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- February 28
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- Modern Life Is War drummer Luke Rauch has been diagnosed with cancer
- Steve Harris will be touring with Iron Maiden and British Lion at the same time this summer
- Metallica to release If Darkness Had a Son on March 1
- Foo Fighters announce more headline shows
- Blackfield announce seven disc CD set covering 2004-2017
- Dave Grohl spent 16 hours cooking 450 meals for the homeless in LA last week
- Mike Shinoda shoots down the rumour that Chester Bennington hated Linkin Park’s biggest hit single
- Ozzy Osbourne reveals the awkward moment he met Whitney Houston: "She’s gonna come over and tell me I’m a c***"
- How Metallica's James Hetfield helped Ghost become the biggest metal band of the decade
- Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says bands are told to "reject Jesus Christ and pledge yourself to Lucifer" before signing records deals
- Born from rage, U2's War was intended to "give people a slap in the face". It ended up making U2 superstars
- Six cool new prog songs you must hear this week!
- How to keep your earplugs clean so you can use them time after time
- Electric Wizard announce details of new book
- Cellar Darling, Threshold and Oliver Wakeman to headline Summer's End
- This orchestral version of Linkin Park's track Lost is nothing short of spellbinding
- Listen to Benefits' seething anti-establishment single Warhorse, from their forthcoming debut album Nails
- Damon Albarn reveals where he got the iconic hook for Gorillaz's Clint Eastwood, and fans can't quite believe it
- Here are the 20 greatest Babymetal songs ever as voted for by you
- Animals As Leaders reschedule UK and European dates for November
- Watch Fear Factory play their first show with new vocalist Milo Silvestro
- Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, Rina Sawayama amongst 80 new names added to Reading and Leeds festival
- Paul Stanley knows the End Of The Road is nigh, but he's determined to out with a bang
- Van Morrison and Billy Bragg are engaged in a bizarre discussion about Covid on Twitter
- Heavy Metal Love: The story of Helix, Canada's mightiest hair metal heroes
- February 27
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- Metallica tease new 72 Seasons track through series of TikTok duet videos
- Every album by The Cult ranked from worst to best
- Here's what Slayer would sound like playing Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer
- Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin charged with trespassing at his former Los Angeles home
- Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has released a grunge single that sounds like Nirvana
- Mystery share video for brand new single Behind The Mirror
- Ricky Warwick on The Almighty's wild and wonderful rock 'n' roll adventures: "We were the real deal. We were like Vikings!"
- The 10 most emotional Slipknot songs
- Watch Megadeth perform with Marty Friedman for the first time in 23 years
- Nine Skies announce Adam Holzman to guest on upcoming album The Lightmaker
- Roger Waters concert cancelled by the City of Frankfurt over claims of anti-Semitism
- The Almighty reform original line-up for UK shows
- God Save The Streets: UK rapper Avelino and Sex Pistol Glen Matlock on why rap is the new punk
- Watch this rare video footage of Stevie Nicks singing and dancing at Mick Fleetwood's wedding in 1988
- This pro-shot footage of Lorna Shore's triumphant appearance at Bloodstock shows exactly why they are one of the most exciting deathcore bands in a generation
- Watch Lizzo sing Rammstein's Du Hast, the most fabulously unlikely musical crossover we never knew we needed
- Someone appears to have hacked Avenged Sevenfold, used an AI voice changer to replicate M Shadows and announced that they're cancelling festival appearances
- The 10 best Southern Rock deep cuts according to Johnny Van Zant
- Jimmy Page: Outrider - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs you'll hear this week
- Watch The Struts play unplugged versions of Oasis and Michael Jackson classics
- Rob Halford on Dolly Parton: "She's a walking beacon of love and happiness and joy"
- February 26
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- Trapeze's new box set transports the listener back to a time of wide-eyed rock’n’roll wonder
- Review: Stöner come up half-baked as they run out of puff
- Rick Wakeman: A Gallery Of The Imagination album review
- Alan Reed rejoins Pallas for new studio album
- Bill Kelliher says Turnstile are influencing new Mastodon material
- Fear Factory's first show with new singer cancelled by extreme weather
- Def Leppard's Joe Elliott hospitalised by altitude sickness in Colombia
- February 25
- February 24
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- Always wanted to record a Kiss song with Gene Simmons? For £5000, now you can
- We really want one of these Foo Fighters pinball machines
- Watch David Bowie tease David Gilmour before joining him onstage for a spine-tingling duet on Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb
- The 10 best Motorhead songs (that sound nothing like Ace Of Spades)
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil teases the first music from his side band Empire State Bastard
- Listen to Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen's ethereal new solo single Daydream
- This AI generates artwork and album titles for fake metal bands and it's scarily spot-on
- This stunning orchestral version of Stairway To Heaven, featuring Orianthi on guitar, will make you fall in love with Led Zeppelin all over again
- Slowthai announces UK / European UGLY tour
- A "sleazy metal" zombie horror movie featuring Randy Blythe, Tom Araya, David Vincent and Norman Reedus is out to watch right now
- Watch Fall Out Boy play a hardcore festival way back in 2002
- "Where is my dog poop?": How porn, poop and chicken coops derailed Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- Indie rock supergroup Boygenius announce their first ever UK shows
- “I really didn’t expect the scale of the success”: The story behind Asia's self-titled debut album
- Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the "utter terror" of his two minute 'death' after a heroin and cocaine overdose
- "Almost Joker-esque": watch this vocal coach react to Ghost's Mary On A Cross after hearing it for the first time
- There's extended footage of Cannibal Corpse's appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and it's pretty incredible
- Watch the trailer for Disney's new U2 documentary with David Letterman
- Crown Lands release video for suitably epic new single Lady Of The Lake
- Liam Gallagher thinks everyone should stop whining about 'nepo babies': "zip it ya jealous ugly f**ks"
- Kevin Ayers' daughter Galen proves to be a chip off the old block!
- Listen to Trivium's Matt Heafy and guitar virtuoso Sophie Lloyd team up for heavy metal anthem Fall Of Man
- The Strokes' singles collection is a box set without a single wasted note
- Kashmir: the story of the song Robert Plant calls "Perfect Zeppelin"
- Steel Panther: The joke is finally over for the flaccid comedy-metallers
- Bernie Marsden: a fair case for career reappraisal?
- Gene Simmons says rock is dead: We asked Paul Stanley what he thinks
- Ashley Morgan Smithline recants accusations of abuse against Marilyn Manson
- Turns out Steve Vai doesn't actually have an unreleased Ozzy Osbourne album ready to go
- February 23
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- Carmine Appice: my stories of Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, John Bonham and more
- "I was never a show off!" - Tony Banks in The Prog Interview
- "It's Rant City all the way!": The Mute Gods and how tardigrades will inherit the earth
- The story behind Tool’s Lateralus: "A real moment of experiment and risk”
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets return to headline Night Of The Prog
- 5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month
- Watch Wednesday channel the spirit of PJ Harvey in the video for new single Bath County
- David Bowie Is V&A exhibit to become a permanent fixture in London
- Watch Babymetal's intense live video for Light And Darkness
- From Russia with love: the story of Gleb Kolyadin's debut solo album
- “So much prog is prog by numbers". How John Mitchell launched Lonely Robot
- Someone’s turned a classic Alex Jones meltdown into an emotional Midwest emo banger
- Check out the fret-bendingly good video for Firebird from US math rockers Covet
- Light Up The Sky: How Hundred Reasons rose from the dead to make the comeback of the year with Glorious Sunset
- Blood Ceremony return with first new album for seven years
- Listen to Cassyette's chaotic new single Boom
- Watch the moment emo peaked as Paramore's Hayley Williams sang Sugar, We're Goin Down with Fall Out Boy
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea is launching a podcast to explore the inspirational origin stories of music industry legends
- This rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Limp Bizkit's Nookie shows why it remains nu metal's most chaotic video
- Lovebites' Judgement Day: Japan's rising stars "perfect the power metal recipe"
- How Anthrax's cameo on Married With Children was inspired by real life chaos
- The Doors in London: "Jim was enigmatic and almost unbelievably beautiful"
- Iggy Pop: "Once you’re my age, every day has to carry some risk"
- The Velvet Underground's Loaded is to be reissued as a nine-album vinyl set
- Laibach to become first international act to play Kyiv since start of Ukraine war
- February 22
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- Listen to Yusuf/Cat Stevens' cover of The Beatles' Here Comes The Sun
- Ross Robinson has revealed what his favourite two Slipknot songs are and we're not complaining
- New book reveals Mark Lanegan co-wrote Nirvana's Something In The Way
- Henry Rollins: "I don’t like anything that gives a racist a leg to stand on"
- Voivod to release a special 40th anniversary album this summer
- Watch Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz as trapped mermaid in PETA campaign
- Watch Shinedown in video for new single A Symptom Of Being Human
- The Story Behind Soulfly's nu metal anthem Jumpdaf***up: "We were the Wu-Tang Clan of metal"
- One Step Beyond: How Rancid, Sublime, No Doubt and a generation of US ska-punks spread the Two Tone gospel to the world
- The story of Dream Theater's Distance Over Time
- Focus reschedule UK live dates
- A Bob Dylan fan accidentally bought tickets to see UK pop star Dylan, so she covered Knockin' On Heaven's Door just for him
- Meet Me @ The Altar's new single Kool is the peppy injection of modern pop-punk you need in your life
- Jethro Tull share cool new animated video for new single The Navigators
- Listen to new Shame single Adderall, featuring a secret cameo from Phoebe Bridgers
- Aisles stream new single Time (A Conversation With My Therapist)
- Slipknot's Jay Weinberg discusses the differences between playing with The Nine versus playing for Bruce Springsteen: "Playing with Slipknot is like jumping out of an airplane"
- Killswitch Engage's Adam D and former singer Howard Jones are working on a new project together: "it's happening"
- The new Guns N' Roses NASCAR has already been in a multi-car wreck
- Six great new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- Nick Cave offers advice to teenager on living life to the full: "be a little vampire"
- Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda discusses the emotional impact of losing Chester Bennington: "there's points where I felt angry"
- The long awaited Led Zeppelin documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin has undergone a name change and is being re-edited
- Watch Nessa Barrett detail her murderous revenge fantasies on new single Bang Bang
- Sam Ryder: The soundtrack of my life
- Paul Stanley: What I love about Gene Simmons
- Paul McCartney reportedly plays bass on the next Rolling Stones album
- From the sublime to the ridiculous: What happens when drummers go solo
- February 21
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- Metallica offer fans a look behind the scenes on set of Screaming Suicide video
- Graham Nash announces first studio album in seven years, releases new single
- Here's what Rust In Peace would sound like if James Hetfield fronted Megadeth
- Voyager chosen to represent Australia at Eurovision 2023
- Fear Factory officially announce their new singer
- If you're among the select group of music fans who loves Taylor Swift and ska-punk we have some excellent news for you
- Bob Vylan, The Murder Capital, Dry Cleaning, Black Midi, Yard Act and more join Latitude bill
- Best Lego kits for adults: Guitars, band logos, pop culture and more
- 10 legendary metal musicians we'd love to see rejoin their former bands (even if only for one night)
- Gryphon announce live dates to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Max Cavalera weighs in on Pantera reunion: "I don't really think it's Pantera without the brothers"
- The Reasoning pull out of Fusion Festival
- Peter Gabriel adds Nottingham date to UK tour
- Stack 'em high: Marshall Middleton lets you link multiple speakers for the “heaviest portable sound"
- The 67 songs that forged modern heavy metal
- Denim and Leathür: How Mötley Crüe made the album that kick-started glam metal
- February 20
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- 10 insanely collectable Vertigo swirl albums you should always buy if found in junk shops
- The Mars Volta plot short summer UK tour
- This Iron Maiden x Taylor Swift mash-up really shouldn't work but it's 200 seconds of soulful genius
- Glenn Hughes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Deep Purple's Burn with UK tour
- Watch Ozzy play Horizon Call of the Mountain on the new Playstation VR 2 headset
- Clive Nolan and Laura Piazzai plan From The Outside In follow-up
- Kevin Ayers reissues on the way
- Arch Enemy's Michael Amott thinks metal should stay underground: "I don't want it in the mainstream: this is an alternative to the mainstream"
- Someone received over 1000 emails meant for Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes because they have the same name
- Sid Wilson proved he was "crazy" enough to join Slipknot by headbutting Clown multiple times at a show
- Steve Vai reveals he recorded a whole album with Ozzy Osbourne in the '90s that was never released
- The 1975's Matty Healy mocks Yungblud for his 'woke' social conscience as the pair's online squabble escalates
- Here are the essential metal releases for Record Store Day 2023
- Jimmy Page recalls violent threats from US police during Led Zeppelin's first American tours: "You go out there, boy, and I’ll bust your head"
- Blondie accidentally confirm their spot at this summer's Glastonbury festival
- Hypno5e share video for 13-minute epic Slow Steams Of Darkness
- Former Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson releases covers EP after winning TV's The Masked Singer as 'Rhino'
- Architects are leading calls for bands to go on strike in protest at "insane" venue merch cuts
- Watch Ice-T get inducted into the Hollywood Walk Of Fame accompanied by pals Ice Cube and Chuck D
- Brian May suggests Queen's Stone Cold Crazy could be the "birth of thrash metal"
- Babymetal's Moametal says she was "scared of the audience and the way they looked at us" when the band became a duo
- Chinese proggers OU share video for latest single Dark 暗
- Buffalo: Volcanic Rock - Album Of The Week Club review
- Listen to the eight best new rock songs of right now
- February 19
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- 10 amazing rock tracks featuring the flute but only one's by Jethro Tull
- Roger Waters comes to David Gilmour's defence, slams journalist after "crappy" article
- The Cadillac Three release Hillbilly, a party song with a warning
- Sammy Hagar: Metallica owe me $200
- Tony Hawk unearths Kurt Cobain's skateboard with hand-painted Iron Maiden art
- February 18
- February 17
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- "I’ve never made a deadline in my life. They’re finished when they’re finished.” Spiritualized and the story of their first four albums
- The story of Tim Bowness' Lost In The Ghost Light
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Watch a corpse-painted Kim Dracula and a zombie dance crew throw down in the fabulously strange video for Seventy Thorns, featuring Korn's Jonathan Davis
- Paramore score their third UK number 1 album with This Is Why
- A.A. Williams announces UK headline tour
- Brian May says that Queen could release an album with Jesus Christ on vocals, but fans would still prefer to hear Freddie Mercury
- Maynard James Keenan’s 8-year-old daughter Lei Li releases her video for Puscifer remix A Singularity
- Paramore share eccentric and surreal music video for Running Out Of Time
- Thin Lizzy's November 14, 1976 'Live And Dangerous' Hammersmith Odeon set to get first vinyl release on Record Store Day
- Dee Snider laughs off 'outrage' over his comments on Robert Plant and Ronnie James Dio not being 'performers': "People were like, How dare you!"
- Eivør shares suitably atmospheric video for new single The Beloveds
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler will publish his "dramatic" autobiography Into The Void this summer
- Peter Green's guitar collection to be auctioned online
- It looks like Ghost are about to kill off Papa Emeritus IV in new Chapter 16 video Tax Season
- Metallica's gloomy epic The Unforgiven given a sunny makeover with saxophone and a '60s pop groove is a mind-altering trip
- Manic Street Preachers: the rise of the Generation Terrorists
- Warning: Mötley Crüe's Crücial Crüe collection is by no means crucial
- Transatlantic's unwavering consistency will delight fans: others may find it wearisome
- Depeche Mode add 29 new North American tour dates
- Not that sort of kinky! Dave Davies calls out Elon Musk over Kinks Twitter warning
- February 16
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- Barclay James Harvest's expanded Once Again hits the big fan target
- Record Store Day's Prog Releases
- Rob Halford on Iron Maiden's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nomination: "It’s absolutely overdue.”
- Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch and many more added to Download Festival 2023 line-up, day splits revealed
- Trampled Under Foot: This vinyl-inspired Led Zeppelin rug has a Whole Lotta Love to give
- Exploring Birdsong reveal striking video for Bear The Weight
- Arjen Lucassen unveils new Supersonic Revolution project
- Radio X launches new radio station dedicated to classic rock music
- Lifesigns, Arthur Brown, Curved Air and more lined up for Nene Valley Festival
- Need workout inspiration? This corpsepainted bodybuilder will show you how it's done
- Wait, Rihanna nearly appeared on a Hoobastank song back in 2006?
- Sleep Token confirm brand new album Take Me Back To Eden, release new single Vore
- Bruce Springsteen tosses guitar off stage, strikes guitar tech on head
- T-Pain to cover Black Sabbath and Journey on upcoming album
- The Canterbury scene albums you should definitely own
- February 15
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- Here's The Police classic Roxanne, but it's just Rocks
- Chase The Dragon: the true story of Magnum's magnum opus
- Frank Turner's song I Still Believe has popped up on the new Ted Lasso trailer and now we can't wait for season 3
- Is Eddie Van Halen the most famous guitarist of all time?
- Gojira's Joe Duplantier vows mythical Sea Shepherd EP will see the light of day
- 10 brilliant goth songs every metalhead needs to hear
- Guns N' Roses' epic November Rain video now has more than two billion views on YouTube
- If you needed reminding that Doom Eternal has the most metal game soundtrack ever, the man behind it has just posted this ripper of a video
- Now that S Club 7 have reformed, here's a look back to when Paul Cattermole quit the group to focus on his nu metal band
- The 10 best Bring Me The Horizon songs
- Watch Paramore perform Running Out Of Time on US TV
- 13 musicians declaring their undying love for Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
- We've just found our favourite vocal cover of Disturbed's Down With The Sickness, like, ever
- Yellowcard announce Ocean Avenue 20th anniversary US tour
- Beabadoobee's Glue Song is the cutest love song you'll hear all year
- Tame Impala's Lonersim to get tenth anniversary box set release
- Chad Kroeger credits Nickelback's "haters" and "keyboard heroes" for keeping the band relevant
- Why a gig featuring no hit songs whatsoever is heaven for Elvis Costello super-fans
- The Band albums you should definitely own
- Rush producer Terry Brown: "they were pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone"
- Meet Spell: they've had enough of fighting dragons and swinging swords
- A sped-up version of Aerosmith's Dream On is massive on TikTok: we've figured out why
- February 14
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- Richie Sambora says he's in talks with Bon Jovi to rejoin the band
- Genesis and Sting made more money last year than The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, the South Park guys and you and me
- The victorious rebirth of goth metal's dark prince Ville Valo: "VV had a ‘V for Victory’ kinda vibe"
- Type O Negative release live footage of Love You To Death just in time for Valentine's Day
- Dave Mustaine says his influence on Metallica was "pretty f**king deep"
- Six new prog tracks you must hear this week!
- Unsane announce UK / Europe dates for their Early Cuts tour
- Tenacious D's classic track 'Tribute' is now certified Platinum in the UK
- Nick Cave shares his thoughts on songs getting 'cancelled': "I like the fact that some songs are controversial enough to be outlawed"
- Drummer Jay Schellen joins Yes on a permanent basis
- Dry Cleaning preview new EP Swampy with two new songs, Swampy and Sombre Two
- Watch the trailer for Meet Me In The Bathroom, a new film chronicling New York's 'New Rock Revolution'
- The debate around Gojira's merch prices are a stark indicator of what it means to be a touring band in 2023
- Listen to Rot, the thrillingly intense debut single from Therapy? frontman Andy Cairns' new post-industrial supergroup JAAW
- Haken celebrate Valentine’s Day with video for new single Lovebite
- Rock fans are stoked that Nuno Bettencourt got some TV time with Rihanna at the Super Bowl (for about three seconds)
- Morrissey claims Capitol Records are proud to promote Sam Smith’s “satanism” but view his unreleased album as “their biggest threat”
- Thunder's Danny Bowes: "I'm getting a bit better every day, but it’s a very slow process"
- Justin Hawkins on songwriting: "There’s always got to be an intangible ingredient"
- Lou Reed: New York - Album Of The Week Club review
- "I am not a robot!" - Roger Daltrey abandons show to avoid damaging voice
- February 13
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- Here's the iconic Seinfeld TV show theme, but it's Freddie Mercury singing Another One Bites the Dust over the top
- Megadeth to stream live show from Tokyo Budokan with special guest Marty Friedman
- Have you always wanted to dance to rock but weren't sure how? This YouTube video will change your life, once you've stopped cringing
- "I can't afford to waste any time": Horror legend John Carpenter on making albums in his 70s
- Garbage and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds pair up for summer North American arena tour
- Metallica joke about Rihanna Super Bowl ‘snub’: ‘We can’t believe she didn’t ask us to be her backup singer”
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds launch website, share live gig footage in celebration of Push The Sky Away's 10th anniversary
- Ghost announce massive Re-Imperatour arena run across America
- Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel on the Iron Maiden seal of approval: “Steve Harris came and watched us every night”
- Paramore's Hayley Williams isn't buying into today's "rose-tinted" nostalgia for the noughties emo scene: “It was an alternative scene for a reason – it was weird.”
- Trivium announce intimate UK summer tour
- The 1975 announce their biggest UK headline show ever
- Slash: “Most of everything that Guns N’ Roses did would've gotten us cancelled in this day and age”
- Soft Machine announce new studio album
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly get 'electrocuted' on stage during pre-Super Bowl performance
- Moby nearly formed a supergroup with members of Pantera and Mötley Crüe… and a metal band with Bjork
- "We lost another legend of hip hop music and culture": music world pays tribute to De La Soul's Trugoy
- Benoit David: "Yes have a way to make you feel funny about the way things happen."
- The greatest new rock songs you'll hear this week
- U2 to launch mysterious spherical venue in Las Vegas without drummer Larry Mullen Jr
- The new Guardians Of The Galaxy trailer uses Since You've Been Gone in absolutely epic style
- Purple Rain in a deluge: How Prince stole the Super Bowl
- February 12
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- In 1969 man landed on the moon: back on Earth, rock got rolling
- Watch Richie Sambora perform Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah while dressed as a jacket potato
- “This is my vision of what Keith Emerson and I could do, according to what he and I talked about.” The story of 3.2, Robert Berry's project with Keith Emerson
- “Love, friendship and camaraderie”: how heavy metal saves lives
- Metal? Punk? Jazz? Avatar’s Dance Devil Dance hits a lot of musical buttons – maybe too many
- Rush and the story of Moving Pictures
- February 11
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- Watch Cliff Burton Day celebrations in honour of late Metallica bassist
- Watch footage from John 5's first show with Motley Crue
- Watch Paco De Lucia's Buana Buana King Kong from Montreux
- The story of Amorphis and Halo
- Voivod and the making of Synchro Anarchy
- Jared James Nichols: "After making this record I felt like I’d just got out of a rugby game"
- Cuffs' To Hell And Back is a snapshot of Grey Britain getting bleaker and harsher, and rewarding only the very worst of us
- How Steel Panther's search for new bassist ended in reunion with old friend Spyder
- Charlie Benante is sick of being judged over his role in Pantera
- Def Leppard offer fans unique insight into latest album Diamond Star Halos
- Watch Weezer, Taylor Momsen and The Struts' Luke Spiller cover The Beach Boys at star-studded LA tribute show
- February 10
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- On what would have been Cliff Burton's 61st birthday, a new action figure of Metallica's iconic bassist has been revealed
- Watch Fall Out Boy perform with a string section at the NHL All Star Game
- Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was acclaimed by one music magazine as the best album of the '90s. The fallout caused its creator to disappear from the spotlight entirely
- Watch a fresh-faced, pre-fame Måneskin cover Amy Winehouse classic Back To Black as teenagers
- Starbenders' huge new single The Game is really quite something
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Vote for the best Babymetal song ever
- eMolecule release video for title track of new album The Architect
- Kite Parade return with video for new song Retro
- Polinski shares video for Distant Friend, I Love You!
- Lesoir raise money for Turkish and Syrian earthquake victims
- Think Elden Ring is tough? This streamer is trying to complete it using an acoustic guitar
- MONO share video for gentle new single Silent Embrace
- “In 10 years time, this album will be a classic”: how In Flames fell in love with melodeath again
- Watch the hilarious moment Kiss legend Ace Frehley learned that he's never actually won a Grammy
- Einar Solberg launches solo career with video for Grotto
- Listen to previously unreleased Linkin Park song Lost, complete with a dazzling new animated video
- Lamb Of God and Kreator have teamed up for a badass new collab single - listen to State Of Unrest now
- Dire Straits: the story of Sultans Of Swing
- The Hu launch video for This Is Mongol with Alice In Chains' William DuVall
- The John Waite albums you should definitely own
- The story of the man who jammed with Led Zeppelin then sold Jimmy Page his most famous guitar
- Recovering emo kids rejoice! Paramore emerge with new music fit for a new era
- Vital, urgent and utterly fearless, Paramore's This Is Why is the sound of a grown band boldly defining their own path
- Steven Wilson: proof that the received wisdom of punk-versus-prog is bunkum
- February 9
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- The Rolling Stones launch six-part YouTube series looking back at the 60s
- Watch The Who perform Baba O'Riley at Wembley Stadium with a full Orchestra
- Pierce The Veil's The Jaws Of Life: Endlessly exuberant, wondrously versatile, and never predictable
- The 10 bands saving deathcore
- “After Nirvana, anything seemed possible”: Quicksand's Walter Schreifels on Slip, the greatest '90s rock album that you've probably never heard
- Watch the video for Ghosts Again, the first single from Depeche Mode's forthcoming Memento Mori
- Post-rock collective Silver Moth release video for debut single Mother Tongue
- 5 bands every metal fan is going to be talking about in 2023
- Blazing squad: A deep dive into Rammstein’s fiery cameo in xXx
- Engineers' Mark Peters releases video for new song Alpenglow
- Listen to Midas Fall's powerful cover of Radiohead's Creep
- New book on 70s proggers Fusion Orchestra to be published
- Enter Shikari celebrate the wisdom and strength gained from failure on empowering new single It Hurts
- Run to the chills: This Eddie ice bucket has left us Losfer Words
- Melvins announce 40th anniversary tour dates for the UK and Europe
- David Draiman offers to explain to Joe Rogan why perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes leads to "dangerous and disastrous consequences"
- The Church Of Satan throws shade at Sam Smith’s ‘Satanic’ Grammys performance: “Nothing special”
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith cover AC/DC classics in an Australian pub for an audience of just 17 people
- Ville Valo: "There’s no time for a hangover in the music business these days"
- Ugly Kid Joe's Everything About You: a story of MTV, beer drinking and escaped sex dolls
- Watch Kelly Clarkson nail Whitesnake's Here I Go Again
- Scorpions video for Wind Of Change hits one billion views on YouTube
- Alter Bridge announce May US tour dates with Sevendust
- February 8
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- Roger Waters has rerecorded The Dark Side of the Moon without Pink Floyd
- Axl Rose tweets wholesome thank you after receiving lots of lovely birthday messages
- Watch Måneskin rip through The Stooges' classic I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Squid share new single Swing (In A Dream), announce second album O Monolith, reveal UK tour dates
- Metallica's recent All Within My Hands Foundation concert and auction raised $3,000,000
- Fall Out Boy announce UK and European tour
- Philip Selway shares title track from new album Silent Dance
- Yes, this is Slipknot's Psychosocial reimagined as a cheesy eurodance banger
- Megadeth are being sued over the cover of The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
- Tommy Lee is trending because he has, once again, posted his genitals on social media
- Limp Bizkit's new video is a deepfake nightmare 'starring' Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Tom Cruise and more
- Pendragon announce new mini album North Star
- Steve Albini is loving the angry reactions to his brutal, hilarious Twitter savaging of Steely Dan
- Brand Of Sacrifice's new track Dynasty is deathcore at its most wonderfully chaotic
- Iron Maiden are lagging behind Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Soundgarden and more in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame fan vote
- Watch Slowthai surprise gobsmacked fans in their own homes in Feel Good video
- Ghost’s Call Me Little Sunshine as a piano ballad is today’s epic Satanic weepie
- Machine Gun Kelly to headline London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall
- Delain’s grandiose new album Dark Waters is the sound of a band utterly reborn
- Ice-T on the new Body Count album: “Dave Mustaine has got at us already – he wants to write a song”
- This newly viral footage of an insane, circle-pitting System Of A Down crowd makes us want to mosh to Toxicity ASAP
- The Pretty Things announce career-spanning 13 album vinyl box set
- Russia invites Roger Waters to speak to United Nations about Ukraine: "What next? Mr. Bean?" mocks U.N. diplomat
- Faster Pussycat: "If I did an album we’d all be dead before it came out"
- Joanne Shaw Taylor interview: "I’ll always be a blues guitarist at heart"
- Foo Fighters announce another festival appearance
- Magna Carta Cartel sound a helluva lot like Ghost - and there's a very good reason
- Rejoice! Birmingham Royal Ballet announces Black Sabbath - The Ballet
- February 7
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- Hayley Williams says Paramore’s new album is the band at their "most political"
- Soundtrack your journey through a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland with this metal version of The Last of Us theme
- Beastie Boys’ Sabotage cop show pastiche reimagined through old Sesame Street clips might be the best thing you see this week
- Watch Ozzy, Paul Stanley, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Gary Clark Jr. poke fun at corporate 'bro-speak' in hilarious 'Rock Star' TV ad
- Transatlantic share new live video of We All Need Some Light
- Roger Waters seeks legal advice on "incendiary" tweet by David Gilmour's partner Polly Samson calling Waters "antisemitic to your rotten core": Gilmour says accusation is "demonstrably true"
- Why Taipei Houston's Ulrich brothers are more than just 'Metallica nepo-babies'
- Watch pro-shot footage of Ice-T, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Missy Elliot, Grandmaster Flash and dozens more legends perform in huge Grammys hip hop tribute
- Big Big Train announce live dates for Autumn 2023
- Sony WH-CH700N headphones review
- Watch Cypress Hill perform with Deftones, System Of A Down members in LA
- Bassist Phil Spalding, who worked with GTR and Mike Oldfield, has died
- Megadeth are doing a special livestream show from one of the world's most famous arenas
- Every Suede album ranked from worst to best
- Jethro Tull announce London show for May
- What’s the hell is going on with The Quireboys?
- Gene Simmons interview: "How do I say this without sounding inhuman? I don’t have friends"
- Billy Idol is playing a show at the Hoover Dam: tickets start at $1200
- Mick Fleetwood on the future of Fleetwood Mac: "I think we're done"
- February 6
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- Linkin Park are set to release an unreleased song on February 10
- The Sisters of Mercy set to make their return to North America after almost 15 years
- If you’re looking for a Michael Jackson song played in the style of Slayer, stop scrolling now
- Ozzy reacts to Grammy triumph: "I'm one lucky motherf**ker"
- The Ocean announce 10th studio album Holocene
- Here are all the new metal albums coming out in 2023
- Nightwish are working on a “pretty heavy” new album, according to Floor Jansen
- We’re completely in love with Marshall’s Valentine’s Day speaker sale
- David Draiman is a big fan of Sam Smith's 'Satanic' Grammys performance: "I don’t want anyone ever saying that heavy metal live performances are too extreme for the Grammys"
- How Linkin Park’s Numb became nu metal’s last blockbuster hit and racked up a billion streams on the back of it
- Kojey Radical live in London: UK rap's next breakout star has arrived
- Jo Quail announces first ever headline tour
- In Flames have finally remembered how to write melodeath bangers on killer new album Foregone
- Mike Portnoy: "Would I play with Dream Theater again? Sure..."
- We Came From Space share video trailer for new album
- The 10 best Maneskin songs
- Ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted is returning to metal with two new projects: “I’m stepping back into the heavy”
- Watch surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear accept Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun - Album Of The Week Club review
- The eight best new rock songs of this week
- Ozzy Osbourne wins Best Rock Album at the Grammys
- February 5
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- "He sings to tracks" - manager clears up confusion over Paul Stanley vocals, kind of
- Fantastic Negrito's Grandfather Courage: an intriguing stop-gap on a fascinating journey
- On the Winery Dogs' third album it's the wizardry that lingers, not the songs
- Watch in awe as Toyah and Robert mangle White Punks On Dope as it's never been mangled before
- Peter Gabriel launches new single The Court
- How to watch tonight's Grammy Awards 2024 online from anywhere
- Dream Theater Finland show cancelled on short notice over stage safety concerns
- February 4
- February 3
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- Slipknot, Metallica and Korn are adorable stars of heavy metal Valentine's Day cards
- Watch this 6-year-old slay with cover of Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name
- Transatlantic and The Absolute Universe
- Lifesigns in the beginning: the story of the band's debut album
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Maybeshewill announce first two albums on vinyl for the first time
- Hip-hop/R&B superstar Doja Cat says she now wants to make "raw, unfiltered, hardcore punk"
- Late Twelfth Night singer Geoff Mann celebrated in new book
- Given To Fly: How Yield taught Pearl Jam to chill the f**k out and fall back in love with being a killer rock 'n' roll band
- The top 20 best Nightwish songs ranked
- Zakk Wylde offers Ozzy Osbourne support in his retirement: "When you are ready to roll – we roll"
- Babymetal release epic live performance video of Metal Kingdom
- Hawkwind announce 35th studio album
- The 1975's Matty Healy tells Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher to "grow up" and get "the coolest band in the world" back together
- Enslaved, Swans, Empire State Bastard and more announced for ArcTanGent
- Prince once invited Shania Twain to make "the next Rumours" together
- Kerry King: "Metallica certainly influenced me"
- Judas Priest release short statement on Ozzy Osbourne's tour retirement, future shows
- Ginger Wildheart has released a new album but it's only available for 24 hours
- The ultimate all-star tribute to Jeff Beck: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Rick Wakeman's on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- The Damned announce new album Darkadelic, share video for The Invisible Man
- The Joni Mitchell albums you should definitely own
- Steven Tyler named as defendant in sexual assault lawsuit
- Wishbone Ash to release expanded 50th anniversary edition of classic album Argus
- February 2
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- John Fogerty to headline festival held at a castle on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides
- Stoner rock godfathers Fatso Jetson and Nebula join heavyweight Desertfest London bill
- TesseracT's Portals is now available to rent and buy on digital platforms
- Slipknot have surprise-released brand new song Bone Church and it's chillingly soulful
- Here are the 28 songs Bruce Springsteen played to kick off his 2023 world tour
- Jon Anderson confirms European dates for July
- Slowthai announces 'Best Night Of Your Life’ UK pub tour, with tickets priced £1
- Newsflash: metal bands are cool with non-metalheads wearing metal shirts, so you should be too
- A Skindred song from 20 years ago is suddenly going viral and it's making everyone, including frontman Benji Webbe, bust out their best moves
- Pamela Anderson reveals that Borat caused the break-up of her marriage to Kid Rock
- The Dave Foster Band stream brand new single Dive In
- Memorial concert for prog fan Spike Worsley announced
- Slipknot, Pantera, Limp Bizkit to headline Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival 2023
- America was imploding, and Graham Nash's vision of domestic bliss was the answer
- “It’s a masterpiece”: why the prog world loves Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
- M(h)aol's exhilarating debut album Attachment Styles has the power to break down walls and kick over statues
- Def Leppard have just had one of their biggest years... but Joe Elliott thinks 2023 may top it
- Taylor Hawkins' son Shane wins Performance Of The Year prize at drum awards
- “Life is short”: Nightwish singer Floor Jansen opens up – only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Megadeth announce European summer tour
- February 1
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- A new documentary series about Perry Farrell's alt. rock festival Lollapalooza is in the works
- Paul Gilbert has turned Dio's Holy Diver into an instrumental and it's kinda freaky
- Bryan Adams announces US tour with Joan Jett
- 20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023
- Karda Estra reimagine 2006 album The Age Of Science And Enlightenment
- Crown Lands share video for 18-minute Starlifter: Fearless Pt. II
- 12 times rock stars gatecrashed another band's video
- Are Babymetal teasing a new member? 10 things we want from the Japanese metal stars in 2023
- Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine, Soundgarden, Willie Nelson, Missy Elliot and more nominated for Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2023
- The Orb announce new studio album
- "When I’m onstage, it’s my world": what happened when we joined Ozzy Osbourne on his final ever tour in 2018
- Kelly Clarkson smashes out a dazzling cover of Arctic Monkeys' Do I Wanna Know? on her daytime show, and we want an official version, like, now
- Jon Anderson announces London show for July
- Watch Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe cover Rob Zombie's Dragula on a cruise ship
- Breaking down The Beatles: Giles Martin and the miracle of the Revolver de-mix
- Ozzy Osbourne has retired from touring
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce new Raising The Roof dates
- John Lennon screamed and he screamed, and he learned to feel his fear and pain
- Adrian Vandenberg: "I turned down an offer to join Thin Lizzy because I knew they were heavily into drugs"
