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- January 31
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- Gary Moore's Live From London: raw, varied, incendiary
- Glenn Hughes' Justified Man collection: a legacy of consistent inconsistency
- Watch Five Finger Death Punch’s lyric video for Full Circle
- Tame Impala invite you to get Lost In Yesterday in new 70s-themed video
- Katatonia return with mournful new single Lacquer
- Anubis release video for new single Sirens
- Metallica’s James Hetfield returns to public life after rehab stint
- Haken, Voyager, I Built The Sky and more added to Radar Festival line-up
- Pure Reason Revolution release brand new track Silent Genesis
- Vennart take aim at online trolls with new single Dick Privilege
- The Psychedelic Furs announce their first album in almost 30 years
- Terrorvision, Skindred and more added to final Teddy Rocks charity lineup
- Thunder announce five opening acts for their UK arena tour
- Listen to Testament’s scorching new track Night Of The Witch
- Mark Morton confirms new Lamb Of God studio album is “coming soon”
- January 30
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- Trevor Rabin to release career-spanning box set
- Hayley Williams releases striking video for new single Leave It Alone
- Ozzy Osbourne stars in gruesome PETA ad against cat declawing
- Devin Townsend: “People want me to reform Strapping Young Lad. That’s a huge honour”
- Jimi Hendrix: LSD, Day-Glo worlds, and the making of Axis: Bold As Love
- Listen to The Amity Affliction’s crushing new single Catatonia
- Marillion to release Script For A Jester’s Tear deluxe box set
- Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets to release Live At The Roundhouse
- Bloodstock Open Air just got a whole lot louder with the addition of 4 more artists
- Ozzy Osbourne: I’m not worried about death
- The story of grindcore: "This isn't metal, it isn't punk, I don't know what the f**k these guys are doing"
- Lifesigns, Magenta, Lazuli and more confirmed for Fusion 2020
- Corrosion Of Conformity pay tribute to "badass drummer” Reed Mullin
- Watch Dave Mustaine’s daughter Electra join Megadeth onstage in Paris
- Lonely Robot reschedule live dates
- Watch Pearl Jam explore the beauty of nature in Dance Of The Clairvoyants video
- January 29
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- My Chemical Romance announce North American tour
- Black Sabbath announce "completely in the dark" listening parties
- Steve Hillage announces new tour dates for October
- Slam Dunk 2020 adds While She Sleeps, Code Orange and more
- Acid Rock: the candy-coloured story of music designed to blow minds
- Fleetwood Mac rule out Lindsey Buckingham return
- Ayreon to release Electric Castle Live And Other Tales
- Def Leppard detail The Early Years box set
- UK government cuts business rates to help grassroots music venues
- The best sleaze metal bands as chosen by Davey Suicide
- Aussie prog bands unite to raise money for bush fire victims
- The Who: from purple hearts to power chords
- Billy Talent share lyric video for foot-stomping new track Reckless Paradise
- Divine Heresy and Nile bassist Joe Payne dead at 35
- Leprous, Swans, Jo Quail and more confirmed for ArcTanGent 2020
- Slayer warn fans over hoax festival tickets
- Queen and Adam Lambert add further UK Rhapsody shows
- January 28
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- Insomnium: Stunning scenery, horrible history lessons and burnt bums
- Check out Birdeatsbaby’s creepy new video
- Kayak cancel summer festival shows
- Disturbed announce The Sickness 20th Anniversary Tour
- Rock In Rio: The festival that changed the world
- Watch nine-year-old drummer slay Queens Of The Stone Age classic No One Knows
- Chris Cornell’s widow Vicky thanks fans after late husband’s Grammy win
- Corrosion Of Conformity: "We didn’t sell ourselves out to get a record deal"
- Post Malone: Ozzy is “going to keep kicking ass”
- Magnum: On A Storyteller's Night - Album Of The Week Club review
- Anathema’s Daniel Cavanagh reissues Monochrome with bonus tracks
- Slipknot’s Clown talks unreleased Look Outside Your Window material
- Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin dead at 53
- January 27
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- Tracks of the Week: new music from Alter Bridge, Gary Moore and more
- Vote for the greatest Yes songs ever!
- Watch Lamb Of God's Mark Morton perform the Pearl Jam classic Black
- Nick Mason interview: the Pink Floyd man on his Saucerful Of Secrets
- 13 Things we learnt at Slipknot's London headline show
- Brian May launches sports bra adorned with guitars
- Sparks announce new album and European tour
- Aerosmith announce huge 50th anniversary show
- My Chemical Romance add third UK stadium date
- Get the Phil Collins Complete Studio Collection box set for just £7.99
- And the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album goes to... Cage The Elephant
- Black Stone Cherry announce 2020 UK tour
- Download UK adds dozens more artists to 2020 bill
- January 26
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- January 24
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- Moral Panic: Bright Eyes, My Chemical Romance and the rest of the week's emo news in brief
- 10 of the most blasphemous metal songs in existence
- Watch Evanescence create video for The Chain in new behind-the-scenes clip
- Watch The Neal Morse Band perform rousing version of Dark Melody live
- Me And That Man launch video for new track Męstwo
- Watch a beautifully illustrated film of Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
- Paramore’s Hayley Williams releases video for atmospheric new single Simmer
- Cellar Darling, The New Death Cult and Maraton added to Prognosis bill
- King Crimson share trailer for upcoming documentary Cosmic FuKc
- Godsticks release video for new single Surrender
- Josh Klinghoffer: It’s absolutely John Frusciante’s place to be in Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Higher Power: meet the band redefining hardcore for a new generation
- Nikki Sixx interview: The Dirt, the Heroin Diaries, and the wreck of Motley Crue
- Pearl Jam: Gigaton will have “some really straight ahead rock songs”
- Jim Root: I put off having a family to dedicate my life to Slipknot
- Jeff Lynne's ELO announce 2020 tour dates
- January 23
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- Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel and Evanescence's Amy Lee: In conversation with metal's leading ladies
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett hits out at Motorhead and Thin Lizzy’s Rock Hall snub
- Roger Waters announces the This Is Not A Drill 2020 tour
- Led Zeppelin interview: How The West Was Won
- Genesis sighting in New York sparks reunion rumours
- 10 Reasons why 70,000 Tons Of Metal is the ultimate metalhead vacation
- Slash on new Guns N’ Roses album: There’s material, there’s recording and there’s s*** going on
- Opeth bassist's new side project announced for Prognosis
- Faith No More add new UK date to raise money for Australian wildfire relief efforts
- Parkway Drive share German version of The Void titled Die Leere
- Steve Hackett guests on new Ms. Amy Birks single I Wish
- Judge denies Joey Kramer the right to play with Aerosmith at Grammys
- Goo Goo Dolls launch video for uplifting single Lost
- Ozzy thanks fans for messages of support following his Parkinson’s diagnosis
- January 22
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- Bright Eyes reunion: welcoming back the band who helped us survive the 2000s
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Winston McCall
- Arbouretum stream brand new single A Prism In Reverse
- Wednesday 13 team up with Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia for new single Monster
- Watch Alter Bridge in video for new single Godspeed
- The troubled tale of Ten Years After: from Woodstock to the world
- In This Moment detail new album Mother - watch video for The In-Between
- Slipknot, Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Anthrax and more confirmed for Rocklahoma 2020
- Pure Reason Revolution return with their first album in 10 years
- Sylvia by Focus: the story behind the song
- Creeper, The Joy Formidable, Knocked Loose and more to play 2000 Trees
- Ozzy's received an "outpouring of love” since revealing Parkinson’s diagnosis
- Baby "sings" AC/DC classic Thunderstruck, internet goes wild
- Joey Kramer files lawsuit against his Aerosmith bandmates
- Bargain alert: Save £110 on the price of these Sennheiser bluetooth headphones
- Listen to Pearl Jam create a "perfect storm" on new single Dance Of The Clairvoyants
- Toundra release video for new single II. Akt
- January 21
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- A Jimi Hendrix story: Lemmy, psychedelia and super-strength acid
- Scorpions planning to release new studio album later this year
- Greg Dulli launches Pantomima video, announces US tour
- Antimatter announce 20th anniversary acoustic show for London
- Yes announce tour with Alan Parsons Live Project
- Rammstein finally reveal North American tour dates
- Enslaved head to Iceland for new video shoot
- Funko reveal new Slipknot, Slayer, ZZ Top, Motorhead and Ghost figures
- Ozzy Osbourne diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
- What on earth is 'extreme void metal'?
- In This Moment tease new video for single The In-Between
- The Temperance Movement part ways with frontman Phil Campbell
- Avant black/doom psychonauts Lychgate unveil a mind-melting new track
- Gong announce the This Is The Moment And Now Is The Time UK tour
- All Time Low return with video for new single Some Kind Of Disaster
- Steve Rothery to guest with Dave Foster Band at January Dingwalls show
- Slipknot to record intimate set for BBC Radio 1's Rock Show
- Watch Megadeth and Five Finger Death Punch kick off their European tour
- January 20
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- Volbeat's Michael Poulsen: "Perfection is a terrible word made up by a terrible human being"
- Rammstein announce North American tour cities via the medium of animated gif
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor: I’ve been away from social media for six months… and it’s brilliant
- These CBGB x DMs boots are quite possibly the coolest thing you'll see today
- Pearl Jam reveal Gigaton tracklist
- Megadeth share footage of rehearsal sessions ahead of European tour
- Petition under way to have Rush’s Neil Peart honoured at Lakeside Park
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Black Star Riders, Devilskin and more
- Rush: Signals - Album Of The Week Club review
- Creeper share lyric video for their “satanic underworld anthem” Annabelle
- New AC/DC album is coming in “February or March” claims Australian broadcaster
- M-Opus release video trailer for second album Origins
- Queen become first British band to be celebrated on an official UK coin
- Ray Burton, the father of Metallica legend Cliff Burton, has died aged 94
- January 18
- January 17
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- Scorpions announce Las Vegas residency with Queensryche
- Magnum's The Serpent Rings: continuing the second wave of success
- Al Di Meola to release second Beatles covers album
- Mariana Semkina releases new single Turn Back Time
- British Lion: ‘Arry’s other army return on sizzling form
- Scott Gorham reacts to Thin Lizzy missing out on Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- “The media want the bullsh*t and drama”: a tense audience with Slipknot
- Watch Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton in new video for All I Had To Lose
- Top 10 greatest At The Gates songs as chosen by Deserted Fear
- Hellhammer-backed black-metallers T.O.M.B. unleash a blistering new track
- Rush dominate streaming services following Neil Peart's death
- Avenged Sevenfold to reissue 2008’s Live In The LBC and Diamonds In The Rough
- Green Day's Warning at 20: reappraising an overlooked folk-punk classic
- Tangerine Dream to revisit classic tracks on Recurring Dreams album
- Poison’s Bret Michaels to undergo procedure for skin cancer
- Napalm Death announce new single Logic Ravaged By Brute Force
- 3Teeth travel into the post-apocalyptic wasteland in Altær video
- Powerwolf announce Best Of The Blessed compilation album
- Paul Di’Anno recruits former Iron Maiden members for his farewell show
- The Dear Hunter announced for ProgPower Europe
- January 16
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- Green Day launch video for new single Oh Yeah!
- Simple Minds to release Street Fighting Years box set
- Beth Hart: 10 records that changed my life
- Mobius release video for Bhati from upcoming album Kala
- We Came As Romans pay tribute to Kyle Pavone on new track From The First Note
- The Darkness reveal North American tour dates
- Parkway Drive, King Diamond, Devin Townsend and Myrkur Metal Hammer exclusive bundles available now!
- Wolf People announce indefinite hiatus
- Desertfest London adds 20 artists to 2020 bill
- Nightwish detail new double studio album Human. :II: Nature
- Novena release video for new single Indestructible
- Bury Tomorrow return with new album Cannibal and launch title track
- Black Star Riders share video for In The Shadow Of A War Machine
- Watch Ozzy Osbourne reflect on his life in trailer for The Nine Lives Of Ozzy
- Chester Bennington’s original band launch single featuring the late vocalist
- January 15
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- The weird and wonderful wisdom of Jaz Coleman
- Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner calls Rock Hall snub “a total joke”
- Rammstein plot North American shows in new video teaser
- The class of 2020: the bands you need in your life this year
- God Is An Astronaut to revisit All Is Violent, All Is Bright on 2020 tour
- Bon Jovi announce summer tour with special guest Bryan Adams
- The 20 worst music biopics ever made
- Wayne Hussey: The Mission, growing up Mormon, and orchestrating an orgy
- Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2020: Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and more are in
- Megadeth: “We’re coming for you, Europe”
- Robbie Robertson interview: life with Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese and The Band
- Rick Wakeman reports a new prog album is in the works
- Anathema announce support acts for March tour
- Bloodstock Open Air: Seven more artists added to 2020 bill
- Foo Fighters promise “seriously crazy s***” to mark their 25th anniversary
- Slipknot share Pollution short film as they deliver blistering setlist in Dublin
- January 14
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- Ghost launch official jigsaws of album cover artwork
- Twin Atlantic balance light and shade in neon-tinged video for Barcelona
- Myrkur returns with new album Folkesange - listen to first single Ella
- The Allman Brothers announce massive 10LP 50th anniversary vinyl box set
- The White Buffalo announces UK tour
- Humanist team up with Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan for new single Shock Collar
- The Rolling Stones at Altamont: how the hippie dream turned to hell
- Queen & Adam Lambert, Alice Cooper and more confirmed for Australian bushfire relief concert
- Keith Emerson Tribute Concert DVD screening announced
- Lindemann share trio of brutal NSFW videos for Ach So Gern
- Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Album Of The Week Club review
- Slipknot share cryptic video: What are they up to?
- Steve Harris: I avoided Peter Gabriel as I didn’t want to be a tongue-tied fanboy
- Mike Portnoy on the death of Rush's Neil Peart: "I broke down crying"
- Bad Wolves tackle alcohol addiction in video for new track Sober
- January 13
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- Phil Collins interview: the Live Aid fiasco, going solo, and coping with criticism
- Pearl Jam announce new album Gigaton and US tour dates
- Richard Fortus hopes Guns N’ Roses will have new music out this year
- Behemoth share unholy video for Rom: 5:8 to mark start of tour with Slipknot
- Watch The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins perform on UK TV dressed as a chameleon
- Wheel announce UK headline tour
- Foreigner announce summer tour with Kansas and Europe
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, The Cadillac Three and more
- Vote for the best Marillion song ever
- Pearl Jam launch interactive poster campaign in 11 cities around the world
- Bob Seger launches YouTube channel with new video for the classic Night Moves
- Watch Tool, Dream Theater and Styx pay tribute to Rush legend Neil Peart
- Knotfest UK: Ticket details for Slipknot’s August event revealed
- Judas Priest and Soundgarden shortlisted in Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame fan ballot
- January 11
- January 10
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- Rush drumming legend Neil Peart dead at 67
- Neil Peart: The ultimate interview
- The Cadillac Three launch scuzzy new single Hard Out Here For A Country Boy
- A Thousand Horses launch celebratory booze anthem Drinking Song
- Watch Queensryche's psychedelic lyric video for The Verdict track Inner Unrest
- Sons Of Apollo share lyric video for their emotional new track for Desolate July
- My Dying Bride unveil video for sprawling new track Your Broken Shore
- Biters man Tuk Smith returns with new band The Restless Hearts
- My Chemical Romance: Are they about to announce a UK tour?
- Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton releases new single All I Had To Lose
- Cairo premiere video for new single Deja Vu with Prog
- Creeper return with new album Sex, Death & The Infinite Void - UK tour dates announced
- What are Pearl Jam teasing?
- Jack Hues premieres new video for A Long Time with Prog
- Nergal’s Me And That Man are back with new album and single
- David Lee Roth says Eddie Van Halen is “not doing well”
- Listen to Ozzy Osbourne’s Ordinary Man featuring Elton John
- January 9
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- Kiss star Paul Stanley teams up once again with Puma for new clothing range
- Rise Twain release new video for Prayers
- Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick out of hospital after pleurisy diagnosis
- Evanescence share video for their epic cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain
- “Whose f**king idea was this?”: the inside story of Metallica’s S&M2
- Parkway Drive set up campaign to aid Australian wildfire relief efforts
- Norwegian death/black dynamos Vredehammer unleash a face-ripping new single
- Scott Walker - A Musical Portrait
- Watch The Darkness raise hell with Abbey Clancy in video for In Another Life
- Joe Elliott and Nikki Sixx interview: competition, chaos and car crashes
- Wire are Primed And Ready with new single release
- David Lee Roth delights Las Vegas crowd with setlist brimming with Van Halen and solo classics
- Nektar reveal artwork and tracklisting for new album
- Listen to Stone Sour’s early demo of Blue Study
- The Later Years: Save £157 when you order Pink Floyd’s massive 16-disc CD box set
- The Amity Affliction detail new album and launch video for Soak Me In Bleach
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson made honorary RAF Group Captain
- January 8
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- Queen announce Greatest Hits In Japan collection
- Red Hot Chili Peppers confirm new music with John Frusciante
- Robert Plant interview: my life after Led Zeppelin
- Alestorm swing back into action with Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
- Cosmograf man's new label announce first signing: The Bardic Depths
- The 10 most WTF curveballs in rock history
- Bob Dylan biopic: First details emerge
- Abbath checks in to report he’s been sober for two months
- Bambara unveil new single Heat Lightning and 2020 tour plans
- Sometime The Wolf mark album launch with video for Deeper Than Below
- Exclusive: inside The Black Crowes reunion - on sale now
- The new issue of Metal Hammer has four covers to choose from
- Tame Impala share disco-infused new single Lost In Yesterday
- Listen to alternative version of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World
- Let LA outfit DIIV light up your life with glorious animated video for The Spark
- Metallica pledge $750,000 to Australian wildfire relief efforts
- More success for Rocketman as film picks up four BAFTA nominations
- January 7
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- Six Organs Of Admittance launch new single Haunted And Known
- Mark Morton interview: going acoustic, Chris Adler's exit, and plans for Lamb Of God
- Members of The Body, Lingua Ignota and Full Of Hell form new project Sightless Pit
- Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble Album Of The Week Club review
- Rod Stewart to tour with Cheap Trick this summer
- Listen to Ash’s upbeat new single Darkest Hour Of The Night
- Reign in Pain: How Slayer conquered Britain
- Former Hawkwind drummer Martin Griffin has died
- Music world reacts in horror as deadly Australian bushfire crisis continues
- Greta Thunberg hits back after Meat Loaf jibe
- London's historic Koko venue badly damaged by fire
- Ozzy Osbourne and Elton John collaborate on new track
- January 6
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- Motley Crue share new Shout At The Devil video featuring The Dirt cast
- Ozzy Osbourne takes to the streets in protest in Straight To Hell video
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Body Count, Night Flight Orchestra and more
- Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch: I thought we’d be a big underground band
- Mike Portnoy sets the record straight: he's not joining Rush for 2020 tour
- In Continuum premiere new lyric video for You Don't Know How It Feels with Prog
- Watch surviving Nirvana members reunite for a night of classic tracks
- Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick hospitalised with pleurisy
- Kvelertak team up with Mastodon’s Troy Sanders for new single Crack Of Doom
- Elton John biopic Rocketman celebrates Golden Globes success
- January 4
- January 3
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- Rage Against The Machine confirmed as Coachella headliners
- Will 'female-fronted metal' finally die in 2020?
- Jani Lane’s ex says Warrant singer was drugged and raped by fellow musician
- The Allman Brothers Band's 50th anniversary to be celebrated in New York
- 20 great bands to shake up the 2020s
- Cadaver and Satyricon member Anders Odden preparing for colon cancer surgery
- Def Leppard show you “the stuff you didn’t see” last year in new video montage
- My Dying Bride return with new album The Ghost Of Orion - listen to Your Broken Shore
- Faith No More have “no plans” to record new music
- Five Finger Death Punch come Full Circle with their latest single
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