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- October 31
- October 30
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- Listen to 53 glorious seconds of new AC/DC single Demon Fire
- Bruford's Rock Goes To College gets CD/DVD reissue
- Rob Zombie’s new single The Triumph of King Freak… is so good it’ll make you forget every sh*tty thing about 2020
- Cobalt Chapel release video for new single In Company
- Jane Weaver releases video for new single The Revolution Of Super Visions
- Deftones’ White Pony remix album, Black Stallion, is finally coming in December
- Hear Tom Morello host Slash, pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix on new EP, Commandante
- Mark Kelly releases video for second single This Time
- You owe it to yourself to listen to this astonishing orchestral version of Metallica’s One
- Arthur Brown streams new single Zombie Yelp
- October 29
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- Gentle Giant release Ray Shulman and Kerry Minnear duet video
- See how Dave Grohl overcame his crippling caffeine addiction thanks to new wonder drug
- Greek prog metallers Need reveal new album artwork
- Watch Alice In Chains/Mastodon/Anthrax supergroup smash a cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage
- Come Together and save a bundle on this brilliant Beatles box set
- Big Big Train release live video for The Florentine
- Mogwai return with video for new song Dry Fantasy
- Steven Wilson releases dark video for new song King Ghost
- Download UK adds Megadeth, Descendents, Northlane, Venom Prison and more to 2021 bill
- October 28
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- Learn from Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey and more as Rock'N'Roll Fantasy Camp goes online
- Watch the trailer for Alex Winter's new Frank Zappa documentary
- Robert Reed releases tribute video to Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn
- Hear Fever 333’s incredible new cover of Linkin Park classic In The End
- Trent Reznor, Perry Farrell, Billy Corgan to play Bowie tribute concert
- Southampton's 1865 venue launches crowdfunder for survival
- Hear new music from three-quarters of Tool
- Alice Cooper wants to play a terrifying game of truth or dare with you
- Kate Bush is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
- AC/DC once tried to smoke out the Loch Ness monster with fireworks
- October 27
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- Starbenders' dazzling Witches Be Bitches is a celebration of the 'dark and different'
- Like emo-rap and cute animals? Nothing,nowhere.'s new video has you covered
- Jon Gomm announces socially distanced live UK dates for November
- Stop everything! David Hasselhoff is making a metal record
- Pasadena City Council are seeking ideas on how best to commemorate Eddie Van Halen
- John Carpenter streams new single Weeping Ghost
- Hear Foo Fighters, RATM, MC5, Runaways members cover Sweet Dreams with Afghan girls
- Crobar launches crowdfunder for Crobar mkII
- Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe is the gothic death disco you never knew you needed
- Ex-Children Of Bodom duo form Bodom After Midnight to cover Children Of Bodom
- Tenacious D recruit Sarah Silverman, John Waters, Senator Elizabeth Warren for metallic Time Warp cover
- Porcupine Tree detail new The Delerium Years box set
- Paradise Lost promise sonic fireworks with Guy Fawkes’ Night live stream show
- The seeds for AC/DC’s reunion were sown at Malcolm Young’s funeral
- Watch a pre-fame Sebastian Bach cover Led Zeppelin at a star-studded wedding
- October 26
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- Selfless Orchestra release video for Time Is A Flower
- Genesis reveal brand new behind-the-scenes rehearsal photos
- The Damned add new date to original line-up’s reunion tour
- Watch previously unseen footage from Linkin Park’s One Step Closer video shoot
- Former Hawkwind dancer Stacia announces new t-shirt
- AC/DC light up the internet with Shot In The Dark video, announce ‘We’re ready to kick ass’
- John Hackett releases video teaser for new album The Piper Plays His Tune
- The Atomic Beau Project premiere spooky video for new single Cellar Door
- Smashing Pumpkins to release 33-song rock opera as a sequel to Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
- Sonne is voted the greatest Rammstein song ever
- The Pretty Reckless celebrate Halloween with the kooky, spooky Broomsticks
- Watch Trivium thrash out rare bangers during their The Deepest Cuts II livestream gig
- Rumours of a Van Halen reunion without Eddie are a ‘sh*tty lie’ says Wolfgang VH
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan admits to unwittingly performing shows with COVID
- October 25
- October 24
- October 23
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- Watch Def Leppard play 3 gigs on 3 continents in 24 hours to set a world record
- AC/DC share teaser video for new single Shot In The Dark
- Please Jesus, our sweet lord, make this Gwen Stefani country album a real thing
- Watch Hatebreed salute law-breaking street artists in new video for Instinctive (Slaughterlust)
- Sugar Horse take a grim journey through time via mind-melting new single The Great Shame
- Ritchie Blackmore brings Christmas cheer with festive new EP
- Sigur Rós stream brand new single Dvergmál
- Superheroes and rock ’n’ roll collide in The Middlenight Men’s misogynist-smashing new video
- Caleb Landry Jones releases video for new single I'm On Top Of The World
- John Frusciante talks new Red Hot Chili Peppers music: ‘It’s just returning to family’
- Riverside announce new live album and release live clip of Hyperactive
- This beautiful new Queen photo book is a glorious reminder of rock at its most majestic
- Lockett-Vettese live online tonight and in conversation with Bill Bruford
- October 22
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- The Wildhearts to release double live album 30 Year Itch 'while we're still alive'
- Mr Bungle unleash epic thrash monster Sudden Death
- Black Stone Cherry launch poignant video for In Love With The Pain
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon bring the heavy back on new single Tear Drops
- Rïcïnn to live stream her brand new album tonight
- Katatonia release new live video of Behind The Blood
- Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi book out in April
- Listen to stripped-back early Foo Fighters tracks on new EP Live On The Radio 1996
- Steve Hackett adds further date to Seconds Out tour
- Ozzy postpones No More Tours 2 shows yet again
- Scardust premiere new video for Gone
- Miley Cyrus’ stunning cover of Pearl Jam’s Just Breathe would give a corpse goosebumps
- The 20 Million Club podcast: How did Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill become bigger than the Beatles?
- Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman previews new album Tokyo Jukebox 3 with single The Perfect World
- Danny Cavanagh Nick Drake tribute album gets vinyl release
- The Bronx and Mariachi el Bronx join forces for ‘Halloween Dead Stream’
- Eruption played on three stylophones is a mind-boggling tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Blackberry Smoke continue busy schedule with two live streams
- October 21
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- Keith Richards releases video for 1992 classic Hate It When You Leave
- Watch the trailer for the new Paul McCartney album
- John Petrucci launches signature beard products range
- The Damned reform original, classic line-up for four UK shows
- Steve Howe confirms Louder Than Words literary festival appearance
- ‘Van Halen was the band that everyone had to live up to,’ says Steel Panther’s Michael Starr
- Mastodon: ‘We don’t sit around listening to heavy metal all day’
- Listen to the first song Deafheaven ever wrote, from new live album 10 Years Gone
- ‘Make America Great’ is bullsh*t, says Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell
- Multi Story to release new album CBF10 in October
- Biffy Clyro and Royal Blood vocalists guest on new Architects album, For Those That Wish To Exist
- Another day in paradise: Phil Collins sues ex-wife over ‘armed occupation’ of his Miami mansion
- Richie Sambora on Bon Jovi reunion chances: 'I'm certainly not counting it out'
- October 20
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- Brian May and Woman combine forces to launch I’m A Woman charity single
- The Outfield frontman Tony Lewis dead aged 62
- Get our exclusive limited edition Joe Bonamassa bundle before they're gone
- Miley Cyrus is making a Metallica covers album. Yes, you read that correctly
- Korn, Mastodon, Anthrax, Run DMC and Refused have teamed up for an epic Faith No More cover
- Between The Buried And Me's Colors set for double vinyl reissue
- Spencer Davis dead at 81
- The Cadillac Three deliver their second album of 2020 with Tabasco & Sweet Tea
- Hit The Lights! This Metallica-themed Halloween lights ‘spooktacular’ is metal as f**k
- Richard Durrant announces acoustic prog rock concept album
- You could snap up guitars owned by Eddie Van Halen and Kurt Cobain if you have $150,000 going spare
- Gryphon announce new album Get Out Of My Father's Car
- Architects return with surprise single Animals
- Blondie and Garbage to team up for 2021 UK arena tour
- Metal was too white until nu metal came along, says Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
- Mandala premiere video for A Soul In The Night
- Steve Perry clarifies infamous Van Halen guacamole incident
- October 19
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- Toto announce new line-up and online gig
- You can now buy a Killing Joke-endorsed jerk chicken pie, The Joker
- Brian Johnson thought Malcolm Young was joking when he got asked to join AC/DC
- Racism has grown since Trump came to power and the UK voted for Brexit, says Skunk Anansie’s Skin
- Roger Dean launches Pathways Exhibition in association with Prog Magazine
- Slipknot launch We Are Not Your Kind masks, as Corey Taylor labels anti-maskers ‘f**king idiots’
- Al Di Meola teams up with Dodi Battaglia for new single One Sky
- Coal Chamber paved the way for Avatar, Dez Fafara tells Metal Hammer
- Watch Foo Fighters’ SOS Fest set, and learn which glam metal legend Dave Grohl met in LA in 1987
- Marillion announce The Light At The End Of The Tunnel tour for November 2021
- Clutch launch mammoth limited edition box set for Record Store Day
- Massive Wagons announce update to The Good The Bad And The Ugly collection
- Indian band Nemophilis release ridiculously slick cover of Bohemian Rhapsody
- October 18
- October 17
- October 16
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- ‘Eddie Van Halen was a far better man than I'll ever be,’ says Gene Simmons
- Watch Nick Cave perform the hauntingly beautiful Euthanasia in London
- Watch Employed To Serve rage against ecological destruction on new single Party’s Over
- ‘Your days are numbered’, Jon Bon Jovi warns President Trump
- The new Refused EP documents a world on fire. Hear Born On The Outs now
- The Struts' Luke Spiller: I wanna play Joe Elliott in a Def Leppard movie
- Volbeat’s new live album might just give you the gig fix you’ve been craving
- Wake up Sheeple! Five Finger Death Punch want to save us from hell on earth
- Listen to Aisles cover Rush's Red Sector A
- Daniel Tompkins streams brand new single The Gift
- Machine Head reflect on love gone sour with new acoustic version of Circle The Drain
- Wardruna release awe-inspiring video for Kvitravn
- At least one member of Metallica could be releasing new music soon
- October 15
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- All 74 unreleased tracks on Thin Lizzy’s Rock Legends box set revealed
- David Gilmour to release Yes I Have Ghosts as 7" single
- Watch Korn hit the battlefield in apocalyptic new video for Finally Free
- Adriana from The Sopranos stars in and directs the new All Them Witches video, Rats
- Lunatic Soul release video for new single Navvie
- Donald Trump has clearly never heard Slipknot’s Iowa
- Alice In Chains have given Facelift a facelift for its 30th birthday
- Thumpermonkey's Rael Jones to release solo Mother's Echo album
- Chili Peppers’ guitarist John Frusciante returns with new single Brand E
- Glenn Tipton’s ‘sharp ideas’ have inspired an ‘enormous’ stack of new Judas Priest songs
- Tool triumph at Billboard Music Awards, Metallica lose out to Elton John and Pink
- Kepler Ten premiere new video for new single Falling Down
- Former AC/DC bassist Paul Matters has died
- Judas Priest celebrate 50 years in the new Metal Hammer
- Black Sabbath literally blew the roof off when premiering Paranoid
- Kevin Godley releases new video for Expecting A Message
- ‘No offense intended’: David Crosby ‘didn’t remember’ that Eddie Van Halen had died when dismissing his legacy
- Bring Me The Horizon announce new EP, 2021 UK arena dates
- October 14
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- Bored? Join Europe on Friday nights as they broadcast a series of live performances
- Black Stone Cherry announce Live From The Sky streaming event
- Jon Anderson hits out at state of the world in new video for Go Screw Yourself
- The 8 best tablet deals this Amazon Prime Day
- Machine Head’s cryptic new video suggests that Robb Flynn is about to unleash the furies again
- Turn the Power Up with AC/DC this Prime Day and this awesome red vinyl edition
- Amazon is offering up to 25% off rock vinyl, including these 8 classics
- Trash Talk’s new short film is brutal, bleak and perversely beautiful
- District 97 get in the Halloween spirit with Ghost Girl
- Enslaved announce Utgard European tour for 2021
- Watch the Texas Gentlemen's revolutionary choose your own adventure album release show
- Drop everything! Five Finger Death Punch have a new guitarist
- Listen to Dave Grohl get festive with Xmas favourite The Little Drummer Boy
- Malcolm Young co-wrote every song on the new AC/DC album, Power Up
- Jimmy Page has no regrets and isn’t finished yet, he promises Classic Rock
- There’s still time to grab Amazon Music Unlimited for just 99p for four months
- Get 40% off the best-selling headphones on Amazon right now
- Fish cancels February 2021 tour
- This Jay-Z vs Smashing Pumpkins album is 2020’s most inspired hook-up
- Papa Roach’s cover of Blur’s Song 2 is the nu metal/Britpop mash-up the world never asked for
- Jump reveal tracklisting and artwork for new album Breaking Point
- Up your podcasting game with Prime Day deals on microphone kits
- The Struts announce short string of intimate UK dates
- October 13
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- Autumn Sale: subscribe to Prog, Metal Hammer or Classic Rock and save 15% on checkout
- Amazon Prime Day 2020: “Alexa, show me the best deals on the Echo Studio”
- Metallica to unplug for charity
- An intimate conversation with Jimmy Page: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Corey Taylor has covered a Van Halen song with an actual member of Van Halen
- The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 50th Anniversary Box Set for November
- Puscifer announce livestream concert from ‘the edge of the world’
- Watch Mick Jagger play a dodgy art dealer in new thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy
- Watch A.A. Williams cover The Cure's Lovesong
- Now Rammstein have started posting videos from the studio
- Watch Mastodon’s Brann Dailor give it the full Ozzy on bedroom cover of Over The Mountain
- Jimmy Page launches affordable ‘Open Edition’ of The Anthology
- Dave Mustaine slammed for “fabricated bullsh*t” by late Megadeth drummer Nick Menza’s manager
- Jane Weaver streams brand new single The Revolution Of Super Visions
- Elton John’s trippy 1968 Beatles rip-off makes us want a full psych-rock album from the Rocket Man
- David Crosby’s classy response to Eddie Van Halen’s death? “Meh”
- Killer Be Killed unleash hell with incendiary video for Dream Gone Bad
- Green Day mark Insomniac’s 25th birthday with riotous tour footage from a more innocent time
- Rosalie Cunningham announces socially distanced gig for December
- Deal alert! Get Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same box set for a bargain price
- October 12
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- Trivium announce new livestream show, digging up their Deepest Cuts
- Jack White’s tribute to Eddie Van Halen on Saturday Night Live was a classy touch
- Listen to Death Angel’s rather lovely Queen/Bowie cover, the audio comfort blanket we’ve craved in 2020
- Tony Reed streams first single Waterbirth
- Babymetal fans can buy TEN versions of their new 10 Babymetal Years compilation
- John Lydon is voting for Trump, thinks Meghan Markle is ‘dreadful’ and insists ‘all lives matter’
- Tool’s Maynard James Keenan reveals ‘ugly’ battle with coronavirus. ‘It’s real’, he tells ‘ridiculous’ sceptics
- Hear Pearl Jam’s intense new song Get It Back, as grunge legends announce 30th anniversary livestream
- Orange Goblin to celebrate 25th anniversary with two global streams
- October 10
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- Watch Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony’s emotional salute to Eddie Van Halen with poignant take on Right Now
- Watch Black Sabbath confuse the f**k out of stoned hippies one week before Paranoid became a hit single
- German prog metallers Æries release video for Gisma
- Todd Rundgren teams up with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo for new single Down With The Ship
- Jethro Tull legends to reunite at A New Day Festival
- Swedish post-rockers pg.lost release video for Suffering
- Voyager play online show this Sunday
- IQ announce new Ever live stream
- Marillion's FEAR the subject of today's Twitter Listening Party
- Eddie Van Halen’s ill health thwarted plans for Van Halen to bow out with a final stadium tour in 2019
- October 9
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- Smashing Pumpkins: An Apology
- The Pineapple Thief release live acoustic clip of Demons
- A new Ghost album is just over the horizon
- Bryan Beller releases video for A Quickening and Steiner In Ellipses
- Jakko Jakszyk releases video with Al Murray for Uncertain Times
- Ozric Tentacles release visualiser video for new single Stripey Clouds
- We want to hear more from this new Guns N’ Roses/Alice In Chains supergroup
- Australia has new AC/DC coins, and frankly, we’re jealous
- Robert Reed releases video trailer for new electronic album
- Greta Van Fleet’s new single, My Way, Soon, may finally kill off those pesky Led Zeppelin comparisons
- Watch Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony pay touching tribute to late bandmate Eddie Van Halen
- Devin Townsend releases teaser for Order Of Magnitude... documentary
- October 8
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- Billy Gibbons breaks out the beer bottle slide on Hollywood151 video
- Plini streams new single I'll Tell You Someday
- For $100, Alice Cooper will read you a spooky Halloween story
- Ritchie Blackmore salutes ‘ultimate guitar hero’ Eddie Van Halen, as The Kinks and Pearl Jam pay tribute
- Neal Morse releases live video of Love Has Called My Name
- You thought Fever 333 were angry in 2019? Brace yourself for an incoming riot
- Teramaze release new video for Ocean Floor
- Meshuggah are returning in 2021 to blow our tiny little minds
- Late AC/DC singer Bon Scott's prog rock past unveiled in new box set
- Tom DeLonge is filming Monsters in Hollywood, and he’s not losing his mind
- Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar made peace in the guitarist’s final months
- Rammstein are officially back in the studio
- The Struts launch glam stomper I Hate How Much I Want You with Joe Elliott and Phil Collen
- AC/DC: we hope Power Up will lift peoples' spirits
- Starbenders continue this year's run of brilliant singles with joyous Can't Cheat Time
- October 7
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- Kitten Pyramid release video for new single Aunty Mabel
- Godsticks release new video for Breathe
- Vinnie Paul’s stretch limo needs a makeover, if you want to help preserve a piece of Pantera history
- Depression hit Adrian Smith hard as Iron Maiden conquered the world, guitarist admits
- Big Big Train release video for Winkie and slim down to a quartet
- Porcupine Tree to release 13-disc Delerium 92-97 years box set
- Rick Wakeman announces November show at London Palladium
- Lars Ulrich picks a British rock star as his favourite songwriter of all time
- Chris Thompson premieres video for Blood On His Hands
- Machine Head’s Robb Flynn pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen with cover of Eruption
- Get in the MF ring with Corey Taylor’s new wrestling game
- AC/DC launch audio for Shot In The Dark, confirm Power Up album details
- Angus Young: Power Up is AC/DC's tribute to Malcolm
- October 6
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- Eddie Van Halen dead at 65
- Metal Hammer release exclusive limited Corey Taylor bundles
- Watch the trailer for Acts Of Resistance, an inspirational new film showing how metal in Latin America fights the power
- Rïcïnn streams brand new single Psamatae
- Green Day to releases Billie Joe Armstrong’s No Fun Mondays covers album
- Hear Jello Biafra troll Trump, 9/11 ‘truthers’ and the NRA with Tea Party Revenge Porn
- McStine & Minnemann release trailer for second album
- Watch Joe Bonamassa pay tribute to the British blues explosion with Royal Tea
- Sonicbond celebrates second anniversary with special Steve Hackett book
- Avatar release Hunter Gatherer documentary Scaling The Mountain
- AC/DC’s PWR/UP album gets November release date, Brian Johnson hails band’s ‘electricity’
- Guns N' Roses launch the most dangerous pinball machine in the world, probably
- John Fogerty recreates Cosmo's Factory sleeve for Fogerty's Factory album
- October 5
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- Watch child drummer in neon mask and boilersuit destroy Slipknot's Unsainted
- Mr. Bungle promise violence, gore, blasphemy, witchcraft and bunny nudity at streamed Halloween gig
- Led Zeppelin finally triumph in Stairway To Heaven copyright battle
- Albert Bouchard releases video for Black Telescope
- Nightwish, Amorphis and more sever ties with US booking agent following sexual assault allegations
- Mick Fleetwood joins TikTok, recreates viral video for Dreams as 2020 peaks
- Led Zeppelin to release Immigrant Song single to mark 50th anniversary of Led Zep III
- Star Wars x Sonos: Get 6 months of Disney Plus with this galactic-sized deal
- New book details Marillion in the 80s
- Linkin Park to host fan Q&A, premiere previously unseen 2002 gig
- Jon Bon Jovi says that Richie Sambora’s exit from Bon Jovi caused ‘pain and heartbreak’
- New Queen game lets you embrace your inner Freddie Mercury
- AC/DC kept new album details secret from even their own recording engineer
- Delia Derbyshire film to premiere at BFI London Film Festival
- Pearl Jam to play two Hyde Park shows in London next summer
- October 4
- October 3
- October 2
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- Summer's End organisers announce Golden Ticket
- You can now get official Judas Priest and Motorhead colouring books
- IQ announce 40th anniversary show
- MTV butchered Pearl Jam’s iconic Unplugged show, new biography reveals
- Devin Townsend releases live video clip of War
- Yes release cover of John Lennon's Imagine
- Mike Patton: ‘Having Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo play in Mr. Bungle is an amazing honour’
- ‘Dipsh*t’ forces ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato to rush-release solo album following online leak
- Methodica stream whole of new album Clockworks
- Linkin Park’s stunning In The End demo shows why they were bound for glory
- Corey Taylor’s Ace Of Spades cover just made us miss Lemmy that little bit more
- Darryl Way premieres video for Ocean Blues
- October 1
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- The Dave Grohl vs. Nandi Bushell battle takes another charming twist
- Hear Keith Richards groove hard on a previously unreleased take on the Rolling Stones’ Little T&A
- The Dead Daisies' Bustle And Flow video is like "walking through the fear" says Glenn Hughes
- ‘Western culture has lost the plot’, says Tool’s Maynard James Keenan
- Tower of Power bassist Francis ‘Rocco’ Prestia has died, aged 69
- Iron Maiden to release new live album Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live in Mexico City
- Listen to the first taster from AC/DC’s new album, the hard-riffing Shot In The Dark
- Laura Jane Grace disses Trump, references The Sound Of Music on surprise solo album Stay Alive
- Aryeon release new video for Daniel’s Descent Into Transitus Medley
- Rob Halford is up for a Judas Priest / Lady Gaga collaboration
- Opeth, Tesseract, Leprous and Rolo Tomassi to close 2021’s ArcTanGent festival
- Iron Maiden have been in the studio, and are ‘gagging and ready to go’
- Fairies Wear Dr. Martens: Black Sabbath launch official range of DM boots
- Not all heroes wear capes. Some drink juice and skateboard while singing Fleetwood Mac
