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- August 31
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- James Hetfield: singing Unforgiven III on S&M2 was huge for me
- Listen to unreleased version of Thin Lizzy song Sugar Blues
- September gigs announced for ProgStock Virtual Series
- Watch the new video for Jo Beth Young’s Verticality
- Trivium have paid tribute to Riley Gale by covering Power Trip’s Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)
- August 29
- August 28
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- Smash Mouth's ill-fated Sturgis Rally show linked to 100+ cases of coronavirus
- Ascension Of The Watchers hit gothic-industrial gold with new track Ghost Heart
- Robert Plant shares rendition of rockabilly classic Too Much Alike
- The Backstage stream new single Isolation
- Metal Hammer release exclusive Avatar bundles
- The Smashing Pumpkins have inexplicably gone full 80s synth pop
- Neal Morse releases lyric video for Building A Wall
- Enslaved release trippy new video for the krautrock-inspired Urtojan
- Wayne Hussey and friends release video for Tower Of Strength remake
- The Struts nail the summer anthem of 2020 with Another Hit Of Showmanship
- Ihsahn releases video of cover of A-ha's Manhattan Skyline
- Devin Townsend releases live video for Genesis
- Public Enemy announce new album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down
- It’s official: Slayer’s Kerry King and Paul Bostaph are working on new music together
- King Crimson to release massive 26-disc 1969 Recordings box set
- James Hetfield has had a species of venomous snake named after him
- Listen to The Rolling Stones remixed by The Killers and Jacques Lu Cont
- August 27
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- Watch Queen + Adam Lambert perform dramatic version of The Show Must Go On
- Eddie Jobson live album to be released
- Ronnie Wood film Somebody Up There Likes Me set for home release
- Acid folk legends Trees celebrated in new box set
- Not even trashing his car can stop Machine Gun Kelly from rocking out
- Tangerine Dream to release two new improvisation albums: Sessions II and III
- Mick Jagger is having fun working on new Rolling Stones music during lockdown
- Deftones are celebrating White Pony's 20th anniversary with a brand new beer
- Code Orange: Metal needs to be more forward-thinking
- Motorhead's On Parole was the debut album that wasn't. Now it's out again
- Expanded edition of second Elliott Smith album released for 25th anniversary
- August 26
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- William Shatner and Ritchie Blackmore go where no musical duo have been before
- Strange New Dawn release video for Ashes To Dust
- Justin Townes Earle died from “probable drug overdose” say police
- Mystery cancel European tour dates
- Van Halen’s history celebrated in career-spanning new biography
- John Lennon’s solo work completely remixed for new compilation
- Chino Moreno: Ohms builds on everything Deftones have done in the past
- Omega Point announce new single Red Room
- Fairport Convention release charity version of classic Meet On The Ledge
- Scott Gorham on the “horrible luck” that stopped Thin Lizzy from cracking the US
- Mestis, aka Animals As Leaders guitarist Javier Reyes, releases stream of Gentle Giant
- What’s happening with the new Evanescence album? Amy Lee gives fans an update
- Slayer’s Kerry King hints at next project: "I've got more than two records' worth of music"
- Power Trip singer Riley Gale dead at 34
- August 25
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- Icelandic post-rockers VAR release video for Run
- Watch Jon Bon Jovi explore the streets of Manhattan in video for Do What You Can
- Fates Warning stream brand new single Scars
- James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Michael Schenker and more to appear in Flying V documentary
- Dio’s Holy Diver to be transformed into a graphic novel
- Van Morrison attacks the ‘pseudoscience’ behind socially distanced concerts
- Iron Maiden celebrate 40th anniversary of their debut album with new vinyl reissue
- Ihsahn teases video for his cover of A-ha’s Manhattan Skyline
- There’s a new Chris Cornell film planned… but his estate say they’ve not approved it
- Nick D'Virgilio announces new single I Know The Way
- Trivium announce The Deepest Cuts live stream
- Metallica bring the curtain down on Metallica Mondays in spectacular style
- Walter Trout releases Ordinary Madness album and it's about everyone
- August 24
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- Sontaag return with Beyond Forever
- Wolfgang Van Halen: Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth both kick ass
- Bob Harris recruits Rick Wakeman, Paul Rodgers, Mark Knopfler & more for charity single
- Gandalf's Fist release video for new single Stakes At Low Tide
- Seattle’s Chris Cornell statue vandalised
- Threshold confirm they're working on new album
- Idles announce 2021 UK and Ireland tour
- Justin Townes Earle, singer/songwriter and son of Steve Earle, dead at 38
- August 23
- August 22
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- Australian prog rock trio SteelSwarm release debut album
- Finnish prog metallers Humavoid release lyric video for Fortune For Demise
- Oceans Of Slumber release video for To The Sea (A Tolling of the Bells)
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman dead at 64
- The Last Giant release video for new single Nova
- August 21
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- Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali dead at 68
- Coheed And Cambria and Rick Springfield team up for Jessie’s Girl sequel
- AC/DC’s Angus Young: It’s a little bit late for us to do a ballad… rock is what we do best
- RUSHfest launches charity Rush tribute album
- Mansun release live clip of Being A Girl from Brixton 1998
- The Doors’ Morrison Hotel set for 50th anniversary deluxe edition
- Napalm Death share video for bruising new single Amoral
- Carcass roar back to life with new song The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
- Fish is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Megadeth producer Mike Clink: I couldn’t have predicted the success of Rust In Peace
- Dyble Longdon release video for Astrologers
- Your easy guide to getting the new issue of Prog
- Sixx AM share video for new charity single featuring Joe Elliott, Corey Taylor and more
- Watch: Fish on going out on a high and why he didn't want to 'do a Love Beach'
- Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder set for cinema release
- Deftones announce new album Ohms – watch video for electrifying title track
- August 20
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- Queen and Adam Lambert announce new album Live Around The World
- Rise Twain release live session video for That Is Love
- Watch Metallica deliver For Whom The Bell Tolls in spectacular style
- Toto’s Steve Lukather teams up with Ringo Starr for new single Run To Me
- Watch first trailer for new Phil Lynott film - as massive Thin Lizzy box set is revealed
- Metal Hammer podcast 128: Do The Homework
- Fish: New album feels like a great way to go out on a high
- The Ocean release video for new single Oligocene
- London’s famous Carnaby Street is set for a Rolling Stones makeover
- Metallica on James Hetfield’s return to rehab: “We really didn’t see it coming”
- August 19
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- Susanna streams new single Longing For Nothingness
- This year’s Guitar Show is going virtual for the first time
- Steven Wilson remixes Tears For Fears The Seeds Of Love
- Watch Corey Taylor try to escape from a house in the desert in surreal Black Eyes Blue video
- Listen to Rory Gallagher and Jerry Lee Lewis perform the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction
- Elliot Nelson announces debut solo album
- Former Supersuckers guitarist Ron ‘Rontrose’ Heathman has died
- Frank Zappa’s legendary Zappawood plot hits the market
- Radiohead's fourth album Kid A analysed in new book
- Call Of The Wild festival announces 2021 return - and add extra day
- Slayer’s Live Undead album celebrated with new range of action figures
- Sixx AM tease new project with Slash, Joe Elliott, Corey Taylor and more
- August 18
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- The Blackheart Orchestra release video for Good Weather
- Dee Snider: My goal is to be like Ozzy
- Anthrax are using “the magic of the internet” to work on new music
- Bruce Springsteen backs Biden with new video for The Rising
- The real Phil Lynott, by those who knew him best: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Linkin Park release 11-track music pack for neon-soaked VR favourite Beat Saber
- Thunder postpone UK tour and delay new album release
- Slash reunites with ex GNR members Matt Sorum and Gilby Clarke for Beatles classic
- Watch Metallica take over The Howard Stern Show with blistering three-song set
- August 17
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- Frank Zappa’s New York Halloween shows from 1981 to be celebrated in new box set
- Blue Oyster Cult announce their first studio album in 19 years
- Molassess release video for Death Is
- Devin Townsend to release Order Of Magnitude: Empath Live Volume 1
- The future of Liverpool’s famous Cavern Club is under threat
- Pure Reason Revolution announce The Dark Third reissue
- Watch teaser for Phil Lynott documentary Songs For While I’m Away
- How Linkin Park’s She Couldn’t laid the groundwork for their later sound
- Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali recovering at home after suffering stroke
- Are Deftones hinting that their new album will arrive in the coming weeks?
- August 16
- August 15
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- Stealing The Fire to release first new album in 21 years
- Experimental vocalist Ricinn to stream live show and teases new album
- Doda Havet to release Tid Och Rum
- Wobbler announce new album Dwellers Of The Deep
- DarWin release the epic Nightmare Of My Dreams – catch it now!
- Former UFO bassist Pete Way dead at 69
- August 14
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- Lifesigns launch crowdfunding campaign for Altitude
- Listen to seething new song Die For The Pic from Shavo Odadjian’s North Kingsley
- Watch video for The Flaming Lips' new track Will You Return / When You Come Down
- Pain Of Salvation tease new video for Panther
- Devildriver unleash video for new single Nest Of Vipers
- Enter Shikari score shirt sponsorship deal with home town team St Albans City FC
- Watch the video for Jakko Jakszyk's new solo track The Trouble With Angels
- Listen to Attention the new art pop single from Hannah & The Moulettes
- Kiss reschedule End Of The Road dates with David Lee Roth
- Orville Peck has teamed up with Shania Twain and it is a relentless parade of joy
- Listen to Anna von Hausswolff’s vast new track All Thoughts Fly
- Elvis Costello announces new album Hey Clockface
- Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly launch video for the title track of Alone Together
- Weezer release upbeat new single Beginning Of The End from Bill & Ted Face The Music
- Watch trailer for Steve Hackett's Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live
- Listen to Evanescence’s anthemic new single Use My Voice
- August 13
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- Kyros team up with Haken and John Mitchell for isolation covers gig
- Linkin Park announce Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary edition with stream of She Couldn’t
- Arsames flee Iran after being sentenced to 15 years in jail for playing heavy metal
- Bob Mould’s career celebrated with massive Distortion anthology
- Mr Bungle announce first album in 21 years
- Gargoyl premiere their new single Wraith
- Scorpions Wind Of Change box set will include a piece of the Berlin Wall
- Ozric Tentacles announce 2021 UK tour
- New Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne biopic is in “active development”
- Fairport Convention's Cropredy 2020 goes online this weekend
- The Ocean announce European and UK tour for 2021
- Chris Slade: To my knowledge I’m still AC/DC’s drummer
- August 12
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- Placebo announce online summer festival lockdown series
- Shavo Odadjian: I have 25 song ideas I could bring to System Of A Down
- Mint Field share intimate video for Delicadeza
- Corey Taylor: Stone Sour are on indefinite hiatus
- Watch Roger Dean paint the new DBA album art live tonight
- Shirley Manson confirms new Garbage album will be out next year
- Jon Gomm shares the video for new single Cocoon
- ArcTanGent festival announces three days of online events
- Status Quo cancel UK and European Backbone tour
- The Tangent’s Andy Tillison talks us through new album Auto Reconnaissance
- Evanescence recruit Lzzy Hale, Sharon den Adel and more for new single Use My Voice
- Zoltan Bathory is planning a Five Finger Death Punch movie
- August 11
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- Idles wage war on 'fishbowl' Britain on new single Model Village
- Long Distance Calling launch live video for Sharing Thoughts
- Queen’s Brian May thanks firefighters for tackling wildfire that threatened his home
- Machine Head rail against injustice in Bulletproof lyric video
- Unprocessed confirm headline tour for 2021
- Wayne Hussey and friends remake The Mission classic Tower Of Strength
- Sparks are forced to reschedule 2020 UK and European tour
- Watch the creepy video from Mother’s Cake for Love Your Smell
- Brian Eno’s Rams soundtrack to be released for Record Store Day
- 'Red Alert day of action' to take place in support of #WeMakeEvents initiative
- Dynamic blues rocker Fantastic Negrito will light up YouTube this week for 3-song set
- Ride’s Andy Bell reveals solo single Love Comes In Waves
- Mercyful Fate to headline Bloodstock 2021
- KOJ share new single Human Love
- Metallica wind the clock back to 2004 - as they confirm Howard Stern appearance
- Iron Maiden pay tribute to Martin Birch: Simply one of the greatest people we have ever worked with
- August 10
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- Machine Head's Robb Flynn: Burn My Eyes changed my life in so many ways
- Michael Schenker announces new MSG album Immortal
- Magenta kick off free online concert series
- Neal Morse releases new video for Seemingly Sincere
- Metallica announce their first live show of 2020
- Entombed AD singer LG Petrov diagnosed with ‘incurable’ cancer
- Did Slipknot just mistakenly unmask Tortilla Man?
- Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and Whitesnake producer and engineer Martin Birch dead at 71
- August 9
- August 8
- August 7
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- Blink-182's new single Quarantine is where punk and the pandemic collide
- SOAD’s Shavo Odadjian has dropped his first song with new band North Kingsley
- Evanescence and HeadCount join forces for the Use My Voice campaign
- L7 will celebrate 30 years of Smell The Magic with new anniversary edition
- Sabaton share live video for The Attack Of The Dead Men
- Listen to The Sword’s sludge-filled cover of Rush classic Working Man
- Kjartan Sveinsson releases Volcano soundtrack
- Experimental composer Roopam Garg launches Dark
- Circuline release video trailer for upcoming live release
- Steve Hackett announces Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live
- Watch Tame Impala’s trippy video for Is It True
- The Who Join Together for six-weeks of archive performances
- Unwound and Household Gods bassist Vern Rumsey dead at 47
- Tim Bowness releases haunting new video for Northern Rain
- Robert Reed releases video cover of Chi Mai in tribute to Ennio Morricone
- Metallica share lockdown Creeping Death rehearsal footage
- Watch actor Paul Mescal go wild in Claridge’s in Rolling Stones’ Scarlet video
- Joe Bonamassa releases 20th anniversary reissue of A New Day Yesterday
- August 6
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- Frankie And The Witch Fingers release video for Sweet Freak
- Halestorm and Evanescence’s Amy Lee join forces for brand new Break In video
- Black Stone Cherry are back with a new album and single
- Flying Colors prep Third Stage: Live In London release with video for Kayla
- The Pineapple Thief release stunning video for new single Versions of The Truth
- Black Sabbath's super-deluxe edition of Paranoid album comes to vinyl
- Corey Taylor: Stop whining and put your god damn mask on
- Gong postpone their UK 2020 tour plans - shows will now take place next year
- Brian May joins Generation Axe for wild Bohemian Rhapsody jam
- Metallica preview S&M2 release with epic Moth Into Flame video
- August 5
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- Jon Anderson: I'd love to get the surviving members of Yes together again one day
- Neil Young sues Donald Trump's campaign over song use at rallies
- Jinjer have announced a post-lockdown mini-tour next month
- Sólstafir stream brand 11-minute new song Akkeri
- Buy a beer and help grassroots music venues across the UK
- We're having a mid-season sale and you can now get five issues of our mags for a fiver
- Gojira launch apocalyptic Another World video
- Solstice sign to GEP and announce new album
- Lamb Of God’s Memento Mori coffee is guaranteed to stir up your mornings
- Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta has a plan to fix Metallica’s Lulu
- Sammy Hagar the The Circle will play in front of 1000 fans at September charity show
- Glass Ocean release video for new single Almaida
- August 4
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- Gojira light up social media with Another Place To Be teaser
- Corey Taylor: I've got enough material for three or four solo albums
- US art rockers Fire Garden release video for Idiot Brain
- Trivium are buying an aircraft hangar to turn into their HQ
- Listen to Palaye Royale’s haunting version of Tears For Fears classic Mad World
- Van der Graaf Generator move UK tour dates to 2021
- Devin Townsend is writing a “weird” new album called Lightwork
- Metallica celebrate James Hetfield’s birthday by turning the clock back 20 years
- Deep Purple preview all 13 Whoosh! tracks ahead of release
- August 3
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- Colosseum to have five archive live albums released
- Watch Jane’s Addiction dust off I Would For You and Stop for Lollapalooza live
- UK music industry unites to call for an end to racism
- Paramore’s Hayley Williams shares acoustic take on solo track Simmer
- Former Enochian Theory members resurface as Victor's Rampage
- Watch Creeper drive across America's desolate highways in Poisoned Heart video
- Def Leppard announce Hysteria anniversary plans
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda “excited” for Hybrid Theory’s 20th anniversary
- Molly Hatchet co-founder and guitarist Steve Holland has died
- Watch Roger Waters revisit Pink Floyd’s Time
- Kiss, Biffy Clyro and System Of A Down confirmed as Download 2021 headliners
