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- August 31
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- “Grunge? I don’t know too many things where people are praised for having less skill”: The blazing story of Shrapnel Records, the 80s label that gave shred to the world
- “Chuck Schuldiner from Death yelled at me for being drunk onstage. That was me not at my best”: Legendary drummer Gene Hoglan is interviewed by equally legendary drummers from Slipknot, Sepultura and more
- “The way he uses all his drum kit; no one else really sounds like that." How Gavin Harrison's arrival inspired The Pineapple Thief's Dissolution
- "I wanted to be the person who came up with the ideas and made grandiose visionary albums." How TV soap opera director Phideaux became a prog sensation
- Iamthemorning announce full band London show for November
- “In the 80s, you ordered a gram of cocaine like you ordered a beer. Doing cocaine was normal in those days”: The high times and crazy life of the Scorpions
- “History tends to point to 1975 as something of a slump… worthy names prove it was another very good year”: Ring The Bells And Sing – Progressive Sounds Of 1975 box set
- "I had a swastika t-shirt thinking I was Sid Vicious!" The chaotic rise, fall and rise (again) of iconic rasta-punks Bad Brains
- “In the future, we are going to be everywhere”: Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan wants to play the Olympics in 2028
- “It had a huge impact on me and helped shape who I am today”: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich on being an Oasis superfan
- “The death of my mother was the worst thing that ever happened to me. For a year my motto was, ‘Why should I play, why should I eat, for what?’”: The darkness and despair of late Type O Negative frontman and goth metal icon Peter Steele
- “You’ve got to have control over the creative side. If all you’re interested in is the music then you’re gonna get shafted”: 25 years on from the release of their debut, revisiting a 1999 interview with Muse
- “When I heard the synth intro to The Final Countdown, my reaction was: ‘This is nuts, we can’t use this.’ Thank God they didn’t listen to me”: The epic story of Europe, the band who were more than just a one hit wonder
- August 30
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- “MTV said, ‘When we look at bands like Mötley Crüe, we know it’s a joke.’ I’m not going to be some clown for MTV”: The twisted, turbulent story of Danzig’s classic Metallica-approved debut album
- “It’s boring. It’s over. He left our pop group when I was in my 30s.” David Gilmour says he'll talk about his fall-out with Roger Waters “one day”, admits he doesn't know his old friend's post-Pink Floyd work
- The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Every Outkast album ranked from worst to best
- Every Leprous album ranked from worst to best
- “Don't even think about using my music you fascists.” Jack White labels Donald Trump “scum”, and promises the former US President that he'll be hearing from his lawyers
- Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield act opposite Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage in new clip from The Thicket
- “Enough character, charm and chutzpah to ensure that they transcend their obvious influences.” Palaye Royale shoot their shot for immortality on the life-affirming Death or Glory
- Order your limited edition Nightwish x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an exclusive t-shirt!
- Marilyn Manson claims Evan Rachel Wood faked letter from FBI agent in new legal appeal
- Christine McVie's Fleetwood Mac memorabilia, wardrobe and belongings to be sold in auction as a "celebration of her extraordinary talent and enduring impact on music"
- “Their story, though well-known, still beguiles”: Mike Cormack’s Everything Under The Sun: The Complete Guide To Pink Floyd
- Watch Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale cover Crawling amid rumours of Linkin Park returning with female singer
- Cool new proggy sounds from Tim Bowness, Charlotte Wessels, Dim Gray and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Beardfish share first new music since reuniting. Listen to In The Autumn here...
- “Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” Primal Scream offer a cautionary warning about our troubled world with Deep Dark Waters
- “It’s a warning to those who have crossed me”: Irish Eurovision alumnus Bambie Thug releases new single Hex So Heavy with nightmarish music video
- Rosalie Cunningham reveals details of new album To Shoot Another Day
- “My pursuit of work and all things ego was killing me. And nearly killed me.” Slipknot’s Corey Taylor explains 2024 breakdown
- You can now stream Gojira’s performance at the 2024 Olympic Games on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
- Linkin Park announce next announcement
- "I stood right at the front and watched. There was hardly anyone there": Behind the scenes at Led Zeppelin's first UK show, told by the people who saw it
- "He remains the world's most influential guitarist": Six essential posthumous albums by Jimi Hendrix
- “It might be the most accessible thing they’ve put out, but they’ve hardly turned into a garage rock band”: Leprous ditch the excess baggage on Melodies Of Atonement
- "There was no food allowed backstage, only drugs and booze": Clem Burke's stories of Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop and more
- "Pristine pop and rock with a twist of glam and bursting with arena-ready songs": Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts shine on Rogue To Redemption
- "Every track on it either was a single or just acted like it was": The 30th anniversary edition of Definitely Maybe is a reminder of the cockiness and verve of Oasis
- August 29
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- "A joyous anthem for an era of self-hatred": Manic Street Preachers launch celebratory new single Decline & Fall
- New six-disc reissue for Porcupine Tree's Fear Of A Blank Planet
- “Iggy Pop told me he got a speeding ticket while pumping out the demo!” Asian Dub Foundation's Steve Chandrasonic on his band's collaborations with Iggy Pop, Sinéad O’Connor, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Stewart Lee, Primal Scream and more
- "Bleak and hopeless, beautiful and poignant, desperately uncomfortable to listen to, yet impossible to ignore." Revisiting Manic Street Preachers' dark masterpiece The Holy Bible at 30
- “My doctors wanted to cut my arm off”: How Fleshgod Apocalypse turned a near-fatal accident into symphonic death metal magnum opus Opera
- “I played it to Jon Anderson and his son. They were both crying – which was either a huge compliment or a disaster!” Trevor Rabin and Jon Anderson unlock the secrets of Yes's overlooked Talk
- "I just thought he looked like a 13th-century serf from Monty Python": Why Courtney Love turned Oasis' Liam Gallagher down
- "There’s a sadness to that album." How addiction, thrash royalty and the long tail of 9/11 oversaw Lamb Of God's career-defining Ashes Of The Wake
- “I would like to do a duet with Bonnie Tyler!" Five minutes with Hammerfall's Joacim Cans
- Every Oasis album ranked from the worst to the best
- "Like Van Halen reincarnated": Watch 10-year-old guitarist Maya Neelakantan blaze through her Metallica-approved performance of Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent
- How to watch this weekend’s epic WWE Bash In Berlin
- “We’ve been creative little weirdos.” The Last Dinner Party share cover of Sparks' This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us, talk up second album plans
- “Do you like... beer?” What happened when we accompanied sugar-sweet Japanese ‘Harajuku-core’ metallers Hanabie to the UK's biggest rock festival, Download
- “I really thought this album might be the last one I ever made…”: Halsey shares time-warping trailer for new album The Great Impersonator
- “So wasteful… such a futile and pointless gesture”: Ian Anderson sent a flute into space, and William Shatner followed later. The Jethro Tull leader wishes neither of those things had happened
- Oasis tickets haven't even gone on sale yet and they've already added more dates
- "Oh my goodness! It's so rousing! Especially the end!": The soundtrack of Gene Simmons' life
- Michael Schenker launches version of UFO classic Only You Can Rock Me aided by Joey Tempest and Roger Glover
- Joy Division Day in Macclesfield will celebrate iconic band and late frontman Ian Curtis
- "Mr Cain is elated with the outcome": Jonathan Cain claims victory in ongoing legal dispute with Journey bandmate Neal Schon
- Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"
- August 28
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- "It does what great art is supposed to do, taking the artist's experiences, however dark, and making them universal": Nick Cave returns to the water on Wild God
- Bryan Ferry hooks up with Nine Inch Nails for his first original song in more than a decade
- Linkin Park countdown starts counting back up, everybody confused
- “The context had changed so much. I knew I had a lot of quirks and weird things, but there were only dysfunctions left”: Daniel Gildenlöw on confronting his neurodiversity via Pain Of Salvation’s Panther
- “I go to the urinal and I feel a wet stream going down my left leg.” The night ex-Beatle John Lennon peed on one of the men who launched Woodstock festival
- Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, more added to 2025 Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park lineups
- Gryphon to release their first ever live album
- There’s a metal festival simulator game coming out, overseen by a member of Sabaton
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up about offering guidance to fellow LGBTQ+ musicians: "I'm here. I'm queer. Get ****ing used to it."
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor make typically cryptic announcement about new album
- “Shane had dropped an enormous amount of acid. Mark E. Smith was out of his mind on amphetamines. I was literally one day out of rehab.” Nick Cave recalls his “disastrous” first meeting with his dear friend and “angel” Shane MacGowan
- "Africa is the future of metal." Meet Arka’n Asrafokor, Togo's first heavy metal band
- Kate Bush on her love of David Bowie: "He was just the right amount of weird, obviously intelligent and, of course, very sexy"
- Every Flaming Lips album ranked from worst to best
- "I have a lot of compassion for them...they’ve lost good people." What Mushroomhead think of fellow masked metallers Slipknot now
- "Genesis owes him so much." Band members pay tribute to former tour manager Richard Macphail
- Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night
- Spotify are hosting fake songs by at least 30 major metal bands, including While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Art Is Murder
- “People will speculate that Mike Portnoy playing on my album means things are gonna change in Dream Theater. It’s not that at all”: When John Petrucci reunited with his old friend for solo album Terminal Velocity
- "It was spiralling out of control. You find yourself in some dodgy situations waiting outside train stations at three in the morning": How Orange Goblin's Ben Ward turned his life around
- The sounds that shaped rock'n'roll: A brief history of the Mississippi saxophone
- "If they were to take X-rays, you'd see that his joints have taken a serious beating": What AC/DC mean to me, by Aerosmith's Joe Perry
- "We went ahead and did it, and it exploded in everybody's faces. It was embarrassing": How UFO fell apart then found themselves again
- August 27
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- Watch Mick Rock's previously unseen video for David Bowie's Starman
- Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley: “I am not joining Linkin Park”
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada
- “I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short
- “I thought the remake was a cynical cash-grab. Not much cash to grab it seems.” Despite all those scathing reviews, The Crow 2024’s harshest critic is the first film’s director
- The 12 Oasis songs you need to know
- Haunt The Woods, League Of Lights, Beardfish and more announced as support acts for Big Big Train tour
- “I’m terrified… I want my child to grow up able to speak her mind and to have opinions of her own”: Why Airbag had to call out cancel culture on The Century Of The Self
- Watch this The Voice Australia contestant cover Britney Spears’ Toxic – with death metal growls!
- Johnny Marr posts cryptic response to quash any hope of a reunion from The Smiths following Oasis comeback news
- Japanese metalcore squad Hanabie release heavy new single Metamorphose
- Sabaton will release concert film The Tour To End All Tours to theatres in October
- "Melodies Of Atonement feels like a culmination of two decades’ worth of experience, energy and insight." Leprous show exactly how they've become prog metal royalty
- Will Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley front a reunited Linkin Park? The internet is starting to think so…
- "The great wait is over": After 15 years and countless arguments, the worst-kept secret in music has been confirmed: Oasis have reunited
- “I remember dissecting YYZ and learning all his different techniques… I use that stuff all the time with Dream Theater”: John Petrucci wouldn’t be John Petrucci without Rush’s Alex Lifeson
- "He would have embraced rap and hip-hop because he absorbed music like a sponge. It would have become part of what he created": What Jimi Hendrix means to me, by Eddie Kramer
- A beginner's guide to Taj Mahal in 10 essential videos
- "London was implicated in the collusion of a fat music industry bloated on cocaine and bereft of direction": How London lost its lustre
- "Baby boomers and bikers are eighty per cent of our audience, but we're seeing more and more young people": Fito de la Parra looks back on 60 years of Canned Heat
- August 26
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- Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra have played the first show of their final US tour: setlist, pics, video
- "We always felt like we were on the brink of the mainstream, but never crossed over." Fictitious car crashes, flooded basements and Jackass: how CKY became unlikely MTV stars with 96 Quite Bitter Beings
- Tim Bowness embraces electro-pop on new single Lost/Not Lost
- "A lurid, increasingly Neanderthal-minded caricature of the band’s trademark sound. It's an absolute blast." US hardcore brutes Nails are reborn anew on Every Bridge Burning
- Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt features on poignant new Pure Reason Revolution single Betrayal
- Devin Townsend shares first music from new album PowerNerd
- “I had, like, 18 whiskies”: The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to post-rock idol Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham
- "This is the beginning of the journey." Why Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower started an experimental metal band called BloodMagic
- "If memorable hooks were an offence they'd have been locked up with no chance of parole": The Cheap Trick albums you should definitely listen to
- "From a period when the band's theatricality had yet to spill over into pretension": Styx successfully fight the pomp rock wars on The Grand Illusion
- “When it comes to many of the classics, I don’t even know what they’re about!” How Mikael Åkerfeldt’s policy of not taking advice led Opeth to Pale Communion
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Paul Rodgers take a rare guitar solo as Bad Company rock The Midnight Special in 1979
- Watch Status Quo play the last live song they will ever play, probably
- August 25
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- Queens Of The Stone Age cancel all remaining 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives "essential medical care"
- Bryan Adams showcases the "chaos and destruction" of battle in new video for War Machine
- “When you hear the Monnow Valley stuff, it’s not got a swagger to it”: Noel Gallagher on the version of Definitely Maybe that Oasis binned
- “The phrase ‘What’s the frequency, Kenneth?’ represents inscrutability”: Michael Stipe on the story behind an R.E.M. classic
- “It’s disarming being expected to do the whole ‘Oh yeah! Throw the horns, dude!’ thing. I couldn’t do it with a straight face”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt loves metal, but he doesn’t always take it seriously
- “I am in the Gene Simmons business. I am the biggest fan of Gene Simmons”: Happy 75th birthday to Gene Simmons, Kiss bassist and unrepentant asshole
- “It was a tragedy what happened to Jaco Pastorius… It’s why I’m glad I only have a modicum of talent”: Chicago ex Jason Scheff hails his prog heroes Weather Report
- Foo Fighters take action over Donald Trump's use of My Hero at rally – and they'll donate royalties to his opponent Kamala Harris
- Linkin Park launch countdown timer on their website – hinting at upcoming major announcement
- August 24
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- “Were Black Sabbath heavy metal? They were? Then I guess we are too”: How Tool pushed back the boundaries of metal and prog with 10,000 Days
- “It’s been one of the peaks of my musical life”: Foals’ Yannis Philippakis on his long-awaited project with late drumming great Tony Allen
- “Gong is the band you listen to when you smoke your first joint or drop your first acid trip at school”: The mind-bending story of cult psychedelic heroes Gong
- “My eyebrows are singed, my mouth is blistered, my arms are pretty bad”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson is hospitalised with “serious burns” following farming accident
- “Black metal is the only form of music since punk rock that’s not money motivated”: How members of Emperor and Amen smashed together black metal and hardcore in forgotten supergroup Scum
- “The Moors Murderers’ Manchester was the same as our Manchester”: Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle on growing up next door to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
- “We weren’t doing electronic music with synthesisers, but with a bank of oscillators we stole from radio stations”: Jean-Michel Jarre and the creation of Oxygène
- "There has been no better ambassador for the electric guitar": Bernie Marsden, remembered
- “I don’t think we’re a band that will last forever. We could break up any time”: On the road with Thin Lizzy in America in the late 1970s
- August 23
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- Mötley Crüe have unleashed a cover of the Beastie Boys' Fight for Your Right
- The reviews are in for The Crow remake, and they’re brutal
- “We were blown away by what Michael Kamen did with Silent Lucidity. It gave us all goosebumps”: How Queensryche made a progressive metal landmark with Empire
- The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “Putting out a concept album about Moby-Dick could be career suicide”: Mastodon explain why Leviathan is so obsessed with the white whale
- Melt Banana's 3+5 is one of the extreme albums of the year. It's also completely off its baps
- “Everyone thinks it’s Zorro, or Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat”: Crypta frontwoman explains “bad” Beyoncé tattoo
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- Spiritbox announce biggest-ever London show at Alexandra Palace, Periphery and Stray From The Path supporting
- “Prog pop, maxed out and magnified… they sound like a band built for enormodomes”: Meer’s Wheels Within Wheels sees them braced for the big time
- "I had a kind of queer awakening to All The Things She Said." Cassyette picks the 10 records that have changed her life
- “He’s so playful and cheeky… nothing he ever does sounds muso. I recognise the punk-rock chancer that I am in his playing”: What Guy Pratt learned from Tony Levin
- "The first thing you notice is a glaring issue with its pacing": Georgia Thunderbolts fail to rise above it all on second album Rise Above It All
- "More in common with classic European hard rock than many of their peers": Mike Tramp matures like fine wine on Songs Of White Lion II
- "Inspirational": Steve Cropper is a sublimely understated presence with The Midnight Hour on Friendlytown
- "The most comprehensive collection of Fanny material to date": The full Fanny and more celebrated on The Reprise Years 1970-1973
- "The sound of a man pushing his own boundaries and having an absolute ball": Ian Anderson's solo years, now in a handy box
- "Arguably the greatest singer of his generation": Mark Lanegan rarely sounded as soulful as he did on Bubblegum
- "I was 23 years old and my first boyfriend was John Lennon": 10 things you need to know about May Pang
- "Meticulously unravelling the album's complexities": The Alan Parsons Project's Pyramid, decompiled and recompiled
- "Hugging the corners of Seventies Yes with just the right balance of mimicry and mutability": Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks capture the right essence on True
- Def Leppard's Record Store Day live album is getting a full release
- August 22
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- Ihlo share new video trailer ahead of reissue of their debut album Union
- "If something’s wrong, you don’t have to just sit and take it." How gender-smashing punks Destroy Boys ripped themselves apart to start again
- Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 True Wireless earbuds review
- The tracklisting for The Crow 2024’s soundtrack is pretty goth, to be fair
- System Of A Down aren’t releasing a new album, but bassist Shavo Odadjian is, with new project Seven Hours After Violet
- Robert Fripp, Mike Portnoy, Pat Mastelotto and more guest on new Tony Levin album
- “Maybe I’ll be a bro and let them take our spot up there”: Kerry King names the band who could replace Slayer in the Big Four
- Cyan share video for emotional new version of All Around The World
- “We were trying to get to that level of the music we really loved… It’s always slightly out of reach, but my God, you can have fun trying to get there”: Tears For Fears on their mystical purpose
- Five bands you must not miss at this weekend's Pelagic Records Festival
- The Sheepdogs drop Paradise Alone EP led by "dumb rock song" Take Me For A Ride
- "Unravels the horrors and joys of the world through a rouge-tinted pair of spectacles. The results are epic." Simone Simons soars on solo debut Vermillion
- “Tchaikovsky was a sort of mentor; if it was good, ABBA or whatever, we didn’t shut anything out”: When Gentle Giant revisited seventh album Free Hand
- "Monday was Heaven, Tuesday was Run To You, Wednesday was Somebody": Bryan Adams looks back on the miraculous creation of his breakthrough album
- "Rock music is so dominated by all-male bands so it feels cool to have a super-pregnant lead singer on the cover": Blues Pills have finally made exactly the album they wanted
- "I'm doing a two-hour show with a six-and-a-half-minute bass solo": Glam icon Suzi Quatro is not resting on her laurels
- Paul McCartney just made a surprise appearance with Andrew Watt and Chad Smith at a 250-capacity club in Amagansett
- Helmet cancel US tour over financial concerns and poor ticket sales
- August 21
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- Amazon Music Listening Party lets you rock the night with friends directly through Discord
- Fleshgod Apocalypse’s Opera is surprisingly moving, given it’s by a band called ‘Fleshgod Apocalypse’
- Cammie Beverly shines on Oceans Of Slumber's epic new single The Given Dream
- Former Anthrax guitarist too busy “****ing around with crazy-ass expensive watches” to think about comeback
- “It wasn’t really till we got out and played live that we realised it was a couple of things”: Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris admits there was “maybe an issue or two” with Blaze Bayley’s voice at shows
- "It's about finding hope in the darkest of places": RØRY unveils the gorgeously cathartic new single In The Bible
- Every Alien film ranked from worst to best
- Big Big Train share new live video for Love Is The Light
- "The excavation of suffering body and soul." New York noise extremists Uniform confront lifelong struggle with bulimia nervosa on harrowing, brilliant new album American Standard
- “We will look to the horizon of the underground and beyond”: Roadburn festival announces first bands for 2025, including reunited Kylesa
- Hawklords announce upcoming album Relativity
- Listen to lairy new Pendulum single Napalm, featuring Joey Valance & Brae
- See a de-aged Fred Durst appear in trailer for suitably 2000s-themed horror/comedy Y2K
- Watch Tool bassist Justin Chancellor dress as Willy Wonka to prank support band onstage
- “He asks the tech to put a light close to him so he sweats more. He likes feeling that we’re fully engaging ourselves”: When Von Hertzen Brothers began their ascent out of Finland
- The fret-meltin' shred guitar albums you should definitely listen to
- "We're taught to be ashamed of our accent and where we're from": Meet Big Special, the Black Country duo blending the blues, hip-hop and rock with beautiful fury
- Nathaniel Rateliff on hanging around with Robert Plant, getting high with Willie Nelson, and the struggles behind the new Night Sweats album
- "Nobody wants a reggae or a hip-hop record from us": How Blackberry Smoke keep moving forwards
- "More hair! More clothes! Tighter pants!": The trailer for that Paramount+ show about 80s hair metal has been unleashed
- August 20
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- Listen to Foreigner's previously unreleased Turning Back The Time featuring Lou Gramm
- The Black Crowes announce additional Happiness Bastards dates following Aerosmith tour cancellation
- Three years in the making, the Victrola Automatic could be the perfect turntable for beginners
- “We were a bunch of dirty, stinky pirates!” Order your limited edition Metal Hammer x Mastodon bundle – featuring an exclusive Leviathan t-shirt!
- "It feels like a vision for the future." Nu gen star Cassyette lives up to the hype on her long-awaited debut album This World F***ing Sucks
- “He wasn’t like a mad scientist with all these live wires hanging around in the studio – the wires were all in his mind”: The prog credentials of pioneering producer Conny Plank
- Canadian prog rockers Huis share brand new single Westminster Bridge
- Best Pro-Ject turntables 2024: Winning record players from the inimitable Austrian powerhouse
- Solstice, Ghost Of The Machine and Clive Nolan all sign for Progrock.com’s Essentials label
- Legendary New York metal venue Saint Vitus closes permanently
- The biggest rock tour of all time has officially been confirmed - and it's Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres world tour
- “We hired male strippers to come onstage and dance”: Kittie’s Morgan Lander names her goofiest tour memory
- Former Jethro Tull members Martin Barre and Doane Perry guest on new Chris Herin single
- “It really is down to Nik Turner’s habits… I wish it wasn’t, because it would be nice if it were more spiritual”: Dave Brock on how Hawkwind got their name
- "A new heavy metal classic for the ages": The song Ronnie James Dio called one of the "proudest things I've ever done"
- Black Smoke Trigger come from a small city in New Zealand but their ambition is global
- The Hives' joyous video for Rigor Mortis Radio is the greatest 2 minutes and 57 seconds of anything you'll watch today
- "Imagine how much money is being made here": Brian May slams the Countryside Alliance for criticising his badger culling documentary
- "He'd cook you a breakfast like your mother, then go out trawling through the markets buying second-hand clothes": A tribute to Phil Lynott, by the guitarists who played alongside him
- August 19
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- Babymetal and Electric Callboy team up with WWE for Bash In Berlin with Ratatata
- Ulver keyboardist Tore Ylwizaker dies
- Black metal breakout stars Blackbraid return with cover of genre classic Warriors
- Win a PRS Guitar signed by Creed!
- Every Eminem album ranked from worst to best
- Marshall “redefine cool” with the brand new Emberton III and Willen II Bluetooth speakers
- “There are three songs that don’t sound like anything we’ve done before”: Anthrax have written “13 or 14 songs” for new album
- The Fierce And The Dead and Brontide among first bands announced for Portals 2025
- Death metal veterans Nile have crafted their best album in nearly 20 years with The Underworld Awaits Us All
- Amplifier announce tour dates for March and April 2025
- The 12 bands that defined Arctangent 2024
- "Now they’re seeing how deep the rabbit hole can go." Avant-garde metallers Zeal & Ardor have unleashed their adventurous side on the excellent Greif
- "I was just really, really ****ing tired." Nightwish singer Floor Jansen explains why making new album Yesterwynde was a challenging experience
- Von Hertzen Brothers share first music from In Murmuration. Listen to Starlings here...
- "We did desert shows at this empty pool by a nudist colony": How Fu Manchu spent thirty years preparing for The Return Of Tomorrow
- "It's blossomed into something that's effortless": Roots rockers Brave Rival spend most of their lives in a van, but it's been worth it
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon play songs with alt-pop star Aurora and kawaii metal sensations Babymetal at Japanese concert
- "Easier on the ears if you're a King Crimson fan than a Kiss fan": The Mars Volta confound the ears on frenetic debut De-Loused In The Comatorium
- “People would be like, ‘This again?’ I’d tell them it made my shift easier”: P.O.D.’s Marcos Curiel played Radiohead to survive working in a goth retail store
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp release footage of Enter Sandman filmed at Isle Of Wight festival
- August 18
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- Moggs Motel release new single Sunny Side Of Heaven, inspired by a Soho pub and Phil Mogg's old UFO bandmates
- “I don’t think the underground or extreme metal scene will ever dig us. It’s elitist”: How Trivium defied the gatekeepers and split the critics with The Crusade
- “We were getting hassle from everyone to make the perfect album. It had to sell or the band would stall”: How Bon Jovi made a hard rock monster and saved their career with Slippery When Wet
- “We booked a studio and said, ‘Whoever’s here on Monday morning is in Yes’”: How the band regenerated to make Drama, in their own words
- August 17
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- "It was an unfortunate incident which has been exaggerated and turned into folklore": How contractual differences between Aerosmith and Metallica at Woodstock 1994 came to blows
- “I got fed up with writing about crap monsters. What’s horrific about that? The real evil in this world goes on in society”: The stellar rise and tragic demise of Death, the band who pushed metal to new extremes
- Enter Shikari, Fontaines D.C., IDLES and more sign Love Music Hate Racism statement condemning recent far-right riots in England
- Coal Chamber postpone US tour after ill Dez Fafara had to be "revived" by his wife
- “The first time I met Lemmy, he said: ‘How do you sit down with that sawblade codpiece?’ I said, ‘You don’t!’”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’s strange journey from shock rock to God
- “When we recorded Tears Don’t Fall, I passed out. On the take, you can hear a scream, and then this dropping body”: How Bullet For My Valentine stepped up to metal’s big league with The Poison
- “People go, ‘How can you write another Free Bird?’ And I go, ‘You can’t.’ Nobody could ever fill Ronnie’s shoes”: The unlikely second coming of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- August 16
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- “We knew Chris Barnes had to go. We phoned him on the road and said, ‘Dude, you’re out.’ It was as simple as that”: How Cannibal Corpse made 90s death metal classic Vile and ended up in the US charts
- The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- New proggy sounds from Nightwish, i Häxa, Souls Of Ambience and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Fire, faith and forgiveness: Former Great White manager Alan Niven on the self-destructive Jack Russell
- Halsey drops Nine Inch Nails and Bring Me The Horizon-inspired rock track, Lonely Is The Muse
- "I’ve spent a few years writing songs with little to no sense of direction, I think I’ve started to find my own sound again." Charlotte Wessels on restarting after Delain, dream collabs and why there are no guilty pleasures
- Tiger Moth Tales preview brand new single Return To Chigwick
- Ever dreamed of going on a dinner date with James Hetfield? Well now you can, you just need to bid for his time in a charity auction and foot the entire bill
- Hear the first new Frost* music from upcoming album Life In The Wires
- "People were walking around with water guns full of acid, squirting them in your face": What Aerosmith's Steven Tyler saw at Woodstock
- "Rock ain’t dead. To who?!" Duff McKagan talks Guns N' Roses, punk rock and how Velvet Revolver proved the haters wrong
- "We were out on our asses": How Aerosmith took flight with Get Your Wings - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- “If anybody had him pigeonholed as the master of epic melancholy, they’re in for a shock”: Tim Bowness displays a stunning change of pace with Powder Dry
- "It's not hard to see why they struck gold": The riffs still ring as Creed's Human Clay is expanded for its 25th birthday
- "This sort of seat-of-the-pants indulgence would never fit the corporate cosiness of today’s major festivals": Ten Years After showcase the solos on Woodstock 1969
- "Scarlet Rebels make no bones about going straight for the FM-rock jugular": Trad rock tropes abound on Where The Colours Meet
- Former Great White frontman Jack Russell dead at 63
- Power pop icon, DJ and novelist Greg Kihn dead at 75
- "A real labour of love": Troy Kingi pays tribute to desert rock on Leatherman & The Mojave Green
- August 15
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- Old blokes: What is it with them and when will they stop? A sort-of review of the Sex Pistols and Frank Carter at Bush Hall
- The 10 bands that defined Bloodstock 2024
- "The whole 'I Hate Pink Floyd' thing was hilarious. Anyone who took that seriously needs a new head." The story of the unlikely friendship between The Sex Pistols' John Lydon and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour
- "I don’t wanna call it therapeutic, but there was some catharsis in making this album." The Black Dahlia Murder's new album honours fallen frontman Trevor Strnad
- “For a supposed prog band they put their musicianship through the pop grinder and come out on top”: Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe’s passion for Rush
- “We’re lucky to be alive!” Nightwish are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with two exclusive gifts
- The best CD box sets every rock fan needs in their collection
- "Thirteen albums in and still no duffer." Melodic death metal veterans Dark Tranquillity show they're still one of the genre's best on Endtime Signals
- “I’ve never seen a penny… but I’m proud of what we did musically”: Steve Hillage’s mixed feelings on his only Khan album, and how the project lived on after he’d ended it
- A beginner's guide to Cat Stevens in six essential albums
- "The thought of being in jail in tights didn't appeal to Freddie at all": Queen and the struggle to make Day At The Races
- Watch Cozy Powell and Co. rattle through Dance With The Devil, their iconic glam rock tribute to Jimi Hendrix
- Beastie Boys broke open their gold record to play it – only to be confronted by piano covers of Barry Manilow "and some other shit"
- If Creed release new music, Mark Tremonti insists it will not stray too far from their original sound
- August 14
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- Camels, swords and dance: The film of Mdou Moctar's concert at the edge of the Sahara desert is a thing of joy and magic
- “It’s been one of our favourite unreleased tracks to perform live”: Up-and-coming metalcore heroes Heriot get groovy on new single At The Fortress Gate
- The 50 most metal movie moments ever
- "Feeling things so deeply can be a burden": Bones UK drop heavy-hearted new track Knee Deep
- “There’s stuff that’s quite ugly for the sake of being ugly and quite noisy for the sake of being noisy… I find myself almost talking people out of it”: What Steven Wilson knows – and doesn’t know – about his new Bass Communion album
- “It’s not Motörhead, and it’s not Radiohead either.” Watch The Jesus Lizard's video for Moto(R), the latest single from their brilliant comeback album Rack
- "I also want to walk through orchard fields and grab apples off of trees at will and fill my belly full of that fruit": Jack White shares unusual plans for No Name tour
- Leprous share video for brooding new single Like A Sunken Ship
- “I’m having the time of my life here!” Watch The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter play ferocious versions of Bodies and God Save The Queen at the first of their three sold-out shows in London
- Fast-rising Australian hardcore crew Speed to headline 16-date Flatspot World UK/EU tour with End It and Life’s Question
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe has seriously had enough of fans filming performances: "You're not Steven Spielberg. Sit here and enjoy the show with me"
- "He was definitely a component part of what informed the vocals of Robert Plant and Ian Gillan": Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on the bluesman who inspired the great rock singers
- “He didn’t want to be a rock star, but made a great rock star… the only way is to run straight at the wall head first, minus the crash helmet”: What Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert means to Luke Haines
- "God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can": The tortured and tumultuous life of the late Ginger Baker
- "The reason I never made it big is because I never cared whether I made it big or not": The life and death of the guitarist’s guitarist, Roy Buchanan
- Troy Kingi is making 10 albums in 10 genres in 10 years: Album number eight is inspired by the Mohave desert, mapacho smoke and magic mushrooms
- August 13
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- “I got a letter from Ozzy telling me my services weren’t needed and Axl had gotten rid of me”: How Zakk Wylde launched Black Label Society with the booze-fuelled chaos of Sonic Brew
- “I don’t get into many fights now cos you get hit on the throat and you miss a gig”: The explosive rise of Lynyrd Skynyrd, America’s greatest southern rock band
- Escuela Grind continue their grindcore rampage with new single Concept Of God
- Five bands you mustn't miss at this year's ArcTanGent Festival
- The Tirith announce new live album Earth Songs
- Gojira who? Another extreme metal musician secretly played the Olympics this weekend
- “It’s very Orwellian, what’s going on. They’ve expanded the parameters of hate speech so that everyone gets offended about everything.” The The's Matt Johnson fears that the world is sleepwalking into a dark dystopian future
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo jam Ministry’s Just One Fix live onstage
- Watch Megadeth play rare ’80s cut Liar live for the first time in almost 20 years
- black midi announce they're on "indefinite hiatus"
- The Fierce And The Dead will release new live album Live At Ramsgate Music Hall '24 in October
- “They’re unquestionably ready for the big time”: Malevolence break records (and a good few bodies) with weekend-stealing Bloodstock set
- “It might not be commercial, but it’s important that the art be preserved”: The attitude that built Decca’s offshoot Deram into one of the labels that pioneered prog
- Michael Schenker reveals that Axl Rose sang three songs during sessions for his upcoming album My Years In UFO
- Avenged Sevenfold announce intimate club show, playing Waking The Fallen and City Of Evil songs
- “A fine overview of the label’s underground credentials… unclassifiable obscurities abound”: History of Deram (and Decca) celebrated in Psych! British Prog, Rock, Folk & Blues box set
- "Well here we are again. In the middle of a wonderful tour": Neal Schon responds to Jonathan Cain's lawsuit
- "You're caught up in the tornado, and you see the cow fly by, and there goes the tractor": The Wilson sisters reflect on Heart's 50-year roller-coaster life
- "Bless the Rolling Stones' hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing": The Paul Weller albums you should definitely listen to
- August 12
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- A convoy of 55 Harley Davidson motorbikes has delivered Lemmy's ashes to Nottingham's Rock City
- "I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me
- “It’s the definitive Oasis album. It has the spirit, the arrogance of youth.” Thirty years on, Noel Gallagher looks back at Oasis' era-defining debut album Definitely Maybe
- “Charley was the coolest rock litterati bookworm to ever be lucky enough to know.” Music writer Charles R. Cross, author of definitive Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Heart biographies, dead at 67
- “You’re going to get what you deserve.” Nine Inch Nails to score upcoming Tron: Ares film, starring Jared Leto
- “To the Yungblud family, Bludfest may be a near-religious experience.” Unstoppable UK dynamo makes his dream festival a reality
- “Anticipatory grief just walks with you all the time… that’s why I was trying to search for joy in certain pockets of places”: Jane Weaver’s recent experiences of death lent a “heavy mellow” to her new album
- Mongolian metal sensations The Hu announce North American headline shows amid Iron Maiden tour
- “A good show as opposed to a legendary one”: Architects don’t quite rise to the occasion at first-ever UK festival headline show
- “A lot of us didn’t like each other back in the day. Slayer were hard-ass. They didn’t even get along with Metallica”: Why Hirax’s Katon W De Pena is one of thrash metal’s great unsung heroes
- “I feel so proud of what we’ve achieved as a band in the last two decades, and it all started with that debut album”: Bullet For My Valentine to release 20th anniversary edition of The Poison, featuring bonus songs and Live At Brixton album
- Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt says he doesn't consider himself a singer or guitarist: "I don't know what the hell I'm doing most of the time"
- “Everyone went mad”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson reveals “the most decadent thing I’ve ever done in my life”
- "He just starts sh***ing in the middle of the room...then bends down, picks it up and starts painting the walls": Tommy Lee on the outrageous prank Ozzy Osbourne pulled next after he snorted ants whilst on tour with Motley Crue
- Hear Pest Control prove why they’re the UK’s most hyped young thrash band with scrappy new single Time Bomb
- “We have talked about this, and I’m sure we’re gonna try to do it”: Tom G. Warrior wants to reunite Celtic Frost for tribute shows to late bassist Martin Eric Ain
- “I don’t play the Trooper fill anymore”: Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain reveals effects of 2023 mini-stroke
- “I was falling in a black hole. It was totally surreal.” Sepultura singer was “in shock” when Eloy Casagrande left to join Slipknot
- "I took a bit of steel railroad track and strung a string along it, then hooked it up to the radio": The story of Les Paul, the man who invented modern music
- "A corporate jack-off music festival disguised as some kind of important cultural event for the young generation": The grimy legacy of Woodstock 1994
- “Even with tensions rife, this music showcases the breathtaking musical telepathy they’d developed”: The best King Crimson songs of the 1970s
- "If it had come out two years earlier, it would have captured the zeitgeist": Captain Beyond miss their moment on much-loved debut album
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers perform Can't Stop in Los Angeles as part of Paris 2024 Olympic closing ceremony
- August 11
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- One of the great American rock'n'roll bands: The Lynyrd Skynyrd albums you should definitely listen to
- "We haven't done anything decent in 15 years. Message received." Opeth embrace the classics in old school Bloodstock headline set
- “Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Limp Bizkit – we opened that lane up”: How Ice-T and Body Count returned to the fray to reclaim their throne with Manslaughter
- David Gilmour shares video for up-tempo new single Dark And Velvet Nights
- King Crimson announce 50th anniversary reissue of Red
- “Give me a break. Of course we’ve got frickin’ soul”: Dream Theater vs the haters
- “For a pissed-off, disillusioned teenager that hated the government, Banned In D.C. was the moment I found my tribe”: The 10 best Bad Brains songs according to Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach
- “Restraint was something other bands did… with little precedent, they were a progressive band to their very core”: Revisiting Cocteau Twins’ Treasure
- Watch epic lazer show announcing Nine Inch Nails will score upcoming Tron: Ares movie
- August 10
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- “I will never forget the looks of horror from the label. They saw it as commercial suicide – which I suppose it was”: the turbulent story of Celtic Frost’s avant garde thrash masterpiece Into The Pandemonium
- “We smoked so much weed that we set off the fire alarms and almost killed everybody with the gas that was going to be released”: The story of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, the debut album that revitalised 90s metal
- "I'm stunned that some bands have success. I don't like many bands, actually. The metal scene today is horrible": How Opeth separated themselves from the herd with Ghost Reveries
- “It’s the silliest name since Genesis did a track called Squonk. But The Beatles is a silly name, if you think about it”: The world according to Squackett, prog’s great forgotten supergroup
- “I felt so embarrassed for him and I didn’t want to make things even worse”: Ian Anderson, the man who refused to meet Elvis Presley
- "The idea that somebody could write an operatic version of what was going on on the street just blew my mind": Hank Azaria's Top 10 Bruce Springsteen songs
- Watch footage of Lemmy tribute and exhibits at UK's Bloodstock Open Air Festival
- Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and Stewart Copeland of The Police among the stars confirmed for Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp
- August 9
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- “They were all about Joy Division. They weren’t about Limelight.” Dave Navarro admits that he's been sneaking his love of Rush into Jane's Addiction songs for years without his bandmates ever realising
- “Hold onto your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!” Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira to headline stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup
- “You had big everything. Big drugs, big money, big parties. And it’s all free, the more the merrier”: The fast rise, sudden fall and messy afterlife of glam metal heroes Ratt
- The 13 new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “Audacious, rebellious, and stressed out by the state of the country.” Green Day share plans for epic 20th anniversary American Idiot reissue, featuring a new documentary, demos, live cuts and more
- "Brandon Lee was always laughing, fun-filled and determined – a beacon of light." From HIM to Avatar and Ice Nine Kills, 90s cult hit The Crow has had a lasting impact on metal culture
- "There was a bit of a clash of cultures." The night that Hollywood star Mickey Rourke and a gang of bikers gatecrashed Bob Dylan's recording session with members of The Clash and Sex Pistols
- Swallow The Sun reveal new album Shining will be released in October
- Not just No Life and Only One… 6 more rare songs Slipknot should play again
- Order your limited edition Machine Head 'Diamonds In The Rough 92-93' red/black Splatter vinyl
- Cool new proggy sounds from Dilemma, Nytt Land, Ebony Buckle and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- David Sylvian's career-spanning Everything And Nothing gets first ever vinyl release
- “The best advice anybody’s given me? Don’t die ashamed”: An epic interview with Lemmy about fame, Bob Dylan and driving on LSD
- “A mighty and nimble love letter to the world they grew up in”: And So I Watch You From Afar’s Megafauna
- August 8
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- "My dream was a place where we could create and make music and take magic out of the air": Remembering Robbie Robertson, architect of The Band
- "A laid-back collection of gentle boogies and carefree shuffles": Bill Wyman ages in easy-going fashion on Drive My Car
- "These cast-offs show Weller free of constraint and commercial restrictions": Paul Weller's b-sides and remixes revisited on Fly On The Wall
- "A rewarding retrospective, not dissimilar to the kind revered artists get at major museums": Elvis Presley's Memphis recordings are immortal gold
- "If it's dumb fun in the sun you're after, these are the rodents you're looking for": Dune Rats' world is an exuberant playground on If It Sucks, Turn It Up
- “I never treated bands like rock stars, I treated them as people.” Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the stories behind some of grunge's most iconic images
- “I was that kid making riffs all day in my bedroom p***ing off the neighbours.” Royal Blood take a trip down memory lane in a preview of new documentary Shouting Through The Letterhole
- With Funeral Soundtrack #4, Californian punks Destroy Boys flip a defiant middle finger to an industry that has repeatedly tried to take advantage of their naivety
- “Chatting to the crowd never sat comfortably with us… being more mysterious really appealed”: Nordic Giants nearly unmasked for Prog, but changed their minds
- The Ecstasy Of Gold! Metallica’s Ride The Lightning sales soar amid 40th anniversary celebrations
- “It was like Spinal Tap, but worse”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist says The Prince Of Darkness struggled to write lyrics with Randy Rhoads
- Elephant9 to release new live album with Norwegian guitar legend Terje Rypdal
- “People get their ya-yas when they see people struggling for some crazy reason”: Dave Mustaine explains “animosity” he received after Metallica exit
- VOLA share hypnotic new single I Don't Know How We Got Here
- Listen to ultra-symphonic surprise new Nightwish song The Day Of…
- “Peter Gabriel got all the credibility, and I got the money – ha!” Phil Collins on his role as Genesis’ class clown and their only contact with the outside world
- "Sixty per cent of those lyrics, Robert came in with off the cuff": Jimmy Page on the rehearsal tape that captures the early magic of Stairway to Heaven
- "It's too safe. It needs a kick up the arse": How 10cc transformed I'm Mandy Fly Me into an epic via "two whacking great guitar solos" and a plane crash
- The albums produced by George Martin you should listen to but only one is by the Beatles
- August 7
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- “A visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before.” Bright Eyes share punky, Beastie Boys-inspired single Rainbow Overpass, announce huge North American tour to follow European trek
- Every Massive Attack album ranked from worst to best
- “It’s the irony of ironies – paying Zuckerberg to show people songs that are denouncing him”: Church Of The Cosmic Skull’s Bill Fisher puts politics in prog as he explores How To Think Like A Billionaire
- Watch Deftones give very rare performance of White Pony classic Passenger at Lollapalooza this weekend
- "He was kind, patient and self-deprecating..." Julianne Regan recalls All About Eve working with David Gilmour
- “Conventional ideas about love and romance are blurred, twisted and contorted here.” Fontaines D.C. explore love in all its beautiful, messy, euphoric and melancholic confusion on Romance
- “We’ll be back when it feels right”: Jack Black says Tenacious D will return from hiatus… at some point
- Icelandic post-rockers Sólstafir share melodic new single Hún andar
- Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes reveals that he "fell back into drugs" during the pandemic: "I was just so bored"
- “I returned home from tour an absolute hot mess. So broken that my poor husband had to push me through Heathrow and LAX airports in a wheelchair.” Shirley Manson reveals why Garbage had to cancel their 2024 plans
- “Nothing you are about to hear tonight was written after 1999!” Watch Slipknot kick off their anniversary tour by playing nothing but old school cuts - including two songs not played in almost 25 years
- Tim Bowness announces launch gig for new album Powder Dry
- 10 bands that defined Wacken 2024
- Nancy Wilson, Lita Ford, Nita Strauss and more to head up women-only Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp
- “I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them
- Dreams really do come true: Every Electric Light Orchestra album ranked, from worst to best
- "Angus Young may be a silver-topped 69-year-old, but he's still the blueprint of what a rock'n'roll guitarist should be": Back on the road with AC/DC
- "We played eight shows and they were amazing. The kids followed us everywhere": The story of the album that should have turned Angel into stars
- Famed sad clown Puddles Pity Party launches heartbreaking version of Black Sabbath's classic Changes
- August 6
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- Journey cancel upcoming UK and Ireland tour due to "circumstances beyond the band's control"
- LG Tone Free T90S wireless earbuds review
- "Not only the biggest crowd of the weekend, but undoubtedly their careers." Amon Amarth conquer 85,000 metal fans with epic, flamethrowing, serpent-bashing setlist at Wacken 2024
- Watch the Metal Queen Doro join Scorpions to perform Big City Nights live at Wacken
- Order your world exclusive Metallica Ride The Lightning t-shirt with Metal Hammer
- “I learned Irish history through Stiff Little Fingers and my worldview education through punk rock.” Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan on the history lessons you don't learn in a school class room
- ”Every time you go into the mainstream, I get really uncomfortable”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt declined to join an Abba tribute band at Eurovision this year
- This Viking folk version of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed is the weirdest thing you’ll hear today
- “I was absolutely horrified when I saw the box set. I went ballistic! Explain to your readers I didn’t know about that”: Allan Holdsworth’s life in music
- "Imagine if Guns N' Roses were the worst band you've ever heard": How hardcore punk titans Discharge went glam metal and sabotaged their own career
- 10 classic albums that would be better if they were shorter, and how they should be shortened
- "There's magic in this band. There is real magic with these four members": Black Country Communion and the proud return of classic rock
- "The Red Hot Chili Peppers might have based their entire career on it": Steven Wilson's 20 favourite British rock albums
- August 5
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- "If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who
- Listen to the incomparable, much-missed Mark Lanegan on the driving Heard A Train, a previously-unreleased out-take from 2004's brilliant Bubblegum album
- "I'm sure this sounded perfectly bitchin' blasting out of a Camaro's hi-fi": Sammy Hagar provides the late-70s party soundtrack on All Night Long
- “Bring Me The Horizon? Who the **** is that?” Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith get his head around Oli Sykes' Sheffield shape-shifters
- “Raw and candid in its touching analysis of trauma, pain and love.” Beabadoobee bares her soul with the emotional intimacy of This Is How Tomorrow Moves
- "I remember thinking, 'Good God, I'd love to front that band.'" Bruce Dickinson on the first time he saw Iron Maiden live - long before he became their singer
- “Their love of Yes shines through once more… but their simpler arrangements are just as striking”: IZZ’s Collapse The Wave
- Every Bring Me The Horizon album ranked from worst to best
- Every Run-D.M.C. album ranked from worst to best
- "Avenge The Fallen can be dubbed ‘more of the same’, but every album stands or falls on the strength of its songs." Hammerfall remind everyone why they remain one of heavy metal's most trusted defenders
- "Heilung have become a bona fide phenomenon." Lifa Iotungard (Live At Red Rocks) shows off one of the best shows in music at one of the world's most magical venues
- "This is one band that never thought about quitting, not even in the darkest times": The Def Leppard albums you should definitely listen to
- “Personal and sometimes uncomfortable … an elegant exploration of the abyss for those willing to be drawn in”: Returned To The Earth’s Stalagmite Steeple
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Wishbone Ash play the classic Blowin' Free on The Midnight Special 50 years ago
- "I love Blackberry Smoke. They're the Status Quo of country": This is the soundtrack of legendary broadcaster Bob Harris's life
- "If you're going to do something like this, this is where to do it": Watch Billy Idol play Rebel Yell live at the top of the Empire State Building
- Journey's Jonathan Cain has sued bandmate Neal Schon again, this time as they're on tour together
- August 4
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- "Rock'n'roll's a dirty job, and no one did it dirtier": The Aerosmith albums you should definitely listen to
- “What is happening is the direct result of years of normalised racism and Islamophobia, enabled by politicians and the British media.” Massive Attack share statement calling out the UK government amid violent, racist, far-right riots
- "A performance worthy of their own legendary status." Scorpions rock Wacken Open Air like a hurricane
- “I've seen parties behind the Iron Curtain that were just too wild to describe.” Deep Purple's Ian Gillan recalls the debauchery and hedonism of the Swinging Sixties
- “They celebrate Mozart in Vienna 400 years later and they’ll be celebrating Prince in Minneapolis 400 years from now”: Prince’s old bandmates on Purple Rain, his legacy and more
- "Eternal Blue is old news, and only the beginning of what this band could possibly achieve." Spiritbox stun Wacken Open Air with one of the sets of the weekend
- “I did it in 40 minutes and thought little of it”: How Phil Daniels saved Blur’s classic Britpop anthem Parklife
- “Proof that three men can grate on each other’s last remaining nerves but still retain unique chemistry and deliver diamonds”: The Police’s Synchronicity (40th Anniversary Edition)
- Gojira, Machine Head, Papa Roach, Within Temptation and many more for Wacken Open Air Festival 2025
- August 3
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- Stars from across the world of rock pay tribute to Aerosmith after the iconic band announced their retirement from touring
- Watch James Hetfield sing Metallica hit Enter Sandman after inhaling helium
- Fontaines D.C. announce biggest ever UK headline show, with Amyl & The Sniffers and Kneecap in support
- “These shamans are about to bewitch metal’s mainstream”: Green Lung prove they’re the next big thing at awe-inspiring London show
- Elder side-project delving share trippy video for new single Omnipresence
- "The annoying thing is that our album played Madison Square Garden before we did": the night Metallica launched The Black Album with the world's biggest listening party
- “We just wanted to find authentic, heavier, evil-sounding music”: Mikael Åkerfeldt explains how Opeth rediscovered death metal on new single §1
- “Bonehead was saying, ‘You’ve not just written that!’”: Noel Gallagher on the night he showed Live Forever to the rest of Oasis
- “Where the joy and the pain started – and fittingly, where they end too”: Fish’s circle-closing reissues of Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors and Internal Exile
- “When we heard it, we were in shock. The producer had tried to make us sound like Def Leppard”: how Anthrax defied the odds to deliver a thrash classic with Among The Living
- August 2
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- "Dream On. You've made our dreams come true": Aerosmith announce retirement from touring, cancel farewell tour
- “I had fights on the street. Guys couldn’t handle it. It was a challenge to them, especially as we would get girls”: how Poison took glam metal to the extreme with Look What The Cat Dragged In
- The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week
- “A showcase for wondrous mandolin and banjo… and the majesty and clarity of Maddy Prior’s voice”: Steeleye Span’s 50th anniversary edition of Now We Are Six
- The 8 best metal EPs of 2024 so far
- Great new prog music you need to hear from Tim Bowness, Jordan Rudess, Oceans Of Slumber in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Order your exclusive Evergrey bundle featuring a unique front cover, signed art print and sticker
- Marilyn Manson is back. His return highlights how little the music industry cares about protecting women
- Tony Iommi to re-release his two solo albums recorded with Glenn Hughes
- Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- "It feels like a dream." Opeth reveal new concept album The Last Will And Testament will be released in October
- Before he was famous, Bryan Adams co-wrote Rock And Roll Hell and War Machine for Kiss: Now he's recorded his own versions
- "It was so intense. It felt like lightning when I heard it as a kid": Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan picks the 10 albums that changed his life
- “The perfect doorway into a world of energy, invention, badass musicianship and great songwriting”: Beardfish’s 15th anniversary edition of Destined Solitaire
- "Joe Elliott knows more about Mott than I do. You just have to sit back and listen to him": Ian Hunter's stories of Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and more
- "Simmering tension ensures that the album comes with a few genuinely jaw-dropping moments": Blues Pills explore their demons on Birthday
- "Even at this distance, it's a freaky ride": Ween's breakthrough album still startles, 30 years on
- August 1
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- "When they do hit, they hit hard, but other songs feel disappointingly rote and cliché": Black Smoke Trigger fall short on debut album Horizons
- “Loneliness and lack of meaning seem to inhabit the same dark orbit.” Nick Cave offers words of comfort and advice for anyone feeling lonely or lost
- Best CD players 2024: Rediscover the OG of digital music with our pick of sharp-sounding players
- Rick Wakeman pens new adaptation of Yes music for vinyl release
- Jinjer return with climactic new single Someone’s Daughter
- Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson
- Snoop Dogg claims that the late Queen Elizabeth II was “a fan” of his work: “Rest in peace to the Queen, that was my girl.”
- Robert Reed shares cover of Pekka Pohjola's Mathematician's Air Display
- “We absolutely adore his voice and his evil laugh!” Lacuna Coil team with Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe for powerhouse single Hosting The Shadow
- Watch Ian Anderson unbox his new solo career set 8314 Boxed
- “It’s loud, it’s obnoxious, it’s brainless, and It’s definitely not music for wimps.” When The Pogues' Shane MacGowan reviewed singles by Deep Purple, The Smiths, Robert Fripp, Dire Straits, Nico and more
- "It has become the cult classic we always intended it to be…" Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt's Storm Corrosion gets deluxe reissue
- “All I can remember was Robert Fripp giving up completely, saying, ‘There’s no hope’”: King Crimson’s torturous journey through fourth album Islands – and its 30-year fallout
- "A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why
- With the sounds of The Beatles and Beach Boys in their heads, The Lemon Twigs have spent their lives in search of perfect pop: On their new album they may have found it
- "I took some of his chill vibe but tried to write something a bit more heartfelt": Listen to Darlin' Baby, the new, Jimmy Buffet-inspired single by The Sheepdogs
- "We always play UK tours even if we're operating at a loss": Joe Elliott on the importance of Britain to Def Leppard
