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- January 31
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- Les Claypool's reunited Fearless Flying Frog Brigade will perform Pink Floyd's Animals album in full on a huge North American tour
- Here's what Tool would sound like with Taylor Swift on lead vocals
- Falling In Reverse drop laptops on Sebastian Bach lookalike in video for Watch the World Burn
- Ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock shares his anger at Tory Brexit "cock up": "I would like to see their heads on sticks"
- “We had no interest in being rock stars”: The story behind Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
- Moby: "The first time I saw The Misfits I was just glad they didn’t eat me"
- Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows: "we try to stay as much away from the leather pant butt-wiggle 80s ballad as we can"
- Fall Out Boy announce US arena tour with Bring Me The Horizon
- Skindred, The Bronx, Witch Fever, Mimi Barks and more added to 2000trees bill
- The Otolith: "We couldn't live without making music with each other"
- Six great new prog tracks to listen to this week!
- Karnataka announce new studio album
- Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is the highest earning tour of all time
- Marko Hietala returns with new live clip for Dead God's Son
- Swedish pop star Zara Larsson faces backlash for wearing dress featuring Burzum artwork: "Oopsie"
- Big Big Train enlist guitarist Maria Barbieri to cover for Dave Foster
- Watch everyone's favourite cover band Punk Rock Factory go full Hamilton for new single You'll Be Back
- “Oh God, it’s hard to listen to”: The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
- Porcupine Tree: "a lot of the excitement is because people don’t know if they’ll see us play again"
- Rush's Moving Pictures: a tale of double-entendres and red overalls
- How Joni Mitchell watched Woodstock on TV then wrote the song that captured its magic
- ZZ Top, Elton John and Halestorm shows in New Zealand cancelled as state of emergency persists
- January 30
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- Show your loved one how much you fancy them with one of six sexy as heck Def Leppard Valentine's Day cards
- There's a Ghost exhibition taking place in Hollywood for one night only
- This video of Fleshgod Apocalypse singer's onstage marriage proposal will warm even the coldest of hearts
- Dance Craze, the classic 1981 2 Tone documentary featuring The Specials, Madness, The Selecter and more, is being released on DVD for the first time ever
- Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie announce co-headline Freaks On Parade tour
- Marilyn Manson faces new lawsuit alleging sexual assault on a minor
- There's now a Christian-themed cover of Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger and Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey, it's the sound of hell on earth
- Paul McCartney unearths previously unheard collaboration with Jeff Beck
- Kiss' Paul Stanley offers some life goals advice: "If you choose to pursue something that's out of reach, you're an idiot"
- "Iron Maiden fans are the coolest people on the planet": what your favourite band apparently says about you, according to this hilarious new video
- Watch pro-shot footage of Babymetal's comeback shows in Japan this past weekend, which included two unreleased songs and a very interesting tease
- Linkin Park are teasing something big to do with Meteora
- Watch earliest known footage of Genesis with Phil Collins as lead singer
- "A lesser band might have been humiliated" - the story of the first Kiss show
- The Who announce UK tour with full orchestra and new live album
- Big Big Train: The Underfall Yard - Album Of The Week Club review
- Paul McCartney narrowly avoids being struck by car while recreating iconic Abbey Road walk
- Dave Grohl to advertise Canadian whiskey during Super Bowl LVI - watch teaser videos
- Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to make the world a better place
- January 29
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- Dee Snider pours scorn on Ozzy and Motley Crue retirement 'bullshit': "I’m tired of buying No More Tours shirts and seeing people signing contracts in blood and then they show up three years later"
- Pete Waterman says Judas Priest were scared to release poppy Stock Aitken Waterman collaboration because "16-year-old girls would start turning up to their stadium gigs"
- Toyah and Robert Fripp enjoy a Satanic Sabbath with fiery, latex-enhanced cover of Motley Crue's Shout At The Devil
- The music world reacts to the death of Television's Tom Verlaine: "You introduced me to a world that flipped my life upside down. I am forever grateful"
- January 28
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- Make this Valentine's Day extra filthy with a Cameo message from Dani Filth
- Television frontman Tom Verlaine dead at 73
- Cynic make live comeback in LA secret show
- Volume 17 of the Bootleg series finds Bob Dylan in Miami and on excellent form
- Steppenwolf lack heavy metal thunder on three albums of declining in potency
- If unorthodox avant-punk noise-metal innovation is the question, Dinosaur Jr. are the answer
- Meshuggah to reissue sixth album ObZen in March
- Pete Gee shares video trailer for new solo album Pilgrim
- January 27
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- Twisted Sister play live at Metal Hall of Fame induction but rule out future performances
- Jane's Addiction recruit Josh Klinghoffer to replace Dave Navarro for upcoming shows
- Wholesome school janitor goes viral for stunning performance of Journey's Don't Stop Believin', receives approval from Steve Perry and the band
- Pink Floyd are being accused of exploiting artists with The Dark Side Of The Moon animation contest
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- 13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs
- Watch Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett trip on mushrooms for the very first time in this historic student film from 1966
- Watch David Ellefson and Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe cover Metallica's One on metal cruise
- Watch Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and James Corden impersonate Simon and Garfunkel with a hair-raising performance of The Sound Of Silence
- Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock on Iggy Pop’s penis: “I got a bit fed up with seeing it, to be honest. It’s not that impressive”
- Korn’s Blind: how a rewritten version of another band’s song invented nu metal
- Watch K-Pop star Yoon from STAYC cover Avril Lavigne’s Sk8er Boi
- Maneskin recall hanging out with The Rolling Stones: “Keith Richards said, 'I don’t know who the f**k you are, but they tell me you’re good'”
- ZIO announce guest vocalists and tour dates for April tour
- Brian May explains why Queen will never play Glastonbury
- Sleep Token, Exploring Birdsong and more announced for Radar Festival
- Pamela Anderson calls producers of Pam & Tommy TV series "a**holes", reveals how ex-husband Tommy Lee reached out to her after it was aired
- That Kerry King/Dave Mustaine love-in just stepped up a notch
- Fucked Up’s One Day: 24 hours in the life of the world’s most ambitious punk band
- Watch Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk dress up as Metallica in 1992
- Fall Out Boy and Weezer among acts lined up for Beach Boys Grammy tribute
- How Van Halen's debut album changed everything, by the guitarists it changed
- Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic once threw a TV out a hotel window in the sweetest way possible
- Lemmy told us that Girlschool rocked and Lemmy was right
- Steve Vai's Vai/Gash is a joyful throwback to simpler times
- Uriah Heep: still fully in touch with what made them great 50 years ago
- January 26
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- Rick Wakeman announces US Music And Stories tour
- Maid Of Stone Festival announces Airbourne as first headliner
- Leicester University alumni Dave Cousins awarded honorary degree
- Enslaved share dramatic video for "immediate" new single Forest Dweller
- Watch a tight-lipped, 19-year-old Prince troll American Bandstand host Dick Clark with an excruciatingly awkward interview on his TV debut
- Apparently, this is what metal sounds like to people who don't like metal (starring a dog, a duck and a horny turtle)
- The 10 best Sleep Token songs
- Mimi Barks’ new video for Saw looks like a snuff movie and might just haunt your dreams
- Laughing Stock team up with XTC's Colin Moulding on new album
- Listen to Madonna’s pre-fame punk rock anthem S*** On The Ground
- The Internet has decided that Sleep Token are metal's sexiest new band
- John Wetton to be celebrated in new book
- Listen to Ghost's brand new version of Spillways featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliott
- Another Pantera show cancelled as promoter says Austria gig is off
- Gene Simmons: Kiss ruled the world by choosing not to play the game
- Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz on Ukraine and the power of punk-rock resistance
- Tobias Forge: "I would love to play in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
- Watch Ozzy Osbourne startle co-workers in new office job
- January 25
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- Founding Yardbirds guitarist Antony ‘Top’ Topham dead at 75
- Ghost have released a video that features Joe Elliott being electrocuted in an Irish pub
- Former Xerath musicians resurface in The Enigma Division
- ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons announces summer UK and Europe tour dates
- ‘Lost’ unseen Beatles photos shot by Paul McCartney are going on display at the National Portrait Gallery
- Tool’s Danny Carey has the assault case against him dropped
- Watch Fall Out Boy's plan to kidnap Weezer's Rivers Cuomo go terribly wrong in the spoof video for Heartbreak Feels So Good
- Nicolas Cage on Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Dimmu Borgir: “Black metal gets a bad rap”
- Nicolas Cage used to throw horror movie nights with Johnny Ramone, Kirk Hammett, Rob Zombie and Eddie Vedder
- Foo Fighters announce their first European shows since Taylor Hawkins' death
- Clearaudio Concept turntable review
- Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson on his upcoming solo album: "I'm very proud of it. I think it's gonna be quite special."
- Meat Loaf's live band have released a new version of Bat Out Of Hell and fixed a 44-year-old problem
- Metallica are launching their new album 72 Seasons with a worldwide listening party in cinemas
- Steve Hillage 1977 LA set to be released
- Watch Fucked Up's video for new single Cicada
- Aisles stream brand new fusion-inspired single Game Over
- Dee Snider is writing a book on toxic masculinity
- Slowthai is spending 24 hours inside a mirrored box to promote his new single Selfish, and you can watch him right now on YouTube
- Roger Dean teases new Yes album artwork online
- You can now book a Brazilian ju-jitsu session with Tool's Maynard James Keenan
- The 10 greatest Dracula movies, ranked from worst to best
- Punk supergroup Fake Names (Refused/Bad Religion/Fugazi/GVSB) share new album title track Expendables
- The definitive history of every Slipknot mask
- The Neil Young albums you should definitely own
- Esmé Bianco and Marilyn Manson reach out-of-court settlement over sexual assault lawsuit
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: the improbable story of a 17-minute one-hit-wonder
- Previously unseen footage of Tom Petty's legendary Fillmore residency released
- January 24
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- Anvil announce US tour and confirm work has started on 20th album
- Watch this exceptionally cheery drum cover of Slipknot's Wait and Bleed
- Coheed and Cambria announce lengthy North American tour
- Yes sell back catalogue to Warners
- Aphex Twin and Bonobo to headline Field Day festival
- Big Big Train release Ingenious Devices teaser video
- Le Tigre to tour the UK and Europe for the first time in 18 years this summer
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs share filthily groovy new single Ultimate Hammer, announce 2023 touring plans
- Avatar's Johannes Eckerstrom: "Where are the Judas Priests and Motörheads that don’t sound like sloppy seconds?"
- Motorhead show off their soulful side on previously unreleased new single Greedy Bastards
- Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band announce London show with John Hackett
- The Darkness say that I Believe In A Thing Called Love originated from their desire to write "the stupidest song ever"
- Exploring Birdsong announce brand new EP
- Brendon Urie announces the end of Panic! At The Disco: "sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin"
- Ne Obliviscaris share video for suitably epic new single Graal
- Dim Gray to support Marillion in Leicester in May
- Viagra Boys, Black Country, New Road, CIVIC, Warmduscher join Wide Awake festival line-up
- Pantera kicked off Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festival bills: "we have decided to remove the band from the program"
- MONO, Maybeshewill and A.A. Williams announced for Portals Festival
- Get an exclusive signed Katatonia art print with this limited edition issue of Metal Hammer
- Måneskin: "It's not our goal to convince rock’n’roll fans that we're real rock"
- John Bonham's final TV interview was a famous fiasco... but it's not quite what it seems
- Long Train Runnin': the Doobie Brothers' jam that became a dancefloor classic
- Watch TikTok answer the question nobody asked – what if Slash joined Coldplay?
- Mötley Crüe start rehearsals with new guitarist John 5
- January 23
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- Stevie Nicks announces US tour
- Shinedown announce The Revolutions Live US tour
- Ipecac Recordings announce 'Geek Show' package tour featuring Mr. Bungle, Melvins and Spotlights
- Kansas announce lengthy US tour to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Nickelback announce 38-city Get Rollin' tour across North America
- Sleep Token's London show just proved why they're the most exciting band in metal right now
- Disturbed announce summer European tour dates
- Tarja Turunen on Nightwish, celebrity fans and overcoming health issues: “My stroke was caused by stress”
- This metal fan wants to get Ozzy a knighthood – and the British government hasn’t ruled it out
- Why Knock At The Cabin might just be the proper comeback M Night Shyamalan needs
- Paramore's Hayley Williams reflects on poor treatment in the emo scene, calls out NOFX’s Fat Mike for sexually-inappropriate comments
- Watch a Jim Matheos guitar playthrough for O.S.I.'s False Start
- Black Eyed Peas are taking legal action against a US toy company over a pooping unicorn
- Right-wing weirdos have decided that Måneskin are government-funded stooges being paid to promote gender-fluid culture
- How Tony Iommi wrote metal’s all-time greatest riff
- Dee Snider defends his comments about Robert Plant and Ronnie James Dio not being real performers: "You can't put me and Robert Plant in the same category"
- Corey Taylor is working on a “harder, faster” new solo album: “There’s elements of Slipknot, there’s elements of Stone Sour”
- Ihsahn teams up with Jonas Renkse on new song Contorted Moments
- The 1975 fan thinks he's buying a Cameo video message from frontman Matt Healy, ends up with "the nicest message" from Trivium's Matt Heafy instead
- Fleetwood Mac: Mystery To Me - Album Of The Week Club review
- Eight new songs guaranteed to right every wrong this week
- The Rolling Stones' In Mono: it's great but it borders on abuse
- Black Star Riders: still channelling the warrior spirit of Thin Lizzy
- Måneskin's Rush! is dazzling proof that their trajectory is no fluke
- Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous: now more live and more dangerous than ever
- Meatloaf's daughters share video tribute to their father on the anniversary of his death: "This is a celebration of Dad’s life and legacy"
- January 22
- January 21
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- Galahad and the Seas Of Change
- Steve Hackett's Mediterranean adventure
- The making of Riverside's Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
- Tim Bowness added as headline for Saturday at Prog For Peart
- Listen to the brand new mix of Peter Gabriel's Panopticom
- Rival Sons launch new video for Rapture, confirm two albums for release this year
- Queen launch 50-week YouTube series celebrating their live legacy
- January 20
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- The Story Behind Judas Priest's You've Got Another Thing Comin'
- Ex-Megadeth man David Ellefson has hooked up with Insane Clown Posse's Violent J to cover Faith No More and... wait, it's not April 1 already, is it?
- Ian Hunter's new album features collaborations with Joe Elliott, Slash, Billy Gibbons, Johnny Depp and the late Jeff Beck and Taylor Hawkins
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album has been given a reggae makeover as Ziggy Stardub with the aid of Rush's Alex Lifeson and Living Colour's Vernon Reid
- The 10 greatest old school death metal vocalists
- Thirteen gems from the Barclay James Harvest back catalogue
- Hayley Griffiths video for new single Siùil a Ruin
- Pink Floyd fans are amused that the anti-woke mob are cancelling the band over the Dark Side Of The Moon 'rainbow'
- Kate Bush has hidden 'invisible' messages for some lucky fans in a new version of her lyric book
- Jethro Tull share video for brand new single Ginnungagap
- Watch Fall Out Boy - minus absent guitarist Joe Trohman - play new single Love From The Other Side on US TV
- Did Duff McKagan just confirm Guns N' Roses for Glastonbury? "Glastonbury's going to be iconic for us"
- Ghost are teasing something massive: “Jesus is coming”
- The 10 best David Crosby songs
- The unforgettable life of Meat Loaf: "It felt like riding the tail of a comet"
- Metallica share powerful lyrics for new single Screaming Suicide: "The intention is to communicate about the darkness we feel inside... You are not alone"
- January 19
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- Metallica launch video for new song Screaming Suicide
- The music world reacts to the death of David Crosby: "David was fearless in life and in music. He leaves behind a tremendous void"
- David Crosby dead at 81
- Sir Mick Jagger has posted his first TikTok and he couldn't be more delighted
- Max Cavalera recalls meeting Slipknot's Paul Gray for the first time: "He was a member of the Sepultura fanclub"
- Evanescence have announced a Fallen themed make-up palette and now you too can look like a millennial goth icon
- The 10 greatest moments in WWE Raw history
- Sermon return with video for new seven-minute single Golden
- You can hear new Babymetal single Metal Kingdom and previews of every track from new album The Other One
- Introducing Gandalf's Fist...
- "This isn't like any other Ghostface": the official Scream VI trailer is here, and it looks savage
- Soulful doom rockers Royal Thunder are back from the edge of oblivion: "Everything had to fall apart before we could set things right"
- Kiss' Gene Simmons says he likes "all kinds" of music, shares love for death metal, ABBA, The Killers and Tame Impala
- Pink Floyd confirm Dark Side Of The Moon 50th anniversary box set for March
- Liam Gallagher says Noel has been “on the phone begging for forgiveness”
- Pete Wentz watched Metallica's Some Kind Of Monster documentary before making Fall Out Boy's new album, says it's like looking into a "really weird mirror"
- Lazuli announce the release of brand new album 11
- Sleep Token drop third surprise single, Granite
- The Von Hertzen Brothers would like us to think about death every day
- Run DMC thought Walk This Way would ruin them: instead, it saved Aerosmith
- Led Zeppelin once released a song on K-Tel: the result was one of the great all-star photos
- The alt. rock world salutes late Screaming Trees bassist Van Conner: "Let us lower the flannel flag to half-mast"
- Alter Bridge gear up for US tour with new video for Holiday
- January 18
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- Screaming Trees bassist Van Conner dead at 55
- Steve Vai announces lengthy European tour
- "Am I table? Yes I am!": Watch Metallikea's spoof advert for a leading Swedish home furnishing company
- Devin Townsend: "I don't enjoy suffering by my own hand if I can prevent it"
- A ton of memorabilia owned by rock legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Slipknot, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and more, is going under the hammer
- Hawkwind announced as Prognosis Festival Saturday headliner
- There's a new film about punk icons Fugazi but it's screening for one night in one city only
- Sonos Move review
- The director of Queen‘s iconic Bohemian Rhapsody video has died
- Fall Out Boy share dramatic new single Love From The Other Side
- Noel Gallagher “gobsmacked” after London clubber fails to recognise him, tells stranger to use Google to find out
- Måneskin announce tiny, intimate London club show: here's how you can be there
- You can now buy jewellery made from Iron Maiden's guitar strings, and it's for a brilliant cause
- Haken share video for brand new single Taurus
- Steven Tyler, Cher, Paul McCartney, John Fogerty, Steve Perry and Stevie Nicks are guesting on Dolly Parton's Rock Star album
- Indie rockers Black Honey embrace their inner child on deliciously grungy new track, Up Against It
- Someone's found the James Hetfield vs Fred Durst fight from Celebrity Deathmatch and it's gruesomely hilarious
- You may as well abandon your guitar lessons now: this wild acoustic cover of System Of A Down's Toxicity will leave you dumbstruck
- Mathcore mavericks The Callous Daoboys are here to fill the Dillinger Escape Plan-shaped hole in your life
- Suzi Quatro to celebrate 50 years of Can The Can with UK tour
- Get an exclusive signed In Flames lyric sheet with this special limited edition issue of Metal Hammer
- Feel Like Makin' Love: the story of Bad Company's aphrodisiac anthem
- The Ramones albums you should definitely own
- Resurrection shuffle: behind the scenes of the triumphant return of Skid Row
- Susan Tedeschi: "I’m hoping to do something with Harry Styles"
- Producer Bob Ezrin says the key to Kiss's success was getting girls to like them
- Mastodon and Gojira announce The Mega-Monsters co-headlining US tour
- January 17
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- This German metal festival has banned bands using backing tracks
- Korn have released a Follow The Leader make-up palette, because this is what nu metal does in 2023
- Landmarq replace Comedy Of Errors for Also Eden March dates
- Emma Tricca reveals video for brand new single King Blixa
- Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland launches legal action against ex-wife Carré Callaway for defamation
- Southern Empire unveil brand new singer Shaun Holton
- Watch Heartworms' mud-drenched video for new single Retributions Of An Awful Life
- NOFX announce UK headline shows as part of their farewell tour
- Slayer’s Kerry King pays tribute to Dave Mustaine: “He’s a f**king awesome guitar player“
- Watch Jack Black French kiss Madonna at the Queen of Pop's raunchy star-studded dinner party
- The Ocean drop surprise new single Preboreal
- Here's that Black Sabbath and Wham! mash-up your subconscious has probably always craved - and it's Geezer Butler-approved
- Some security staff at London's Brixton Academy take bribes to let gig-goers in without tickets, whistleblower claims
- Noel Gallagher offers thoughts on 'nepo baby' debate: "It’s not the worst thing in the world if you get your kids working for you... but they have to be good at what they do"
- Vote for the greatest Nightwish song ever
- Rick Rubin says the mainstream music industry considered hip-hop "evil" and didn't want it to exist
- Kyros announce London show with I Am The Manic Whale
- The Last Of Us: why Depeche Mode means trouble for Joel, Ellie and Tess
- Nick Cave was sent an AI track written 'in the style of Nick Cave', and he's distinctly unimpressed: "This song sucks"
- The Last Of Us: a thrilling, heartbreaking first episode that promises great things for the rest of the first season
- Noel Gallagher goes back to his roots on new album Council Skies, shares psychedelic single Easy Now
- Hi Ho Silver Lining got Jeff Beck into the charts: he never forgave it
- Ozzy Osbourne once released a song with Frank Bruno and Billy Connolly and it's extremely jolly
- Axl Rose pays tribute to friend Lisa Marie Presley: "I wanted her to be happy"
- How Alex Harvey conjured up one of rock's great moments of darkness and drama
- January 16
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- Listen to Saxon's new version of Alex Harvey's classic The Faith Healer
- When Marillion went pop: the story behind Holidays In Eden
- John Lydon admits he'll be "absolutely terrified" when competing for a Eurovision spot with PiL
- Voivod announce 40th anniversary UK shows for April
- London's O2 Academy Brixton has its licence suspended for three months, affecting gigs by Lamb Of God, Sleep Token, Viagra Boys, Suede and more
- Sony are bringing back their iconic Walkman as a high-res streaming player
- “The biggest circle pit I have ever seen for an opening band”: watch British metallers Malevolence cause chaos at Trivium's Hammersmith show in London last night
- The confessions of Architects’ Sam Carter: “I was a little sh**head. I wanted be annoying and in people’s faces”
- This is Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction album covered in the style of Limp Bizkit, My Chemical Romance, Oasis and more
- Animals As Leaders drop new video for Red Miso
- Refused members launch 'anti-racist, anti-fascist free-form death jazz' side-project
- Watch Halestorm's Lzzy Hale and Chris Daughtry join Alice In Chains tribute band on stage to cover Facelift and Dirt classics
- Metallica’s St Anger played by some guy whacking a beer keg with a baseball bat sounds pretty much identical to the original
- You can now get your hands on a Dave Grohl comic book
- Chumbawamba snub £30,000 offer to soundtrack trailer for new Jeremy Clarkson show, to fans' delight
- Watch Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson entertainingly recount the time Johnny Cash asked for his autograph for his daughter: "Sometimes, when you meet your heroes, it's a wonderful experience"
- AI update: your favourite rock stars have been turned into preschool kids
- Porcupine Tree: Fear Of A Blank Planet - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight new rock songs you need to start your week
- Steve Vai's stolen 'Swiss cheese' guitar found in attic in Tijuana, Mexico
- The Rolling Stones share poignant live version of Wild Horses
- January 15
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- David Lee Roth's isolated 'non-words' from Van Halen's Runnin' With The Devil are hilarious
- Things have taken a turn towards the dark side in Toyah and Robert's kitchen
- Dark-prog magi Katatonia deliver more epic gloom on Sky Void Of Stars
- Multi-instrumentalist Carly Bryant quits Big Big Train
- The making of Beardfish's final album, +4626-COMFORTZONE
- Cate Blanchett sneered at Margot Robbie for liking metal, and the internet is pissed off
- By 1994 The Cranberries were stars: then came the incendiary song that made them massive
- James Hetfield warns Metallica fans not to fall for social media imposters
- Ville Valo's first show under his VV banner features a string of HIM tracks
- January 14
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- Jon Anderson shares new trailers for Olias sequel Zamran
- Stewart Copeland shares rare early demo of Clown's Revenge by The Police
- Sound Of Contact's Matt Dorsey announces new solo album
- A hearse, black cake and Ozzy Osbourne: is this the most heavy metal wedding ever?
- Listen to Rammstein's Till Lindemann sing in English on dramatic duet with Sharon Kovacs
- Eric Clapton's Reprise albums wrapped up with box set number two
- Jared James Nichols is back with a feast of loud-ass guitar
- Ville Valo: the rock’n’roll Barry White returns with a luscious love-metal soundtrack
- Watch Margot Robbie defend Slipknot and heavy metal on the Graham Norton show: "I genuinely like that kind of music"
- Watch Ville Valo in video for Neon Noir
- January 13
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Every HIM album ranked from worst to best
- Watch Roadrunner United's classic live video of Slipknot's (sic) featuring Corey Taylor, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison and Anthrax's Scott Ian
- Freddie Mercury once revealed the two famous people, alive or dead, he'd most want to meet, and it'd make a hell of a dinner party
- The Zombies release video for brand new single Dropped, Reeling & Stupid
- Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood shares full eulogy from Christine McVie’s memorial service
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen releases uplifting new single Invincible
- Marillion announce surprise Netherlands weekend for April
- Kerry King once hated Limp Bizkit so much he considered quitting music: "I thought, 'If this is the way that music’s going, then f**k this, I hate it'"
- Solstice release teaser video for new album Light Up
- Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis Presley, dead at 54
- Rage Against The Machine legend Tom Morello is on new Måneskin single Gossip - and you can hear it right now
- Listen to brand new Paramore song C’est Comme Ça
- Blue October's Justin Furstenfeld: "I’m just a white-trash boy who likes to smell good"
- Desperation blues: The show that brought Eric Clapton back from the brink
- Paul Stanley: other bands wish they had fans as good as Kiss fans
- January 12
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- Halestorm’s I Miss The Misery: the story behind the song
- eMolecule share video for new single Mastermind
- Queen's Brian May posts emotional, moving tribute to his friend and hero Jeff Beck: "The loss is incalculable, it's so sad not having him in the world anymore"
- Nova Twins, The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Wet Leg amongst Brits Nominations
- Black Stone Cherry release anthemic new single Out Of Pocket
- Dave Mustaine says he got to meet Diamond Head as “equals”, where as Lars Ulrich was a “fanboy” who would “follow them” around
- Transatlantic share new live clip of The Whirlwind's Rose Colored Glasses
- Robb Flynn bites back at The Burning Red detractors: "A lot of motherf***ers were lying about not getting that album"
- Asia to release Live In Tokyo triple vinyl set
- Genesis announce five disc BBC box set featuring previously unreleased material
- Disturbed's David Draiman has challenged Justin Bieber to a cannabis "smoke off"
- New Hanabie single お先に失礼します。(Pardon Me, I Have To Go Now) is the colourful, crazy burst of Japanese metal you've been waiting for
- Periphery announce new album Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
- Kelly Clarkson's powerhouse cover of Blink-182's All The Small Things is the crossover we never knew we needed
- Get an exclusive signed Ville Valo lyric sheet with this special limited edition issue of Metal Hammer
- Watch the video for new Fucked Up single I Think I Might Be Weird
- Listen to new Enter Shikari single (Pls) Set Me On Fire, which the band call "a projectile vomit of positive energy"
- How the Jeff Beck Group made rock's Holy Grail, Truth
- Black Star Riders bemoan the dangers of social media on new single Catch Yourself On
- Exodus drummer Tom Hunting opens up on his successful battle with stomach cancer
- Ozzy Osbourne's sage advice for Ville Valo: "Show them your tits"
- Jeff Beck: My Life In 11 Songs
- What songs did Jeff Beck guest on? The 12 best collaborations of his amazing career
- January 11
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- "An outstanding, iconic, genius guitar player": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi lead rock world tributes to Jeff Beck
- Jeff Beck dead at 78
- Listen to U2's laidback 'reimagined' take on 1984 anthem Pride (In The Name Of Love) with alternate lyrics
- "This is not a final tour like Motley Crue or Black Sabbath": NOFX reveal first batch of farewell dates, promising 40 songs per night in 40 cities
- Puscifer announce 2023 tour dates and dedicate new remix single to Maynard James Keenan's dog, MiHo
- Demi Lovato's metal AF promotional poster banned due to blasphemy, labelled likely to cause "widespread offence" to Christians
- David Bowie’s daughter shares heartwarming home video to mark anniversary of his death
- Former Zappa guitarists Mike Keneally and Steve Vai join forces on new song Celery
- John Lydon says Eurovision is "disgusting", shortly after announcing his hopeful plans to represent Ireland at Eurovision
- TV personality Katie Piper sparks backlash over comments made during 'goth baby' Loose Women discussion, Sophie Lancaster Foundation responds
- The Tangent unearth 2012 live footage of A Crisis In Mid Life
- Lorna Shore are the deathcore band 2023 needs: “We wanna make people cry and punch each other in the head”
- Watch a real-life robot band play Metallica’s Enter Sandman and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Fall Out Boy are mailing seashells to their fans (as well as Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes), and no one knows why
- Rufus Taylor on playing Taylor Hawkins' drum parts on Foo Fighters' Best Of You at last year's tribute concerts: "I was s****ing myself"
- Gwen Stefani responds to accusations of cultural appropriation, says she is "a little bit of a Japanese girl"
- Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard releases indie song Pieces Of Gold from new A24 film
- Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon 50th anniversary book and box set coming this year
- Max Cavalera says Soulfly “kidnapped Corey Taylor” to record Jumpdaf**kup
- Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson: the soundtrack of my life
- Biff Byford may be on medication but he's very much ready to rock
- Muse's Matt Bellamy: "We always had this love for eighties metal"
- January 10
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- Upcoming U2 album will feature 40 new versions of old U2 songs
- Someone has spent three months recreating Toto's Africa in Minecraft and we salute them
- Watch Iggy Pop And The Losers - featuring Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith - lose their sh*t on US TV
- Apparently you can sing multiple Paramore songs over the tune of Misery Business and it'll create a seamless emo mash-up
- Ville Valo says "it's sad to see the monster" Bam Margera is turning into
- Watch London post-punks Dry Cleaning perform on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon
- Switch the guitar solos from Megadeth's Tornado Of Souls and Eagles' Hotel California and you'll be gobsmacked at how great it sounds
- ITV football pundit Ally McCoist feared colleague Roy Keane would "kill" him if he interrupted his World Cup sunbathing by playing Rammstein
- Foo Fighters announce first shows since confirming they'll continue without Taylor Hawkins
- Tool's Danny Carey to drum with backing band on Late Night With Seth Meyers
- Riverside question who we are in video for new single Friend Or Foe?
- The 1975 live in Bournemouth: Matty Healy's crew prove they have the material to justify all the hoo-ha
- Elvis Presley's private jet has been sold for $260,000 after lying abandoned in the desert for 40 years
- All six Scream Movies ranked from worst to best
- Woman who made £250,000 selling bootleg Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters T-shirts ordered to pay back £140,000 or face jail
- Lifesigns announce plans for a new live and studio album
- Watch Las Vegas Raiders' band play orchestral cover of Slayer's South Of Heaven at NFL game
- Watch members of AFI, Alexisonfire, Touché Amoré, Deafheaven unite to cover Smashing Pumpkins classic 1979
- Taipei Houston: these sons of rock royalty are making a right royal racket
- The Pat Benatar albums you should definitely own
- Motörhead's 'Fast' Eddie Clarke: 5 favourite guitar albums
- All the young droogs: How David Bowie became David Bowie
- 20 spectacular reissues from 2022 you should definitely own
- January 9
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- Leprous share new live-in-the-studio video for On Hold
- Watch members of The Damned, Refused, Rise Against and more in the trailer for Moby's Punk Rock Vegan Movie
- This is how Nirvana's Nevermind would sound if the songs were written by Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Green Day and more
- Beyond The Black’s Beyond The Black album: symphonic metal heroes make their grand statement of intent
- Hold onto your faces, as this guitarist imagines what it would sound like if Prince played for Metallica
- 13 horror movies coming in 2023 that we're ridiculously excited for
- Listen to this magical medieval cover of Ghost's Mary On A Cross
- Iggy Pop recalls working with Guns N' Roses duo Slash and Duff McKagan: "They arrived with a gallon of vodka and a bowl of blow"
- Ozzy admits to being "deeply nervous" about returning to reality TV, says The Osbournes show sent his family "crazy"
- This is Ville Valo’s track by track guide to the new VV album Neon Noir
- Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti turned down a chance to take part in the Pantera reunion
- John Lydon aims for Eurovision glory as Public Image Ltd. compete to represent Ireland at 2023 event
- 5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new songs we've heard so far in 2023
- 23 things we're looking forward to in 2023
- January 8
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- Toyah and Robert Fripp show no sign of letting up as Sunday Lunch series enters another year
- The battle between Journey's Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain is getting really messy
- Obituary’s Dying Of Everything: death metal icons show the kids how it should be done
- Soft Machine to introduce new drummer on UK live dates
- Watch Obituary's lyric video for My Will To Live
- Taake's Australian tour cancelled with band's alleged far-right sympathies in the spotlight
- January 7
- January 6
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- 10 new artists who're going to set 2023 on fire
- This is what Rammstein's Du Hast would sound like being covered by Viking shamen
- 10 West Coast hardcore bands everybody needs to hear
- 5 new prog acts you must hear in January 2023
- Goldeneye: how one godawful U2 demo led to Tina Turner recording one of the most iconic James Bond themes ever
- What is Spotify's Playlist In A Bottle feature and how does it work?
- Nirvana to receive 2023 Grammy Lifetime Achievement award
- Watch Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg share the history behind his masks
- Tobias Forge on what 2023 holds for Ghost: “There’s going to be a change. Good change”
- Tuomas Holopainen opens up on Nightwish's emotional first show after Floor Jansen's cancer battle: "she just broke down"
- Are Guns N' Roses headlining Glastonbury 2023?
- Kerry King was angry when Slayer ended: “That livelihood was taken away from me”
- Peter Gabriel releases first i/o single - listen to Panopticom here!
- Joe Lynn Turner: "I was so tired of doing this AOR cookie-cutter bulls**t"
- David Crosby wants to make all the music he possibly can before he peters out
- The true story of Thin Lizzy's classic Live And Dangerous - only in the new Classic Rock
- Sleep Token release their second new song inside 24 hours
- Iggy Pop has made the best album he could have made: a stone-cold classic
- The planet may be buggered, but Anti-Flag are still putting up a fight
- January 5
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- Robert Plant says Led Zeppelin allowed Jack Black to use Immigrant Song in School Of Rock "to blow our myth up into the sky"
- Listen to Lzzy Hale and Daughtry join forces on a killer cover of Journey classic Separate Ways
- Myrkur: Norse myths and the story behind the progressive folk of Folksange
- IQ's label signs UK alt-proggers Returned To The Earth
- Billy Sherwood teams up with Yes bandmates and Steve Hillage on A Matter Of Time
- Devin Townsend turned down a chance to replace Rob Halford in Judas Priest
- Robert Plant salutes Phil Collins for helping him kiss Led Zeppelin goodbye: "Zeppelin was a lot to live up to"
- Watch Nickelback sing The Beatles, AC/DC, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2 while playing a lyric association game
- Judge dismisses one of the sexual assault lawsuits filed against Marilyn Manson
- Earos One earplugs review
- The Murder Capital share 'pure frustration' pandemic anthem Return My Head: "Our sanity had been unwillingly removed"
- WWE announce Money In The Bank event to take place in London, England for the first time ever
- Brian Eno and Roger Eno concert comes to UK cinema screens in March
- Ville Valo wishes Him had ended sooner than it did: “The spark was no longer there”
- Alien Ant Farm vocalist Dryden Mitchell faces battery charge after allegedly placing a fan's hand on his genitals
- Someone has created an emo song using the famous Ross and Rachel break-up scene from Friends and it's bringing major mid-00s energy
- Rain break Radio Silence with second album – listen to teaser of opener Genaú
- Listen to brand new Sleep Token song Chokehold
- "I can’t work with these guys. They're falling down drunk" - the story of Thin Lizzy's Dancing In The Moonlight
- Ville Valo is back, and he’s on the cover of the brand new issue of Metal Hammer
- Lone Star were tipped for stardom: then came booze, bongs and Scientology
- How Christine McVie wrote the song that gave Fleetwood Mac their future
- Statue of Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann stolen just hours after it was unveiled
- Nita Strauss "got a lot of really bad advice"
- Rejoice! The Royal Mail have launched a range of Iron Maiden postage stamps
- January 4
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- Fantastic Negrito announces new acoustic album, Grandfather Courage
- Here are all the songs Nightwish have never played live
- Watch the stunning cover of U2's One which earned Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder a standing ovation from Bono's band
- Slipknot's Sid Wilson and Kelly Osbourne welcome first child
- Twisted Sister's Dee Snider thinks Ronnie James Dio and Robert Plant are great singers but not real "performers"
- Watch the horrific, bloody and definitely NSFW trailer for Evil Dead Rise
- Watch Till Lindemann celebrate his birthday by covering a crowd in cake
- Someone's brilliantly reimagined Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff as an emotional piano ballad - and it's officially Fred Durst-approved
- Katatonia swoop in with new single Birds - watch the video here!
- It seems we might be getting sequels to School Of Rock and Pick Of Destiny, unless Tenacious D are cruelly trolling us
- Slipknot share access all areas video footage from their December Latin America tour and we can't hide our envy
- Watch Green Day perform songs by Nirvana, The Cure, David Bowie and more at tiny New Year's Eve show
- How prog was The Art Of Noise: Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?
- Queen's Brian May says Eurovision hero Sam Ryder is set for "almost unendurable fame"
- Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock recalls clash with late fashion designer Vivienne Westwood over penis artwork
- Tom DeLonge says Blink-182's forthcoming album is the best one they've ever made
- 10 bands we want to see reunite in 2023
- Weezer, Ghost, Kendrick Lamar and Arctic Monkeys: here are Avenged Sevenfold's favourite albums of 2022
- John Dolmayan says System Of A Down should have replaced Serj Tankian years ago: “He hasn’t wanted to be in the band for a long time”
- How The Doors harnessed the self-destruction and creativity of Jim Morrison to make their first album
- Billy Gibbons' personal guide to every ZZ Top studio album
- January 3
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- Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall on shutting down the elitists: “I don’t deal with metal gatekeepers at all”
- Eurovision star Sam Ryder has made you a playlist and it's an absolute blast
- Every Terminator film (and one TV show) ranked from worst to best
- 10 new albums coming later this year to get hugely excited about right now
- Rare Hugh Hopper solo albums to be reissued on double CD
- Ville Valo’s swooning Neon Noir album will fill the heart-shaped hole in every Him fan’s life
- Watch Lemmy prove how he was an anti-gatekeeping king while sharing his opinion on Motörhead copycats
- Listen to Motörhead's Ace of Spades riff played in the style of Metallica, Rammstein, Iron Maiden and more
- 10 metal tours we’re unreasonably excited for in 2023
- Devin Townsend: Chad Kroeger from Nickelback is "so much more of a metalhead than I am"
- New book on Amazing Blondel released
- David Lee Roth says working with Eddie Van Halen was better than any love affair he ever had
- Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Rob Halford included in Rolling Stone's 200 greatest singers of all time list
- 20 iconic metal albums that turn 20 in 2023
- Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia says women in metal are judged more harshly on their looks than men
- Eric Bouillette to be honoured with tribute album
- Iggy Pop says he once turned down an approach to join AC/DC: "I'm not what they needed"
- George Martin: 10 recordings to demonstrate his revolutionary musical genius
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Iron Maiden
- Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 was supposedly about an acid trip: the truth was much more mundane
- Slade: Whatever Happened To Slade - Album Of The Week Club review
- Inglorious go on hiatus to concentrate on other projects
- January 2
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- Billy Idol is to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Watch this 10-year-old totally own this drum cover of Metallica's Lux Æterna
- Tony Iommi is about to start work on a new album
- Sabaton’s Joakim Brodén is optimistic for the future: “My opinion is that we’re not as f**ked as people think“
- Mike Portnoy says Transatlantic's new live releases will be their last
- Slipknot’s Clown hints that the unreleased Look Outside Your Window album will finally come out this year
- Mick Fleetwood: What Jimi Hendrix means to me
- Metal’s doomed generation: the tragic story of Cuba’s ‘los frikis’
- Metallica’s Enter Sandman has passed 1 billion plays on Spotify
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