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- August 31
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- Arcane Roots to take a break after next tour
- Soulfly release new song Ritual
- Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly will release new album in November
- Skid Row announce 2019 UK tour
- Matt Heafy has turned Cannibal Corpse’s Hammer Smashed Face into an acoustic ballad
- Watch Haken’s psychotic video for new single The Good Doctor
- Listen to Steven Tyler’s “sick as f**k” cover of The Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar
- Ex-HIM frontman Ville Valo unveils new band and album
- August 30
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- Muse to release new album Simulation Theory on November 9
- The Tangent announce brand new studio album
- Neil Young reportedly marries girlfriend Daryl Hannah
- Ex-Of Mice & Men singer Austin Carlile denies he is joining Linkin Park
- Alan Parsons reveals new studio album on the way
- Listen to a mash-up of Slayer and The Bangles
- Metallica launch ‘Blackened’ whiskey
- August 29
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- Jethro Tull plan 50th Anniversary release for debut album
- Esprit D’Air launch video for moody new single Serafine
- Mostly Autumn recording new album White Rainbow
- Watch The Struts team up with Kesha in glam-tastic new video
- Couple arrested after abandoning child to see Godflesh gig
- Devin Townsend defends “brilliant” Chad Kroeger
- Skindred announce massive UK winter tour
- Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee reunite for mystery studio project
- August 28
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- Nita Strauss added to UK Guitar Show line-up
- Kingcrow premiere new video for Father with Prog
- Listen to Kikagaku Moyo’s brand new eight-minute psychedelic wig out
- Metallica launch $500 Master Of Puppets watch
- Throat stream riotous new album Bareback in full
- Watch a teaser video for Led Zeppelin’s 50th anniversary book
- Slayer extend farewell tour into 2019
- Vinnie Paul’s cause of death officially revealed
- August 27
- August 25
- August 24
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- Listen to epic new Skyharbor track Sunshine Dust
- Crack The Sky release lyric video for Talk Talk
- Alter Bridge release video of stirring live version of The End Is Here
- Nosound release stunning new video for Shelter
- This is the setlist from Bring Me The Horizon's secret Reading Festival show
- Clutch pay tribute to cult classic Barbarella in new comic book-style video
- Gary Moore tribute album set for October
- Magma release live Marquee set from 1974
- Pain Of Salvation share live On A Tuesday video
- Atreyu return with new album In Our Wake
- Tom Petty fans unite for You And Me (Clubhouse Version) video
- Haken announce UK, European and South American tour dates
- Ghost share Carpenter Brut's disco remix of Dance Macabre
- Former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King dead at 68
- August 23
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- Vennart share brand new track Spider Bones
- Super Unison reveal new single and album details
- Bring Me The Horizon to tour North America and Australia in 2019
- Slash plans frights aplenty at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights
- Smashing Pumpkins to live stream Seattle show on Twitter
- Listen to Vaureen's atmospheric new single Stare Into The Sun
- Babymetal detail live digital video Legend - S - Baptism XX
- Cairo share lyric video for Katrina
- One hump or two? Camel are on the cover of the new issue of Prog!
- Judas Priest: Firepower won't be our last album
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis issues statement following death of his wife Deven
- August 22
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- Steven Tyler wants Trump to stop using Aerosmith's Livin' On The Edge at rallies
- Shining return with lyric video for new track Animal
- Disturbed: Evolution is our Black Album
- Foo Fighters announce Cal Jam pop-up experience
- Watch Jerry Cantrell throw out the first pitch at Alice In Chains night in Seattle
- Leeched stream new album You Took The Sun When You Left in full
- X-Ray Spex vocalist Poly Styrene to be honoured at Polyfest 2018
- Blood Youth launch video for ferocious new track Starve
- Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman share live footage of Rhythm Of Love
- Bring Me The Horizon return with new track and album - reveal UK and Euro tour dates
- August 21
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- Jimmy Pallagrosi teams up with Hayley Griffiths and Joe Payne for ZIO
- Misha Mansoor to offer free lessons at UK Guitar Show
- Sick Of It All return with new album and tour
- The Magpie Salute announce UK and European tour
- Crippled Black Phoenix premiere video for atmospheric new track Great Escape Pt 1
- Damanek to release second album
- Deftones confirm work is under way on new material
- Joe Bonamassa shares Evil Mama studio video
- Bring Me The Horizon tease new single
- Ned Flanders metal band Okilly Dokilly announce UK tour
- Watch Pink Floyd in Arnold Layne video from 1967
- Public memorial for Jill Janus set for this Friday
- Judas Priest planning 50th anniversary celebration
- August 20
- August 17
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- Mushroomhead share dark and unsettling video for Devils Be Damned
- Alice In Chains to perform atop Seattle’s Space Needle
- Watch guitarist Plini shine in new video for Kind
- Opeth to release live package Garden Of The Titans in November
- Phish forced to cancel this weekend’s Curveball festival
- First wave of Prince albums from 1995-2010 launched on digital services
- Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators premiere new track Mind Your Manners
- John Carpenter to release Halloween soundtrack in October
- GoFundMe campaign launched for Stryper’s Oz Fox after onstage seizure
- The Alarm announce UK winter tour
- King 810 announce UK tour dates
- Huntress vocalist Jill Janus dead at 43
- August 16
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- Coheed And Cambria launch visualiser video for The Gutter
- Devildriver to reissue their first 5 albums in September
- Aretha Franklin dead at 76
- Disturbed return with new album Evolution and video for Are You Ready
- Dave Kerzner’s In Continuum announce debut album Acceleration Theory
- Listen to The Chills' infectious new single Scarred
- Watch Soulfly’s Max Cavalera discuss Ritual's spectacular cover art
- Focusrite to host masterclasses at the UK Guitar Show
- Blurred Vision announce lineup change...
- Go behind the scenes with Arch Enemy on shoot for The Eagle Flies Alone
- Brian Johnson and Phil Rudd spotted with longtime AC/DC engineer and mixer Mike Fraser
- August 15
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- Greta Van Fleet launch psychedelic video for new single When The Curtain Falls
- XTC's Colin Moulding returns to live action with four Swindon dates in October
- Tarja shares live Die Alive video from Milan
- Aerosmith confirm Las Vegas residency dates
- Listen to previously unreleased Kinks track Time Song
- Idles take aim at Brexit in video for new single Great
- Urne release new video for The Lady & The Devil
- Mastodon look to 2019 to begin Emperor Of Sand follow-up
- Lindsey Buckingham announces tour and solo compilation album
- Venom Prison confirm studio return
- Anna von Hausswolff shares live video and charts US tour
- Nick Menza’s autobiography Megalife set for December release
- Lonely The Brave reveal new vocalist Jack Bennett
- Steve Perry returns with video for brand new track No Erasin’
- August 14
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- Anathema announce compilation album Internal Landscapes 2008-2018
- Ghost Bath announce headline UK and European tour
- Doug Aldrich: Ronnie James Dio would be “pissed” at hologram tour
- New Order documentary Decades to be broadcast in September
- Phil Collins has lyrical notes for possible new album
- Solstafir announce UK and Ireland tour
- It looks like Bring Me The Horizon are about to announce something big
- Hundreds of AC/DC fans gather in Sydney in bid to break world record
- Bad Wolves announce first UK and European tour
- Wednesday 13 announces annual UK Halloween shows
- Arcane Roots share video for haunting new single Matter (Revel)
- Tengger Cavalry premiere video for new single Redefine
- Dan Reed Network return with new album and single
- August 13
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- Who is the greatest prog keyboard player of all time?
- Pearl Jam’s Seattle shows raise $11 million for city’s homeless
- Faith No More’s Billy Gould joins MC5 touring lineup
- Agent Fresco vocalist Arnór Dan shares video for debut solo track Stone By Stone
- Disturbed are teasing a Thursday announcement
- Joe Perry reveals plans for Aerosmith Las Vegas residency
- Megadeth eye 2019 for new studio album
- Ticketmaster to shut down resale sites Get Me In and Seatwave
- The Struts launch glitter-soaked Primadonna Like Me single
- Glass Hammer announce new concept album Chronomonaut
- The Cream Experience set for the UK Guitar Show 2018
- The Dead Daisies announce UK winter tour
- Kayak, Threshold and RPWL to headline Winter's End 2019
- Monster Truck launch lyric video for anthemic new track Thundertruck
- August 10
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- The Pineapple Thief share video for new single Try As I Might
- ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons shares Missin' Yo' Kissin lyric video
- Deicide premiere blistering new track Seal The Tomb Below
- Slash: Everyone would like to make a new Guns N’ Roses album
- Anathema announce Ambient Acoustic UK and European tour
- Alice In Chains share bruising new track Never Fade
- Tickets for Yes feat. ARW's Whisky A Go Go show will cost just $2
- Behemoth share censored video for God = Dog
- Listen to Toto’s glorious cover of Weezer’s Hash Pipe
- Soulfly announce new album Ritual - listen to Evil Empowered
- August 9
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- Ace Frehley reveals new album Spaceman - listen to Rockin’ With The Boys
- Evanescence announce Synthesis Live
- Watch Dave Grohl’s two-part mini-documentary Play
- LA Guns, Heat, Heavy Pettin and more set for Hull Metal Heaven
- Shinedown release video for uplifting new single Get Up
- Twenty One Pilots wrap up video trilogy with Levitate
- Circles get surreal in stunning Dream Sequence video
- Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody joins Bad Wolves for Zombie cover
- Watch crowd celebrate Bruce Dickinson’s 60th birthday in Birmingham
- Now Stevie and Angus Young are spotted in Vancouver
- August 8
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- Cursive return with new album and single
- Mick Fleetwood: We all wish Lindsey Buckingham well
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford calls for LGBTQ+ equality
- Original Aerosmith tour van found buried in Massachusetts woods
- Monuments announce UK and European tour
- Steeleye Span announce UK tour
- Elderly metalheads escape nursing home to attend Wacken Open Air
- AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Phil Rudd pictured together in Vancouver
- Nick Mason: Re-learning early Pink Floyd material wasn’t easy
- Ghost’s Tobias Forge: Kiss were my first idols
- August 7
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- Bob Dylan lines up 2018 US tour dates
- Skating Polly share raucous video for new single Camelot
- Suicide Silence still have no regrets over 2017’s self-titled album
- Vola announce new album Applause Of A Distant Crowd
- Watch Joe Bonamassa swing into action in King Bee Shakedown video
- High On Fire pay tribute to Lemmy with new album Electric Messiah
- The Joy Formidable share psychedelic video for new single The Wrong Side
- Valis Ablaze part ways with drummer Rich New
- Ginger Wildheart announces September UK tour
- You Me At Six share new track IOU
- Parkway Drive: We were ready for Reverence backlash
- August 6
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- Periphery’s Misha Mansoor set to shred at the UK Guitar Show
- Phil Collins announces collaborative compilation Plays Well With Others
- Ann Wilson and Warren Haynes team up for You Don’t Own Me cover
- Watch Bryan Adams join Taylor Swift onstage in Toronto for Summer Of ’69
- Vennart return with video for brand new track Sentientia
- Watch Dave Grohl present Jimmy Kimmel with a gruesome gift
- Machine Head share live Volatile video
- Watch animated Pink Floyd video for One Of These Days
- Attention! Shinedown announce European tour
- August 3
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- Seattle Mariners line up Alice In Chains Night at the ballpark
- Alter Bridge share spellbinding rare performance of Words Darker Than Their Wings
- Von Hertzen Brothers announce December UK tour
- The Magpie Salute share stirring new single Sister Moon
- Watch Courtney Love join Smashing Pumpkins for Hole classics
- Suicidal Tendencies return with new album Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
- Metal Hammer Podcast: Should bands use Spotify data to pick their setlists?
- Iamthemorning announce studio film Ocean Sounds
- Mushroomhead share trailer for Volume III DVD
- Dee Snider’s voice “defies laws of physics”
- Check out intense new Monuments track A.W.O.L
- August 2
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- Greta Van Fleet launch "vertical video" for When the Curtain Falls
- Steven Wilson announces 2019 European tour
- Lynyrd Skynyrd announce live album with special guests
- Behemoth announce UK and European tour
- Haken announce fifth studio album Vector
- Paul Weller shares lyric video for stirring new single Movin On
- Listen to ferocious new Behemoth track God = Dog
- Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book Of Bass gets release date
- Follow You Me At Six on a rowdy night out in new 3am video
- Serj Tankian: Live shows have brought System Of A Down closer together
- Sons Of Apollo cancel summer festival appearances
- Iron Maiden mark return to the UK in new tour video
- August 1
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- Dave Grohl announces new mini-documentary Play
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster celebrate 10th Anniversary
- Joan Jett film Bad Reputation set for September release
- That Joe Payne announces pair of magical London shows
- Madball announce UK and Ireland tour
- Five Finger Death Punch and Breaking Benjamin extend North American tour
- IDLES announce pop-up art exhibition in aid of Samaritans charity
- Kikagaku Moyo announce new album Masana Temples
- As I Lay Dying announce European tour
- Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals launch video for Choosing Mental Illness
- Whitesnake have recorded 18 tracks for new album Flesh & Blood
- Watch Toto cover Weezer’s Hash Pipe in Vancouver
