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September 30
- Ever seen ballroom dancing to AC/DC on TV? No? Then prepare to be Thunderstruck
- U2 launch The Sphere venue in Las Vegas and our minds are appropriately boggled
- The most played live songs by 25 iconic rock bands
- “All our grief and sadness got directed at him”: Watch James Hetfield explain why Metallica hazed Jason Newsted in the ’80s
- "Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...
- “In my own mind there have been five bands called The Cure that I’m in”: Robert Smith on the ever-changing line-up of his goth trailblazers
- A beginner’s guide to '00s British indie in five essential albums
- 10 classic heavy metal albums that didn't sell nearly as well as they should have
- “Everybody thought I was dead. But as you can see, I’m very much alive”: how the reunited Red Hot Chili Peppers overcame acrimony, addiction and near-death experiences to make Californication
September 29
- “We played Black Sabbath songs because we wanted Ozzy to sing with us – he thought we were making fun of him.” How a 1986 Ozzy Osbourne tour lifted Metallica to the major leagues
- Nektar founding member and drummer Ron Howden dead at 78
- “I promise we will be back." Aerosmith postpone rest of farewell tour as it's revealed Steven Tyler's vocal injury is more serious than first believed
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The best new prog sounds from Steven Wilson, Trevor Rabin, Kyros and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "We're like The Village People of rock. We’ve got the metal guy, the prog guy, the pop guy, the jazz‑funk guy and the country guy": How Flying Colors made Second Nature
- Watch Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose covering Led Zeppelin in 1986, before the world knew his name
- “Imbued with otherness… steeped in drama and grandeur, but it feels tethered to a very specific point on the earth”: Haunt The Woods’ Ubiquity
- "I never liked school, and I never actually liked children": Watch The Smiths' Morrissey and Johnny Marr get grilled by school kids in this priceless 1984 TV footage
- "You’re not entitled to magazine covers or record sales when you choose to make this music." Code Orange explain why there's no room for entitlement in metal and punk rock
- Peter Gabriel releases video for new single, "a love song" called This Is Home
- "It’s more exciting to be influenced by what could be done rather than what is being done. That’s a progressive outlook.” Jesus Jones' Iain Baker on why he rates Bill Nelson so highly
- “I’d like to start scaring people again": Guitarist Graham Coxon reveals how Blur "tried to kill any stink of Britpop" with their self-titled album
- Jethro Tull release alternative mixes of latest album RökFlöte
- 10 rock stars who have appeared in ridiculous TV ads
- "You guys are punks!" Watch Dave Mustaine furiously berate security guards for 'bullying' a Megadeth fan at show in Illinois
- “Hearing each concert side by side demonstrates just how well rehearsed the presentation was, while allowing for individual improvisation”: Hawkwind’s Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Box Set
- The Black Sabbath ballet shows Sabbath are still pushing heavy metal into unchartered territories after half a century
- Noel Gallagher says Oasis' Definitely Maybe was "the last great punk album": "We had no effects, barely any equipment, just loads of attitude, 12 cans of Red Stripe and ambition."
- "The younger generation are totally vibing with this music, and they aren't really comparing it to other things": how Tempt are recreating the sound of the 80s for a new generation
- Graveyard's 6: inward-looking and melancholy, but a masterclass in psychedelic light and shade
- "All grinding desperation and lank-haired perspiration": the new album by KK's Priest confirms that they're not a viable alternative to the real thing
- "It would be an obtuse listener who didn't grasp how splendid this record is": Steven Wilson's The Harmony Codex is a high-wire act that few artists could pull off
- In Screamin' At The Sky, Black Stone Cherry have made the album where they remind us why we fell for them in the first place
- Marilyn Manson settles rape lawsuit with accuser who says that she has agreed to said settlement after enduring "threats, bullying, harassment and various forms of intimidation"
- "Being right there with them at the Albert Hall will be pure joy, and I plan to make some huge slabs of Orbit noise when the moments are right": William Orbit's love letter to Hawkwind
September 28
- “We talk about how rock ’n’ roll will never die, but we never really talk about how maybe the idea of the rock star should die": Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes share new single, album news and world tour plans
- "It's a love song to our audience": U2 borrow from Blondie's Call Me on new single Atomic City
- “We need to pump up the volume on this”: how Tina Turner and a roasting from his manager helped Bryan Adams turn Reckless from a flop-in-waiting into one of the biggest albums of the 80s
- "I'll fight you till I win": Kae Tempest, Heartworms and Viji steal the show at Speedy Wunderground's thrilling 10th anniversary celebrations
- These are the six essential Rod Stewart solo albums every rock fan needs in their life
- "It’s progressive at times, commercial at times. It’s eclectic." James LaBrie and Static Impulse
- "You're a bit like Metallica meets Perry Como": watch Faith No More's excruciating first British TV interview in this rare footage from 1988
- “It was brutal. I would wake up and not get out of bed. I couldn’t face having to tell the guys what was going to happen… that God wanted me to leave”: Neal Morse’s struggle with his final Spock’s Beard album
- Listen to The Rolling Stones' new seven-minute gospel song Sweet Sounds Of Heaven, featuring Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder
- Every Bruce Dickinson solo album ranked from worst to best
- “When Piotr died I thought maybe it’s time to say: ‘This is the end of Riverside'." How Riverside got back on track with Wasteland
- The 10 heaviest metal breakdowns of all time
- "If I had to deal with the pressure, I'd crack and end up as a high school water polo coach": The time James Hetfield guested as a weird version of himself on American Dad
- "They might just be the most underrated band ever." We asked Tobias Forge, Robb Flynn, Max Cavalera, Sharon Den Adel and more metal icons to recommend us some new music. Here's what they picked
- "Solitude is Candlemass's Paranoid": How a killer hangover inspired one of doom metal's most epic tracks
- Blood Command's World Domination: 20 tracks, almost half being a minute long or less, yet one of the most exciting, unique, genre-bending metal albums you'll hear this year
- “We’re at the festival and everybody else is a Viking and playing accordions… And then we watched what we were doing, like, ‘I hope this isn’t our fault!’” Ivar Bjørnson on how Enslaved avoided black metal to become prog
- The 10 best metal side-projects of all time
- "Why have they kept it a secret? It's Earth-shattering!": 10 musicians who claim to have encountered extraterrestrial activity in real life
- "I used to dread putting on those spandex pants. The eighties were just the worst time": Europe look back at the creation of their other classic, Rock The Night
- "We're led by the mantra that our best days are still ahead of us, and our favourite record is the one we haven't made yet": Lars Ulrich explains why, in 2023, Metallica are still hungry, and still not satisfied
- "When I started getting rolling it was considered charming or entertaining – or stupid – for girls to want to play music": a story of New York folk, punk, riot grrrl and beyond
September 27
- Bernie Marsden finished a new album before he passed away – and it's coming out later this year
- "You can have a posthumous business now, can't you? You can have a posthumous tour": Mick Jagger hints at life after death for the Rolling Stones
- "We ended up with what I think is a beautiful record." How Opeth made In Cauda Venenum
- 10 iconic metal cover songs that are as good as the original (and in some cases even better)
- The 10 songs that defined Within Temptation's career
- “The old Genesis stuff is probably some of my favourite music ever created." Mastodon on their prog inspiration and recording The Hunter
- “A lot of early Genesis and Roxy Music comes from Family… I think we set a certain kind of style for the next generation”: Roger Chapman recalls Music In A Doll’s House
- Porcupine Tree team up with Teenage Cancer Trust for limited edition signed soundwave Harridan print
- Asinhell's Impii Hora: Volbeat frontman Michael Poulson has a new death metal project, and it's pretty damn good
- Mostly Autumn to release live album recorded at Abbey Road
- Watch Francis Dunnery's It Bites perform live version of Old Man And The Angel
- "I could hear James down on the street, drunk. He was screaming, 'Cliff! Cliff! Where are you?'": What happened the night Metallica's Cliff Burton died
- "AC/DC is a cookie-cutter band. That’s what every band should strive to be": Danko Jones loves AC/DC's Fly On The Wall and he's puzzled why other people don't
- "It enabled me to be the fastest gun in the west for about five minutes:" Steve Hackett, Eddie Van Halen, and the murky origins of finger tapping
September 26
- "Hey man, the music sucks! Put on something good, will ya?: what happened the night Guns N' Roses created havoc in a Mexican restaurant
- "The film was like a technological tribal throw-down, with an energy buzz off the Richter scale": Gram Parsons once starred in a dystopian science fiction movie about environmental collapse
- The 10 best Bryan Adams songs
- “Prog fans were saying that simple songs are bad songs and that really annoyed me!" Pain Of Salvation on why songs were the focal point of the Road Salt albums
- Ozzy Osbourne is planning on recording a new album in 2024: "I want to do one more and then go back on the road"
- “I was a drug addict and alcoholic, and I needed to do the right thing to get off drugs.” Watch Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine admit he stole his first guitar
- William Orbit to perform with Hawkwind at the Royal Albert Hall
- “We did not announce he was leaving as we hoped he would come back… It was very disappointing - we ended up thinking we would have to go for second best”: How Mystery moved on from Benoit David
- “You can’t get more metal than that!” A metalhead is making a functioning guitar out of an actual sword
- Night Of The Prog festival announces that 2024 event will be their last
- "Kurt was jealous of Dave": Nirvana's official biographer explains why Kurt Cobain was "condescending" towards Dave Grohl
- Jailbreak shows that, despite the chaos of their lineups, Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are still a powerful force to be reckoned with
- Order your limited edition Beartooth x Metal Hammer bundle featuring a hand-signed art print and exclusive bandana
- "It was a crazy, beautiful mess": ex-Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson on Axl Rose, Chinese Democracy and why keeping GN'R alive without Slash, Duff and Izzy was pure "punk rock"
- "We do it the old way. If people like our music then they play it." The Tangent and COMM
- New KK's Priest album The Sinner Rides Again isn't reinventing any wheels, but when you have K.K. Downing and Tim 'Ripper' Owens together on this kind of form, who cares?
- Opeth are headlining Bloodstock 2024 - and you can help pick their setlist
- Code Orange's The Above is everything modern heavy music should be but all too often isn’t. If this is "selling out", more bands should try it
- Neal Morse plans Morsefest for UK for January 2024
- “When the metal community heard a Metallica song with acoustic guitars, they lost their lunches.” How Metallica beat the gatekeepers and turned tragedy into an immortal ballad with Fade To Black
- Mike Rutherford, Eric Clapton and Roger Taylor to feature in charity gig in honour of Procol Harum's Gary Brooker
- Music Venue Trust demands action from Government after UK loses 15% of grassroots venues in just 12 months
- 10 legendary heavy metal bands with no original members left
- “Band members complained of a loss of feeling in their hands after only one song”: When Tesseract set a world record by playing on a stage built from ice
- The Beach Boys albums you should definitely own
- "It's all a matter of perception - Southern soul music is what I like": Duane Betts on his debut album, a famous dad, and the term 'southern rock'
- "SHEPHERD'S P-I-EEEE!": that time Uriah Heep's singer was the voice of Ronnie James Dio in a TV advert promoting the UK's favourite minced meat and mashed potato classic
- "A view of political violence in Northern Ireland so simplistic that its lyrics could have been scrawled with a crayon": why The Cranberries' Zombie is the worst song ever written about 'The Troubles'
September 25
- Stevie Nicks announces 2024 tour dates
- “All of my albums are pretty exhausting," laughs Arjen Lucassen as he tells the story of Ayreon's Transitus
- “The interesting thing is that she copies Robert Wyatt’s phrasing exactly”: the weird connection between Whitney Houston and the 60s UK prog scene
- "This band brings the spectacle of Van Halen or Guns N’ Roses into the prog platform." Sons Of Apollo and their second abum MMXX
- “He asked if we could make music for his abstract dance performance. We had absolutely no clue whatsoever about that world, so of course we said yes!” Ring Van Möbius’s Six Drops of Poison project
- Watch The Conjuring and Aquaman star Patrick Wilson cover Queen's Somebody To Love while dressed as Freddie Mercury and pulling moves worthy of Wembley
- "The guys were like, ‘What’s he doing?’" Blaze Bayley reveals what it's like getting to audition for Iron Maiden
- Sony WF-1000XM5 review
- "There was a lot of gravity about him in his final years, he was a deep thinker": Tony Visconti shares his first impressions and final memories of David Bowie
- Circuline unveil new line-up featuring Dave Bainbridge and Kyros' Shelby Logan Warne
- Watch Mike Muir fall off stage while Suicidal Tendencies play, you guessed it, You Can't Bring Me Down
- "You never know!" Krist Novoselic says that Nirvana doing an ABBA Voyage-style avatar 'reunion experience' isn't out of the question
- Watch Tony Iommi make a surprise appearance to play Paranoid at the opening night of the Black Sabbath ballet in Birmingham, which also had Geezer Butler, Sharon Osbourne, Robert Plant and Bev Bevan in attendance
- “We were fortunate enough to find our audience still waiting for us after almost six years”: Geddy Lee on Rush’s 21st-century return
- Steve Hackett to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour next year
- "The album is guilty of attempting to appease people that Queen had no real business in trying to win over": Queen's News Of The World - Album Of The Week Club review
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring The Cadillac Three, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Micky Dolenz and more
- Ash's Tim Wheeler on looking back, Led Zeppelin, and learning every note of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird
September 24
- Gregg Allman: the 15 best songs from one of the great southern songbooks
- "Singers tend to be sensitive, but drummers are troubled too, just in a different way": why I ❤️ John Bonham, by Matt Sorum
- “Even if I invite them, I’m not sure if they would really show up." Babymetal's Moametal wants to host a dinner party with Metallica, Maneskin, Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon
- "There’s not a ray of sunshine or hope in this album": Svalbard explain why new album The Weight Of The Mask is their darkest yet
- Keith Richards: Rap is people yelling at me. I get enough of that at home
- "I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Scream": Watch Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl dedicate an emotional Everlong to the late Kent Stax, the drummer he replaced in Scream, before joining Nirvana
- “I don’t have to go out covered head to toe in tattoos to maintain Iron Maiden’s image. Eddie does that.” Watch Bruce Dickinson explain why Iron Maiden use Eddie on all their artwork
- While She Sleeps and Bury Tomorrow just played to 10,000 people and proved British metalcore has never been healthier
- “I said to my mates, ‘Can you believe this record is going to come out on the same label as Thin Lizzy?’”: the unlikely birth of Def Leppard and the story of their debut album On Through The Night
- Listen to new Rival Sons track Mercy from upcoming album Lightbringer
September 23
- “You’re the guys with nine members? Can I be number 10?“ the time Ozzy Osbourne asked Corey Taylor if he could join Slipknot
- “The shows were out of control because hardly anyone knew what moshing was." Dave Mustaine on the chaos of early thrash metal concerts
- "I Believe In A Thing Called Love inspired me to start my own glam rock band": Lord Of The Lost frontman Chris Harms picks the 10 songs that changed his life
- “He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there”: how Jimi Hendrix turned Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower into one of rock’s greatest songs
- 10 metal bands who changed genre and immediately ruined everything
- A beginner's guide to '80s goth in five essential albums
- “Like no one else… Theirs was the sound of a progressive new future for rock”: the prog roots of Jane’s Addiction major label debut Nothing’s Shocking
- “I’m thinking to myself, ‘Freddie Mercury is cooking me breakfast”: how Queen and James Bond turned Highlander into one of the great cult movies of the 80s
- “If I rattle it around, I can hear him”: Rod Stewart keeps his late mentor’s ashes in a guitar he owns, and it’s not as weird as it sounds
September 22
- Every Pearl Jam album ranked from worst to best
- Spock's Beard announce 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of Feel Euphoria
- "I felt that we were becoming stagnant, too controlled and led into areas that I didn’t feel too connected with." How Dream Theater continued their renaissance with their self titled 2013 album
- “If people had the right mindset they could make a lot of money from peace!” Banco del Mutuo Soccorso challenge the status quo with Orlando: Le Forme Dell’Amore
- “Mike said he’d do it as one long piece of music on one condition." How Transatlantic made The Whirlwind
- Paul Rodgers and run-of-the-mill band provide flashes of brilliance on new album Midnight Rose as the hyperbole rings hollow
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Cool new prog sounds from Amorphis, Chelsea Wolfe, Teeth Of The Sea and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- “Some people would like us to be doing the Son Of Snow Goose until we drop… people just don’t want you to change, but change is inevitable”: Andy Latimer’s unreleased Camel music
- Rush legend Geddy Lee announces UK spoken word tour for December
- "It was very dark...too mature for her." Believe it or not, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst once wrote songs for a Britney Spears album
- "It was trance robot music for girls. I wasn't interested in the guys at all": the birth of Queens Of The Stone Age from the ashes of Kyuss
- Black Friday speaker deals 2023: Crank up the volume because these speaker deals are still live
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces new Oxymoreworks collaboration album
- Steve Hogarth, Robert Fripp and more step up for Trevor Horn's new Echoes - Ancient & Modern album
- “To protect your freedom, you have to be active": How Within Temptation's new album Bleed Out was inspired by a world in crisis
- Devin Townsend strips off for 25th anniversary reissue of Infinity
- “There was too much isolation, loneliness and access to cheap booze and drugs”: Kevin Ayers’ Falling Up reissue
- "I want to quit while I’m ahead": John Lees is taking Barclay James Harvest to Huddersfield for two final UK shows and he's bringing an orchestra
- John Lydon gave his most x-rated interview to two puppets: a foul-mouthed rabbit and a profane, chain-smoking panda
- "With a voice marked by weariness and loss, it's scarcely credible Tedeschi was in her twenties": Susan Tedeschi still sails and soars as Just Won't Burn turns 25
- Starbenders: defiant, spooky and sexy, yet somehow more fun than graduation day at clown college
September 21
- "I am very excited for people to finally hear it." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces new solo album The Mandrake Project - his first in almost two decades - along with live dates
- Red Hot Chili Peppers were once lined up to record a big WWE star's theme tune. They were ditched for Uncle Kracker
- “Unsettling - not exactly made for repeat listening but more occasional contemplation, like a book of poetry”: David Sylvian’s Samadhisound 2003-2014: Do You Know Me Now?
- "There’s a lot of similarities in watchmaking and Anthrax." Here's what members of some of your favourite metal bands went and did after quitting the music industry
- “I woke up and there was this black shape at the bottom of my bed”: Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath – how paranormal activity, horror films and classical music inspired the first heavy metal song
- "It’s a hard album for me to listen to... It kinda makes my skin crawl”: Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic on the triumph and tragedy of Nirvana's final album, In Utero
- Remastered version of Brian Eno's The Ship to be released on vinyl in October
- We can't believe we have to say this but bringing your dog to a metal show is not a good idea, so please stop doing it
- Live New York recording of 3, featuring Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer and Robert Berry to be released on vinyl
- "The memories of a man in his old age": Roger Waters shares new versions of Breathe and Speak To Me
- Listen to Creeper's deliciously-vampy new synth-soaked single Black Heaven
- "We had heard about fans in Russia being sent to prison just for owning our records": a story of Uriah Heep, KGB agents, guns, girls and gallons of vodka
- “A mechanic charged our producer £666. He was so freaked out he insisted he pay £667.” Inside the legend that Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast was cursed
- “To get an award from the prog world meant a lot to me because prog rock was in our blood when we started." The story of Voivod and The Wake
- “Gong is like a boat – people can get on and off again if they wish. It just keeps on floating down the river.” How Steve Hillage and Daevid Allen reunited after 35 years
- “I felt like I wasn’t getting the credit for the things I was actually writing”: Corey Taylor says lack of recognition in Slipknot and Stone Sour inspired his solo career
- “We were just a progressive metal band going about our business… the next minute we’re on the world’s stage!” But playing to 160 million people hasn’t changed Voyager
- Voyager postpone October European tour in wake of Danny Estrin's shock cancer diagnosis
- "They were the kind of guys you’d see drinking and fighting on the docks on a Friday night": Why I ❤️ AC/DC, by Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen
- "It's sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Those are our languages. We probably speak those better than we do English": Why The Bites might herald the return of the good-time Hollywood party band
- Listen to Jimi Hendrix rip through a previously unreleased live version of Killing Floor in 1967
September 20
- "I became obsessed with completely reinventing my wheel": What ever happened to Zack de la Rocha's two-decades-in-the-making debut album?
- "Stark naked like the day he was born, beaten, bruised, bloody and tripping, this icon of modern music ran like Jesse Owens through the complex": The night Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes gatecrashed a Nick Cave show on acid
- "We are heartbroken": Scream announce the death of drummer Kent Stax, just 24 hours after sharing the news of new album DC Special, featuring Dave Grohl, Ian MacKaye and more
- "There’s no reason why Judas Priest and KK's Priest can’t coexist happily": K.K. Downing on reuniting with Tim 'Ripper' Owens, nu metal and why he won't ever rejoin Judas Priest
- "I’ve been lucky to work with some really decent people who have come back for more." Stephen W Tayler's fascinating life in music
- "It's staggering, but not surprising": Living Colour's Vernon Reid calls out Jann Wenner for the "erasure" of black and female artists in his book The Masters
- “People assumed we couldn’t be bothered to be there, which just wasn’t the case”: Martin Barre’s take on the Jethro Tull Grammy upset with Metallica
- "Bimbos do not care about math but they do care a lot about human rights and politics." The convention-defying Scene Queen explains the rules of 'Bimbocore'
- “Lars Ulrich and Bob Rock said, ‘Go back and work on it’”: James Hetfield used to really not like Metallica’s Enter Sandman
- Radiohead drummer Philip Selway announces new live album with string quartet Elysian Collective
- “It took an hour for the band to break back into their own press conference”: 30 years ago today, Depeche Mode hosted the first ever online Q&A. It didn’t go well
- Starbenders' Take Back The Night is a hodgepodge of lukewarm ideas only saved from disaster by the talent of Kimi Shelter
- “I understood anger, I identified with outsiders... when I looked at the shiny happy people, they didn’t make sense to me”: rage, race, revolution and the fabulous rebirth of Corinne Bailey Rae
- “I got snookered in by bad people… what I would call cataclysmic behavioural stuff”: How it all went wrong for Billy Corgan’s post-Smashing Pumpkins 'supergroup' Zwan
- Get your exclusive Tesseract x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed art print and a drinks coaster
- Dave Mustaine: "When I was in Metallica, I was kind of playing at Lars’s level, because Lars was still learning to play drums."
- "Are you in the mood for us to murder one of the best songs ever?" Watch Rick Astley cover Foo Fighters classic Everlong at Radio 2 in the Park (and totally NOT murder it)
- 10 times massive metal bands played ridiculously intimate concerts
- “Steven Wilson injects new life and verve”: Jethro Tull’s The Broadsword And The Beast 40th Anniversary Monster Edition
- The Guess Who say they're ambassadors of their own catalogue, that they have a responsibility to deliver it with integrity. But they're also blown away by their own new music
- "Someday I would love to sing Yesterday with McCartney, just an acoustic guitar and our two voices": Graham Nash may be 81, but he still has unfinished business
September 19
- "If there was a day in my life I could take back, it would be that day": The death of Gram Parsons - a story of drugs, theft, and a burning corpse
- The Myles Kennedy albums you should definitely own
- “All of these are better than Dance Of Death!” Someone’s used A.I. to create fake Iron Maiden covers and they look extraordinary
- "Negative Energy destroyed me in the best way": How Vexed turned tragedy and trauma into one of 2023's most emotionally explosive albums
- Marilyn Manson to pay fines and face 20 hours of community service for blowing nose and spitting a "big lougee" on concert camerawoman
- There's still time to get 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited
- “I wouldn’t say I was angry, but I was definitely prone to ‘anger moments’… I would explode. The gear-trashing was the real thing”: How Muse took on the world and won
- "Cannibal Corpse are still the hardest hitters in the business": death metal legends continue to brutalise with Chaos Horrific
- "Our first album was the first NWOBHM album." Saxon's Biff Byford on being heavy metal pioneers, touring with Motorhead and rocking Top Of The Pops
- 10 heavy metal supergroups who weren’t so super
- “I loaded a truck with a bed and other household items… If the cops had pulled us over I’d have been busted”: The law-stretching story of what could be Fates Warning’s last album
- "This is the last time we're going to f**k this up": Blink-182 announce reunion album One More Time...
- "If it wasn't for early prog, heavy metal would sound different today": Metallica's Kirk Hammett on discovering prog rock
- Steven Wilson shares video for new single What Life Brings
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie is no longer the biggest biopic of all time, thanks to the global box office success of Oppenheimer
- “Bernard is absolutely furious and it's all live on television”: New Order look back on the band’s most disastrous TV appearance ever
- “I love that nobody knows who Sleep Token are!” These are the up-and-coming metal bands Corey Taylor thinks you should be listening to
- Watch the video for new posthumous David Longdon single This House here
- "They were everything I wanted to hear at that moment. I fell in love with them": Kings X frontman Dug Pinnick on the moment he discovered AC/DC
- By day he's the manager of football's Queens Park Rangers, by night he sings in a rock band: These are the 10 albums that changed the life of Gareth Ainsworth
- Start Me Up was an abandoned, reggae-flavoured jam that almost never saw the light of day. Then it became a classic and earned The Rolling Stones a $14 million payday
- Jimi Hendrix: murder, the mafia, and the multiple mysteries surrounding the death of rock's most influential guitarist
September 18
- Bryan Adams launches Live At The Royal Albert Hall box set
- “The best prog albums are the ones that take a long time to get into." How Gazpacho made Fireworker
- "Poor Nigel Godrich was in a state": why The Strokes 'lost' follow-up to Is This It recorded with Radiohead’s producer Was Not It
- “I’ve been very lucky throughout my life as a player." Soft Machine drummer John Marshall remembered
- "This is the world premiere of Atomic City, a rock 'n' roll 45 in the tradition of late '70s post-punk": Watch U2 - with Larry Mullen back on drums - premiere new, unreleased song at surprise, free Las Vegas show
- Bam Margera, toilet chats and Dave Grohl's tongue: how Love Metal finally took HIM worldwide, and proved Ville Valo was a rock star like no other
- Iconic London venue Brixton Academy to re-open with a series of “test events”
- Set blasters for stun - it’s your last chance to grab 3 months of Disney+ with 75% off
- “I know what’s like to be an unfeeling bitch bent on revenge so it came naturally to me”: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on the time she played a Terminator
- “I said, We’ll learn it, and then he played it differently every time!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on the night Bob Dylan gave him the run around
- "I’ve been asked every question about Pink Floyd there possibly is – at least twice!" When David Gilmour released Rattle That Lock, the spectre of the day job still loomed large
- Rick Wakeman releases 32-disc The Prog Years 1973-1977 box set
- “When we talk about progressive rock, the most important part of that is the ‘rock’”: Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt on how Yes and Genesis delivered “simplexity”
- “Eddie’s singing on it changed the feeling of the lyrics, it became more meaningful”: the inside story of Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell's duet on Hunger Strike
- "He was absolutely fearless... not caring about what was selling, not caring about what felt safe": Corey Taylor on what David Bowie taught him as an artist
- Grizzly death metal, electrifying hardcore, sludgy thrash and extreme weirdness...here are the best new bands you need to hear this month
- “A Black Sabbath audience was not our audience… but we knew how to sell it. We were never being serious musos – it was always, ‘We’ll entertain you, so you’ll enjoy it!’” The first two years of Gentle Giant
- “It gives you a sense of pride. That’s your language you’re singing." Meet Shepherds Reign, the fearless Samoan band putting Polynesian metal on the map
- "My hair caught fire and my hearing was never the same again": Relive the explosive moment Keith Moon blew up his drums on live TV
- "An uneven, faintly frustrating album, that falls the right side of enjoyable": Jethro Tull's Stormwatch - Album Of The Week Club review
- "There's nothing original about me, it’s all about him": Inside the mind of guitarist Akio Sakurai, the Jimmy Page fan whose devotion is the subject of a new film
- In 1971 Ringo Starr visited The BBC to show off a range of homeware he'd designed including a kinetic sculpture filled with liquid mercury
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Dirty Honey, Chris Shiflett, L7 and more
September 17
- Setting pigs alight, blowing up microwaves and (literally) rubbing himself the wrong way: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson once hosted a TV show about people catching fire for no reason
- "Everyone thinks my dad woke me up and went 'practice your scales!' but I taught myself": Wolfgang Van Halen on going his own way when it came to learning the guitar
- "I cried my eyes out": former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley on the first time he heard Bruce Dickinson's comeback with the band, Brave New World
- "I think this will be the last ‘traditional’ Within Temptation record": Sharon Den Adel and Robert Westerholt on how war, AI and experimentation has shaped their new album Bleed Out
- “I slugged James in the mouth – what would you do if someone pelted you?” Back in the ’80s, Dave Mustaine admitted he “earned” getting fired from Metallica
- “Experimental tunings, daring approaches to form and a genuine improvisational sensibility”: David Crosby’s proggiest album, made against the odds
September 16
- Watch pro-shot footage of Metallica performing Nothing Else Matters in Los Angeles
- Sum 41's Deryck Whibley in hospital as doctors warn of possible heart failure
- "All the dramas in my life caught up with me." Corey Taylor on Slipknot, sobriety, and going solo
- “I can’t believe I pulled that off”: Wolfgang Van Halen on playing Van Halen classics for the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert – and why he’ll never cover his dad’s band again
- "I was so nervous that I was slightly shaking.” New Babymetal member Momometal on the moment she was officially announced as part of the band
- "Rush taught us you should make your own decisions": Canadian rockers Max Webster on how Geddy Lee & co. took them under their wing
- “I didn’t know it was going to be a hit”: Bryan Adams on the making of the mega-selling (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- “If it’s my time, it’s my time – I’m ready to die.” Revisiting Heavy Metal In Baghdad, the most gripping metal documentary ever made
- “The band didn’t break up. It’s just that there won’t be any more new music. And I need an outlet; music has been my life for over 30 years”: Fates Warning’s Ray Alder looks ahead
September 15
- Earthside's Jamie van Dyck reveals cancer diagnosis
- The best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Great new prog music from John Lodge, TesseracT, The Flower Kings and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "Elton was like, I just f**king played with the Rolling Stones": Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood talk Hackney Diamonds, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Lady Gaga
- Muse announce 20th anniversary Absolution deluxe box set
- "It’s a John Hughes coming of age film with dick jokes": watch the trailer for Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge's UFO-themed movie Monsters Of California
- 10 terrible heavy metal albums that sold shockingly well
- 10 songs AC/DC need to play in their comeback
- We asked Bryan Adams to guest edit the new issue of Classic Rock: It's in the shops now and it's a doozy
- A beginner's guide to Feeder in five essential albums
- Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Can Utility And The Coastliners
- "When we started, there was no template for heavy metal. Nobody understood what we were doing, because it was so different": Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on the birth of heavy metal
- Cynic announce reissue of path to Focus demos Uroboric Forms
- “My ears are still ringing!” Boy George just went to a Napalm Death gig and had a lovely time
- “The crusty thing becoming a fashion was really quite odd… people thought it was a real movement so we pretended that it was for a bit, and got quite far up the charts because of that”: the rise of Ozric Tentacles
- “That sense of struggle permeates every moment”: TesseracT’s War Of Being
September 14
- Tesseract's War Of Being is a progressive metal masterpiece and a frontrunner for album of the year
- "Heavy metal is about having the biggest ****. Indie is the opposite": Tobias Forge went from being a teenage headbanger to the arena-conquering mastermind behind Ghost. These are the lessons he's learned
- Baroness may have dropped the colour-coded albums, but Stone sees them on as vibrant and glowing form as ever
- "It's a worldwide phenomenon!" Toyah reveals that talks have begun to make Toyah and Robert's Sunday Lunch: The Movie a reality
- "When they suggested they shoot Lindsey and I nude I could not have been more terrified if you’d asked me to jump off a speeding train": Stevie Nicks on her regrets over topless Buckingham Nicks album cover shoot
- 100 lucky Pink Floyd fans will get the chance to have their actual brainwaves monitored while listening to Pink Floyd
- "Him not having any idea that Eddie Van Halen just took his picture was super funny": The night a Tool fan unwittingly got a rock legend to take a photo of him
- “An enlightening, vital listen, underlining the importance of an institution treated as a political football”: Public Service Broadcasting’s The New Noise (Live)
- "After 41 years away, we didn’t want to come back and sound like we belonged in the past." How Gryphon reinvented themselves
- "People think, ‘Oh, Steven Wilson writes everything and the musicians are just doing what he’s written.' That’s not the case." How Porcupine Tree made The Incident
- John Carpenter reworks classic Escape From New York theme 69th St. Bridge
- "All I’ve ever wanted to do is spread positivity through music": How Skindred's Benji Webbe went from ska-loving orphan to reggae-metal innovator and the "unofficial mayor" of Newport
- “Jeff was a great guy, but he wasn’t a great bandleader”: Sir Rod Stewart recalls his time singing in the Jeff Beck Group
- Déjà vu? Was Olivia Rodrigo's 'scary' MTV Video Music Awards production malfunction inspired by a Metallica tour stunt, or was that a SHEER COINCIDENCE? You decide
- Babymetal return to the cover of Metal Hammer – and the magazine comes with a free double-sided poster
- "I was so nervous I had to slam Jack and Cokes": Corey Taylor on being drunk on Top Of The Pops
- The 10 best heavy metal mascots of all time
- “It’s futile trying to be the fastest or write the craziest riff on the planet”: Watch James Hetfield explain why Metallica ditched thrash on the Black Album
- “I suppose it will turn some people off. It’s not a typical prog album… But I’m always laughing and having fun. I wanted a band that reflects that”: Arjen Lucassen celebrates the Golden Age Of Music
- Major Parkinson return with brand new single Take The Prescription
September 13
- "Anybody that says they saw that coming is lying to you": apparently, R.E.M. were not expecting Losing My Religion to be a hit single
- Get your exclusive Empire State Bastard x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed lyric sheet and a logo patch
- Glass Hammer announce new space concept album Arise
- "An amateur sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune": the BBC's verdict on the "devoid of personality" David Bowie in 1965
- 10 metal bands who completely changed and immediately made a masterpiece
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes deliver killer covers of Deep Purple classics Highway Star and Burn
- The final show on Ghost’s US tour is an absolute triumph - and one big question about Papa Emeritus IV's immediate future is answered
- "We figured if you were in a band, you got girls and it was a whole moment of ‘Well, I’ve got to lose my virginity before I’m 30’." The inspiration for Tinyfish's The Big Red Spark
- "I'm working on a little project about the Seattle scene": Pearl Jam's Mike McCready is writing a rock opera about the triumphs and tragedies of grunge
- That Joe Payne announces new album Bread & Circuses
- "It’s okay Kentucky, we still love you": watch what is surely the most failed attempt at a wall of death in heavy metal history
- "They were just nodding out in bed, just wasted. It was disgusting and gross": The night Dave Grohl finally realised that his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were abusing heroin
- “I had to say to her: “Tina, it’s not really working…”: Bryan Adams recalls duetting with Tina Turner on an 80s classic
- “If Napoleon had one of these, he’d have beaten the English at Waterloo”: Watch Bruce Dickinson try to sell copies of Iron Maiden’s Live After Death to strangers on the street
- John Lees' Barclay James Harvest add second orchestral show
- “Just like the pied piperrrrr!” Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield sing Symphony Of Destruction by Megadeth (and no, it’s not A.I.)
- The “very boring” frontman who aims to be “a hybrid of Peter Gabriel and Freddie Mercury” on stage: Saga’s Michael Sadler
- "You can get in a terrible mess if you play the wrong things": Watching Queen's Brian May discuss his Red Special guitar, his sixpence 'plectrums' and secret "tasty guitar techniques" in this rare British TV interview from 1976 is guitar nerd nirvana
- "I had all this anger bubbling up inside me": Olivia Rodrigo hails the righteous fury of Babes In Toyland and Rage Against The Machine as core influences on new album Guts
- A beginner's guide to Sonic Youth in five essential albums
September 12
- Steven Wilson teams up with Ninet Tayeb in new video for Rock Bottom
- “A man without a hobby is lost”: Sir Rod Stewart tells Bryan Adams how his model railroad collection keeps him occupied
- “Obviously we will have people who love Mike Portnoy, who won’t be able to accept the change and will probably still be bitter." How Dream Theater survived the loss of Mike Portnoy and made A Dramatic Turn Of Events
- "Ever wondered how Slipknot might sound if they brought Slash into the fold?": Corey Taylor's second solo album CMF2 is bolder, heavier and "utterly exhilarating"
- "I tried for two weeks and never heard a word back." The strange story of Hulk Hogan's phantom 'audition' for Metallica
- “Peter Grant put us right where Led Zeppelin were... We went into the arenas overnight”: Paul Rodgers on the meteoric rise of Bad Company
- “This is just another single from one of the countless groups who have come to London in the vain hope of making good”: When the roots of King Crimson were planted by Giles, Giles & Fripp
- “I said to Sharon, ‘I think I’ve broken my neck’”: Ozzy Osbourne on the night he got the injury that forced him to retire from touring
- Ghost's penultimate show of their US tour featured a live debut for one song, and a special, very different version of another
- "I realised what it was like to stand in Freddie's shoes, and it was not an easy gig": Paul Rodgers looks back on the challenge of fronting Queen
- Steven Tyler reveals he has damaged vocal cords, Aerosmith postpone some upcoming shows: "I'm heartbroken"
- Black Friday music deals 2024: The big day of sales is over for another year, but the big price drops continue
- The Fierce And The Dead announce 2024 tour dates
- “Succinct, fat-free songwriting alongside a generous helping of more indulgent material”: The Flower Kings’ Look At You Now
September 11
- "All the things that made me feel alive, still make me feel alive”: Ash retain their infectious, joyous lust for life on Race The Night
- The 10 most underrated Metallica songs
- "I never saw myself as Freddie Mercury": Radiohead's Thom Yorke names his five favourite singers of all time, and reveals why he tried to record all his vocals for OK Computer while drunk
- “Marrying a rock band to an orchestra was seat-of-the-pants stuff… even if we had to have extra rehearsals because they weren’t playing it right, they charged us”: Barclay James Harvest’s early days
- "The potential for AI to cause evil is, obviously, incredibly huge... the whole thing is massively scary": Queen guitarist Brian May warns of dark days ahead for humanity
- Pendragon announce 2024 European tour dates
- "A superb document of, and tribute to, a brilliant band in its prime": Whitesnake: Live... in the Heart of the City Album Of The Week Club review
- Cryptopsy's first album in 11 years was worth the wait: As Gomorrah Burns is a dizzying maelstrom of technical death metal excellence
- A beginner's guide to Sinead O'Connor in five essential albums
- “It was mind-blowing!" Dropping Beethoven, breaking America and making extreme metal cool for the 2000s: the story of Children Of Bodom's Hate Crew Deathroll
- “It isn’t the edgiest, most dramatic or experimental album released this year, but that’s really not the point”: Downes Braide Association’s Celestial Songs
- "Fans would go mad and start practising black magic on each other." How a drastic change in style, army-dodging and one “annoying hook” saw In The Shadows turn The Rasmus into goth rock superstars
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring The Struts, Steven Wilson, Danko Jones and more
- “I fell in love with Moving Pictures, although my husband and my guitar player laugh at me because they say it’s the worst record of Rush’s whole career”: How Beth Hart discovered prog
- Nickelback are done talking about people hating on them
September 10
- The Cadillac Three announce The Years Go Fast album, launch Young & Hungry video
- Win a pair of tickets to see The Dead Daisies play live in Nuremberg
- "None of us could have ever dreamt it was going to happen": the true story behind Led Zeppelin's secret Bombay sessions
- “When I say poopoo, you say peepee!” Escuela Grind want to make grindcore a more diverse and lighthearted place – and their vicious, hilarious live show proves they can do it
- “The way things are going, maybe psychedelics could be a good thing. It’s a doom-laden world at the moment.” Hawkwind's Dave Brock calls it as he sees it
- "The Dark Side Of The Moon has already been done and so has The Six Wives Of Henry VIII! And I had no clue what else to write about!" Tony Kaye on why it took him so long to record his first solo album
- The 50 best live albums ever
- “From that day on, wherever we were we turned on the radio and heard ourselves": the song that sought truth and meaning and turned Kansas into superstars
- "You have your chosen family in life, and then you’ve got your blood brothers. And this band is my family": How Royal Thunder came back from the abyss
- Extreme weather blamed for cancellation of Blue Ridge Rock Festival with heartbroken fans stranded on site
September 9
- AC/DC share rehearsal clip ahead of Power Trip - and it's not Phil Rudd in the drum seat
- Remember when Lamb Of God tore through a classic Sacrament track and jumped off some amplifiers live on Late Night?
- “We hired a real coffin, and the funeral-home people were like: You will look after it, won’t you?" Pat Travers on serenading a corpse, Thin Lizzy, and making peace with the past
- "I often see debates about album lengths on prog forums, and I’ve always been of the view that a record must be as long as it needs to be." How Cosmograf made Heroic Materials
- "I thought, 'who wants to shoot me?'": Dino Cazares on enemies, Fear Factory's new singer and getting the seal of approval from Metallica
- Lone McDonald And Giles 1970 album to get official vinyl reissue
- Watch R.E.M's Michael Stipe and Radiohead's Thom Yorke swap bands for one night only in this rare archive footage
- “They had their own code… They would communicate with each other via eye contact and head movements. It was amazing how many long, nuanced phrases they could play that way”: How Rush made Signals
- "I feel like any experience of humanity I’ve ever learned is from working in pubs": Meet Gallus, whose fiery mix of pessimism and furious energy is turning heads
September 8
- The best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "Motorhead's s**t is on the way": The musicians who founded the world's first punk rock museum in Las Vegas are talking about launching a heavy metal museum next door
- “I don’t think they envisaged the madness and chaos...”: How The Clash started falling apart while shooting their Rock The Casbah video
- "You get one chance at grabbing lightning": Corey Taylor says Stone Sour were "never going to have the same impact" as Slipknot
- Lypertek Pureplay Z7 earbuds review
- “It was the biggest place I’d ever played and the first time anyone had ever seen me”: Watch Bruce Dickinson play his first-ever Iron Maiden show in 1981
- “We don’t see any point in repeating ourselves." The story of Motorpsycho's The Tower
- Brand new prog music from Trevor Rabin, Voivod, Soen and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- "There’ll always be questions like, ‘What’s going on with Mike Ratledge?’ Or a question about Robert Wyatt." Soft Machine on life in the new millennium
- "It’s tempting to say that we think it’s our best album yet." Downes Braide Association release Celestial Songs
- "Legends Of The Shires sounded like a great British prog album to me, and that’s what we wanted to make.” Threshold on double concept albums and reuniting with former singers
- 10 amazing metal bands who only released one album
- “It’s a song about River Phoenix, wanting to share an experience with him that I couldn't because he had died”: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe on the song he wrote for his late friend River Phoenix
- "F**k you for hurting so many people... f**k you for exploiting the work of the band": Anti-Flag trio issue enraged, emotional statement attacking former frontman Justin Sane
- Chaotic, cutting, cathartic and clever, Guts is glorious proof that Olivia Rodigro isn't just the voice of Gen Z, but a superstar for the ages
- 10 thrash metal bands from the ’80s that should have been absolutely massive
- Jethro Tull grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- “There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!” That time The Cure's Robert Smith went on a two-day bender with David Bowie's guitarist, then offered him a job
- "It was something I didn’t know how to handle. That did a lot of damage to me" Wolfgang Van Halen on Eddie, Mammoth II, and his time as "the biggest enemy of every forty-to-fifty-year-old man" in the world
- "It's becoming something bigger than yourself, where what you're wearing is just as important as what you're playing:" How Greta Van Fleet are dressing for success
September 7
- 10 metal bands from the ’90s who should have been absolutely massive
- Kvelertak's Endling is another thrilling reminder of why they're one of modern metal's most unique and riotously entertaining bands
- "I felt this hairy tongue on my face": Ville Valo recalls meeting Dave Grohl for the first time and the album that made HIM goth metal stars
- The success of this summer's Outbreak and Supersonic festivals mean a line has now been drawn in the sand: no longer can heavy music festival bookers utter the lie "We would book more women/people of colour, but there aren’t any”
- Indianapolis punks Pat And The Pissers are releasing the most disgusting vinyl record ever made: it's filled with maggots
- "I am ready to embrace the future," says Riverside's Mariusz Duda as he announces new solo album
- Bowers & Wilkins Px8 headphones review
- “Get me in on the right key, do whatever you want in the middle, and don’t make a sham out of the ending”: pianist Mike Garson on the joy of working with David Bowie at his most bold and free
- Mask-wearing experimental metallers Imperial Triumphant have released a version of Rush's Jacob's Ladder that's both extremely creepy and substantially epic
- Lamb Of God and Trivium love them, and Heriot’s ferocious live show proves they’re one of the best new bands in British metal
- Watch Halestorm's Joe Hottinger show why Marshall's Studio JTM is the perfect evolution of its iconic original amp
- With any justice, A Sign Of Things To Come is the album that will finally take Sylosis out of the British metal underground and into the big time
- Watch Les Claypool, Sean Lennon and pals perform Pink Floyd's Pigs
- "Kate Bush is an artist and writer of some of the most extraordinary material I have had the pleasure to experience": Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page salutes the "genius" of Kate Bush
- "It’s your opinion as an artist. That’s what art is for. That’s what makes it interesting.” Within Temptation explain why the 'keep politics out of music' argument is stupid as hell
- “Henry Cow ended up taking me for a curry then driving me home - best gig ever!” Jakko Jakszyk’s highs and lows
- “It was me and Thom in a room trying to do something that wasn't what we’d done before”: How Radiohead reinvented themselves, and rock music, with Kid A
- "God is great": Blink-182's Travis Barker gives thanks after his wife Kourtney Kardashian successfully undergoes "life-threatening emergency surgery" to save the life of their unborn son
- "Ozzy wants to be on that show with all his friends. It’s heartbreaking": Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy's pain at missing out on Power Trip festival appearance
September 6
- "Big Balls made my dad laugh so hard": Wolfgang Van Halen on how he bonded with dad Eddie over Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- "I can't look... it's too sad": Queen's Brian May expresses dismay as Freddie Mercury's personal possessions go under the hammer in London, with his Bohemian Rhapsody video 'snake bangle' selling for £698,500
- Runrig singer Bruce Guthro dies, aged 62
- Horror, hate and, er, Jim Carrey: How Hammer Smashed Face made Cannibal Corpse the world's most famous death metal band
- "Perhaps it is the guitar that 'Saved Rock and Roll'": The guitar which Slash used to help write Appetite For Destruction is up for auction, with a one million dollars minimum bid
- "It was like Guns N' Roses being lectured by anarchists": Therapy?'s Andy Cairns picks the 10 songs that define his career
- “It actually changed something culturally." James Hetfield wrote Nothing Else Matters because he missed his girlfriend. It'd make ballads cool again, outrage Metallica elitists and, eventually, help Miley Cyrus mend her broken heart
- “Prince made me stand in front of a mirror for eight hours”: This is what it was like being in Prince’s band at the height of the Purple One’s '80s superstardom
- "I write my best music when I’m devastated and heartbroken and sad": Olivia Rodrigo on sharing the "trauma" behind her new album Guts
- “Prog still lived deeply inside the four of us, but with Asia we sliced away the fat": How Heat Of The Moment turned Asia into a lean, mean, multi-million selling machine
- “I gave the lyrics to Joe to sing. He said, No, you’ve gotta sing it, they're your lyrics”: The Clash's Paul Simonon on how he wrote the punk icons' defiant classic The Guns Of Brixton
- Watch The Rolling Stones' time-travelling video for new single Angry, featuring Sydney Sweeney living her best life
- “They’ve murdered it, they’ve torn it to shreds”: John Lydon on how Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock have ruined the Sex Pistols’ legacy
- “You could hear real outsider music easily - mix all that up with working class attitude and you've got the essence of the stew”: How Ohio became the unofficial home of the world's weirdest music
- "We came out and it was packed and people were hanging from ****. I’d never seen anything like it." Corey Taylor on the crazy moment he realised Slipknot had made it
- Maynard James Keenan admits that playing AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Portishead to his grapes has no effect whatsoever on the taste of his wines: "100%, no. It's just a great story"
- “Benny Andersson has been in The Hives, how’s that for a headline?”: The Hives Howlin’ Pelle on the time his band joined forces with ABBA
- “We were younger than Billie Eilish when we headlined Glastonbury!”: How Ash accidentally set a record headlining the Pyramid Stage back in 1997
- "It is important for everyone to know… that you are a monster": 12 more women accuse Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane of predatory behaviour, sexual assault and statutory rape
- The 50 best AC/DC songs ever
- Steven Wilson shares new ten-minute "mash-up of progressive rock, spiritual jazz and electronica" Impossible Tightrope
- Iron Maiden team up with Melon Optics for killer range of mountain bike merch
- “Scott Stapp is an egomaniac, he’s a punk and he thinks he’s Michael Jackson!” Limp Bizkit and Creed once feuded and didn’t stop until Scott Stapp challenged Fred Durst to a boxing match
- “There are so many progressive artists to whom I owe so much… Roxy Music are a major part of who I am today:” Tom G Warrior’s passion for prog
September 5
- “As soon as I heard it, I just started laughing!” How Alien Ant Farm’s bizarre cover of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal turned them from D-listers to nu metal giants (at least, for a short while)
- "We were a bit embarrassed because this was the raging punk scene": How the "slight reggae" of The Police's Roxanne turned a teacher and two prog rock renegades into unlikely superstars
- Nirvana's In Utero album to get 'super deluxe' 30th anniversary re-release
- "It was really a magical thing. He fell into a psychedelic crack": a man who accompanied Syd Barrett on his ill-fated acid trips is now a viral sensation on TikTok
- “She's got a fire raging in between her thighs, I got a hose to put it out, try this for size”: a deep dive into terrible heavy metal lyrics about sex
- 10 iconic metal bands with one bad album
- "The Sex Pistols were like the One Direction of their time": Midge Ure on why he turned down Malcolm McLaren's invitation to join the Sex Pistols
- Shure Aonic 50 Bluetooth headphones review
- "A holy grail for collectors": Signed copy of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy - minus the actual record - sells for £15,000
- Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay to release new studio album AM PM
- Watch Billy Idol front Foo Fighters to cover Sex Pistols classic Pretty Vacant
September 4
- "The last thing I saw before diving in was her head going under water. Never have I swam that fast before": Biohazard's Billy Graziadei saved a young woman from drowning in California yesterday
- "This is a truly global moment we want to share with fans": Jimmy Fallon is interviewing The Rolling Stones about new album Hackney Diamonds, and you can submit your questions for the band
- "Hearing it was my punk rock revelation, the moment where the skies open and you go, Oh, a lot of that music which I’ve liked up until now isn’t so important anymore": Tom Morello on the album without which Rage Against The Machine would not exist
- "I don't give a f*** what people think": trap metal pioneer Backxwash makes an emotional, triumphant UK debut that shows there's more to metal than riffs
- “As a child I had people harass us with their big Confederate flag when we were driving from a theme park." Oceans Of Slumber take a stand
- “At first when we met, he was Gavin Harrison the world-famous drummer, but since then he’s become a mate." The Pineapple Thief take a big step up
- Smash Mouth vocalist Steve Harwell dead at 56
- "Black Rainbows is a truly astonishing record, a revelation": Corinne Bailey Rae comes of age on one of 2023's most remarkable, must-hear albums
- If you can ignore the horrible special effects, the addition of Supertramp's Bloody Well Right to the Midnight Special archive is yet another cause for classic rock celebration
- “The label were less than pleased to be confronted by a 10-minute track with Robert Fripp on it… For Steven Wilson and I, that was the beginning of us having a genuine audience”: Tim Bowness recalls No-Man’s escape from pop
- “Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana”: the story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch
- "We weren't trying to replace Layne Staley": How Dave Grohl and Elton John helped a reborn Alice In Chains pay tribute to their fallen frontman on Black Gives Way To Blue
- "Some people were like, ‘Oh, you ****ing ripped off Iron Maiden!" How a near-tragic experience, an iconic video and definitely NOT ripping off Iron Maiden helped Papa Roach's Last Resort become nu metal's first post-2000 mega-anthem
- These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Måneskin, Steven Wilson, Michael Des Barres and more
- "Some now feel it was too heavy but it was in keeping with musical fashions of the day": Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning Album Of The Week Club review
- "Let it be known that any unsolicited contact from ANY person claiming to be a member of the collective should be disregarded." People have been scamming Sleep Token fans by pretending to be in the band, and Sleep Token are not happy about it
- Limited edition career-spanning Greg Lake box set to be released
- Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell receiving end-of-life care at home
September 3
- 10 up-and-coming black metal bands every self-respecting metalhead should listen to
- "There was a lot of pot-smoking going on at the listen-backs": Gráinne Duffy on the Californian vibes of new album Dirt Woman Blues
- The most underrated albums by 10 major prog bands
- Aerosmith kick off Peace Out tour with 18-song set in Philadelphia: photos, videos and setlist now online
- “Leaving aside any bias over Radar Love, it brought their progressive leanings right to the surface”: Golden Earring’s Moontan
- "In all honesty I’d forgotten how good we were back then": former Marillion frontman Fish on Kayleigh, the song that changed the band for better and worse
- Metallica postpone Arizona show as James Hetfield tests positive for COVID
September 2
- There are certain people you meet and you just know they won’t be around forever. Jim Morrison was one of those people. He could have died 100 times": Alice Cooper on The Doors' Jim Morrison
- “I used to look at myself all dolled up like some guy in Def Leppard, and think, ‘Who do you think you are?’”: how Gary Moore ditched hard rock and saved his career with Still Got The Blues
- “The solo on Enter Sandman is a real hummer! I just love it!” King Crimson’s Robert Fripp shares his love for Metallica, Megadeth, Slipknot and Korn
- “He got onstage and preached rock’n’roll, which was very much the inspiration for what I did”: 30 musicians on the singers who changed their life
- This YouTuber covered Red Hot Chili Peppers in the style of Disturbed and it’s shockingly not terrible
- “Sales is not a mark of success": 10 rock bands from the '90s who should have been absolutely massive
- "It broke my heart. I wanted us to be signed to Roadrunner and support Slayer." Ghost's Tobias Forge on why it just wasn't a good idea to try and make a career from death metal in the late 90s
- "I was expecting to be back in the band when there was an opening." K.K. Downing explains why he'll never play with Judas Priest again, despite appearing with them at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last year
- “Lemmy put a pig’s head in my case”: the time Motörhead pranked their support band with a decapitated animal head just to get a reaction
- Greta Van Fleet interview: "Then one of the biker gangs said 'Hey, come to our place out in the woods, guys, and play for us'"
- The Rolling Stones release snippet of new song Don't Get Angry With Me but people are angry with them anyway
- David Gilmour and The Orb share suitably trippy new video for Metallic Spheres In Colour: Movement 1
- 10 classic metal albums where the first song is the best
- "It was if Merlin himself could not have concocted a spell more perfect": how Stevie Nicks turned to mythology to conjure up Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon
September 1
- "At almost 72, I’m realising that there are things I won’t be able to do forever, such as singing Over My Head." The return of King's X with Three Sides Of One
- The Black Crowes are releasing a deluxe expanded edition of The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
- “Die! Death! Rot! You’re in a never-ending hooooooole!” Watch Conan O’Brien’s hilariously disastrous attempt at death metal vocals
- “It’s like our Ace Of Spades. I’ll have to play it forever!” How Roots Bloody Roots made Sepultura nu metal superstars – before the band tore themselves apart
- "A new Stones era": The Rolling Stones look set to announce their first album of original material since 2005
- "Devastated is an understatement": Blink-182 fans express their annoyance as pop-punk trio postpone start of UK tour due to "an urgent family matter"
- “Chet Baker gave me a drum kit. Years later, I discovered he'd stolen it from his own drummer!” How Magma’s Christian Vander got his start
- Job For A Cowboy, Dying Wish, Nervosa and more: here are the best new metal songs from the week that you need in your life
- The 20 most underrated Iron Maiden songs
- 11 modern metal guitar heroes every self-respecting player should know about
- "We knew it was provocative and we knew that it might not be accepted by anyone": Metallica's Kirk Hammett revisits the making of Master Of Puppets
- Cool new prog music from Bruce Soord, Beatrix Players and more in Tracks Of The Week
- "I’ve been working towards this moment": Tool's Maynard James Keenan is opening a new ice cream parlour, a trattoria, a winery and his own tram line
- Tiger Moth Tales take a more acoustic path with new album The Turning Of The World
- Magenta singer Christina announces star-studded third solo album
- Francis Dunnery's It Bites announce new live release on Blu-ray and CD
- "It ain't rocket science. It’s pure rock'n'roll": Def Leppard's Joe Elliott on the wild genius of AC/DC’s Powerage
- “Master Of Puppies”: A dog ran away from home, watched a Metallica show and stayed for the whole thing
- "We just hadn’t a clue how to make a single. We'd never done one before": how Roxy Music borrowed a motorcycle and broke all the rules to create Virginia Plain
- "Steve Davis said, I saw you play, I really enjoyed it": Napalm Death's Shane Embury on playing Glastonbury, bonding with snooker legend Steve Davis and the Dave Grohl grindcore jam that sadly never came to pass