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- September 30
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- Oathbreaker, Rolo Tomassi and Amenra bolster ArcTanGent 2021 line-up
- Gigs might not resume until at least April, top UK live promoter warns
- James LaBrie announces he's working on a new solo album
- AC/DC confirm line-up, issue first photo of reunited band
- Ding Dong Merrily On High! Mark Lanegan is releasing a Christmas album
- Hear Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s ferocious unreleased demos for Reign In Blood
- Bill Bailey returns to UK arenas in December 2021
- AC/DC teaser ads appear in local UK newspapers
- September 29
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- Linkin Park recall ‘crying for joy’ hearing Chester Bennington’s voice for the first time
- Elbow singer Guy Garvey releases solo single
- Cult Of Luna, Alcest, Mono and A.A. Williams to play ArcTanGent 2021
- Goat Girl announce new album, address disillusionment on Sad Cowboy single
- Daily prog show launches on Internet Radio station Radio Albatross
- David Draiman joins rapper Hyro The Hero to rage against ‘social media soldiers’ on We Believe
- Beabadoobee's new single How Was Your Day? is the best song the 90s never had
- Fight Fire With Finance: Metallica give $250,000 to US wildfire relief
- The heaviest riff Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter has written this year is not on Ohms. Hear it now
- Burton C Bell quits Fear Factory, hits out at band’s “toxic drama”
- Fish denied No 2 chart placing for Weltschmerz
- Have AC/DC just revealed the title of their new album?
- Soundgarden survivors keen to play together again
- September 28
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- Brian May to introduce Kings Daughters' first ever live show... and you can watch
- Could this hard-hitting movie about a troubled drummer be heavy metal’s first cinematic tearjerker?
- AC/DC signal their comeback with electrifying social media posts
- Lykantropi announce new album Tales To Be Told
- Previously unseen The Who gig among Teenage Cancer Trust concert streams in October
- Antimatter move their 20th anniversary shows to 2021
- Skunk Anansie reschedule European tour, add new London show
- Guitarist Anthony Phillips to release Missing Links I-IV collection
- Lars Ulrich has picked one Metallica song that he never, ever wants to hear again
- Pink Floyd are embarrassed by how rich they are
- Join Rammstein as they take a trip back in time to 1995
- September 27
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- Blue Oyster Cult launch video for epic vampire ballad Tainted Blood
- Apparently Mariah Carey once made a grunge album
- The Cadillac Three launch Hard Out Here For A Country Boy single with extra fuzz
- Smith & Myers confirm second new album, break out Billie Eilish cover
- Tim Morse to release new compilation The Archaeology Project
- Former Trivium guitarist and bassist Brent Young has died
- September 26
- September 25
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- District 97 announce virtual Screening Tour this October
- TesseracT announce deluxe vinyl reissue of Altered State
- Joe Satriani has been fighting against the idea that he’s a shredder for his entire career
- Neil Peart voted the greatest prog musician of all time
- Mick Fleetwood shares re-working of Fleetwood Mac’s These Strange Times
- Voyager announce special online show... live from Australia
- Idles celebrate Ultra Mono release day with intense video for new single War
- Dream Theater announce new live album and share video for Pale Blue Dot
- I am a white person who benefits from racism, says Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready
- "There are no rules": Gojira's Joe Duplantier hints at what the band's new album might sound like
- Royal Blood unveil new ‘Disco AC/DC’ direction on Trouble’s Coming
- Waterparks' new single Lowkey As Hell dials ups the angst and ditches the neon
- ‘Pop assassins’ The Smashing Pumpkins still hate guitars, apparently
- Bruce Springsteen summons ghosts of the past on stirring new single
- Watch Steve Hackett’s spellbinding live version of The Cinema Show
- Corey Taylor consoled ‘bawling’ pop stars Daphne and Celeste after infamous Reading festival abuse
- The Greatest Prog Musician Ever unveiled in the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- Be the first to hear music from the brand new Enslaved album with Prog and Metal Hammer
- The Flower Kings release video for new single From The Ground
- Ross Halfin to publish photographic celebration of UFO's Pete Way
- September 24
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- Lunatic Soul stream brand new single The Passage
- Watch Nirvana play Smells Like Teen Spirit in public for the first time
- Warning: you might never sleep again after watching Mr. Bungle’s disturbing new video
- Obsidian Kingdom stream new album Meat Machine with Prog
- Watch Prince jam with Miles Davis in legendary 1987 gig streaming online tonight
- Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder: Restored, re-edited and remixed for new home release
- Ten things we learned in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- The new Nine Inch Nails merch range perfectly captures the weirdness of 2020
- Frost* release video trailer for 13 Winters anthology
- I was afraid to do therapy, admits Deftones’ Chino Moreno
- Corey Taylor takes aim at the far right and extreme left on pummelling new solo single Culture Head
- Fantastic Negrito reinvents rap classic on sumptuous Searching For Captain Save A Hoe
- Wayne Static sings on Static-X's new single, which is a bit weird when you think about it
- September 23
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- Starbenders continue their inexorable rise with dystopian video for Push
- New Zealand folk proggers Grumblewood release teaser video for new album
- Fancy a trip into space with Queen’s Brian May?
- Osibisa play London's Jazz Cafe this Saturday
- Dropping ‘negative bullshit’ has given Corey Taylor a new lease of life
- Derek And The Dominos’ Layla set for 50th anniversary deluxe reissue
- Ring Van Möbius announce single and album
- Watch Phil Lynott destroy a Birmingham pub with Lizzy/Sabbath/Wizzard supergroup The Rockers
- The Great British Bake Off went full on ROCK last night, and Twitter had a meltdown
- You can now buy a scented candle that smells like Lemmy
- Would you pay $7,500 for your own personalised Steel Panther song?
- Derek Sherinian releases Making Of Phoenix documentary
- Sharon Osbourne in quarantine after granddaughter gets coronavirus
- Here are the best releases you can buy on Record Store Day (Drop Day 2)
- This reggae cover of a Kiss's Calling Dr Love could be the feelgood hit of the late summer
- This trans satanist anarchist metalhead is trolling the Republican Party hard
- September 22
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- Anathema announce indefinite hiatus
- Myrkur to discuss impact of COVID-19 on metal in livestream event tonight
- Fleet Foxes launch surprise new album Shore with film
- Metz share new single Blind Youth Industrial Park and announce livestream
- Anthrax want to sell you Stop Spreading The Disease hand sanitiser
- Paradise Lost turn the clock back 25 years with Draconian Times reissue
- Jo Quail to reissue Five Incantations on deluxe vinyl
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis didn’t have a fabulous time using crystal meth
- Who is Corey Taylor talking about when he says some of Slipknot don’t care about making music?
- Tony Iommi covering Status Quo on prime-time TV is pure gold
- Steven Wilson goes retro pop on his new single Eminent Sleaze
- US cops covered up Rob Halford’s ‘George Michael moment’ as they were Judas Priest fans
- This action figure is the ultimate tribute to Power Trip singer Riley Gale
- Watch Greta Van Fleet perform epic songs in equally epic Red Rocks setting
- September 21
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- Jon Anderson's Song Of Seven to get remastered reissue
- Diamond Head re-record classic debut album as Lightning To The Nations 2020
- Five Finger Death Punch continue to delve into their past on new album
- Svalbard find new home for their third album following Holy Roar exit
- Efterklang live guitarist Martyn Heyne streams new solo single The Hall
- Dave Grohl’s favourite rock bar is closing and the owners know who to blame
- Hear captivating new single from Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimée
- UFO’s legendary Strangers In The Night live album set for deluxe reissue
- The Queen wants to know why heavy metal has to be so bloody loud
- September 20
- September 19
- September 18
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- Flying Colors reveal live video for You Are Not Alone
- Listen to Sontaag's new single Beyond Forever
- Tears For Fears announce new single from upcoming Seeds Of Love box set
- Black Stone Cherry share video for new single Ringin' In My Head
- Gazpacho share the title track from their new album Fireworker
- Has Muse’s Matt Bellamy outshone Disturbed with his new Simon & Garfunkel cover?
- Watch the new video for Jon Gomm’s Deep Sea Fishes
- Pain Of Salvation to reissue updated version of The Perfect Element, Pt. I
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce new double album Cyr
- We regret to inform you that Van Morrison is at it again
- TesseracT singer among the final wave of acts announced for Radar Festival 2021
- Omega Point premiere new video for Red Room with Prog
- Slade didn’t want anyone to hear Merry Xmas Everybody
- Watch Nick Mason talk about Pink Floyd and his Saucerful Of Secrets project
- We have no idea what this new Puscifer song is about, but we love it anyway
- September 17
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- Enslaved release video trailer for Utgard release event
- Depeche Mode reveal plans to revisit Songs Of Faith And Devotion
- Brian Eno announces Film Music 1976-2020
- Tune into Townsend Music’s massive CD and vinyl sale
- Jimi Hendrix bassist feared racism would torpedo the guitarist’s career
- Beabadoobee's new single Worth It is the sound of Generations X and Z colliding
- Geezer Butler’s solo albums are finally getting the reissue treatment they deserve
- Elton John gathers deep cuts and rarities for his Jewel Box collection
- UFO filed monthly $28,000 cocaine bill as medical expenses
- Ayreon release video for Talk of The Town
- The Beatles to publish first official book in 20 years
- Alex Henry Foster launches Alive. Never Alone. initiative
- Lars Ulrich: 'Motorhead united punks, skinheads and metal kids, they blew away all that division'
- Corey Taylor is on the new Metal Hammer cover… and he’s happy?!
- September 16
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- Countdown to Christmas early with Brewdog’s epic craft beer advent calendar
- Kev Rowland releases volume three of The Progressive Underground
- Galahad Electric Company release video for Open Water
- Hear Rise Against mourn the death of the American Dream on new single Broken Dreams, Inc
- Neil Peart tribute concert available to stream until December
- Sabaton’s building block recreation of a World War 1 battle is strangely moving
- Teramaze release new video for Here To Watch You
- Noel Gallagher outs himself as an anti-masker, the music world responds
- Were aliens present at the birth of Jesus Christ? Tom DeLonge has some thoughts
- Megadeth owe everything to Metallica, says David Ellefson
- HRH Prog X reschedules for 2021
- Rob Halford: the night I tried to seduce Iron Maiden’s Paul Di’Anno
- September 15
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- Motorhead: Ace Of Spades, bad blood and mad luck - only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Adele producer Paul Epworth releases "70s space concept album"
- Alter Bridge to release new song, Last Rites, on Walk The Sky 2.0 EP
- Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Zakk Wylde team up to soundtrack new DC Comics animation Dark Nights: Death Metal
- Corey Taylor to livestream special show from the LA Forum
- Donald Trump thinks GN’R’s November Rain is the greatest video in history. Of course he does
- Watch Marty Friedman shred a Fleetwood Mac cover with members of Mastodon, Baroness and Lucifer
- Hear Dave Grohl’s superhero theme song for “Rock ’n’ Roll Queen” Nandi Bushell
- Sanguine Hum announce new album for November
- Are Rammstein back in the studio?
- September 14
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- Gargoyl release video for new song Plastic Nothing
- Sid McCray, original frontman of hardcore punk heroes Bad Brains, has died
- Our Oceans announce "dark" second album
- ‘Lost’ Deftones album Eros might never be released, Chino Moreno admits
- Billy Idol is on the next Miley Cyrus album
- Hatebreed encourage fans to “make a difference in the world” on new album Weight Of The False Self
- Martin Barre to release personal best of Jethro Tull
- Jason Momoa jamming with Primus’ Les Claypool is a pure and beautiful thing to see
- September 13
- September 12
- September 11
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- Nothing launch Say Less single as first taster of new album The Great Dismal
- Rise Twain release live video for Oh This Life
- Scardust release video for Tantibus II
- Fish releases video for new single This Party's Over
- Cobalt Chapel stream new track Our Angel Polygon
- Listen to previously unreleased Tom Petty song Confusion Wheel
- Amanda Lehmann releases video for new single Memory Lane
- Here’s what Bruce Dickinson told Dave Mustaine on learning that Megadeth’s leader had throat cancer
- System Of A Down recall surreal 9/11 chart triumph
- Could Disturbed’s new Sting cover be even bigger than The Sound Of Silence?
- Tangerine Dream Virgin Recordings 80-83 box set announced
- September 10
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- Lunatic Soul announce seventh album Through Shaded Woods
- Pain Of Salvation release drum playthrough video for Accelerator
- New documentary to chart the bizarre tale of how Jimi Hendrix ended up in Maui
- Skindred are touring with Royal Republic and it's an impossibly brilliant concept
- Katatonia announce new live album
- Amy Lee’s grief over her brother’s death will shape new Evanescence album The Bitter Truth
- Bruce Springsteen announces new album Letter To You
- Flying Colors release live video of More
- The Struts share video for Strange Days, featuring pop superstar Robbie Williams
- Finnish prog metallers External release video for Intertia
- This Muse cover is the wildest thing you'll see online today
- Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard has a new band and they sound nothing like you’d expect
- Marilyn Manson channels Bowie on apocalyptic new single Don’t Chase The Dead
- Former IQ and Frost* men unite in Rain
- September 9
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- Neil Peart tribute concert to take place this Saturday
- The New Empire release video for Life After Life
- Bob Mould addresses questions of sexual identity and self-hatred on fierce new single Siberian Butterfly
- Rikard Sjoblom announces live stream show
- Career-encompassing Greg Lake anthology to be released
- Rolo Tomassi lead exodus from Holy Roar after label founder accused of sexual assault
- Slipknot receive pop-punk makeover and it kinda works
- Pink Floyd put the pieces in place for new range of jigsaw puzzles
- Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe dead at 82
- September 8
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- Todd Rundgren streams new single Espionage
- Rob Halford: “Working out your sexuality can be torture”
- Kraftwerk announce coloured vinyl reissues
- Hear Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s once-in-a-lifetime duet
- Ian Anderson announces Jethro Tull book paperback release in new video
- Rïcïnn streams brand new single Doris
- September 7
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- Milk Teeth have split up
- Susanna releases video for new single The Vampire
- Judas Priest are releasing the ultimate heavy metal photo book
- Idles add European dates to 2021 tour plans
- Chilean proggers Aisles introduce new singer with video for Smile Of Tears
- Maxi Curnow releases new video for Fire Eater
- Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t have any interest in another Sabbath gig
- September 6
- September 5
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- Marillion Couch Convention: Sunday Schedule
- Nightwish postpone European tour to 2021
- Derek Sherinian releases new video for cover of Buddy Miles' Them Changes
- Gazpacho stream brand new single Clockwork
- Oceans Of Slumber release lyric video for Pray For Fire
- Marillion Couch Convention: Saturday Schedule
- September 4
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- Sólstafir release animated video for Drýsill
- Hear supergroup Killer Be Killed’s lethal comeback single Deconstructing Self-Destruction
- Zeal & Ardor have released two new songs, and they’re more pissed off than ever
- Ayreon release lyric video for This Human Equation
- We’re getting new music from Fear Factory next year
- Steve Hackett releases live video for Under The Eye Of The Sun
- Steel Panther summon black metal darkness in grim new video for Let’s Get High Tonight
- Metallica are re-recording Nothing Else Matters for a new movie
- Marillion's Couch Convention starts today!
- Opeth announce 30th anniversary tour, and you get to choose the setlist
- Nick Cave to release Idiot Prayer live album and film
- Biffy Clyro cover controversial sex anthem WAP
- September 3
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- Deep Purple's Nothing At All video asks the big philosophical questions
- The Who to broadcast rare concert footage as climax to YouTube series
- Ace Frehley covers The Beatles' I'm Down, adds swearing
- UK metallers Wargasm are soundtracking the return of NXT UK
- Touche Amore “overwhelmed” by fans’ memories of dead loved ones
- Alex Skolnick Trio announce live stream this Saturday
- Turning Virtue release video for Postulate
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon team up with Yungblud for crushing new song Obey
- September 2
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- The Struts combine forces with Robbie Williams for stirring ballad Strange Days
- The Pineapple Thief release video for new single Driving Like Maniacs
- Code Orange are dropping a new album this Friday
- Trading Boundaries announces more live shows
- Watch an animated Corey Taylor raise hell in video for new solo single HWY 666
- Yes announce new live album for October
- Wobbler release new video for Five Rooms
- The Flower Kings announce new double album Islands
- Lamb Of God are playing Ashes Of The Wake and their new album live in full this month
- Guns N' Roses release six live videos from Not In This Lifetime tour
- September 1
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- Could Electric Jesus be the Christian hair metal coming-of-age comedy we've been waiting for?
- Blue Oyster Cult launch That Was Me video with a special guest on cowbell
- Crippled Black Phoenix release new video for Lost
- Watch Korn guitarist Munky team up with The Mendenhall Experiment on defiant anthem Prosthetic
- Gentle Giant announce first ever official t-shirt
- Obsidian Kingdom release video for The Pump
- Teramaze release video for new song A Deep State Of Awake
- These $500 Metallica statues are the ultimate metal-loving toy nerd fantasy
- Exclusive: Metallica face their demons in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Pain Of Salvation release lyric video for Unfuture
- Crown Lands launch epic Sun Dance video and it's time to groove like it's 1970
