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- June 30
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- Post-punks Fontaines D.C. share video for hypnotic new single Televised Mind
- Take a full tour of James Hetfield’s customised classic car collection
- Joey Jordison on Slipknot’s debut album: There’s nothing out there quite like it
- Deep Purple announce rescheduled UK tour dates
- Listen to Power Gravy, the best Iron Maiden song ever created by artificial intelligence
- Listen to Frank Turner’s haunting cover of NOFX’s Falling In Love
- Lzzy Hale: The rock show won’t die but it will be a little different
- Roger Taylor: Queen would still be making music if Freddie Mercury was alive
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has created a new solo album… on Twitch
- Sabaton celebrate the power of live music with Devil Dogs video
- Relive the night Metallica made history in Colombia
- Ramblin’ Man Fair announce first wave of artists for 2021
- June 29
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- Dee Snider: The live music industry is screwed
- Listen to Brian Howe's poignant, posthumous new song, Going Home
- Alex Henry Foster releases video for Lavender Sky
- Secret Machines return with new track Talos Corpse
- Japanese Television stream new single Bee Cage
- This stylophone cover of Motorhead's Ace Of Spades may actually burst your brain
- Robb Flynn has just covered Slipknot and System Of A Down on an acoustic guitar
- The Rolling Stones threaten to sue Donald Trump for using their songs at rallies
- June 28
- June 26
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- The Flaming Lips return with new album American Head
- Eivør streams brand new single Sleep On It
- Fontaines D.C. offer NHS staff and key workers free UK tour tickets
- Listen to The Tangent's “up-tempo prog rock foot-stomper” Life On Hold
- James Dean Bradfield from the Manics shares two singles from new solo album
- Amaranthe promise an “all-out metal rollercoaster” on new album Manifest
- The Pineapple Thief to host online album announcement party this weekend
- Queen and Adam Lambert invite you backstage in new online series
- Sevendust pay tribute to Soundgarden with dazzling cover of The Day I Tried To Live
- June 25
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- Listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s head-spinning new “survival horror” single Parasite Eve
- Slipknot celebrate their early days with Welcome To Our Neighbourhood stream
- Trivium announce plans to live-stream arena show from Florida
- Stiff Little Fingers launch t-shirt to help support their road crew
- Suzi Quatro film Suzi Q to receive its North American premiere online
- Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi releases video for new single Swill
- Deftones: The Story Of White Pony is the cover of the new Metal Hammer 2000 special
- Ayreon detail sprawling new double album Transitus
- Chris Slade: I’m ready to go if AC/DC need me
- A.A. Williams releases new song Love And Pain
- Watch Pearl Jam light up in lockdown video for Dance Of The Clairvoyants
- Deftones reflect on the making of White Pony: "We followed our instincts"
- June 24
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- Godsticks release new video to help support struggling venues and festivals
- Pain Of Salvation release trailer video for new album Panther
- Tiger Moth Tales release video for brand new song Still Alive
- Hugh Syme talks inspiration behind Rush’s pun-filled Permanent Waves cover
- Tall Talker stream new single River Hands
- Asian Death Crustacean stream new album Baikal with Prog
- Watch Blackout Balter's video for their Wild new single
- Louise Lemón releases video for new song Devil
- Join Killswitch Engage as they celebrate their 20th anniversary
- June 23
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- Idles’ Joe Talbot launches virtual talk show Balley TV
- Rush’s Geddy Lee shares picture from his teenage garage band days
- Marillion announce free 2020 Couch Convention
- Flying Colors announce new album Third Stage: Live in London
- Solstice unveil new singer Jess Holland in new lockdown video for Love Is Coming
- Lamb Of God kick off series of online events with bruising three-song set
- Royal Mail give their stamp of approval to Queen with brand new collection
- The 100 Greatest Songs Of The Century... so far. In the new Classic Rock, out now
- Metallica plunder two video tapes for latest concert video... and unearth a classic
- June 22
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- Evanescence and Within Temptation move European tour to 2021
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return with video for new single Cameo
- Ozzy, Robert Plant, Foo Fighters among names supporting independent music venues
- Barclay James Harvest And Other Short Stories gets deluxe reissue
- I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness voted greatest song of the 21st century
- Campaign underway to rename Bristol's Colston Hall after the late Keith Tippett
- Tom Petty’s family slap Donald Trump with cease and desist notice
- Official range of Grateful Dead deodorants launched
- Lamb Of God ex Chris Adler: I left my drum throne in good hands with Art Cruz
- Watch Creeper’s striking animated video for Be My End
- Attraktors announce debut album
- Metallica’s Robert Trujillo explains how he and Kirk Hammett came up with WorldWired doodles
- Watch as Guns N’ Roses relive their 2018 Download headline set
- June 21
- June 20
- June 19
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- Jon Anderson shares video for new track Where Does Music Come From
- Listen to new Dream Wife single Temporary
- Dream Theater's John Petrucci announces new solo album Terminal Velocity
- Summer's End Festival postpones to 2021
- Lamb Of God share video for ferocious new single Gears
- Public Enemy slam Trump administration on new single State Of The Union (STFU)
- Massive Wagons turn up the volume on new single House Of Noise
- Deftones announce White Pony global listening party
- Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett announce 2021 tour dates
- That Joe Payne launches lyric video for By Name. By Nature.
- Kraftwerk announce array of digital releases
- Disturbed have started work on new songs - as they reveal 2021 tour dates
- The Show Must Go On: Queen and Adam Lambert to stream YouTube Watch Party
- June 18
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- Doves release their first new music in 11 years
- Papa Roach to celebrate Infest’s 20th anniversary with special live stream
- New video for Creedence Clearwater Revival's Long As I Can See The Light launched
- Metallica’s James Hetfield revs up with his new book Reclaimed Rust
- Dennis DeYoung releases new video for With All Due Respect
- Deftones plan White Pony reissue with additional Black Stallion remix
- L.A. Witch share lyric video for their new single I Wanna Lose
- The Pineapple Thief announce new album and release video for Demons
- Tim Bowness announces new album Late Night Laments
- Thin Lizzy: A Visual Biography set for October release
- Babymetal announce Metal Galaxy live release
- Jean-Michel Jarre to play AI/VR show this Sunday
- Ozzy checks in with health update: "I’m getting better – it’s a slow process"
- Former Of Mice & Men vocalist Austin Carlile responds to sexual assault allegations
- Coridian release video for new song Seed II
- June 17
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- Metal artists unite for Black Lives Matter compilation
- Jane Weaver releases trailer for Loops In The Secret Society visual album
- Get 48 cans of Brewdog beer for just £48.41 with this discount code. Plus free shipping!
- My Chemical Romance announce 2021 tour dates
- Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly announce new album Alone Together
- Incineration Festival adds five new acts to 2021 bill
- Listen to Machine Head and Jesse Leach’s blistering new collaboration Stop The Bleeding
- Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali "not on deathbed"
- Video: Brian Johnson remembers the first time
- Bloodstock announce the European Metal Festival Alliance
- Ozric Tentacles to release new single this Saturday
- No Sleep 'Til Hollywood: someone's making a Lemmy movie
- Black Sabbath reveal Masters Of Reality-inspired Black Lives Matter t-shirt
- June 16
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- Idles announce new album Ultra Mono and launch video for Grounds
- Anthrax’s Charlie Benante joins forces with Run-DMC for charity single
- IQ to release A Show Of Resistance live album
- Roger Waters announces further Us + Them releases
- Roskilde festival confirms 33 artists for 2021
- Matt Heafy and Ihsahn making “great progress” on Mrityu black metal project
- Haze to release brand new album in July
- Deep Purple launch t-shirts to support their road crew
- Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali admitted to hospital in California
- Are Doves about to release their first new music since 2009?
- Join Metallica as they relive the epic 2013 Soundwave tour
- June 15
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- Myles Kennedy: My next solo album is pretty much done
- Memorial service for Sweet bassist Steve Priest to be streamed live
- Watch Doro steer her way through the crowd at her first drive-in concert
- Lifesigns release clip of new drummer Zoltan Csörsz
- Miles Davis Lost Septet live album to get first release
- Underside spearhead Metal For Nepal campaign amid humanitarian crisis
- Listen to Chester Bennington and Korn’s Head and Munky on new Grey Daze single
- Dave Mustaine: New Megadeth album is up there with Rust In Peace and Peace Sells
- Watch Neil Peart’s short film Growth Rings
- Rammstein have been working on new material during lockdown
- June 12
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- The new issue of Prog is on sale now. Here's how to get it.
- Weather Report's Live In London gets first CD release
- Long Distance Calling release video for new single Immunity
- Moon Duo to reissue out-of-print Escape
- Kevin Godley to release first solo album
- Walter Trout announces new studio album Ordinary Madness
- Iron Maiden-inspired film The Night Of The Beast is in the works
- Watch Rush’s new animated video for The Spirit Of Radio
- Metal Hammer Podcast #118: Luv U, Download
- New Post Malone track Tommy Lee will star the real Tommy Lee
- Listen to Avatar’s pounding new track God Of Sick Dreams
- Ulver announce new album and own book
- Lifesigns announce new drummer
- Rick Wakeman graces the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- David Gilmour to release first new music in five years
- Rory Gallagher anniversary to be marked with online streams and more
- Metallica reveal S&M2 box set - and it'll be out later this year
- June 11
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- Petition to replace Robert E. Lee statue with one of Gwar’s Oderus Urungus gathers pace
- Pillow Queens announce debut album In Waiting
- The Doors will celebrate Morrison Hotel’s 50th anniversary with graphic novel
- Lesoir announce unique live stream in June
- Todd Rundgren announces live interactive virtual television series
- Trivium, Arch Enemy, Soilwork and more set for new video game Metal: Hellsinger
- Of Mice & Men respond to Austin Carlile sexual assault allegations
- Kaprekar's Constant release video for new song Kissing Frogs
- Kvelertak book studio time to stream live performance
- Metallica and Foo Fighters to lead Offstage With DWP streaming series
- June 10
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- Temples On Mars release video for atmospheric reworking of Death In The Afternoon
- Phil Lynott documentary set for cinema release
- Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour set to be broadcast once again
- Fontaines D.C. share video for their new single I Don’t Belong
- MPs told that 70% of UK music venues are at risk of permanent closure
- Sifting share playthrough video for The Fifth Element
- AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on a Stylophone will bring light into your life
- Caligula's Horse release video for new single Oceanrise
- Alter Bridge cancel entire European tour
- Former UFO guitarist Paul Chapman dead at 66
- June 9
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- Frosty Beedle quits UK prog rockers Lifesigns
- Witness the majesty of Toto's classic Africa played on a pair of Tesla coils
- Enslaved launch fan vote for Roadburn online set
- Watch Bill & Ted Face The Music in bodacious new trailer
- Anthrax announce plans to celebrate 30 years of Persistence Of Time
- Wardruna release video for brand new single Lyfjaberg
- Watch Metallica revisit their rain-soaked Manchester set
- Glass Ocean release video for new single Voyage
- The Cadillac Three confirmed for Royal Albert Hall At Home show
- Steve Howe shares his new solo single The Headlands
- Download TV adds Biffy Clyro and Grey Daze as more weekend details are revealed
- June 8
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- US prog metallers Lufeh release video for The Edge
- Posthumous album from Flesh For Lulu's Nick Marsh to be released this month
- Queen’s Brian May voted the greatest rock guitarist of all time
- Coldbones release special charity edition of The Cataclysm
- All Them Witches return with new album Nothing As The Ideal
- Asylums share video for Genetic Cabaret track Platitudes
- Pearl Jam release uncensored Jeremy video to raise gun violence awareness
- Slipknot's Clown wants to see your unique mask designs
- Living Colour highlight George Floyd protests with new video for This Is The Life
- Five Finger Death Punch release Las Vegas lockdown video for A Little Bit Off
- June 6
- June 5
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- Rush producer Rupert Hine dead at 72
- Methodica release new video for A Trick
- Kitten Pyramid return with new video for Doughnuts
- International Day Of Slayer marked by new Repentless Killogy release
- KOYO release video for new single Out Of Control
- Enter sanderman: James Hetfield has been making tables
- Aerosmith move European and Russian tour to 2021
- Oceans Of Slumber share video for new single A Return To The Earth Below
- Kansas launch video for new single Jets Overhead
- Tool cancel tour to enable fans to get full refunds
- System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan and Serj Tankian clash over Trump protest stance
- The New Empire release tribute to former Yes guitarist Peter Banks
- Magenta release video for ten-minute new song Bela
- Kiss postpone summer European tour
- Nick D'Virgilio releases cover of Money (That's What I Want)
- Mr Bungle release first new music since 1999
- Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee releases videos for two new solo singles
- June 4
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- Sweet bassist Steve Priest dead at 72
- Watch Mastodon, Emma Ruth Rundle and more cover Kate Bush
- Listen to Bob Mould vent his anger on new single American Crisis
- Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows: Standing against inequality and racism is the least we can do
- That Joe Payne announces debut solo album
- Ebonivory stream brand new album The Long Dream I
- Slipknot’s Clown: I’d feel betrayed if we ever ditched the masks
- Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic: I don’t support fascism
- Lakeside Park tribute to Rush’s Neil Peart gets green light
- Knotfest Online reveals next three weeks of streams
- June 3
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- Run The Jewels sneak release new album RTJ4
- Enslaved announce the Cinematic Summer Tour
- Periphery guitarist Misha Mansoor to release early Bulb recordings
- UK charity festival Teddy Rocks postponed until 2021
- Megadeth camp feels like new album is the perfect follow-up to Dystopia
- Kepler Ten release video for new single Two From The Top
- The Tangent announce new album Auto Reconnaissance
- Former Misfits drummer Joey Image dead at 63
- Devin Townsend shares an hour of new ambient music
- Metallica dust off old VHS tape for 1997 concert film
- Bandcamp to donate profits to support “racial justice, equality and change”
- June 1
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- #TheShowMustBePaused
- Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett tour moved to 2021
- K-Pop fans crash Dallas police force app in support of Black Lives Matter
- Dukes Of The Orient release video for new single The Monitors
- The Quireboys announce A Bit Of What You Fancy 30th anniversary tour
- Pattern-Seeking Animals release video for Why Don't We Run
- Rush's Alex Lifeson: I don’t feel inspired or motivated to play right now
- The Watch team up with John Hackett for Genesis cover
- Watch Swiss hurdy gurdy visionary play five Black Sabbath riffs
- Music industry calls for unity following the death of George Floyd
- Metallica x Billabong LAB collab: Ride The Lightning… and the surf
- SpaceX astronauts prepared for historic launch by blasting out AC/DC
- Get a behind the scenes look at how Pearl Jam’s Retrograde video was created
