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- December 31
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- Jack Black dancing to Black Sabbath in his Speedos is a weirdly fitting end to a wild year
- The return of neo-proggers Solstice
- Pink Floyd's Animals is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Watch Butthole Surfers destroy absolutely everything at Reading 1989
- Longtime Bob Seger sax player Alto Reed dead at 72
- December 30
- December 29
- December 28
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- New website explores the Pink Floyd universe post 1983
- Möbius Strip tease second album with video to Mateka's Speech
- Solstice to premiere new video for A New Day on New Year's Day
- Al Winter unveils new project Wynter with video for Sometimes
- Motorhead’s Phil Campbell on how Lemmy would have reacted to the pandemic
- December 27
- December 26
- December 24
- December 23
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- Leslie West, Mountain guitarist, dead at 75
- Ricky Warwick announces career-spanning box set from The Almighty… but no reunion
- Eddie Van Halen once woke up AC/DC’s Angus Young at 2am just to call him a ‘bad motherf**ker‘
- 13 next-gen guitar heroes the world will be talking about in 2021
- Yule love Sophie Lloyd’s shred guitar cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You
- Fish's Weltschmerz is the Prog Magazine writers' Album of 2020
- These albums kept Metallica’s Lars Ulrich sane during quarantine
- How Pallbearer reinvented doom in 2020
- Possession, child sacrifice and speed metal: welcome to the world of Hellripper
- The Top 50 best Slipknot songs ever
- December 22
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- White Willow's Jacob Holm-Lupo teams up with Prog writer for new concept work
- Finally, a 2020 feel good story, as Neil Fallon makes a nine-year-old Clutch fan’s dream come true
- Metal visionaries Kim Holm and Costin Chioreanu recreate a Lovecraftian nightmare for our times
- How Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou made 2020’s strangest and best collaboration
- Wardruna celebrate the Winter Solstice by sharing epic new single Andvevarljod
- Corey Taylor: ‘I never thought I’d miss being on the road with those growly pricks from Slipknot’
- Prognosis unveil new line-up with video for brand new single Dark Waters
- This death metal cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas will kickstart your cold black heart
- Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah cover Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper, Sex Pistols, Nirvana
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: “Pop is like a giant tub of sh*tty candy, but metal is a filet mignon”
- Get 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free when you buy an Echo Dot 3rd or 4th Gen
- Gandalf's Fist release new festive single Witchwood
- Metal Hammer writers’ top metal albums of 2020
- December 21
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- Watch: Blondie were the best and bravest band of 70s, 80s, and 90s – here's why...
- Watch: Bryan Adams and the making of Reckless
- Listen to Iggy Pop’s new Covid-19-referencing single, Dirty Little Virus
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen: “The way that things are now aren’t the way things are for life”
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Starbenders, No Fit State and more
- ‘It's really difficult to see a way back for music in this climate’: The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins fears for the future of live music
- The Top 5 best black metal albums of 2020
- A song called Boris Johnson Is A F**king C**t could be the UK’s Xmas number 1
- Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas is prog's favourite Xmas song ever!
- Rammstein’s Till Lindemann unveils his ‘Tilldo’, a bespoke dildo modelled on his stage microphone
- Every Morbid Angel album ranked from worst to best
- Wait And Bleed voted the greatest Slipknot song ever
- The first preview of Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary is online, and it looks incredible
- Will the real Taylor Momsen please stand up?
- Tesla: Mechanical Resonance Album Of The Week Club review
- December 19
- December 18
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- Trampthology proves that Mike Tramp continues to improve with age
- Clutch's mood-enhancing back catalogue thrills on Weathermaker Vault Series Vol. I
- Drive-By Truckers keep their anger sharp on The New OK
- These are Kirk Hammett’s favourite Kirk Hammett guitar solos
- Rotting Christ co-founder returns to raise Hell with Yoth Iria
- LadBaby’s remake of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ is awful, obviously, but that’s really not the point
- Exploring Birdsong announce socially distanced live shows
- Ozzy’s 13th solo album will feature Metallica, RHCP and Foo Fighters men, plus ‘crazy’ nine-minute songs
- Steve Hackett streams new single Mdina (The Walled City)’
- Listen to Last December, Good Charlotte's first new music in two years
- US alt.pop singer K. Flay has done remarkable things with these Limp Bizkit, Green Day and The Offspring songs
- Europe announced as second main stage headliner for Ramblin’ Man Fair 2021
- Killer Be Killed’s Max Cavalera: “The Pope should listen to our new album”
- System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian to release solo EP, as new documentary examines his art and activism
- Twin Temple are the Satanic doo-wop duo metal fans have embraced
- Alice In Chains’ Rooster in the style of Type O Negative is exactly what the world deserves right now
- Metallica: “We’re taking this time to create and try new things”
- Mike Campbell on The Dirty Knobs, Fleetwood Mac, and the ghost of Tom Petty
- Tyler Bryant: how I made my lockdown album
- The inside story of the return of AC/DC: how Angus Young and Brian Johnson Powered Up
- George Thorogood's Live In Boston 1982 is one of the great live albums... and now it's even bigger
- Paul McCartney fails to age on the home-recorded McCartney III
- December 17
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- Mogwai to preview new album As The Love Continues during livestream show
- The 12 Emo Songs of Christmas
- The 10 best albums of 2020 you haven't heard
- The brand new issue of Metal Hammer is out now. And it’s epic
- Mr Bungle’s Mike Patton: “We wanted this to be the most f**ked-up reunion ever”
- This all-star heavy metal activity book is the ultimate last-minute Xmas gift
- Green Carnation premiere new video for The World Without A View
- Megadeth bassist David Ellefson’s debut novel Rock Star Hitman looks er, interesting
- Win autographed prizes from AC/DC, The Who, BMTH and more in the Teenage Cancer Trust Xmas raffle
- Liquid Tension Experiment announce return with teaser video
- Ghostemane: 10 albums that changed my life
- Dave Grohl covers The Knack for his Hannukah Sessions
- Leprous and Ihsahn announce joint live stream
- This old dude’s beautiful acoustic version of Slipknot’s Snuff will give you goosebumps
- Nightwish will kick off their 2021 tour with a gig in an imaginary pub
- Paul Rodgers: a guide to his best albums
- David Bowie: how Hunky Dory was made
- The 100 greatest rock songs of the century... so far
- December 16
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- The 50 best albums of 2020
- David Coverdale and I don’t get along with Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes admits
- The 10 best livestreams of the year
- Spiritbox: the post-metalcore trio set to own 2021
- Jimmy Eat World announce the Phoenix Sessions, a trio of livestream events
- On Billy Gibbons’ birthday, here’s ZZ Top’s guitarist, Lemmy and Dave Grohl with a Chuck Berry classic
- “I’d been preparing for this my whole life”: the tragedy and triumph behind the birth of Ghost
- Dave Grohl goes BritPop with a cheeky cover of Elastica’s Connection
- This brass band cover of Tool’s Stinkfist adds a whole new dimension to a ’90s metal classic
- The Top 10 best death metal albums of 2020
- Meshuggah announce 2021 European tour, plus stand-alone London show
- Marillion have revealed more details about their upcoming album
- Cult Heroes: the audacious return of Blue Oyster Cult
- The 10 worst rock albums this century according to everyone else
- December 15
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- Angus Young names his least favourite AC/DC song
- You can now buy a Led Zeppelin pinball machine
- Richard Barbieri announces new solo album for 2021
- Five Finger Death Punch releases lyric video for their cover version of Bad Company
- Watch Teramaze turn Savage Garden tune into a prog metal anthem!
- Rick Wakeman and Ian Hunter join Joe Elliott, Ian Astbury and more for Bowie birthday celebration
- Glass Hammer announce bonus “detour” album for 2020
- The Hives announce 2021 virtual world tour
- ‘This song’s about pain’: Watch John Lennon’s final UK gig, featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Keith Moon
- Watch James Hetfield's acoustic cover of Bob Seger classic Turn The Page
- Ice-T pays tribute to his friend Riley Gale from Power Trip: ‘He was gonna do big things’
- The story behind The Mute Gods' Atheists And Believers
- Watch Dave Grohl’s brilliant Hanukkah Sessions take on a Bob Dylan classic
- Progspace Online Festival V.2 line-up confirmed
- 10 new bands you need to watch out for in 2021
- In Trance by the Scorpions: the story behind the song
- The future of Jane's Addiction and chocolate digestives with Perry Farrell
- Sharon Osbourne tests positive for the coronavirus
- Black Stone Cherry: "We had to fight for our integrity, stand up for our sound"
- December 14
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- Watch Eddie Van Halen's emotional meeting with Jason Becker
- Join Max Cavalera and Maysaloon’s Jake Shuker for new World Metal Congress webcast
- Keith Emerson tribute concert is now available to pre-order
- Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods album review
- This is the only hurdy gurdy cover of System Of A Down’s Toxicity you need to hear today
- Israeli proggers Scardust share Strangers livestream
- Soundgarden’s final album will definitely get released, insists Chris Cornell’s wife Vicky
- Tracks of the Week: new music from AC/DC, Hot Breath and more
- 2020 gets even weirder with Dave Grohl covering Peaches on day four of his Hanukkah Sessions
- Listen to Porcupine Tree's Voyage 34 as you've never heard it before!
- Forget Amazon Echo: Marshall’s Uxbridge smart speaker for rock fans is £40 off
- LadBaby aim for third consecutive Christmas number one single with remake of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’
- Daniel Tompkins’ Ruins: prog metal shapeshifter wrings new wonder from his recent past
- Watch Pink Floyd and Deep Purple duo back Paul McCartney’s exuberant rock ’n’ roll set at the Cavern Club
- These orchestral covers of Death songs are almost as good as the originals
- Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon: “I try to make my metal as soulful as I possibly can”
- Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band debut songs from Letter To You on Saturday Night Live
- JBL Tune 220 true wireless headphones for under £50? Cheers, Currys
- Eddie Van Halen’s cause of death has been confirmed
- The Runaways: Queens Of Noise Album Of The Week Club review
- The album that killed Tesla, by Brian Wheat
- December 13
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- Gazpacho: Fireworking at St. Croix caught live
- Robert Reed's favourite five electronica tracks
- Jack Hues shares live video of Astrology
- TesseracT's Portals: A Cinematic Live Experience caught live
- Watch Bill Bailey tango to Metallica’s Enter Sandman on Strictly Come Dancing
- Night 3 of Dave Grohl’s Hanukkah Sessions delivers a guitar-free take on Mountain’s Mississippi Queen
- December 12
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- When Tangerine Dream hooked up with Propaganda
- Martin Rubashov releases video for Lights Of July
- Oceans Of Slumber release video for acoustic version of The Colors Of Grace
- Soen release video for new single Monarch
- Spinal Who?! How Bad News became the original spoof metal band
- This is The Hu’s recipe for traditional Mongolian dumplings you need in your life
- Machine Head’s Through The Ashes Of Empires: inside their return to metallic glory
- Dave Grohl covers Drake’s Hotline Bling on night two of his Hanukkah Sessions
- December 11
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- The Tangent drummer Steve Roberts streams Christmas Is Not Yet Lost
- Eddie Van Halen: the life and times of a guitar god
- Alice Cooper shares his ‘oddest song ever’, the perky Our Love Will Change The World
- Damian Wilson releases video for new single Hard To Keep Faith
- Blackmore’s Night share video for Once Upon December, the first taste of their new album Nature’s Light
- Avatar’s freaky video for A Secret Door mixes horror, creepy art, interpretative dance… and Corey Taylor’s whistling
- Riverside launch live We Got Used To Us video
- Transatlantic release video for new single The World We Used To Know
- Saxon share cover of The Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black, reveal Inspirations album track list
- Bill Bailey: why I’m dancing to Metallica’s Enter Sandman on Strictly Come Dancing
- Wheel release video for brand new single Movement
- Vote for the best metal album of 2020
- Watch Dave Grohl’s wildly enthusiastic cover of Beastie Boys’ classic Sabotage
- Listen to Chris Cornell’s surprise covers album No One Sings Like You Anymore
- AC/DC's Power Up voted Classic Rock's best album of 2020
- Was Elvis Presley a narc? Music's Greatest Mysteries aims to reveal all
- 50 years on, The Kinks' Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround still shines bright
- Iron Butterfly: Unconscious Power - An Anthology 1967-1971
- December 10
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- Ace Frehley's animated video for I'm Down is full of cryptic references to Kiss
- Greta Van Fleet launch enigmatic Age Of Machine video
- The Top 10 best Steve Harris Iron Maiden songs
- Watch David Hasselhoff make his heavy metal debut with the dramatic Through The Night
- IQ announce new live Blu-ray release
- Jimmy Page demands fair pay for musicians from streaming companies
- Kitten Pyramid release new video for KOOZY!!
- Gifts for metalheads: Slipknot jumpers, Metallica vinyl and more - it’s all going on in EMP’s big Christmas sale
- Sons of Slash, Scott Weiland and Rob Trujillo share second Suspect208 single, All Black
- Cynic bass player Sean Malone dead at 50
- Opium Warlords’ Nembutal: mind-bending transmissions from an alternative doom universe
- Cynic bassist Sean Malone dead at 50
- My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero shares new song, Sewerwolf, from his side band Frank Iero And The Future Violents
- Metallica’s The Unforgiven remade as a Type O Negative song is a goth-metal masterpiece
- And the best metal album of 2020 is… Deftones’ Ohms
- The Story Behind The Song: Sepultura’s Roots Bloody Roots
- Bjørn Riis streams new single Desolate Place
- Dave Grohl to celebrate Hanukkah by releasing covers of eight songs by Jewish artists
- Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen unleash debut Smith / Kotzen single Taking My Chances
- Cadaver win the Most Pointless Comeback Of 2020 award with new album Edder & Bile
- Rioting, bitter acrimony, and the story of Pink Floyd’s unsung masterpiece: Animals
- Orianthi interview: from barns to business class and beyond
- William Shatner: The Soundtrack Of My Life
- Starbenders release Coming Up Roses, yet another giant single from Love Potions
- December 9
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- Weezer's Rivers Cuomo releases more than two thousand previously unheard demos
- The Story Behind The Song: Steel Panther’s Death To All But Metal
- Cult Of Luna stream brand new single Three Bridges
- AC/DC share Demon Fire video, tell Classic Rock that they have ‘plenty of ideas’ for a follow-up to Power Up
- Listen to two savage new Every Time I Die songs, Desperate Pleasures and A Colossal Wreck
- Yes alumni announce new band Arc Of Life and release video for You Make It Real
- Watch Hayley Williams perform Petals For Armor songs for the very first time
- Courtney Love on ‘sweet’ moment Kurt Cobain called her ‘the best f**k in the world’ on live TV
- Michael Moorcock releases new collaboration with Spirits Burning
- Deafheaven’s 10 Years Gone: post black-metal delirium live in lockdown
- Robert Berry releases video for new single A Fond Farewell
- Van Halen were the greatest live rock band of all time, says Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard
- Soilwork’s A Whisp Of The Atlantic: melodeath masters take an epic prog detour
- Perry Farrell doesn’t want to make America great again. He wants to make the world great again
- The 10 best Alice Cooper songs, by Dennis Dunaway
- The ultimate guide to the best of 2020 is in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Ambient music pioneer and pianist Harold Budd dead at 84
- December 8
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- Motorhead limited batch bourbon launched to celebrate Ace Of Spades anniversary
- Legendary photographer Ross Halfin to publish Led Zeppelin vinyl photo book
- Rïcïnn releases new video for Psamatäe
- Grandson interview: "I don’t do a good job of throwing up my hands and going 'f**k it'"
- Deftones’ Black Stallion: a remix album within touching distance of White Pony
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces New Years Eve virtual live show
- Corey Taylor launches coffee blend, celebrates 47th birthday with video for Everybody Dies On My Birthday
- How trap metal anti-icon Ghostemane became the new king of the misfits
- What's your favourite prog Xmas song?
- Listen to A.A. Williams’ beautiful, haunting cover of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind?
- Watch Duff McKagan and Mark Lanegan cover an outlaw country classic with members of Foo Fighters and Afghan Whigs
- Silent Skies release video for Solitude
- Listen to Jon Bon Jovi ruin Christmas with the worst version of The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ever recorded
- These were Dimebag Darrell’s 10 favourite songs, according to Vinnie Paul
- On the 16th anniversary of his murder, watch Dimebag jam Thin Lizzy, Metallica and Led Zep covers with Vinnie Paul
- John Carpenter streams new single The Dead Walk
- Ken Hensley's final album My Book Of Answers to be released in March
- Amaranthe’s Elize Ryd: ‘You cannot take music forward if you sound like everyone else’
- December 7
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- Perry Farrell to appear on new series of The Big Interview with Dan Rather
- Motley Crue turn up the heat with bespoke hot sauce series
- Zola Jesus streams brand new song Krunk
- Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal
- Trivium announce four date UK tour for 2021
- Vote for the best album of 2020
- This beautiful lament to lost music venues will bring tears to the eyes of anyone who’s missing live gigs
- Bob Dylan sells every song he’s ever written in reported quarter of a billion pounds deal
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hu, Greta Van Fleet and more
- Bill Bailey dancing to Metallica in the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final might be the TV highlight of 2020
- Steven Wilson announces new tour dates for September and October
- Schwing! Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to join virtual Wayne’s World reunion
- Win virtual VIP tickets to Lockdown Live: Streaming Of A White Christmas with The Darkness
- Watch Blink-182’s Travis Barker cover Metallica for new film Sound Of Metal
- Todd Rundgren releases bizarre Christmas cover version
- Slipknot announce 2021 European tour dates
- DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara: ‘I’m not gonna say no to a new Coal Chamber album’
- Wolfmother: Wolfmother Album Of The Week Club review
- How the New York Dolls' appetite for self-destruction cost them their career
- Suzi Quatro's new Christmas single swaps stomping glam for sultry festive soul
- December 6
- December 5
- December 4
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- The story of Keith West's Excerpts From A Teenage Opera
- Zappa: "I think the FBI keep their eye on me”
- Gazpacho announce live stream of new album Fireworker
- Eyehategod threaten to ‘destroy the U.S.A.’ with the brutal High Risk Trigger
- Korn side-project Love And Death announce first live show in seven years, share video for Down
- Listen to Evanescence crank up the futuristic glam-stomp on new song Yeah Right
- Tiger Moth Tales release video for The Whispering Of The World
- Watch Steven Wilson and Gary Kemp perform 12 Things I Forgot
- Michael Monroe on Axl Rose, Lemmy and how Mötley Crüe killed Hanoi Rocks
- Nad Sylvan releases video for brand new single You've Got To Find A Way
- Mastodon’s Troy Sanders: 10 albums that changed my life
- Anneke Van Giersbergen releases video for new single My Promise
- This ultra-funky Metallica vs Stevie Wonder soundclash is an absolute delight
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons perform Fleetwood Mac’s The Green Manalishi
- Leprous release video for brand new single Castaway Angels
- Listen to Miley Cyrus’ brilliant cover of Hole’s Doll Parts, her latest attempt to rewire rock for a new generation
- Evile: the kings of UK thrash come back from the dead
- Manowar's Black Wind, Fire And Steel: three albums of the truest metal
- Greta Van Fleet launch single Age Of Machine, confirm The Battle at Garden’s Gate album
- The Hu release spectacular Mongolian language cover of Metallica's Sad But True
- Hollywood Undead's New Empire: Volume 2 is another chance to bedroom mosh
- The Wildhearts' 30 Year Itch is loud, atmospheric and buzzing with furious energy
- Don't Let The Devil Take Another Day finds Kelly Jones twisting his standards into fine new shapes
- Live In Tokyo is a rapturous farewell to Walter Lure's LAMF
- The 10 best Van Halen cover versions
- December 3
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- Al Murray and daughter Willow May play free charity show on Saturday
- Bruce Soord announces final Soord Sessions stream
- Industrial metallers The Amenta return to bring you the vivid stuff of nightmares
- The Top 10 best metal covers of Beatles songs
- Idles share animated video for Kill Them With Kindness
- Alpha Male Tea Party announce surprise album for 2020
- You might spot someone you know in Queen’s fan video for Don’t Stop Me Now
- If anyone wants to buy Eddie Van Halen’s 2000 Black Ferrari 550, we’re free to go for a spin
- Dave Thompson's new Hawkwind book details the space rockers’ career so far
- Trapped Under Dice: Metallica launch Monopoly World Tour Edition board game
- Watch Unravel - The Anchoress’ David Lynch-inspired video
- Hear how The Cure’s Robert Smith has re-imagined Deftones’ classic Teenager
- Jimmy Page: The Classic Rock interview
- David Coverdale dons Santa Claus outfit, empties his sack to bring Xmas cheer
- Ginger Wildheart’s 10 Favourite Live Albums
- December 2
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- Black Country, New Road and Black Midi join forces to help save Brixton's Windmill
- AC/DC engineer Mike Fraser: I swear I could hear Malcolm singing
- Kepler Ten blend psychedelia and comic book art in new video for Weaver
- League Of Lights premiere video for Twenty Twenty One
- Side projects, solo albums and ukulele jams: the best of the Pearl Jam extended universe
- Black Sabbath’s Vol 4: Super Deluxe Edition to feature 20 unreleased recordings
- The Story Behind The Song: Scorpions’ Rock You Like A Hurricane
- Nirvana (the 60s one) to have new vinyl box set released
- Kyuss duo reunite as Stoner for Live In The Mojave Desert concert film
- Eddie Van Halen and Neil Peart feature with Darth Vader in ‘Sgt. Pepper’ style artwork mourning 2020’s greatest losses
- Greg Puciato: ‘Dragging the dying corpse of Dillinger Escape Plan across the world was not healthy’
- The BBC’s ‘censorship’ of Fairytale Of New York ‘mutilates an artefact of immense cultural value’ says Nick Cave
- TesseracT release trailer for cinematic live experience Portals
- Watch Architects bleak, post-apocalyptic video for new single Black Lungs
- Robert Reed premieres new video for A Symphonic Poem
- Listen to Metallica’s stripped-down cover of Alice In Chains’ Would?
- Mass Sky Raid release video for new single Breakthrough
- Volbeat's 12 favourite live albums
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1997
- December 1
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- Marisa And The Moths launch powerful video for How Did You Get So Weak?
- Take part in our music survey for a chance to win a £150/$200 voucher
- Phoebe Bridgers just released the most 2020 video of 2020
- Watch Texas reunite with Wu-Tang Clan for new single Hi
- Join Rick Wakeman at Rick’s Plaice for a special New Year’s show in January
- Listen to Nightwish’s Floor Jansen absolutely smash her cover of Heart’s 1987 power ballad Alone
- The Top 10 best Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden songs
- Eddie Van Halen’s death has done nothing to end the bitchiness between old foes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar
- Voyager release live video clip of Severomance
- Pothamus have given this crazy year the epic post-sludge soundtrack it deserves
- Every Rob Zombie and White Zombie album ranked from worst to best
- Fish announces surprise live album
- Listen to unreleased English-language demo of Rammstein’s Pussy
- Suzi Quatro announces historic Royal Albert Hall show
- From prog metal to folk and the Foo Fighters: how Brothers Osborne paid their dues
- 10 examples of the supernatural genius of Jaco Pastorius
- Chris Cornell's Superunknown guitar is up for auction
