern rock to the UK
- Ace Frehley lashes out at Gene Simmons - calls him an “asshole and a sex addict”
- Did Brian Johnson just confirm his return to AC/DC?
- Ozzy postpones entire UK and European tour
- Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes: 10 albums that changed my life
- The Story Behind The Song: Step Down by Sick Of It All
- January 29
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- Black Label Society revisit Sonic Brew to mark its 20th anniversary
- The story behind Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Watch live Tremonti video for the blistering Throw Them To The Lions
- Girlschool part ways with Enid Williams again
- The original David Lee Roth band reunite… but where’s Diamond Dave?
- David Gilmour to display then auction 120 guitars from his collection for charity
- Are Tool preparing to announce some big news?
- Watch Judas Priest play Killing Machine for the first time in 40 years
- Roger Daltrey interview: my life with The Who
- Why Ozzy hated doing The Osbournes
- New book claims Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards planned his disappearance
- Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates even more success
- Michael Rother announces Under The Bridge show for April
- Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes: I love how much Amo is polarising opinions
- Check out Sammy Hagar and The Circle’s new track Trust Fund Baby
- The tragedy and darkness behind Parkway Drive’s Reverence album
- January 28
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- 14-year-old takes on Dream Theater's In The Name Of God... all by himself
- 10 genius Nine Inch Nails songs that only diehards know about
- Styx: Paradise Theater - Album Of The Week Club Review
- Anathema announced as co-headliner for Night Of The Prog
- The Fierce And The Dead announce 2019 festival appearances
- Download add Halestorm, Clutch and dozens more to 2019 line-up
- Vote for the best Iron Maiden song ever
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from The Sheepdogs, Hands Off Gretel and more...
- Devin Townsend announces Empath European tour dates
- How Iron Maiden created their definitive masterpiece with Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- The Who announce massive Wembley Stadium show with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
- Ozzy Osbourne postpones four shows days after bursting blood vessel in eye
- 65daysofstatic, Cult Of Luna, Battles and more announced for ArcTanGent
- First World Metal Congress to take place in March
- Geezer Butler supergroup Deadland Ritual announce 2019 tour
- Tool’s Danny Carey says new album to be released in April
- January 27
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- January 25
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- Nathan James' track-by-track guide to new Inglorious album Ride To Nowhere
- Elbow to release The Seldom Seen Kid Live At Abbey Road on vinyl
- IO Earth complete the Trinity IV line-up
- Musician Danny Vaughn warns fans against PledgeMusic due to payment woes
- Rival Sons: Feral Roots album review
- Megadeth unveil Warheads On Foreheads tracklisting and artwork
- Judy Dyble celebrates her 70th birthday at London's Troubadour
- L.A. Guns announce 'more metal' album The Devil You Know, launch first single
- Watch Metallica play Skynyrd and Sabbath in Alabama
- Ginacarlo Erra releases video for Ends VII
- 10 essential metal albums you might have missed this month
- How the entire f**king world jumped on the Slayer bandwagon
- Metal bassist's brutal murder allegedly captured on Facebook video
- Watch all-star line-up play Pantera's Walk at Dimebash tribute
- Danko Jones announces new album A Rock Supreme
- Philip Anselmo: why I love The Cure
- 10 things we learned from hanging out with Ozzy for this month’s Metal Hammer cover
- King 810 – Suicide King album review
- January 24
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- Watch as Lee Kerslake is officially presented with his platinum Ozzy discs
- Swervedriver's track-by-track guide to new album Future Ruins
- Therapy? premiere video for new single Kakistocracy
- A Pale Horse Named Death are the band every Type O Negative fan needs in their life
- Whitesnake’s 1984 album Slide It In set for deluxe reissue
- Bring Me The Horizon and Grimes team up for new single Nihilist Blues
- How HIM’s Razorblade Romance set Ville Valo on the path to goth-metal immortality
- The Neal Morse Band premiere video for new single I Got To Run
- Watch Metallica’s full set from the Chris Cornell tribute concert
- Weezer sneak release covers album featuring Toto, Black Sabbath & ELO tracks
- Metallica: the story behind every Garage Inc. cover version
- January 23
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- Lazuli announce two UK live dates for March
- Ted McKenna: a life in 10 songs
- US post rockers The End Of The Ocean release video for Desire
- Green Day to sell career-spanning collection of guitars, amps and more
- Watch the first part of Devin Townsend’s Empath documentary
- Manowar want YOU to be their Metal Ambassador in your home town
- John 5 says the new Rob Zombie album “is a monster”
- Swallow The Sun – When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light album review
- Halestorm: Rock music isn't part of the mainstream… and we can live with that
- Frank Zappa hologram tour is coming to the UK in May
- Talons premiere a new live clip of On Levels
- Isle Of Wight Festival 2019 reveals first wave of artists
- Rammstein are finishing mixing album no.7
- Listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s “straight up love song” Mother Tongue
- 22 killer old school thrash songs that will instantly improve your day
- January 22
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- Dave Mustaine: how I wrote Megadeth’s Holy Wars… The Punishment Due
- Kiss Kruise will return to the high seas in late 2019
- Static-X and DevilDriver announce co-headline North American tour
- Geddy Lee: I won’t make music just for the sake of it
- Introducing Limelight band Toska
- Check out Slipknot’s Sid Wilson in trailer for horror comedy The Midnight Snack
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody nominated for five Oscars
- Ring Van Mobius and Arabs In Aspic announce London show
- Rex Brown reflects on the shock of Vinnie Paul’s death
- For I Am King: the death metal band offering hope for refugees everywhere
- Cosmograf will release new album Mind Over Depth in April
- The life of Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott to be explored in new documentary
- Lacuna Coil announce UK and European headline tour
- Review: Puppy’s debut album The Goat is where Weezer meets Ghost
- Tony Iommi confirms he’ll attend Birmingham's Black Sabbath celebration
- Creed played with blastbeats makes listening to Creed 5000% more enjoyable
- Album review: Lovebites’ Clockwork Immortality is the sound of power metal’s future
- Pearl Jam “in the middle” of a new studio album
- January 21
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- Scorpions: Lovedrive - Album Of The Week Club Review
- Metal Hammer announce exclusive Ozzy bundle including hand-signed art print
- Tesla return with new album Shock - listen to the title track
- Parkway Drive mark start of UK and Euro tour with Shadow Boxing lyric video
- Rush’s Geddy Lee recalls bittersweet moment onstage with Yes
- New Zealand prog rockers City Of Souls release video for new single Wolf...
- Terminally ill drummer Lee Kerslake receives platinum discs from Ozzy
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Starcrawler, The Picturebooks and more...
- Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg posts blood-covered drum shot from studio sessions
- Hexvessel release promo video for new single Son Of The Sky
- Greta Van Fleet: It’s time to move on from Led Zeppelin comparisons
- Rival Sons share Eastern-tinged new single Look Away
- Vote for the greatest Pantera song of all time
- Ozzy’s bat-biting anniversary celebrated with plush bat toy
- Watch Lars Ulrich attempt to sing Judas Priest’s Delivering The Goods
- Cannibal Corpse bring in Erik Rutan to replace Pat O'Brien
- Metallica’s Lars Ulrich left “stunned” by Miley Cyrus’ Chris Cornell tribute
- January 20
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- January 18
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- Session guitar legend Reggie Young dead at 82
- Magnum: Live at the Symphony Hall album review
- Swallow The Sun share video for Firelights
- Overkill put the hammer down on new track Head Of A Pin
- Kiss line up first US club show in 20 years
- Watch Foo Fighters take a punt at a short-lived football career ahead of Super Bowl
- Review: Fever 333’s Strength In Numb333rs is the first killer album of 2019
- Ed Gamble: The albums that changed my life
- Anglo Finnish proggers Wheel release video for Where The Pieces Lie
- David Bowie voted the greatest entertainer of the 20th century
- My 10 favourite Iron Maiden songs – by Lovebites’ Miho
- Watch lyric video for The Neal Morse Band’s catchy new track Vanity Fair
- Rob Zombie clears up 3 From Hell confusion
- The Wildhearts are back with their first album in 10 years
- King 810’s brand new single is worth A Million Dollars
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: self-destruction, sobriety and survival
- Steve Hackett shares video for his new single Beasts In Our Time
- Saxon announce 40th anniversary UK tour
- January 17
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- Robert Berry finalises live line-up for 3.2 shows
- Sir Lord Baltimore: the forgotten story of America’s original heavy metal band
- Quantum Pig release video for new single Statement Of Intent
- Rob Zombie: an audience with metal’s King Of Horror
- Listen to Keith Richards' previously unreleased track My Babe from Talk Is Cheap reissue
- Santana will celebrate two milestones on the Supernatural Now tour
- Journey’s Neal Schon reaches out to Steve Perry
- Greek metal titans Rotting Christ prepare to ruffle some feathers
- Rammstein's Kruspe: We’ve been much more experimental on new album
- Winter's and Summer's End announce pre-show events
- Lorna Doom, bassist with influential LA punk outfit Germs, has died
- This is the setlist from the all-star Chris Cornell tribute show - with pictures
- Black Stone Cherry to headline Ramblin’ Man Fair
- Soen premiere animated video for new track Lotus
- The 10 most NSFW modern metal songs, as chosen by InVisions
- Whitechapel return with brooding new track Third Depth
- Skyharbor announce European tour for March and April
- Watch Dave Grohl & Robert Trujillo join Audioslave at Chris Cornell tribute show
- January 16
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- Enuff Z’Nuff: the band who crashed and burned and flew again
- Cancer Bats' guide to the Slam Dunk 2019 Impericon Stage
- Watch Tom Morello join The Struts onstage for epic cover of Springsteen classic
- Watch Heart deliver blistering performance of Crazy On You live
- Rob Zombie completes work on new film 3 From Hell
- Master Of Puppets named greatest Metallica song ever
- Metal Hammer Podcast: is social media evil?
- Magenta will mark 20th anniversary with special Angels And Damned show
- 20 banned album sleeves: when rock falls foul of the censors
- Casey McPherson releases lyric video for My Evolution
- Josh Homme and Melvins added to Chris Cornell tribute concert
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor confirms studio return
- Devin Townsend details new album Empath
- Slam Dunk festival add another 10 bands to 2019 bill
- Joe Elliott talks Def Leppard’s early days in Speakeasy clip
- The Pineapple Thief share a journey of despair to hope in Threatening War video
- Scott Ian turning into a White Walker is the most metal thing you’ll see today
- Here’s the story of Metallica’s new Enter Night beer
- Listen to Architects cover Deftones’ Change (In The House Of Flies)
- The time Geezer Butler got arrested in a bar brawl
- January 15
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- Watch as Brian May plays the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo for cast of the film
- Let Brent Hinds guide you through Mastodon’s tour bus
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn writes a letter to his 14-year-old-self: ‘Dear Robb, it won’t be easy’
- Adrian Belew announces new-look lineup for US spring tour
- Steve Perry interview: the return of The Voice
- Black Sabbath to be honoured in Birmingham with a heavy metal bench
- Queensryche share lyric video for new single Dark Reverie
- Blanket to perform debut album How To Let Go under massive moon
- Every Pantera album ranked from worst to best
- Man plays Toto's Africa on a sweet potato and a butternut squash
- All That Remains guitarist Oli Herbert signed a will a week before his death
- We got Chris Jericho to pick his fantasy Iron Maiden setlist
- The Story Behind The Song: Trivium’s Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
- Adam Lambert confirms Bohemian Rhapsody cameo
- This is Architects’ set list from the first show of their UK tour
- John Lodge announces UK solo dates
- Max Cavalera: how tragedy and heartbreak inspired Soulfly’s Bleed
- The Story Behind The Song: I Am The Black Wizards by Emperor
- Asking Alexandria ex Denis Stoff launches new band Drag Me Out
- Anthrax and Megadeth men team up with Ace Frehley for new single Late
- Toto classic will play on continuous loop forever in African desert
- The time Lars Ulrich nearly became the singer in Metallica
- January 14
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- Derek And The Dominoes: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Album Of The Week Club Review
- Welcome to Prog Limelight band Emperor Norton
- Mike Shinoda compliments Mark Morton for his track with Chester Bennington
- 10 things we want from the final season of Game Of Thrones
- Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rex Brown and more set for Dimebash 2019
- Jesse Leach steps back from social media to deal with mental health issues
- We brought Tony Iommi and Rob Halford together for the ultimate metal summit
- The Who announce the Moving On! 2019 tour
- Fish postpones Weltschmerz release until September
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Gary Clark Jr, Massive and more
- 50 facts you might not know about Dave Grohl
- Beltane Fire reform for London show
- Rocklahoma 2019: Ozzy, Disturbed, Shinedown and more confirmed
- Metallica brew up a storm with new Enter Night beer
- Pond stream video for brand new song Daisy
- Godsmack celebrate the NFL playoffs in When Legends Rise video
- Stand up, say yeah! Def Leppard share Hysteria + More tour recap video
- Megadeth reveal plans for new greatest hits album
- Robbie Williams accused of tormenting Jimmy Page by blasting out Black Sabbath
- January 13
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- January 11
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- Vote for the best music films ever
- The Who say they'll release a new studio album this year
- Rami Malek becomes Freddie Mercury in new Apple feature
- The Neal Morse Band share studio video for Welcome To The World 2
- Ozzy Osbourne: the ultimate True Or False quiz
- AC/DC fan plans marathon skating session to raise cash for Alzheimer Society
- How a nuclear safety inspector made an album with 10 members of Black Sabbath
- ‘Trump’s fans will turn on him, trust me:’ an audience with Ice motherf**kin’ T
- Tim Bowness launches lyric video for his new track I Go Deeper
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s spirited live performance of Follow You
- Bohemian Rhapsody set for sing-along screenings
- Listen to brand new Dream Theater track Fall Into The Light
- Dave Grohl chugs a beer… then falls off the stage
- January 10
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- IO Earth release new video for Find A Way
- Gary Clark Jr's new song is a stinging rebuke to racist America
- Sabaton to launch their own YouTube history channel
- Dave Mustaine and Scott Ian: ‘These new bands are spoilt motherf**kers’
- Woodstock festival returns to mark 50th anniversary
- We asked a bunch of rock stars which album they lost their virginity to
- Mastodon share 2018 tour recap video as they prepare to hit the road once again
- Every Ronnie James Dio album ranked from worst to best
- Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee to host Rush fan day at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Halestorm's Lzzy Hale: Greta Van Fleet's success is a good thing for rock'n'roll
- Powerwolf: meet power metal’s batshit crazy secret weapon
- Mansun’s 1998 album Six set for deluxe reissue
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Holy Roar Core
- Serial killer movie starring Metallica’s James Hetfield set for Sundance Film Festival
- Threatin is coming back to the UK in November
- January 9
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- New XTC book out in March
- Ex Bullet For My Valentine drummer Moose returns with new band Kill The Lights
- New David Bowie box set will feature previously unreleased demos
- Behemoth unleash the fire in video for Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica
- Watch Cancer Bats’ head-spinning new video for unreleased song Inside Out
- Tedeschi Trucks Band return with single Hard Case and details of their new album
- Serj Tankian and M Shadows to guest on new album by System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan
- VOLA and Bent Knee announces as support to Haken
- You Me At Six, Every Time I Die, Therapy? and more confirmed for 2000 Trees
- Nergal and Johan Hegg: why metal can survive anything that’s thrown at it
- Def Leppard announce Canadian summer tour
- How Nightwish’s Floor Jansen has spent a lifetime silencing the dickheads
- Kate Bush: I’m not a Tory supporter
- Check out Corey Taylor's stirring live acoustic version of Slipknot’s Snuff
- Driver blames Motley Crue’s Kickstart My Heart for speeding ticket
- More success for Bohemian Rhapsody as film receives 7 BAFTA nominations
- January 8
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- Can music make you sick? A look at the relationship between music and mental health
- Listen to Chester Bennington’s posthumous track with Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross release Bird Box soundtrack
- Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels set for box set release
- Blackberry Smoke announce acoustic Break It Down tour
- Franck Carducci Band gear up for March UK dates
- Thin Lizzy: a guide to their best albums
- The 13 raunchiest, weirdest and wrongest videos set in strip clubs
- Martin Barre recalls Spinal Tap moment with Jethro Tull
- Jesse Leach pranks Killswitch Engage fans with brand new reggae song
- Sacked Bohemian Rhapsody director responds to Golden Globes success
- Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg: New record won’t be a concept album
- Greta Van Fleet, the world's hottest new band, are on the cover of Classic Rock
- Ithaca: meet metallic hardcore's next big noise
- Watch Anna von Hausswolff's astonishing 20-minute live version of Ugly And Vengeful
- Iron Maiden don’t care about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame – and neither should you
- Mastodon will release “brutal” new track in the coming days
- Soulfly and 3 more artists confirmed for Bloodstock 2019
- The 10 heaviest Queen songs ever
- Watch Metallica perform country-inspired acoustic version of The Four Horsemen
- January 7
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- High On Fire cancel tour due to 'medical emergency'
- The Darkness and Phil Campbell confirmed for Teddy Rocks charity festival
- ’You’re a control freak’: Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory square off
- Joe Elliott: Def Leppard didn’t make any cash until Hysteria
- Win tickets to an exclusive premiere of Steve Hackett's new album
- Mono announce the Nowhere Now Here European tour
- Megadeth are teasing a Friday announcement
- Carl Palmer planning "A-List" 50th Anniversary bash for ELP
- Neil Young pays tribute to ex wife Pegi
- Vote for the best Metallica song of all time
- The 10 best double albums in rock
- We asked Ghost’s Tobias Forge if metal will rule the planet again. This is what he said
- The Mute Gods announce new album Atheists And Believers
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor wants to record a “dark jazz album”
- Jonathan Davis is recording vocals for new Korn album
- 10 peculiar reasons to celebrate the Moody Blues
- Gene Simmons was paid “millions of pounds” to speak at a royal event
- The true story of Venom, the most influential NWOBHM band of them all
- Axl Rose teams up with Looney Tunes for his first new track in 10 years
- Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody scoops two Golden Globes
- January 5
- January 4
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- World exclusive Ozzy Osbourne interview in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Lars Ulrich on Ghost: Everybody in our band is a huge fan
- Will Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks be serving Big Macs in Fleetwood?
- Shinedown named as the hardest touring artist of 2018
- Doro announces Backstage To Heaven EP
- Gerry Rafferty: The Man Who Hated the Music Business
- We put Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe in a room and asked them how they‘d save metal
- Watch Overkill reflect on the early days in new documentary
- Slipknot’s Clown: We’re primed and ready to go
- Slade: Slade Alive! - Album Of The Week Club Review
- Courtney Love granted restraining order against former manager
- Geddy Lee: I don't think in our heart of hearts we believed it was the end of Rush
- Swallow The Sun return with epic new single Upon The Water
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s video for pop-tinged new single Medicine
- January 3
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- Get spooked with John 5 in hair-raising animated video for Zoinks!
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Happy Metal New Year!
- Welcome to Prog Limelight artist Jacco Gardner
- Pegi Young: Musician, activist and ex wife of Neil Young dies after cancer battle
- Watch Nikki Sixx and Marilyn Manson join Rob Zombie for Helter Skelter at Ozzfest
- Iron Maiden’s original lineup get back together for the first time in four decades
- The Anchoress predicts the return of the concept album
- Former Marmalade vocalist Dean Ford dead at 72
- Kiss clatter into B-52s in manic Detroit Rock Lobster mash-up
- Watch Slipknot record All Out Life in new studio clip
- Heart’s Ann Wilson pays tribute to Chris Cornell with new music video
- Manowar name new guitarist for The Final Battle world tour
- Philip Anselmo: the albums that changed my life
- The 10 best cheesy rock albums, as chosen by Soilwork’s Björn ‘Speed’ Strid
- Rammstein plan to launch 5 videos from new studio album
- Machine Head: how The Blackening became the modern Master Of Puppets
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