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- March 31
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- Robin Trower: the guitarist who should be king
- Here are 8 things Metallica could be working on with Miley Cyrus and Elton John
- Nick Beggs, Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman form Trifecta
- Dinosaur Jr share Garden, the blissful new single from upcoming album Sweep It Into Space
- Corey Taylor’s Zombie Versus Ninja movie will commence shooting this year
- John Lennon wished Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, not Eric Clapton, had played guitar on Cold Turkey
- Dave Grohl's favourite rock bar is launching the world's first online pub
- Pond return with video for new single Pink Lunettes
- Garbage announce new album, share biting single The Men Who Rule The World
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets announce rescheduled UK dates
- Idles announce two new UK shows, to take place on the same day
- Taylor Momsen opens up to Chris Cornell’s daughter Lily over mental health battles
- Tony Iommi dismisses ‘rock is dead’ talk, readies Tony Martin-era Sabbath box set
- Pupil Slicer are more than a cool name – they’ve just released one of 2021’s most exciting debut albums
- Gleb Kolyadin releases trailer video for new solo album
- Lust over these sexy AF bikinis fit for the queen of hell
- Interview: Brian May and Roger Taylor reflect on 50 years of Queen
- How Guitar Hero III made Slash famous all over again
- It’s Been Awhile, but Staind are back
- Meet Animal Schoolbus, the grindcore band starring nine-year-old screamer Princess Beast
- March 30
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- Why I ❤️ The Groundhogs' Thank Christ For The Bomb, by The Damned's Captain Sensible
- Buy three vinyl albums and save 15% in Victrola’s spring sale
- Pearl Jam push back UK and European tour to 2022
- Reading & Leeds festival attendees will likely need a vaccine passport to attend this year’s event
- David Lee Roth creates peculiar artwork inspired by Cardi B’s WAP performance
- Runes, ravens and sorcery: how pagan-folk mystics Wardruna are bringing the old ways back
- Jasmeno streams brand new single Alchemy
- These classic album sleeves with googly eyes stuck on them are weirdly brilliant
- The 10 most criminally underrated riffs ever
- Listen to one of the last songs Alexi Laiho recorded before his death
- Pentral release new video for All My Wounds
- Spock's Beard, Airbag and Jump complete HRH XII line-up
- The OBGMs launch hilarious new music, entertainment and comedy podcast
- 5,000-strong concert held in Barcelona following mass Covid testing experiment
- Elvis Costello unveils French-language EP La Face de Pendule à Coucou, featuring Iggy Pop
- Amorphous Androgynous and Peter Hammill release new teaser video
- How well do you know Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds?
- 11 facts you might not know about the Sgt. Pepper cover artwork
- Slipknot vs Linkin Park vs Eminem is the deranged mashup dreams are made of
- Wagner, fist fights, and the making of Roxy Music's debut album
- The Black Crowes and Shake Your Money Maker: "We never made a perfect record again"
- March 29
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- The story of Mahavishnu Orchestra: Devotional, dizzying, and downright revolutionary
- Iron Maiden have ‘some very, very exciting things in the pipeline’
- Amazon slash the Echo Dot by 40% in their big spring sale
- Here’s how System Of A Down’s B.Y.O.B. sounds when played using assault rifles instead of drums
- Mandoki Soulmates announce reissue of latest album Hungarian Pictures
- Iron Maiden were ‘at war with grunge’
- Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen‘s Smith/Kotzen: where Iron Maiden meets The Winery Dogs
- Devin Townsend’s Devolution Series #1: Acoustically Inclined: prog metal’s mad scientist up close and personal
- Tame Impala recall making debut album InnerSpeaker in new film
- Alabama Shakes drummer Steven Johnson arrested on child abuse charges
- David Ellefson: Megadeth are the "greatest thrash band in the history of the world"
- Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best
- Are Metallica working with Elton John on a mystery project?
- Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush: Live - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, Billy Gibbons and more
- March 28
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- Brian May and Kerry Ellis launch "antidote to COVID anxiety" Panic Attack 2021 video
- Toyah and Robert Fripp add beards, scissors and mystery guitarist on maniacal ZZ Top cover
- The making of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell
- New Steve Hackett and Djabe live album for June
- Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come retrospective out in June
- March 27
- March 26
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- Architects just released the best orchestral metal track since S&M
- Karmamoi announce new Orwell-inspired album Room 101
- The Story Behind The Song: Bloodywood’s Ari Ari
- Wheel - Resident Human reivew
- Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow (Expanded & Remastered Digipak Edition) review
- Lamb Of God’s Live In Richmond, VA is the sound of a band raging in the face of the pandemic
- Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH release not one but two new singles
- Eivør releases shimmering new video for Gullspunnin
- How Nightwish’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful made symphonic metal’s biggest band even bigger
- Kansas stream new live version of Point Of Know Return
- Metallica therapist Phil Towle says that Jason Newsted “didn’t want to leave” the band
- Some guy on YouTube has "fixed" Van Halen and it sounds horrible
- Beartooth announce new album Below with anthemic new single The Past Is Dead
- blanket return with new video for White Noise
- Abel Ganz to headline new prog all dayer for September
- Paid In Crisps: A short and salty history of Kitten Pyramid
- Gojira’s blazing new single Amazonia is a Roots Bloody Roots for the 21st century
- How Machine Head’s The More Things Change… took ’90s metal to a new level of intensity
- Why The Blackening is Machine Head’s greatest artistic statement
- Billy Gibbons launches video for West Coast Junkie, announces Hardware album
- On Assembly, Joe Strummer's untameable rock’n’roll spirit rears vividly back to life
- The Devil In Me finds Suzi Quatro still able to kick out the jams
- Sparks frequently fly on Smith/Kotzen partnership's debut album
- Saint Agnes go for the jugular on Vampire
- The New Wave Of Classic Rock comes of age on the Dust Coda's Mojo Skyline
- March 25
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- Stone Temple Pilots announce super deluxe edition of Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
- Seattle Sounders launch Jimi Hendrix-inspired kit
- You can buy Dave Mustaine’s used banjo for £14,999
- Sylvan release trailer for new album One To Zero
- Crank up our playlist of the 100 Greatest Songs Of The 21st Century
- Now even Gene Simmons loves Billie Eilish
- Pearl Jam’s Black in the style of Type O Negative is grunge-goth gold
- Meshuggah have officially started recording their new album
- Learn to shred with two weeks of Fender Play guitar lessons totally free
- The Offspring share video for Let The Bad Times Roll, and it's as weird as you'd expect in 2021
- Shake your foundations by saving £30 on the awesome Amazon Echo Studio
- District 97 release new lockdown video for Divided We Fall
- Tribulation are holding the future of goth metal in their hands
- La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio stream new album Trivial Visions
- Matt Heafy, Mark Tremonti, Devin Townsend and more to play benefit gig for guitarist Jason Becker
- Chris Jericho wants to save this ’80s metal band from obscurity
- Airbag's Identity debut gets vinyl reissue
- The Bronx preview upcoming album with rowdy new single White Shadow
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett to appear on new Santana album
- Why I ❤️ Rogers Waters' Amused To Death, by Uriah Heep's Mick Box
- March 24
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- Flaming Lips launch range of THC-infused gummies and At The Movies On Quaaludes video
- Why I ❤️ Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play, by Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris
- That time Cannibal Corpse’s George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher hung out with Cher at Cher’s house
- The Who's Roger Daltrey is selling own-brand champagne to raise money for charities hit by pandemic
- White Moth Black Butterfly return with third album The Cost Of Dreaming
- Nu-metal is officially cool again according to Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
- Meat Loaf is launching the wildest dating show in the history of dating shows
- Rammstein’s 2021 European tour has been postponed again
- Oslo Tapes release video for the Norse-inspired Zenith
- Subterranean Masquerade release new animated video for Mångata
- Watch Lamb Of God and Chuck Billy team up for raging live version of Routes
- La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s Trivial Visions: cosmic space rock from interstellar travellers
- Sales revenue of vinyl in the UK set to eclipse CDs for the first time in decades
- Architects’ Sam Carter: “I don’t think this generation is going to save the planet”
- Liquid Tension Experiment release new video for breakneck Hypersonic
- Watch unseen footage of Van Halen messing around during filming for Jump and Panama
- Jo Beth Young announces new single Mechanical Ballerina
- System Of A Down’s Sugar sung by animals is literally the funniest thing 2021 has given us so far
- Fairport Convention & Jethro Tull's Dave Pegg: my favourite folk-rock albums
- AC/DC interview: miracle cures, old riffs, and the making of Power Up
- Fantastic Negrito is once, twice, three times a Grammy... and he's just getting started
- The story behind the song: Dance Macabre by Ghost
- March 23
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- Harmonium get orchestral reworking in new video for Vert
- Here's Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train played on a homemade keyboard, because clearly it's what the world wants
- Body Count‘s The Hate Is Real video is great news for anyone who wants to see a puppet Ice-T
- Clutch's Neil Fallon: my most important life lesson came from Ozzy Osbourne
- Luke Machin releases teaser video for solo album Soulshine
- Alice Cooper: “I’d join the Foo Fighters if they ever needed a really sick singer”
- The best books by Neil Peart: A guide to the late Rush drummer’s best writing
- Raucous noise, epic tunes and maximum weirdness? Tomahawk‘s Tonic Immobility has got it covered
- A year without gigs: why we vow never to take live music for granted again
- How Jedward became the unlikely face of the revolution
- Mansur release hypnotic new video for Aurelius
- Lemmy had his ashes put in bullets and given to his closest friends, because he was Lemmy f*cking Kilmister
- 10cc announce UK tour for March 2022
- The Groundhogs: their path from blues to something far more progressive
- The Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger
- Yes reschedule UK tour to 2022
- Sex, cars and videotape: how ZZ Top’s Eliminator conquered the world
- Steve Winwood: A guide to his best albums
- March 22
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- Rock legends from Kiss to Korn donate memorabilia to Roadie Relief fundraiser
- Meet Me @ The Altar share inspirational new single Hit Like A Girl
- Ihsahn to perform Pharos and Telemark EPs in new live stream
- Jinjer start work on fourth album, reveal plan to take "extreme music to a whole new level"
- Vote for the best My Chemical Romance song ever
- Why I ❤️ Mercyful Fate’s Don’t Break The Oath, by Cannibal Corpse’s George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher
- Mastodon promise their new album will be their “biggest-sounding” yet
- Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls in the style of Alice In Chains is a brilliant as you’d imagine
- Kyros release lockdown live video for Sentry
- Paul Stanley says he "doesn't really see a reason" for Kiss to release new music
- Nad Sylvan releases new video for new single The Hawk
- Liquid Tension Experiment’s LTE3: instrumental prog metal masturbation – and proud of it
- Judge deems Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer a threat to the community
- Steven Wilson cancels rescheduled The Future Bites tour
- Toyah and Robert Fripp master Motorhead's Ace Of Spades
- Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth: an emotive and empowered rock album for our times
- 80s proggers Trilogy release new video for Break!
- Rose Tattoo: Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Moon City Masters, The L.A. Maybe and more
- March 21
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- Blackmore's Night release eco-friendly video for Sarah Brightman's Second Element
- Blackberry Smoke conjure up the ghost of Little Feat on new Hey Delilah single
- Greta Van Fleet launch epic new single Broken Bells
- Original Solstice members reunite for new video interview
- Gentle Giant discuss their song Knots
- March 20
- March 19
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- Serj Tankian releases video for new single Electric Yerevan
- Watch episode one of Queen's new YouTube series celebrating their legacy
- Shiva The Destructor release trippy new video for Ishtar
- Kayak release video for brand new single Waiting
- Former Underoath guitarist Corey Steger has died in a car accident
- Ian Anderson celebrates Jethro Tull's Aqualung at 50 at 5pm today
- Nuno Bettencourt on Eddie Van Halen Grammy snub: "Rock will never die, but its respect is hanging by a thread"
- Frost* launch new video for new single Terrestrial
- Big Big Train release emotive video for brand new song Brew And Burgh
- Corpsepaint sheet masks are now a thing, and self-care has never been so kvlt
- Saxon add fun to "these dark times" with lively covers collection Inspirations
- Things are never what they seem on Bob Dylan's 1970
- Black Honey's Written & Directed: sugar-coated badass swagger with a problem
- Devin Townsend's Live In Leeds is self-assured and surprising
- Now And Then by Paul Stanley's Soul Station is an authentic labour of love
- Ego Kill Talent prove themselves arena-ready with The Dance Between Extremes
- Chris Cornell a melancholy, bittersweet listening experience on No One Sings Like You Anymore
- Yes: from The Yes Album to Fragile. The new gift-packed issue of Prog is on sale now!
- That perfect Slipknot/Spice Girls mash up you ordered has arrived
- Grice hooks up with Stefano Panunzi in new video for The Portrait
- March 18
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- Watch Clannad discuss their new recording of In A Lifetime
- The Aristocrats announce new live album
- Black Stone Cherry release rollicking live version of Human Condition track, Again
- How online vigilantes framed an innocent death metal musician for a murder that never was
- Every Iron Maiden live album ranked from worst to best
- Orphaned Land's Kobi Farhi to guest with Scardust on live stream tonight
- Watch this guy take the piss out of Maynard James Keenan's dance moves
- Corey Taylor shares details on socially-distanced and Covid-19 safe 2021 tour
- Zero Theorem: the perfect soundtrack to our dystopian present?
- This Megadeth/Jackson 5 mash-up will ensure you never look at Dave Mustaine in the same way again
- The Mighty Ra release Morricone-inspired video for Freedom
- Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler is writing his autobiography, guns, knife fights and ‘bucketloads of cocaine’ included
- The gospel according to Steven Wilson
- Mick Fleetwood interview: 50 years of Fleetwood Mac
- March 17
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- Six things you need to know about Cats In Space
- Butch Vig: the soundtrack of my life
- Ten of our favourite Irish prog songs
- The video of that guy skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac is being auctioned for $500K
- Watch Michael Winslow perform a mind-blowing cover of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love using nothing but his mouth
- Beloved London music venue The Black Heart announce new vinyl set for crowdfunding campaign
- Alice Cooper: “David Bowie saw my show and said, ‘This is what we should be doing’”
- God Is An Astronaut release "stunning artsy" new video for In Flux
- Clannad release video of new version of In A Lifetime
- Kansas announce new live album for May
- Nick Jonas says it's his dream to play Bruce Springsteen – let's hope his guitar skills have improved since 2016
- Marshall's new Mode II in-ear headphones will add even more rock to your roll
- How Brazilian alt.rockers Ego Kill Talent defied a nightmare 2020 with big riffs and tequila
- This bluegrass version of System Of A Down's Chop Suey is both magnificent and very, very wrong
- March 16
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- Watch Till Lindemann's cake tossing frenzy from Live In Moscow film
- Indonesian drummer with homemade kit gets upgrade thanks to Mike Portnoy
- Watch Thin Lizzy and Saxon as you’ve never seen them before
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is out now and packed with gifts
- Myles Kennedy releases the title track and music video from his new solo album The Ides Of March
- Mick Fleetwood & Friends concert in celebration of Peter Green will be available to stream online on demand
- Elton John slams the Vatican over gay marriage hypocrisy following their investment in Rocketman biopic
- Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante: "Men have been taught by society that they are superior to us"
- Green Isac Orchestra release new video for Don Progini
- Marillion release new live clip of Seasons End
- Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward says he would “love” Black Sabbath to reunite for a new album
- Bruit ≤ release haunting new live video for The Machine Is Burning
- Serj Tankian teases new song Electric Yerevan
- Teramaze release video for new single Between These Shadows
- Detroit Rock City: the 10 best bands from America's rock'n'roll capital
- Watch Metallica shred the Star Spangled Banner ahead of Golden State game
- Courtney Love: I almost died last year
- The Cadillac Three's Jaren Johnston on funk, the South, and strange gifts from Billy Gibbons
- March 15
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- Wolfgang Van Halen "hurt" by Grammy tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer moved to undisclosed location, charges expected soon
- John Hackett guitarist Nick Fletcher to releases teaser for new solo album
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross get two Oscar nominations
- U2 announce YouTube concert series The Virtual Road
- Gandalf's Fist announce tenth anniversary reissue of Road To Darkness
- Evanescence announce new graphic novel series
- Watch Rina Sawayama perform her single XS at Abbey Road Studios
- Rick Armstrong releases sweeping new video for Infinite Corridors
- Lacuna Coil are releasing a board game called Horns Up!
- Tim Burgess launches Listening Party earphones to help support UK venues
- This guy twerking to Papa Roach in the shower is here to save your Monday
- The Anchoress talks us through her new album The Art of Losing
- Mike Shinoda on the album that split the Linkin Park fanbase in two
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Paul Gilbert, Thundermother and more
- The J. Geils Band: Live Full House - Album Of The Week Club review
- March 14
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- Body Count win best metal performance award at the Grammys
- Toyah and Robert Fripp cover Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls and nothing makes sense any more
- Did Queen record two Cream covers with David Bowie?
- Alex Henry Foster releases live clip of Winter Is Coming In
- Watch Steven Wilson discuss Kate Bush's The Dreaming on Classic Album Sundays
- March 13
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- New book charting the rise of The Orb book out in May
- Roger Dean announces very first NFT Drop
- Every Black Sabbath album ranked, from worst to best
- Blackmore's Night continue to conjure up the Renaissance
- Gang Of Four's 77-81 is the sound of deadening alienation you can dance to
- Danko Jones announces Power Trio album, launches riotous single I Want Out
- March 12
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- Imagine Dragons release new songs Cutthroat and Follow You
- Blackmore's Night release track-by-track video of new album Nature's Light
- A week dedicated to pizza and metal is coming and we're fully here for it
- Morse Portnoy George announce Cover To Cover vinyl releases
- Exclusive video: behind the scenes during the making of Saxon's Inspirations album
- Korn announce global streaming event Korn: Monumental
- Saga - Symmetry review
- Downes Braide Association release uplfiting video for Warm Summer Sun
- The Story Behind The Song: Kreator’s Pleasure To Kill
- The Anchoress - The Art Of Losing review
- School teacher sings the alphabet to Korn’s Coming Undone, blows up internet
- Queen launch spectacular trailer for The Greatest YouTube series
- Acolyte unleash new video for brooding ten-minute Clarity
- Power Trip on Riley Gale's death: "It still feels very fresh"
- Gazpacho to launch video for Clockwork tonight at 7pm
- Saga intrigue as Symmetry thoughtfully reinterprets their own work
- Thunder's All The Right Noises: enraged, engaged and thoroughly energised
- Paul McCartney's McCartney III album has only just come out, but it's already been "reimagined"
- Watch Crown Lands' absolutely epic Star Wars-themed tribute to Rush
- Helloween begin new era with first studio album from Pumpkins United lineup
- March 11
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- Aziola Cry premiere new video And Cowards
- Mike Shinoda shares music video for Happy Endings single
- Attorneys for Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer file motion to have U.S. Capitol Building riot charges against him dismissed
- That time the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became the worst rock band of all time
- Five Finger Death Punch release lyric video for I Refuse
- Win a golden ticket to record at London’s legendary Metropolis Studios in new competition
- Vandemonian release video for National Insecurity
- VOLA release animated video for 24 Light Years
- Yes, this is The Pope singing Megadeth‘s Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- Out of the closet and into the pit: the queer artists revolutionising extreme metal
- Are Slipknot secretly making a concept album?
- Rosalie Cunningham releases video for brand new single Number 149
- How Stryper found God and brought Christianity to Sunset Strip, by those who were there
- March 10
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- Corey Taylor to appear on Comic Relief YouTube channel
- Cowabunga! Mike Patton sings the theme for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game
- Morpheus Project will release debut album Mozaick in March
- Geezer Butler confirms that Slapback is an unreleased Black Sabbath song that "Didn't make the grade"
- Ian Anderson to host live online Q+A
- Listen to a tantalising snippet of new Avenged Sevenfold music
- Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian feature on the score to Netflix film Thunder Force
- The new Metal Hammer comes with an exclusive Alexi Laiho art print
- Pink Floyd to release Live At Knebworth on CD and double vinyl
- Accept’s Wolf Hoffmann: “I’ve never even smoked a joint”
- Pupil Slicer’s Mirrors: grind meets mathcore on one of 2021’s most exciting debut albums
- St. Vincent almost made a "heavy" album that sounds like Tool
- The Story Behind The Song: Ghost’s Square Hammer
- The Anchoress releases video of duet with James Dean Bradfield for The Exchange
- Every Iron Maiden album ranked from worst to best
- Geezer Butler claims to have invented heavy metal horns, then backtracks
- The story of Bon Scott before AC/DC: prog rock, crashed motorbikes, and a violent goat named Archie
- Why I ❤️ Happy Chichester, by Dave Grohl
- March 9
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- Every Alice Cooper album, ranked from worst to best
- Lucy Dacus releases poignant new track Thumbs
- System Of A Down's Serj Tankian says he respects bandmate John Dolmayan, but not his political views
- Matt Berry releases teaser video for new album The Blue Elephant
- Has an unheard Dio-era Black Sabbath demo just been unearthed?
- Misfits' first ever single has just been sold for a jaw-dropping $11,000
- The Crown’s Royal Destroyer: Sweden’s hardest declare all-out death metal war
- Anneke van Giersbergen announces virtual album release stream
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman release video for Why Do You Hate Me?
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch says he went "too far" with Christianity
- Simon Phillips and Michael Schenker to feature on new Derek Sherinian album
- Alexi Laiho: the blazing life and wild times of a modern metal hero
- Bloodstock Festival announce Kreator as replacement Saturday headliner
- Watch a guy slaying Cannibal Corpse and Metallica songs on his iPad
- Procol Harum’s former bassist Alan Cartwright has died
- Sisters Of Mercy announce three London shows
- How Rush made Fly By Night, by producer Terry Brown
- Watch video for unreleased Tom Petty song You Saw Me Comin'
- It's time to drop the 'rich man's plaything' snark - The Dead Daisies just wanna rock
- March 8
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- The Pretty Reckless: Tragedy and trauma, and the making of Death By Rock And Roll
- Mick Mars gets the first dose of his Covid vaccine
- Here's 16 hours of music made by women for the benefit of anyone who still thinks proper music is only made by men
- Magma pay tribute to former guitarist James Mac Gaw
- White Void’s Anti’s is a whirlwind ride around metal, occult rock and psychedelia
- Eyehateod’s A History Of Nomadic Behaviour is the sick and twisted soundtrack for our times
- LG Petrov was the ultimate metalhead who got to live the ultimate metalhead’s dream
- Watch Geoff Tate’s new video for Another Change with Sweet Oblivion
- The Amorphous Androgynous - We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal review
- Study finds metalheads amongst happiest music fans, clearly didn't poll our Facebook page
- Stearica share new single, How He Came Into The World
- Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell finishes work on new solo album
- Rare William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin recordings to be released
- Voice Of Baceprot are the metal band the world needs right now
- Watch Blackmore’s Night discuss new album Nature’s Light
- Entombed AD singer LG Petrov has died
- Trapeze: You Are The Music... We’re Just The Band - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dirty Honey, Mason Hill and more
- Saxon let loose high-velocity cover of The Beatles' Paperback Writer
- March 7
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- Listen to the Sammy Hagar-approved synthwave cover of Van Halen's Dreams
- Badfinger line up the superstar guests on No Matter What - Revisiting The Hits
- Pentral highlight Amazon plight with stunning video for new single Silent Trees
- It Bites and the making of Once Around The World
- The Ocean announce live stream of Phanerozoic I
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces Amazônia soundtrack for April
- If you’ve ever danced to Disturbed’s The Sickness as a teenager, you’ll know how brilliant it is
- March 6
- March 5
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- Architects land first UK number 1 album with For Those That Wish To Exist
- Loney Dear streams atmospheric new single Oppenheimer
- ‘People thought we were over!’ Pink Floyd look back on their escape from oblivion
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1991
- ‘I love being one of the forefathers of nu metal’: why Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix will never disown his past
- The Mars Volta announce career-spanning 18-disc vinyl limited edition box set
- Watch System Of A Down’s Shavo crush a Stone Temple Pilots’ classic
- Perturbator share ‘nihilistic’ new single Death Of The Soul to preview Lustful Sacraments album
- Amplifier announce 15th anniversary double vinyl release for Insider
- It Bites announce The Tall Ships and Map Of The Past reissues
- Listen to Amy Lee’s fierce declaration of independence on Evanescence’s new single, Better Without You
- The Story Behind The Song: Avenged Sevenfold’s Unholy Confessions
- Alexi Laiho’s cause of death revealed
- Kings Of Leon's When You See Yourself is a record of life-worn wisdom, hard times and hope
- Ken Hensley struggles to soar on posthumous album My Book Of Answers
- Art-rock fops Japan predict the future on deluxe version of third album Quiet Life
- Debut Mason Hill album Against the Wall is well constructed, melodic and powerful
- March 4
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd's second life compiled on Nothing Comes Easy: 1991-2012
- Greek proggers Ciccada sign to Bad Elephant for new album Harvest
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is up, and it's an exclusive chat with Simone from Epica
- Solo take us on a psych trip with video for Don't Shoot The Piano Player
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band set for deluxe 50th anniversary reissue
- This cover of Prince’s When Doves Cry in the style of Type O Negative is crushingly epic
- Death metal maniacs Baest take a swim in the grim on new album Necro Sapiens
- This is what …And Justice For All would have sounded like with bass
- System Of A Down's Chop Suey! has been voted the greatest metal song of the 21st century
- AC/DC is a religion, says Mastodon’s Brent Hinds, recalling parental fears that the Young brothers would lead him to Hell
- Randy McStine guests on new Stratospheerius video for Cognitive Dissonance
- This country version of Paramore’s Misery Business is exactly what the world needs right now
- Best Apple AirPods alternatives 2023: Wireless earbud wannabes and sonic superstars taking the fight to Apple AirPods
- Watch Metallica celebrate the 35th anniversary of Master Of Puppets with blistering TV performance of Battery
- Queen’s Brian May reveals his favourite guitar solo of all time: ‘It’s spine-chilling!’
- The new Metal Hammer celebrates the greatest songs of the 21st century and is stacked with gifts
- Exploring Birdsong reschedule live dates
- Keith Emerson Tribute Show online reunion tomorrow
- Freak flags proudly fly: a short history of psychedelia's strangest musicians
- Deep Purple at the California Jam: 400,000 fans and an orgy of destruction
- March 3
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- Ghost release poignant Life Eternal video from the night Cardinal Copia was retired
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor announce new studio album
- The Smashing Pumpkins have started work on their 33-track new album
- Record players vs Bluetooth turntables: do you need the extra tech?
- When Waves Collide introduce themselves with video for new single The Fallen
- Pro-Ject T1 review
- ‘That was the last time we tried to summon spirits of the dead’: Mick Box on Uriah Heep’s ‘freaky’ ’70s séance
- Pink Floyd announce replica tape box print of Dark Side Of The Moon
- Young girl recreates Spiritbox’s Holy Roller in cute and terrifying new video
- Composer Daniel Biro announces series of online concerts
- Terminally ill Peaceville Records founder Hammy launches JustGiving fundraiser
- Listen to Metallica play Master Of Puppets for the very first time, with Dave Mustaine watching on
- Clive Mitten releases stunning new promo video for Suite Cryptique
- Sony PS-LX310BT turntable review
- If Iron Maiden recorded Enter Sandman, it would sound exactly like this
- How Accept borrowed a rare AC/DC song to kickstart their career
- Nancy Wilson details Eddie Van Halen tribute on debut solo album You And Me
- March 2
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- Cardiacs: a guide to their best albums
- How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Supertramp guitarist Carl Verheyen to release new album Sundial
- Elder's Nick DiSalvo announces debut solo album
- The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics
- Watch Greta Van Fleet’s heavenly video for Heat Above
- Mike Patton’s re-born Tomahawk release brutal NSFW video for Dog Eat Dog
- This remix of Van Halen’s Runnin’ With The Devil is filthy, and we kinda love it
- Audio-Technica AT-LP120XUSB review
- Mogwai announce special Glasgow show for November
- Rick Armstrong releases video for Shifting Sands
- Watch this jazz drummer nail Lars Ulrich’s parts on Enter Sandman after one listen
- Mick Fleetwood wants to “heal” Fleetwood Mac’s life-long wounds
- Darryl Way releases teaser video for Destinations 2
- Play Deftones’ Pac-Man-style White Pony x Black Stallion online game
- Watch Corey Taylor lend his rap ‘skills’ to new country/hip hop song
- Frost* announce first new studio album for five years
- The Top 10 best German metal albums
- Why I ❤️ Steely Dan's The Royal Scam, by Rudolf Schenker
- Siouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented goth
- The cursed career of Stray: sometimes, nice guys finish last
- March 1
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- Sony PS-HX500 review
- Mason Hill’s Against The Wall: arena-ready rock that proves the power of peristence
- Listen to the final song Kurt Cobain ever sang onstage, from Nirvana’s last-ever gig
- Vote for the greatest Slayer song ever
- The Network return with a chaotic performance of Threat Level Midnight on US TV
- This 17-year-old TikTok shredder has given a Foo Fighters hit the blazing solo it deserves
- Kyros' Adam Warne launches new Patreon account
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen delivers spine-tingling thrills with her killer version of Tom Cruise movie theme Oblivion
- The Reasoning to release new live album Battles Fought And Conquests Won
- Human bones, pagan rituals and ancient armies: inside the cult of Heilung
- Download 2021 cancelled, Iron Maiden, Kiss and Biffy Clyro announced as 2022 headliners
- Lacuna Coil explain why they stood on stage in silence instead of performing a promised livestream concert
- Trent Reznor beats Trent Reznor to win Golden Globe for Pixar’s Soul
- Frank Carduccci to release limited vinyl edition of debut album Oddity
- Rammstein have recorded a secret new album in lockdown
- Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Dust Coda, The Datsuns and more
- Tour the world with Freddie Mercury as Queen launch first mobile game
