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- October 31
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- Hello darkness my old friend… Nothing deliver the most 2020 album of 2020 with The Great Dismal
- Hail to the king, baby! Why metal is obsessed with The Evil Dead
- Il Bacio della Medusa announce live album
- When Mary release video for remix version of Frequency
- Three Colours Dark release spooky new video for Monster
- Golden Caves release video for How To Care
- When Dani Filth met Hellraiser’s Doug ‘Pinhead’ Bradley
- Death Tribe’s Beyond The Red Light District: A Canal Experiment album is the sound of defiant resistance
- 10 killer videos of bands playing gigs in Halloween costumes
- October 30
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- Listen to 53 glorious seconds of new AC/DC single Demon Fire
- Listen to the synth-pop demo that got a pre-Korn Jonathan Davis viciously bullied at high school
- Bruford's Rock Goes To College gets CD/DVD reissue
- Rob Zombie’s new single The Triumph of King Freak… is so good it’ll make you forget every sh*tty thing about 2020
- Cobalt Chapel release video for new single In Company
- Jane Weaver releases video for new single The Revolution Of Super Visions
- Puscifer: “We can get swallowed in the burning hellfire of social media or we can take a step back”
- Deftones’ White Pony remix album, Black Stallion, is finally coming in December
- Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning is deliberately annoying, genuinely funny and weirdly emotional
- Hear Tom Morello host Slash, pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix on new EP, Commandante
- Mark Kelly releases video for second single This Time
- You owe it to yourself to listen to this astonishing orchestral version of Metallica’s One
- The 10 creepiest metal songs ever
- Arthur Brown streams new single Zombie Yelp
- Motorhead's deluxe edition of Ace Of Spades is four hours and 11 minutes of beautiful madness
- The Human Condition finds Black Stone Cherry returning to rock's heartland
- Grateful Dead's American Beauty gets a makeover for its 50th Anniversary
- Joni Mitchell grows from tomboy folkie to master musician on Archives Vol.1: The Early Years
- Pantera celebrate 20 years of Reinventing The Steel with a vibrant new mix
- Uriah Heep: a missed opportunity after Fifty Years In Rock
- Elvis Costello pays brilliant homage to himself on Hey Clockface
- October 29
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- Gentle Giant release Ray Shulman and Kerry Minnear duet video
- See how Dave Grohl overcame his crippling caffeine addiction thanks to new wonder drug
- Greek prog metallers Need reveal new album artwork
- Watch Alice In Chains/Mastodon/Anthrax supergroup smash a cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage
- Auðn’s Vökudraumsins Fangi is atmospheric black metal the way they used to make it
- Trap metal renegade Ghostemane serves up nihilism and pain on new album Anti-Icon
- “Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA
- Come Together and save a bundle on this brilliant Beatles box set
- Big Big Train release live video for The Florentine
- Mogwai return with video for new song Dry Fantasy
- We asked Dez Fafara one question about 2020, and his answer was heartbreaking and inspiring
- Steven Wilson releases dark video for new song King Ghost
- Download UK adds Megadeth, Descendents, Northlane, Venom Prison and more to 2021 bill
- Sex, stimulants and snake eyes: How Ace Of Spades sent Motorhead stellar
- Pete Way: the life and times of the ultimate badass bassist
- October 28
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- Learn from Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey and more as Rock'N'Roll Fantasy Camp goes online
- Watch the trailer for Alex Winter's new Frank Zappa documentary
- UK black metallers Tableau Mort put the 'Roman' into 'Necromancy'
- Therapy, rebirth and the ghosts of the past: the inside story of Deftones’ Ohms
- Robert Reed releases tribute video to Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn
- Hear Fever 333’s incredible new cover of Linkin Park classic In The End
- Trent Reznor, Perry Farrell, Billy Corgan to play Bowie tribute concert
- Southampton's 1865 venue launches crowdfunder for survival
- Hear new music from three-quarters of Tool
- Draconian’s Under A Godless Veil: a glorious marriage of gothic doom and gnostic cosmology
- Alice Cooper wants to play a terrifying game of truth or dare with you
- Kate Bush is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- AC/DC once tried to smoke out the Loch Ness monster with fireworks
- Nihilistic nu metal with electro-punk attitude? Wargasm have got it covered
- 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut
- Uriah Heep and the slow road to ruin
- Kiss, bingo, and a towel problem: on the road with Judas Priest in 1979
- October 27
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- Starbenders' dazzling Witches Be Bitches is a celebration of the 'dark and different'
- Like emo-rap and cute animals? Nothing,nowhere.'s new video has you covered
- Jon Gomm announces socially distanced live UK dates for November
- Stop everything! David Hasselhoff is making a metal record
- Elemental Icelanders Katla reveal the ancient art of the curse
- Pasadena City Council are seeking ideas on how best to commemorate Eddie Van Halen
- John Carpenter streams new single Weeping Ghost
- Hear Foo Fighters, RATM, MC5, Runaways members cover Sweet Dreams with Afghan girls
- Crobar launches crowdfunder for Crobar mkII
- Mr Bungle’s The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo: you want thrash? You got thrash
- Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe is the gothic death disco you never knew you needed
- Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith: “When we hit America things kicked in with booze and drugs, using it as a crutch”
- Ex-Children Of Bodom duo form Bodom After Midnight to cover Children Of Bodom
- Tenacious D recruit Sarah Silverman, John Waters, Senator Elizabeth Warren for metallic Time Warp cover
- Missing live music? Asylums have got you covered
- Porcupine Tree detail new The Delerium Years box set
- Paradise Lost promise sonic fireworks with Guy Fawkes’ Night live stream show
- The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever
- The seeds for AC/DC’s reunion were sown at Malcolm Young’s funeral
- Mörk Gryning’s Hinsides Vrede: black metal prodigies return to the fiery fray after 15 years
- Scott Weiland's 10 favourite Scott Weiland songs
- Steven Wilson interview: "the cult of personality is a big part of what makes rock music tick"
- Watch a pre-fame Sebastian Bach cover Led Zeppelin at a star-studded wedding
- October 26
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- The sad story of White Lion, the band that was allowed to die
- Selfless Orchestra release video for Time Is A Flower
- Genesis reveal brand new behind-the-scenes rehearsal photos
- The Damned add new date to original line-up’s reunion tour
- Watch previously unseen footage from Linkin Park’s One Step Closer video shoot
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Cadillac Three, All Them Witches and more
- Former Hawkwind dancer Stacia announces new t-shirt
- AC/DC light up the internet with Shot In The Dark video, announce ‘We’re ready to kick ass’
- Bloodywood: the Indian metal stars who broke the internet
- John Hackett releases video teaser for new album The Piper Plays His Tune
- The Atomic Beau Project premiere spooky video for new single Cellar Door
- Smashing Pumpkins to release 33-song rock opera as a sequel to Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
- Sonne is voted the greatest Rammstein song ever
- The Pretty Reckless celebrate Halloween with the kooky, spooky Broomsticks
- Watch Trivium thrash out rare bangers during their The Deepest Cuts II livestream gig
- Rumours of a Van Halen reunion without Eddie are a ‘sh*tty lie’ says Wolfgang VH
- Marillion: Fugazi - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan admits to unwittingly performing shows with COVID
- 10 bands whose debut album was their best
- October 25
- October 24
- October 23
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- Watch Def Leppard play 3 gigs on 3 continents in 24 hours to set a world record
- The Story Behind The Song: In The End by Linkin Park
- AC/DC share teaser video for new single Shot In The Dark
- Please Jesus, our sweet lord, make this Gwen Stefani country album a real thing
- 10 insanely brilliant ‘metalsploitation’ horror movies everyone should see
- Watch Hatebreed salute law-breaking street artists in new video for Instinctive (Slaughterlust)
- Sugar Horse take a grim journey through time via mind-melting new single The Great Shame
- 'Rebellion is well-known to us': inside Mexico's vital underground music scene
- Ritchie Blackmore brings Christmas cheer with festive new EP
- Kenyan noise kings Duma make industrial grindcore like you’ve never heard it before
- Jakko M Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies review
- Sigur Rós stream brand new single Dvergmál
- Superheroes and rock ’n’ roll collide in The Middlenight Men’s misogynist-smashing new video
- Caleb Landry Jones releases video for new single I'm On Top Of The World
- John Frusciante talks new Red Hot Chili Peppers music: ‘It’s just returning to family’
- Riverside announce new live album and release live clip of Hyperactive
- This beautiful new Queen photo book is a glorious reminder of rock at its most majestic
- Watch a one-man mosh pit lose his sh*t at Rage Against The Machine’s very first public gig
- Lockett-Vettese live online tonight and in conversation with Bill Bruford
- How well will you do in The Ludicrously Difficult Blondie Quiz?
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda: “We never wanted to be part of nu metal”
- Songhoy Blues deliver 2020's most joyous album with the essential Optimisme
- Sevendust's Blood & Stone is a sturdy slice of 21st Century rock
- Joe Bonamassa channels Beck and Page on Royal Tea, and finds himself back on track
- Pallbearer push the doom envelope on the shimmering Forgotten Days
- Smith & Myers craft immaculate originals and compelling covers on Volume 1 & Volume 2
- Jakko Jakszyk's Secrets & Lies bristles with pain and thrilling invention
- Letter To You finds Bruce Springsteen full of wisdom yet still young at heart
- Thin Lizzy's Rock Legends is a stunning tribute to the coolest band there ever was
- October 22
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- The Wildhearts to release double live album 30 Year Itch 'while we're still alive'
- Mr Bungle unleash epic thrash monster Sudden Death
- Black Stone Cherry launch poignant video for In Love With The Pain
- Igorrr singer Ricinn swaps chaos for beauty on new album Nereïd
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon bring the heavy back on new single Tear Drops
- Rïcïnn to live stream her brand new album tonight
- Katatonia release new live video of Behind The Blood
- Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi book out in April
- The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs of all time
- Listen to stripped-back early Foo Fighters tracks on new EP Live On The Radio 1996
- Steve Hackett adds further date to Seconds Out tour
- Ozzy postpones No More Tours 2 shows yet again
- Sevendust’s Blood & Stone is the sound of a band who finally mean business once more
- Corey Taylor: “I’m pissing in the face of elitists”
- Scardust premiere new video for Gone
- Miley Cyrus’ stunning cover of Pearl Jam’s Just Breathe would give a corpse goosebumps
- The 20 Million Club podcast: How did Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill become bigger than the Beatles?
- Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman previews new album Tokyo Jukebox 3 with single The Perfect World
- Danny Cavanagh Nick Drake tribute album gets vinyl release
- 10 bands who wouldn’t exist without Korn
- The Bronx and Mariachi el Bronx join forces for ‘Halloween Dead Stream’
- Eruption played on three stylophones is a mind-boggling tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Blackberry Smoke continue busy schedule with two live streams
- October 21
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- Keith Richards releases video for 1992 classic Hate It When You Leave
- Watch the trailer for the new Paul McCartney album
- "I'm not very good at writing songs. None of us in the Earth Band were." Manfred Mann and the story of his Earth Band
- 10 obscure but brilliant noise rock albums you need in your life
- John Petrucci launches signature beard products range
- HammerFall’s Live! Against The World: anthem after fist-banging anthem
- The Damned reform original, classic line-up for four UK shows
- Armored Saint’s Punching The Sky: metal’s great nearly-men remain as exhilarating as ever
- Steve Howe confirms Louder Than Words literary festival appearance
- ‘Van Halen was the band that everyone had to live up to,’ says Steel Panther’s Michael Starr
- Mastodon: ‘We don’t sit around listening to heavy metal all day’
- Listen to the first song Deafheaven ever wrote, from new live album 10 Years Gone
- ‘Make America Great’ is bullsh*t, says Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness: the monumental masterpiece that killed grunge
- Who needs Satan when you can have proto-feminist demon worship with your death metal?
- Multi Story to release new album CBF10 in October
- Biffy Clyro and Royal Blood vocalists guest on new Architects album, For Those That Wish To Exist
- Another day in paradise: Phil Collins sues ex-wife over ‘armed occupation’ of his Miami mansion
- Metal album covers recreated with Batman characters is the best thing you’ll see today
- Keith Moon's 10 craziest stunts
- Crazy, overblown and brilliant: How Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman made Bat Out Of Hell
- Richie Sambora on Bon Jovi reunion chances: 'I'm certainly not counting it out'
- October 20
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- Brian May and Woman combine forces to launch I’m A Woman charity single
- The Outfield frontman Tony Lewis dead aged 62
- Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days is the sound of doom metal marching into the future
- Get our exclusive limited edition Joe Bonamassa bundle before they're gone
- Miley Cyrus is making a Metallica covers album. Yes, you read that correctly
- Korn, Mastodon, Anthrax, Run DMC and Refused have teamed up for an epic Faith No More cover
- Between The Buried And Me's Colors set for double vinyl reissue
- Spencer Davis dead at 81
- The Cadillac Three deliver their second album of 2020 with Tabasco & Sweet Tea
- Hit The Lights! This Metallica-themed Halloween lights ‘spooktacular’ is metal as f**k
- Richard Durrant announces acoustic prog rock concept album
- You could snap up guitars owned by Eddie Van Halen and Kurt Cobain if you have $150,000 going spare
- Gryphon announce new album Get Out Of My Father's Car
- Architects return with surprise single Animals
- 10 brain-melting prog albums that are as heavy as any metal band
- Blondie and Garbage to team up for 2021 UK arena tour
- Metal was too white until nu metal came along, says Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
- Mandala premiere video for A Soul In The Night
- 15 things you didn’t know about Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine
- How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
- All Them Witches: alluring sounds from rural Arkansas via Abbey Road
- Biffy Clyro interview: "We’re as good a live band as any fucker in the world"
- Steve Perry clarifies infamous Van Halen guacamole incident
- October 19
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- Howlin' Wolf - a guide to his best albums
- Toto announce new line-up and online gig
- The story behind Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- Devin Townsend’s Order Of Magnitude: prog-metal’s greatest showman in full flight on epic live album
- You can now buy a Killing Joke-endorsed jerk chicken pie, The Joker
- Brian Johnson thought Malcolm Young was joking when he got asked to join AC/DC
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crobot, Larkin Poe and more
- Racism has grown since Trump came to power and the UK voted for Brexit, says Skunk Anansie’s Skin
- Power Trip’s Riley Gale: the modern metal hero who was one of us
- Roger Dean launches Pathways Exhibition in association with Prog Magazine
- Slipknot launch We Are Not Your Kind masks, as Corey Taylor labels anti-maskers ‘f**king idiots’
- Al Di Meola teams up with Dodi Battaglia for new single One Sky
- Coal Chamber paved the way for Avatar, Dez Fafara tells Metal Hammer
- Win a signed Angus Young Gibson SG guitar
- Watch Foo Fighters’ SOS Fest set, and learn which glam metal legend Dave Grohl met in LA in 1987
- Marillion announce The Light At The End Of The Tunnel tour for November 2021
- Clutch launch mammoth limited edition box set for Record Store Day
- Why I ❤️ Slayer’s Seasons In The Abyss, by Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg
- Massive Wagons announce update to The Good The Bad And The Ugly collection
- Indian band Nemophilis release ridiculously slick cover of Bohemian Rhapsody
- Van Halen: Van Halen III - Album Of The Week Club review
- October 18
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- October 16
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- ‘Eddie Van Halen was a far better man than I'll ever be,’ says Gene Simmons
- Watch Nick Cave perform the hauntingly beautiful Euthanasia in London
- Watch Employed To Serve rage against ecological destruction on new single Party’s Over
- ‘Your days are numbered’, Jon Bon Jovi warns President Trump
- Leaking albums used to hurt bands. Now it can kill them off completely
- The new Refused EP documents a world on fire. Hear Born On The Outs now
- The Struts' Luke Spiller: I wanna play Joe Elliott in a Def Leppard movie
- Volbeat’s new live album might just give you the gig fix you’ve been craving
- Wake up Sheeple! Five Finger Death Punch want to save us from hell on earth
- Listen to Aisles cover Rush's Red Sector A
- Daniel Tompkins streams brand new single The Gift
- Machine Head reflect on love gone sour with new acoustic version of Circle The Drain
- Wardruna release awe-inspiring video for Kvitravn
- At least one member of Metallica could be releasing new music soon
- The Struts master the classic rock arts on third album Strange Days
- Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown's Pressure is a true coming of age
- The spirit of rock'n'roll lives on with Tommy Lee's Andro, if not its music
- Wildflowers & All The Rest is a Tom Petty album you can luxuriate in
- Hawkwind Light Orchestra bleep and whoosh and rage at contemporary society on Carnivorous
- October 15
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- Peter Gabriel - Live In Athens 1987/Plays Live review
- Hawkwind Light Orchestra - Carnivorous review
- All 74 unreleased tracks on Thin Lizzy’s Rock Legends box set revealed
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “The way I was going I was gonna kill myself, dying from drinking”
- David Gilmour to release Yes I Have Ghosts as 7" single
- Watch Korn hit the battlefield in apocalyptic new video for Finally Free
- Adriana from The Sopranos stars in and directs the new All Them Witches video, Rats
- Lunatic Soul release video for new single Navvie
- Donald Trump has clearly never heard Slipknot’s Iowa
- Alice In Chains have given Facelift a facelift for its 30th birthday
- Thumpermonkey's Rael Jones to release solo Mother's Echo album
- Chili Peppers’ guitarist John Frusciante returns with new single Brand E
- Beabadoobee's Fake It Flowers: an authentic grunge album for the 21st century
- Glenn Tipton’s ‘sharp ideas’ have inspired an ‘enormous’ stack of new Judas Priest songs
- Tool triumph at Billboard Music Awards, Metallica lose out to Elton John and Pink
- Death metal legends Benediction obliterate all-comers on new album Scriptures
- Kepler Ten premiere new video for new single Falling Down
- Former AC/DC bassist Paul Matters has died
- Judas Priest celebrate 50 years in the new Metal Hammer
- 10 essential symphonic black metal albums
- Black Sabbath literally blew the roof off when premiering Paranoid
- Kevin Godley releases new video for Expecting A Message
- ‘No offense intended’: David Crosby ‘didn’t remember’ that Eddie Van Halen had died when dismissing his legacy
- Low Cut Connie tells frayed stories of all-American fuck-ups on Private Lives
- Palaye Royale: Six things you need to know
- Bring Me The Horizon announce new EP, 2021 UK arena dates
- October 14
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- Bored? Join Europe on Friday nights as they broadcast a series of live performances
- Black Stone Cherry announce Live From The Sky streaming event
- The best Amazon Prime Day whisky deals 2020: Grab a last minute bargain
- Jon Anderson hits out at state of the world in new video for Go Screw Yourself
- The 8 best tablet deals this Amazon Prime Day
- Machine Head’s cryptic new video suggests that Robb Flynn is about to unleash the furies again
- Turn the Power Up with AC/DC this Prime Day and this awesome red vinyl edition
- Amazon is offering up to 25% off rock vinyl, including these 8 classics
- Trash Talk’s new short film is brutal, bleak and perversely beautiful
- Wayfarer’s A Romance With Violence: the Clint Eastwoods of extreme metal strike gold
- District 97 get in the Halloween spirit with Ghost Girl
- Enslaved announce Utgard European tour for 2021
- Watch the Texas Gentlemen's revolutionary choose your own adventure album release show
- Drop everything! Five Finger Death Punch have a new guitarist
- Listen to Dave Grohl get festive with Xmas favourite The Little Drummer Boy
- Malcolm Young co-wrote every song on the new AC/DC album, Power Up
- Jimmy Page has no regrets and isn’t finished yet, he promises Classic Rock
- There’s still time to grab Amazon Music Unlimited for just 99p for four months
- Get 40% off the best-selling headphones on Amazon right now
- “Scream for me, Long Beach!”: down the front on Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour
- Fish cancels February 2021 tour
- Every Sepultura album ranked from worst to best
- This Jay-Z vs Smashing Pumpkins album is 2020’s most inspired hook-up
- Papa Roach’s cover of Blur’s Song 2 is the nu metal/Britpop mash-up the world never asked for
- Jump reveal tracklisting and artwork for new album Breaking Point
- Slipknot songs on the hurdy gurdy are almost as good as Slipknot songs on the guitar
- Up your podcasting game with Prime Day deals on microphone kits
- Tommy Lee interview: rock'n'roll has become too safe, and that's kinda sad
- The Struts announce short string of intimate UK dates
- October 13
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- Autumn Sale: subscribe to Prog, Metal Hammer or Classic Rock and save 15% on checkout
- Amazon Prime Day 2020: “Alexa, show me the best deals on the Echo Studio”
- Metallica to unplug for charity
- An intimate conversation with Jimmy Page: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Corey Taylor has covered a Van Halen song with an actual member of Van Halen
- The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 50th Anniversary Box Set for November
- Puscifer announce livestream concert from ‘the edge of the world’
- Watch Mick Jagger play a dodgy art dealer in new thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy
- Watch A.A. Williams cover The Cure's Lovesong
- Now Rammstein have started posting videos from the studio
- Watch Mastodon’s Brann Dailor give it the full Ozzy on bedroom cover of Over The Mountain
- Jimmy Page launches affordable ‘Open Edition’ of The Anthology
- Dave Mustaine slammed for “fabricated bullsh*t” by late Megadeth drummer Nick Menza’s manager
- Jane Weaver streams brand new single The Revolution Of Super Visions
- Elton John’s trippy 1968 Beatles rip-off makes us want a full psych-rock album from the Rocket Man
- David Crosby’s classy response to Eddie Van Halen’s death? “Meh”
- Killer Be Killed unleash hell with incendiary video for Dream Gone Bad
- Green Day mark Insomniac’s 25th birthday with riotous tour footage from a more innocent time
- Rosalie Cunningham announces socially distanced gig for December
- The Top 10 best Mr Bungle songs
- The story behind Search And Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges
- Deal alert! Get Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same box set for a bargain price
- October 12
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- Molassess’ Through The Hollow is a stellar tribute to a fallen bandmate
- Trivium announce new livestream show, digging up their Deepest Cuts
- Jack White’s tribute to Eddie Van Halen on Saturday Night Live was a classy touch
- Watch HIM’s Ville Valo killing it on slap-bass in a funk metal band in 1992
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Struts, Starbenders and more
- Listen to Death Angel’s rather lovely Queen/Bowie cover, the audio comfort blanket we’ve craved in 2020
- Tony Reed streams first single Waterbirth
- Babymetal fans can buy TEN versions of their new 10 Babymetal Years compilation
- John Lydon is voting for Trump, thinks Meghan Markle is ‘dreadful’ and insists ‘all lives matter’
- The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever
- Tool’s Maynard James Keenan reveals ‘ugly’ battle with coronavirus. ‘It’s real’, he tells ‘ridiculous’ sceptics
- Hear Pearl Jam’s intense new song Get It Back, as grunge legends announce 30th anniversary livestream
- Listen to Linkin Park and Lady Gaga get the mash-up they’ve always deserved
- Greg Puciato’s Child Soldier: Creator Of God: head-melting genius from ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer
- Orange Goblin to celebrate 25th anniversary with two global streams
- October 11
- October 10
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- Watch Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony’s emotional salute to Eddie Van Halen with poignant take on Right Now
- Watch Black Sabbath confuse the f**k out of stoned hippies one week before Paranoid became a hit single
- German prog metallers Æries release video for Gisma
- Todd Rundgren teams up with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo for new single Down With The Ship
- Jethro Tull legends to reunite at A New Day Festival
- Ultravox - Vienna: Deluxe Edition review
- Swedish post-rockers pg.lost release video for Suffering
- Voyager play online show this Sunday
- IQ announce new Ever live stream
- Marillion's FEAR the subject of today's Twitter Listening Party
- Eddie Van Halen’s ill health thwarted plans for Van Halen to bow out with a final stadium tour in 2019
- October 9
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- Smashing Pumpkins: An Apology
- Metz - Atlas Vending: corrosive but cathartic head-caving noise-rock
- The Pineapple Thief release live acoustic clip of Demons
- A new Ghost album is just over the horizon
- Bryan Beller releases video for A Quickening and Steiner In Ellipses
- Jakko Jakszyk releases video with Al Murray for Uncertain Times
- Ozric Tentacles release visualiser video for new single Stripey Clouds
- We want to hear more from this new Guns N’ Roses/Alice In Chains supergroup
- Australia has new AC/DC coins, and frankly, we’re jealous
- Robert Reed releases video trailer for new electronic album
- Motorhead: The story behind On Parole, the debut album that never was
- Greta Van Fleet’s new single, My Way, Soon, may finally kill off those pesky Led Zeppelin comparisons
- Watch Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony pay touching tribute to late bandmate Eddie Van Halen
- Devin Townsend releases teaser for Order Of Magnitude... documentary
- The A-Z of Five Finger Death Punch
- The Top 10 best ’90s Slayer songs
- Lzzy Hale: The Soundtrack Of My Life
- John Lennon's Gimme Some Truth gains a new sheen on the Ultimate Mixes
- Blue Oyster Cult echo past glories on The Symbol Remains
- The 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's Paranoid delivers visceral joy and rat's innards
- DevilDriver's Dealing With Demons I is unrelentingly heavy, but is it enough?
- The Doors sparkle on Morrison Hotel's 50th anniversary out-takes
- October 8
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- Billy Gibbons breaks out the beer bottle slide on Hollywood151 video
- First reaction: Linkin Park's Pictureboard, the song fans waited 20 years to hear
- Plini streams new single I'll Tell You Someday
- Mayhem's Teloch beams down to planet synthwave
- For $100, Alice Cooper will read you a spooky Halloween story
- Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers
- Crippled Black Phoenix’s Ellengaest: scabrous diatribes and emotional devastation on majestic new album
- Ritchie Blackmore salutes ‘ultimate guitar hero’ Eddie Van Halen, as The Kinks and Pearl Jam pay tribute
- Neal Morse releases live video of Love Has Called My Name
- You thought Fever 333 were angry in 2019? Brace yourself for an incoming riot
- Elliott Smith 25th anniversary edition: a careful tribute which lays an artist bare
- Teramaze release new video for Ocean Floor
- Meshuggah are returning in 2021 to blow our tiny little minds
- Pallbearer: “We’d build a campfire, talk over beers, listen to gunfire”
- Late AC/DC singer Bon Scott's prog rock past unveiled in new box set
- Tom DeLonge is filming Monsters in Hollywood, and he’s not losing his mind
- Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar made peace in the guitarist’s final months
- Mystifier: the unholy Brazilian occultists who took metal to blasphemous new depths
- Rammstein are officially back in the studio
- The Struts launch glam stomper I Hate How Much I Want You with Joe Elliott and Phil Collen
- AC/DC: we hope Power Up will lift peoples' spirits
- Starbenders continue this year's run of brilliant singles with joyous Can't Cheat Time
- John Lee Hooker: a guide to his best albums
- October 7
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- Kitten Pyramid release video for new single Aunty Mabel
- Anaal Nathrakh’s Endarkenment: filthy nihilism out, unexpected optimism in
- Godsticks release new video for Breathe
- Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou’s May Our Chambers Be Full is the perfect marriage of the grime and the sublime
- A tribute to the explosive genius of Eddie Van Halen
- Vinnie Paul’s stretch limo needs a makeover, if you want to help preserve a piece of Pantera history
- Depression hit Adrian Smith hard as Iron Maiden conquered the world, guitarist admits
- Big Big Train release video for Winkie and slim down to a quartet
- Porcupine Tree to release 13-disc Delerium 92-97 years box set
- Rick Wakeman announces November show at London Palladium
- Lars Ulrich picks a British rock star as his favourite songwriter of all time
- Chris Thompson premieres video for Blood On His Hands
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen with cover of Eruption
- Get in the MF ring with Corey Taylor’s new wrestling game
- Ihsahn: 10 albums that changed my life
- Here's everything we know about AC/DC's Power Up album so far
- The world of rock mourns as tributes to Eddie Van Halen pour in
- AC/DC's Shot In The Dark: the first reaction
- AC/DC launch audio for Shot In The Dark, confirm Power Up album details
- Angus Young: Power Up is AC/DC's tribute to Malcolm
- October 6
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- Van Halen: the story of the debut album that saved rock
- The 10 best Eddie Van Halen guitar solos
- Eddie Van Halen – the 1978 interview
- Why I love Van Halen’s debut album, by Steel Panther’s Michael Starr
- Eddie Van Halen dead at 65
- Ascension Of The Watchers’ Apocrypha: Burton C Bell rises from the ashes of Fear Factory
- Canada's doom mystics Völur invite you to their death cult
- Salem: life-affirming pop-punk for people who want to f**k witches
- Metal Hammer release exclusive limited Corey Taylor bundles
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1987
- Watch the trailer for Acts Of Resistance, an inspirational new film showing how metal in Latin America fights the power
- Rïcïnn streams brand new single Psamatae
- Green Day to releases Billie Joe Armstrong’s No Fun Mondays covers album
- Hardcore wasn't made for people with nothing to say - so it's time to listen to Sharptooth
- Hear Jello Biafra troll Trump, 9/11 ‘truthers’ and the NRA with Tea Party Revenge Porn
- McStine & Minnemann release trailer for second album
- Watch Joe Bonamassa pay tribute to the British blues explosion with Royal Tea
- AC/DC’s Back In Black: the story behind the greatest riff in history
- Sonicbond celebrates second anniversary with special Steve Hackett book
- This yacht rock version of Judas Priest’s Electric Eye will make it seem like 2020 isn’t happening
- Why I Love Ghost’s Prequelle, by Dani Filth
- Avatar release Hunter Gatherer documentary Scaling The Mountain
- AC/DC’s PWR/UP album gets November release date, Brian Johnson hails band’s ‘electricity’
- Chaos, cash and Caligulan excess: How Emerson, Lake & Palmer made Brain Salad Surgery
- Guns N' Roses launch the most dangerous pinball machine in the world, probably
- John Fogerty recreates Cosmo's Factory sleeve for Fogerty's Factory album
- October 5
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- Watch child drummer in neon mask and boilersuit destroy Slipknot's Unsainted
- Mr. Bungle promise violence, gore, blasphemy, witchcraft and bunny nudity at streamed Halloween gig
- Led Zeppelin finally triumph in Stairway To Heaven copyright battle
- Albert Bouchard releases video for Black Telescope
- Venom Prison’s Primeval: death metal iconoclasts exhume the past to move forward
- Nightwish, Amorphis and more sever ties with US booking agent following sexual assault allegations
- Mick Fleetwood joins TikTok, recreates viral video for Dreams as 2020 peaks
- Led Zeppelin to release Immigrant Song single to mark 50th anniversary of Led Zep III
- Star Wars x Sonos: Get 6 months of Disney Plus with this galactic-sized deal
- New book details Marillion in the 80s
- Toadeater’s Bit To Ewigen Daogen: where anarchist black metal meets 80s goth and post-punk
- Linkin Park to host fan Q&A, premiere previously unseen 2002 gig
- Megadeth’s So Far, So Good… So What!: the chaotic story of thrash’s most f**ked-up album
- Jon Bon Jovi says that Richie Sambora’s exit from Bon Jovi caused ‘pain and heartbreak’
- New Queen game lets you embrace your inner Freddie Mercury
- AC/DC kept new album details secret from even their own recording engineer
- Delia Derbyshire film to premiere at BFI London Film Festival
- Pearl Jam to play two Hyde Park shows in London next summer
- Blue is the new black: inside the otherworldly universe of A.A. Williams
- Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, the Byson Family and more
- October 4
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- Stop the spread by wearing the Faces Of Lemmy
- Spinal Tap reform for Democratic fundraiser
- AC/DC's Shot In The Dark features in Talladega Nights-themed Dodge commercial
- Jakko Jakszyk chats with Matthew Wright
- Yes, this is Mike Patton covering Mötley Crüe at a high school talent show in 1985
- Touché Amoré’s Lament: post-hardcore lifers spead their wings with help from Ross Robinson
- The Top 10 best Iron Maiden videos
- October 3
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- Sólstafir release video for Her Fall From Grace
- Voivod release live video for The Lost Machine
- Blackfield release video for Under My Skin
- Genesis. The longs? Or the shorts?
- Percy Jones quits Brand X
- Six Feet Under are still drinking blood, still getting high on new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
- October 2
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- Roger Waters - Us + Them review
- Enslaved - Utgard review
- Watch an unrecognisable Layne Staley fronting hair metal-era Alice In Chains in 1986
- Metal photographer Jeremy Saffer has published a book of nude photography – with a black metal twist
- Summer's End organisers announce Golden Ticket
- You can now get official Judas Priest and Motorhead colouring books
- How Public Enemy wrote the perfect soundtrack to a brutal year
- IQ announce 40th anniversary show
- MTV butchered Pearl Jam’s iconic Unplugged show, new biography reveals
- Devin Townsend releases live video clip of War
- “Metallica’s best years are ahead of us”: 12 months in the life of metal’s biggest band
- Yes release cover of John Lennon's Imagine
- Mike Patton: ‘Having Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo play in Mr. Bungle is an amazing honour’
- ‘Dipsh*t’ forces ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato to rush-release solo album following online leak
- Meet the artists leading Argentina's feminist revolution
- Methodica stream whole of new album Clockworks
- Linkin Park’s stunning In The End demo shows why they were bound for glory
- Corey Taylor’s Ace Of Spades cover just made us miss Lemmy that little bit more
- Darryl Way premieres video for Ocean Blues
- How Oceans Of Slumber went to the edge and back to make the most vital prog metal record of 2020
- The Story Behind The Song: In Flames’ Only For The Weak
- Nickelback's All The Right Reasons: expanded, with a faint whiff of Nashville
- Bob Mould's Distortion: 1989-1995 is littered with treasures
- Robert Plant's Digging Deep: Subterranea is a celebrity-free solo celebration
- Gotthard pay fragile tribute to fallen frontman on Steve Lee: The Eyes Of A Tiger
- Corey Taylor's CMFT: out of the darkness into risk-taking reinvention
- Queen + Adam Lambert's Live Around The World: no radical overhaul, but oozing joy
- October 1
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- The Dave Grohl vs. Nandi Bushell battle takes another charming twist
- Hear Keith Richards groove hard on a previously unreleased take on the Rolling Stones’ Little T&A
- DevilDriver’s pulverising Dealing With Demons Vol.1 is a roar in the face of adversity
- The Dead Daisies' Bustle And Flow video is like "walking through the fear" says Glenn Hughes
- ‘Western culture has lost the plot’, says Tool’s Maynard James Keenan
- Dirt Redux: Alice In Chains’ grunge masterpiece gets the doom makeover it deserves
- Tower of Power bassist Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia has died, aged 69
- Iron Maiden to release new live album Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live in Mexico City
- How No Prayer For The marked the end of an era for Iron Maiden
- Listen to the first taster from AC/DC’s new album, the hard-riffing Shot In The Dark
- Laura Jane Grace disses Trump, references The Sound Of Music on surprise solo album Stay Alive
- Aryeon release new video for Daniel’s Descent Into Transitus Medley
- Corey Taylor’s track by track guide to CMFT: “I’m making fun of people who think they know who the f**k I am”
- Rob Halford is up for a Judas Priest / Lady Gaga collaboration
- Best Amazon Echo devices 2024: which is the right one for music fans?
- Opeth, Tesseract, Leprous and Rolo Tomassi to close 2021’s ArcTanGent festival
- Watch Enslaved perform Utgard - The Journey Within
- Iron Maiden have been in the studio, and are ‘gagging and ready to go’
- Glenn Hughes: the soundtrack of my life
- Fairies Wear Dr. Martens: Black Sabbath launch official range of DM boots
- Not all heroes wear capes. Some drink juice and skateboard while singing Fleetwood Mac
- 10 times an artist covered someone else's album, from the fantastic to the foolish
