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- March 31
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- Nick Beggs, Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman form Trifecta
- Dinosaur Jr share Garden, the blissful new single from upcoming album Sweep It Into Space
- Corey Taylor’s Zombie Versus Ninja movie will commence shooting this year
- John Lennon wished Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, not Eric Clapton, had played guitar on Cold Turkey
- Dave Grohl's favourite rock bar is launching the world's first online pub
- Pond return with video for new single Pink Lunettes
- Garbage announce new album, share biting single The Men Who Rule The World
- Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets announce rescheduled UK dates
- Idles announce two new UK shows, to take place on the same day
- Taylor Momsen opens up to Chris Cornell’s daughter Lily over mental health battles
- Tony Iommi dismisses ‘rock is dead’ talk, readies Tony Martin-era Sabbath box set
- Gleb Kolyadin releases trailer video for new solo album
- It’s Been Awhile, but Staind are back
- Meet Animal Schoolbus, the grindcore band starring nine-year-old screamer Princess Beast
- March 30
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- Buy three vinyl albums and save 15% in Victrola’s spring sale
- Pearl Jam push back UK and European tour to 2022
- Reading & Leeds festival attendees will likely need a vaccine passport to attend this year’s event
- David Lee Roth creates peculiar artwork inspired by Cardi B’s WAP performance
- Jasmeno streams brand new single Alchemy
- These classic album sleeves with googly eyes stuck on them are weirdly brilliant
- Listen to one of the last songs Alexi Laiho recorded before his death
- Pentral release new video for All My Wounds
- Spock's Beard, Airbag and Jump complete HRH XII line-up
- The OBGMs launch hilarious new music, entertainment and comedy podcast
- 5,000-strong concert held in Barcelona following mass Covid testing experiment
- Elvis Costello unveils French-language EP La Face de Pendule à Coucou, featuring Iggy Pop
- Amorphous Androgynous and Peter Hammill release new teaser video
- Slipknot vs Linkin Park vs Eminem is the deranged mashup dreams are made of
- March 29
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- Iron Maiden have ‘some very, very exciting things in the pipeline’
- Amazon slash the Echo Dot by 40% in their big spring sale
- Here’s how System Of A Down’s B.Y.O.B. sounds when played using assault rifles instead of drums
- Mandoki Soulmates announce reissue of latest album Hungarian Pictures
- Iron Maiden were ‘at war with grunge’
- Tame Impala recall making debut album InnerSpeaker in new film
- Alabama Shakes drummer Steven Johnson arrested on child abuse charges
- David Ellefson: Megadeth are the "greatest thrash band in the history of the world"
- Are Metallica working with Elton John on a mystery project?
- March 28
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- March 26
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- Architects just released the best orchestral metal track since S&M
- Karmamoi announce new Orwell-inspired album Room 101
- Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH release not one but two new singles
- Eivør releases shimmering new video for Gullspunnin
- Kansas stream new live version of Point Of Know Return
- Metallica therapist Phil Towle says that Jason Newsted “didn’t want to leave” the band
- Some guy on YouTube has "fixed" Van Halen and it sounds horrible
- Beartooth announce new album Below with anthemic new single The Past Is Dead
- blanket return with new video for White Noise
- Abel Ganz to headline new prog all dayer for September
- Gojira’s blazing new single Amazonia is a Roots Bloody Roots for the 21st century
- Billy Gibbons launches video for West Coast Junkie, announces Hardware album
- March 25
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- Stone Temple Pilots announce super deluxe edition of Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
- Seattle Sounders launch Jimi Hendrix-inspired kit
- You can buy Dave Mustaine’s used banjo for £14,999
- Sylvan release trailer for new album One To Zero
- Now even Gene Simmons loves Billie Eilish
- Pearl Jam’s Black in the style of Type O Negative is grunge-goth gold
- Meshuggah have officially started recording their new album
- Learn to shred with two weeks of Fender Play guitar lessons totally free
- The Offspring share video for Let The Bad Times Roll, and it's as weird as you'd expect in 2021
- Shake your foundations by saving £30 on the awesome Amazon Echo Studio
- District 97 release new lockdown video for Divided We Fall
- La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio stream new album Trivial Visions
- Matt Heafy, Mark Tremonti, Devin Townsend and more to play benefit gig for guitarist Jason Becker
- Airbag's Identity debut gets vinyl reissue
- The Bronx preview upcoming album with rowdy new single White Shadow
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett to appear on new Santana album
- March 24
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- Flaming Lips launch range of THC-infused gummies and At The Movies On Quaaludes video
- The Who's Roger Daltrey is selling own-brand champagne to raise money for charities hit by pandemic
- White Moth Black Butterfly return with third album The Cost Of Dreaming
- Nu-metal is officially cool again according to Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
- Meat Loaf is launching the wildest dating show in the history of dating shows
- Rammstein’s 2021 European tour has been postponed again
- Oslo Tapes release video for the Norse-inspired Zenith
- Subterranean Masquerade release new animated video for Mångata
- Watch Lamb Of God and Chuck Billy team up for raging live version of Routes
- Sales revenue of vinyl in the UK set to eclipse CDs for the first time in decades
- Liquid Tension Experiment release new video for breakneck Hypersonic
- Watch unseen footage of Van Halen messing around during filming for Jump and Panama
- Jo Beth Young announces new single Mechanical Ballerina
- System Of A Down’s Sugar sung by animals is literally the funniest thing 2021 has given us so far
- March 23
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- Harmonium get orchestral reworking in new video for Vert
- Here's Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train played on a homemade keyboard, because clearly it's what the world wants
- Body Count‘s The Hate Is Real video is great news for anyone who wants to see a puppet Ice-T
- Clutch's Neil Fallon: my most important life lesson came from Ozzy Osbourne
- Luke Machin releases teaser video for solo album Soulshine
- Alice Cooper: “I’d join the Foo Fighters if they ever needed a really sick singer”
- Mansur release hypnotic new video for Aurelius
- Lemmy had his ashes put in bullets and given to his closest friends, because he was Lemmy f*cking Kilmister
- 10cc announce UK tour for March 2022
- The Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger
- Yes reschedule UK tour to 2022
- March 22
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- Rock legends from Kiss to Korn donate memorabilia to Roadie Relief fundraiser
- Meet Me @ The Altar share inspirational new single Hit Like A Girl
- Ihsahn to perform Pharos and Telemark EPs in new live stream
- Jinjer start work on fourth album, reveal plan to take "extreme music to a whole new level"
- Mastodon promise their new album will be their “biggest-sounding” yet
- Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls in the style of Alice In Chains is a brilliant as you’d imagine
- Kyros release lockdown live video for Sentry
- Paul Stanley says he "doesn't really see a reason" for Kiss to release new music
- Nad Sylvan releases new video for new single The Hawk
- Judge deems Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer a threat to the community
- Steven Wilson cancels rescheduled The Future Bites tour
- Toyah and Robert Fripp master Motorhead's Ace Of Spades
- 80s proggers Trilogy release new video for Break!
- March 21
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- Blackmore's Night release eco-friendly video for Sarah Brightman's Second Element
- Blackberry Smoke conjure up the ghost of Little Feat on new Hey Delilah single
- Greta Van Fleet launch epic new single Broken Bells
- Original Solstice members reunite for new video interview
- Gentle Giant discuss their song Knots
- March 20
- March 19
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- Serj Tankian releases video for new single Electric Yerevan
- Watch episode one of Queen's new YouTube series celebrating their legacy
- Shiva The Destructor release trippy new video for Ishtar
- Kayak release video for brand new single Waiting
- Former Underoath guitarist Corey Steger has died in a car accident
- Ian Anderson celebrates Jethro Tull's Aqualung at 50 at 5pm today
- Nuno Bettencourt on Eddie Van Halen Grammy snub: "Rock will never die, but its respect is hanging by a thread"
- Frost* launch new video for new single Terrestrial
- Big Big Train release emotive video for brand new song Brew And Burgh
- Corpsepaint sheet masks are now a thing, and self-care has never been so kvlt
- Yes: from The Yes Album to Fragile. The new gift-packed issue of Prog is on sale now!
- That perfect Slipknot/Spice Girls mash up you ordered has arrived
- Grice hooks up with Stefano Panunzi in new video for The Portrait
- March 18
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- Watch Clannad discuss their new recording of In A Lifetime
- The Aristocrats announce new live album
- Black Stone Cherry release rollicking live version of Human Condition track, Again
- Orphaned Land's Kobi Farhi to guest with Scardust on live stream tonight
- Watch this guy take the piss out of Maynard James Keenan's dance moves
- Corey Taylor shares details on socially-distanced and Covid-19 safe 2021 tour
- This Megadeth/Jackson 5 mash-up will ensure you never look at Dave Mustaine in the same way again
- The Mighty Ra release Morricone-inspired video for Freedom
- Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler is writing his autobiography, guns, knife fights and ‘bucketloads of cocaine’ included
- March 17
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- The video of that guy skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac is being auctioned for $500K
- Watch Michael Winslow perform a mind-blowing cover of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love using nothing but his mouth
- Beloved London music venue The Black Heart announce new vinyl set for crowdfunding campaign
- God Is An Astronaut release "stunning artsy" new video for In Flux
- Clannad release video of new version of In A Lifetime
- Kansas announce new live album for May
- Nick Jonas says it's his dream to play Bruce Springsteen – let's hope his guitar skills have improved since 2016
- This bluegrass version of System Of A Down's Chop Suey is both magnificent and very, very wrong
- March 16
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- Watch Till Lindemann's cake tossing frenzy from Live In Moscow film
- Indonesian drummer with homemade kit gets upgrade thanks to Mike Portnoy
- Watch Thin Lizzy and Saxon as you’ve never seen them before
- The new issue of Metal Hammer is out now and packed with gifts
- Myles Kennedy releases the title track and music video from his new solo album The Ides Of March
- Mick Fleetwood & Friends concert in celebration of Peter Green will be available to stream online on demand
- Elton John slams the Vatican over gay marriage hypocrisy following their investment in Rocketman biopic
- Green Isac Orchestra release new video for Don Progini
- Marillion release new live clip of Seasons End
- Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward says he would “love” Black Sabbath to reunite for a new album
- Bruit ≤ release haunting new live video for The Machine Is Burning
- Serj Tankian teases new song Electric Yerevan
- Teramaze release video for new single Between These Shadows
- Watch Metallica shred the Star Spangled Banner ahead of Golden State game
- Courtney Love: I almost died last year
- March 15
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- Wolfgang Van Halen "hurt" by Grammy tribute to Eddie Van Halen
- Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer moved to undisclosed location, charges expected soon
- John Hackett guitarist Nick Fletcher to releases teaser for new solo album
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross get two Oscar nominations
- U2 announce YouTube concert series The Virtual Road
- Gandalf's Fist announce tenth anniversary reissue of Road To Darkness
- Evanescence announce new graphic novel series
- Watch Rina Sawayama perform her single XS at Abbey Road Studios
- Rick Armstrong releases sweeping new video for Infinite Corridors
- Lacuna Coil are releasing a board game called Horns Up!
- Tim Burgess launches Listening Party earphones to help support UK venues
- This guy twerking to Papa Roach in the shower is here to save your Monday
- Mike Shinoda on the album that split the Linkin Park fanbase in two
- March 14
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- Body Count win best metal performance award at the Grammys
- Toyah and Robert Fripp cover Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls and nothing makes sense any more
- Did Queen record two Cream covers with David Bowie?
- Alex Henry Foster releases live clip of Winter Is Coming In
- Watch Steven Wilson discuss Kate Bush's The Dreaming on Classic Album Sundays
- March 13
- March 12
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- Imagine Dragons release new songs Cutthroat and Follow You
- Blackmore's Night release track-by-track video of new album Nature's Light
- A week dedicated to pizza and metal is coming and we're fully here for it
- Morse Portnoy George announce Cover To Cover vinyl releases
- Exclusive video: behind the scenes during the making of Saxon's Inspirations album
- Korn announce global streaming event Korn: Monumental
- Downes Braide Association release uplfiting video for Warm Summer Sun
- School teacher sings the alphabet to Korn’s Coming Undone, blows up internet
- Queen launch spectacular trailer for The Greatest YouTube series
- Acolyte unleash new video for brooding ten-minute Clarity
- Power Trip on Riley Gale's death: "It still feels very fresh"
- Gazpacho to launch video for Clockwork tonight at 7pm
- Paul McCartney's McCartney III album has only just come out, but it's already been "reimagined"
- Watch Crown Lands' absolutely epic Star Wars-themed tribute to Rush
- Helloween begin new era with first studio album from Pumpkins United lineup
- March 11
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- Aziola Cry premiere new video And Cowards
- Mike Shinoda shares music video for Happy Endings single
- Attorneys for Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer file motion to have U.S. Capitol Building riot charges against him dismissed
- Five Finger Death Punch release lyric video for I Refuse
- Vandemonian release video for National Insecurity
- VOLA release animated video for 24 Light Years
- Are Slipknot secretly making a concept album?
- Rosalie Cunningham releases video for brand new single Number 149
- March 10
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- Corey Taylor to appear on Comic Relief YouTube channel
- Cowabunga! Mike Patton sings the theme for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game
- Morpheus Project will release debut album Mozaick in March
- Geezer Butler confirms that Slapback is an unreleased Black Sabbath song that "Didn't make the grade"
- Ian Anderson to host live online Q+A
- Listen to a tantalising snippet of new Avenged Sevenfold music
- Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian feature on the score to Netflix film Thunder Force
- The new Metal Hammer comes with an exclusive Alexi Laiho art print
- Pink Floyd to release Live At Knebworth on CD and double vinyl
- St. Vincent almost made a "heavy" album that sounds like Tool
- The Anchoress releases video of duet with James Dean Bradfield for The Exchange
- March 9
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- Lucy Dacus releases poignant new track Thumbs
- System Of A Down's Serj Tankian says he respects bandmate John Dolmayan, but not his political views
- Matt Berry releases teaser video for new album The Blue Elephant
- Has an unheard Dio-era Black Sabbath demo just been unearthed?
- Misfits' first ever single has just been sold for a jaw-dropping $11,000
- Anneke van Giersbergen announces virtual album release stream
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman release video for Why Do You Hate Me?
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch says he went "too far" with Christianity
- Simon Phillips and Michael Schenker to feature on new Derek Sherinian album
- Bloodstock Festival announce Kreator as replacement Saturday headliner
- Watch a guy slaying Cannibal Corpse and Metallica songs on his iPad
- Procol Harum’s former bassist Alan Cartwright has died
- Sisters Of Mercy announce three London shows
- Watch video for unreleased Tom Petty song You Saw Me Comin'
- March 8
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- Mick Mars gets the first dose of his Covid vaccine
- Magma pay tribute to former guitarist James Mac Gaw
- Watch Geoff Tate’s new video for Another Change with Sweet Oblivion
- Study finds metalheads amongst happiest music fans, clearly didn't poll our Facebook page
- Stearica share new single, How He Came Into The World
- Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell finishes work on new solo album
- Rare William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin recordings to be released
- Watch Blackmore’s Night discuss new album Nature’s Light
- Entombed AD singer LG Petrov has died
- Saxon let loose high-velocity cover of The Beatles' Paperback Writer
- March 7
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- Listen to the Sammy Hagar-approved synthwave cover of Van Halen's Dreams
- Badfinger line up the superstar guests on No Matter What - Revisiting The Hits
- Pentral highlight Amazon plight with stunning video for new single Silent Trees
- The Ocean announce live stream of Phanerozoic I
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces Amazônia soundtrack for April
- March 6
- March 5
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- Architects land first UK number 1 album with For Those That Wish To Exist
- Loney Dear streams atmospheric new single Oppenheimer
- ‘People thought we were over!’ Pink Floyd look back on their escape from oblivion
- ‘I love being one of the forefathers of nu metal’: why Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix will never disown his past
- The Mars Volta announce career-spanning 18-disc vinyl limited edition box set
- Watch System Of A Down’s Shavo crush a Stone Temple Pilots’ classic
- Perturbator share ‘nihilistic’ new single Death Of The Soul to preview Lustful Sacraments album
- Amplifier announce 15th anniversary double vinyl release for Insider
- It Bites announce The Tall Ships and Map Of The Past reissues
- Listen to Amy Lee’s fierce declaration of independence on Evanescence’s new single, Better Without You
- Alexi Laiho’s cause of death revealed
- March 4
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- Greek proggers Ciccada sign to Bad Elephant for new album Harvest
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is up, and it's an exclusive chat with Simone from Epica
- Solo take us on a psych trip with video for Don't Shoot The Piano Player
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band set for deluxe 50th anniversary reissue
- This cover of Prince’s When Doves Cry in the style of Type O Negative is crushingly epic
- This is what …And Justice For All would have sounded like with bass
- System Of A Down's Chop Suey! has been voted the greatest metal song of the 21st century
- AC/DC is a religion, says Mastodon’s Brent Hinds, recalling parental fears that the Young brothers would lead him to Hell
- Randy McStine guests on new Stratospheerius video for Cognitive Dissonance
- This country version of Paramore’s Misery Business is exactly what the world needs right now
- Watch Metallica celebrate the 35th anniversary of Master Of Puppets with blistering TV performance of Battery
- Queen’s Brian May reveals his favourite guitar solo of all time: ‘It’s spine-chilling!’
- The new Metal Hammer celebrates the greatest songs of the 21st century and is stacked with gifts
- Exploring Birdsong reschedule live dates
- Keith Emerson Tribute Show online reunion tomorrow
- March 3
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- Ghost release poignant Life Eternal video from the night Cardinal Copia was retired
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor announce new studio album
- The Smashing Pumpkins have started work on their 33-track new album
- When Waves Collide introduce themselves with video for new single The Fallen
- ‘That was the last time we tried to summon spirits of the dead’: Mick Box on Uriah Heep’s ‘freaky’ ’70s séance
- Pink Floyd announce replica tape box print of Dark Side Of The Moon
- Young girl recreates Spiritbox’s Holy Roller in cute and terrifying new video
- Composer Daniel Biro announces series of online concerts
- Terminally ill Peaceville Records founder Hammy launches JustGiving fundraiser
- Listen to Metallica play Master Of Puppets for the very first time, with Dave Mustaine watching on
- Clive Mitten releases stunning new promo video for Suite Cryptique
- Nancy Wilson details Eddie Van Halen tribute on debut solo album You And Me
- March 2
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- How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Supertramp guitarist Carl Verheyen to release new album Sundial
- Elder's Nick DiSalvo announces debut solo album
- Watch Greta Van Fleet’s heavenly video for Heat Above
- Mike Patton’s re-born Tomahawk release brutal NSFW video for Dog Eat Dog
- This remix of Van Halen’s Runnin’ With The Devil is filthy, and we kinda love it
- Mogwai announce special Glasgow show for November
- Rick Armstrong releases video for Shifting Sands
- Watch this jazz drummer nail Lars Ulrich’s parts on Enter Sandman after one listen
- Mick Fleetwood wants to “heal” Fleetwood Mac’s life-long wounds
- Darryl Way releases teaser video for Destinations 2
- Play Deftones’ Pac-Man-style White Pony x Black Stallion online game
- Watch Corey Taylor lend his rap ‘skills’ to new country/hip hop song
- Frost* announce first new studio album for five years
- March 1
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- Listen to the final song Kurt Cobain ever sang onstage, from Nirvana’s last-ever gig
- The Network return with a chaotic performance of Threat Level Midnight on US TV
- This 17-year-old TikTok shredder has given a Foo Fighters hit the blazing solo it deserves
- Kyros' Adam Warne launches new Patreon account
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen delivers spine-tingling thrills with her killer version of Tom Cruise movie theme Oblivion
- The Reasoning to release new live album Battles Fought And Conquests Won
- Download 2021 cancelled, Iron Maiden, Kiss and Biffy Clyro announced as 2022 headliners
- Lacuna Coil explain why they stood on stage in silence instead of performing a promised livestream concert
- Trent Reznor beats Trent Reznor to win Golden Globe for Pixar’s Soul
- Frank Carduccci to release limited vinyl edition of debut album Oddity
- Rammstein have recorded a secret new album in lockdown
- Tour the world with Freddie Mercury as Queen launch first mobile game
