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- December 31
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- Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante: "I never wanna watch Hereditary and Midsommar again because I was so disturbed by them"
- The return of Jethro Tull on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters’ horror film Studio 666: “There’s no other band stupid enough to do this!”
- Why I ❤️ Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality, by King's X frontman Dug Pinnick
- December 30
- December 29
- December 28
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- Ottorn introduce themselves with video for debut single The Moral
- Thank You Scientist tap up The Matrix for new video for Soul Diver
- Wolves In The Throne Room's Aaron Weaver: 10 songs that changed my life
- Big Big Train announce new single Bats In The Belfry
- Franck Carducci announces UK tour dates for March
- Adrian Belew and jerry Harrison announced for RoSFest
- Roger Taylor admits that Queen’s cultural boycott-breaking trip to apartheid-era South Africa was ‘a mistake’
- Gallery: Rick Allen paints the legends
- December 27
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- December 25
- December 24
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- "I thought Peter Steele was going to kick my ass" - Musicians on why Type O Negative are goth metal icons
- How Type O Negative became the ultimate goth metal icons
- The story of Gentle Giant's Pugwash and the Oakland A's shirt
- Justin Hawkins on flying helicopters, white tigers, and why rock is resting
- December 23
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- In Memoriam: Remembering those we lost in 2021
- Eric Clapton backtracks on legal action against widow who attempted to sell bootlegged CD on eBay
- Prog musicians offer a Christmas take on Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss
- Ian Neal streams brand new ten-minute track Come Harvesting!
- Jon Anderson opens up musical vaults for Patreon
- The Blondie albums you should definitely own
- December 22
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- Metallica's 40th anniversary concerts to stream online for a limited time only
- Chile's new President Elect officially has the best music taste of any President ever
- Fusion 3.5 announces Magenta, The Blackheart Orchestra and more
- Guranfoe drummer forms new prog metal trio Jomo Tuun
- Bobby Gillespie: the soundtrack of my life
- December 21
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- 10 bands we want to see reunite in 2022
- Is Reading & Leeds 2022 rock’s big moment to come back?
- Avril Lavigne steals her ex-boyfriend's teeth in disturbing new music video for Bite Me (acoustic)
- Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name voted UK's favourite Christmas number one of all time
- MC5: High Time - Album Of The Week Club review
- ION Audio Air LP turntable review
- Brian Eno weighs in on NFT craze: “Now artists can become capitalist a**holes as well”
- 'In a world of Eric Claptons, be Alice Cooper': Internet love-in follows image of shock rocker at food bank
- Pinn Dropp premiere new video for Vortex
- Chrissy Mostyn, Jacob Holm-Lupo team up with Prog writer for winter ghost story
- Spidergawd are ready to usher in the new dawn of hard rock
- December 20
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- Every Asking Alexandria album ranked from worst to best
- It's official: Metallica own 2021 with surprise-packed setlist at 40th anniversary shows
- Watch Chris Cornell’s daughter Toni perform Nothing Compares 2 U on US TV
- Rob Zombie, Mastodon and Mudvayne are the metal pirates of the Caribbean on the Voragos cruise
- Lossless audio streaming: Is it worth it?
- Tracks of The Week: new music from Bad Nerves, HAWXX and more
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate release AI video for Back Where I Started
- 12 new metal bands to watch in 2022
- Snowman stream new single A Storm Coming
- Listen to Evanescence’s breathtaking cover of The Beatles’ Across The Universe
- Queen’s Brian May calls for protests against “the arrogance, the ignorance, the dishonesty” of Boris Johnson’s government, after contracting Covid-19
- Twelve Foot Ninja split with singer Nik Barker
- PFM: 50 years of prog and the beauty of Bladerunner
- December 19
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- December 17
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- Rare, unreleased David Bowie demo from 1965 sells for £14,448 at UK auction
- Solstice offer free live album to fans
- The Damned reschedule original line-up’s UK tour once again
- Slipknot eye spring 2022 release for ‘crazy’ new album says ‘stoked’ Corey Taylor
- Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side release video for epic 11-minute Oceans Of Time
- Molybaron release new live video for Animals
- Top 10 alt-metal albums of 2021
- Haken and Toehider singers guest in new Star One video for Prescient
- The Hellacopters tease first original album in 17 years with new single Reap A Hurricane
- San Francisco announces ‘Metallica Day’, mayor salutes band as ‘extraordinary people’
- Gazpacho release new live video of Fireworker
- Danny Worsnop: "I tossed a coin to decide if I should rejoin Asking Alexandria"
- Glenn Hughes' favourite songs from 9 bands and artists he's played with... and one solo
- Chuck Berry goes back to basics but thrills on Live From Blueberry Hill
- December 16
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- Bruce Springsteen sells his life’s work to Sony for $500 million
- The man who discovered Green Day says they had “the potential to be as big as The Beatles”
- Win a signed vinyl copy of Ozzy Osbourne's Diary Of A Madman!
- Pink Floyd to release restored and re-edited edition of P.U.L.S.E.
- Pink Floyd surprise-release 12 live albums documenting early ’70s gigs
- New Fruupp single and album to be released
- Enjoy three months of Tidal HiFi Plus for just $2/£2
- Rolling Stones, Green Day, Guns N’ Roses among 2021’s highest grossing tours
- Take a look at the Rega System One - Rega’s sleek all-in-one turntable package
- New Zappa book to be published in New Year
- Florence Black: six things you need to know
- December 15
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- All-star sci-fi video launched for George Harrison's classic My Sweet Lord
- Rare and unseen Rush photograph outtakes surface in new charity collection
- Teramaze premiere video for brand new song Battles
- Avril Lavigne plans Sk8er Boi film to “take it to the next level”, whatever that means
- Tangerine Dream announce new album and UK tour
- Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer is being sued by Washington DC’s Attorney General over US Capitol riot
- Grateful Dead x Nixon is the psychedelic collection we’ve been waiting for
- Oak stream progged up version of traditional Christmas Carol Silent Night
- The 50 best metal albums of 2021
- Watch a heavy metal road trip go horribly wrong in the freaky video for Matt Pike’s debut solo single Alien Slut Mum
- Slayer's Kerry King: "Dave Mustaine helped Metallica become what Metallica is"
- Pattern-Seeking Animals return with album number three
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine joins forces with Gibson for new guitar collection
- Platinum-selling children's entertainers The Wiggles have covered Queen and AC/DC
- John Petrucci interview: tricky time signatures and beard oil
- December 14
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- How Måneskin embraced Reality TV, Eurovision and TikTok to become rock's hottest property
- Own a piece of Steven Wilson's Routine video
- Guns N’ Roses to release delayed 30th anniversary Use Your Illusion editions
- Korn announce 19-date arena tour
- Swedish proggers Time Dwellers premiere new song Tabular Balls
- Toxic music industry culture which ignores, and often enables, addiction and abuse exposed in powerful new book
- After 50 years, Pete Townshend hopes to recover ‘lost’ Who song Ambition for long-overdue Lifehouse release
- Amorphis release first part of documentary on making of new album Halo
- Watch Idles’ dark, unsettling video for When The Lights Come On
- Watch footage of Tool's Danny Carey being arrested for alleged assault
- Magenta premiere new video for Too Many Voices
- Tim Bowness and Giancarlo Erra stream haunting Beautiful Songs You Should Know
- Crazy Lixx: your new favourite hair metal heroes are here to stick it to the man
- With decades of chaos behind him, Ministry's Al Jourgensen is making progress
- December 13
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- Evanescence and Halestorm postpone dates as Covid hits touring party
- The Joe Bonamassa albums you should definitely own
- Voyager in the mix to represent Australia in next year's Eurovision
- Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland revives Big Dumb Face for “ridiculous” Christmas album
- Green Carnation announce premiere of the epic 9-29-045
- The new Metal Hammer is a deluxe xmas bundle and you need it in your life
- The Darkness announce 34 date North America tour for 2022
- Holm stream brand new track In Gardens
- Biffy Clyro announce one-off UK acoustic show
- Watch Corey Taylor play a serial killer’s best mate in new horror-thriller Rucker
- Von Hertzen Brothers announce new studio album
- Fish releases trailer video for Vigil's End stream
- Top 10 prog metal albums of 2021
- Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part II - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of The Week: new music from Big Big Train, Eric Gales and more
- "Hopefully when I’m gone, there’ll be something that will stay with people, and move them" - Eddie Van Halen
- December 12
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- December 10
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- Classic Rock name Iron Maiden's Senjutsu album of the year
- Monkees' singer/songwriter Michael Nesmith dead at 78
- a-tota-so share animated video for I Am, featuring Sang Froid's Aisling Whiting
- Napalm Death announce new mini album Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes
- Lingua Ignota accuses former partner, Daughters’ Alexis Marshall, of rape, sexual abuse, violence, manipulative behaviour
- Metallica to livestream their 40th anniversary celebration concerts for free
- Slash's wholesome AF new song was written from the perspective of a dog
- All Hail The Yeti's Within The Hollow Earth: Hollywood's metal magpies strike sludge gold
- Voivod release new animated video for Planet Eaters
- UK punk band issue festive public service announcement regarding British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
- Metal Hammer name Gojira's Fortitude album of the year
- Karnivool release lyric video for brand new single All It Takes
- Vended's Griffin Taylor gets seriously upset over Slipknot comparisons
- The Flower Kings stream brand new single The Great Pretender
- Gong release new live clip of My Sawtooth Wake
- Faith No More cancel UK tour, European festivals, Australia, New Zealand dates
- Arch Enemy's new single House Of Mirrors is a melodeath take on Iron Maiden-style epic metal
- Why London's The Underworld is the place for rock and metal fans to be in 2022
- The Record Company: production hell, thinking big, and a dog named Seger
- AC/DC: the long road to Glasgow and the triumph of If You Want Blood You've Got It
- The Band's Cahoots successfully reheated for its 50th birthday
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse light up the darkness on the delightfully organic Barn
- Bryan Adams launches new single Kick Ass featuring comedian John Cleese
- December 9
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- Solstafir's Addi Tryggvason: "If Metallica only did Kill ’Em All 10 times in a row, we’d have missed out on a lot"
- Dream Theater's John Petrucci: "I always wonder why more women don't come to our shows"
- Tony Iommi 'open' to collaboration with Brian May: “We've talked about it for years… it would be nice”
- Big Big Train cancel all upcoming tour dates
- Victrola introduce their premium record player line with the V1 music system
- There's A Light release video for Be Brave, Fragile Heart
- Portugal's Phase Transition release video for the reflective new single In the Dark
- How Bullet For My Valentine became the biggest British metal band since Iron Maiden
- What next for King Crimson?
- Joe Bonamassa interview: dating, cycling, and dealing with trolls
- Introducing Cardinal Black: your new favourite providers of soul-soaked blues
- December 8
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- Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Kiss, Korn and more confirmed for Rockville 2022
- Rage Against The Machine and Bring Me The Horizon head up eclectic Reading/Leeds Festival line-up
- The top 10 death metal albums of 2021
- Celebrate The Beatles’ Let It Be with 17% off the deluxe box set on CD and vinyl
- Sharing a name with the new Covid-19 variant has given death metallers Omicron a new lease of life
- The Butterfly Effect return with video for hard-hitting new single So Tired
- Danny Elfman streams new Kid606 remix of Sorry
- Jethro Tull premiere brand new video for Sad City Sisters
- Cambridge Audio Melomania Touch prices tumble just in time for Christmas
- SOM release video for epic new single Moment
- John Lennon's 10 best political songs
- The Doors celebrate L.A. Woman's 50th birthday via the medium of diminishing returns
- Skid Row's Atlantic years: from wild youth to burst bubbles
- The Steve Miller albums you should definitely own
- December 7
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- The Nikki Sixx interview: rebellion, danger, and what makes Vince Neil excel
- Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band release Carols & Capers tour video trailer
- Bill Ward on the birth of Black Sabbath: “We were different. I knew we’d cause a few problems”
- Clearaudio Concept Active review
- Ice Nine Kills: "People say, 'Oh they're cheesy.’ It's supposed to be!"
- Primal Scream to perform Screamadelica in full at 2022 Wide Awake festival
- “My surname is a blessing and a curse” admits Wolfgang Van Halen
- The Stranglers, Gary Numan, The Wildhearts, Squeeze for Blackpool festival
- Watch Tool, QOTSA, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers supergroup rock benefit gig
- Robert Reed and Les Penning release seasonal video for The Last Bells Of Winter
- The unmissable end-of-year issue of Classic Rock magazine is out now
- Downes Braide Association pen poignant tribute to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
- There’s 29% off the Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones right now in the US and UK
- Steve Hackett announces Foxtrot At Fifty tour dates
- Blackie Lawless: my stories of Lemmy, Muhammad Ali, Gene Simmons and more
- Tedeschi Trucks Band announce UK and Ireland tour
- Ozzy Osbourne: Diary Of A Madman - Album Of The Week Club review
- December 6
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- John Miles, vocalist for Jimmy Page and Alan Parsons Project, dead at 72
- The Cure announce UK shows as part of 44-date European tour, tease new album
- My Chemical Romance announce new UK shows for May 2022
- Tidal review: Music streaming with a difference
- Watch: The Story of Ozzy Osbourne's Diary Of A Madman
- Watch Dave Grohl salute his childhood heroes Kiss with a frankly silly version of Rock And Roll All Nite
- Lindsey Buckingham blames “disoriented” Stevie Nicks for the lack of new Fleetwood Mac music
- Rosalie Cunningham announces new solo album
- Queen’s Roger Taylor says Sacha Baron Cohen would have been “utter sh*t” as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody
- Soft Machine bassist Roy Babbington retires
- Traveling Wilburys: Tom Petty on the cosmic genesis of an extraordinary supergroup
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hot Damn!, Three Days Grace and more
- December 5
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- December 3
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- 10 surprisingly heavy records that inspired Volbeat
- Listen to Chester Bennington’s spine-tingling vocal performance on previously unreleased Grey Daze demo
- Venom Prison talk cathartic new single Pain Of Oizys: "We don’t want to be put in a box as just a death metal band"
- Amorphis release first new music from Halo with video for The Moon
- Omega Point launch their first video for Hourglass
- There’s not one new rock/metal album among this year’s 200 best-selling albums in America
- D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings unveil brand new video for Julia
- Voivod announce brand new studio album
- Slash and Myles Kennedy share Fill My World, single two from their new album 4
- Watch Violet Grohl cover Amy Winehouse classic for Dave Grohl’s Hanukkah Sessions
- Clive Mitten reworks Floyd, Genesis, Rush, Supertramp and more on new album
- Volbeat open up an exciting future with Servant Of The Mind
- Wolftooth's mighty Blood & Iron conjures up heavy metal’s illustrious past
- Warlock's long-lost album blends sounds from hidden Detroit
- The real story of The Beatles' Let It Be sessions, told by those who were there
- December 2
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- Steve Vai announces new album, unveils bonkers steampunk guitar
- Alan Parsons releases new live orchestral video for Standing On Higher Ground
- Dani Filth: "We were never going to be Metallica - we're too extreme for that"
- This classic Christmas Metallica mash-up has been given a mighty remaster
- Dutch alt. pop group GGGOLDDD talk trauma and trust on brooding new single Notes On How To Trust
- Deafheaven to perform Infinite Granite in full on livestream
- Big Big Train share poignant tribute video to David Longdon
- New Jethro Tull book focuses on the 1967-1979 years
- Former Motley Crue frontman “insulted” by “pathetic” portrayal in The Dirt
- The top 10 metalcore albums of 2021
- PFM release video for epic, orchestral World's Beyond
- Joe Elliott: supporting AC/DC taught Def Leppard the value of repetition
- The 40 best albums of 1969, the year rock got real
- December 1
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- Six things you need to know about Wayward Sons
- New video of Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas released
- Green Carnation premiere the whole of remastered The Acoustic Verses
- Iron Maiden announce 23 new Legacy Of The Beast shows for 2022
- Vote for your favourite metal album of 2021
- Boris announce new album W, share video for Drowning By Numbers
- Listen to Golden Liar, single five from Zeal & Ardor’s forthcoming third album
- Motley Crue sell their catalogue to BMG in a deal reported to be worth $150 million
- The top 10 black metal albums of 2021
- John Hackett announces live dates for 2022
- Brody Dalle fined, ordered to conduct community service after criminal contempt conviction in custody row
- The 20 best Pink Floyd songs, as chosen by 40 different musicians
