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- August 31
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- Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham announces first solo European/UK tour dates
- Corey Taylor promises ‘f*cking savage heavy shit’ on the new Slipknot album
- Kiss postpone more shows as Gene Simmons tests positive for COVID-19
- John Lydon calls forthcoming Sex Pistols drama ‘destructive’ and ‘extremely negative’
- Alan Parsons releases new live video of Games People Play
- Tasty metal riffs and mood-boosting affirmations? It's a good day to look after your me(n)tal health
- Tremonti releases live music video for ferocious album opener A World Away
- Amazon slash the price of the Echo Studio and Echo Dot in their End Of Summer Sale
- Tom Morello asks for help evacuating female guitarists from Afghanistan
- Sixx AM reveal new Hits album with reworking of Skin
- Marilyn Manson appears on Kanye West’s new album Donda, making a mockery of the idea of ‘cancel culture’
- Iron Maiden's Senjutsu: an electrifying, cinematic masterpiece
- PFM stream brand new single If I Had Wings
- Korn's Jonathan Davis "struggling with COVID after-effects", requires oxygen tank to complete performance
- Listen to Jason Newsted’s stunning bass instrumental which inspired Metallica’s My Friend Of Misery
- Trivium's Matt Heafy to release black metal album sung entirely in Japanese
- Dream Theater announce UK tour dates for April
- Tigercub: we make music to express the inexpressible
- The Cold Stares are not afraid of death, but it fuels their incendiary blues
- Birth of a legend: The true story of Phil Lynott's early years
- The 10 best Scorpions albums, chosen by Rudolf Schenker
- August 30
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- 10 movie soundtracks from the 1980s you should definitely own
- Neil Young: Tonight’s The Night - Album Of The Week Club review
- Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion Announce New Album
- Glass Hammer release video trailer for upcoming album Skallagrim
- Alan Reed and Rob Reed release piano and voice version of Pallas's Sanctuary
- Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy dead at 79
- Rammstein's Till Lindemann reportedly arrested in Russia
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ayron Jones, Joe Bonamassa and more
- August 29
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- August 27
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- Metallica legend Jason Newsted guests on this week's Metal Hammer Podcast sponsored by KILLSTAR
- Jason Newsted admits he was “f**king livid” when he first heard …And Justice For All
- Watch Bob Vylan’s fierce, fearless call for anti-fascist action on Pretty Songs
- Stone Sour's Josh Rand strikes a thunderous new chord
- Aisles release eye-catching video for new single Megalomania
- Helloween: the story behind their glorious reunion
- Kristoffer Gildenlow releases lyric video for haunting Fleeting Thought
- NMB - Innocence & Danger: "Delivers big themes..."
- Mother Vulture and the face-melting new bands tour set to kickstart live music
- Leprous - Aphelion: "Entering uncharted territory, proving utterly fearless..."
- Drott release hypnotic video for new single Arch Of Gloom
- Ray Of Light: the triumphant life and tragic death of Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Brian Setzer's Gotta Have The Rumble: shooting from the hip with infectious precision
- Power Trio by Danko Jones: a relentless surge of high-energy, rock’n’roll savagery
- Neal Morse Band contrast the epic with the concise on Innocence & Danger
- Robben Ford reminds us of his place high amongst guitar’s world rankings
- 30 years of Pearl Jam: fame, fortune and the fight for themselves
- Kiss frontman Paul Stanley tests positive for COVID
- August 26
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- Where to start with... Enslaved
- Devin Townsend is resuming work on his musical about ‘cocks and vaginas and death’
- The Beatles’ Let It Be set for massive deluxe reissue with bonus material
- The Omnific release bass-driven video for new single Ne Plus Ultra
- Sepultura’s work between 1998-2009 to be celebrated in new box set
- Noel Gallagher’s 10-year-old son is teaching him how to play AC/DC riffs
- Steve Hackett releases historically themed video for new single Natalia
- Get 50% off a digital single issue of Prog
- Nothing Else Matters played on a harp is the most soothing Metallica cover ever
- Limp Bizkit plan to ‘leak’ new music ‘very soon’
- 10 obscure but brilliant hair metal albums
- Marillion offer lucky fan the chance to win tickets to see their whole tour
- The strange story of Nik Turner and a life lived on Planet Freakout
- Algal the Bard opens a can of medieval whoop-ass on System Of A Down's Aerials
- Thunder: a guide to their best albums
- KK's Priest release rousing road anthem Raise Your Fists
- August 25
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- Gene Simmons apologises to David Lee Roth after 'bloated naked Elvis' jibe
- The Pineapple Thief release new live clip of Our Mire
- 10 brilliant but obscure punk bands who should've been huge
- Joe Bonamassa announces new album Time Clocks, shares video for The Heart That Never Waits
- Jinjer share intense video for Wallflower from their much-anticipated new album Wallflowers
- Krautrockers Mood Taeg stream new song Squirrels Dancing Among Elephants
- Aeon Zen release video for the first part of their epic concept album Transversal
- Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell to tour in support of Brighten - unveils new Gibson Les Paul
- Amanda Lehmann releases video for new single, the dark, rocky The Watcher
- Feeder announce new album Torpedo, share riff-heavy title track
- The Story Behind The Song: Arch Enemy's As The Pages Burn
- Unreleased music from Aerosmith to emerge as part of new record deal
- New book celebrates the work of Rush artist Hugh Syme
- Fish announces final Vigil performance
- Learn to play Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Beatles and Rolling Stones songs fast with Jammin Player
- Agony and ecstasy: How Stone Temple Pilots overcame heartbreak to make Tiny Music
- The Nevermind baby is suing Nirvana for "child pornography"
- Charlie Watts interview: I’m not really that interested in talking about me
- Def Leppard to stream High 'N' Dry anniversary broadcast
- August 24
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- The world of music pays tribute to Charlie Watts
- MONO release emotive new short film for Innocence
- Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80
- Backxwash: "I had planned I was going to die at the end of the year"
- ‘Rock music is being ignored by our government’ says Saxon’s Biff Byford
- Turnstile's Glow On: melodic hardcore punk expansionists' most eclectic statement yet
- ‘I was a real asshole in the ’80s’ admits Dee Snider
- "Nothing will stop us," says Christian Vander as Magma announce new live album
- Theo Travis guests on Henry Parker's upcoming album Lammas Fair
- ‘Listening to Nirvana’s In Utero makes my skin crawl’: Read an extract from newly updated Dave Grohl book This Is A Call
- Leprous's Aphelion: emotional splendour from Norway's progressive masters
- Paul McCartney opens his songbook to reveal the 154 tracks in new book The Lyrics
- Jinjer's Wallflowers: the angriest album of 2021?
- Corey Taylor ‘out of the woods’ after contracting Covid-19 made him ‘the worst I’ve ever been sick in my life’
- Big Big Train stream brand new song The Connection Plan
- Van Halen: a track-by-track guide to the debut album that saved rock'n'roll
- Jakob Dylan: "I was brought up thinking records were not supposed to be fun to make"
- Why I ❤️ AC/DC’s Back In Black, by Buckcherry’s Josh Todd
- How Reef wrote Place Your Hands, by Gary Stringer
- 10 pomp rock albums you should definitely own
- August 23
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- Summer's End confirm revamped line-up
- 10 rap metal bands that time forgot
- The Skull’s Eric Wagner, former Trouble frontman, dead at 62
- Moron Police stream brand new single The Stranger And The High Tide
- Phil Lynott sculpture unveiled in town where ex-Thin Lizzy frontman was born
- Riley Gale Foundation launches to champion late Power Trip frontman’s belief in the ‘marginalized and mistreated’
- Big Big Train and The Flower Kings head up HRH Prog 13
- John Lydon loses court case against ex-bandmates, freeing up use of Sex Pistols’ music in Danny Boyle biopic
- Iron Maiden were so paranoid Senjutsu would be leaked online that they didn’t listen to it for two years
- Kansas's Phil Ehart on the realities of COVID for the live music scene
- Tony Kaye streams first new music from debut solo album
- Kiss' Paul Stanley: "How could you not be a Metallica fan?"
- Van Halen’s first manager recalls her first vision of ‘virtuoso’ Eddie at riotous 1974 party at David Lee Roth’s dad’s mansion
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Halestorm, Mother Vulture and more
- David Lee Roth gives Gene Simmons the middle finger - 18 times
- Rock'n'roll pioneer Don Everly dead at 84
- August 22
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- August 20
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- Slipknot announce European tour for summer 2022
- Gentle Giant release mind-warping AI video for His Last Voyage
- Foo Fighters will receive the Global Icon Award at the 2021 VMAs
- “I was a big early Genesis fan and I loved King Crimson." How Tears For Fears added prog to pop and ruled the 80s
- Trifecta - Fragments review
- KK Downing on the bust up between Judas Priest and Rob Halford: “It all got proper ugly”
- Caravan - Who Do You Think We Are? review
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is an Iron Maiden Senjutsu spectacular
- Metallica share killer live performance of Of Wolf And Man
- Between The Buried And Me release new video for The Future Is Behind Us
- Iron Maiden producer Kevin Shirley got “death threats” when he took over from Martin Birch
- Slipknot and Morrissey added to Riot Fest line-up after Nine Inch Nails pull out
- Kirk Hammett admits he was "surprised" by how much of a Metallica fan Kurt Cobain was
- Eric Clapton's self-titled debut album: now expanded, but not essential
- Caravan: 37 discs of rule breaking and treasure on Who Do You Think We Are?
- Tricks On My Mind by Sweet Crisis: a debut of great depth and quality
- Deep States by Tropical F**k Storm is an unpredictable and thrilling mess
- Nine Inch Nails and the Cadillac Three cancel dates as Delta variant surges
- Watch Spiritbox's horror-inspired video for turbulent new single Hurt You
- August 19
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- Listen to Iron Maiden's epic new single Stratego
- The Bevis Frond streams brand new song My Own Hollywood
- Tuomas Holopainen: “If Floor left, Nightwish would be over”
- Dino Cazares has finally found a new vocalist for Fear Factory
- Queen's Roger Taylor shares first single from upcoming solo album Outsider
- The Rolling Stones celebrate Tattoo You with 40th anniversary release
- “Are you trying to get us killed?”: the explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album
- Keepers Brew's new single featuring Benji Webbe of Skindred is the best thing you'll hear today
- Nick Beggs creates hilarious Lego video for Trifecta's The Enigma Of Mr. Fripp
- The Osiris Club release Rasputin-themed video for Moscow
- Earthside unveil stunning new video for All We Knew And Ever Loved
- Royal Blood release thunderous cover of Metallica's Sad But True
- Stevie Nicks on a potential biopic about her life: "It would be such a long movie...maybe I'll write a really fun book"
- 10 proto-metal albums you should definitely own
- The Moon City Masters are putting fun, sunshine and colour back into rock’n’roll
- How I wrote Strutter, by Paul Stanley
- Watch Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee visit a "beer factory" to launch Rush Golden Ale
- August 18
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- The Muslims announce hotly anticipated fourth album F*** These F***ing Fascists
- Halestorm launch anthemic Back From The Dead single and macabre video
- Iron Maiden partner with ASDA supermarkets for Senjutsu beer and t-shirt
- Anthrax's Charlie Benante: "I wanted to do a metalised version of Billie Eilish"
- "There's enough weirdos out there to support us": Tomas Lindberg on At The Gates' new album The Nightmare Of Being
- Caleb Landry Jones releases new video for carousel swing of The Loon
- Corey Taylor performs in Kiss corpse paint on stage with solo band
- Rob Reed unveils new-look Cyan with 15-minute epic The Sorceror
- Lovebites bassist Miho departs, band announce hiatus
- Black Sabbath icon Tony Iommi and Gibson launch riff heavy SG Special guitar
- NMB release new video for Beatles-like Your Place In The Sun
- Rolo Tomassi drop lethal new single Cloaked
- Caravan announce brand new studio album for October
- Metallica release tribute to Chris Cornell with Soundgarden covers on vinyl
- Live Nation announce gig-goers must be fully vaccinated or show negative Covid tests to gain entry
- Yes singer Jon Davison guests on his old band Anyone's new album
- Perry Farrell: the soundtrack of my life
- Slipknot announce Knotfest date in Chile
- Night Ranger: When you cut us, Night Ranger oozes out
- The story behind American Pie by Don McLean
- AC/DC, Van Halen, Ozzy and more: Was Donington 1984 really the best ever?
- August 17
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- blanket announce two album release live shows
- Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted unboxes deluxe Black Album box set
- Willow shares performance footage of Lipstick featuring Blink 182's Travis Barker
- Garbage to reissue Beautiful Garbage to mark record's 20th anniversary
- The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant 80s bands
- John & Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies stream new Halloween song Unkillable
- Underoath announce North American 2022 tour with Spiritbox and Every Time I Die
- Between The Buried And Me's Colors II: reaffirming the band as once-in-a-lifetime masterminds
- Anthrax announce 40th anniversary European/UK tour dates for 2022
- 'Kurt’s dealer looked like the angel of death': horror of Cobain’s near-fatal 1993 heroin overdose revealed in Dave Grohl book
- Deafheaven's Infinite Granite: fifth album struggles to hold up
- Foo Fighters announce UK stadium shows for 2022 with St. Vincent and more in support
- Best books about music: Essential reads for all music fans
- Pentangle's Jacqui McShee lines up London show for September 3
- Pearl Jam's Ten: "It was a mind-f*** but it was awesome"
- Rammstein's Till Lindemann slammed by Russian museum over 'unauthorised' NFT sale
- Gene Simmons: We are the four most recognized faces on Earth
- August 16
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- Korn's Jonathan Davis tests positive for COVID
- Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing 12-year-old girl in 1965
- A surprise setlist and a triumphant return: Judas Priest close out Bloodstock in style
- Gong, Stonehenge and hemp packaging: we get inside the mind of Ozric Tentacles' Ed Wynne
- Arthur Brown and Martin Barre to headline A New Day Festival in August 2021
- 10 power metal bands that time forgot
- Bruce Dickinson: None of us had the balls to step up – but Metallica did
- Inside Wobbler's universe: monsters, blizzards and analogue keys
- Corey Taylor performs Slipknot's Wait And Bleed maskless for the first time
- Roger Chapman - Life In The Pond review
- Korn postpone concert due to Covid case within the band's camp
- Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth hints at collaboration with Ed Sheeran
- US post-rockers Shy, Low share new video for Helioentropy
- Myles Kennedy announces December UK tour
- Traffic: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys - Album Of The Week Club review
- Longtime Cure bassist Simon Gallup says he's left the band
- Tracks of the Week: New music from The Darkness, The Wildhearts and more
- August 15
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- August 13
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- You want blood? Then watch Sleepaway, the extremely gory new Wildhearts video
- Bloodstock Festival announce 17 bands for 2022
- The Grid/Fripp – Leviathan review
- Toska announce they've split up
- Sleep Token share otherworldly video for The Love You Want
- Robert Calvert: the genius who played with fire
- Violinist Rakhi Singh shares hypnotic instrumental track Khuda'i
- This six year old singing Korn's Here To Stay is the best thing you'll see today
- What really happened when Rick Wakeman met The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel?
- This website claims it can find your new favourite band
- Tool’s Maynard James Keenan opens up about his wife’s cancer battle
- Watch Dream Theater’s new animated video for The Alien
- Aerosmith’s Joe Perry on how Sammy Hagar almost replaced Steven Tyler
- Devin Townsend announces two new UK shows for 2022
- Louder Than Life, Aftershock and Inkcarceration festivals introduce vaccine requirements
- Kirk Hammett on 30 years of the Black Album: "We had our sights set on bigger things – we wanted a Back In Black”
- Jack Hues streams adventurous new single Don't Waste Words
- Bruce Dickinson tests positive for Covid-19
- Ross Jennings gets colourful in video for new single Violet
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand review
- Sepultura's Sepulquarta: an open-minded, bone-rattling blast
- The Cold Stares' Heavy Shoes: infusing their blues with a dose of rock classicism
- Blacktop Mojo shine on album of arena-sized anthems
- Rock stars with their favourite food: a gallery of culinary delight
- August 12
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- How Metallica went from reinventing heavy metal to reinventing themselves
- The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant extreme metal bands
- Suuns release new video for the introspective Clarity
- The Darkness return with the release of their upcoming album's title track, Motorheart
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford launches Hail & Horns Ale
- The story behind Metallica's Black Album artwork
- The Pineapple Thief share trailer for Nothing But The Truth releases
- Rega Planar 3 review
- God Damn release a punk tribute to Ghostbusters in gritty new single Drop Me Off Where They Clean The Dead Up
- Watch previously unreleased footage of VdGG performing Wondering from 1976
- Trivium announce new album In The Court Of The Dragon and share new single Feast Of Fire
- Robert Plant to release new album with Alison Krauss, shares first single Can't Let Go
- Listen to Dikajee's new album Forget~Me~Nots exclusively here
- How heavy music saved me from my ADHD brain
- Phoebe Bridgers shares ghostly cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters
- Shure SE425 Wired earbuds review
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is a huge Bloodstock 2021 preview!
- Andy Summers will release new album in October
- Introducing Rich Ragany and The Digressions: darkness dressed up to party
- Black Label Society: box sets, hot sauce, and the secret plan to reform Black Sabbath
- August 11
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- Billy Idol releases moody Bitter Taste single
- Former Megadeth bassist James LoMenzo rejoins band for Metal Tour Of The Year
- Fragile release video trailer for new album
- Stevie Nicks cancels 2021 performances over Covid concerns: "While I’m vaccinated, at my age I am still being extremely cautious"
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Yungblud perform 2020 collaboration Obey for the first time
- Sepultura's SepulQuarta: fans craving reimaginings risk disappointment
- Bill Bruford's entire solo back catalogue available on digital for the first time
- Dee Snider fears the worst as Shakira fans seek vengeance for moralistic 2020 tweet: ‘They’re gonna finish me!’
- Is there going to be a new Bohemian Rhapsody film?
- Danny Elfman collaborates with Trent Reznor on crazy version of True
- How Andy Bell swapped shoegaze and indie for prog, Krautrock and psych
- Fred Durst offers stark view of ‘flawed’ live circuit: ‘It’s one for all and all for one, or it's just not going to work’
- Lzzy Hale and Slothrust combine forces on climate crisis anthem The Next Curse
- I am Jani Lane: the last days of the Cherry Pie guy
- What happened at Led Zeppelin's final UK shows at Knebworth
- Watch nine-year-old girl play Geddy Lee's Tom Sawyer bass part flawlessly
- Iron Maiden release short film about the making of new album Senjutsu
- August 10
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- Slipknot’s Clown: the world is filthy and I’m not going to stop wearing a mask
- Jon Gomm announces tenth anniversary reissue of Secret Nobody Keeps
- New look The Paradox Twin return with video for new single Wake Vortex
- Singer Mikko Kotamäki's personal Swallow The Sun playlist
- Final dates of Bruce Dickinson’s spoken word tour fall victim to positive Covid-19 test in singer’s household
- Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Jimmy Urine accused of sexual battery of a minor
- Kontinuum release video for brand new single Hjartavél
- 10 thrash metal bands that time forgot
- Watchtower's Control And Resistance to be reissued
- You can buy a €100,000 NFT that includes dinner with Till Lindemann in Moscow
- 10 singer-songwriter albums you should definitely own
- Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - 10 records that changed my life
- Tesla's Psychotic Supper: platinum problems and the savage strain of success
- Nirvana's Nevermind and the rock'n'roll revolution that came from nowhere
- August 9
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- Coheed And Cambria release official video for new single Shoulders
- GosT's Rites Of Love And Reverence: the dark side claims another synthwave scalp
- The Ronnie Wood Band release two new tracks from live Jimmy Reed tribute album
- Geddy Lee gives Primus' Les Claypool a bass lesson ahead of Rush tribute tour
- The 10 best songs by the 10 worst rap metal bands
- Adam Wakeman streams new piano piece Home
- Transatlantic announce US, Europe and UK tour dates for 2022
- Watch teenage Foo Fighters fan Lauren borrow Dave Grohl’s guitar for killer performance of Monkey Wrench
- Damian Wilson releases lyric video for Once We're Gone
- This cover of Motorhead's Ace Of Spades played on carillon bells will either be the best or worst thing you'll hear all day
- This is what Welcome To The Jungle would sound like if it was written by The Smiths
- blanket release video for new single In Awe
- Mostly Autumn announce new album for September
- The Dead Daisies and The Quireboys announce UK tour
- The Quireboys: A Bit Of What You Fancy - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tremonti, Starbenders and more
- This blasphemous Van Halen and Hank Williams mashup may ruin your day
- Limp Bizkit cancel shows over band and fan safety... and they're not the only ones
- August 8
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- August 6
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- Listen to Shai Hulud cover Great Cop for new Fugazi tribute album
- Sum 41, Four Year Strong, The Vandals and more forced to cancel Slam Dunk festival appearances
- Listen to the Fake Names EP from Minor Threat/Refused/GvsB supergroup
- Unto Others announce new album and release its first single, Downtown
- Starbenders carry the torch for new wave glam rock with fiery new single No One Listened
- Watch Foo Fighters hilariously troll Westboro Baptist Church by performing Bee Gees cover on a flat-bed truck
- Diagonal stream brand new song Stellate
- Donner release chilled out video for new single Dance Of The Swallows
- Our first reaction to the new Guns N’ Roses single ABSUЯD
- Mariana Semkina releases trailer for new Disillusioned EP
- Listen to Iggy Pop fronting Eurovision winners Måneskin on raunchy single I Wanna Be Your Slave
- Joey Jordison’s former band Sinsaenum issue statement mourning his death
- The 10 best power ballads as chosen by Creeper's Will Gould
- Nursery Cryme at 50! Genesis grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- How George Harrison made his masterpiece, All Things Must Pass
- Enslaved release video for title track of new EP Caravans To The Outer Worlds
- George Harrison's solo creative peak expanded but still charming
- Brian May provides bangs for bucks as Back To The Light gets a makeover
- Night Ranger underwhelm as songwriting falls short on ATBPO
- Guns N' Roses release new single ABSUЯD
- August 5
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- Metallica announce the launch of their own podcast with eight episodes based on The Black Album
- Ginger Wildheart: my life in 10 songs
- Alien Weaponry get their fans involved in the awesome music video for new single Buried Underground
- Yann Tiersen releases video for Ker Yagu and announces European tour dates
- Iron Maiden, Bloodstock, crap cover bands and more on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
- Mayhem celebrate the joy of satanic ritual sacrifice in Black Glass Communion video
- Watch ‘the most brutal mosh pit ever‘ cause chaos in a church
- A needlessly deep dive into Blink-182’s cameo appearance in American Pie
- Nytt Land get animated in stunning new video for Svartravn
- Dee Snider wishes Gene Simmons would ‘shut the hell up’ with his ‘self-serving bullsh*t’
- Got $250,000 to spare and fancy your very own Beatles setlist? We have good news
- Crowdfunder launched for mural of The Prodigy's Keith Flint in aid of mental health services
- Images from Chris Cornell’s final photoshoot to be sold as NFTs
- Charlie Watts likely to miss start of Rolling Stones' US tour on doctor's orders
- Gene Simmons to exhibit his Jackson Pollock-inspired paintings in Las Vegas
- August 4
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- Queen's 50th anniversary celebrated with "unprecedented" Teddy bear release
- Clannad: “The influences of bands like Yes, Marillion... We were eating them up!"
- David Draiman: 8 songs that changed my life
- Underøath announce new album Voyeurist, share choir-enhanced Hallelujah
- TesseracT release live performance video of Tourniquet
- Limp Bizkit pay tribute to Slipknot's Joey Jordison at Iowa gig
- Jane Weaver curates limited edition Love Record Stores compilation
- Listen to Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell
- Listen to Dream Nails’ fearless summer slammer Take Up Space
- Måneskin to release an alternative version of I Wanna Be Your Slave with Iggy Pop
- Black Sabbath to release super deluxe edition of Technical Ecstasy in October
- Deafheaven share video for In Blur, single three from new album Infinite Granite
- This cover of Pink Floyd's Breathe in the style of Type O Negative will have you missing Peter Steele even more
- Public Service Broadcasting release video for new single Blue Heaven
- “How serious can we be about religion if we have a song called Resurrection By Erection?”: inside the world of Powerwolf
- The Offspring fire drummer Pete Parada for refusing to get Covid-19 vaccine
- Dusty Hill's widow Charleen McCrory thanks fans for "overwhelming outpouring of love" in a heartfelt tribute
- Early Pentangle albums get deluxe heavyweight vinyl reissues
- How Bruce Springsteen's The Rising helped America heal after 9/11
- Coloursøund: the sound of The Cult, The Alarm, and therapy in hiking boots
- Watch Guns N' Roses debut "new" song Absurd in Boston
- How Montrose wrote Rock Candy, by Sammy Hagar
- August 3
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- Donald Trump "partied with Aerosmith" ahead of the first GOP presidential debate in 2015
- Guthrie Govan guests on upcoming Potter's Daughter album
- Chubby And The Gang release the relatable new single I Hate The Radio
- This Offspring/Boney M mash-up is the most fun you'll have today with your clothes on
- Tremonti share video for new album title track Marching In Time
- Babymetal to mark 10th anniversary with series of projects, before they "disappear from sight"
- Metallica’s epic tune dump continues, as they offer live take on Through The Never plus Weezer’s cover of Enter Sandman
- Swallow The Sun announce brand new album Moonflowers for November
- Amon Tobin streams new solo track Rise To Ashes
- Rob Halford shares memories of meeting Bob Dylan: “Bob said ‘How’s Ozzy doing?’”
- Corey Taylor posts candid photo with Joey Jordison and Paul Gray in memory of more innocent times
- Big Big Train crash into the midweek album chart at No. 9!
- Watch St. Vincent perform reworked track Los Ageless for 70s-inspired livestream performance
- Poco guitarist Paul Cotton dead at 78
- Mojothunder are ready to rock a zillion faces, including yours
- Got a spare £15 million? You can buy Pete Townshend's house
- No More Tears: how Ozzy Osbourne left a decade of mayhem behind and healed
- How Hysteria took Def Leppard to hell and back
- 10 country rock albums you should definitely own
- August 2
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- Legendary Miles Davis 1991 Paris concert to be released
- The 10 worst albums of the 90s by 10 brilliant bands
- Rare Gentle Giant footage from 1980 unearthed
- The man who signed Slipknot pays tribute to the late Joey Jordison
- Lindsey Buckingham on re-joining Fleetwood Mac: "Pretty much everyone would love to see me come back"
- Watch Dave Grohl’s 15-year-old daughter Violet front Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza
- Listen to Papa Roach revisit their rap-metal roots on new single Swerve
- Lingua Ignota's Sinner Get Ready: haunting, intricate and wonderfully complex
- Becoming Led Zeppelin, the band’s first authorised documentary, is now complete
- Matt Stevens: "I like the idea of ambitious rock music..."
- Why is everyone making fun of Greta Van Fleet?
- Watch Novena's Prog From Home performance of Sun Dance
- Listen to new Limp Bizkit song Dad Vibes as Fred Durst unveils striking new look at Lollapalooza
- The 20 best songs by The Doors
- Bad Company: Straight Shooter - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Byson Family, Buckcherry and more
- How I wrote Damn Yankees' High Enough, by Jack Blades
- August 1
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- Watch ZZ Top return to the stage for first show since Dusty Hill's death
- Danko Jones launch Start The Show single, announce two livestreams
- How King Crimson resurrected themselves with Islands
- Radar Festival confirms first bands for 2022
- Drifting Sun will release new album Forsaken Innocence in October
