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- October 31
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- The robot apocalypse is coming and the Rolling Stones are partly to blame
- Eagles to headline BST with support from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
- Six of the scariest horror directors reveal the soundtracks that totally creep them out
- blanket release cover of In The House, In A Heartbeat from 28 Days Later
- Lou Reed and Metallica's snarling Lulu embraces nausea, self-loathing and spite
- October 30
- October 29
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- Ozzy Osbourne reunites with Lemmy in gloriously bats**t animated Hellraiser video
- Keith Richards on Charlie Watts: "You took Charlie, everything fell apart"
- The Muslims: "Being a person of colour in America is such a gaslighting experience"
- Ulver announce surprise new horror film-inspired album
- The Anchoress announces spring 2022 tour dates
- Papa Roach's new single Dying To Believe is a call for unity
- Gojira unveil colossal animated video for Sphinx
- Imha Tarikat: The black metal band waging an exhilarating internal war
- Nosound to release brand new live album
- Hear first clips of new Limp Bizkit album Still Sucks in bizarre Instagram video
- Exodus’s Gary Holt: “We’d wipe all of the Big Four from the face of the earth!”
- Charity prog event Prog The Forest release new video trailer
- Tarja announces new star-studded ambient prog project Outlanders
- 10 glam rock albums you should definitely own
- Jerry Cantrell's Brighten: like Alice In Chains, but also fresh and unexpected
- Time Clocks hastens Joe Bonamassa's journey into his own blues future
- Whitesnake's Restless Heart: Nowhere near as bad as some claim
- Pink Floyd's reworked A Momentary Lapse Of Reason fails to fly
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer celebrate the bombast with Out Of This World Live 1970-1997
- Mastodon mix beauty and beastliness on Hushed And Grim
- October 28
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- Watch Carl Palmer unbox the ELP book in new video
- Motorhead are teaming up with Movember for their annual fundraising campaign
- Tool reveal supporting artist for 2022 UK/European tour
- Black Sabbath's Bill Ward shares spooky Halloween-themed poetry
- Rick Wakemen announces his long-delayed Christmas UK Tour
- Paul Draper releases video for title track of upcoming album Cult Leader Tactics
- Mike Shinoda says Linkin Park haven’t yet worked out the “emotional math” to return
- 10 genuinely scary albums guaranteed to put the dread into Halloween
- All Time Low support bands withdraw from tour amid allegations of sexual misconduct
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor shares his love for ABBA, reveals his favourite song by the Swedish superstars
- Klaatu drummer Terry Draper announces new solo album
- Appeal launched to save pub where Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and David Gilmour first met
- Underoath share explosive new single Cycle, featuring Ghostmane
- Rammstein premiere new music exclusively to International Space Station commander
- Nova Twins release riotous new rager Antagonist
- Robert Plant’s hand-written lyrics for Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir are up for auction
- Francis Dunnery announces new studio album
- The 10 bloodiest, most brilliant songs about vampires
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Barney Greenway, Napalm Death
- Introducing Troy Redfern, the guitarist risking it all for rock‘n’roll
- Watch the trailer for Motley Crue's graphic novel The Dirt: Declassified
- October 27
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- Welcome to the jungle: This howler monkey growling over heavy riffs could be the future of metal, maybe
- Lordi to release seven new albums: “I wanted to do 10” admits Mr Lordi
- Alex Canion's Track By Track guide to his new solo EP Birthmark
- Kiss' Gene Simmons compares his pursuit of wealth to champions striving for higher scores in the Olympics
- Watch Måneskin play Beggin' and Mammamia on The Jimmy Fallon Show
- Gary Holt recalls the birth of thrash metal in San Francisco: “Exodus stomped Metallica into the dirt”
- All Time low deny sexual misconduct allegations
- Orphaned Land announce 30th anniversary album collection
- Watch Eddie Vedder’s daughter Olivia perform My Father’s Daughter
- Ulver, Alcest, Liturgy, Sólstafir among first artists announced for Roadburn 2022
- Arjen Lucassen's Star One release epic video for Lost Children Of The Universe
- Watch a sock puppet Alice Cooper perform Feed My Frankenstein
- Riverside celebrate 20th anniversary with video for Story of My Dream
- Watch previously unseen studio footage of Jaz Coleman, Peter Hook and Geordie Walker playing as K÷
- Six things you need to know about Blacktop Mojo
- The 10cc albums you should definitely own
- K.K. Downing: the six most important Judas Priest songs
- October 26
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- Rammstein's Till Lindemann reveals 'I Hate Kids' European tour dates
- The Muppets performing Mr Blue Sky is a psychedelic, candy-coloured delight
- At last! Led Zeppelin join TikTok
- ELP reach for the stars with new Out Of This World: Live (1970-1997) box set
- Maybeshewill release video for Zarah, inspired by MP Zarah Sultana
- Bob Vylan to support Biffy Clyro on intimate upcoming UK tour
- W.A.S.P. announce UK dates as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations
- Posies disband as Ken Stringfellow is accused of sexual misconduct
- Tony Kaye releases poignant new video for Sweetest Dreams
- Idles announce In Conversation With Joe Talbot events, featuring Q&A sessions
- Regal Worm release new video for Bonzai Master
- Rob Halford recalls heartfelt letter which opened the door for Judas Priest return
- Five Finger Death Punch announce summer 2022 European headline shows
- Whitechapel's Kin: Knoxville deathcore deviants ramp up their ascent
- Video trailer released for Robby Steinhardt solo album
- Dee Snider: my stories of Jimmy Page, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Metallica and more
- David Crosby: If Only I Could Remember My Name - Album Of The Week Club review
- Interview: Joe Satriani on mafia scams and the perils of the rock’n’roll lifestyle
- How Mr Big wrote To Be With You and scored a million-dollar drill sponsorship
- October 25
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- Jon Anderson announced for RoSFest
- The Desert Sessions: how Dune became metal’s favourite sci-fi epic
- Dream Theater release new video for the epic Awaken The Master
- Elton John on his notorious temper: "It’s still in me to explode at any moment"
- DragonForce go 80s glam metal in cheesy new video for Strangers
- Remembering that time Vanilla Ice made a metal album
- Watch the trailer for new Tom Petty documentary Somewhere You Feel Free
- Paul McCartney will no longer be signing autographs: “We both know who I am”
- Green Day unearth rare live-in-the-studio tracks for new The BBC Sessions album
- Watch Ian Anderson unbox new book Silent Singing in new video
- Blink 182's Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian roleplay Sid and Nancy
- Nirvana win court case over copyright dispute on 1989 ‘Vestibule’ T-shirt design
- “This is a 44-year-old man remembering how much he fell in love with Pearl Jam in 1991”: watch Coldplay cover Pearl Jam in Seattle
- Mastodon's Hushed And Grim: Atlanta riffmasters' boldest adventure yet
- Björk's upcoming album is "for people making clubs in their living room"
- Guns N’ Roses have written no new songs in the five years since Slash and Duff rejoined
- Genesis announce European tour dates for 2022
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Eric Gales, Dan Reed Network and more
- The Cadillac Three launch video for the smokin' Devil's Lettuce
- October 24
- October 23
- October 22
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- Slash reveals 28 city North American headline tour with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
- Trivium postpone UK/Europe headline tour to 2023 due to Covid-19 restrictions
- Jerry Cantrell shares third single from solo album Brighten, the epic Siren Song
- Slipknot to livestream their November 5 Knotfest Los Angeles show
- Held By Trees release stunning video for new single Mysterium
- Reformed Retreat From Moscow to release new album
- Deity's Muse deliver hard-hitting new video for Into Their Clutches
- Is any Metallica collection truly complete without ‘Doris’? Finally, a Lady Justice statue is coming
- The Pineapple Thief - Nothing But The Truth: "a must-own collection"
- Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World: "bigger and better"!
- Nightwish update European tour dates, postpone Dublin and Birmingham gigs
- Laughing in the face of controversy: Uncle Watson’s Widow
- Space rock legends Hawkwind celebrated in the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Watch the lyric video for new Feeder single Wall Of Silence
- Slash and Myles Kennedy share The River Is Rising, the first taste of new album 4
- Rob Reed releases video for delightfully gentle Mr. Penning Standing Blue
- The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You gets a lustrous respray for its 40th birthday
- Sixx AM show musical insight but lack consistency on curiously named Hits
- The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album
- The Pineapple Thief continue to captivate on Nothing But The Truth
- Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World
- Biffy Clyro's The Myth Of Happily Ever After: glorious, instantly recognisable weirdness
- A tribute to Mountain's Leslie West
- Steve Harris' British Lion announce swiftly arranged UK tour of pubs and clubs
- October 21
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- How I discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd, by Al Kooper
- Listen to the raging Deceiver, Deceiver, Arch Enemy’s first new music in four years
- Soup announce new album Visions
- Dani Filth laughed off Bård ‘Faust’ Eithun’s murder confession thinking the ex-Emperor drummer was talking ‘crap’
- Big Big Train announce surprise new album Welcome To The Planet
- Metallica share trailer for The Black Album in Black & White photo book
- Listen to the crushing, beautiful HEALTH x Poppy collaboration Dead Flowers
- Dave Grohl was “scared” to write about Kurt Cobain’s death in The Storyteller
- Soen announce England and Scotland dates on European tour
- Mastodon stream reflective new single Sickle And Peace
- The Darkness engage cattle to star in frisky video for It's Love, Jim
- The story behind Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction
- The Roger Waters albums you should definitely own
- October 20
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- The story behind the song: Orange Goblin's Beginner's Guide To Suicide
- Every Time I Die's Radical: metalcore crossover kings' run of form continues
- Deftones’ Chino Moreno on Stephen Carpenter’s flat Earth theories: "I’m surprised he’s not more of a meme"
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson launches new Psycho Schizo Espresso podcast
- Slow Crush release the stunningly sleepy new single Lull
- Green Carnation release lyric video for newly remastered My Greater Cause
- Watch Bodega’s gloriously sardonic video for Doers mocking self-help guru bullsh*t
- The 10 most inspirational gothic artists according to goth metal masters, Unto Others
- Listen to Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs gleefully murder disco classic Hot Stuff for charity
- Fragile's Max Hunt releases new video for Dark Age Techno Dream
- PFM stream new single Worlds Beyond (Mondi Paralleli)
- David Ellefson is “disappointed… not bitter” about being fired from Megadeth
- Necrobutcher: "Mayhem are the Rolling Stones of metal"
- Watch Poppy fill her bag with black metal and doom albums while record shopping
- Måneskin share bloody NSFW video for Mammamia, announce surprise free London show
- SEIMS premiere eye-catching new video for Showdown Without A Victim
- “I wasn’t walking around with jackboots and a whip!” Jimmy Page shares 50th anniversary memories of Led Zeppelin IV
- King Crimson announce new 2021 live album
- Guitarist repeatedly plays Enter Sandman while wearing more and more pairs of rubber gloves
- Why I ❤️ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, by Juliette Lewis
- Herman Rarebell would like to set the record straight
- Man falls to his death during Phish show in San Francisco
- October 19
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- What Charles Manson heard in The Beatles' White Album
- Vended drop explosive new rager Burn My Misery
- Genesis reschedule London shows for March
- Willow releases music video for Grow, featuring Avril Lavigne
- Venom Prison announce new album Erebos
- Slash teases new song The River Is Rising in behind the scenes video clip
- Rob Zombie's horror movies ranked from worst to best
- Tom Morello defends unlikely friendship with Ted Nugent: "I reserve the right to be friends with anybody"
- Turns out James Hetfield wasn't the first choice for Metallica's lead singer
- Big Big Train stream new song Made From Sunshine
- Epic Daily Deal: Amazon rock the price of the Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones
- "I'm not scared of expectations": how Spiritbox became metal's brightest new hope
- Corpsegrinder's World Of Warcraft character has been cancelled
- God Is An Astronaut release atmospheric new video for Luminous Waves
- Dikajee releases mesmerising new video for Misery
- Robert Fripp announces Music For Quiet Moments box set
- Amyl And The Sniffers: "I always thought Led Zeppelin were not real"
- Highways to Hell: 10 streets named after rock bands
- Live album and guitar launched to celebrate Chuck Berry's 95th birthday
- Why I 🧡 AC/DC's Powerage, by Aerosmith's Joe Perry
- October 18
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- Outrun The Sunlight release video for uplifting Emerald Joy
- Wolfgang Van Halen hits back at fans over using VH initials: "Last I checked it was my f**cking name"
- Watch System Of A Down debut their two new songs live for the first time
- Black metal musician Andrea Meyer among five killed in Norway attack
- Every Cradle Of Filth album ranked from worst to best
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back and we're scarred for life
- Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo teases new solo music
- Bullet For My Valentine bring the heavy back on their self-titled new album
- Career-spanning six-disc box set on the way from Hawkwind
- Tom Morello hails Zack de la Rocha as "the greatest frontman of all time"
- Cynic tease new song 6th Dimensional Archetype in video
- Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crazy Lixx, Green Lung and more
- Rob Halford is in remission from cancer
- October 17
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- It's 2021 and Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger are trading jibes
- Simon Gallup has returned to The Cure after a brief intermission
- Jimmy Page criticises Phil Collins' contribution to Led Zeppelin's Live Aid show
- Video: Vince Neil falls off stage, taken to hospital with broken ribs
- The Csides Project release new video for Beneath The Sky
- Check out Poppy Ackroyd's reflective new video for Stillness
- October 16
- October 15
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- Bloodstock Director "steps back" from festival after coming under fire for transphobic comments
- Watch David Draiman and Nita Strauss join forces on killer collaboration Dead Inside
- Jadis release video trailer for upcoming November gigs
- “I was terrified!“ Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott recalls AC/DC‘s “unbelievably exciting“ Highway To Hell tour
- Yes release brand new video for Future Memories
- Listen to Götterdämmerung, single four from the new Zeal & Ardor album
- Roger Waters shares wedding photos, declares Kamilah Chavis, his fifth wife, “a keeper”
- Listen to the Genesis Piano Project's version of Fountain Of Salmacis
- Kerry King teases post-Slayer comeback: “It will be f**king good!”
- Steve Harris’ British Lion withdraw from Darkness tour support citing “completely unacceptable” protocols
- New prog band Giant Walker release video for The Fact In Fiction
- Watch trailer for stunning film about era-defining photographer Jim Marshall
- 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great
- Judas Priest's quest to build a metal monster documented on 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music
- 50 years of The Beatles' Let It Be improved via panoramic expansion
- David Crosby's If Only I Could Remember My Name: still triumphant, 50 years on
- Santana's Blessings And Miracles: successfully continuing the search for singers
- Tom Morello continues to break the rules on The Atlas Underground Fire
- Alcatrazz showcase classic metallic fire and fury on V
- "I got choked up": Mastodon's Brann Dailor reviews Metallica's Black Album set at Aftershock festival
- October 14
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- Watch Sumo Cyco’s Guide To Carving A Halloween Pumpkin
- The Pineapple Thief release live video for "special" Someone Pull Me Out Of Here
- Rob Halford "still shook up" by Richie Faulkner's onstage near death experience
- Jinjer overcome a decade of war, trauma and uncertainty with Wallflowers
- The Big Moon announce headline UK tour for 2022
- Groundhogs to issue previously unreleased 1969-1972 triple live album
- Aurora's new single Giving In To The Love is the best Kate Bush song you never heard
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch teams up with We Are PIGS for a powerful new video
- Watch Master Of Puppets performed in the style of Phil Collins, Queen, JS Bach and Harry Styles
- Rick Wakeman opens up the vaults for fans
- The new Metal Hammer dives into the story behind Bullet For My Valentine's heaviest record yet
- Babymetal share chapter-closing Stairway To Living Legend video
- Watch Knocked Loose’s nightmarish animation for A Tear In The Fabric Of Life EP
- Watch the official trailer for new docuseries The Beatles: Get Back
- Should Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?
- Red Hot Chili Peppers excited to launch “balls out” new chapter says Chad Smith
- Ozric Tentacles collect first four official albums in new seven-disc set
- How Metallica made the Black Album: an oral history
- David Bowie pop-up stores to open in London and New York
- October 13
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- Paul Gilbert is here to save Christmas
- AC/DC: the fast and furious story of Bon Scott's final tour - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Watch the epic trailer for Sabaton’s new board game A Battle Through History
- Yoko Ono and metal riffing is the best combination since marmalade on toast and we think the world deserves to hear it
- Tom Morello's The Atlas Underground Fire: a star-studded, style-shifting roll of the dice from RATM guitarist
- Emma Ruth Rundle releases new single Blooms Of Oblivion and announces European tour
- New study exposes systemic and institutionalised racism in British music industry
- Zakk Wylde once pranked Ozzy by hiding a bag of his own s**t inside his sofa
- Motley Crue were “probably” a sexist band in the ’80s, Nikki Sixx admits
- Weezer Albums Ranked From Worst To Best
- Amazon slash the price of the awesome Sennheiser HD 450BT headphones
- Nightwish announce US tour for 2022
- Slayer “quit too early” says Kerry King
- Leslie Hunt announces release of second EP
- The Paradox Twin talks us through new album Silence From Signals
- The Witching Tale introduce themselves with self-titled new video
- Nektar premiere new video for the ten-minute Drifting
- 31 things only Rush fanatics know about their album sleeves
- Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell retires after footage of chaotic show goes viral
- October 12
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- The Kate Bush albums you should definitely own
- Machine Gun Kelly pelted by bottles and tree branches after flipping off disgruntled festival audience
- The Story Behind The Song: Slipknot's Duality
- Airbag announce new live in the studio release
- The Watch announce eight UK live shows for November
- Asia announce 10-disc live bootleg box set
- Watch The Rolling Stones perform Connection for the first time in 15 years
- Eddie Van Halen memorial plaque unveiled in hometown Pasadena
- Baron Crâne steam new album Les Beaux Jours ahead of release
- 10 obscure but brilliant Japanese psych rock bands - including the original Ghost
- Luke Machin announces Francis Dunnery as new guest on upcoming solo album
- Barenaked Ladies on longevity, Geddy Lee, and why Canadians are funny
- Samantha Fish: smashing guitars, hecklers, and the liberating power of not giving a f**k
- Why I ❤️ Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside, by Cronos from Venom
- Genesis: A Trick Of The Tail - Album Of The Week Club review
- October 11
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- Mercury X release video for new single Lonely
- Lindsey Buckingham joins Halsey for touching rendition of her song Darling
- Metallica take Aftershock festival back in time through The Black Album
- Scientists name 469 million year old fossil in tribute to Tony Iommi
- Meet Me @ The Altar announce 2022 European tour
- Ice Nine Kills share Pet Sematary-inspired video for new single Funeral Derangements
- The 10 best Ministry Songs according to Al Jourgensen
- You can now hear Highway To Hell and Stairway To Heaven with added farts
- Bryan Adams shares title track from new album So Happy It Hurts, announces UK tour
- Paul McCartney insists John Lennon to blame for Beatles split
- Parents demand Iron Maiden-loving school principal is sacked over her Satanic allegiances
- Gandalf's Fist release brand new compilation
- What happened when David Gilmour joined forces with The Orb
- Ozzy Osbourne says that worshipping Satan protected him from Covid-19
- New Peter Gabriel album "closer than you think"
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Saint Agnes, Spiritworld and more
- At last! Every Pink Floyd album explained by The Simpsons
- Watch Bruce Springsteen blast through Sherry Darling at No Nukes show
- Gene Simmons survives Spinal Tap-style platform failure, carries on heroically
- October 10
- October 9
- October 8
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- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2022 tour dates
- Faust - Faust 1971-74: "the golden age of krautrock"...
- Cypress Hill get high on life at Aftershock festival
- Kirk Hammett wanted Enter Sandman to be “the next Smoke on the Water”
- Toundra launch new album with video for El Odio. Part I
- Between The Buried And Me - Colors II: "a worthy follow up"...
- Genesis postpone final UK shows due to Covid
- Listen to Måneskin’s “careless, silly” and raunchy new single Mammamia
- John Lodge reveals guests Jon Davison and Graeme Edge on new live album
- ‘Jane Doe’ has revealed herself, and she wants to talk to Converge
- Esmé Bianco’s lawsuit accusing Marilyn Manson of sexual and physical abuse to proceed
- Faust release video for Morning Land, from their unreleased Punkt album
- Slipknot to return with “let’s bludgeon everybody” music soon says Corey Taylor
- Steven Wilson's Last Day Of June to get vinyl release
- How Manic Street Preachers mined their youth and made The Ultra Vivid Lament
- The Record Company branch out on Play Loud with mixed results
- Wayward Sons step up a level on Even Up The Score
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release atmospheric new single High And Lonesome
- “Mr Faulkner is alive today because the stars aligned” says surgeon who saved Judas Priest guitarist’s life
- Toby Jepson's track-by-track guide to Wayward Sons' Even Up The Score
- October 7
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- Lars Ulrich almost apologises to Jason Newsted for the sh*tty treatment which led him to quit Metallica
- Tangerine Dream release video for brand new single Raum
- The 10 best Idles songs
- Big Scenic Nowhere team up with Reeves Gabrels and Per Wiberg for The Long Morrow
- Slayer’s Reign In Blood: the epic oral history of thrash’s greatest album
- “I'm trying to do my best here without you, but it’s really f**king hard”: Wolfgang Van Halen pays tribute to his father Edward
- Odin Dragonfly release video teaser for new album
- Marillion ask fans to crowdfund insurance for forthcoming tour
- Nick Mason compares Roger Waters to Stalin over Pink Floyd bullying claims
- “It was one of those lightbulb moments”: How Press To MECO made their third album, Transmute
- Tears For Fears announce first new album for 17 years
- KK Downing on quitting Priest, the trouble with Priest, and KK's Priest
- October 6
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- Deap Vally announce new album and share its first single, Magic Medicine
- Science suggests that Lisbon is apparently the best place in the world for metalheads
- Say hello to the world’s first true portable record player
- Can release excerpt from upcoming Live In Brighton 1975 album
- Vended announce a run of US tour dates for this winter
- Nancy Wilson shares extended take of her Eddie Van Halen tribute, 4 Edward
- Tame Impala to release deluxe version of The Slow Rush
- Blondie postpone November UK tour until 2022, Garbage drop off bill
- Mick Jagger responds to people who think The Rolling Stones should break up
- Deep Purple announce Turning To Crime album, launch cover of Love's 7 And 7 Is
- Eddie Van Halen: one year on, the metal world remembers
- Eddie Van Halen once gifted Mark Tremonti an electric guitar backstage
- Courtney LaPlante reveals “mental breakdown” while recording Spiritbox’s debut album
- Nine Inch Nails’ Closer mashed-up with Hall & Oates and Iron Maiden is a yacht rock masterpiece
- Daniel Tompkins announces live dates and solo live band
- Internet genius creates Radio Disney version of Slipknot's Wait And Bleed
- Want to hear Techno and House versions of Nirvana hits? Here’s 27 new takes on Kurt Cobain’s best songs
- Arjen Lucassen relaunches Star One
- We asked famous musicians about Metallica's Black Album - this is what they said
- Steve Stevens: 8 songs that changed my life
- Why I ❤️ My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, by Vernon Reid
- Richie Faulkner details terrifying onstage aneurysm
- October 5
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- Pennies By The Pound release eye-catching new video for The Waters
- Maybeshewill premiere video for brand new song Refuturing
- Ringo Starr teams up with Nandi Bushell, Chad Smith and more to perform Come Together
- Ever wanted to know what lyrics your favourite band uses most? We've got good news
- 10 concept albums that will challenge your concept of the concept album
- Watch the video for Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes’ trolls-slaying new single Off With His Head
- Dave Grohl once invited AC/DC and Paul McCartney to dinner and got everyone dancing to jazz
- Jonas Lindberg releases new video for the epic Oceans Of Time
- Roger Taylor reveals why Freddie Mercury would never let Queen write political songs
- Anker Soundcore Rave review
- Listen to the emotional new AFI single Caught
- Dave Grohl to read bedtime stories on children's television channel CBeebies
- Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton and more to feature on Ozzy Osbourne's new album
- Brandi Carlile wants to be Soundgarden’s new vocalist
- BrewDog crack open a cold one early with their awesome 2021 advent calendar
- Slash teases new album as “the best one we’ve done so far”
- Brian Setzer has a lot to thank the euphonium for
- The Dead Deads are the 21st century rock'n'roll band you've been waiting for
- The Michael Schenker albums you should definitely own
- October 4
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- The 20 Million Club podcast: Is Fleetwood Mac's Rumours the ultimate breakup album?
- Turns out Jimmy Page is a secret Korn fan
- We got Trivium fans to give us their first reactions to In The Court Of The Dragon
- Hasse Fröberg shares new song To Those Who Rule The World
- Watch this metal musician savagely drum to the sound of a death-growling walrus
- Watch Corey Taylor play shock-jock DJ in exclusive clip from new horror anthology Bad Candy
- Every Trivium album ranked from worst to best
- Listen to Avenged Sevenfold's spooky cover of Misfits’ Hybrid Moments, just in time for Halloween
- Every Ministry album, ranked from worst to best
- Paul McCartney gave Dave Grohl's daughter her very first piano lesson
- Trivium's In The Court Of The Dragon: metal's great hopes exceed all expectations
- Keith Moon once broke into Mick Jagger's hotel room dressed as Batman
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen play Paradise City on stage with Guns N' Roses
- Archive's Dave Pen shares experimental solo track Death Of Adele
- Status Quo: Hello! - Album Of The Week Club review
- Mama, just killed a mouse: Bohemian Rhapsody + Cats = Bohemian Catsody
- The Rolling Stones launch previously unreleased song Troubles A’ Comin
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ghost, Mastodon and more
- October 2
- October 1
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- Watch Trivium’s dramatic, dark fantasy video for The Phalanx
- Adam Lambert “deserves the chance to record a Queen song” says Roger Taylor
- Elbow release brand new single, The Seldom Seen Kid
- Blanket reveal sinister new video for Romance
- Blood Youth's Visions Of Another Hell: a maelstrom of intense metal chaos
- Enslaved release new video for Ruun II - The Epitaph – watch it here!
- The Metal Hammer Podcast Episode 183: Reader Q&A on Latin America, festivals and dogs
- Listen to addictive new Bullet For My Valentine single Rainbow Veins
- Watch Mastodon's new video for Teardrinker here!
- Tool add second London date to 2022 UK tour “due to huge demand”
- Zeal & Ardor, The Armed, Mclusky and more bolster ArcTanGent 2022 bill
- Andy Summers releases new video for Chronosthesia
- Outrun The Sunlight drop new video for Awareness
- Yes - The Quest: "a spirited attempt to roll back the years."
- Mark Knopfler does it gently on The Studio Albums 1996-2007
- Ministry's fifteenth album Moral Hygiene provides a few surprise twists
- Neil Young at Carnegie Hall: acoustic perfection and a rapturous audience make for magnificence
- Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy, deluxe edition: forget the album, revel in the extras
- Roger Taylor achieves unexpected solo career high on the moving Outsider
- Yes start strongly on The Quest before fading and fizzling
- Interview: Michael Schenker on God, brotherhood, and being punched by your singer
