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- March 31
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- Listen to A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Primus on new split Sessanta E.P.P.P.
- The 11 greatest Rush album sleeves, by the man who created them
- "I didn't think it would be over and done with so quick." Sebastian Bach says he and Skid Row owe it to the fans to reunite
- “We can make records until our hands fall off. But if we can’t sell it live, I don’t want to”: how Slayer reconnected with 80s thrash and made World Painted Blood
- We put together the ultimate Led Zeppelin IV covers album
- “Half streamlined, half baroque, it wasn’t for everybody – but it hits the spot now”: Gentle Giant’s The Missing Piece gets the Steven Wilson varnish
- "My dad said, 'Turn off the demo, just play me it on acoustic guitar and sing it'": Inhaler's Eli Hewson on the advice he got from his dad, Bono
- “I feel like your spirit lives on in another reality. I feel like it gets transferred to another dimension”: how Mastodon transcended death and tragedy to make Emperor Of Sand
- March 30
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- Are cigars affecting James Hetfield's voice? Not according to the Metallica man, who says he hasn't sounded this good in a long time
- “The record company said, ‘You are completely out of your mind!’ Which I was!”: Scorpions’ hit song Rock You Like A Hurricane originally had a different title, and it was definitely NSFW
- Trent Reznor recalls his "terrible" attempts at songwriting before he struck gold with Nine Inch Nails
- "Nightwish can nail anything they turn their hand to." Nightwish’s cover of Symphony Of Destruction by Megadeth may be obscure, but it’s an ingeniously out-of-character triumph
- "When I saw No Doubt perform, it was like the sunbeams came down and the angels sang." 9 songs that changed my life, by New Years Day's Ash Costello
- “We’d play a song in a certain tempo. Three weeks later, it would be twice as fast”: who invented thrash metal? Kirk Hammett has a theory
- “I believed we would not get back together. I thought Rush was a place Neil was not going to be able to go back to emotionally”: how Rush survived the 1990s and early 2000s
- “Watching David Byrne work was so pivotal”: St. Vincent on what she learned from working with the Talking Heads leader
- “One doesn’t so much listen as feel it deep in the bones… their stark inventiveness and originality remain outstanding”: Van der Graaf Generator’s Still Life and Vital reissues
- "Get the **** off my stage before I punch you in the ****ing face": Ten times a band stopped a gig to lambast a member of their own crowd
- “This is the sonic recreation of the end of the world”: Pendulum's 'go hard or go home' approach ensures that they remain an essential live act
- “It’s as evocative and deviant as the title suggests. It’s very sexual and disturbed”: the obscure 90s goth songs that changed Ville Valo’s life
- “I fell in love with Highway To Hell when I heard it in my dad’s pick-up truck. Bon Scott had a cheek to him”: pop superstar Rick Astley on his love of AC/DC, Slipknot, Yes and Foo Fighters
- Rammstein are being sued by French act Ninja Cyborg who say German giants stole the riff for Deutschland
- March 29
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- "I have no need of paradise": If your dream Good Friday involves watching a tormented priest spraying Holy Water on a werewolf's face, we have an early Easter treat for you
- “Taylor wanted to write a song for a friend of ours who was going through a bad time”: Perry Farrell on the time him and Taylor Hawkins teamed up to record a track for a pal
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Great new prog from Soen, Alex Henry Foster, Kiasmos and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- “A fascinating listen that sometimes sounds like a missing 10cc album plus a little Be Box Deluxe”: Nektar’s Recycled 5CD set
- Every Jinjer album ranked from worst to best
- "We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best
- “Between girls, drugs and an entourage he’d bring everywhere, Pete was out of his mind more than at any other point.” How I Don't Wanna Be Me gave gothic metal icons Type O Negative their last big anthem, but spelled the start of the end
- "They were like, 'You're old. Are you singing about sex stuff now because it's your last chance?' And I was like - it was my last chance long before this": Your guide to every Les Savy Fav album in the band's own words
- “We were really screwing with the system, removing applause from live tracks to sound like studio tracks – the exact opposite of what people do today”: How King Crimson made stealth live album Starless And Bible Black
- "Black Night? It was done in two hours of drunkenness!": Deep Purple's best songs, in their own words - Only in the revealing new issue of Classic Rock
- "I can't think of a Van Halen song that doesn't put a smile on my face – it's just a question of figuring out how to play them": How Joe Satriani is preparing to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- "It all becomes a bit by-numbers": Sheryl Crow fails to evolve on unambitious Evolution album
- That mix that made Deep Purple great was never stronger than on Machine Head, and never clearer than it is now, on its 50th anniversary edition
- 34 years ago Joe Satriani and Steve Vai told the world they'd record a song called The Sea Of Emotion together: Now they've finally done it
- “The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close”: The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime
- March 28
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- The Black Crowes played a Led Zeppelin classic on the Howard Stern Show this week, and broke news many fans have been waiting for
- "This man said, ‘I’ve brought my wife for a night out and you’re the worst band I’ve seen in my life. You’re crap.’” How the Moody Blues finally came good with Days Of Future Passed
- "Prog music, or heavy music in general, is a very conservative scene. When you are willing to expose yourself emotionally, it’s a vulnerable place to be." Devin Townsend tackles The Prog Interview
- “The second he kicks in on the first chorus, it’s just mind-blowing!" St. Vincent shares slinky Dave Grohl-powered new single Flea, reveals All Born Screaming North American tour dates
- Beyoncé has covered a Beatles classic on her new country album, Cowboy Carter
- Korn are working on a new album, apparently it’s “the best and heaviest Korn stuff in years”
- Watch our round up of this week's best new alternative music, featuring Bodega, Metz, Softcult and more
- Vinnie Paul “was never behind” the idea of Pantera reuniting, says former bandmate
- “I’d never attempted to write a whole record on my own. I wasn’t feeling confident. I was concerned I might end up with a load of outtakes and waste the money”: How Steve Hackett made Voyage Of The Acolyte
- The Omnific announce new studio album The Law Of Augmenting Returns
- Godsticks announce live dates for June and September
- Lindisfarne announce three-disc Mercury Years box set and new live dates
- “When we parted ways back in 1984, they told me to stick around because they might need me in 40 years.” Original Anthrax bassist Dan Lilker will rejoin the band for US and South American tour
- "The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now
- Reliqa announce new album Secrets Of The Future
- Limp Bizkit fans, rejoice! You can now buy hot dog-flavoured water to drink
- This 41 year old video is the oldest known footage of Slayer, and it proves they were brilliant from the start
- “You see people in music magazines who call themselves rebels. I’m more of a rebel because I really put my life at risk”: Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson’s contrasting worlds make Blackfield’s work so powerful
- Every Steve Vai album ranked from worst to best
- "In the sixties, my mind was elsewhere – chemically, mystically and emotionally": Justin Hayward picks the soundtrack of his life
- Mick Mars put together the most hedonistic band of their era and has the scars to prove it: Now out of Mötley Crüe, he's starting a solo career. Lived a life? You bet
- New vocalists lasted five minutes and founder members quit amid the chaos: 1984 was an awful year for Black Sabbath, and by its end they were almost obliterated
- March 27
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- Twenty One Pilots announce enormous Clancy world tour, launch video for new song Next Semester
- "I don't do that": If you bump into the Red Hot Chili Peppers, don't expect a handshake from guitarist John Frusciante
- “Now… which leather pants to wear?!” Lzzy Hale of Halestorm will front Skid Row on tour, following the exit of singer Erik Grönwall
- "He would ramble off all these weird predictions, none of which ever came true": Fu Manchu announce UK tour dates and new album details, share new single about an astrologer friend who is absolutely rubbish at predicting the future
- The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death
- Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith will have cameos in the This Is Spinal Tap sequel
- "People would say that I'm being promoted as a sex object whether I was clad in a nun's costume or nothing at all": Men working for England's music magazines used to get very, very worked up about the idea of Kate Bush being a 'sex symbol'
- Jordan Rudess shares first single from upcoming solo album. Listen to Embers here...
- "By the time we reach our dotage we should be throwing out an album every few minutes!" How Credo prepared to take on the world!
- Pat Metheny announces new solo guitar album MoonDial
- Eivør announces "the most nuanced and experimental album I've created to date."
- Eurovision-winning shock rockers Lordi are on the cover of Vogue Scandinavia, because why not?
- "Hopefully we’ll get all the metallers weeping": English shoegaze legends Slowdive on their upcoming appearance at one of America's biggest metal festivals
- “I guess I’m a big grunge-head!" Why WWE superstar Becky Lynch loves Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the rest
- Marjana Semkina announces second solo album Sirin
- Here’s every album Tobias Forge has made outside of Ghost, ranked from worst to best
- "We were a performance art troupe that played pop songs. There was this element of wanting to destroy rock": meet Bodega, the next NYC band who could be your life
- "No wonder this beautifully bleak record is so heavy": Faraoese doom merchants Hamferd prove the worst things do happen at sea with monolithic new concept album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
- “Neoclassical metal wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t heard Selling England By The Pound”: Genesis’ Tony Banks is Yngwie Malmsteen’s prog hero
- How a photo of notorious German fighter ace the Red Baron provided the cover of Led Zeppelin II
- The Gaslight Anthem get their groove back in the middle of a three-night run at London's Roundhouse
- "I don't write songs like a twenty-one-year-old any more, and I don't want to. I have much more to say": The story of Joan Jett, rebel with a cause
- March 26
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- The Yes albums you should definitely own
- "It's been a rough road. I never got to the point ever where I thought I'd actually achieved anything": An epic Jeff Beck interview
- "Fans would talk s**t about Avril to me. I got a lot of negativity and backlash": Sum 41's Deryck Whibley on the unexpected challenges thrown up by his six-and-a-half year relationship with Avril Lavigne
- "We grew up loving classic-era prog rock and that’s the music we decided we wanted to create, and also to make a real impact with it." The story of Haken's debut album Aquarius
- "That was a special adventure – I wouldn’t be here without him": Robert Trujillo says he'd love to work with Ozzy Osbourne again and reveals the classic cult supergroup he wants to resurrect
- Kerry King, Creeper, Bambie Thug and more added to Download 2024
- David Byrne and Devo, Courtney Barnett, The War On Drugs and more to appear on Noise For Now Vol. 2, a comp to benefit abortion access and reproductive rights
- You can now be hunted to the death by members of Slipknot, thanks to a new update for horror video game Dead By Daylight
- “It could be more amazing than U2’s triumph in Las Vegas. I think you could even blow that out the water”: Can Youth persuade David Gilmour to stage a live show with The Orb?
- "Marillion, Twelfth Night, IQ; to continue to call those bands neo-prog, I don’t see that as particularly positive. Everything has moved quite a lot since then." How Cosmograf defined the sound of Rattrapante
- “Lemmy’s the king of rock ’n’ roll. No one else comes close.” Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and more to contribute to new illustrated book about Lemmy Kilmister
- Korn announce massive North American tour with Gojira and Spiritbox
- “We’re still making records because we think we’re the best band in the world”: The Jesus and Mary Chain may not have destroyed the music industry as they had hoped, but they gave it a damn good shot
- Every Skunk Anansie album ranked from worst to best
- “I’m happy to say it’s exceptionally heavy.” Devin Townsend is recording a “crushing, emotional” new album called Powernerd
- “I love how they’ve evolved over the years. They’ve taken risks, but always stayed true to themselves.” Watch the time Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia joined her idols Paradise Lost onstage in 2013
- “There were no egos: It was just about the music. There was an incredible flow… a magical, organic experience”: How supergroup Flying Colors made their debut album in just 9 days
- The Replacements intended to subvert the underground scene with Let It Be: Instead, they completely reinvented it
- Hello Cleveland! What's wrong with being sexy? Eleven ways in which Spinal Tap changed the lexicon of rock
- "I don’t want to be sending a bandmate home in a body bag": why unhinged Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers won't be reuniting, despite "six-figure offers" for live shows
- "I've been touring for the money": Pete Townshend opens up as he considers one final tour world from The Who before they "crawl off to die"
- March 25
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- “That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull
- Jon Bon Jovi joined trance DJ Armin van Buuren onstage in Miami at the weekend and 60,000 ravers look like they enjoyed the moment very much
- Watch Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder and more join Roger Daltrey onstage for an epic blast through Baba O'Reilly at the Royal Albert Hall
- "This whole tour has taught us that even friendships that seem like they died 20 years ago can come back in full force and be stronger than ever": Farewell once again Botch, and thanks for the memories
- "America, we will see you very soon": Mongolian folk metal sensations The Hu to support Iron Maiden on expanded North American Future Past Tour
- "Self Hell delivers as a record and statement of our unstable, head-spinning times." While She Sleeps' latest album doesn't always hit the mark, but it's a bold levelling-up of their blueprint all the same
- "I think we need more people that can say, ‘I’m sober and that doesn’t make me less of a metal fan.’” Meet the people behind Raven Records, London's new heavy metal record store, coffee joint and, uniquely, alcohol-free bar
- New four-disc box set for 'great lost Yes album' Talk due in May
- "The war doesn't stop. I know a lot of people are tired of it, but Ukraine doesn't have that luxury." Why Sharon den Adel travelled to Kyiv to film Within Temptation's new video for upcoming single A Fool's Parade
- Voyager cancel all 2024 live shows
- "It‘ll be an intense night of death and thrash metal!" Cannibal Corpse announce European tour with Municipal Waste, Immolation and Schizophrenia
- "Ballet shoes and Motorhead don't mix": The history of Motorhead in 12 songs
- “At this point in my career, I basically am Glass Hammer, so why would I try to launch a whole new thing? I like to keep working and giving fans something to argue about”: Steve Babb marks his band’s 30th anniversary
- "It's so mid-eighties I can see Molly Ringwald and the rest of the brat pack dancing in a bedroom in my mind's eye": Mr. Mister master the period cliches on Welcome To The Real World
- "I heard it for the first time at a dope dealer’s house one night": My 10 favourite British albums ever, by Status Quo's Francis Rossi
- "You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins
- Pearl Jam release frenzied new single Running, announce global cinema event
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Praying Mantis, White Dog, Castle Rat and more
- March 24
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- “If somebody’s got an alcohol problem or a drug problem, there’s nothing you can do”: the epic life of Don Airey, the man who has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Ritchie Blackmore and Gary Moore and lived to tell the tale
- "The Chemical Brothers' capacity to unite a crowd in joyous communion remains peerless": Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons shake London's Royal Albert Hall to its storied foundations
- “I went home sore cos I was moshing!”: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA on his favourite rock records
- The 4 songs Nightwish have only performed live once
- "They might just be Britain’s next generational band." Young Fathers put on a ferociously loud, soul-stirring show for the ages at the legendary Royal Albert Hall
- "It was like I had just fallen in love - and he was dead." Evanescene star Amy Lee reveals how the death of one legendary rock star broke her heart
- “Embracing the new eclecticism, they wove together a variety of threads to prove that heavy topics don’t need to be heavy-handed”: Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around The World bears all the hallmarks of a prog album
- “I didn’t want my children to grow up and not know Max”: how Max and Iggor Cavalera healed their wounds and buried the ghost of Sepultura with Cavalera Conspiracy
- “He’d go to the pub, come back at 9 o’clock, out of it, and go, ‘Right, let’s start’”: the story of Ozzy Osbourne’s forgotten 1970s “prog rock” solo band
- March 23
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- Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese confirms return to A Perfect Circle after 13 years
- “Rob Zombie hates my guts. He owes everything to us”: GWAR’s Dave ‘Oderus Urungus’ Brockie was a genius, and here’s proof
- Ace Frehley says he got an apology from producer who claimed to have written "97%" of former Kiss man's solo album 10,000 Volts
- We reviewed every film Iron Maiden have ever written a song about
- The 10 best Blaze Bayley Iron Maiden songs
- “He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless
- “Lemmy was standing at the door. He gave me a bullet belt and a leather jacket and said, ‘You’re in!’”: the riotous story of Motörhead’s early years and the birth of “the worst band in the world“
- Ten times Billy Corgan collaborated with his heroes
- “We were broke. We couldn’t even afford food or drink. That’s how bad things were”: how Judas Priest’s Sad Wings Of Destiny finally set them on the path to heavy metal immortality
- “You pick five interesting guys, lock them in a room together… and if they make an album without actually killing each other first, it will at least be an interesting album”: How King Crimson made Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
- March 22
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- More than 130 fans killed in rock concert mass shooting in Moscow
- “It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted”: Cypress Hill are making a 1996 Simpsons joke a reality by booking a show with the London Symphony Orchestra
- "Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world." Nickelback: Hate To Love isn't likely to win over the haters, but does shine a light on why you should never bet against one of rock's most surprising underdogs
- Einstürzende Neubauten announce huge 'alien pop music' tour, share single Ist Ist from forthcoming double album Rampen (APM: Alien Pop Music)
- Black Sabbath announce details of long-awaited Tony Martin era box set and The Eternal Idol is nowhere to be seen
- Watch the official video for Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes' charity remake of Going Home (Theme From Local Hero), featuring David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Alex Lifeson, Brian May, Brian May, Slash and more
- "She is fearless and polymathic and political and no album ever sounds the same": Oscar-winning Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy salutes the artist whose album he listened to most last year
- Cool new prog from Trifecta, Teramaze, Kamelot and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- Oliver Wakeman shares trailer for new Anam Cara album
- “It’s a beautiful song!” Hear System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian sing lead vocals on a new track by The Walking Dead/Godzilla composer Bear McCreary
- Does anyone else remember that time Metallica played a secret show as a Ramones cover band?
- Nordic Giants to open window on their past with new compilation abum
- "On this day, I see clearly..." Watch a sold-out Toronto arena sing a passionate, acapella version of Alter Bridge classic Metalingus with no band in sight in honour of wrestling legend Adam 'Edge' Copeland
- “The fact that he managed to mix the political with the comical and the absurd, without comprising his output, is a big influence”: Frank Zappa is Serj Tankian’s prog hero
- "That the refined and regal Albert Hall feels like a home fixture for The Who, the least house-trained band of their generation, is not without irony": The Who thrill the hoi polloi at their second Teenage Cancer Trust show of 2024
- “Dizzyingly diverse, full of invention and humanity… if only more bands were willing to take such risks”: Elbow’s Audio Vertigo
- "We're only here to play fantastic rock music": The Hives promise that their upcoming live shows will be like "a regular rock show but there's more of everything"
- "The energy and buoyancy never sacrifice Elbow's innate knack for emotional impact": Elbow sound reinvigorated on Audio Vertigo
- The early work of the Butthole Surfers: grotesque, distended, acid-fried, phlegm-powered, hallucinatory and brilliant
- "Nothing is off limits in a dizzying array of influences and styles mixed with the precision of a master of his craft": Gary Clark Jr hits a career high on Jpeg Raw
- March 21
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- Slash interview: Growing up with the blues, assembling Orgy Of The Damned, meeting Peter Green, and the crazy journey behind that Oscars thing with Ryan Gosling
- "Your mother was and still is such a powerful presence here on earth. Watching you sing to her makes me cry": watch Sinéad O’Connor's daughter sing Nothing Compares 2 U at New York tribute show
- "They’re one of the greatest rock bands in history." The heavy metal legends that Lady Gaga just can't get enough of
- Watch our round up of the best new alternative music this week, featuring the Dandy Warhols, Destroy Boys and more
- "It’s nothing whatsoever to do with the drug!" Watch the video for Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison's brand new single, Crack Cocaine
- "The guys stopped the song. They all looked at me like, 'What are you doing?'" How David Draiman came up with the legendary 'OOH-AH-AH-AH-AH' monkey noise on Disturbed's nu metal classic, Down With The Sickness
- If you're wondering how radio-friendly the new Shellac album will be, the first track is called World Series of Dick-Sucking and the closing track is called I Don't Fear Hell
- Dave Bainbridge and Sally Minnear announce An Evening Of Iona Music and more...
- Blackpool post-rockers Blanket return with third album Ceremonia
- Steve Rothery and Mark King guest on new Dave Foster Band album
- 10 exciting new Irish artists you should be listening to in 2024
- Prog power trio Six By Six share video for the dramatic Obiliex
- "They’ve been vocal on everything from feminism and female rights to animal rights, police brutality and government corruption." The 80s anarcho punk icons that inspired Bob Vylan to do punk properly
- “It ended up very miserable. Even Roger Waters says what a miserable period it was – and he was the one who made it entirely miserable”: How Pink Floyd made The Final Cut and learned to hate each other
- A rebuilt Wall, Madonna's producer and an American academic: How Roger Waters saved himself
- The T. Rex albums you should definitely own
- "As I grew up, instead of wanting to marry Paul McCartney, I wanted to be him": How The Bangles wooed 1984 with their power-pop debut All Over The Place
- "We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together
- Watch Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder make a surprise appearance onstage with The Who in London to sing Quadrophenia classic
- March 20
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- Def Leppard launch limited edition live album for Record Store Day
- "Everything we're doing right now is way different." What happened the day Linkin Park played a set at Grand Central Station
- "It's not every day that you get to sing with the queen": That time Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder teamed up with Beyoncé to perform a spine-tingling Bob Marley cover
- Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival
- Three of our top-rated budget turntables are on sale for Amazon’s Spring Deal Days - up to 24% off
- "The first album was called Doggystyle, so we decided to flip it, and call this one Missionary": watch hip-hop superstars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg discuss making their first record together in 30 years
- "I wouldn’t be the singer, the artist, anything without it." New Years Day's Ash Costello on the Millennial goth post-hardcore masterpiece that changed her life
- New Pallbearer single Where The Light Fades marks sonic shift to dark post-rock sound
- "The transition into what we’re doing now has been very strange.” How Halestorm, Slash and Ghost's Mary On A Cross unexpectedly helped Blackbriar become symphonic metal's new hopes
- The Decemberists share 19-minute epic Joan In The Garden
- A dance remix of Disturbed’s Sound Of Silence cover has cracked the US dance charts, and it is the worst thing we’ve heard in a hot minute
- Watch Skindred perform ragga metal banger Nobody on Conan O’Brien in 2004 – almost 20 years before it went viral on Tiktok
- Elbow announce two UK warm-up shows ahead of arena dates
- “It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands
- “I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead
- Lemmy's ashes to be 'enshrined' at Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles alongside launch of Motorhead Whiskey
- "It was starting to feel like the band had run its course": Whitesnake entered 1984 on a high, but everything was about to change
- "The scent of cremated steaks and exotic gateaux lingers in the air": Revisiting the secret launch of Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers
- "It was a gift. It came from that mysterious place that lyrics sometimes come from": The Tom Petty reject that gave Don Henley the ultimate song of lost innocence
- March 19
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- You are cordially invited to enjoy cocktails and a Q&A with Def Leppard's Joe Elliott at a fancy hotel in London
- Mark Knopfler's all-star Guitar Heroes version of Going Home is battling for the UK #1 spot with Beyoncé and Ariana Grande
- “I suddenly thought, ‘What’s happened in my life that I’m in a room in Liverpool with a Beatle!'" The making of Exploring Birdsong's Dancing In The Face Of Danger
- A beginner's guide to desert rock in five essential albums
- Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, speaks out against 2024 remake: “The Crow is not just a movie. Brandon Lee died making it.”
- “It’s just one of those days!” Watch a 100,000-strong Argentinian crowd sing every word of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff
- “I listen to pop music with headphones so intensely, like I’m studying the Torah… I love the ear-candy stuff!” You might find a hint of Olivia Rodrigo on the new Pattern-Seeking Animals album (and a mildly controversial sax solo too)
- Matt Pike teases Sleep comeback: “We’re talking and working on stuff again.”
- Marshall Woburn III review
- “I thought Geordie was indestructible”: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman pays tribute to his late friend, bandmate and “national treasure” Geordie Walker, doesn't want to hear questions about the band's future
- “Everything from Between The Buried And Me to Duran Duran. There doesn’t seem to be a distinct barrier in terms of what we believe we can funnel into Kyros." The sound of UK prog rockers Kyros and new album Mannequin
- “What’s more satanic than a demon throwing a priest into the water, chained?!” Watch Jack Black react to classic album covers by Dio, Iron Maiden, Manowar and more
- Deep Purple announce =1 More Time UK Tour
- "A frustrating album for me because every brilliant detail seems to be matched by something I don't like": Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- “Robert Fripp watched the show from the wings. As I was playing I was thinking, ‘Oh, I stole this line from Robert… that’s a riff from him too!’” Billy Sheehan’s obsession with King Crimson’s Red
- The 10 best Randy Rhoads guitar solos
- "I think everyone has some sort of death wish... but I don't want to die": The spectacular rise and tragic fall of Paul Kossoff
- Every Patti Smith album ranked from worst to best
- "More soulful than a gospel convention, warmer than a mother's love and groovier than the Grand Canyon": The Black Crowes return in righteous form on Happiness Bastards
- "It was fun being friends with him. He was like a wizard": when you're David Bowie's favourite band, life gets kinda magical
- March 18
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- “So, the encore continues": Pulp share dates for their first North American tour since 2012
- Eight new rock songs you need to hear this week
- "Five years ago we imagined a world of our own. In Bludfest we are going to build one." Yungblud just announced his own festival taking place in Milton Keynes in August - and Lil Yachty, Soft Play and The Damned are amongst the bands playing
- Order your limited edition Judas Priest bundle – featuring an exclusive Invincible Shield T-shirt
- "Did we mention that there’s also a pool?" Prog sets sail on Cruise To The Edge
- Jeff Lynne’s ELO announce final Over And Out tour, with 27 North American shows
- Stevie Nicks adds shows in the UK, Ireland and Europe to her summer 2024 schedule
- "We are so grateful for this experience." Dutch symphonic metal stars Within Temptation have shot a pro-Ukraine music video in Kyiv
- Real Power exhibits the kind of genre-defying artistry which made Blondie and Talking Heads iconic, as Gossip seek to cement their name among the greats
- "The songs, the fans and the firm grasp of their own craft to push them to the biggest stages possible." Creeper just showed Brighton why they're one of the UK's most vital rock bands
- Sólstafir announce European Tour for November and December
- "She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford
- Steven Wilson to release first new Bass Communion album for 12 years
- “What’s clear is the decision to pursue a direction that’s both harder and more experimental – electronics, looping and some fierce guitar”: Jethro Tull’s The Château D’Hérouville Sessions vinyl edition
- March 17
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- 10 massive pop stars who secretly appeared on rock and metal songs
- “I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past
- “The closest thing I can compare it to is the film Gladiator”: Muse’s Matt Bellamy on what it’s like being at the centre of an enormodome rock show
- “The pearl is the little organism that has taken the shit and turned it into something beautiful. Maybe that’s part of what we’ve been able to do.” Eddie Vedder on how Pearl Jam got through their toughest moments
- "He just set me on fire": St. Vincent on working with Dave Grohl on her forthcoming new album
- Cockney Rebel leader Steve Harley dies, aged 73
- “Thomas can listen to a single and say, ‘This is going to be a hit; this won’t be.’ He knows what’ll work on radio. And, of course, we’ve completely avoided that in Gazpacho!” The two-year making of Demon
- “Bob says: ‘Where you from?’ I say, ‘Birmingham’. He goes, ‘Birmingham? How’s Ozzy!’”: the unlikely time Rob Halford met Bob Dylan, the man who gave Judas Priest their name
- “It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made
- Historic status awarded to Birmingham pub dubbed 'birthplace of heavy metal' where Black Sabbath made their debut
- March 16
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- Robert Fripp endorses new Adrian Belew Crimson project Beat
- “I find it irresistible to play the curmudgeonly old vampire”: the late, great Mark Lanegan on why it’s important to keep your sense of humour
- Great new prog from sleepmakeswaves, Beatrix Players, Dim Gray and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- Why I love Kiss, by Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter
- Judas Priest have just scored their highest charting album ever with Invincible Sheield
- “This is the most vulnerable Skindred fans have ever seen, yet that only strengthens the connection”: Skindred bring ragga metal anthems, beach balls and more than a little emotion to their monumental Wembley Arena show
- “That was it for me, a rock god lead guitarist playing on it”: how Metallica’s Kirk Hammett helped a dance classic to come full circle
- “I don’t think Joe would’ve been happy retreading any steps he’d made already”: Paul Simonon on why The Clash never reunited
- “Marc felt this imposition of having to come up with another hit album. And fame fuelled that fire”: how Marc Bolan and T. Rex made a glam rock masterpiece with The Slider
- "It reminded me of punk rock crowds, of being aligned with all of the misfits": Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder found his first Taylor Swift concert "galvanising and powerful"
- “There have never been fisticuffs in this band… Just tense silences”: How Supertramp made the classic Breakfast In America
- 6 mind-bending sci-fi novels every prog metal fan should read
- "The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life
- March 15
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- Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best
- "You're going to Hell for this!": That time I sent deathpunks Turbonegro to play Santa at an old folk's home, and the terrified residents thought World War III had started
- "I was deeply in love with the lady that became Duff McKagan's wife": The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor explains how Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash ended up on his band's new album, Rockmaker
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "He was one of the gang": Before he won three Oscars and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, one world-famous actor was a roadie for Echo & The Bunnymen
- Queen announce deluxe edition, multi-format releases of Queen Rock Montreal
- Brian Eno shares brand new song, the reflective All I Remember
- “I’m doing that thing that many may find tasteless but hopefully at least some may find thrilling… it’s not about control – it’s pure animal!” Why Steve Hackett ramped up the guitar attack on The Circus And The Nightwhale
- "Welcome to the yassification of metal": Brat have officially brought ‘Barbiegrind’ to the metal scene with a promising if imperfect debut
- Simon Godfrey announces UK dates for September
- Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024!
- Marillion share new live clip of Reprogram The Gene
- "The record feels like it was made for the stage": Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce 27-date The Wild God UK / Europe tour, with Dry Cleaning, The Murder Capital and Black Country, New Road in support
- “Someone’s spiked Derek Sherinian and Bumblefoot’s cornflakes – their virtuosity is hotwired for the next gen”: Whom Gods Destroy’s Insanium
- “It brings you to tears”: Listen to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson plus Jeff Beck's last-ever recording on stunning new version of Mark Knopfler's Going Home, raising funds for US and UK cancer charities
- March 14
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- "It’s a maths geek’s love song to maths!" The story of Van der Graaf Generator's A Grounding In Numbers
- Pelagic Records announces Pelagic Fest 2024, featuring The Ocean, Ihsahn, And So I Watched You From Afar and more
- 10 bad habits every gig-goer makes: How many gig gaffes are you guilty of?
- Watch the trailer for the controversial new Crow movie, soundtracked by Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone
- "This looks f***ing mint": Order your limited edition While She Sleeps bundle – featuring an exclusive patch and stencil
- “This is turn-up-the-volume, feelgood Bon Jovi”: Bon Jovi announce new album Forever, release lead single Legendary
- Listen to Todd Rundgren's version of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Pink Floyd announce Animals Dolby Atmos release for May
- “Before I wrote The Cartographer, I would’ve avoided using anything except strings – because I didn’t understand and had no cause to”: Jo Quail learned to write for trombone just in time to add energy to her EP set Invocation/Supplication
- “Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.” Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes to be displayed annually at Bloodstock festival
- Metallica’s Robert Trujillo didn’t know what ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg looked like until they were in Infectious Grooves together
- Portals festival unveils full line-up for 2024
- “That song really affects people. It affects me.” Bruce Dickinson names the greatest song he’s ever written – and, no, it’s not an Iron Maiden track
- “We were making very peculiar music not particularly well played. We got a record contract because the record companies thought, ‘We better get weird’”: Inside the mind of Judge Smith, the man who named Van der Graaf Generator
- "At first I thought Meshuggah were absolute noise, just trash!": Periphery's Misha Mansoor talks early influences, the benefits of social media and internet trolls
- Glastonbury 2024 lineup announced: Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline, Shania Twain, Idles, Heilung, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystem, Avril Lavigne, Sleaford Mods and many more confirmed
- “We were living with cockroaches, writing crazy concept albums and touring the planet”: how prog metal visionaries Voivod invented a whole new genre
- March 13
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- "We realised the power and beauty of nudity": the naked truth about why Red Hot Chili Peppers used to wear socks, and absolutely nothing else, onstage
- All 12 Irish artists invited to play official showcases at the SXSW music festival have withdrawn in solidarity with Palestine
- Watch David Bowie and Blur's Damon Albarn duet on Bowie classic Fashion on French TV
- "Hybrid Theory made me realise metal wasn't this weird, ostracised subgenre": Of Mice & Men's Aaron Pauley picks the 10 records that changed his life
- The 8 songs Iron Maiden have played live the least
- "The perfect ‘Mother metal’ line up": Cassyette picks Witch Fever and Harpy to join her on This World F**king Sucks tour
- Former Nightwish bandmates Marko Hietala and Tarja team up for new single
- The Enid announce 50th anniversary tour dates
- “We weren’t really sure if we could keep being a band – it was very hard to be motivated to remain”: The desperate meetings that saved Caligula’s Horse from self-destruction
- "We have waited a long time to announce this!": L7 reveal plans for Bricks Are Heavy shows in the UK and Europe
- "Before Deathgasm, whenever movies needed a bully, they put them in an Anthrax t-shirt": One of the best heavy metal movies ever is getting a sequel, and it's going to be even more bloody, messy... and metal (of course)
- Dekoni x Hifiman Cobalt headphones review
- “The songs incorporate supernatural ideas with my own experiences.” Gatecreeper have teamed with death metal and hardcore royalty for new album Dark Superstition – judging by lead single The Black Curtain, we’re in for something truly special
- “Imagine if we had done something left-field or really weird? We'd have got stoned to death": Liam Gallagher defends his album with John Squire for sounding like an album Liam Gallagher and John Squire would make
- Watch this metal musician mistake a photographer for a technician and accidentally lob a guitar at him
- “Their sense of adventure has never been up for debate; their progressive ambitions are a perpetual undercurrent”: These songs prove Radiohead are prog
- “It’ll be something you haven’t heard in 20 or 30 years – it’s the perfect way to go out”: Al Jourgensen is reuniting with a legendary ex-bandmate for Ministry’s final album
- "Epic lives up to its title, treading the line between imperious grandeur and ridiculous pomposity": new VLTIMAS album lives up to its member's legendary death metal pedigree
- “I needed to destroy”: Watch video footage of the first-ever Tool concert in 1991
- “I shouldn’t speculate why we were singled out, other than because we were massively offensive”: how Cannibal Corpse became death metal’s first million selling band
- "My man management skills are very poor, but the music that gets made is usually worth it": The story of John Kalodner, the man who made rock stars
- "A mesmerising snapshot of the nihilistic grunge age": Mad Season's only album may forever be associated with tragedy and loss, but the musicians sound liberated
- "It became my favourite song the first time I heard it, and it still is": How Jack White rocket-fuelled his hero Son House for a whole new generation
- March 12
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- The Supertramp albums you should definitely own
- Slash announces all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T. touring blues festival with Warren Haynes, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales, Larkin Poe and more
- “Movies take forever to make. Forever!” An Osbournes biopic is in development, and Sharon knows who she wants to be played by
- “Why did you let Some Kind Of Monster come out?” What happened when Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson interviewed Metallica’s Lars Ulrich
- Fugazi: A great title but no songs to go with it… even the pathologically casual Marillion started to worry they’d never write the record, and they’d never get a drummer to play on it if they did
- "I wrote about a threesome I had in Holland." Lzzy Hale picks the 15 greatest Halestorm songs, and explains the stories behind them
- “We refuse to participate in the war machine." Scowl, Gel, Sprints, Lambrini Girls and more pull out of SXSW Festival in protest at festival's US Army links
- Jon Anderson's In The City Of Angels to get another reissue
- Every Metallica instrumental ranked from worst to best
- “It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog
- Hüsker Dü may have looked like a bunch of misfits, but they enjoyed an extraordinary musical chemistry: Why you should definitely own Zen Arcade
- Raspberries frontman and solo star Eric Carmen dead at 74
- "Who knows where we would have gone had we not had that monster hit? It was the beginning of the end for us": The real story of Free, told by those who were there
- "No holograms, no troupes of dancers, just a giant light-up trident descending from the ceiling": Judas Priest keep it simple on a triumphant first night of the Invincible Shield tour
- March 11
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- Weezer to embark on space-themed tour to celebrate the Blue Album's 30th birthday with Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr
- "We decided time is short, we better do this now!": John Fogerty announces tour with George Thorogood
- Karl Wallinger of World Party has died, aged 66
- "Wacky avalanches of overripe gorgonzola delivered with the band’s trademark OTT exuberance and virtuosic flair": Dragonforce's Warp Speed Warriors might be more meme than music, but it still delivers the goods
- “I get excited when a witch comes out of the broom closet”: Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle – featuring an exclusive patch
- "On this kind of form, and with this momentum, surely nothing is going to stop Knocked Loose." Hardcore's most exciting band just decimated London's 2,500-capacity Forum
- Biffy Clyro announce intimate 'A Celebration Of Beginnings' UK dates, playing their first three albums in full
- “This will be one of those concerts that people fiercely envy you for attending.” Orbit Culture reaffirm their standing as metal’s next big thing at a sweaty, sold-out London Underworld
- "It sounds like worse Ghost." Watch Creeper send up some of the more outraged comments that greeted them winning Metal Hammer's album of the year in 2023
- “Our music teacher would belt us if we didn’t know all the musical signs and notes. She used to play Mussorgsky… so I love ELP’s version of Pictures At An Exhibition”: Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes names his prog heroes
- “People think we get our calculators out and work out some kind of complex mathematical formula”: how Meshuggah redefined tech metal for the 21st century
- Ten moments of maverick musical genius from Keith Emerson
- Watch Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen join Ryan Gosling onstage at the Oscars to rip through Barbie hit I'm Just Ken
- "I don't think they're gonna retire. They've been retiring for the last twenty years": Kiss played their final show last year, but Ace Frehley isn't convinced
- "Marc Bolan sounds supercharged and in control of barely keeping it in control": T. Rex confound the critics on Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Blues Pills, Tuk Smith, Pain and more
- Slipknot are rehearsing with a new drummer – and the signs are that they hit very, very hard
- March 10
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- Vote for the best Slayer song ever
- "When he agreed to sing it just blew me away": Sheryl Crow releases cover of Peter Gabriel's Digging In The Dirt and he's on board
- "We will continue to play for him": Blackberry Smoke confirm return to the road after the death of drummer Brit Turner
- Slash announces blues album featuring Billy Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Iggy Pop and more, launches video for cover of Killing Floor with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler
- "When I was a kid, my obsession was rifling through the forest for mushrooms. Then I gravitated toward witchcraft." We spent a day amongst neolithic tombs and monoliths with occult metal sensations, Green Lung
- "We chose to be a progressive metal band because it meant that we could do whatever we want." Periphery
- “We weren’t tempted to pursue that particular avenue, no. Led Zeppelin did it much better than us”: the Pink Floyd song that made Nick Mason realise they would have been a “terrible” heavy metal band
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”
- “People have to put up with this rap-metal stuff. They’re looking for something with meaning”: Mudvayne were written off as third-rate Slipknot clones. They proved everyone wrong
- “It might be downbeat, but emotions run strong in its slowly churning depths”: Fates Warning offshoot North Sea Echoes’ Really Good Terrible Things
- “We hesitated to say yes. The chances of making fools of ourselves were so big”: Live Aid was Queen’s crowning glory. But they nearly turned it down
- March 9
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- A burned CD-R copy of an unreleased solo album by Ghost's Tobias Forge sold online for almost $5500
- "It still excites me and breaks my heart." Trent Reznor reflects on 30 years of Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Downward Spiral
- “We don’t have this need to party and to cling to other people doing the same thing that we are”: how Within Temptation followed their own path to make The Heart Of Everything
- The rarest and most expensive records by 10 major rock bands
- "We like to keep the fans on their toes, and we like to keep ourselves on our toes too." The story of Between The Buried & Me's Automata concept albums
- Also Eden, Hayley Griffiths and HeKz announced as headline acts for Danfest 13
- “He told me I was like a shaman onstage. I reminded him of Jim Morrison”: Carlos Santana once wanted to start a delta blues band… with Gavin Rossdale from Bush
- “We invented the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal as a joke”: how Chimaira bounced back from the edge of oblivion with Resurrection
- "Blackwater Park has been hyped as this big breakthrough for us. It really wasn't": How stress, isolation and Grand Theft Auto III inspired Opeth to write Windowpane
- Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever
- “Why is writing your own material such an obsession for so many people? They should be grateful we don’t write songs. They’d be terrible”: Manfred Mann has no time for his own back catalogue
- “He was one of the most crucial figures of the ’60s. Much of the underground was his invention”: the forgotten story of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the man who invented psychedelic London
- March 8
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- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “We knew if we stuck together, we would create great things.” Amaranthe have three vocalists and make music that resembles ABBA on a bloodthirsty rampage. They might just be the most extra band in heavy metal
- Order your exclusive Big Big Train bundle featuring a unique front cover, art print and signed lyric sheet
- Killer new prog from John Carpenter, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Exist and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
- Leprous announced as Sunday headliners for Radar Festival
- "There’s odes to pop culture moments in there from Mean Girls to Michelangelo...obviously made a bit goth." Watch the fantastically bonkers video for Bambie Thug's Irish Eurovision entry, Doomsday Blue
- “People don’t realise the depth and diversity on the rest of the material. If you’re a Yes or Genesis devotee, this band should be on your radar”: Kansas’ image problem means even a future member struggled to discover them
- Andy Tillison goes it alone on brand new The Tangent album
- Avenged Sevenfold play live debuts, deep cuts and one long-lost classic at first 2024 concert
- Tangerine Dream's Phaedra at 50 is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- “We’re really proud of the track!” Tenacious D release full cover of Britney Spears’ …Baby One More Time, plus star-studded music video featuring Bryan Cranston, Ke Huy Quan, Dustin Hoffman and more
- “Uncompromisingly melancholic – but there’s light amid the despair when Elizabeth Heaton sounds positively lovestruck”: Midas Fall’s Cold Wave Divide Us
- "Then someone shoved a copy of the band's now legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo into my beer-stained hands": The Mötley Crüe haters who paved the way for one man's discovery of Metallica
- "I went out expecting to see Kiss at Hammersmith Odeon and instead spent the evening in a pub with Bon Scott and Angus Young": An AC/DC story
- For 10 years Sheer Mag were hounded by record labels but refused to sign: Now they're ready for the attention
- "Bon Jovi was all or nothing": A trailer for the upcoming TV series Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story has been released
- A biopic about Bon Scott's early life is in the works: Boy Swallows Universe actor Lee Tiger Halley set to star
- "I don't like the production of that record. I don't like how it sounds. I don't like how it looks": Soundgarden look back at their breakthrough album Superunknown
- Rob Halford may look like Santa Claus in fetish gear, but his vocal is still the unrelenting, glass-breaking scream of a man 50 years younger, and Judas Priest's Invincible Shield is pristine and powerful
- March 7
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- "We lost our guiding light": Magnum frontman Bob Catley releases emotional video statement two months after the death of bandmate Tony Clarkin
- "They daubed the walls of their hotel in human excrement": Remembering how Britain lost its mind when confronted with the Beastie Boys for the first time
- "Oh my god!" Watch 'dwarf metal' band Wind Rose surprise two fans at an airport who were wearing their merch without knowing the band were right behind them
- A dad got his kids to help make a deathcore version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm and it's equal parts hilarious and adorable
- "The world was on fire for 48 hours and then the world moved on." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford compares his coming out experience to Billie Eilish's
- "Nobody liked us because we sounded like Foo Fighters!": the inside story of the doomed Dave Grohl album no-one ever talks about
- RPWL share new live clip of Another Life Beyond Control
- “I still buy a new album and flick through it trying to find the weepy ballad – but for God’s sake, I was in Mostly Autumn for 13 years!” Heather Findlay’s affection for melancholy
- The Watch announce Lamb Lies Down On Broadway UK tour for November
- Don Broco, Frank Turner, Bob Vylan, Empire State B*stard, Wargasm and more complete stacked 2000trees line-up
- "It's not a comfortable ride, but it is an electric one": GosT's Prophecy brings the synthwave pioneer back to his roots
- "Enslaved still sound as explosive as they did when they started." Enslaved, Svalbard and Wayfarer contort black metal into startling new forms at stunning London show
- “I would love to have been part of some of those great later pieces… But the price you pay is that some people’s lives are not happy”: What if Anthony Phillips hadn’t left Genesis?
- "We were in debt by about a million dollars. That album saved us from probable obscurity": The story of the Cheap Trick album that transformed their fortunes
- The Y&T albums you should definitely own
- "We're all in this together": In a world getting crazier and crazier, Ministry's Al Jourgensen is the unlikely voice of sanity
- Axl Rose refutes allegations of sexual abuse, cites earlier acknowledgments of consent by accuser
- March 6
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- Watch Tom Morello and Nile Rodgers lead an all-star lineup of guitarists through an all-shred instrumental cover of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
- "I guess I'm honoured he even thinks about me as much as he seems to": Wolfgang Van Halen responds to David Lee Roth's bizarre personal attacks with polite resignation
- "This was fun!" Talking Heads vocalist David Byrne has recorded a Paramore cover in recognition of Paramore covering Talking Heads
- "There’s no f**king around with this record. When it hits, it hits": Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds share title track of new album Wild God
- This is what Van Halen’s Jump would sound like if it were recorded by Slayer (and no, it isn’t AI-generated)
- "This is acceptable at Amon Amarth shows only!" An audience did some viking rowing at a Deafheaven concert, and metalheads aren't too happy about it
- Bush Hall's future as a music venue under threat due to rising costs and decreased fan spending
- “We know a lot of you travelled a great distance to get us to our destination so thank you”: watch U2's stunning performance of Beautiful Day which caused Dave Grohl to lose his mind in Las Vegas
- “We had these guys stomp out a 700ft crop circle”: The story of when Korn played a concert surrounded by corn
- “While recovering, I didn’t want to stress myself out, so we didn’t rehearse as much. Luckily when I write the music, I give the hard parts to everyone else!” Earthside’s choice between aiming for perfection and getting their second album out ASAP
- "Kim Gordon has no interest in making music for the faint-hearted": with The Collective, Sonic Youth's iconic former vocalist/bassist throws expectations out the window in thrilling fashion
- "My idea of a pop tune!" Kavus Torabi launches new solo album with video for Snake Humanis
- Moon Safari, Cyan and Magic Pie to headline Summer's End 2024
- Beloved UK metallers Palm Reader announce breakup, farewell tour: “We all have very different priorities now.”
- "I'd cover Metallica's St. Anger": Babymetal talk touring, collaborations and opening the door for Japanese metal
- Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris wants to write an autobiography: “It’s just a question of time.”
- “We’re prog rock without the solos”: Experimental sounds, non-linear arrangements and big, conceptual ideas would seem to prove Guy Garvey is right about his band Elbow
- Jimmy Page and Jackie De Shannon: the songwriting partnership that inspired the future Led Zeppelin star's only lead vocal
- "So I drink it – and the next thing I know it was eight days later": Bluesman Philip Sayce on industry sharks, his werewolf obsession, and the dangers of drinking at LA parties
- Tension, ego, heroin: How The Clash's epic unreleased double album Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg all but finished them off
- "We're probably at the point that we can get away with it": Feeder are thirty years old in 2024, and they're finally ready to release a double album
- "That song will long outlive us. Can't think of a better calling card to leave behind": The Buckcherry song that'll be the band's epitaph
- Uriah Heep's performance of Stealin' on The Midnight Special in 1973 is classic rock that's both classic and rockin'
- March 5
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- "I can't wait to start this incredibly exciting new chapter": Ex Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has found a new home in Suicidal Tendencies
- Jon Anderson announces Yes: Epics, Classics and More tour: new music on the way
- "Prog is all about musicianship and a lot of people might think we just make slow stuff, but there’s a lot of thought and precision. We grew up on The Mars Volta and Radiohead." VLMV make their case
- Kim Gordon announces UK shows, extends US and European tours, shares video for new single Psychedelic Orgasm
- "I’m really looking forward to this incredible night to celebrate together." Korn announce stadium-sized debut album 30th-anniversary show, featuring Evanescence, Gojira and more
- 6 rare Slayer songs we need them to play at their comeback shows
- “There was an amazing synergy. The longest single session was 72 hours. We fed the engineer speed pills… we’d scramble to write lyrics then pluck vocal harmonies out of the air”: How Nektar’s ambition and effort gave the world Remember The Future
- "I would assume it’s going to happen." Are Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine going to release a song together?
- Soft Machine announce Ronnie Scotts date in April
- Ai Di Meola announces new studio album Twentyfour
- Every Helmet album ranked from the worst to the best
- The Blackheart Orchestra need your help!
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- Dave Grohl went to see U2's final show in Las Vegas and had A Very Good Time
- "Crank it up now!" Black Sabbath's Paranoid passes one billion streams on Spotify
- "It's a few people trying to steal centre stage and if you don't know already I still own this particular stage for now." Raging Fish slams online trolls over farewell shows
- Listen to Black Sabbath cover Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water, with Ian Gillan on vocals
- “Even with our accessible songs we get pinned as bizarre and wrong. Somebody was writing about unicorns and centaurs in a review and I was like, ‘That was two records ago’”: Did Coheed And Cambria go too far up their own concept for some?
- "My family were pastors and a lot of injustice was taught to me as a little girl. Now it's my time to put on the collar and preach": The rise of occult rockers Lucifer
- "We'd started playing small dance halls for a few hundred people, now suddenly we were opening for the Stones and The Who": A celebration of the life and music of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington
- "I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
- March 4
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- Every The Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best
- "The doubters have all gone now": Steve Diggle on continuing Buzzcocks without Pete Shelley
- London's iconic Brixton Academy to reopen in April with Nirvana, Smiths, Oasis and Foo Fighters tributes
- Pixies part ways with bassist Paz Lenchantin after 10 years and announce Band of Skulls' Emma Richardson as her replacement
- "When we do progressive rock, there’s no rules – we just keep writing, keep putting together whatever parts we like." How The Flower Kings made By Royal Decree
- Watch actor Mark Benton win almost £10,000 on The Celebrity Weakest Link - and donate it all to the ultimate heavy metal charity, The Heavy Metal Truants
- "It's a celebration that we’re still alive and we’re still going and hopefully there’s still light at the end of the tunnel." The story of Marillion and An Hour Before It's Dark
- "We threw everything away at one point": Justin Chancellor talks new Tool material, fashion and why MTVoid aren't a supergroup
- "My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.
- “We want to be a voice for those who don’t dare speak up." Dogma are a bunch of sexually-charged, corpsepainted, metal-playing nuns. And they're here to spread liberation and queer love in the rock scene.
- "Fifty years on from their tentative first steps, Priest have produced what may well be the most defiantly, unrelentingly triumphant record of their career." New Judas Priest album Invincible Shield is nothing short of magnificent
- Chinese prog metallers OU return with second abum 蘇醒 II: Frailty
- Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."
- “Serene, melodic and as refreshing as the breeze… complete with looped lambs’ cries”: How prog is Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure?
- Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner dead at 57
- Robby Krieger wrote The Doors' classic Light My Fire. But what he really wants, more than anything, is to have an instrumental hit
- "Epitomising the blend of prog-rock chops, pop sensibility and Zappa-influenced weirdness that was Max's secret formula": Max Webster's High Class In Borrowed Shoes
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mdou Moctar, St Vincent, Danko Jones and more
- March 3
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- "We should have been writing our own songs, but it was much better to listen to Abba": Ritchie Blackmore has named his favourite band of all time
- "We're singing about hot girls and cool stuff. It's what people really need right now": Now that Van Halen are no more, BulletBoys want to revive their party spirit
- Warning: Deep Purple's new animated video for Dweezil Zappa's remix of Smoke On The Water contains dragons
- “It’s about how grateful we were to have our time with Cliff”: Watch the only time Metallica have ever played emotional instrumental To Live Is To Die live
- “I have fond memories of sitting on Lemmy‘s lap after he’d come offstage, with his hair in a white towel turban”: Rob Halford says Judas Priest‘s new album has a tribute to Lemmy and Ronnie James Dio
- “When Dime went away, my heart went with him. I didn’t think I’d ever really be able to do this again”: Vinnie Paul’s return from tragedy with Hellyeah
- “We’re revelling in the hell we are in. We say, ‘Please enjoy your death’”: this classic Ghost interview from 2011 shows they were always destined for greatness
- The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project
- “I learnt such a lot from Roy Wood… when we did Northern Lights I said, ‘Why don’t we double track my voice?’ That’s all it took - but we didn’t know it would be a hit”: How Renaissance made it to Top Of The Pops and The Kenny Everett Video Show
- Scientists name Jurassic marine worm after shock rock icon Alice Cooper
- March 2
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- "Cheers to the BRITs for making the voting system so complicated that only our fans could be arsed to vote!": Bring Me The Horizon defeat The Rolling Stones, Blur and more to win Best Alternative/Rock Act at the BRIT Awards
- Watch Courtney Love sing Hole classic Celebrity Skin with Green Day's covers band The Coverups at London's iconic 100 Club
- “We were spoofing the idea of the concept album, but in a fun way that didn’t totally mock it… It’s only in recent times that I’ve appreciated how complex the music is”: Why Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick needed to be serious - and a send-up
- “I had heard how turbulent this band was. All this fighting over control and power”: Don Felder lived through the best and worst of the Eagles, and came out the other side
- “I don’t remember saying I’d never heard Led Zeppelin. It’s beyond stupidity to say that!”: did Kingdom Come really sound like Zeppelin? Not according to singer Lenny Wolf
- “Vultures were on the bedpost. It was a dark road and I was losing my lust for life”: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is metal’s great survivor
- "We had a ‘no filter’ rule on this album: make it as crazy as you want." Haken and the story of Fauna
- 10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet)
- "The Bigelf DNA is stronger than you think." How Mike Portnoy helped resurrect Bigelf with Into The Maelstrom
- The 20 greatest rock supergroups ever
- "We’re not a band that writes about fast cars, hot chicks and partying." How Queensrÿche got their prog metal groove back with The Verdict
- “Lyrically, it’s something that makes Samuel Beckett sound like Tommy Cooper." Tim Bowness and the story of Flowers At The Scene
- "When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson
- Rick and Oliver Wakeman, Gordon Giltrap and more line up for charity concert
- “10 years ago no one in the US would bought an album by an Italian metal band. The idea doesn’t seem so strange now”: how Lacuna Coil served up a 2000s classic with Karmacode and went global in the process
- “I picked up that sad song thing from Del Shannon and Roy Orbison. Sometimes sadness is the greatest thing to listen to… It’s like, ‘I’m happy now ’cos that’s exactly how I feel’”: Is the secret to Jeff Lynne’s success with ELO that simple?
- These Wicked Rivers rock the preacher hats and grizzled beards, but it's the songwriting on second album Force Of Nature that's turned them into real contenders
- March 1
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- "We are starting from point zero. And this time, we’re reading the fine print": Hayley Williams is ready to lead Paramore into a bright new tomorrow
- "I miss him and his dog": Keith Richards has recorded a cover of Lou Reed's classic I'm Waiting For My Man
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Richie Faulkner isn’t sure if Judas Priest will make another album after Invincible Shield: “You never know what the future holds”
- Surprise! Black Country Communion announce first album in seven years, share 2024's funkiest rock single Stay Free
- “It was a real awkward time”: The story of the abandoned Metallica album
- "Capital and its bourgeois foot soldiers hold nothing but contempt for working people": Bad Breeding return in defiant form with Survival, the fierce first single from forthcoming album Contempt
- “In my head I wanted to be in Genesis; I wanted to be in It Bites. I was living the dream and there was no second-guessing. So there’s a lovely innocence with these tracks”: What Rob Reed learned by reinventing Cyan for the 21st century
- Cool new prog music you have to hear this week from Von Hertzen Brothers, Jane Weaver, Richard Thompson and more...
- "If you were anticipating audacious swerves into grindcore, drill, chillwave or ragga, then, as Obi-Wan Gallagher sings, these are not the droids you're looking for": Relax lads, Liam Gallagher John Squire is the Brit-Bloke audio catnip you expected
- Cosmograf to release first ever live album
- Enslaved announce Jo Quail will perform Congelia with them at London's opening night of their latest tour
- Wheel announce third studio album Charismatic Leaders
- “All of that youthful exuberance was still there!” Rob Halford is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer - cuddling kittens!
- "Love them or dismiss them, Exit Emotions will only propel Blind Channel towards the arenas calling their name": Former Eurovision contestants step up as leading lights in the nu metal revival
- “Laid To Rest is 20 years old!” This new comedy sketch about ‘modern metal classics’ will make you feel old, guaranteed!
- “This song is underrated!” Watch the only time Slipknot have performed All Hope Is Gone’s incredible title track live
- Maybeshewill celebrate 10th anniversary of Fair Youth with remixed and remastered vinyl edition
- Liam Gallagher & John Squire's collaborative album really works: maybe it's because Squire is working with a singer for the first time
- "It’s going to be a very unique night of music and storytelling": Barrett Martin lines up UK tour with Duke Garwood to celebrate the release of his new Screaming Trees memoir
- “It was so powerful and also kind of dark… it started to produce itself. I remember thinking, ‘I’m not pulling any punches – it’s going to be close to the bone”: Mostly Autumn’s struggle to give late guitarist Liam Davison the send-off he deserved
- "We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock
- “The heart of darkness for me is a heart of honesty, it’s the heart of vulnerability”: how Ville Valo pulled back from the abyss and bared his soul on HIM’s Screamworks
- “An album of genuine warmth and quiet wonder – and if it’s a little safe, well, that’s understandable”: Revamped Big Big Train return with The Likes Of Us
- "I've had to turn my back, because, you know, the big man is not supposed to cry": All the stories from behind the scenes at Kiss's emotional final blow-out at Madison Square Garden
- From lonely female vampires who long for death to a reworking of an Iron Maiden classic, The Mandrake Project proves that Bruce Dickinson really can do anything
- "A beguiling mixture of 70s Genesis and English classical music": Big Big Train plot a familiar course on 16th album The Likes of Us
- "Ministry's best record since we were all young and good-looking": Hopiumforthemasses is a triumphant return from Al Jourgensen
- "A 72-year-old rock'n'roll delinquent with a righteous touch": Walter Trout gets heavy and heartfelt on new album Broken
- “I was with him from day one”: Alex Van Halen's forthcoming memoir Brothers promises to offer “the definitive take on Edward Van Halen’s life and death from the one who knew and loved him best”
- A new Jack Reacher story is coming and it's inspired by AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long
