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- December 31
- December 30
- December 29
- December 28
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- New website explores the Pink Floyd universe post 1983
- Möbius Strip tease second album with video to Mateka's Speech
- Solstice to premiere new video for A New Day on New Year's Day
- Al Winter unveils new project Wynter with video for Sometimes
- Motorhead’s Phil Campbell on how Lemmy would have reacted to the pandemic
- December 27
- December 26
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- December 23
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- Leslie West, Mountain guitarist, dead at 75
- Ricky Warwick announces career-spanning box set from The Almighty… but no reunion
- Eddie Van Halen once woke up AC/DC’s Angus Young at 2am just to call him a ‘bad motherf**ker‘
- Yule love Sophie Lloyd’s shred guitar cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You
- These albums kept Metallica’s Lars Ulrich sane during quarantine
- December 22
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- White Willow's Jacob Holm-Lupo teams up with Prog writer for new concept work
- Finally, a 2020 feel good story, as Neil Fallon makes a nine-year-old Clutch fan’s dream come true
- Wardruna celebrate the Winter Solstice by sharing epic new single Andvevarljod
- Corey Taylor: ‘I never thought I’d miss being on the road with those growly pricks from Slipknot’
- Prognosis unveil new line-up with video for brand new single Dark Waters
- This death metal cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas will kickstart your cold black heart
- Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah cover Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper, Sex Pistols, Nirvana
- Get 6 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free when you buy an Echo Dot 3rd or 4th Gen
- Gandalf's Fist release new festive single Witchwood
- December 21
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- Listen to Iggy Pop’s new Covid-19-referencing single, Dirty Little Virus
- ‘It's really difficult to see a way back for music in this climate’: The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins fears for the future of live music
- A song called Boris Johnson Is A F**king C**t could be the UK’s Xmas number 1
- Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas is prog's favourite Xmas song ever!
- Rammstein’s Till Lindemann unveils his ‘Tilldo’, a bespoke dildo modelled on his stage microphone
- Wait And Bleed voted the greatest Slipknot song ever
- The first preview of Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary is online, and it looks incredible
- December 19
- December 18
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- LadBaby’s remake of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ is awful, obviously, but that’s really not the point
- Exploring Birdsong announce socially distanced live shows
- Ozzy’s 13th solo album will feature Metallica, RHCP and Foo Fighters men, plus ‘crazy’ nine-minute songs
- Steve Hackett streams new single Mdina (The Walled City)’
- Listen to Last December, Good Charlotte's first new music in two years
- US alt.pop singer K. Flay has done remarkable things with these Limp Bizkit, Green Day and The Offspring songs
- Europe announced as second main stage headliner for Ramblin’ Man Fair 2021
- System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian to release solo EP, as new documentary examines his art and activism
- Alice In Chains’ Rooster in the style of Type O Negative is exactly what the world deserves right now
- December 17
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- Mogwai to preview new album As The Love Continues during livestream show
- The brand new issue of Metal Hammer is out now. And it’s epic
- This all-star heavy metal activity book is the ultimate last-minute Xmas gift
- Green Carnation premiere new video for The World Without A View
- Megadeth bassist David Ellefson’s debut novel Rock Star Hitman looks er, interesting
- Win autographed prizes from AC/DC, The Who, BMTH and more in the Teenage Cancer Trust Xmas raffle
- Liquid Tension Experiment announce return with teaser video
- Dave Grohl covers The Knack for his Hannukah Sessions
- Leprous and Ihsahn announce joint live stream
- This old dude’s beautiful acoustic version of Slipknot’s Snuff will give you goosebumps
- Nightwish will kick off their 2021 tour with a gig in an imaginary pub
- December 16
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- David Coverdale and I don’t get along with Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes admits
- Jimmy Eat World announce the Phoenix Sessions, a trio of livestream events
- On Billy Gibbons’ birthday, here’s ZZ Top’s guitarist, Lemmy and Dave Grohl with a Chuck Berry classic
- Dave Grohl goes BritPop with a cheeky cover of Elastica’s Connection
- This brass band cover of Tool’s Stinkfist adds a whole new dimension to a ’90s metal classic
- Meshuggah announce 2021 European tour, plus stand-alone London show
- Marillion have revealed more details about their upcoming album
- December 15
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- Angus Young names his least favourite AC/DC song
- You can now buy a Led Zeppelin pinball machine
- Richard Barbieri announces new solo album for 2021
- Five Finger Death Punch releases lyric video for their cover version of Bad Company
- Watch Teramaze turn Savage Garden tune into a prog metal anthem!
- Rick Wakeman and Ian Hunter join Joe Elliott, Ian Astbury and more for Bowie birthday celebration
- Glass Hammer announce bonus “detour” album for 2020
- The Hives announce 2021 virtual world tour
- ‘This song’s about pain’: Watch John Lennon’s final UK gig, featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Keith Moon
- Watch James Hetfield's acoustic cover of Bob Seger classic Turn The Page
- Ice-T pays tribute to his friend Riley Gale from Power Trip: ‘He was gonna do big things’
- Watch Dave Grohl’s brilliant Hanukkah Sessions take on a Bob Dylan classic
- Progspace Online Festival V.2 line-up confirmed
- Sharon Osbourne tests positive for the coronavirus
- December 14
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- Watch Eddie Van Halen's emotional meeting with Jason Becker
- Join Max Cavalera and Maysaloon’s Jake Shuker for new World Metal Congress webcast
- Keith Emerson tribute concert is now available to pre-order
- Israeli proggers Scardust share Strangers livestream
- Soundgarden’s final album will definitely get released, insists Chris Cornell’s wife Vicky
- 2020 gets even weirder with Dave Grohl covering Peaches on day four of his Hanukkah Sessions
- Listen to Porcupine Tree's Voyage 34 as you've never heard it before!
- Forget Amazon Echo: Marshall’s Uxbridge smart speaker for rock fans is £40 off
- LadBaby aim for third consecutive Christmas number one single with remake of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’
- Watch Pink Floyd and Deep Purple duo back Paul McCartney’s exuberant rock ’n’ roll set at the Cavern Club
- Watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band debut songs from Letter To You on Saturday Night Live
- JBL Tune 220 true wireless headphones for under £50? Cheers, Currys
- Eddie Van Halen’s cause of death has been confirmed
- December 13
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- Gazpacho: Fireworking at St. Croix caught live
- Jack Hues shares live video of Astrology
- TesseracT's Portals: A Cinematic Live Experience caught live
- Watch Bill Bailey tango to Metallica’s Enter Sandman on Strictly Come Dancing
- Night 3 of Dave Grohl’s Hanukkah Sessions delivers a guitar-free take on Mountain’s Mississippi Queen
- December 12
- December 11
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- The Tangent drummer Steve Roberts streams Christmas Is Not Yet Lost
- Alice Cooper shares his ‘oddest song ever’, the perky Our Love Will Change The World
- Damian Wilson releases video for new single Hard To Keep Faith
- Blackmore’s Night share video for Once Upon December, the first taste of their new album Nature’s Light
- Avatar’s freaky video for A Secret Door mixes horror, creepy art, interpretative dance… and Corey Taylor’s whistling
- Riverside launch live We Got Used To Us video
- Transatlantic release video for new single The World We Used To Know
- Saxon share cover of The Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black, reveal Inspirations album track list
- Bill Bailey: why I’m dancing to Metallica’s Enter Sandman on Strictly Come Dancing
- Wheel release video for brand new single Movement
- Watch Dave Grohl’s wildly enthusiastic cover of Beastie Boys’ classic Sabotage
- Listen to Chris Cornell’s surprise covers album No One Sings Like You Anymore
- AC/DC's Power Up voted Classic Rock's best album of 2020
- Was Elvis Presley a narc? Music's Greatest Mysteries aims to reveal all
- December 10
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- Ace Frehley's animated video for I'm Down is full of cryptic references to Kiss
- Greta Van Fleet launch enigmatic Age Of Machine video
- Watch David Hasselhoff make his heavy metal debut with the dramatic Through The Night
- IQ announce new live Blu-ray release
- Jimmy Page demands fair pay for musicians from streaming companies
- Kitten Pyramid release new video for KOOZY!!
- Gifts for metalheads: Slipknot jumpers, Metallica vinyl and more - it’s all going on in EMP’s big Christmas sale
- Sons of Slash, Scott Weiland and Rob Trujillo share second Suspect208 single, All Black
- Cynic bass player Sean Malone dead at 50
- Cynic bassist Sean Malone dead at 50
- My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero shares new song, Sewerwolf, from his side band Frank Iero And The Future Violents
- Metallica’s The Unforgiven remade as a Type O Negative song is a goth-metal masterpiece
- And the best metal album of 2020 is… Deftones’ Ohms
- Bjørn Riis streams new single Desolate Place
- Dave Grohl to celebrate Hanukkah by releasing covers of eight songs by Jewish artists
- Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen unleash debut Smith / Kotzen single Taking My Chances
- Starbenders release Coming Up Roses, yet another giant single from Love Potions
- December 9
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- Weezer's Rivers Cuomo releases more than two thousand previously unheard demos
- Cult Of Luna stream brand new single Three Bridges
- AC/DC share Demon Fire video, tell Classic Rock that they have ‘plenty of ideas’ for a follow-up to Power Up
- Listen to two savage new Every Time I Die songs, Desperate Pleasures and A Colossal Wreck
- Yes alumni announce new band Arc Of Life and release video for You Make It Real
- Watch Hayley Williams perform Petals For Armor songs for the very first time
- Courtney Love on ‘sweet’ moment Kurt Cobain called her ‘the best f**k in the world’ on live TV
- Michael Moorcock releases new collaboration with Spirits Burning
- Robert Berry releases video for new single A Fond Farewell
- Van Halen were the greatest live rock band of all time, says Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard
- The ultimate guide to the best of 2020 is in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Ambient music pioneer and pianist Harold Budd dead at 84
- December 8
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- Motorhead limited batch bourbon launched to celebrate Ace Of Spades anniversary
- Legendary photographer Ross Halfin to publish Led Zeppelin vinyl photo book
- Rïcïnn releases new video for Psamatäe
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces New Years Eve virtual live show
- Corey Taylor launches coffee blend, celebrates 47th birthday with video for Everybody Dies On My Birthday
- What's your favourite prog Xmas song?
- Listen to A.A. Williams’ beautiful, haunting cover of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind?
- Watch Duff McKagan and Mark Lanegan cover an outlaw country classic with members of Foo Fighters and Afghan Whigs
- Silent Skies release video for Solitude
- Listen to Jon Bon Jovi ruin Christmas with the worst version of The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York ever recorded
- On the 16th anniversary of his murder, watch Dimebag jam Thin Lizzy, Metallica and Led Zep covers with Vinnie Paul
- John Carpenter streams new single The Dead Walk
- Ken Hensley's final album My Book Of Answers to be released in March
- December 7
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- Perry Farrell to appear on new series of The Big Interview with Dan Rather
- Motley Crue turn up the heat with bespoke hot sauce series
- Zola Jesus streams brand new song Krunk
- Trivium announce four date UK tour for 2021
- This beautiful lament to lost music venues will bring tears to the eyes of anyone who’s missing live gigs
- Bob Dylan sells every song he’s ever written in reported quarter of a billion pounds deal
- Bill Bailey dancing to Metallica in the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final might be the TV highlight of 2020
- Steven Wilson announces new tour dates for September and October
- Schwing! Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to join virtual Wayne’s World reunion
- Watch Blink-182’s Travis Barker cover Metallica for new film Sound Of Metal
- Todd Rundgren releases bizarre Christmas cover version
- Suzi Quatro's new Christmas single swaps stomping glam for sultry festive soul
- December 6
- December 5
- December 4
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- Gazpacho announce live stream of new album Fireworker
- Eyehategod threaten to ‘destroy the U.S.A.’ with the brutal High Risk Trigger
- Korn side-project Love And Death announce first live show in seven years, share video for Down
- Listen to Evanescence crank up the futuristic glam-stomp on new song Yeah Right
- Tiger Moth Tales release video for The Whispering Of The World
- Watch Steven Wilson and Gary Kemp perform 12 Things I Forgot
- Michael Monroe on Axl Rose, Lemmy and how Mötley Crüe killed Hanoi Rocks
- Nad Sylvan releases video for brand new single You've Got To Find A Way
- Anneke Van Giersbergen releases video for new single My Promise
- This ultra-funky Metallica vs Stevie Wonder soundclash is an absolute delight
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons perform Fleetwood Mac’s The Green Manalishi
- Leprous release video for brand new single Castaway Angels
- Listen to Miley Cyrus’ brilliant cover of Hole’s Doll Parts, her latest attempt to rewire rock for a new generation
- Greta Van Fleet launch single Age Of Machine, confirm The Battle at Garden’s Gate album
- The Hu release spectacular Mongolian language cover of Metallica's Sad But True
- December 3
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- Al Murray and daughter Willow May play free charity show on Saturday
- Bruce Soord announces final Soord Sessions stream
- Idles share animated video for Kill Them With Kindness
- Alpha Male Tea Party announce surprise album for 2020
- You might spot someone you know in Queen’s fan video for Don’t Stop Me Now
- If anyone wants to buy Eddie Van Halen’s 2000 Black Ferrari 550, we’re free to go for a spin
- Dave Thompson's new Hawkwind book details the space rockers’ career so far
- Trapped Under Dice: Metallica launch Monopoly World Tour Edition board game
- Watch Unravel - The Anchoress’ David Lynch-inspired video
- Hear how The Cure’s Robert Smith has re-imagined Deftones’ classic Teenager
- David Coverdale dons Santa Claus outfit, empties his sack to bring Xmas cheer
- December 2
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- Black Country, New Road and Black Midi join forces to help save Brixton's Windmill
- AC/DC engineer Mike Fraser: I swear I could hear Malcolm singing
- Kepler Ten blend psychedelia and comic book art in new video for Weaver
- League Of Lights premiere video for Twenty Twenty One
- Black Sabbath’s Vol 4: Super Deluxe Edition to feature 20 unreleased recordings
- Nirvana (the 60s one) to have new vinyl box set released
- Kyuss duo reunite as Stoner for Live In The Mojave Desert concert film
- Eddie Van Halen and Neil Peart feature with Darth Vader in ‘Sgt. Pepper’ style artwork mourning 2020’s greatest losses
- The BBC’s ‘censorship’ of Fairytale Of New York ‘mutilates an artefact of immense cultural value’ says Nick Cave
- TesseracT release trailer for cinematic live experience Portals
- Watch Architects bleak, post-apocalyptic video for new single Black Lungs
- Robert Reed premieres new video for A Symphonic Poem
- Listen to Metallica’s stripped-down cover of Alice In Chains’ Would?
- Mass Sky Raid release video for new single Breakthrough
- December 1
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- Marisa And The Moths launch powerful video for How Did You Get So Weak?
- Take part in our music survey for a chance to win a £150/$200 voucher
- Phoebe Bridgers just released the most 2020 video of 2020
- Watch Texas reunite with Wu-Tang Clan for new single Hi
- Join Rick Wakeman at Rick’s Plaice for a special New Year’s show in January
- Listen to Nightwish’s Floor Jansen absolutely smash her cover of Heart’s 1987 power ballad Alone
- Eddie Van Halen’s death has done nothing to end the bitchiness between old foes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar
- Voyager release live video clip of Severomance
- Fish announces surprise live album
- Listen to unreleased English-language demo of Rammstein’s Pussy
- Suzi Quatro announces historic Royal Albert Hall show
- Chris Cornell's Superunknown guitar is up for auction
