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- April 30
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- Esme Bianco sues Marilyn Manson for rape, sexual assault and trafficking
- Imogen Heap's soundtrack to Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is a hidden prog gem!
- At The Gates share Spectre of Extinction video to preview The Nightmare Of Being
- Former Judas Priest drummer John Hinch dead at 73
- Bruce Dickinson is co-writing a screenplay based on his historic 1994 gig during The Siege Of Sarajevo
- Greenslade's 70s albums to be released as part of a new box set
- Pink Floyd's Live At Knebworth release coincides with 30th anniversary of BRIT School
- Glenn Danzig believes ‘woke bullshit’ and cancel culture is killing punk rock
- Listen to the fierce new Tom Morello X Pussy Riot collaboration Weather Strike
- Family celebrate dead drummer’s life by putting him behind kit at his own funeral
- Kayak share title track from new album Out Of This World
- Ghost’s Cirice in the style of Metallica is the stuff of James Hetfield’s dreams
- Former Aussie politician ordered to pay $1.5m after infringing Twisted Sister copyright
- Motorhead's No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith is now louder, longer and filthier than before
- April 29
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- Garbage share synthesized title-track from upcoming album No Gods No Masters
- Paul McCartney: the making of Ram and the new psych revolution - only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Theo Travis and David Longdon star in video for cover of David Sylvian's Brilliant Trees
- Asia announce five-disc box set The Reunion Albums: 2007 - 2012
- Darkthrone announce new album Eternal Hails
- Plenty, featuring Tim Bowness, release video for Forest Almost Burning
- Black Sabbath gave Eddie Van Halen a ‘behave yourself’ warning on 1978 tour
- Ozzy Osbourne: “Making my new album has kept me alive”
- Genesis announce 2021 US tour dates
- This video mocking festival line-up haters is both hilarious and painfully accurate
- Exodus drummer Tom Hunting ‘overcome with gratitude’ as GoFundMe campaign to help him fight cancer passes $82,500
- Watch Keith Emerson's grandson Ethan show his own piano skills in new video
- Caligula's Horse announce Live After Lockdown streaming event for June
- Listen to Willow Smith’s pop-punk banger featuring Blink 182’s Travis Barker
- This Ozzy/Beach Boys mash-up mixes sunshine and doom in perfect harmony
- Hawkwind announce new album and Autumn tour dates
- Listen to David Gilmour and Peter Green play Fleetwood Mac’s Need Your Love So Bad
- Gojira are crowned the band of the decade in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Sharing Rammstein’s Pussy video in Russia could get you three years in jail
- April 28
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- Crippled Black Phoenix release dark video for cover of SNFU's Painful Reminder
- Hella Mega Tour featuring Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer rescheduled for 2022
- Watch Dave and Violet Grohl perform with Krist Novoselic and Dave Lombardo on US TV
- That Joe Payne releases trailer for new live release
- Lars Ulrich was ‘so right’ in claiming that illegal downloading could destroy the music business, says Corey Taylor
- ‘Metallica ridiculed me for how much time I spent with fans’ says Jason Newsted
- Magenta announce 20th anniversary live album
- Frank Carter and Joe Talbot from Idles join forces on the ferocious My Town
- Watch Lars Ulrich, Brian Johnson, The Edge discuss the power of live music in Dave Grohl’s What Drives Us doc
- Marshall go vintage with their new-look Emberton portable speaker
- Listen to King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man punctuated by Robert Fripp shouting "Bollocks!"
- Some genius has created a Mudvayne at the Oscars performance and it’s glorious
- Vienna Circle release trailer for first new album in eight years
- Over 70 new bands announced for Download Festival 2022
- April 27
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- Counting Crows are back with a new single and a butter-themed EP
- Babymetal join NFT goldrush with limited edition set of $100 trading cards
- Red Fang release the rowdy new single Funeral Coach
- New York State declares DMX day to commemorate the late rapper
- Spiritualized to reissue definitive vinyl edition of second album Pure Phase in June
- Trent Reznor working on new Nine Inch Nails material “as soon as probably tomorrow” following Oscars win
- Billie Joe Armstrong ‘regrets nothing’ about helping make punk mainstream
- System Of A Down thank Joe Biden for recognising the Armenian Genocide
- White Willow man launches new musical project Donner
- Greta Van Fleet hit back at Gene Simmons in ‘Rock is dead’ debate
- Karnivool announce live stream of 2009's acclaimed Sound Awake album
- Stevie Nicks originally wanted nothing to do with the Tom Petty song that launched her solo career
- ‘I don’t blame Iron Maiden for getting rid of me’, says Paul Di’Anno
- Queen at Live Aid is the latest Lego project that needs your support
- New recordings from David Gilmour and Kirk Hammett to feature in lavish Peter Green book
- April 26
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- Dave Grohl recruits Krist Novoselic and Dave Lombardo to back his daughter Violet on US TV
- Newborn baby is accidentally given the legal name Korn in birth certificate error
- John Lydon calls Danny Boyle’s forthcoming Sex Pistols drama ‘disrespectful s**t’
- Elvis wanted The Beatles as his backing band
- Alice Cooper on recovering from COVID-19: “I’m a walking antibody”
- Megadeth’s David Ellefson praises "fighter and survivor" Dave Mustaine
- Solar power headphones are a thing and we’re ready to bask in their warm glow
- Coronation Street to feature Sophie Lancaster-inspired hate crime storyline
- Black Sabbath: The Dio Years to be documented in lavish new book
- Tom Newman announces follow up to 1977 solo album The Faerie Symphony
- Gojira release their final single before the release of new album Fortitude
- Ronnie Wood reveals he's been given the all-clear after second cancer diagnosis
- Eagles smash Hotel California has been remixed with kittens because this is the internet and anything can happen
- Rick Wakeman guests on new single from Justin Swadling
- Bruce Dickinson is doing a one-man tour this summer
- Toyah Willcox has once again daubed her torso in body paint
- Def Leppard launch third box set in ongoing complete recordings series
- April 25
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- April 23
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- Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand unveils new band The L.I.F.E Project
- You can now vote to have Rammstein's stage made as a Lego set
- worriedaboutsatan announce new album Providence
- Kansas stream new live version of The Wall
- Eric Church slams Covid-19 anti-vaxxers: ‘Our grandparents fought the Nazis. Surely we can get a shot in the arm’
- Watch ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons namecheck Keith Richards and Jim Morrison on moody new single Desert High
- Iron Maiden’s exclusion from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is ‘insanity’ says Kiss frontman Paul Stanley
- Frost* release video for title track of new album Day And Age
- Korn have finished writing their next album, Jonathan Davis reveals
- Cover star Peter Hammill: maverick, visionary, rebel. The new issue of Prog is on sale now!
- Dim Gray stream Ouroboros and announce vinyl release for Flown
- April 22
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- Weezer release hair-metal inspired single I Need Some Of That
- Save £75 on the awesome Philips Fidelio X3 over-ear headphones
- Mike Rutherford updates on Genesis rehearsals on the new Rockonteurs podcast
- Serj Tankian recalls the bitter argument which almost caused System Of A Down to split in 2000
- Black Stone Cherry launch video for "in your face" rocker The Chain
- League Of Lights premiere brand new video for Persephone
- Slipknot, Rob Zombie and Mudvayne to headline Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival 2021
- Hear the new single from Rammstein’s Till Lindemann, sung in Russian
- Astrakhan release new video for Lonesome Cry
- Little Simz announces new album, releases powerful political opener Introvert
- Netflix confident of sealing deal to film Kiss biopic Shout It Out Loud
- It looks like Paramore's next album is finally in the works
- The Technics SL-100C turntable is set to spin your favourite sounds this summer
- Arena reschedule some UK dates for October tour
- April 21
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- Dinosaur Jr. unveil the charming new single Take It Back from forthcoming album
- Deftones launch sinister video for Ceremony and the feeling of dread is real
- Laura Meade releases captivating video for Burned At The Stake
- Here's a rooster singing along to Mudvayne. What a time to be alive!
- Let Death Valley Girls’ new video transport you to a Teletubby-style dreamland
- Mr. Bungle are giving their The Night They Came Home livestream a physical release
- Giancarrlo Erra releases video for haunting new single Departure Tape
- Wolf Alice share rowdy new single Smile
- Dino Cazares says that Fear Factory’s next singer could be a woman
- Vangelis to guest on Space Rocks Uplink tomorrow
- Duff McKagan recalls meeting future Guns N’ Roses bandmate Slash for the first time: ‘I’m like, Oh wow!’
- Per Wiberg streams brand new song Get Your Boots On
- Hear Slayer, Tool and Iron Maiden classics reinvented as 8-bit Super Nintendo themes
- Mariusz Duda releases quirky new video for Knock Lock
- Bruce Dickinson joins Heavy Metal Truants charity ride to Download Festival
- April 20
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- Foo Fighters launch extremely trippy video for Chasing Birds
- Bat Out Of Hell writer Jim Steinman dead at 73
- Cypress Hill's B-Real drops a hazy double A-side alongside NFT collection
- Sony unveil limited edition WH-1000XM4 Silent White headphones
- Chvrches return with empowering new single He Said She Said
- Teramaze return to the Her Halo story with new video for Stone
- New book on prog legends ELP to be released later this year
- UK festivals could be cancelled this summer unless Boris Johnson’s government offers Covid-19 insurance
- Do you know more about Metallica than this Mastermind quiz contestant?
- Venom Prison, Napalm Death and more added to Bloodstock bill
- Raven Bush releases video for brand new solo single Start Of Something New
- Nova Twins collab with Dream Wife on a feisty remix of their track Bullet
- America is ‘dealing death to innocents in the name of freedom,’ says Roger Waters
- Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield admit ‘Music has saved my life’
- Yes release From A Page to digital platforms
- Watch this couple have their first wedding dance to Napalm Death’s You Suffer
- April 19
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- Foo Fighters push back European tour to 2022
- An album of lullaby versions of Alice Cooper songs has been released
- Gojira’s Joe and Mario Duplantier to guest on special Earth Day World Metal Congress discussion
- Kittie prove they are finally cool again with a heavy AF collab with We Are Pigs
- Watch Rush’s Geddy Lee and his mum in trailer for Dave Grohl’s From Cradle To Stage TV show
- Morrissey attacks ‘hurtful, racist’ The Simpsons following Panic On The Streets of Springfield episode
- Cannibal Corpse’s George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher on Jon Schaffer: “Wow, dude what are you thinking?”
- New US prog/fusion quartet Gnarbot release video for new single Blammo
- The Wildhearts announce new album, 21st Century Love Songs, and UK tour
- Mudvayne are reuniting to play US festival shows
- Nick D'Virgilio releases video teaser for live stream event for May
- It's chaos in the kitchen as Toyah and Robert Fripp decimate The Stones' Satisfaction
- April 18
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- April 16
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- The Struts launch Low Key In Love single with Michael Jackson's daughter Paris
- Acolyte release powerful video for new single Resentment
- Sammy Hagar says he ‘fell apart’ when he learned of Eddie Van Halen’s death
- Iron Maiden and West Ham United launch new football shirt and training range
- Listen to Texan ‘choral rockers’ The Polyphonic Spree’s take on a Rush classic
- Kirk Hammett’s ‘Ouija Board’ guitar is up for sale if you’ve got a spare $350,000
- Netflix are making a Joey Ramone biopic, with Pete Davidson as the late punk icon
- Midsummer Prog Festival reschedules to 2022
- Enslaved announce four live releases and reschedule tour to 2022
- Opeth announce Blackwater Park 20th anniversary reissue
- Mick Jagger is selling an Eazy Sleazy NFT to raise funds for music venues
- New Genesis book chronicles the post-Gabriel era
- Watch a man in a Spongebob hat slay Tool’s The Pot on the saxophone
- Listen to Fear Factory’s slamming new single Disruptor
- Poco frontman and country rock legend Rusty Young dead at 75
- Finally, five Tools riffs as they were actually meant to be heard: on a hurdy-gurdy
- April 15
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- Babymetal are streaming their 10th anniversary Budokan shows
- Burton C Bell’s Linkin Park diss has inspired a brilliant Fear Factory Vs Chester Bennington mash-up
- Alice In Chains’ William DuVall reveals Drag Race icon RuPaul’s secret punk rock past
- De’Wayne shares in-your-face video for the infectious Walking To Work
- Poverty's No Crime release release video for Flesh And Bone
- Watch Rina Sawayama and Elton John duet on powerful LGBTQ+ anthem Chosen Family
- Marillion launch new album art jigsaw
- Watch the video for Apocalyptica’s dramatic Jacoby Shaddix-fronted cover of Cream’s White Room
- If you were hoping to spend $1000 on a Rammstein hoodie today, we have bad news for you
- Slipknot vs Barney The Dinosaur is the mash-up the universe has been crying out for
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer to release Tarkus Picture Disc for Record Store Day
- April 14
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- Black Sabbath to launch super deluxe version of Sabotage
- Exodus drummer Tom Hunting has been diagnosed with cancer
- Graham Bond Organisation box set out in June
- Roger Taylor wants to stick a 20 foot high Freddie Mercury statue in his garden
- Katatonia and Sólstafir announce co-headline tour
- Puscifer’s mind-f**king short film for Bullet Train To Iowa might just be Maynard James Keenan’s finest hour
- This Metallica vs Van Halen mash-up is the sound of two monsters of rock crushing every other band underfoot
- Soft Machine's John Etheridge added to Prog The Forest bill
- The man behind Whitesnake's Come An' Get It cover comes clean about *that* tongue
- Myles Kennedy launches animated video starring a bear, beavers, deer, a ninja turtle and a wise owl
- April 13
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- Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl rail against anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists on sardonic Eazy Sleazy single
- Qello Concerts World Tour is your All Access Pass to the best live performances from rock’s most legendary acts
- Prog talks Frank Zappa with Alex Winter and Ahmet Zappa
- Listen to Quicksand’s excellent new song, Inversion
- Evanescence and Within Temptation push back European tour to 2022
- Lucy Dacus shares Hot & Heavy single as preview of third album Home Video
- Iron Maiden push summer 2021 tour back to summer 2022
- Emperor announce A Night Of Emperial Wrath to mark their 30th anniversary
- Kirk Hammett’s guitar used in Metallica’s video for One sells for £82,000
- Listen to the strangest Queen interview ever, with Freddie Mercury and Brian May at their most charming
- Darryl Way releases video for his Elements Violin Concerto
- Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun in the style of Type O Negative will warm your cold, black goth heart
- The new Metal Hammer Podcast is all about the best new music right now
- AC/DC's Brian Johnson to publish "unforgettable" memoir
- April 12
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- Meet the Russian cat setting the world of improvised music alight
- Watch the trailer for new Dave Grohl movie What Drives Us
- Watch restored Genesis 1973 Bataclan show
- Gojira's new single Into The Storm might just kickstart a revolution
- John Lodge announces new single The Sun Will Shine
- Every Time I Die and The Bronx to tour the UK in 2022
- Rina Sawayama reworks her LGBTQ+ anthem Chosen Family with Elton John
- Watch very early No-Man TV performance of Housekeeping
- Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp’s typically enthusiastic take on Judas Priest classic Breaking The Law
- Anthrax are working on ‘something big’ to celebrate their 40th anniversary
- Klone release trailer to announce their first ever live album
- Watch Tool’s rhythm section play Ænema for an audience of college students
- Theo Travis announces new album Songs From The Apricot Tree
- Fender’s new Mustang Micro guitar amp puts the power in your pocket
- Guns N' Roses launch six live classics filmed in front of fanatical Brazilian crowd
- April 11
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- April 9
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- US rapper DMX dies aged 50
- Tigercub announce UK tour, share new single Blue Mist In My Head
- This Winter Machine unveil new line-up and video for Pleasure And Purpose
- Head With Wings return with video for new single In A House Without Clocks
- These classic album covers made of felt are the cutest things on the internet today
- Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory was Fear Factory “for kids”, says Burton C Bell
- Kyros announce UK tour with The Paradox Twin
- Glass Hammer announce new singer and debut NFT drop
- Sabaton travel back 500 years on new single The Royal Guard
- Fightback Lager invites investment in ‘the beer that saves music venues’
- White Moth Black Butterfly release captivating video for new single The Dreamer
- Former Sabaton guitarist jailed after being convicted of child sex abuse and possessing child pornography
- The Pineapple Thief release video trailer for Nothing But The Truth streaming event
- Watch the Avenged Sevenfold cover that’s setting the internet on fire
- Watch David Gilmour make Fleetwood Mac's Albatross even sadder than it was previously
- April 8
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- Roger Waters announces This Is Not A Drill US tour reschedule in new video
- Genesis to release Live At Knebworth EP for Record Store Day
- Megadeth are auctioning a Vic Rattlehead NFT because that’s what bands do in 2021
- Watch the trailer for Heavy Metal Hitchhiker, a new web comedy from the team behind Metal Evolution
- Gentle Giant release rare Italian video clip from 1972
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman release video for Jabberwocky's Coming To Town
- St. Vincent shares trippy video for new single The Melting Of The Sun
- Alice In Chains’ William DuVall is releasing the punk album he made as a teenager
- Motorhead’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre EP is getting a 40th anniversary reissue on picture disc and we want one
- Dennis De Young recaptures Styx's prog glory with new single Isle Of Misanthrope
- Twenty One Pilots announce new album Scaled And Icy, share Shy Away single
- Guitarist Zakk Rizvi quits Kansas
- Ronnie Wood receives the Freedom of London but cannot drive sheep and cattle over London Bridge
- April 7
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- Judas Priest move European tour to 2022, but commit to Bloodstock 2021 headliner
- Megadeth and Thin Lizzy colouring books to be released later this month
- Pixies give seal of approval to Nandi Bushell’s cover of Where Is My Mind
- Watch Brandon Boyd duet on Incubus classics with American Idol contestants
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor release tour video trailer
- The White Stripes announce 20th anniversary White Blood Cells companion album
- New Patto and Ollie Halsall reissues for April
- Psssst! Wanna buy Kirk Hammett’s One video guitar? $30,000 and it could be yours
- The new issue of Metal Hammer celebrates 20 years of Rammstein’s Mutter album
- Foo Fighters’ anthem Everlong sounds fantastic reimagined as smooth jazz
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee wants to follow The Bitter Truth by scoring a nature documentary
- The Damned reschedule UK tour, announce Wildhearts among support acts
- Devin Townsend releases video trailer for new Ocean Machine stream
- Watch Ozzy Osbourne get inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame
- Listen to Corey Taylor, Dave Lombardo, Scott Ian and Lzzy Hale unite for theme to new movie Thunder Force
- NWOCR gets its own compilation album
- April 6
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- If I hadn’t got sober, I was going to die, admits Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe
- Faith No More, Mastodon and Beastie Boy members cover Public Enemy in latest fundraising effort
- The Guru Guru announce UK tour dates
- Watch five teenagers absolutely nail Korn's misfit anthem Freak On A Leash
- Dave Grohl to publish memoir, The Storyteller, in October
- Lil Nas X’s Satanic hip hop track Montero gets the metal makeover it truly deserves
- Alice Cooper says his first drug experience was with Jimi Hendrix on a "spaceship"
- The Offspring announce winter 2021 UK arena shows with The Hives
- Listen to ‘new’ Nirvana song, Drowned In The Sun, created by Artificial Intelligence
- Ride The Lightning or Master Of Puppets? The new Metal Hammer Podcast settles the debate
- Dutch prog rockers Perfect Storm release video for Strength
- Metallica hated Some Kind Of Monster on first sight, and considered burying it
- Focus announce new box set to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Guns N’ Roses reschedule summer 2021 European shows to summer 2022
- Revealed: the greatest Jimi Hendrix song of all time
- April 5
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- April 1
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- Mdou Moctar unveils the mind-melting title track from upcoming album Afrique Victime
- The 100 most influential guitarists ever: only in Classic Rock, on sale now
- Journey members past and present resolve legal dispute, reach ‘amicable settlement’
- Pinhdar release new video for the moody Parallel
- Soundgarden accuse Vicky Cornell of changing social media passwords in latest legal tussle
- At The Gates prepare to unleash The Nightmare Of Being
- Slipknot's Clown is selling his first NFT
- Esthesis release live in the studio video for The Awakening
- Steven Wilson releases Nile Rodgers remix of Personal Shopper
- Ex-Misfits vocalist Michale Graves set to defend Proud Boys in insurrection court case
- This is what Iron Maiden’s Fear Of The Dark sounds played like by a 160-piece orchestra
- Andy Summers releases new video as book pre-orders open
