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- February 29
- February 28
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- Skate or die! How skate-punk took over the world
- Extreme metal news: This week's top stories from the underground
- Bring The Noise: How Rage Against The Machine Changed The World
- Jump and Haze play London double-header in March
- Robert Plant's Digging Deep: journeys away from Valhalla
- Wishbone Ash's Coat Of Arms: a classic sound revisited
- sleepmakewaves premiere new song Batavia with Prog
- Mutoid metallers Red Method unleash a striking new video
- The Night Flight Orchestra's Aeromantic: euphoric, life-affirming, and over-the-top
- Star Wars fans, the force is strong with this Nixon watch sale: get 50% off Star Wars watches now!
- The Allman Brothers Band's Trouble No More: 50 years of harmony and heartbreak
- SOAD's John Dolmayan: These Grey Men track-by-track
- Metal fans officially most likely to have sex in a car, says survey
- Comprehensively extensive 15-LP box set of The Stooges' classic Funhouse launched
- Are Mr Bungle recording their first new album in 21 years?
- The greatest ever Marillion song revealed
- Biff Byford: I had a heart attack
- Go behind the scenes on Jason Momoa’s Ozzy Osbourne video
- February 27
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- Best noise-cancelling headphones 2020: less noise, more rock when traveling
- Sepultura’s Beneath The Remains: the thrash masterpiece that sparked metal’s new era
- Rammstein launch spectacular time-lapse stage construction video
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Fish and Cake
- Five Finger Death Punch's F8 is the best record of their career
- Wardruna's Lindy-Fay Hella releases a stunning new solo video
- Def Leppard launch London To Vegas live package across multiple formats
- Watch the video for Trivium's explosive new track Catastrophist
- The 10 best Southern rock songs, chosen by Lynyrd Skynyrd's Johnny Van Zant
- The top 10 best Adrian Smith Iron Maiden songs
- Korn guitarist opens ‘wellness spa’
- Watch the Kris Barras Band’s hilarious new video for What A Way To Go
- Deep Purple announce new album Whoosh! and European tour
- This is what Ghost‘s Tobias Forge looked like as a 15-year-old black metal fan
- Dee Snider: new AC/DC album will feature ‘jaw-dropping surprises’
- February 26
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- The 10 best star turns at the Peter Green tribute show
- How Suicidal Tendencies changed hardcore forever
- Novena release video for Sun Dance
- Fish hopes for July release for new album Weltschmerz
- Beats Studio 3 Wireless noise cancelling headphones review
- Incite's Richie Cavalera: "The day I was born Rob Halford blessed me with the horns"
- Sony WH-1000XM3 Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones review
- Sony WF-1000XM3 true wireless earbuds review
- Schammasch: Aleister Crowley and the destructive yet divine nature of creation
- Beats Powerbeats Pro review
- Watch the trailer for Rockfield film starring Hawkwind, Ozzy and more
- 10 incredible Hungarian metal bands you might not have heard
- Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds to return in 2021
- The Used cancel Slam Dunk festival appearance and tour dates
- Kim Gordon announces first solo tour
- Watch Ayreon’s epic new live video for Twisted Coil featuring Damian Wilson
- Super7 reveal new Slayer, Megadeth and Venom-inspired figures
- This is the epic setlist from last night’s all-star Peter Green tribute show
- Dimebag Darrell wanted to ‘go back to Pantera’ before his death
- February 25
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- Renaissance to headline Night Of The Prog Festival
- Dude looks like a lady: The power of androgyny in metal
- Carlos Santana: a guide to his best albums
- Pattern-Seeking Animals announce new studio album Prehensile Tales
- Robin Trower announces 2020 European Tour
- Throwing Muses announce new album Sun Racket
- Mick Fleetwood announces all-star Peter Green box set - watch rehearsal footage
- Ian Anderson denies rift with Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant
- Voyager get the keytars out for new single Runaway
- Moral Panic: Bright Eyes, The Used and the rest of the week's emo news in brief
- Chelsea Wolfe announced as Arctangent headliner
- What happened when Killing Joke recorded inside the Great Pyramid at Giza
- Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy: My Life Lessons
- Paul Di’Anno: Iron Maiden were right to get rid of me
- Chaos Theory Festival: Celebrating 10 years of underground sounds
- Uriah Heep announce 50th anniversary tour for 2020
- Bloodstock adds six more bands to 2020 bill
- 'Long-lost' debut album from Jazz Sabbath to be finally released after 50 years
- Beth Hart and Kenny Wayne Shepherd star on brand new blues podcast
- Coronavirus outbreak forces Testament and Exodus to cancel show
- Ozzy Osbourne plans to start work on new album ‘next month’
- February 24
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- Metallica cancel two summer festival tour dates
- Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz: My Life Lessons
- Tool announce massive 2020 tour
- Kraftwerk celebrate 50 years with 3-D concert tour
- How Metal United World Wide is bringing metalheads together across the globe
- The inside story of the show that scored Metallica a major label deal
- Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen teases a new Auri album
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ozzy Osbourne, Naked Six and more
- Judas Priest announce 50 Heavy Metal Years US Tour
- Check out the new album track from Jonathan Hulten
- British government’s immigration plans will ‘cut the legs off’ live music, says industry body
- Spirit: Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus - Album Of The Week Club review
- Details of new Supertramp biography revealed
- Nergal: I wanted Ville Valo on my new album
- Genesis' early years detailed in a new book
- Is Marilyn Manson teasing his new album?
- IO Earth reveal new album tracklisting
- Neil Peart tribute gig announced
- Watch James Hetfield make live comeback
- February 22
- February 21
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- Bon Jovi announce full details of new album Bon Jovi 2020
- The White Buffalo announces new album On The Widow's Walk
- Greg Dulli's Random Desire: a master class in mining the musical spectrum
- Humanist's track-by-track guide to their self-titled new album
- Collateral by Collateral: fizzing, but also flat and frustrating
- Doors legend Robby Krieger to release first solo album in 10 years
- Biff Byford's School Of Hard Knocks: leave your preconceptions behind
- FM announce new album Synchronized, release video for title track
- Mariusz Duda announces first solo song The Song Of A Dying Memory
- The Contortionist cover Smashing Pumpkins' 1979
- Wardruna release video for brand new single Grá
- Watch Biff Byford’s video for epic version of Simon & Garfunkel classic
- I got tattooed at Ozzy Osbourne's album launch and yeah, it really hurt
- Watch Biffy Clyro’s video for electrifying new song Instant History
- Hexvessel premiere video for new single Billion Year Old Being with Prog
- Ozzy Osbourne's Ordinary Man: anything but ordinary
- Watch Jason Momoa play Ozzy Osbourne in new video
- February 20
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- "We were one of the first progressive bands!" - Spirit and their sense of musical adventure
- Archers Of Loaf release first new music in 22 years
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Happy Birthday Black Sabbath!
- The Butthole Surfers: piss bombs, glitter, fire, nudity, penetration and screwdrivers
- Slipknot reveal first Knotfest At Sea lineup
- The Pineapple Thief announce new album and biggest ever tour
- Warmrain replace The Gift at Prog The Forest
- Neil Young pens scathing open letter to Donald Trump
- Listen to Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone’s brand new song It’s A Raid
- Listen to Bon Jovi’s anthemic new single Limitless
- Watch Pearl Jam’s new animated video for Superblood Wolfmoon
- John Lees' Barclay James Harvest announce UK tour dates
- Ex-Anthrax singer Dan Nelson pleads guilty to beating up two pensioners
- Listen to Stone Sour's unreleased demo of The Wicked
- Ozzy Osbourne says 2020 tour not cancelled, only “postponed”
- February 19
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- Nova Twins: Heavy music doesn't let everyone in – we're trying to change that
- Peter Frampton to release his memoir Do You Feel Like I Do?
- Epica and Apocalyptica announce UK and European co-headline tour
- Indonesian guitarist's cover of Sweet Child O' Mine sets internet ablaze
- Omega Point announce Paul Davies as guitar player
- Bring Me The Horizon pay tribute to Spice Girls at BRIT Awards
- Gentle Giant to reissue first four albums on vinyl
- Watch Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and more pay tribute to Ginger Baker
- Ronnie James Dio documentary announced
- Opeth cancel three shows over Mikael Åkerfeldt health concerns
- Sharon Osbourne: The fans are behind Ozzy
- February 18
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- Watch The Hu's video for brooding song Sugaan Essena from Star Wars game
- Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta: The soundtrack to my life
- Primus announce Rush covers tour: A Tribute To Kings
- Amon Amarth to release new Berserker video game
- Foo Fighters begin 25th anniversary celebrations with The Van Tour
- Former Judas Priest guitarist KK Downing returns with new band KK's Priest
- The 10 most incredible tech-metal/djent riffs
- Watch guitarist play 160 Black Sabbath riffs in a row
- All Time Low announce new album Wake Up, Sunshine
- Nightwish add North American dates to 2020 tour
- Listen to Pearl Jam’s pounding new single Superblood Wolfmoon
- Watch Parkway Drive deliver explosive version of Wild Eyes live at Wacken
- How Ronnie James Dio saved Black Sabbath
- Glass Hammer announce new album Dreaming City
- The Who announce Teenage Cancer Trust headline show
- Slipknot's “crazy” Tortilla Man scarred his face by smashing his head into drum kit
- Ozzy Osbourne cancels 2020 tour dates to seek further medical treatment
- February 17
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- How The Breakfast Club Killed Simple Minds
- Steve Howe to release new solo album Love Is
- What happened when Led Zeppelin played Atlantic's 40th birthday party
- Biff Byford hints at a “special” 2021 for Saxon
- Black metal punks? Meet the fascism-fighting Dawn Ray'd
- Best AC/DC t-shirts 2022: Back In Black (and white, grey...)
- Ozzy Osbourne lifts the lid on Ordinary Man tracklist
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Karn Evil 9 set to become sci-fi movie
- Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell is working on a new solo album
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Blinders, Biff Byford and more
- I Am The Manic Whale announce new album
- Metal's 10 most brutal breakdowns
- New Years Day mark start of UK and European tour with Skeletons video
- Jellyfish: Bellybutton - Album Of The Week Club review
- Watch Lamb Of God destroy Chicago’s House Of Vans with epic set
- Queen and Adam Lambert recreate Live Aid set at Fire Fight Australia concert
- Moonshot premiere new video for Stupid Things That Mean The World with Prog
- US Army pay tribute to Neil Peart with stunning cover of Time Stand Still
- System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan recruits Serj Tankian for cover of Bowie’s Starman
- Elton John forced to cut New Zealand show short due to pneumonia diagnosis
- February 15
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- Interview: Siobhan Fahey on her love of Pink Floyd
- Interview: producer Hugh Padgham on Yes, Genesis and Derek & Clive
- Inside Joel Dommett's Record Collection
- Ebonivory to support Caligula's Horse in US
- Supertramp interview: Are Rick and Roger ever going to reunite?
- How Gerard Way became an icon for a generation of misfits
- February 14
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- Toundra release third video from, Dr. Caligari soundtrack
- Rage Against The Machine add tour dates and reveal measures to combat scalpers
- 10 songs that inspired Starbenders' extraordinary second album Love Potions
- Iamthemorning’s Mariana Semkina releases video for her new single Still Life
- Black Sabbath debut: Woman from cover finally identified 50 years on
- Me And That Man team up with Ihsahn for new single By The River
- Saxon’s Biff Byford shares the love on Valentine’s Day with new single Me And You
- Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman to sell more than 1000 items at auction
- Ian Anderson: It’s not Jethro Tull unless I’m involved
- Anvil's Legal At Last: the most Anvil record since the last Anvil record
- Listen to Pearl Jam’s new single… by pointing your phone at the moon
- Blackwater Conspiracy: the sound of a band starting to sing their own song
- Fish On Friday to release new album in April
- Machine Head return with new single Circle The Drain
- Everything you need to know about Kvelertak's new album Splid
- Don Airey pulls out of Prognosis
- Ash's Teenage Wildlife: 25 years of teenage effervescence
- February 13
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- The Bluffer's Guide: Post-Metal
- Drugs, ghosts and the radical re-birth of John Frusciante
- The 10 best Peter Gabriel songs
- 13 perfectly inappropriate metal love songs for Valentine’s Day
- Def Leppard announce the 20/20 Vision tour with ZZ Top
- The alternative Valentine’s Day playlist
- An extreme metal guide to Valentine's Day
- Queen’s Brian May thanks fans for support after Australian video ambush
- Glenn Hughes interview: "we’re all gonna die... so live each day"
- Give the gift of high quality streaming this Valentine's Day with big savings on TIDAL
- Slipknot’s Jim Root: I’ve been dreaming about Paul Gray a lot recently
- Five Finger Death Punch: "We thought Ivan was going to f**king die"
- Late Cynic drummer Sean Reinert has organ donor wishes denied due to his sexuality
- Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl says new record is "finished"
- Green Carnation reveal artwork and tracklisting for new album
- Black Sabbath and the story of the album that gave birth to Metal
- Asking Alexandria return with new single ahead of 2020 tour
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals he’s been battling Parkinson’s disease since 2003
- February 12
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- The Doors: a celebration of the late Ray Manzarek
- Dear Rage Against The Machine: Stay relevant or stand down
- Witness Venom Prison obliterating Damnation festival with Uterine Industrialisation
- Lindsey Buckingham announces first tour since heart surgery
- The world's 'first heavy metal album' finally gets a release
- The world according to Watain's Erik Danielsson: “I’ve studied the Devil meticulously”
- Norwegian retro rockers Magick Touch unveil a joyful new video for To The Limit
- Acclaimed rock photographer Ross Halfin confirmed for The Photography Show 2020
- First look at Mayhem's limited edition 25th Anniversary De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas box set
- Deftones announce summer tour with Gojira
- Ronnie Wood: cleaning up, beating cancer, and what's going on with the Stones
- My Chemical Romance announce additional UK show at The Eden Project
- Marshall spread the love ahead of Valentine’s Day with 30% off speaker range
- Deal alert: The Art Of McCartney massively reduced at Amazon
- Cannibalism, death and rubber fetishes: welcome to the world of Till Lindemann
- Dez Fafara: How Coal Chamber saved LA and why nu metal rules
- They Could Have Been A Contender: Pitchshifter
- Watch Queen and Adam Lambert cover Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love
- Watch Mike Portnoy pay tribute to Rush’s Neil Peart… on a tiny drum kit
- Randy Blythe on new Lamb Of God album: This whole record is political
- February 11
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- The story of The Firm: the band that saved Jimmy Page
- Slash: School, fame and weird phobias
- 12 songs Marilyn Manson covered that you probably haven't heard
- Hot Snakes share video for foreboding new single I Shall Be Free
- Watch the Peter Frampton Band blast through Me And My Guitar live
- Watch Joey Kramer rejoin his Aerosmith bandmates in Las Vegas
- Watch Myrkur’s video for ethereal new track Leaves Of Yggdrasil
- Rick Wakeman reveals new prog album The Red Planet
- Gordon Giltrap announces new studio album Woman
- New Model Army will celebrate 40th anniversary with UK shows
- Teens react to Rage Against The Machine headlining Reading and Leeds – and it's hilarious
- Watch Green Day light up The Late Late Show with the anthemic Oh Yeah!
- The chaotic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus
- Enter Shikari return with new album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible
- Black metal fan pleads guilty to church burning charges
- Jeff Beck announces UK tour
- Bloodstock Open Air adds a further seven artists to 2020 lineup
- How to buy and sell valuable vinyl records: expert tips from a rare records expert
- Budgie’s Burke Shelley refuses surgery for life-threatening aortic aneurysm
- Corey Taylor: I’ve come so close to walking away from Slipknot
- February 10
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- Rage Against The Machine confirm reunion tour details
- Lindsay Schoolcraft parts ways with Cradle Of Filth
- Eagles kick off Hotel California tour in style with epic setlist
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crown Lands, Nightwish and more
- Megadeth and Lamb Of God announce massive co-headline tour
- Julia Marcell releases video for new single The Odds
- Dee Snider backs petition to have AC/DC play Super Bowl half-time show
- T. Rex: Dandy in the Underworld - Album Of The Week Club review
- Watch Green Day meet Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo up on the roof
- Huw Lloyd-Jones returns to Also Eden
- My Dying Bride release epic new single Tired Of Tears
- Voyager just miss out on representing Australia at Eurovision 2020
- Lifesigns release video for new single Impossible
- Static-X share video for pounding new track Hollow
- Elton John and Bernie Taupin celebrate success at 2020 Oscars
- Watch Slipknot tear through Unsainted and Duality at intimate London show
- February 9
- February 8
- February 7
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- The 20 most evil albums of the 80s
- 10 essential cult death metal albums
- Stone Temple Pilots' Perdida: melancholy at its most musical
- Waterparks interview: Inside the dark side of stan culture
- The inside story of Marillion's Brave
- The Cadillac Three's Country Fuzz: drinkin', hell-raisin' and more drinkin'
- Tesla remake history with Five Man London Jam album
- Check out Leprous’ drum video for The Sky Is Red
- Code Orange release video for new track Swallowing The Rabbit Whole
- Hotly-tipped Canadian duo Crown Lands launch crunching new single Spit It Out
- Moral Panic: Hayley Williams, My Chemical Romance and the rest of the week's emo news in brief
- Loathe's I Let It In And It Took Everything: Expansively lavish, furiously heavy and impossible to pigeonhole
- Five Finger Death Punch drop lyric video for new track Living The Dream
- Watch the new Nightwish video for Noise
- Tiger Moth Tales to release A Visit To Zoetermeer
- Chester Bennington's original band Grey Daze announce new album Amends
- Watch: Life on the road with Misery Index, one of metal's most industrious bands
- Watch the trailer for Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones
- Wardruna announce details of new album Kvitravn
- Ozzy Osbourne announces "worldwide tattoo event" to celebrate the launch of his new album
- Rival Sons to headline Sunday at Ramblin' Man Fair
- February 6
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- The 10 Essential 80s Thrash Metal Albums
- Joe Satriani confirms details of new album Shapeshifting
- 10 greatest black metal live shows of the 2010s
- Lamb Of God release video for new single Checkmate
- The Lost Stoned Pandas announce double album
- Vote for the greatest classic rock song ever
- Robert Plant's Saving Grace to headline Black Deer Festival
- The Rolling Stones announce 2020 North American tour
- Haunt The Woods share new single Vultures
- Green Day have made a college jock party record and it's the best thing they've done in years
- Ian Anderson on reuniting Jethro Tull: "it's a tricky one"
- Celebrate metal's greatest decade with this month's Metal Hammer 80s special
- February 5
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- BMG to reissue Hellhammer's highly influential Apocalyptic Raids EP
- Ulver, Godflesh, Venetian Snares and more to perform at legendary nightclub
- The Hu announce 2020 US tour and festival dates
- Lindemann release actual porn video for new single Platz Ein
- Steve Hackett to publish autobiography
- Mortiis: 10 albums that changed my life
- John Varvatos is selling a $1000 Misfits biker jacket
- How HR Giger and ELP created the Brain Salad Surgery cover
- The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson: I didn't snub Jimmy Page
- The 20 best Avenged Sevenfold songs ever
- Jeff Lynne interview: from ELO to The Beatles and into the blue sky
- The Dame announce UK dates for February
- Lamb Of God tease new song Checkmate
- Rock Aid Armenia: how the ultimate version of Smoke On The Water was recorded
- Lynyrd Skynyrd biopic Street Survivors to premiere in Los Angeles
- Slipknot’s Tortilla Man finally unmasked
- Soundgarden learned of Chris Cornell death via Facebook
- February 4
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- Slipknot announce Knotfest Roadshow for summer 2020
- Michael Schenker: "Rudolf doesn’t have much talent as a guitarist"
- Goo Goo Dolls announce summer headline tour
- Fernando Perdomo premieres video for The Storm with Prog
- Slade dummer Don Powell departs Dave Hill's Slade, starts Don Powell's Slade
- Kaprekar's Constant to release vinyl version of Depth of Field
- Gloria Cavalera launches attack on Sepultura: “F**k you!”
- We pay tribute to Rush drummer Neil Peart in the new issue of Prog
- Kiss plan biopic for 2021
- Judas Priest have started work on their new album
- February 3
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- Riverside announce they're a quartet again
- The Dear Hunter, Wilderun, Hypno5e, Panzerballett all announced for Euroblast
- Bishop Briggs: "It's freeing but terrifying to release something this honest"
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ricochets, Tomorrow Is Lost and more
- Kiss and David Lee Roth dazzle as US tour kicks off with epic setlists
- System Of A Down, Korn and Faith No More announce massive spring show
- Patti Smith and Iggy Pop collaborator Ivan Král dead at 71
- Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick - Album Of The Week Club review
- James Hetfield: Metallica thrive off the fear of the unknown
- Charity ticket auction under way for Eric Clapton's Ginger Baker tribute show
- Gentle Giant's Unburied Treasure: interview
- Skunk Anansie announce UK tour - as Skin is revealed on The Masked Singer
- Botch: how one band redefined US hardcore and invented evil math rock
- Clannad release brand new single A Celtic Dream
- Listen to monstrous new Candlemass track The Pendulum
- 10cc announce UK tour dates
- Music world pays tribute to Gang Of Four guitarist Andy Gill
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is “100% free of cancer”
- The Black Crowes announce UK and European tour
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