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- September 30
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- KK’s Priest's Sermons Of The Sinner is the bonus Priest album you weren't expecting
- Dave Grohl would be open to playing drums for ABBA, admits he "wept like a baby" on hearing their new music
- Rolo Tomassi and Pupil Slicer announce 2022 European/UK Tour
- Katatonia - Mnemosynean: "An excellent stopgap-cum-companion piece to 2020’s City Burials"
- Watch AC/DC conjure up ghosts of the past in Through The Mists Of Time video
- Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ lineup immortalised as new Funko figures
- Robert Reed releases stunning video for the haunting The Defeated Army
- Mick Jagger hails Charlie Watts as “the heartbeat for The Rolling Stones”
- Ministry's Moral Hygiene: Anti-Trump vitriol proves acerbic, if slightly out-dated
- Watch Scorpions rehearse new material, as new album Rock Believer is announced
- Jo Quail joins Prog The Forest Bill
- KK's Priest's Sermons Of The Sinner: Top-tier power metal from a reborn KK Downing
- Katatonia's Mnemosynean: A three-decade celebration for hits that never were
- Blink 182's Mark Hoppus reveals he is now "cancer free"
- Full of Hell's Garden Of Burning Apparitions: subversive extremity from one of the most vital bands on the planet
- Van Halen tried to bury their ‘Van Hagar’-era music after David Lee Roth’s return says Sammy Hagar
- Asking Alexandria's See What's On The Inside: an outrageously infectious ode to classic rock
- Prog meets synthwave on Dynatron's The Machine
- Watch the lyric video for Dad Vibes, Limp Bizkit’s first new music in seven years
- Listen to the chilling new Ghost song Hunter’s Moon
- Phil Campbell's Byson Family: I want this band to be a celebration of Glasgow
- Young, Loud and Snotty: the chaotic story of the Dead Boys
- Cocaine and MDMA in Glastonbury Festival river may pose threat to rare eels
- 20 mostly brilliant but also ridiculous progressive rock albums
- September 29
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- Acid daze and revolution: Jefferson Airplane's long summer of love
- Dave Grohl lends his throne to the bassist who apprehended a gunman at a show
- Biffy Clyro release a strange 10 minute 'short film' for their latest two singles
- John Lydon on Sex Pistols' popularity: "It was mostly hell on Earth"
- David Bowie's lost 2001 album Toy to get official release
- Meet Me At The Altar are the band giving pop-punk a much-needed makeover
- Rachel Flowers releases trailer for new solo album
- Teramaze premiere new lyric video for Untide
- Pre-Nirvana, Dave Grohl turned down the chance to join both GWAR and Fugazi
- Johnny Ramone's guitar sells at auction for over $900,000
- Helmet announce UK and Europe dates for 2022
- Converge to release the new collaborative album with Chelsea Wolfe, Bloodmoon: I
- Why The Matrix was the perfect movie for the nu metal generation
- Alex Henry Foster to support The Pineapple Thief in October
- Idles release ‘soul’ single The Beachland Ballroom, announce new album Crawler
- Strawbs to reissue 2008 album The Broken Hearted Bride
- Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner ‘stable’ after major emergency heart surgery
- Danko Jones: conquering the world one riff at a time
- Prawns in the tempura: What happened when Status Quo's Frantic Four reunited
- September 28
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- Why you should definitely own Discipline by King Crimson
- New Eddie Van Halen book is based on 50 hours of 'intimate and wide-ranging talks'
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn still gets death threats for calling out racism in metal
- Rain replace Cyan at Summer's End Festival
- Watch sons of Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Clown play Knotfest in their band Vended
- Listen to David Gilmour play bass solo on original Yet Another Movie demo
- Tom Hardy having to work out the difference between symbiotes and death metal bands is today's best entertainment
- Jethro Tull announce 50th Anniversary Edition of Benefit
- Queen pop-up shop opens on London's Carnaby Street
- Popol Vuh announce new four LP box set
- Metallica freaked out a shocked Joey Jordison at the first Download festival
- The Ocean release new live video for single Devonian: Nacsent
- Jinjer, Eyehategod, Hatebreed, Sleep Token join Bloodstock 2022 bill
- Moron Police stream latest single, the uptempo Waiting For Wastelands
- Heilung launch their own mead and beer
- Kiss: the making of Destroyer and the brutal, boot camp genius of Bob Ezrin
- The story behind Styx's Pieces Of Eight album artwork
- Why I ❤️️ Humble Pie's Performance Rockin' The Fillmore, by Angry Anderson
- September 27
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- Skunk Anansie: Paranoid & Sunburnt - Album Of The Week Club review
- Judas Priest postpone US tour, Richie Faulkner hospitalised with heart problems
- Dream Theater postpone US tour dates to 2022
- A snide secret conversation between Beatles members following George Harrison's departure has been released
- Billy Idol to play 2022 arena shows in England, Scotland and Wales
- Members of Saga, Spock's Beard, Marillion and more unite in ProgJect
- Hundreds of unseen Ritchie Blackmore photos to feature in new Ross Halfin book
- Noel Gallagher says he would perform alongside a Liam hologram as his brother is "not actually real" anyway
- Watch Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe join Gojira on stage at Knotfest
- Ringo Starr shares story about Charlie Watts and John Bonham that makes him wish TikTok was a thing in the 70s
- Renaissance's Scheherazade gets remastered, expanded reissue
- Asking Alexandria unveil 2022 UK and Europe tour dates
- Pro-Ject Juke Box E review
- Machine Gun Kelly throws punch at fan, gets booed by audience and dissed by Trivium's Matt Heafy
- Galahad Electric Company announce 'unexpected' new album
- A cyclist has ‘drawn’ Nirvana’s Nevermind cover using GPS tracking
- Skindred's Benji Webbe picks the top 10 ultimate party starters
- Tool announce UK and European tour dates for 2022
- New Midge Ure photo book captures the rise of Ultravox in the early 80s
- George Frayne a.k.a. country rock maverick Commander Cody dead at 77
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ghost Hounds, Emigrate and more
- Metallica's two banger-stuffed setlists from Louder Than Life are here
- September 26
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- September 24
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- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2022 tour via madcap video, and we have thoughts and questions
- Jack Hues - Electro-Acoustic Works 20:20: "a truly heartfelt album"
- Angry P.O.D. fan crashes car into venue after being kicked out of show
- Dec Burke - Life in Two Dimensions: "a career best..."
- Stackridge 50th anniversary box set to be released
- Novena release cover of Billie Eilish's Bury A Friend
- The Dee Snider interview: "Twisted Sister and Manowar were gonna have fisticuffs"
- The Marilyn Manson 'Jane Doe' sexual assault lawsuit has been refiled
- We put together the ultimate Nevermind covers album
- The beauty of the implicit: a guide to Chinese post-black metal
- Spiritbox, Carcass and more reviewed on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
- Summer's End release times and covid protocols for this year's event
- The Omnific release slaptastic video for new single Fountainhead
- New King Crimson book to be published in October
- How Blood Sugar Sex Magik almost killed the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Every song on Nirvana's Nevermind, ranked from worst to best
- Interview: David Crosby on free love, drugs, and why America might be doomed
- Crown Lands: 'Canadians are polite, but we’re not nice'
- Motorhead: a guide to their best live albums
- Tremonti find their feet with thundering fifth album Marching In Time
- Joanne Shaw Taylor goes gleefully back-to-basics on The Blues Album
- September 23
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- Watch Rob Halford star in a set of bizarre insurance commercials
- There’s an ureleased Blink-182 song about getting f**ked by Hitler
- Guns N’ Roses to release new single Hard Skool tomorrow, September 24
- The Pineapple Thief release rocking live video of Wretched Soul
- R.E.M. confirm they'll never reunite for "tacky, money-grabbing" reunion tour
- Nirvana classic Nevermind to get a £189.99 30th anniversary vinyl reissue
- Ozric Tentacles premieres new music for extended reissue Space For The Earth
- Listen to Shotgun Blues, a taster for new Volbeat album Servant Of The Mind
- Oli Sykes says Hare Krishna prayer helped him overcome self-loathing and shame
- 30 years of Screamadelica, the genre-bucking phenomenon that spun 1991 on its head
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford names his favourite Metallica song of all time
- Rush’s Geddy Lee is writing an epic, emotional memoir for publication in 2022
- "I’m proud of myself for surviving": how Dana Dentata overcame trauma to find empowerment
- 50 years of Judas Priest: the ultimate interview
- The Rolling Stones launch intoxicating video for Living In The Heart Of Love
- September 22
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- Dream Theater launch video for epic Invisible Monsters single
- Tom Morello teams up with Bring Me The Horizon for huge new single Let's Get The Party Started
- The Rolling Stones dedicate their first 2021 show to late drummer Charlie Watts
- Black Stone Cherry launch video for cover of Tracy Chapman's Give Me One Reason
- Mudvayne thwarted by Covid as vocalist Chad Gray tests positive
- Magma announce rare UK shows for 2022
- Marillion reveal song titles for new album An Hour Before It's Dark
- Gong release live video of Radio Gnome Invisible
- Filth Is Eternal: "We lost a tour because people objected to our old name"
- Health: The Trent Reznor-approved industrial band angering hipsters
- John Lennon apparently thought Elvis was a "right-wing Southern bigot"
- Dani Filth on Never Mind The Buzzcocks: "I punched Mark Lamarr's assistant"
- Slam Dunk Festival announce Alexisonfire and Rancid as first headliners for 2022
- Rob Reed releases animated trailer for new solo album The Ringmaster
- Green Lung’s Top 10 Occult Rock Albums
- Listen to Chelsea Wolfe's haunting cover of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock
- Every David Coverdale and Whitesnake album, ranked from worst to best
- Tremonti launch compelling Now And Forever single
- September 21
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- Biffy Clyro issue "wake-up call" via new single A Hunger In Your Haunt
- Watch Genesis perform their first show together in 14 years
- Slipknot offspring Vended release gut-rumbling debut single Asylum
- Corey Taylor and Machine Gun Kelly spat explodes into full-blown Twitter war
- Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham steps away from Black Star Riders
- "You need to be able to stare into the abyss": Transylvania's Dordeduh make peace with their past
- Sepultura's Derrick Green: "I knew there would be backlash when I joined"
- Slash teases new Guns N' Roses song Hard School
- Teramaze release video for new single And The Beauty The Perceive
- Sel Balamir releases new video for nine-minute Seagull
- Big Big Train stream brand new song Lanterna
- Unto Other's Strength: the underground's next breakout band go for gothic glory
- Caravan get animated in video for new single If I Was To Fly
- September 20
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- Jeff Walker: "Tom Hanks used to play Carcass to his friends"
- Machine Gun Kelly mocks Slipknot as ‘50 year olds wearing weird f**king masks’
- Ghost and Volbeat announce coheadline US arena tour
- Opeth - Heritage review: Prog 1 Metal 0
- How Opeth ditched the death metal on Heritage
- ‘Robotic legs’ allow Possessed’s Jeff Becerra to walk for first time in 30 years
- Dec Burke steps in to support That Joe Payne for October shows
- Steve Hogarth updates on "rich, upbeat" new Marillion album
- Between The Buried And Me: the story behind Colors II, the bizarro, brilliant sequel to a landmark album
- I’m still processing Kurt Cobain’s death, and I have to explain it to my kids, admits Dave Grohl
- Kerry Livgren releases his solo album The Resurrection Of Lazarus
- Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s oldest daughter is a Black Sabbath-loving goth, apparently
- Why The Old Grey Whistle Test Rocked
- How Ozzy Osbourne found Randy Rhoads and made a masterpiece
- Voyager bassist Alex Canion premieres video for Sorrowtar
- 10 Britrock albums you should definitely own
- Joe Perry Project: Let The Music Do The Talking - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Don Broco, Doom’s Children and more
- September 19
- September 18
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- Wardruna's Lindy-Fay Hella announces collaboration with Dei Farne
- The 10 best Jimi Hendrix songs released after his death
- 30 years on, Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears is still an intense listen
- Vega's Anarchy And Unity: melodic rock sharpened with a contemporary edge
- Ronnie Wood pays spell-binding tribute to Jimmy Reed with the help of Mick Taylor
- Lindsey Buckingham's self-titled album is all new beginnings and bold futures
- The Last Domino? finds Genesis turning the favourites on again. Again
- Kiss launch Destroyer 45th anniversary super deluxe edition box set
- September 17
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- 'I was throwing up' - Axl Rose says he was sick onstage at this week's Chicago show
- Watch Metallica play Whiplash, Seek And Destroy and Fade To Black for 500 fans at surprise hometown show
- Betrayal, murder, colonialism: Alien Weaponry are confronting the dark heart of New Zealand
- Exodus rage against naivety on new single Clickbait
- Watch Taylor Hawkins take centre stage with his new band NHC, featuring Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro
- Here‘s that Slipknot vs Maroon 5 mash-up that you never knew you needed
- Employed To Serve: "This is an album about empowerment - about conquering yourself".
- Cyan release video for the emotive I Defy The Sun
- Metallica are still ‘four outsider loner dudes trying to figure it all out’ says Lars Ulrich
- MONO - Pilgrimage Of The Soul: "Mono’s textural style is here in abundance..."
- 82 Minutes, 10 Songs, one Samurai: the real story behind Iron Maiden's epic new album Senjutsu
- Roger Waters dismisses his ex-Pink Floyd bandmates as ‘snotty’ and ‘toxic’, says David Gilmour felt ‘insignificant’
- Ross Jennings gets animated in new video for Feelings
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s bloody, brutal vampire cult video for DiE4u
- Every track on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II, ranked from worst to best
- Glass Hammer rock things up with new video for Anthem To Andorath
- Placebo release Beautiful James, first new song in five years
- Carcass' Torn Arteries: death metal legends still vital and vivacious 35 years on
- Alien Weaponry's Tangaroa: Māori metal sensations come of age
- Employed To Served's Conquering: metalcore aggressors discover a new groove
- What's the greatest solo album ever? You tell us
- Exclusive Tremonti bundle edition of the new issue of Classic Rock available now
- Cradle Of Filth enjoy dark Victorian gothic vibe on Necromantic Fantasies video
- September 16
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- Four new NFTs are being auctioned in celebration of Freddie Mercury’s 75th birthday
- Listen to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' previously unheard song Earthlings
- Frank Turner announces new album and tour, shares single Haven’t Been Doing So Well
- Amon Düül II announce two UK shows for March 2022
- Metallica’s Lars Ulrich to present New Wave of British Heavy Metal special
- Marshall drops two sets of true wireless in-ear headphones, including its first noise cancelling earbuds
- Genesis won’t exist beyond 2021, Phil Collins insists
- The Doors' legendary 1968 Hollywood Bowl concert is hitting cinemas
- Dave Grohl says the next Foo Fighters album could be an "insane prog-rock record"
- Brian May ‘lost interest’ in writing new Queen music with Adam Lambert, says Roger Taylor
- Judge rejects Manson rape lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds
- "Ozzy and I used to beat the s**t out of each other" says Sharon Osbourne
- Spock's Beard announce UK tour dates for March
- The metal world weighs in on Iron Maiden's Senjutsu
- Cynic premiere brand new track Mythical Serpents
- Six things you need to know about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
- Melissa Etheridge's reveals the secrets of new album One Way Out
- September 15
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- BB King: a guide to his best albums
- Potter's Daughter form Octarine Sky featuring Simon Phillips and Guthrie Govan
- Steve-O and Wee-Man reveal the stunts that were too violent for Jackass
- St.Vincent shares trippy title-track from her upcoming movie, The Nowhere Inn
- Gojira have had three fossils named after them
- Watch Twelve Foot Ninja’s surreal video for Over And Out
- ‘We rejected Van Halen in 1976 to protect Kiss’ admits Paul Stanley
- Lars Ulrich says it's "way too early" to talk about a new Metallica album
- Stargazers: How Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood transformed Seattle rock, then the world
- Viriditas announce UK album launch show with Red Bazar
- Airbnb host refuses to let property to metal fan
- This Navy march turned into a metal song is the earworm you'll never be able to unhear
- D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings team up for 2022 album release
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer to release 10 LP/7CD live box set
- Introducing The 20 Minute Club: short podcasts on classic singles
- Reuniting with Ritchie Blackmore would be ‘no fun at all’ for Deep Purple says Ian Gillan
- Watch Megadeth play Hangar 18, Symphony Of Destruction, Peace Sells... in pre-tour rehearsals
- Spiritualized to reissue Let It Come Down this autumn
- Faith No More cancel US tour as Mike Patton cites mental health issues
- The Stranglers: Dark Matter and the death of Dave Greenfield
- The story of Richard Wright's last ever show
- September 14
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- Blackberry Smoke to release Rolling Stones covers album for Record Store Day
- Watch The Paradox Twin’s introspective new video for Sea Of Tranquility
- Wardruna and Enslaved: the birth of the stunning union, Skuggsjá
- Axl Rose threw away the Alice In Chains demo I handed him, recalls GN’R fan Jerry Cantrell
- 10 brilliant bands that broke up far too soon
- Wondering who to blame/thank for nu metal? Blame Carcass, says Jeff Walker
- Circle-pitting in golf carts is a thing now and we love it
- John Lydon slams ‘evil’ Sex Pistols, says court loss sees him facing ‘financial ruin’
- Hear Metallica read savage one-star reviews of The Black Album
- Every Time I Die hold their middle fingers up to the world on new track Planet Sh*t
- District 97 announce US tour for autumn 2021
- Frost*’s Day And Age 2022 UK tour is their biggest yet!
- Watch Lars Ulrich’s sons rock a Californian bar at their first gig as Taipei Houston
- Spiritbox's Eternal Blue: the most eagerly anticipated debut in years repays the faith
- Big Big Train announce 2022 shows with Marillion’s Mark Kelly
- The epic story of Iron Maiden's Senjutsu: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Alice Cooper and The Cult announce co-headline UK arena tour for 2022
- Ian McNabb: the long road to Utopian
- How Nancy Wilson created the Almost Famous soundtrack
- Why I ❤️ Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album, by REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin
- September 13
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- Hear Ozzy and Lemmy duet on new version of their 1991 co-write Hellraiser
- The 10 best Australian prog metal bands
- London prog all-dayer to go ahead with revised line-up
- Corey Taylor hails Enter Sandman as ‘our generation’s Stairway To Heaven or Smoke On The Water’
- Foo Fighters perform Everlong at 2021 MTV VMAs, receive Global Icon Award
- Watch Mudvayne perform for the first time in 12 years, at Inkcarceration Festival
- Watch Steve Hackett’s harrowing video for Scorched Earth, documenting our destruction of the planet
- Roger Newell, bassist for Rick Wakeman, dies aged 73
- Machine Gun Kelly and Conor McGregor get into a fight on the VMAs red carpet
- ‘Our record label wanted Ministry to be Wham!’ says Al Jourgensen
- Watch Elton John make James Hetfield cry
- Humble Pie: Rock On - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dangereens, Mastodon and more
- Brian May performs with his younger self onstage on new Back To The Light video
- September 12
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- September 10
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- Ice Nine Kills enlist New Years Day's Ash Costello into the army of the undead
- Bullet For My Valentine drop gut-punching new single Shatter
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge on his love for Metallica: ‘I had a Metallica poster from Metal Hammer on my bedroom wall’
- Josh Homme’s sons file restraining order against him, accusing Homme of physical and verbal abuse
- Stevie Nicks calls out Lindsey Buckingham on his ‘factually inaccurate’ account of Fleetwood Mac exit, says situation was ‘toxic’
- Hear Steve Perry launch the countdown to Xmas with his velvet-voiced take on I’ll Be Home for Christmas
- Dikajee releases haunting video for the epic Gloomy Flowers Blooming
- Marillion - Fugazi Deluxe Edition: "a portrait of a band on the verge of fully-fledged stardom...."
- Phil Collins reveals he can ‘barely hold a drum stick’ in emotional BBC interview
- Marillion's Fugazi celebrated on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Listen to Miley Cyrus front Metallica on killer live version of Nothing Else Matters
- "Venues are the skeleton of live music. Without them, there is no us": Mother Vulture on the road back to live
- Mastodon return with new video for Pushing The Tides
- Incineration Festival returns in 2022 with an exclusive Emperor headline set
- Manic Street Preachers spin musical wheels again on The Ultra Vivid Lament
- Inglorious brighten the summer of freedom by covering music's great female singers
- Marillion's dark horse Fugazi gets a 21st-century spruce-up
- Inglorious: Nathan James's track-by-track guide to Heroine
- September 9
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- Metallica's Black Album reissue reinforces its place as one of rock's greatest albums
- Emma Ruth Rundle announces new album Engine Of Hell and shares moving lead single
- This adorable metal child performing Korn's Blind might just melt your ice-cold heart
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast goes inside The History Of Metal And Horror
- Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham reveals what he thinks about his ex-bandmates
- Tom DeLonge says masturbation and dick jokes are the secret to great punk rock
- Watch Rory Gallagher tribute gig livestream to celebrate release of 50th anniversary debut album box set
- Watch Metallica and crew perform filthy punk classic So What on the final day of their mammoth Black Album tour
- The Sisters Of Mercy's Ben Christo: My life in 12 songs
- Get lost in music with three months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free
- Listen to Maggot Wind, the first single from ex-Megadeth man David Ellefson’s new band The Lucid
- ‘Rude’ Scorpions slammed for their ‘greed’ and ingratitude by former bandmate
- Matt Berry celebrates tenth anniversary with Acid Jazz with lavish box set
- Judas Priest offer new album update: ‘The new songs sound fantastic’
- JBL Boombox 2 review
- New Peter Gabriel book to be published in October
- Songs about body odour and a bath full of beans: The story of The Who Sell Out
- The Darkness launch Nobody Can See Me Cry single, cry throughout video
- Watch the trailer for the Triumph documentary Rock & Roll Machine
- September 8
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- John Corabi pours scorn on Vince Neil replacement rumours
- Iron Maiden release epic animated video for single Stratego
- Witch Fever soak themselves in blood for menacing new single In Birth
- Metal bassist shot after confronting gunman outside gig
- Here's a first look at Iron Maiden's brand new Stratego video
- The Holy Road releases video for Coming Up For Air
- Sennheiser HD 350BT review
- Iron Maiden are battling Drake for UK number one – and you could help them get there
- Barenaked Ladies are working on a "secret project" with Geddy Lee
- Baron Crâne release lively new video for 9-minute Larry's Journey
- What's one thing that really pisses off Bruce Dickinson? The Final Countdown being played badly on the saxophone, of course
- Soundboks (Gen. 3) review
- Hedvig Mollestad announces new album Tempest Revisited
- Radiohead release new video for previously unheard If You Say The Word
- Roger Daltrey announces Who Was I? UK tour
- Platters of the gods: the Led Zeppelin albums you'll never find
- Listen to Eddie Vedder's new single Long Way from upcoming Earthling album
- Myles Kennedy reflects on life from an open grave in A Thousand Words video
- September 7
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- The 20 Million Club podcast is back, and this time Appetite For Destruction is up for debate
- Whitesnake add more dates to their European farewell tour
- We regret to inform you that Wes Scantlin is at it again
- Anxiety, freedom and pissing yourself: Times Of Grace's Adam D and Jesse Leach go head to head
- Technics lift the lid on their all new SL-1210G Direct Drive turntable
- An interview with Andrew Eldritch: 'I don’t regret anything, but I’m sure other people regret stuff where I was present'
- Aborted's Maniacult: Belgian death masters swap bloodshed for bombast
- SEIMS release stark animated video for The Mountain's Scream
- Anette Olzon's Strong: ex-Nightwish singer addresses her past
- Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares hits out at “hypocritical, elitist” metal fans attacking ‘poser’ Kourtney Kardashian
- Musical genius covers Red Hot Chili Peppers using actual red hot chilli peppers
- Carmine Appice and Fernando Perdomo launch new music project
- Andrew W.K.'s God Is Partying: the Party God throws a load of new curveballs
- Tony Hawk takes the mic for a cover of his favourite song from his own video game
- Leslie Mandoki discusses his five favourite prog albums
- Sammy Hagar shares his first impressions of Van Halen: ‘I didn’t like David Lee Roth’s antics, I didn’t see how any guys could’
- Imelda May: When I hit number one it was my perfect 'up yours' moment
- The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You - Album Of The Week Club review
- Is Rock Star really the worst film ever made about rock?
- September 6
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- Watch the video for Comancheria, the filthy new single from ‘Death Western’ crew SpiritWorld
- 10 obscure but brilliant grunge bands who should’ve been huge
- Mastodon's Brann Dailor to release book of clown drawings made in quarantine
- The Coral announce first headline tour in three years
- Watch the first trailer for upcoming Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary
- Corey Taylor debuts his ‘gnarly’ new mask at Slipknot’s first gig since February 2020
- Rob Reed discusses the history of Cyan and their brand new album in new video
- Bruce Dickinson hits back at critics of his Brexit stance, says their anger is “disturbing”
- Robert Plant says heritage bands who still play together look "sadly decrepit"
- Former Cannibal Corpse singer labels Kourtney Kardashian a ‘poser’ for wearing band’s T-shirt
- Voyager's technicolour A Voyage Through Time live stream review
- The Metallica Blacklist: thrash icons' landmark album gets covered across the musical spectrum
- Watch as festival pulls plug on Guns N’ Roses for breaking curfew
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dirty Honey, GATC and more
- Black Oak Arkansas guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds dead at 72
- UFO announce historic final show
- The Wildhearts release frenzied new single Splitter, 'a righteous riff and some shouting'
- September 5
- September 4
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- Burgerkill founder and guitarist Aries 'Eben' Tanto passes at 46
- Fractal Mirror return with new video for Shadow Man
- Steven Wilson, Tim Bowness and more line-up to remix Twelfth Night's Smiling At Grief
- Gentle Giant release new animated video for Talybont
- The greatest 70s rock bands, ranked by their facial hair
- September 3
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- Afghan metallers Afreet unveil a devastating testament to their homeland
- Judas Priest's Turbo Lover gets the sludge/horror metal treatment you never knew you needed
- Bruce Dickinson: next solo album "a work in progress"
- Modern metal upstarts Blood Youth unleash a blistering new track
- Viriditas announce second album Green Mars
- Auri's II – Those We Don’t Speak Of is "The perfect antidote to these troubled times."
- Former Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson unveils his new musical project The Lucid
- Bring Me The Horizon continue their Post-Human campaign with a new single
- Cynic release tribute to late bass player Sean Malone
- Mariana Semkina releases video for new solo single, the haunting Friend
- Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik announce new two track EP Hardanger
- Old school Metallica fans thought they were losing us after our ‘Black Album’ success, admits Kirk Hammett
- Gerry Rafferty's Rest In Blue is a suitable memorial to a much-missed talent
- Rory Gallagher's expanded debut album is a dazzling reminder of his brilliance
- Van der Graaf Generator brim with gauche intensity on The Charisma Years
- Robert Jon & The Wreck generate gospel-tinged euphoria on Shine A Light On Me Brother
- The Wildhearts' new album is stuffed with energy, anger, humour and artistic invention
- Iron Maiden's Senjutsu: a remarkable album from a band with plenty to say
- September 2
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- ‘We were snotty as hell… and we f*cking crushed it’: Jason Newsted on how The Black Album changed the world
- Paradise Lost celebrate Gothic's 30th anniversary with a huge retrospective and new vinyl edition
- Motorhead’s loudest ever songs celebrated with new compilation album
- Whitechapel return with new album Kin and unleash video for Lost Boy
- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic reveal secrets behind Nirvana’s meteoric rise in new documentary
- Lars Ulrich's sons form band and preview new music
- The Doors’ L.A. Woman set for deluxe 50th anniversary edition
- Jerry Cantrell recalls Eddie Van Halen’s “rocking” jam sessions with Alice In Chains
- Iron Maiden's Senjutsu gets a deep dive on the Metal Hammer Podcast sponsored by KILLSTAR
- Pink Floyd announce remixed and updated A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
- The 10 best must-see acts at Wide Awake festival
- Rivers Of Nihil release instrumental playthrough video for MORE?
- Slayer’s legacy celebrated with run of album reissues
- Lindsey Buckingham releases upbeat new single Scream
- Elbow announce new album, Flying Dream 1, for November
- Code Orange, Mastodon and more added to Download Festival 2022 line up
- Shane Embury: My Life In 10 Songs
- Animals As Leaders return with video for brand new track Monomyth
- David Bowie changed my life: the story of Earl Slick
- Ross Halfin to publish lavish photo book celebrating Aerosmith's Brad Whitford
- Four into three: How Genesis lost a guitarist but set off on a bold new path
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- Why I ❤️ punk rock, by football legend Stuart Pearce
- Suuns release video for new single The Trilogy
- Godsticks release tour trailer for September dates
- Wendy Dio explains why the Ronnie James Dio hologram may not be used again
- Loathe to play I Let It In And It Took Everything in full on December UK tour
- World Metal Congress to host Afghan metal duo Afreet and filmmaker Travis Beard in a must-watch webcast
- Knocked Loose and Terror to join forces for 25-date UK/Europe tour in 2022
- Sordal announce new album Juno & Jupiter for October
- Dana Dentata's pantychrist: Toronto’s rap/metal warrior sharpens her teeth
- Sleep Token announce 2021 UK tour dates
- Punk’s most important guitar, Johnny Ramone’s 1965 Mosrite Ventures II, is coming up for auction
- Yes release video for new single Dare To Know
- Zeal & Ardor announce self-titled album and share stomping new single Bow
- None of Bruce Dickinson’s vaccinated friends have grown an extra head or tried to fellate Bill Gates
- England football legend Stuart Pearce stars in The Stranglers' video for This Song
- The Wildhearts' 21st Century Love Songs: the rock mavericks' renaissance continues
- Styx interview: 'We’ve had to circle the wagons many times as a band'
- Axl Rose's chaotic time-keeping produced great rock'n'roll, says Matt Sorum
