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- November 30
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- Foo Fighters announce tour, abruptly pull show after venue rejects band covid protocols
- Uriah Heep to embark on herculean 61-date European tour
- Silent Skies release poignant video for Taper
- Rancid pull out of Slam Dunk 2022, Sum 41, Dropkick Murphys take headline slots
- Trivium announce two special ‘Live From The Hangar’ shows for December
- Enslaved release video trailer for 'otherworldly' major streaming event
- Listen to two new songs from Wet Leg’s much-anticipated debut album
- Black Country, New Road stream new single Concorde
- Eddie acquires new superhero pals as Iron Maiden unveil merch collab with Marvel
- GWAR halt LA gig to recover crowd-surfing fan’s leg from moshpit
- Watch Dave Grohl salute the Ramones with raucous Blitzkrieg Bop cover
- The cop who shut down The Beatles’ final show has no regrets and no shame
- David Cross and Andrew Keeling release video trailer for October Is Marigold
- Marilyn Manson’s home raided by police with search warrant
- Worst Christmas ever: snowstorm leaves dozens stranded in pub with Oasis tribute act
- November 29
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- Huge mural of Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman unveiled, gets mistaken for Harry Potter's Professor Snape
- These are the budget turntable deals you need to know about this Cyber Monday
- Unlock your inner guitar god with 50% off an annual Fender Play subscription this Cyber Monday
- Cyber Monday Funko deals: Walmart rock the Funko Pop! albums series - AC/DC, Metallica, Kiss, Queen, more!
- D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings release first teaser video
- Robert Plant reveals existence of unopened letter which might have led him to quit music before Led Zeppelin
- Guns N’ Roses need to play Glastonbury, says festival booker Emily Eavis
- Gryphon announce rescheduled England tour dates
- “I don’t think Freddie would have fitted in this world today” says Queen’s Brian May
- Cyber Monday Vans deal: save up to 50% on shoes, clothing & accessories
- Camel announce 2023 England and Scotland tour dates
- Turnstile to join Idles, Thrice, Jimmy Eat World and more at 2000trees in 2022
- Naxatras release video for mesmerising new single Journey To Narahmon
- Watch Mastodon, Carcass, Bad Wolves members unite to cover Metallica’s Blackened
- Watch Dave Grohl’s disturbing black metal cover of Lisa Loeb’s Stay (I Missed You)
- November 28
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- Cynic release stunning new video for Diamond Light Body
- Bag yourself a bargain with The Beatles Singles Collection vinyl box set with £50 off this Cyber Weekend
- Take your workouts to the next level with 40% off the Jabra Elite Active 75t this Cyber Weekend
- Live 1974 Gong album to be released
- The Beatles Get Back documentary: How to watch it and what people are saying about it
- November 27
- November 26
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- Midnight Oil announce final tour
- Listen to Miranda, the new Frank Turner single celebrating his reconciliation with his trans parent
- Focus forced to cancel remaining tour dates
- Watch Dave Navarro, Taylor Hawkins and his 14-year-old son cover Ziggy Stardust
- Listen to Avatar’s new single Construction Of Souls, ‘the Die Hard of Christmas songs’
- "I’m not going to watch Fieldy die, I refuse to": Jonathan Davis explains why Korn’s bassist can’t be in the band right now
- Dutch prog legends Kayak call it a day with final tour
- ELP's Tarkus at 50 on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Venom‘s Cronos recalls backstage bust-up which stopped an out-of-control Metallica sabotaging their career before it started
- November 25
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- Some brilliant maniac has made a mash-up of Flashdance and Iron Maiden's The Trooper
- JRR Tolkien snubbed The Beatles’ request to film a Lord Of The Rings movie in 1968
- Rush, Pearl Jam, U2, Springsteen guitars up for auction for musicians’ charity
- Tony Iommi returns with the crushing new single Scent Of Dark, launches perfume under same name
- This Lars Ulrich toilet is a dead-eyed horror from the abyss (via Florida)
- Brian May fears a modern version of Queen would be “forced” to include a trans musician to demonstrate diversity
- Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly to release autobiography
- The Blackheart Orchestra cover The Manic's If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
- ‘The floodgates of Hell opened!’ Deep Purple star recalls furious backlash after he dared to cover Ozzy Osbourne classics
- November 24
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- The Robin in Bilston unveils mega prog line-up of live shows
- Ozzy Osbourne pushes back UK/European tour until 2023
- Gavin Harrison debut album to get 25th anniversary reissue
- Bob Vylan announce UK headline tour for 2022
- Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker performing pop-punk banger Bite Me will have you feeling like it's 2002 all over again
- Monster Truck's Jon Harvey "super offended" after receiving backlash for appearing in Kid Rock video about people being too offended
- Kid Rock's new video Don't Tell Me How To Live mistaken for Weird Al parody
- Steven Wilson, Dream Theater and Mastodon lead prog Grammy charge
- Reliqa premiere new video for The Bearer Of Bad News
- November 23
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- Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance has been turned into a terrifying dystopian graphic novel
- Loop release first new music for six years with video for new single Halo
- Leprous announce last minute Leeds gig for December 3
- System Of A Down's Serj Tankian is the latest musician to go full NFT, because of course he is
- ArcTanGent adds Emma Ruth Rundle, MØL and an extra day to 2022 event
- Nirvana’s Nevermind baby now says he was dressed as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner for photo shoot
- An unreasonably large flash mob has done a version of Green Day's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
- Megadeth eye spring 2022 release for The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
- Apparently Sting fancies himself as a heavy metal singer
- Ghost announce UK and Europe ‘Imperatour’ arena dates for 2022
- Post-rockers Codices and Ruby Dawn's Carola Baer added to Prog The Forest
- Rage Against The Machine aren't happy about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict
- November 22
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- Haken part ways with keyboard player Diego Tejeida
- Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox, Nova Twins and more to play Bring Me The Horizon's festival in Malta
- James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich were confused, angry and “freaked out” when they first saw Metallica’s One video
- John Lodge releases new live video of Moody Blues' Gemini Dream
- Wes Scantlin out-Wes Scantlins himself in latest on-stage meltdown
- Brody Dalle could face jail time after being found guilty of contempt in bitter custody battle with Josh Homme
- Robert Plant wants people to stop asking him about retirement
- Nightwish reschedule postponed European dates
- Axl Rose thanks fans for their support and sympathy after the death of his cat, Dexy
- David Bowie documentary with thousands of hours of rare footage in the works
- Marilyn Manson’s lawyers may seek ‘global mediation’ to settle rape and sexual assault charges
- Machine Gun Kelly wins Favourite Rock Artist at the American Music Awards 2021
- Meri Tadic releases new fan-filmed video for One
- The Flower Kings announce new album
- November 21
- November 20
- November 19
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- Hank von Helvete, former Turbonegro frontman, dead at 49
- Eddie Vedder reveals how Roskilde tragedy was nearly the end for Pearl Jam
- WWE legend Edge is on a mission to make Metallica play Wrestlemania
- Ross Jennings releases video for uptempo single Rocket Science
- Korn's Jonathan Davis opens up about brutal Covid struggle: "I didn't eat for a month"
- We regret to inform you that Eric Clapton is at it again
- Lindy-Fay Hella and Dei Farne release video for dream-inspired The Lake
- Hear Once Human's new single Cold Arrival: a thundering melodeath meditation on loss and grief
- Marillion release full details of 'upbeat' new album An Hour Before It’s Dark
- Bleed From Within talk new single I Am Damnation: "It's an anthem of confidence"
- Cynic share drum playthrough video for In A Multiverse Where Atoms Sing
- Bob Vylan announce new album Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life and drop huge new single
- Voting Has Now Closed
- Animals As Leaders release video for new single The Problem Of Other Minds
- Legendary photographer Mick Rock dead at 72
- November 18
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- Apparently Greta Van Fleet aren't just a Led Zeppelin "tribute act" anymore
- Dave Grohl has written a song called F**k You Coachella and no-one knows why
- Tidal make waves with 30-day free trial and two new ways of listening
- Jamie Lenman releases live-looped new single Television Is Not Your Life
- Richie Faulkner: "My surgeons have all reserved front row tickets for the next Judas Priest show"
- Justin Hayward leads new The War Of The Worlds video for Life Begins Again
- Momma's new track Medicine proves they're the coolest new grunge band in the game
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss share plans for November 19 livestream special
- Jason Newsted recalls emotional first meeting with Cliff Burton’s mother
- Red Kite release video for Astrology (The One True Science)
- Watch the first trailer of the new Pam & Tommy miniseries
- Listen to Aerosmith rehearse Movin' Out two years before its release
- November 17
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- Wargasm's new track Scratchcard Feeling is the best Prodigy song you never heard
- All aboard the Hammership! Sabaton, Powerwolf, Kreator and more to play metal cruise in 2022
- Melvins reveal why they fired Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain as their producer: ‘He was a mess’
- Donner release moody new video for Andromeda Waltz
- Tom Morello announces second new album, The Atlas Underground Flood
- Steeleye Span's Julian Littman adapts Rosetti's Goblin Market for concept album
- Little Simz stars in the new short film I Love You, I Hate You
- ‘It was lonely… I wanted out’: Justin Hawkins on the darkness and desolation behind The Masked Singer
- Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe thinks Ghost are "not a stadium band"
- Arjen Lucassen reveals Terminator-inspired Fate Of Man video from Star One
- Richie Sambora says his job in Bon Jovi was to "shut the f**k up"
- ‘Who’s faster? Who’s heavier?’: record label boss recalls early Metallica vs Slayer rivalry
- Nightwish pay tribute to Children Of Bodom's Alexi Laiho
- New Mark Hollis biography due in Spring 2022
- November 16
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- Kiss launch their "drinks portfolio" into the American market
- Opeth split with drummer Martin Axenrot at start of US tour
- Justin Hawkins says The Darkness helped bring rock back to life
- Brass Against singer Sophia Urista apologises for urinating on fan during performance
- John Petrucci says Dream Theater wanted to be like 'Metallica and Yes in the same band'
- King’s X’s Dug Pinnick recalls coming out as gay as he was sick of 'Christian hypocrisy'
- Dikajee releases striking Glorious Beautiful Magical video
- Emma Ruth Rundle releases stunning video for quietly reflective The Company
- Jinjer release video for lethal single Disclosure
- Jonas Lindberg releases trailer video for new album Miles From Nowhere
- Big Big Train release Winter single Proper Jack Froster
- November 15
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- Magma announce BBC 1974 release
- Lars Ulrich’s infamous confrontation with James Hetfield during St. Anger sessions was ‘scary but necessary’
- Greek outfit Naxatras announce new single Journey To Narahmon
- Paul Stanley pours cold water on Gene Simmons’ claim that Eddie Van Halen wanted to join Kiss
- Metal Hammer Podcast #189: Hammer meets Hell Bent For Metal
- Marillion get brave with new tour setlist (spoiler alert!)
- Cult Of Luna's boundary-breaking Beyond The Redshift festival returns to London in 2022
- Wolfmother release surprise new album Rock Out
- Roger Daltrey: the internet is destroying humanity
- Robert Cray ends friendship with "selfish" Eric Clapton over "extreme" views
- November 14
- November 12
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- The new Metal Hammer celebrates 40 years of Metallica with 40 exclusive interviews
- Kerry King: "There was so much grief over The Black Album when it came out"
- Moron Police update on new "sprawling concept" album
- Matt Baber and Richard Wileman team up for new album
- Stream the new Beatles doc for less with 75% off your first month of Disney+
- Puscifer release live video for Fake Affront
- 69 Windmills release video for new single Red Baby Black Baby
- Karnivool release video trailer for new live Blu-ray
- Iamthemorning announce new live stream
- Gene Simmons dubs anti-vaxxers "the enemy" and "evil"
- Mariusz Duda announces third instalment of his Lockdown Trilogy
- Tears For Fears announce UK tour
- Listen to legendary potty-mouthed actor Joe Pesci sing The Beatles in 1968
- November 11
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- Code Orange launch crushing new song Out For Blood
- Deep Purple: the full story behind new album, plus a limited edition CD - only in Classic Rock
- Moody Blues drummer Graeme Edge dead at 80
- Bring Me The Horizon announce exclusive weekend festival experience in Malta
- “Alexa, give me a stupidly good Echo Dot deal.” Buy one 3rd Gen Amazon smart speaker and get another totally free
- Mdou Moctar: Live At The Niger River is 20 minutes of serenity and mind-melting riffs
- Hypno5e premiere new live video for 15-minute On Our Bed Of Soil
- Parkway Drive announce 2022 UK/European tour
- Sex Pistols' John Lydon unmasked as The Jester on The Masked Singer
- Matt Berry and friends launch new instrumental prog outfit Milkbone
- Avril Lavigne's Bite Me is the ultimate diss track you need to finally get over your toxic ex
- Korn announce new album Requiem, share first track Start The Healing
- Tony Levin announces luxury King Crimson print collection
- Listen to a long-lost psychedelic pop epic featuring Ringo Starr and George Harrison
- Black Friday deal alert: $$ off Almost Famous super deluxe vinyl boxset
- November 10
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- Outrun The Sunlight premiere their new album with Prog
- Bob Rock: “Metallica aren’t wimps. They think they’re the best band in the world and everyone needs to get out of the way"
- Jay Weinberg's dog isn't a fan of his new Slipknot mask
- Rolo Tomassi tease new album Where Myth Becomes Memory with new single Drip
- Earthless announce new album Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons
- This AC/DC vs N.E.R.D. mash-up is pure filth and quite possibly the work of Satan
- Body bags and big riffs? Nova Twins' wild new video for Antagonist has arrived
- Beach House announce new album Once Twice Melody and share four singles
- The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost announce very first live show
- Coheed And Cambria unveil video for new single Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)
- November 9
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- Billy Gibbons has turned Jingle Bells into a slow-burning blues epic
- Jenny Hval signs to 4AD and releases video for brand new single Jupiter
- Metallica’s Black Album in smoke swirl vinyl is a slab of obsidian beauty - and it’s on sale now
- 11-Year-Old prodigy Nandi Bushell takes on Queen's Roger Taylor in drum battle
- Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg debuts nightmarish new mask
- Greta Van Fleet announce 2022 world tour
- Bloodywood's new single Gaddaar is the heavy AF political rager the world needs to hear
- SOM release video for new single Animals
- Turns out Randy Blythe and Dez Fafara are crypto bros
- Asia release live version of Heat Of The Moment
- Deep Purple share music video for cover of Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well
- Van der Graaf Generator announce tour dates for February and March
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up on cancer battle, urges older fans to get checked
- Lindisfarne singer Alan Hull celebrated in new BBC documentary
- Watch the trailer for a horror film about a priest who murders heavy metal fans
- November 8
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- Foo Fighters star in new "hysterical" horror comedy film, Studio 666
- Jazz singer Vimala Rowe to join Soft Machines John Etheridge at Prog The Forest
- “I thought people would think Hemispheres was way too weird” Rush’s Geddy Lee admits
- David Ellefson on sex scandal: "Now I know how Jesus felt"
- Wargasm's Sam Matlock allegedly assaulted by bouncers at London's Scala venue
- Paul McCartney recalls “turning his missiles” on John Lennon to seek revenge on his “nasty, cruel” former friend
- Watch Slipknot perform new single The Chapeltown Rag for the very first time
- There's a global vinyl shortage and you can thank Adele for that
- The 20 Million Club podcast: Led Zeppelin IV
- Jerry Cantrell teases prospect of an Alice In Chains/Faith No More collaboration
- Evanescence's Amy Lee and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale duet a cover of Linkin Park's Heavy
- November 7
- November 5
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- Jan Akkerman postpones UK shows due to band member testing positive for Covid
- Mastodon's Brent Hinds disses Disturbed and comes under fire for homophobic remark
- Listen to Toundra's new single, El Odio, Parte II
- Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson on Dave Mustaine: "Relationships are never fully done"
- Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen share blues rock banger Better Days
- Courtney Love says Kurt Cobain would be proud of Succession's use of Nirvana's Rape Me
- Watch the video for Jethro Tull's Shoshana Sleeping – their first new material in 18 years
- Listen to Slipknot's serial killer-inspired new song The Chapeltown Rag
- November 4
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- Crown Lands to stream an exclusive live concert with Prog, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer
- Legendary music writer Peter Makowski has died, aged 65
- Rick Wakeman announces Rock Ensemble tour dates for 2022
- Venom Prison return with beastly new single Judges Of The Underworld
- Mammoth WVH and Dirty Honey announce co-headline 2022 US tour
- Turn on, tune in and rock out with three months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free
- Listen to Scorpions' hard-rocking new single Peacemaker
- Idles share video for savage new single Car Crash
- Watch Tarja unbox her new book Singing In My Blood
- Amorphis announce brand new album Halo
- QAnon believers disappointed that dead John F Kennedy Jr didn't show up at Rolling Stones concert
- Nordic Giants celebrate first decade with new tour dates
- Italian composer Roberto Cacciapaglia releases video for Angel Falls
- That video you ordered of a man playing Iron Maiden to his dog has been delivered
- November 3
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- Wobbler to have first three albums reissued
- Listen to Coil, single two from Converge’s forthcoming Bloodmoon: 1 album
- Phoenix fans the flames: Slipknot’s maggots create bonfire in mosh pit
- Conjurer, Pallbearer and earthtone9 among new adds to ArcTanGent 2022
- Finally! It’s that Metallica vs Leo Sayer face-off the world has been crying out for
- Baron Crane share new video for Quarantine – watch it here!
- Judas Priest launch a bespoke Guide To Heavy Metal ‘interactive web experience’
- Slipknot launch mysterious NFT website featuring snippets of new music
- L.A. Guns singer Phil Lewis calls out Vince Neil for "pitiful" performances
- November 2
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- Napalm Death announce 2022 European and UK dates
- Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman's Dark Fables gets standalone CD release
- Black Country, New Road share new single Bread Song
- Spiritualized release video for brand new single Always Together With You
- Watch the video for Carpe Diem, the title track of the new Saxon album
- Hear Volbeat pay tribute to Entombed legend LG Petrov on new single Becoming
- Mark Lanegan details his fight against Covid-19 in ‘terrifying’ new memoir
- Archive release video for moving new single Shouting Within
- Nikki Sixx is writing a children’s book to teach kids about diversity
- Tremonti line up 2022 UK/Europe tour, with Bad Wolves in support
- Green Carnation announce European acoustic tour for February
- November 1
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- Rock and metal stars in Halloween costumes is the winter warmer we need right now
- Tobias Forge reveals the concept behind the forthcoming Ghost album
- Motorhead partner with Movember, encourage fans to grow a Lemmy ’tache for men’s health charities
- Machine Head and Amon Amarth announce co-headline European tour including UK arena dates
- Kiss deny crew claims that lax Covid-19 tour protocols led to guitar tech’s death
- Outrun The Sunlight stream new single A Way With Honesty
- Music journalist Malcolm Dome dead at 66
- Porcupine Tree return with video for brand new song Harridan
- Christmas will not be drab this year: Iron Maiden launch official colouring book
