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- December 19
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- Suicide Silence say next album will feature 70% clean vocals
- Former Kyuss man John Garcia releases Kylie video
- Listen to new Sepultura track Phantom Self
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith drums with Babymetal
- Porcupine Tree man Richard Barbieri to launch Planets + Persona
- Rob Zombie launches Spooky Christmas Stocking for PETA
- Judas Priest announce Turbo 30th anniversary edition
- Falling In Reverse release single Coming Home
- Metallica's James Hetfield praises Megadeth's Dave Mustaine
- UK Government launches probe into secondary ticket market
- Watch Ian Gillan perform with Black Sabbath in the 80s
- Iron Maiden's Eddie stars in animated Christmas video
- Watch Nightwish perform My Walden live
- King 810 pulled show against advice, David Gunn admits
- Killswitch Engage aim for less touring, more recording
- Journey win Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame fan vote
- How Motorhead producer nearly talked himself out of job
- Metallica's James Hetfield hunted out of San Francisco
- December 18
- December 17
- December 16
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- Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes to issue Modern Ruin early
- David Bowie voted the UK's favourite musician
- Blink-182 voted most animal-friendly band by PETA
- Exodus are 'basically travelling t-shirt salesmen'
- UK's Music Venue Trust expands to Texas
- Watch Galactic Empire perform Star Wars theme
- Anselmo: Robb Flynn and Scott Ian calling me racist is infuriating
- Asking Alexandria's Danny Worsnop announces solo shows
- ISIS (the band) fan has PayPal account suspended over t-shirt
- Blackfield tease album V with Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen
- Tim Bowness releases lyric video for You Wanted To Be Seen
- Watch Sock Puppets Immortal Christmas III video
- Watch Metallica sing Enter Sandman in a supermarket
- Steel Panther release Anything Goes lyric video
- Listen to Emmure's new single Russian Hotel Aftermath
- Mike Portnoy: I’d have loved Anderson Rabin Wakeman gig
- Prince didn’t deserve ‘drug addict’ death
- Korn fans to get Christmas ‘Kornaments’ from Spotify
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine wants ‘even shot’ at Big 4 shows
- Metallica’s James Hetfield sold his motorbike for health reasons
- December 15
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- Eyehategod Mike Williams has successful liver transplant
- Rival Sons stream Paris live album
- Misfits ex-guitarist Doyle to release album As We Die
- Bruce Springsteen's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air for sale on Ebay
- Volbeat release Dead But Rising live video
- Jimi Hendrix lends his name to new plant species
- Suicidal Tendencies ignored rock star's early wardrobe advice
- Enter Shikari announce Take To The Skies North American tour
- Phil Anselmo teams up with horror actor Bill Moseley on new EP
- Coheed And Cambria release Colors video
- Metallica perform live and take on superfan on Jimmy Kimmel
- Metallica's Rob Trujillo talks future Big Four tour
- Avenged Sevenfold were prepared for slow sales of The Stage
- Steve Hackett details new album The Night Siren
- Sumerian Records slam Kid Rock over pro-Trump t-shirts
- Ace Frehley on Kiss return: Maybe Gene will pop question soon
- Metallica Hardwired artist 'shocked' by Crowbar comparison
- Pantera split fight wasn’t necessary says Rex Brown
- The Ozzy Osbourne 'True or False' Quiz: can you separate Ozzy fact from fiction
- Watch Deep Purple’s Time For Bedlam video
- AC/DC ex Phil Rudd still hopes for return
- December 14
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- Pink Floyd to reissue Final Cut and Momentary Lapse on vinyl
- Anthrax, Killswitch Engage announce 2017 North American tour
- Danko Jones to release new album Wild Cat in 2017
- DevilDriver announce 2017 North American tour
- Sebastian Bach: Christina Applegate ditched Brad Pitt for me
- Hexvessel release short concert film
- Every Time I Die continue harsh stance on selfies
- The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown announce US tour
- Supergroup The Damned Things to launch new EP
- Opeth share backstage Wembley Arena video
- Listening to AC/DC can make men lose at board games
- Eat your hearts out Amon Amarth – check out this Viking row
- Matt Sorum couldn’t go back to Guns N’ Roses danger era
- Will Trent Reznor still deliver new Nine Inch Nails this year?
- Steve Harris: British Lion live album will prove how good we are
- The Rock Solo Albums Quiz
- The Metal Solo Album Quiz
- The Prog Solo Albums Quiz
- How Metallica tapped Black Sabbath for Hardwired
- December 13
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- Five Finger Death Punch trick Labonte into singing about dicks
- Jethro Tull release Christmas song Pass The Bottle
- Last In Line to record new album in 2017
- Emmure cancel 2017 European tour
- Ronnie Baker Brooks streams new track Long Story Short
- Is this Guns N' Roses Christmas jumper the ugliest yet?
- Queen release We Will Rock You lyric video
- Green Day to produce punk rock documentary
- Tech-Fest announces Black Dahlia Murder, Obscura, Aborted for 2017
- TeamRock's iOS 10 Heavy Metal Stickers pack gets Christmas update
- Dream Theater announce Images And Words 2017 UK tour dates
- A Perfect Circle confirm 2017 North American tour
- Avenged Sevenfold team up with Cirque du Soleil for live shows
- Vimic announce 2017 European tour
- Grammys boss: Why Beyonce is rock
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to play British Summer Time
- Alice Cooper to tour UK with The Mission, The Tubes
- Mike Patton joins Dave Lombardo in Dead Cross
- AC/DC confirm first-ever official book
- If Metallica don’t talk they fall out
- December 12
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- Saxon's Nibbs Carter leaves tour over 'family emergency'
- Watch as Metallica create new track Now That We're Dead
- Pantera's Rex Brown plots 2017 release for debut solo album
- Bullet For My Valentine's Matt Tuck on selling dildos
- Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain honoured by US Navy Seals
- Ronnie James Dio 'wouldn't have liked idea' of Last In Line
- Joe Bonamassa hits bouncer on the head with his guitar
- Scott Weiland's bassist explains arrest after singer's death
- Bob Dylan talks Shakespeare in Nobel Prize speech
- Marillion, Richard Thompson confirmed for Cropredy 2017
- Korn’s Fieldy, Ray Luzier play with UK tribute band
- Guns N’ Roses sell 1m European tickets in 1 day
- James Hetfield: How Amy Winehouse inspired Moth Into Flame
- December 11
- December 10
- December 9
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- Greg Lake tribute show on TeamRock Radio
- Watch AFI's White Offerings video
- Paul Weller announces 2017 UK tour
- Sebastian Bach says there are 'talks' over Skid Row classic reunion
- Vivian Campbell recalls how Soundgarden inspired Def Leppard
- Avenged Sevenfold say labels shouldn't rush bands to record
- Magnum’s Mark Stanway quits after 36 years
- Phil Anselmo’s Superjoint announce US tour
- Bob Dylan announces 2017 UK tour
- Devin Townsend has covered the Vengaboys' We Like To Party
- Asia to release live album Symfonia
- Disturbed’s Draiman questions Grammys definition of rock
- Tokyo Classic Rock Roll Of Honour to air on Sky Arts
- Guns N’ Roses add extra London date
- Greg Lake talked Christmas hit in last interview
- Watch previously unseen Dimebag rehearsal video
- Kirk Hammett: Losing phone full of riffs made me think again
- Tony Iommi to receive more cancer treatment
- December 8
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- Mastodon's new album concept tackles the horrors of cancer
- Greg Lake: Music world pays tribute to prog icon
- Nikki Sixx says Motley Crue won't rush their biopic The Dirt
- Munky: It's difficult to put Korn in a category
- Megadeth, Metallica, Baroness react to Grammy news
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Greg Lake dies aged 69
- Babymetal to support Metallica in South Korea
- Journey and Asia to tour US together
- King 810’s David Gunn: I’ve been shot twice… I’m keeping the guns
- ‘Leprechaun Lars’ made fool of drugged-up Sebastian Bach
- Richard Fortus couldn't leave Guns N' Roses for Slash band
- Lars Ulrich: I hope Metallica will know when to walk away
- December 7
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- Kid Rock releases pro-Donald Trump t-shirts
- Primus announce 2017 London Roundhouse show
- Halestorm's Lzzy and Arejay on how they discover new music
- Skindred sickened after thieves ransack tour bus in Austria
- Black Spiders announce farewell tour dates
- Creeper announce biggest UK and European tour to date
- Amity Affliction's Burt leaves tour to tackle 'mental demons'
- Apple Music attracts 20 million subscribers in 18 months
- Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist films fans rather than play solo
- Dio, Lemmy, Rhoads for Hall Of Heavy Metal History
- Clutch's Neil Fallon says bad songs are part of learning process
- Mogwai announce 2017 Atomic North American tour
- Prince honoured by Christmas lights display
- Stevie Nicks announces 2017 US tour with the Pretenders
- Opeth praise crowd reaction to Sorceress tracks
- How Kanye West inspired Avenged Sevenfold
- Vangelis: I’ve never understood the phenomenon of celebrity
- Metallica, Disturbed, Megadeth get 2017 Grammy nominations
- Mayhem to release De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive
- Gone Is Gone release Dublin video
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy: Ember To Inferno was ahead of its time
- Watch Metallica in making-of Murder One video
- December 6
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- Nightwish's Floor Jansen responds to 'fury' over Slayer jibe
- Listen to Arcane Roots' single Curtains
- Queensryche release Hellfire music video
- Stone Sour release Zzyzx Rd video
- Deep Purple tease new album InFinite
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine calls for 2017 Big Four tour
- The Sweet's Andy Scott hails Fox On The Run chart revival
- Former Circle II Circle drummer Adam Sagan dies
- Jason Bonham won't get hopes up about Led Zeppelin reunion
- Firm want to hide Trump Tower logo with Pink Floyd pigs
- Value of vinyl sales overtakes digital downloads in the UK
- Between The Buried And Me, Haken men form Nova Collective
- Thunder announce new album Rip It Up
- Gojira's Magma named Metal Hammer's Album Of The Year
- Broken Witt Rebels and Bad Touch announce 2017 UK tour
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon play Happy Song live
- Lars Ulrich: Metallica have always felt like outsiders
- Skindred, Annihilator for Bloodstock 2017
- Watch AC/DC ex Phil Rudd’s Head Job video
- Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow to tour UK in 2017
- Lemmy won’t let me sleep - Phil Campbell
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers in animated Sick Love video
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett reveals Napster regret
- December 5
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- King 810 aren't sorry for gun use
- Def Leppard, Soundgarden for Rockville, Fort Rock festivals
- Cypress Hill’s Sen Dog forms hip-hop metal band
- The Who's Pete Townshend says playing live still excites him
- Frost* launch video for Signs
- Watch Def Leppard’s video for We Belong
- Ginger Wildheart in drive to raise mental health awareness
- Bon Jovi's dad 'threatened to kill' Sebastian Bach
- The Mute Gods reveal album no.2
- Watch making-of documentary on Lemmy statue
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: I’m a little diva over songwriting
- Watch studio footage of Metallica recording Confusion
- Guns N’ Roses reveal 2017 European, North American tour
- Avenged Sevenfold knew they’d ‘take heat’ for drummer change
- Nickelback drink-drive warning cop says sorry
- Ian Anderson reveals Jethro Tull: The String Quartets album
- Steve Harris: The only thing I hate about British Lion tour
- Mustaine: Hammett ‘almost accurate’ about me and Metallica
- December 4
- December 3
- December 2
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- Cream's debut Fresh Cream gets extended release
- Stick To Your Guns launch Better Ash Than Dust video
- Anneke Van Giersbergen announces new band Vuur
- Nick Cave film director on his 'tremendous responsibility'
- Watch bass brothers Troy and Kyle Sanders in funny demo
- Halestorm cover Metallica, Whitesnake and Soundgarden
- Watch Metallica’s European Hardwired promo tour video
- Nirvana's Incesticide set for double vinyl reissue
- Alter Bridge, Clutch, Mastodon added to Download 2017 bill
- Listen to cello cover of Queen’s The Show Must Go On
- Johnny Depp used music to escape 'nightmare' childhood
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe: We are killing our planet
- ZZ Top, Kansas, Magnum for Rambin’ Man Fair 2017
- Aaron Keylock releases All The Right Moves video
- Metallica hang out with the tribute band they almost sued
- Asking Alexandria's Ben Bruce launches Daddy Diaries series
- Rush release 1976 Something For Nothing outtake
- Guns N’ Roses bring fans on stage to beat up 'Donald Trump'
- Deep Purple announce ‘Long Goodbye’ UK tour
- Ace Frehley return to Kiss is ‘possibility’
- Ivan Moody out of Five Finger Death Punch tour
- Metallica’s James Hetfield wants to take fight to ticket scalpers
- December 1
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- Eric Clapton puts 29 guitars up for sale
- Frank Zappa composer Dr Allan Zavod dies
- Carcass unsure if guitarist Ben Ash will be on album no.7
- David Bowie, Nick Cave Christmas decorations revealed
- Watch Volbeat perform Seal The Deal live
- Director reveals vision for Metallica's Dream No More video
- The Temperance Movement lose drummer Damon Wilson
- Riot Fest founder Sean McKeough dies aged 42
- Opeth’s Martin Axenrot tops 2016 prog drummer poll
- Phil Campbell recalls Motorhead's 3-day fights over songs
- Metalhead Rich Donohoe cooks up a storm on Masterchef
- Status Quo extend electric tour in 2017
- Chester Bennington: Kings Of Chaos are no supergroup
- Of Mice & Men's Austin hits out as fans urge him to 'get better'
- Nitro reform with Lamb Of God’s Chris Adler
- Babymetal to support Guns N’ Roses in Japan
- Foo Fighters thought Dave Grohl throne plan was crazy
- Muse to headline Reading and Leeds 2017
- AC/DC top rock rich list for 2016
- Metallica’s fears over Enter Sandman spoof
