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June 29
- Jason Aalon Butler releases new song for DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Metal
- Deicide return with new album Overtures Of Blasphemy
- Clutch premiere video for their storming new track How To Shake Hands
- Bloodstock day tickets go on sale today
- Coheed And Cambria share video for catchy new track Unheavenly Creatures
- Bury Tomorrow unleash video for ferocious new track The Age
- Listen to Michael Romeo’s thrilling new track Djinn
- Maynard James Keenan calls rape allegation a “despicable false claim”
- Heart’s Ann Wilson to release new solo album Immortal in September
- Glassjaw’s release destructive new video for Golgotha
- Watch Big Big Train deliver stirring live version of Swan Hunter
- Watch Marilyn Manson cover theme from The Lost Boys
June 28
- Creedence Clearwater Revival launch first ever official video for Fortunate Son
- ...aAnd? release new video for Bear Hugs
- Smashing Pumpkins launch dreamlike video for Solara
- Guns N’ Roses release alternative piano version of November Rain
- Metal Hammer Podcast: RIP Vinnie Paul
- Yes featuring ARW to release live Apollo package in September
- Foos Taylor Hawkins: There’s no such thing as alternative rock any more
- The UK Guitar Show 2018 set for September
- Liaison reform for tribute show to legendary West London venue
- Watch The Night Flight Orchestra Turn To Miami in new video
- Watch Marduk’s dark and menacing Viktoria video
- Joe Bonamassa returns with new album Redemption
- Max Webster 8-disc box set to be released
- Watch as Tom Morello invites fan onstage to play Rage Against The Machine classic
- Public memorial service planned for Vinnie Paul
June 27
- Alice In Chains announce new album Rainier Fog
- Kingdom Come announce 30th anniversary tour
- Foreigner unlikely to record a full studio album
- Wilson & Wakeman announce 2019 tour
- Brian Fallon announces UK acoustic tour
- Lifesigns headline Resonate Fest
- Rolo Tomassi announce winter headline tour
- Listen to Emma Ruth Rundle’s stunning new single Fever Dreams
- Voyager to re-issue their entire back catalogue
- Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach is “screaming” better than ever
- Could the Kinks reunite for a new album?
June 26
- Kid from Stranger Things + Ninja Sex Party = power ballad life lesson triumph
- David Cross releases new album Crossing The Tracks
- Watch Gojira deliver stunning studio version of Global Warming
- Loreena McKennitt announces UK tour
- Reef announce 21-date tour and share Revelation video
- See what it takes to put on a spectacular Metallica live show
- Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac favourites to headline Glastonbury 2019
- David Bowie: Classic Rock Special Collectors Edition - on sale now!
- The Joy Formidable announce new album Aaarth
- Watch Hodor from Game Of Thrones jam with Megadeth
- Ruts DC announce The Crack 40th anniversary tour
- Coheed And Cambria announce UK tour
- Judas Priest announce the Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation
- Guns N’ Roses reveal Appetite For Destruction deluxe edition in new unboxing video
June 25
- Foo Fighters: Vinnie Paul was “one in a million”
- US prog rockers Rausch release film about second album
- Campaign to fund documentary on CAN’s Damo Suzuki extended
- Supergroup Metal Allegiance return with new album and single
- Culture Abuse reveal headline UK and European tour
- Ghost announce Royal Albert Hall show
- The Paradox Twin team up with Kim Seviour and John Mitchell for new single Moonblood
- Clutch share new single How To Shake Hands
- Coheed And Cambria announce new album The Unheavenly Creatures
- Hayley Griffiths releases Aurora single and video
- Halestorm unleash blistering new single Black Vultures
- Guns N’ Roses premiere lyric video for 1986 track Shadow Of Your Love
- Music world pays tribute to Vinnie Paul
June 23
- Former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dead at 54
June 22
- Pendragon B&B now open for business
- Stone Sour announce Hydrograd deluxe edition
- Watch Paul McCartney surprise fans with James Corden on Carpool Karaoke
- Tarja premieres live video for Undertaker
- NOFX “banned” from playing in the US
- Thunder announce annual Christmas show details
- Kirk Hammett: Guitar solos will always be needed in Metallica
- Haken plan to release new studio album later this year
- Watch Devin Townsend Project deliver stunning live version of Regulator
- Albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival duo Doug Clifford and Tom Fogerty reissued
- Def Leppard report they're working on three new tracks
June 21
- Drummer Cato Bekkevold parts ways with Enslaved
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Should phones be banned at gigs?
- Aisles release new video from forthcoming live EP
- Foreigner to reunite with former members for one-off show
- New Slipknot material is “Iowa levels of heavy”
- Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same to be reissued in September
- Mogwai to release soundtrack to sci-fi movie KIN
- Code Orange surprise release new EP featuring Slipknot's Corey Taylor
- Shattered Skies return with stunning new single You Will Know My Name
- Bad Wolves share powerful video for new single Remember When
- Paul McCartney announces new album Egypt Station
June 20
- Black Label Society revisit Royal Albert Hall show for Trampled Down Below video
- Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates reveals his most difficult solo
- Pinball Wizards: Meet the team behind Iron Maiden’s new Legacy Of The Beast table
- Dream Theater begin work on album no.14
- Circles premiere new track Breaker with Prog...
- Ghost have a plan for the next five years
- Watch Sons Of Apollo in new video for Signs Of The Time
- Wetton/Downes' trilogy of Icon albums reissued
- The Amity Affliction return with new album, single and tour dates
- Enslaved and High On Fire announce co-headline UK and European tour
- Paul McCartney to release brand new double A-side single
- Bad Wolves donate $250,000 to family of Cranberries vocalist Dolores O’Riordan
June 19
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce live EP
- Temples On Mars announce UK headline tour
- Bullet For My Valentine plot series of HMV signing sessions
- Milton Keynes venue The Stables in SOS plea
- Pearl Jam cancel London tour date
- Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson takes flight with World Of Warplanes
- Mike Shinoda remains uncertain about Linkin Park’s future
- Rammstein’s new studio album out later this year
- Amorphis and Soilwork announce European co-headline tour
- Mono announce UK and European tour
- Bobby Dall wants to record new Poison album
- Metallica donate Polar Music Prize cash to charity
June 18
- Slash announces new album Living The Dream
- Megadeth’s Mustaine mulls possibility of Big 10 shows
- King Crimson: Brexit has scuppered 50th anniversary touring plans
- Alice Cooper: Paul McCartney is a Hollywood Vampire for life
- Testament’s Eric Peterson details new Dragonlord album
- Arcane Roots return with new Landslide EP
- Tony Iommi: 2022 Black Sabbath reunion would be a “great thing to do”
- Depeche Mode’s singles to be reissued in 12-inch vinyl box sets
- Sanguine Hum ready new album Now We Have Power
- CKY announce UK and Ireland tour
- Listen to Chris Cornell’s daughter Toni duet with her late father
June 15
- Tickets for Black Stone Cherry UK arena tour now on sale
- Tickets for Corrosion Of Conformity and Orange Goblin UK tour now on sale
- Voyager release new single What A Wonderful Day
- Smashing Pumpkins announce massive UK arena date
- Listen to Godsticks new acoustic song
- Tickets for Parkway Drive 2019 UK tour now on sale
- Are Pink Floyd going to release a new version of Animals?
- Metal Hammer Podcast: The big Golden Gods and Download festival roundup
- The Black Queen announce new album Infinite Games
- Want to hear Steve Rothery play Grendel?
- Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana dies, aged 87
- Paul Draper announces acoustic tour
- Myrkur announces UK tour
- Watch Foo Fighters and Guns N’ Roses cover It’s So Easy
- Nergal: new Behemoth album will be “organic but very aggressive”
- This is Nine Inch Nails’ setlist from the first night of their Cold And Black And Infinite tour
- Watch Ghost cover Metallica's Enter Sandman
June 14
- Soulfly announce UK summer tour
- faUSt announce North American Tour
- Caravan Announce ULU Show for November 16
- Arcane Roots and Myrkur added to ArcTanGent 2018
- Watch Paul McCartney play a brand new song in a Liverpool pub
- Pink Floyd grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale today...
- Zeal & Ardor announce first UK headlining tour
- Watch Guns N’ Roses’ behind-the-scenes Download video
- Ozzy Osbourne: “I phoned Lemmy on the day he died”
June 13
- Muncie Girls announce new album Fixed Ideals
- Southern Empire to release new album in July
- Ginger Baker's son Kofi: "My dad is such an asshole”
- Caligula's Horse spearhead Australian prog invasion of Europe
- Listen to The Pineapple Thief’s brand new single Far Below
- Spock's Beard and Flower Kings unite to celebrate label
- 10-year-old drummer plays Metallica discography in 12 minutes
- Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French reveals cancer battle
- Post-metal legends Isis to reunite for Cave In tribute show
- Stone Sour announce North American headline tour
June 12
- Watch 8-year-old drummer crush Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times
- Reckon you can guess who the world's loudest band is?
- Voivod to release new album in September
- Nick Mason solo box set to be released...
- Uriah Heep announce Living The Dream album and new single
- Someone's actually gone and started a band called Dad Brains
- Colosseum founder Jon Hiseman dies aged 73
- Watch Devildriver team up with Randy Blythe for cover of Ghost Riders In The Sky
- Laibach celebrate historic Kim/Trump summit with cover of Korean classic
- Listen to Kontinuum’s atmospheric new single Warm Blood
- Led Zeppelin tease 50th anniversary book
- System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan: “I don’t know if new album will ever happen”
June 11
- Golden Gods 2018: Judas Priest, Code Orange, Maynard James Keenan amongst winners
- Steven Wilson's advice fires on former Oceansize man...
- Ghost announce massive North American tour
- Voting Is Open For The 2018 Progressive Music Awards
- Bruce Dickinson: Music is more powerful than any political slogan
- TesseracT announce UK and Ireland dates
- HMV's Vinyl Week sale: here are all the best deals!
- Dave Mustaine: “Lars Ulrich is afraid to play with Megadeth”
June 9
- Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan dies, aged 68
June 8
- Smashing Pumpkins launch new single Solara
- Monster Truck launch True Rocker single with Dee Snider
- Field Of The Nephilim announce headline shows with The Church
- Ozzy: I'd like to play the Commonwealth Games in 2022 with Black Sabbath
- Debut album from The Paradox Twin
- Rob Halford plans to collaborate with Ghost’s Tobias Forge
- Kreator and Dimmu Borgir announce co-headline European tour
June 7
- It’s official: we stop discovering new music at the age of 30
- New album from The Stanley Clarke Band
- Aerials release new single and video
- Sum Of Us release single and announce EP
- Leeched release nasty new track Guilt
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Why Download Festival Is Going To Rule
- Crossfaith announce UK headline tour
- Watch Haken’s powerful live performance of The Endless Knot
- Ghost’s Prequelle album heading for Top 10 in US and UK
- Watch Guns N’ Roses play Shadow Of Your Love for first time in 31 years
- Former Deicide/Sebastian Bach guitarist Ralph Santolla dies at 48
June 6
- Kris Barras Band announce UK Tour
- Trivium announce US tour with Avatar and Light The Torch
- The Zippo Sessions tent is coming to Download festival
- The Amity Affliction announce European and UK tour
- Watch Bent Knee’s video for new song Paper Earth
- Watch Dave Grohl fall offstage in Sweden again
- Former Death/Sebastian Bach guitarist Ralph Santolla to be taken off life support
- Watch Mark Tremonti cover Metallica on a Hello Kitty guitar
June 5
- Franck Carducci announces London show
- KOYO release new promo video for Jettisoned
- Sleep Token release creepy new video for Jaws
- Ne Obliviscaris announce North American tour
- Ghost: $6700 raised for family of fan who died at show
- Will Haven announce UK and European tour
- Kiss reveal plans for “spectacular” three year tour
- Corey Taylor: new Slipknot lyrics are inspired “by the depression I’ve been fighting”
June 4
- Download Festival announce stage times
- Silhouette replace September Code at Summer's End
- Black Peaks announce new album All That Divides
- The Magpie Salute announce debut studio album High Water I
- Anthrax: new album will be “more aggressive”
- Leprous release brand new single Golden Prayers
- Ex-Venom guitarist Mantas suffers heart attack
- Bullet For My Valentine release video for Letting You Go
- Daron Malakian: “It’s not looking like System Of A Down are doing something together soon.”
- Watch Guns N’ Roses cover Velvet Revolver live
June 1
- Orange Goblin unleash The Wolf Bites Back
- Watch Tarja in video for her soaring live track Love To Hate
- Listen to The Darkness rip through Solid Gold live
- Monster Truck return with massive new single Evolution and unveil album no.3
- Slipknot’s V-Man causes stir with cryptic Instagram post
- Classic Fairport Convention reunite for Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
- Saxon reveal The Secret Of Flight in new video, announce three shows
- Parkway Drive are headlining the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2018
- Fan dies after collapsing at Ghost gig in Milwaukee
- NOFX face backlash after mocking 2017 Las Vegas massacre victims
- Daron Malakian’s Scars On Broadway release ferocious new track Dictator
- Listen to Buddy Guy and James Bay duet on Blue No More
- Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham honoured with statue in his home town
- Coheed And Cambria return with epic new track The Dark Sentencer