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- May 31
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- Halestorm's Lzzy Hale serves up new signature Gibson guitar in cooking new video
- When Slipknot used to set themselves on fire all the time, because Slipknot
- Shinedown's Brent Smith: "Rock'n'roll was the Devil in my household"
- This past weekend, Mystic Festival proved once again that it's Poland's most essential heavy metal event
- Watch Måneskin have the most rock'n'roll handbag fight ever in Supermodel video
- Mike Myers recalls introducing Beyoncé to Led Zeppelin on Austin Powers set
- Jon Anderson releases video trailer for Close To The Edge US summer tour
- This unlikely yet genius mash-up of Linkin Park and Lizzo proves opposites attract
- Birth stream brand new nine-minute song For Yesterday
- Sex Pistols announce release of God Save The Queen Commemorative Coin for the Jubilee
- Remembering the time Kate Bush performed Running Up That Hill with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and made magic
- Amplifier release studio video ahead of new album
- Bad Religion's Brian Baker: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Watch Metallica's Kirk Hammett totally screw up playing Nothing Else Matters
- Stranger Things actor "listened to a lot of heavy metal" to get into character
- Brian May on Eddie Van Halen, flying to Pluto, and why he'd like to be a Lord
- Listen to John Bonham's incredible isolated drum part on Led Zeppelin's Fool In The Rain
- May 30
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- 10 unheralded masterpieces from the early career of Kate Bush
- Cassyette announces Sad Girl Summer UK tour
- Alexisonfire announce headline UK and European tour
- Steve Broughton, of the Edgar Broughton Band, dead at 72
- Amon Amarth tease "darker and more brutal" new album
- Watch this jazz drummer absolutely nail Tool's Schism without having ever heard it before
- Oli Sykes says Bring Me The Horizon were unfairly branded as "f**king d**kheads"
- Long Distance Calling release new video for Giants Leaving
- Yungblud, The Damned, The Libertines among new Glastonbury adds
- Watching Linkin Park sing along to Outkast's Hey Ya! is the wholesome video that'll get you through Monday
- Everyone is talking about Kate Bush right now, and it's thanks to Stranger Things
- Pink Floyd join video hosting platform TikTok
- Watch Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante perform Chelsea Smile with Bring Me The Horizon
- Oi! Think you know the Sex Pistols better that this Mastermind contestant? Prove it
- IQ release new live video for Shallow Bay
- Whitesnake's David Coverdale once made The Darkness' Justin Hawkins vomit in his own mouth after flirting with his mum
- Watch Rancid play AEW wrestler Ruby Soho to the ring at last night's Double Or Nothing show
- Kiss are retiring out of "pride and self-respect" says Gene Simmons
- That bust-up between Slipknot and Limp Bizkit was one of the greatest feuds of the early 00s
- Electric Light Orchestra: Face The Music - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: the eight new songs you need to hear right now
- Toyah + Robert Fripp + Celebrity Skin = Kitchen Carnage
- May 29
- May 28
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- Bleed From Within’s Shrine: Scottish ragers deliver a groove-metal wrecking ball
- Kreator’s Hate Uber Alles: spite and triumph from Germany’s undying kings of thrash
- Rob Halford: “Metallica were very beautiful guys, just like we all are in metal”
- "I was out of my gourd": David Bowie duetting (and flirting) with Cher might be the most 70s thing you'll ever see
- How two extreme metal legends helped bring the year’s wildest TV crime show to the screen
- May 27
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- A bored Robert Smith barely miming on TV with The Cure in 1980 is grumpy goth gold
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Måneskin shut down the 'Rock is dead' debate: “Nobody is ‘keeping rock ’n’ roll alive’. It’s impossible to kill"
- “This is a brutalising relationship”: the secrets of Rammstein’s Zeit revealed
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases the theatrical and uplifting ballad Storm
- Vote for the best metal album of the year so far
- Alan White: 10 Yes performances that show he was a cut above
- Billy Howerdel releases video for brand new single Selfish Hearts
- How To Watch Danny Boyle’s six-part Sex Pistols drama Pistol
- Acolyte release unplugged video for Resilience
- Bullet For My Valentine's new single Stitches is a brutal sucker punch to the face
- Saluting Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher, the unsung hero who held Depeche Mode together
- The Story Behind The Song: Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole
- Metalheads are circle-pitting in swimming pools at Bring Me The Horizon's festival in Malta
- It's over! Kiss reach the end of the road: the full story - only in the new Classic Rock
- Tim Bowness to reschedule London live dates to August
- Bill Bruford stars on the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, on sale now!
- Fifty years on, the cheesecloth and flares that shunned glam get another outing
- Jade Warrior's second album is visionary, pan-ethnic, and worthy of restoration
- Gene Simmons says Donald Trump allowed racism and conspiracy theories to get "out in the open"
- Steve Earle & The Dukes are ragged and true on Jerry Jeff Walker tribute
- Raven's expanded Rock Until You Drop: energetic proof that 'athletic rock' should have been huge
- Another Sex Pistols compilation, another exercise in commercial cynicism
- Starbenders acclaim the dignity of pain on euphoric new single If You Need It
- Michael Schenker still scintillates but the songs are overwrought
- Liam Gallagher continues his unstoppable rise to mainstream ubiquity
- Def Leppard have just released their best album in 30 years
- Musicians take to social media to pay tribute to Yes drummer Alan White
- May 26
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- Slipknot announce curated UK festival 'Pulse Of The Maggots'
- Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dead at 60
- Coheed And Cambria’s Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind: the alt-prog empire strikes back
- Talk Talk debut album to get 40th anniversary vinyl reissue
- Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window On The Waking Mind: "doing whatever the hell they want"
- 10 metal bassists who can kill it way better than any guitar shredder
- Yes drummer Alan White dead at 72
- There's a Winnie-The-Pooh horror movie coming and God help us all
- Listen to beabadoobee's sweet, tender new single Lovesong
- My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero: "I didn't know if I would ever be able to play guitar again'
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge: “ABBA deserve a Nobel Prize!”
- The evil that pens do: Join Eddie’s art club with Iron Maiden's new colouring book
- Extreme guitarist books Stone Temple Pilots and Bush to play inside a volcano
- Von Hertzen Brothers announced for Steelhouse Festival
- Watch Creedence Clearwater Revival's electrifying new video for Travelin' Band
- Led Zeppelin fans are losing their minds over this new footage of a legendary 1970 gig
- Winter and Summer's End confirm 2023 dates
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- The new issue of Metal Hammer celebrates 30 years of Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark
- Watch 1000 musicians unite for emotional tribute to Taylor Hawkins
- "Let's swap pants!" - What happened when Led Zeppelin met Elvis
- Why I ❤️ John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, by Eels frontman E
- Ginger Wildheart: music is the only time I feel like me
- May 25
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- Dirty Honey conjure up the ghosts of classic Zeppelin and Aerosmith on expanded debut
- Breasts, puppies, cunning disguises and Lederhosen: Rammstein's bonkers video for Dicke Titten is here
- The 10 best metal samples in hip-hop
- Skid Row share fan-recorded video for new single The Gang's All Here
- Watch Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet shred the National Anthem at San Francisco Giants baseball game
- Listen to The Interrupters' joyous, uplifting new single Anything Was Better
- Metallica team up with Walmart for range of coloured vinyl releases
- Watch this very relatable cat lose its sh*t to Metallica's Enter Sandman
- Datadyr stream brand new single Daybreaking
- "It's insanity at this point": the metal world reacts to Texas school shooting
- Watch Alanis Morissette join Olivia Rodrigo onstage to duet on You Oughta Know
- Cassyette: the nu gen breakout star lighting a fire under alt-metal
- Crawlers tackle harsh realities with scuzzy new single F**k Me (I Didn’t Know How To Say)
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong on the Sex Pistols: "They proved that punk rock was not meant for the masses"
- New Tim Bowness album release put back to August
- Bullet For My Valentine announce 2023 UK tour with Jinjer and Atreyu
- Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda: "I’m tired of hearing musicians be told they’re not investing enough in social media"
- Scardust premiere epic new video for Concrete Cages
- At last! Poison's Bret Michaels has released his patented bandana folding tutorial
- The Wishbone Ash albums you should definitely own
- Joe Elliott has big plans for Def Leppard in the next three years but he's not letting on
- May 24
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- Aerosmith's Steven Tyler checks into rehab after drug relapse
- Machine Gun Kelly recruits Sophie Lloyd as new live guitarist
- Irish alt.rockers Just Mustard share dark, ominous new single Seed
- Watch Momma's Green Day and beabadoobee-inspired video for Lucky
- New study finds that only 13 per cent of UK festival headliners are women
- “Public Enemy was a bad-ass thing”: these are the 11 albums that changed SOAD bassist Shavo Odadjian‘s life
- Hiroe premiere video for the brooding The Approach
- Ukrainian prog metal quintet Majesty Of Revival release trailer for new album
- Watch a Limp Bizkit fan cover Rage Against The Machine and sit in Fred Durst's Dad Vibes throne
- Merle Haggard vs Survivor could be country music's feel bad hit of the summer
- My Chemical Romance share on-stage tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale
- System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian is working on “heavy” new solo project
- Yes to play pre-tour club warm-up show
- Every Manic Street Preachers album ranked from worst to best
- Ozzy Osbourne as an 80s TV preacher is still the greatest heavy metal horror movie cameo ever
- Jimi Hendrix's penis cast to be displayed in Iceland's penis museum
- David Draiman: the new Disturbed album is “90 per cent heavy as f**k”
- Ryo Okumoto launches solo album with teaser video
- New Thor: Love And Thunder trailer teases gnarliest MCU villain yet
- Cassyette's Sad Girl Summer is the ultimate f**k you anthem for getting over toxic exes
- Vikings, runes and goat horns: when Bill Bailey met Wardruna
- Watch Korn play Blind with Slipknot’s Paul Gray on bass
- Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band announce European stadium tour
- Bruce Dickinson: I think of our fans like layers of plywood, and we keep building
- Every Nightwish album ranked from worst to best
- Nazareth, Guns N' Roses, Girls Aloud, and the song that made the record company flip
- How lyrics scribbled on tea-stained paper gave Elton John everything he needed
- 10 absolute classics from 10 albums people love to hate
- May 23
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- Ukrainian art rockers Ziferblat share powerful video for Zemlya (Earth)
- Rammstein have released a teaser for the Dicke Titten video and it is… very Rammstein
- Former Fatima Mansions/Microdisney frontman Cathal Coughlan dead at 61
- Want to see your Myspace-era emo phase represented on the big screen? Here's your chance
- “I’m happy to be a metalhead”: when Mark Tremonti met Kreator’s Mille Petrozza
- “One person’s head exploded next to me”: inside the weird world of Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman
- Watch the breath-taking trailer for David Bowie docufilm, Moonage Daydream
- Måneskin recruit Jimmy Fallon to play bass for Tonight Show performance
- Reload your vinyl with this astonishing new Metallica turntable
- 10 things we learned from the brand new season of Stranger Things
- Watch Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris meet former singer Paul Di’Anno backstage at Maiden’s first gig since 2019
- James LaBrie releases making of documentary for Beautiful Shade Of Grey
- Ice Nine Kills are curating their own horror convention
- Anubis announce remixed reissue of 230503 debut
- VLMV premiere brand new single For Empire
- Dead body found in car park following My Chemical Romance Milton Keynes show
- Radiohead's OK Computer: The last rock album that truly mattered
- Pink Floyd Greek style, with added John Coltrane!
- How we test and rate products at Louder
- Iron Maiden unveil new ‘Samurai Eddie’ at first live show since 2019
- Steven Wilson: I never planned for Porcupine Tree to be over for so long
- Dr. Feelgood: Stupidity - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from ZZ Top, Journey and more
- May 22
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- Toyah and Robert Fripp may have finally peaked with bold cover of Radiohead's Creep
- Alan White to sit out upcoming Yes tour for health reasons
- Caligula's Horse and the making of Rise Radiant
- Watch Alex Henry Foster live stream tonight on Prog's Facebook page at 7pm
- Headspace: the making of a modern prog supergroup
- District 97 release video for King Crimson cover of Matte Kudasai
- May 21
- May 20
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- Dio's classic Holy Diver album to get 'super deluxe edition' reissue
- Deftones will play their UK and European tour dates without Stephen Carpenter
- This all-star Follow The Reaper cover captures Alexi Laiho's virtuosic brilliance
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Ghost's Imperatour line-up unmasked
- Evergrey stream anthemic new single Call Out The Dark
- Cynic release rare live video clip of King Of Those Who Know from Mexico in 2010
- Griff shares stripped-down, re-imagined and beautiful take on Queen’s A Kind Of Magic
- "There are no boundaries": introducing nu gen, the futuristic alternative movement reinventing rock
- Radiohead's proggiest moments
- Christina Booth: "I'm no rock star. I'm just a woman who can sing a bit"
- Brand new Serj Tankian song to feature on metal AF video game Metal: Hellsinger
- Porcupine Tree drop video for the frenetic Herd Culling
- How Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears resurrected metal’s greatest icon
- Alex Henry Foster premieres video for Lou Reed's The Power Of The Heart
- Listen to Def Leppard's anthemic new single Fire It Up
- xPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange: "a compelling listen"
- Coheed And Cambria announce UK and European tour dates for October
- “We all want to leave a mark on the planet”: the epic story of the birth of Symphonic Metal
- Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come
- Justin Hawkins is thinking about buying a castle for The Darkness to live in
- The expanded Combat Rock is a magnificent, vital snapshot of The Clash’s glorious last stand
- Grunting, sweating, greasy downer rock from the dawn of the 70s? Step right this way
- NWOBHM footnotes Prowler finally achieve the full package
- Quartz recall purer, simpler times on riotous but poignant On The Edge Of Tomorrow
- Cave In explore the noisy landscape between grunge and metalcore on Heavy Pendulum
- Anvil's Impact Is Imminent is thunderous, goofy, and impishly diverse
- Evergrey: more crunching prog as brutal riff power pounds into the gothic bleakness
- James LaBrie: Beautiful Shade Of Grey album review
- Man arrested after Johnny Cash water tower springs inappropriate leak
- May 19
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- Apocalypse and orgasm: The crazy story of Aphrodite’s Child 666, Vangelis's cult masterpiece
- Vangelis Papathanassiou dead at 79
- God Is An Astronaut drop new live video for From Dust To The Beyond
- Killswitch Engage: “Nu metal? I dislike anything where the guitar player only uses one string”
- Korn share atmospheric live video of Worst Is On Its Way from their candle-lit Requiem Mass
- Watch 'Kiss' rock and roll all nite in teaser for Neil Bogart biopic Spinning Gold
- Feeder's Polythene at 25: How 'The British Smashing Pumpkins' made Metal Hammer's album of 1997
- Alpine MusicSafe Pro earplugs review
- That time a pre-fame Dave Grohl nearly joined GWAR
- Jon Gomm shares poignant video for Song For A Rainy Day in memory of lost friend
- Softcult's cover of Nirvana's Been A Son is a classy throwback to '90s grunge
- Alexisonfire release the dazzling Sans Soleil from upcoming album Otherness
- Listen to Rina Sawayama's joyous, tongue-in-cheek new single This Hell
- Have you spotted the hidden Marillion easter egg in new Gary Oldman spy thriller Slow Horses?
- God of Hellfire Arthur Brown announces live dates for May and June
- The Answer announce return after five year break
- Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Watch Courtney Love hijack a Madonna TV interview and confuse the shit out of everyone
- How Pythagorean theory, ancient Egyptology and a topless dancer inspired the cover of Hawkwind's greatest album
- What happened when the boys from Black Country Communion got together again
- Alanis Morissette is releasing a meditation album and it all sounds *very* relaxing
- Pearl Jam cancel shows after two members test positive for Covid
- May 18
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd and the anti-firearm protest song that's as relevant now as it ever was
- The improbable story of the Journey classic that keeps coming back to life
- Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust in the style of Chris Cornell is brilliant and uncanny
- Listen to Florence + The Machine's magical cover of The Stooges’ Search And Destroy
- Watch Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at his most carefree, jamming a punk classic with Mudhoney in 1992
- Watch Metallica troll the MTV Awards with their cover of So What?
- Every Rollins Band album ranked from worst to best
- Les Claypool reflects on Metallica audition: "I didn't fit and they saw that"
- Held By Trees announce first ever live dates for October
- The Sheepdogs launch magnificent live video of new single Scarborough Street Fight
- Celestial Son dial up the electronica in new video for Fakir
- Best karaoke machines 2024: Embrace your inner Andrew WK and prepare to party hard
- The 20 best classic rock albums to own on vinyl
- Fender Musician Ear Plugs review
- Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell release touching statements on fifth anniversary of Chris Cornell's death
- Louder Than Love: Metal Hammer remembers Chris Cornell
- Coheed And Cambria share new video for Comatose
- MoonJune Records announces first ever music festival
- The King Crimson albums you should definitely own
- Matt Cameron and Chad Smith distance themselves from "misleading" Foo Fighters article
- Geddy Lee on beer, Rush 2.0, and his friendship with Alex Lifeson
- May 17
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- Eagles Of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes tells Bataclan trial: I forgive the terrorists
- 10 new bands featuring the kids of famous rock stars
- New Yungblud album officially coming this September
- Osees announce new album A Foul Form, share new single Funeral Solution
- Ghost announce huge tour with Mastodon and Spiritbox
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “My problem with Christianity is the ‘holier than thou’ bullsh*t”
- Listen to new Journey single Let It Rain
- Here's what it was like watching grime-punks Bob Vylan tear up a tiny venue in Milton Keynes
- Every Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack ranked from worst to best
- Genesis, Rush, Wakeman, Oldfield white label discs up for charity auction
- Sun's Signature release video for mesmeric Underwater featuring Steve Hackett
- Taylor Hawkins was struggling with Foo Fighters’ intense touring schedule before his death, friends claim
- Sinead O'Brien announces debut album, shares new single Multitudes
- Listen to Queen Kwong's dazzling, dreamy new single Without You, Whatever
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction join forces to perform classic alt.rock anthem
- Doom punks Witch Fever announce new album Congregation, unleash hell-raising title track
- New Fates Warning biography to be published
- That time Pat Boone went metal and the Christian community got really mad
- Eric Clapton tests positive for Covid, cancels shows
- Need a payday loan? Perhaps Vince Neil is just the man to trust
- Michael 'Danny' Francis, bodyguard to the stars: my stories of Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Bon Jovi and more
- May 16
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- Chris Cornell: the 15 songs you need to know
- My Chemical Romance return to the UK: the setlist, the skinny, the social media meltdowns
- Judgment Night OST: the story of the greatest rap-rock soundtrack album of the 90s
- Rina Sawayama announces new album Hold The Girl, releases trailer
- Watch Blink-182 fumble their way through What's My Age Again? as if they've only just met
- Every Fall Out Boy album ranked from worst to best
- Matt Bellamy says Muse's upcoming album is “a greatest hits album – of new songs”
- Watch first trailer for new Predator movie, Prey
- James LaBrie releases new video for gentle ballad Am I Right
- That time Queen's Brian May got his emo on to play with My Chemical Romance
- Affirm release new album One More Moment
- Sum 41 announce UK/European tour with Simple Plan
- The epic inside story of Dio’s Holy Diver album: “We smoked some pot and said, ‘F**k, man, this sounds f**king good!’”
- Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell reveals how he pissed off David Bowie not once, but twice
- John Lydon on Sex Pistol's God Save The Queen: "Everyone presumes that I'm against the royal family...I'm actually really, really proud of the Queen"
- Deftones have announced their most intimate UK show in years
- Watch Metallica's James Hetfield get emotional onstage as he admits to fears that he's too old to play well
- Jeff Buckley: Grace - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from His Lordship, The Sheepdogs and more
- Ronnie James Dio: the life and the legend
- May 15
- May 14
- May 13
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- Slipknot's Sid Wilson and Kelly Osbourne are expecting a baby
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I was verbally assassinated by Sharon Osbourne”: the trials of Jacoby Shaddix
- Judas Priest’s Ian Hill: “KK Downing will be at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame”
- Best metal guitars 2024: Get ready to shred with our essential list
- The Pineapple Thief - Give It Back: "sounding refreshed"
- Sowulo streams new song Stearcost ealra
- The Tangent release video for brand new song The Lady Tied To The Lamp Post
- IANAI stream haunting new single Khaalo
- The Rasmus make it through to Eurovision 2022 grand final
- The Pineapple Thief provide hours of spot-the-difference fun on Give It Back
- Brand new Klaus Schulze track Der Hauch des Lebens - Pt#5 streaming now
- James Hetfield once offered The Darkness' Justin Hawkins support during his alcohol issues
- The Black Keys' Dropout Boogie: modern rock’n’roll doesn’t get any better than this
- Church Of The Cosmic Skull: your new favourite classic rock hippie sex cult
- Toyah explores unexpected sonic territory on Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!
- There's drama and passion aplenty on the Graham Bonnet Band's Day Out In Nowhere
- Hello Cleveland! There's a Spinal Tap sequel on the way
- Five Finger Death Punch launch gnarly new single IOU, confirm album details
- The Hu return with This Is Mongol single and spectacular desert video
- The Alarm's Mike Peters diagnosed with severe pneumonia
- How Stanley Clarke made Up: creativity and the art of bass liberation
- The story of Sky, the least rock’n’roll band of all time
- Måneskin continue upward momentum on sparkling new single Supermodel
- May 12
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- Listen to brand new My Chemical Romance single The Foundations Of Decay right now
- Robb Flynn on Trevor Strnad: “We couldn’t have asked for a better ambassador for metal”
- Franck Carducci and the Fantastic Squad release new tour trailer
- Rammstein played an exclusive rehearsal show for their fan club and here’s what happened
- Watch Faith No More's Mike Patton refuse to lip-sync on Top Of The Pops in 1990
- The 10 most metal Eurovision bands ever
- Ed Wynne announces second solo album Tumbling Through The Floativerse
- House Of Marley add to their audio range with new Redemption ANC 2 earbuds
- James Hetfield makes congratulatory call to woman who gave birth at Metallica gig
- Slipknot are becoming playable characters in a popular battle video game
- “I ran off and projectile vomited”: an interview with deathcore band Bodysnatcher about insanely hot food
- Wish you were there: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and a night of unexpected magic
- Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen: I’m not as pretty as Lemmy or Sting
- Van Halen: how the wheels came off and the bad feeling that fuelled 1984
- Drug busts, guns, car crashes, fights, fires… these are Keith Richards' greatest scrapes
- May 11
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- Trevor Strnad: the metal world pays tribute
- The Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad dead at 41
- Nine Inch Nails, My Chemical Romance, Misfits head up Riot Fest 2022 bill
- The Darkness' Justin Hawkins thinks Jon Bon Jovi needs to stop singing, now
- Æon Spoke release brand new video for Emmanuel
- The President of France tried to get Måneskin kicked out of Eurovision
- Smashing Pumpkins announce '90s alt. rock dream tour with Jane's Addiction
- Rock or bust: We’re all in on these Angus, Axl and Lemmy-inspired sculptures
- Collected works of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera on the way
- Echobrain: how one band almost killed Metallica
- Children Of Bodom members open up on split with Alexi, issues within the band
- Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Ghost "genius" Tobias Forge: "He's the most interesting person I've ever met"
- Every The Jesus Lizard album ranked from worst to best
- Polyphia release new video for Playing God, their first new music for three years
- Good news mini metalheads, you can now learn the alphabet with Babymetal
- Stomu Yamashta's Island Records albums box set on the way
- Nova Twins unleash swaggering, sex-positive new single Puzzles
- Joan Jett on touring with "misogynistic" Mötley Crüe: "If I had to weed out every band you thought was problematic, there wouldn't be very many left"
- Classic Rick Wakeman 1970s live shows unearthed for new box set
- Meet the viral YouTuber who’s inventing a new death metal genre
- How Iron Maiden’s Fear Of The Dark marked the end of an era
- Gene Simmons: when Kiss play their last song I’ll be crying like a baby
- Watch Gregg Allman play two classics as Cher vogues years before Madonna
- Every Scorpions album ranked from worst to best
- May 10
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- Will Smith on Ozzfest: "it's the least African American event outside of that broom and big-ass hockey puck thing at the Olympics"
- Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows calls on rock to update its settings: "Old bands are bitter about streaming, it's very weird"
- Watch David Bowie react as his 1970 Space Oddity award performance is sabotaged by an orchestra
- Ghost's Tobias Forge says bands used Covid fears to scrap tours which weren't proving as profitable as they wished
- Wire share video of Stepping Off Too Quick for first time ever
- The Algorithm streams Multithreading - "how Matrix 4 should've sounded!!"
- Pale Waves sparkle with attitude on new single Lies, announce new album Unwanted
- Every Depeche Mode album ranked from worst to best
- The Utopia Strong release video for optimistic new single Castalia
- David Bowie tribute show to be staged in the UK's largest planetarium
- Starcrawler want you to run haters over with your car on wild new single Roadkill
- Spiritraiser release video for the powerful Invisible Enemy
- Best speakers for home use: Overhaul your system with our pick of hi-fi speakers for all budgets
- Lenco light up the Bluetooth speaker market with their new 200 series
- 10 songs that prove Tool’s Danny Carey is a drum god
- Brian May recalls "traumatising" experience of working with Freddie Mercury's vocals after he died, reveals his favourite Queen album
- Cage Fight: “We have a T-shirt with Boris Johnson getting punched in the face”
- Jimmy Page on gatekeeping Led Zep, playing the Olympics, and the tribes of Morocco
- The jazz rock albums you should definitely own
- Phil Lynott: Solo In Soho - Album Of The Week Club review
- Scorpions and Whitesnake announce tour with David Attenborough-style wildlife video
- May 9
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- Bon Scott's brother speaks out for the first time: "He never worried about tomorrow"
- Travis Barker hails Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish for pushing pop-punk's boundaries
- Nick Cave confirms death of his son, Jethro Lazenby
- There's now a heavy metal version of Heardle to separate true metalheads from poseurs
- This is what Metallica's Enter Sandman would sound like if the drums were replaced with James Hetfield yelling "yeah!"
- Best phono preamps 2024: Upgrade your vinyl music system with a phono stage
- Watch Slipknot bring the carnage in their first ever UK TV appearance
- Coronation Street stars dedicate BAFTA win to Sylvia and Sophie Lancaster
- Praise Satan! King Diamond has never heard of Post Malone
- Watch Stevie Nicks perform live for the first time in two years at New Orleans Jazz Festival
- Queen’s Platinum Collection to be released on vinyl for very first time
- Måneskin tease summery new single Supermodel in new pool-side post
- Watch Mothica's film noir video for dark, dazzling new single Last Cigarette
- Nick Fletcher releases video teaser for new album The Cloud Of Unknowing
- Watch Yungblud and Willow have a heated lovers' quarrel in Memories video
- Woman gives birth at Metallica show in Brazil
- Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz: “We are racing against the clock of our own extinction”
- Stadium Arcadium: a fluid cruise through the Red Hot Chili Peppers' California
- Further evidence of Dolly Parton's rock credentials has emerged
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Slash, Halestorm and more
- Watch Brian May sing in Spanish in poignant video for Otro Lugar
- May 8
- May 7
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- 2022’s best metal albums so far
- Temples On Mars release new animated video for Sleepwalking Into Extinction
- "This is not background music": the story of Storm Corrosion
- The Aristocrats release animated video for orchestral The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde
- “Their abilities were not as developed as their ambition”: an interview with the producer behind Metallica’s 80s classics
- May 6
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- Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus: "a multi-faceted beast"
- Matt Heafy shares video for new Ibaraki single Kagutsuchi
- ...Trail Of Dead drop two new videos for Salt In Your Eyes and No Confidence
- Watch Roger Waters surprise a New York audience with an acoustic collaboration on Pink Floyd's Mother
- King's X to release first new album in 14 years
- From Type O Negative covers to HIM: how Ville Valo became king of the goths
- Mikael Akerfeldt to release Clark soundtrack album in July
- The Fierce & The Dead premiere video for new single Wonderful
- Robert Fripp vinyl and CD reissues on the way
- The Rolling Stones share live cuts from club shows they played as 'The Cockroaches' in 1977
- 10 non-rock artists who could totally play Download Festival
- Halestorm are Back From The Dead and into unashamedly maximalist territory
- Puppy are proof that rock is alive and begging for your attention
- Richard Thompson runs from beauty to cacophony on Grizzly Man soundtrack
- Pure Reason Revolution: Above Cirrus album review
- Stöner's new album is a consummate lesson in High Desert grooviness
- Jeff Scott Soto: solid but frustrating on Complicated solo album
- John Illsley's VIII: a decent album with fining playing but skip the Beatles cover
- Slash & Myles Kennedy premiere April Fool video, announce double live album
- Bonham-Bullick: powerful, immaculately played, and perfectly smoky
- The Waterboys find space for romantic and rebellious reflection on All Souls Hill
- May 5
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- Halestorm’s track by track guide to new album Back From The Dead
- Listen to Dolly Parton's stunning cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, proof of her rock 'n' roll soul
- Kirk Hammett’s 10 greatest Metallica guitar solos
- Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge get smacked with a fiddle in new Netflix show Clark
- Billy Howerdel releases video for Poison Flowers
- Charlie Griffiths lampoons kids TV in hilarious new video for Tiktaalika
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Review: the MCU goes full Sam Raimi
- “It ripped my face off”: when Robb Flynn met Meshuggah
- Mantra Vega reunite for charity record to aid people of Ukraine
- Watch Pearl Jam pay tribute to Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins on night one of their US tour
- How George Harrison made the album that banished The Beatles
- Apple Music review: Apple take a bite out of the competition
- “I’m at peace with myself and Black Sabbath”: the world according to Bill Ward
- Dim Gray release new lyric video for Mare
- Watch an actual death metal band soundtrack the Pittsburgh Marathon as it happened
- Every Rammstein album ranked from worst to best
- Alice Cooper on Johnny Depp, taking the show to Broadway, and why he won't retire
- Black Sabbath-themed collection of hockey clothing launched
- How the Red Hot Chili Peppers rediscovered their hot streak
- May 4
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- Rammstein targeted by Russian troll factories with pro-war disinformation
- Every R.E.M. album ranked from worst to best
- The Parallax Method guitarist Danny Beardsley releases video for Pulling Me Under
- Survivor + Jimi Hendrix + The Whispers = The funkiest version of Eye Of The Tiger you'll ever hear
- The night nu metal bowed down before Metallica
- You can join the Iron Maiden-approved, million-pound heavy metal charity
- Best budget phones for music 2024: Epic mobile gig photography that won't break the bank
- AVAWAVES stream emotive new single The Wave
- At last – Judas Priest will finally make it into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Beatdown kings Terror’s Pain Into Power is a tough record for tough times
- Puppy’s Pure Evil: riffalicious glory with a side order of earworms
- Star Wars Day 2022: Celebrate May the 4th with a galaxy of stellar gifts and collectables
- VOLA stream new acoustic version of Napalm (Re-Witnessed)
- The Afghan Whigs share new single The Getaway, announce new album and UK tour
- Tribal Chiefs, Peaky Blinders and castle clashes: 6 things we learned when WWE took over London
- VLMV return with haunting Steady Thyself, their first new music for four years
- 'We're not into music, we're into chaos': watch the new trailer for Sex Pistols TV drama Pistol
- M Shadows: “When you see great artists, a lot of them aren't in the metal scene”
- Nova Twins, Wargasm, Bob Vylan amongst new Glastonbury additions
- Career-spanning Jon Hiseman anthology to be published in June
- Watch a man play every single Iron Maiden album track on the drums in epic Medley Of The Beast video
- How AC/DC really learned to rock and made the three albums that changed everything
- What happened when Ann Wilson met Lzzy Hale
- Joan Jett on Ted Nugent: "He s**t his pants so he didn't have to go to the army"
- Watch Deep Purple play a solemn Beatles cover during their first ever TV performance
- May 3
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- 10 things we learned from our candid conversation with Halestorm in this month's Metal Hammer
- Marshall crank up the volume - add two new portable speakers to their range
- Former Kraftwerk man Karl Bartos to publish memoir
- John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies share new song I'll Find You
- “I wake up and think, ‘F**k yeah, I get to be Gene Simmons another day’”: the world according to Gene Simmons
- Ghost Of The Machine release video teaser for debut album
- A musical based on rock film Almost Famous is being adapted for Broadway
- Watch Rob Halford and Alice Cooper join forces to jam The Doors' Roadhouse Blues at CoopStock 2
- Tim Bowness drops new video for Dark Nevada Dreams
- The Mighty Ra release video for Nothing Comes Too Easy
- Spit Out The Bone is one of the greatest Metallica songs of the last 20 years, and here’s proof
- Why you should definitely own Time’s Up by Living Colour
- Motorhead and the song that helped changed the face of British television
- How Randy Bachman lifted ideas from everywhere for the song that pays the bills
- May 2
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- Watch Avril Lavigne spark fan hysteria with surprise cameo at Olivia Rodrigo gig
- Matt Heafy’s black metal passion project Ibaraki hits hard with debut album Rashomon
- Check out Morlock's eye-catching new video for Flower Fiends
- Rainbow: Long Live Rock 'N' Roll - Album Of The Week Club review
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dorothy, The Cold Stares and more
- Watch Axl Rose join Carrie Underwood onstage for two Guns N' Roses classics
- Kiss legend Peter Criss to come out of retirement for one night only
- May 1
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- Toyah enjoys a "kitchen jog" as Robert Fripp powers a Queens Of The Stone Age classic
- The Locust drummer Gabe Serbian dead at 44
- Halestorm’s Back From The Dead: what doesn’t kill Lzzy Hale and co makes them stronger
- The 12 most metal comedians ever
- "We spent about three years on The Garden, and we had this one wrapped up in about 18 months." The making of Unitopia's Artificial
- New vinyl releases 2023: Here’s what’s coming out in rock, metal, prog and more
- Spock's Beard and the making of X
- Paramore's Hayley Williams: "people are confused about what the fuck emo is"
- The best audiophile headphones for Hi-Fi listening 2024: Wired, Bluetooth, noise cancelling and more
- Fozzy’s Boombox: bona fide bangers cut through the cheese
