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- January 31
- January 30
- January 29
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- Michael Schenker Group's Immortal is their best album in nearly four decades
- Bring Me The Horizon score second UK Number 1 album with Post Human: Survival Horror
- Michael Schenker's In Search Of The Peace Of Mind: the story behind the song
- Watch serial killers Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees bury the hatchet with tender duet on Extreme ballad
- Watch Joan Jett play a gun-toting junkie in the trailer for violent biker gang thriller Honor Amongst Men
- Therion's Thomas Vikström guests on new Everdawn track Your Majesty Sadness
- Nightwish have postponed their European tour
- This violinist’s stunning version of Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption is a worthy tribute to his genius
- Soen - Imperial review
- Steven Wilson - The Future Bites review
- System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan believes his right wing views have put him on a Hollywood blacklist
- Hail The Sun step further into prog territory with new single Domino
- Watch Rob Zombie’s electrifying, chaotic new video to kick-start your weekend
- When You Found Me finds Lucero at their brooding, brilliant best
- Raunch and social consciousness meet on Edgar Broughton Band's Speak Down The Wires
- The Besnard Lakes thrill on gorgeous baroque psych-prog collection
- Accept's Too Mean To Die: It’s still balls-to-the-wall, man
- It’s Steven Wilson versus Jeff Bezos on The Future Bites
- Curved Air's full mix of sonic identities celebrated on The Albums 1970-1973
- January 28
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- The Pineapple Thief announce The Soord Sessions: Volumes 1-4 four disc set
- Watch Squid’s nightmarish, headf**k video for 8-minute single Narrator
- Listen to new Cheap Trick single Light Up The Fire, from forthcoming album In Another World
- Should we be worried about the future of our festivals?
- Papa Roach and TikTok star Jeris Johnson collab on reloaded version of Last Resort
- Pearl Jam unveil bespoke chocolate collection, prepare to share stream of epic 2018 hometown gig
- Former Genesis manager Tony Stratton-Smith celebrated in new biography
- Black Magic: 10 unlikely goth covers you need in your life
- Bring Me The Horizon announce three super-intimate UK shows
- New Dave Grohl documentary plus rare AC/DC, Hendrix footage to air on new music TV channel
- The world may not be ready for this Journey Vs Mudvayne version of Don’t Stop Believin’
- Tame Impala debut to get 10th anniversary deluxe reissue
- Live-streamed online gigs may be wiped out due to new license fee ‘tax’
- Pretenders interview: the magic of songwriting and how MTV killed rock'n'roll
- How Peter Gabriel ditched the masks and made the album that changed his life
- The improbable story of X, LA’s greatest cult band
- Leslie West and Mountain: a guide to their best albums
- January 27
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- Tolkien-inspired proggers Ainur release video for Spirit Of Fire
- This synthwave/cyberpunk version of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck is quite something
- Anderson Rabin Wakeman open new online store
- Canadian city to commission artwork to honour late Rush drummer Neil Peart
- Pixies leader Black Francis sets out vinyl reissue series
- Paul Weller fans get a brutal smackdown in savage sea shanty Wellend
- Watch Steven Wilson’s striking lyric video for Man Of The People
- Frank Iero interview: How to carry on when the world turns upside down
- ZZ Top’s Gimme All Your Lovin’ played on eight ukuleles is a sweet reminder of a more innocent world
- Volbeat's The Strength/The Sound/The Songs set for 15th anniversary reissue
- Mono stream live version of Meet Us Where The Night Ends
- Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin's debut album, by Budgie's Burke Shelley
- A beginner's guide to the thrilling, topsy-turvy world of the concept album
- January 26
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- Robert Fripp: How I met Toyah and why I love her
- Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen detail Smith/Kotzen album - watch Taking My Chances video
- Foo Fighters are getting their own radio station in celebration of new album Medicine At Midnight
- Nickelback’s Rockstar gets the sea shanty treatment
- Bring Me The Horizon, Steve Hackett, Wardruna and Lonely The Brave set for UK chart success
- Melvins release new single The Great Good Place from upcoming album Working With God
- Watch 11-year-old Japanese drummer Yoyoka Soma absolutely nail Deep Purple’s Speed King
- French post-rockers La Drache release video for L'Aurore
- Watch an animated Jawa from Star Wars deliver an out-of-this-world take on Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption
- Gentle Giant discuss their formation in new interview
- Brian ‘Head’ Welch: “Our Justin Bieber cover came out better than I could ever imagine!”
- My Chemical Romance‘s Frank Iero working on ‘four or five’ new projects during ‘frustrating, difficult’ lockdown
- The 10 greatest conspiracy theories in rock
- London venue The Black Heart launches crowdfunder for survival
- Nine Inch Nails share new video for Fashion, featuring former Bowie band members
- Soen: The story behind Imperial
- The Top 10 best Matt Heafy cover versions
- Backyard parties and unbridled genius: the story of Van Halen's early years
- Inevitably, someone's made a heavy metal version of The Wellerman
- I Alone by Live: "A million different interpretations later, it still means something to me"
- January 25
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- That Buddhist monk doing AC/DC's Thunderstruck you ordered has been delivered
- Watch members of Rancid, Stiff Little Fingers and The Interrupters join The Mighty Mighty Bosstones for epic love letter to ska
- The Flaming Lips’ ‘bubble concert’ could be a blueprint to revolutionise the live music circuit
- This Ozzy Osbourne cover by four men with bowls on their heads is the internet's latest smash hit
- System Of A Down to play special livestream concert this weekend
- HeKz revamp line-up for fourth album
- Nandi Bushell’s fabulous My Chemical Romance cover will lead a new generation to join The Black Parade
- Cardiacs albums finally appear on streaming services
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Foo Fighters, Royal Blood and more
- Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer to be extradited to Washington D.C. following part in Capitol riots
- Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells to be performed in London this summer
- Annisokay’s Aurora: metalcore hopefuls step up to the plate
- Watch Ghost’s Tobias Forge cover Rolling Stones track Sympathy For The Devil on Swedish television
- Tom Jones has released an alt-rock single because it's 2021 and nothing makes sense anymore
- Sparks: Kimono My House - Album Of The Week Club review
- Fish: Brexit has destroyed UK artists’ ability to tour in The EU
- January 24
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- Welcome to the kitchen: Toyah and Robert Fripp set pulses racing with Guns N' Roses cover
- Tribulation’s Where The Gloom Becomes Sound: gothic grandeur and dark litanies
- Jennifer Clark releases video for new song 2021
- Vernon Reid features on new Jane Getter album
- Charity version of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here airs tonight
- January 23
- January 22
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- The Stranger release video for new single Eleventh Hour
- These classic rock and metal album sleeves with added Bernie Sanders are truly iconic
- Royal Blood release irresistible title track of their incoming third album Typhoons
- Liquid Tension Experiment release video for new single The Passage Of Time
- Mongolia honours The Hu with release of special commemorative coin
- Genesis reschedule reunion dates for September and October
- ‘Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?’ MetalTrump delivers hilarious cover of Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta: “My whole career is about raising heavy music’s profile”
- Therion and Marko Hietala join forces for Tuonela single
- Retransmission by W.E.T. is "ludicrously good" says our reviewer
- Jason Bieler shines on star-studded sonic adventure Songs For The Apocalypse
- Lonely The Brave hit unexpected new heights on The Hope List
- Here Lies Man mesmerise on genre-melding album Ritual Divination
- Bon Scott's strange prog rock past explored on Fraternity's Seasons Of Change
- Steve Hackett finds elegance and mystery on Under A Mediterranean Sky
- Glenn Hughes dominates the Dead Daisies' hook-laden Holy Ground
- This Buzzcocks box set is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest pop craftsmen ever produced by humankind
- The (almost) complete journey of Perry Farrell celebrated on The Glitz: The Glamour
- January 21
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- Anneke van Giersbergen guests with Celestial Burst on debut EP The Maze
- Listen to Nine Inch Nails track Head Like A Hole get a haunting goth makeover
- Sting hated a Grammy-winning Police song so much he buried the tape in a garden, hoping it would never get finished
- Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan: “What are you gonna do? Lay around and whimper?”
- Watch the trailer for The Kinks’ one man show ‘psychodrama’ The Moneygoround
- Aspyhx’s Necroceros album: cult death metal overlords in world-eating form
- Watch Roger Waters' new version of Pink Floyd's The Gunner's Dream
- Glastonbury 2021 cancelled due to on-going coronavirus pandemic
- Judas Priest’s Ian Hill: My Life In 10 Songs
- Metallica producer Bob Rock cashes in his Black Album profits in multi-million dollar deal
- Jo Quail to headline post classical festival Forgotten Futures
- Weezer share All My Favorite Songs, the first single from new album, OK Human
- Watch Dave Grohl, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi welcome Joe Biden to the White House
- Kayak release teaser for new album
- Mike Patton’s alt.rock supergroup Tomahawk return with first new music in 8 years
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1999
- How The Struts beat lockdown to cook up a star-studded glam rock feast
- Why I ❤️ King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King, by Steve Stevens
- January 20
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- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sworn in: The Rock World reacts
- On Wednesdays We Wear Black: the boundary-breaking podcast you need in your life
- Why are Pearl Jam trying to shut down this tiny UK tribute band?
- Therion’s Leviathan: prog-metal’s most OTT band dial back the ridiculousness
- Nu metal floor-filler Down With The Sickness gets mashed up with a cat, because The Internet
- American idiots are completely missing the point of Green Day’s American Idiot
- Lifesigns share more details of new album Altitude
- Watch Spanish football team celebrate beating Barcelona by playing Highway To Hell in their AC/DC tribute band
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee: “We’re in a crisis and there’s more at stake than ever”
- A parrot which sings Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses and Beatles songs could be music’s next global superstar
- Every Hatebreed album ranked from worst to best
- Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who members attack British government over EU deal which has ‘shamefully failed’ British musicians
- The whole of Pantera’s Vulgar Display Of Power in the style of Metallica is the kick your day needs
- Six killer Mongolian metal bands (who aren’t The Hu)
- Kylver release new live video of Allghoi
- The Moody Blues: stories of nights in technicolour satin and LSD
- 40 years of friendship and one Zoom call: Lars Ulrich and Brian Tatler catch up
- Listen to Paul Stanley take a walk on the soul side on uplifting cover of O-o-h Child
- Greta Van Fleet launch stunning live version of Age Of Machine
- January 19
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- Anna B Savage's Baby Grand is an ode to every headf**k relationship you've ever had
- Watch the trailer for Music When The Lights Go Out, a new documentary saluting London rock bar The Crobar
- Secret Sphere release video for new single Lifeblood
- Watch Fall Out Boy play for incoming US President Joe Biden, Pete Wentz’s family friend
- Accept’s Too Mean To Die: steel-booted ferocity from Germany’s second greatest classic metal band
- Turbulence introduce themsleves with video for Madness Unforeseen
- Metal, extremism and ‘cancel culture’: join the World Metal Congress debate on the ugly side of metal which we cannot ignore
- Dave Grohl wishes Lemmy was alive to hear the new Foo Fighters album
- H.e.a.t interview: meet the new guy, same as the first guy
- Weezer announce surprise new Weezer album ahead of expected new Weezer album
- January 18
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- That James Hetfield meets Huey Lewis mashup you wanted is finally here
- Phil Campbell: the family that plays together stays together
- Arc Of Life stream new song Just In Sight
- Stiff Little Fingers reschedule UK tour for the third time
- Tool’s tiniest fan: Toddler dances to Fear Inoculum’s Invincible in adorable video
- Wardruna bring the shamanic frequencies and otherworldly hymns on new album Kvitravn
- Watch the trailer for forthcoming Serj Tankian film Truth To Power
- Rage Against The Machine address ‘the fiction known as whiteness’ in hard-hitting online history lesson
- How Trivium owned the internet
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio announce new album for March
- Watch Donald Trump scream Metallica’s Damage Inc, a fitting end to four years of chaos, destruction and fake news
- Metal Hammer releases exclusive The Hu, Heilung, Twin Temple and Alien Weaponry gift bundles!
- Hip-hop for metalheads: a 21st century guide
- Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer faces six criminal charges related to January 6 Trump rally violence
- The 50 most anticipated metal albums of 2021
- 10 songs to celebrate the genius of Glenn Frey
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Moon City Masters, Tom Jones and more
- Slayer: Seasons In The Abyss - Album Of The Week Club review
- January 17
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- January 15
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- Scardust release video for Mist
- Watch Saxon’s high-octane cover of Deep Purple’s Speed King, a celebration of rock ’n’ roll history
- Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and Jon Bon Jovi to celebrate Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration
- Industrial metal maniacs Red Method take aim at our age of chaos
- Anneke van Giersbergen releases video for new single Hurricane
- Julien Baker’s haunting cover of Fell On Black Days will introduce Soundgarden to a new generation
- Transatlantic release video for new single Looking For The Light
- Eyehategod share sludgy new single Fake What’s Yours
- Listen to Thunder revisit the ’80s with strutting hard rocker Going To Sin City
- White Willow/Wobbler's Ketil Einarsen streams epic new track as Ingelrii
- Hear AFI’s first new music for three years, Escape From Los Angeles and Twisted Tongues
- Where to start with… Cult Of Luna
- New York Dolls: the ultimate bluffers's guide
- George Thorogood: the soundtrack of my life
- Keith Richards: "This thing is designed to keep us apart, and everything we want to do is be together"
- New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain dead at 69
- January 14
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- Get 50% off an annual subscription to Fender Play and channel your inner Jimi Hendrix
- Downes Braide Association release video for Your Heart Will Find The Way
- Lonely The Brave release Keeper documentary to tee up album number three, The Hope List
- Dave Grohl celebrates his birthday by sharing another new Foo Fighters song
- How metal survived the epic clusterf**k that was 2020
- Eddie Van Halen was moved to tears upon hearing his son Wolfgang’s tender eulogy Distance
- A. A. Williams streams haunting cover of Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
- For just €235 Brian May’s new perfume will make you smell like the British countryside
- Robert Berry releases video for new single A Bond Of Union
- The Story Behind The Song: Hearts On Fire by Hammerfall
- Of Mice & Men preview Timeless EP with powerful new single Obsolete
- Vanilla Fudge and Cactus bassist Tim Bogert dead at 76
- The story of Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- January 13
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- Def Leppard launch world's "first digital rock'n'roll museum"
- Black Sabbath launch deluxe versions of Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules
- The Prog Collective launch new album with single Two Trajectories
- Has Dave Mustaine just revealed the title of Megadeth’s new album?
- PVRIS’ Lynn Gunn: "There's a lot of external pressure on things that really don't matter"
- Watch Corey Taylor f**k up his one shot at stardom in the video for Samantha’s Gone
- Voyager release video for cover of The Presets This Boys In Love
- Watch AC/DC’s video for Realize, the killer opening track on Power Up
- Meer announce new album Playing House
- Axl Rose and AC/DC recorded no new music together, Angus Young confirms
- Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy: “The greatest band of all time? Led Zeppelin”
- Rare David Bowie vinyl demo featuring the track Run Piper Run heads to auction
- Watch Limp Bizkit, Mastodon and In Flames members cover Jane’s Addiction’s Mountain Song
- Japan's Quiet Life to get new vinyl and 3CD reissue
- Black Spiders announce self-titled comeback album
- Neil Young blames social media for divided nation, calls for empathy
- The Slade albums you should definitely own
- Watch Idles’ savagely satirical, subversive video for anti-monarchy anthem Reigns
- January 12
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- Beach Slang split up as James Alex is hospitalised amid abuse allegations
- God Is An Astronaut release video for new single Fade
- Mogwai release video for new single Ritchie Sacramento
- Watch Gary Numan roleplay as an angry, hostile planet Earth in dramatic video for Intruder
- The Flower Kings release video for Black Swan
- The Pretty Reckless recruit Tom Morello for single And So It Went to help salvage souls from a world on fire
- Magma to release Retrospektïw 1, 2 and 3 on CD
- The most exciting heavy bands of 2021… aren’t actually metal
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn is ready to unleash hell on internet bullies, trolls and edgelords
- Get three issues of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock or Prog for only £3
- Jane Weaver releases video for new single Heartflow
- Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 review
- Marko Hietala leaves Nightwish
- How Led Zeppelin rewrote rock’s rulebook and changed the music business
- Why I ❤️ Deep Purple's Made In Japan, by Yngwie Malmsteen
- Geddy Lee to appear with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in virtual concert
- Toyah and Robert Fripp startle humanity with frisky cover of Enter Sandman
- Nandi Bushell targets Jimmy Page with version of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song
- January 11
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- Senseless Things frontman Mark Keds dead at 50
- Composer Danny Elfman releases video for prog rock-inspired 'Sorry'
- Trainspotting/Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle charts the rise of the Sex Pistols in new TV series Pistol
- Girls to the front: a conversation with Bitch Falcon and CLT DRP
- Joe Elliott pays a heartfelt tribute to David Bowie with Down ’N’ Outz’ video for Goodnight Mr. Jones
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Inglorious, The Dust Coda and more
- Scott Weiland’s son Noah ‘let go’ from rising LA rockers Suspect208 due to alleged drug use
- Watch Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan, Adam Lambert perform David Bowie classics at tribute livestream
- Liquid Tension Experiment reveal artwork and tracklisting for new album
- And the winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
- Dave Grohl dreams that Nirvana are still a band, but won’t sing Kurt Cobain’s songs
- Metallica and Anthrax pay tribute to Megaforce Records co-founder Marsha Zazula, dead at 68
- James Gang: Bang - Album Of The Week Club review
- Legendary music fan and naked hippie dancer "Jesus" dead at 72
- January 10
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- January 8
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- Have you seen this power metal guitarist?
- Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor pays tribute to David Bowie, ahead of star-studded Bowie celebration gig
- John Carpenter shares music video for new single Alive After Death
- Listen to previously unreleased The Black Crowes’ track Charming Mess from 1990
- Steve Hackett launches new music video for Sirocco
- Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson share poignant, heartbreaking memories of their friend Neil Peart
- Linkin Park share 100 gecs ‘reanimation’ of One Step Closer, while Numb gets a K-Pop remix
- How prog was David Bowie?
- Cellar Darling stream 11-minute new song Dance
- 10 Essential 90s AOR Albums
- Fish bids farewell: the pain of the world and the album he was born to make
- Hearts & Hand Grenades lack heft on debut album Turning To Ashes
- January 7
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- John Fogerty bids Farewell to the Trump era with Weeping In The Promised Land
- Neil Peart: Hail The Professor
- New Pink Floyd jigsaw puzzle range celebrates more of their iconic album covers
- Listen to System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian and RATM’s Tom Morello cover Gang of Four classic
- Premiere: Walking Papers launch epic 12-minute video for Divine Intervention
- Turn up the volume on Dry January with BrewDog’s sale on alcohol-free beers
- Axl Rose bought Dave Grohl a hugely expensive guitar to say thanks for borrowing his ‘throne’
- The Hu, Heilung, Alien Weaponry and Twin Temple make their Metal Hammer cover debuts
- Elton John is playing piano on Miley Cyrus’ new cover of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters
- 10 essential 80s AOR albums
- Corey Taylor will front Foo Fighters/Jane’s Addiction supergroup for David Bowie tribute show
- 5 underground labels shaping the sound of metal in 2021
- New Bad Elephant signing Simon McKechnie releases new video for Retro
- Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer was among the angry mob storming the US Capitol
- Watch Acts Of Resistance, a new film showing how metal is inspiring genuine change in Latin America, exclusively via Metal Hammer
- How David Bowie stunned the world with The Next Day
- Lars Ulrich interview: lockdown, missing live music, and the future of Metallica
- January 6
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- Greg Puciato’s white-hot rage on Don’t Wanna Deal is extremely relatable right now
- Pat Mastelotto and wife to release new King Crimson covers collection
- Watch this Border Collie absolutely smash a dance routine to Evanescence’s Bring Me To Life
- AC/DC, Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Queen are among the UK’s best-selling artists on vinyl
- Watch a TikTok R&B star school angry metal fans by shredding Metallica songs
- Strawbs stream brand new song Settlement exclusively with Prog
- Simple Minds’ Don’t You (Forget About Me) in the style of Type O Negative is a lost goth metal classic
- Vote for the winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020!
- Cosmograf will release new album Rattrapante in March
- Watch one-handed guitar player play two Guns N' Roses solos
- 10 Essential 70s AOR Albums
- Jimi Hendrix's Dolly Dagger: the story behind the song
- January 5
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- 7 essential non-metal albums all metalheads need in their lives
- That image of a ‘5G chip’ which idiots claim is in the Covid-19 vaccine is actually a guitar pedal’s electronic circuitry
- Avenged Sevenfold’s new album is ‘wild’, ‘over the top’ and ‘nothing like anything we’ve done’ says M. Shadows
- Jean-Michel Jarre celebrates 75million viewers for NYE show
- The Story Behind The Song: Armored Saint’s Last Train Home
- Dave Grohl edits the new issue of Classic Rock - and it's out now
- The battle for Van Halen: how Sammy Hagar triumphed over Dave Lee Roth
- No One Knows by Queens Of The Stone Age: The story behind the song
- David Coverdale: a guide to his best albums
- January 4
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- Alexi Laiho was more than just the man behind Children Of Bodom – he was the mad scientist of modern metal
- Kevin Godley - Muscle Memory
- On the anniversary of his death, listen to Phil Lynott at his brilliant best at Thin Lizzy’s last ever UK show
- The Cult and Manic Street Preachers pay tribute to producer Steve Brown, dead at 65
- Lifesigns tease title track from new album Altitude
- Def Leppard to launch online museum, the Def Leppard Vault
- Watch Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor play X-Japan’s Endless Rain with Yoshiki and Babymetal on Japan‘s biggest TV show
- Alexi Laiho: “I do it for the music and the love of playing. End of f**king story.”
- Osibisa announce first new material in two decades
- Watch Slash and Chad Smith jam an epic version of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs with Post Malone
- Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho dies
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Foo Fighters, Neil Young and more
- Cream: Disraeli Gears - Album Of The Week Club review
- January 3
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- January 1
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- Steven Wilson covers Taylor Swift's The Last Great American Dynasty
- Gentle Giant thank fans for Prog Readers' Poll success in new video
- Keith Richards: I've been writing songs while sitting around watching TV
- ‘I don’t want to be on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit singing f**king Kayleigh’: Fish bows out
