News archive
February 2022
Filter
276 articles
- February 28
-
- Green Day cancel Moscow stadium show in wake of Ukraine invasion, urge fans to 'stay safe'
- Alex Lifeson teases the possibility of new music with Rush bandmate Geddy Lee
- Watch Tool's Maynard James Keenan play Jenga behind Danny Carey, mid-show
- Bruit ≤ release vibrant live video for Industry
- Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor front Korn at their astonishing Download '06 show
- Metallica's first setlist of 2022 shows they're not f**king about
- The world lost out on a Rolling Stones movie featuring Brad Pitt and Ben Stiller
- Stevie Nicks on Vladimir Putin: "This is Hitler coming back to haunt us"
- Gwenno releases trippy video for brand new single An Stevel Nowydh
- Dee Snider says he "absolutely" approves of Ukrainians using Twisted Sister's We’re Not Gonna Take It as their battlecry
- Machine Gun Kelly's old Paramore and Linkin Park covers have sent the internet into a frenzy
- Chinese prog rockers OU sign to InsideOut Music
- Tony Fernandez to sit out upcoming Rick Wakeman dates
- February 27
- February 26
-
- Charbonneau / Amato share new video for As Fragile Ghosts
- Tarja's Outlanders project release video for The Cruellest Goodbye
- Coma Rossi line-up disintegrates
- Kaipa announce new drummer and new album
- Tool announce vinyl edition of Fear Inoculum that won't endanger your mortgage
- Scorpions launch video for epic power ballad When You Know (Where You Come From)
- February 25
-
- That time Nine Inch Nails got cussed by TV presenters before playing the heaviest Glastonbury set ever
- String quartet covers My Chemical Romance's Black Parade and blows our little emo minds
- Watch: Ozzy Osbourne denies he's the Antichrist while dressed as Dracula in a coffin
- "Dimebag was like Santa Claus with a pink beard": Zakk Wylde shares memories of the late Dimebag Darrell
- Watch Dave Grohl break a sweat whilst being interrogated and eating hot wings
- IQ repress Archive Collection due to popular demand
- Listen to the new Bob Vylan single Health Is Wealth
- Jinjer condemn Vladimir Putin for sending troops into their homeland, Ukraine: "Nothing can justify the violence"
- Matt Stevens joins Tim Bowness for live shows
- Brian May to reissue Another World album across multiple formats
- First six Van Halen albums to be released as limited edition super high-fidelity box sets
- February 24
-
- Watch Meshuggah's brain-melting new video for The Abysmal Eye
- UK prog metal band Knim release trailer for debut single A Prisoner On The Seas
- Mostly Autumn, Lazuli and Major Parkinson to headline Summer's End
- Massive 50-disc Al Stewart box set to be released
- Evergrey return with brand new video for Save Us
- "That darkness inside us needs to find its way out": Tobias Forge's track-by-track guide to the new Ghost album, Impera
- Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder pay tribute to Mark Lanegan: "There was nobody like him"
- Official Rodney Matthews colouring book launched
- Skindred, Will Haven, Dana Dentata among latest Download festivals adds
- February 23
-
- Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Kiss, My Chemical Romance and more announced for Aftershock
- The Pineapple Thief release lyric video for Give It Back (Rewired)
- Alice Cooper on that time Keith Moon dressed up as the Queen of England
- Crown Lands announce debut UK shows
- Halestorm share striking new music video for The Steeple
- Queen Kwong release hypnotic new track I Know Who You Are
- Listen to I'll Make You See God, the first Afghan Whigs single in five years
- Ms Amy Birks and White Sail join Cyan and Omega Point for Robin all dayer
- Gen And The Degenerates flip off the patriarchy with effortlessly cool post-punk on new single Girl God Gun
- Could Lars Ulrich's poo save the earth from annihilation? That's the question posed by this week's weirdest viral video
- Sigur Rós announce new album and world tour for 2022
- Spiritbox announce first ever UK headline show
- Greg Puciato announces new album Mirrorcell, shares first single Lowered, a duet with Code Orange's Reba Meyers
- Tool to release Opiate² track and short film
- Watch Dee Snider join the most random cast of celebrities ever for a bizarre version of Let It Be
- February 22
-
- The music world pays tribute to the late Mark Lanegan: "I hope the angels are taking good care of you today"
- HBO release trailer for Evan Rachel Wood's film about surviving abuse and Marilyn Manson
- Mark Lanegan dead at 57
- Oceans Of Slumber return with video for the brooding The Waters Rising
- Judas Priest's Glenn Tipton hits out at KK Downing over "crazy" accusations
- Coheed And Cambria share video for new single The Liars Club
- Gary Brooker, Procol Harum singer and pianist, dead at 76
- "I got compared to Avril Lavigne": Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz laughs off lazy comparisons, reveals solo album plans
- Van der Graaf Generator release 1977 live clip of Cat's Eye
- Listen to Grace McKagan's new single, Baby That's Rock N Roll
- Funko’s new Iron Maiden range might be their best yet
- Methodica premiere their new covers EP The Black Road
- GWAR are bringing 'pestilence and death' to the UK this summer, which is nice
- Watch: Muse mocking Slipknot while wearing Corey Taylor's mask is classic next-level trolling
- February 21
-
- Tool announce ultra-deluxe vinyl version of 2019's Fear Inoculum for a whopping $810 and fans are not happy
- Gene Simmons is selling his house for cryptocurrency, because of course he is
- This is what it would sound like if the Bee Gees wrote Fleetwood Mac's Dreams
- Hear Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff played using children's toys
- Wind machines, nipple tape...must be time for Toyah & Robert Fripp's Sunday Lunch
- Brian May wants someone to make a Beatles biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody
- WATCH: Iron Maiden got asked to mime on live TV, and things didn't exactly go as planned
- PreHistoric Animals release sci-fi-themed video for Ghostfires
- World Metal Congress to host Denim and Leather book launch, celebrating the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
- Watch a new gory, NSFW trailer for Foo Fighters' comedy-horror Studio 666
- Tears For Fears announce intimate London show in July
- Robin Trower announces No More Worlds To Conquer album - listen to title track
- February 20
-
- John Paul Jones heads an all-star cast on a new version of When The Levee Breaks
- Attention Lynyrd Skynyrd fans: the Van Zant house is now an AirBnB
- Venezuelan synthesiser pioneer Oksana Linde to release first album
- Children Of The Sün stream new single Leaves
- The Chemistry Set release eye-catching video for cover of acid folk classic The Witch
- February 19
- February 18
-
- Slipknot's performance video for The Chapeltown Rag is a thrilling reminder of the live show chaos we've missed
- Spock's Beard alumni guest on new Lobate Scarp single Our Test Tube Universe
- Olympic figure skating to The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog wasn't on our 2022 bingo card
- Naxatras strike 70s fantasy vibe in new video for Omega Madness
- Watch the video for Akumu, single two from Matt Heafy's Ibaraki project
- Justin Hayward features on new version of Forever Autumn
- 69 Windmills release new video for acoustic version of Red Baby, Black Baby
- Lamb Of God, NIN, Poppy to feature on new HEALTH album
- Dave Grohl is releasing a full-on metal album next week
- Billy Howerdel releases trailer for debut solo single
- Starbenders release haunting yet buoyant new single Seven White Horses
- The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's film Elvis is out and it looks spectacular
- Watch as Glen Campbell introduces a declawed Cream to an American TV audience
- February 17
-
- That controversial Ed Sheeran/Bring Me The Horizon version of Bad Habits has dropped
- Animals As Leaders stream new single Gordian Naught
- Raise your oars for the epic new Amon Amarth single Put Your Back Into The Oar
- ELP, Steve Hackett and Tangerine Dream lead the prog releases for Record Store Day
- The Flower Kings release new video for Revolution
- Thunder announce epic double album Dopamine, launch video for The Western Sky
- Michael Romeo drops rocking new video for Metamorphosis
- Nazareth launch new video Strange Days and it thumps quite nicely indeed
- February 16
-
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe reveals his favourite Type O Negative song
- Bored of playing air guitar? Learn to play the real thing with Marshall's new educational music platform
- Damian Wilson and Dianne van Giersbergen guest on new Archie Caine album
- Within Temptation and Evanescence announce rescheduled Worlds Collide tour dates
- Watch the trailer for the new Biffy Clyro: Cultural Sons of Scotland music documentary
- Ozzy Osbourne shares totally batsh*t video for new NFT variant MutantBatz
- Ihshan offers a haunting take on Lustmord's Dark Awakenings
- Devin Townsend announces support acts for Greatest Sets Of My Life shows
- Lesoir premiere animated video for their new epic Babel
- Mike Rutherford's Smallcreep's Day to get CD reissue in March
- February 15
-
- Foo Fighters share frantic new 'Dream Widow' song and it sounds a bit like Motorhead
- The Hu announce North American 2022 tour
- Chubby And The Gang unleash new EP Labour Of Love
- Sweden’s Prime Minister is a huge fan of System Of A Down
- Claudia Brücken, Susanne Freytag and Steve Lipson announce xPropaganda album
- Kelly Osbourne and Slipknot's Sid Wilson are deeply, madly in L.U.V.
- Rage Against The Machine announce rescheduled North American tour dates
- New Eddie Van Halen biography by the late guitarist’s friend and confidante Steve Rosen coming in spring
- Voyager release twin guitar playthrough video for Dreamer
- Watch Ed Sheeran request a “proper death growl” from BMTH’s Oli Sykes ahead of Bad Habits collab release
- Loathe announce UK/EU summer headline tour
- Rammstein’s new album may be delayed due to a shortage of paper
- Dave Greenslade to release album with Blonde On Blonde guitarist Dave Thomas
- Watch Ghost recreate the ‘horny pottery’ scene from Ghost for Valentine’s Day
- Hawkwind's Dave Brock to compile new space rock box set for Cherry Red
- February 14
-
- Pete Townshend doesn't give a f*ck about the new Keith Moon biopic
- Rick Wakeman confirms opening acts for The English Rock Ensemble's UK Tour 2022
- Abbath and Watain announce co-headline Chariots Of Fire tour
- Learn to play the Fender way: Get 50% off an annual Fender Play plan right now
- Kiss salute British figure skating duo for Kiss-themed ice dance at Winter Olympics
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith opens up on "unbelievable" experience meeting Charlie Watts
- Kaprekar’s Constant to release new single, A Silent Drum in February
- Mick Fleetwood credits himself as the man who kept Fleetwood Mac together
- Richie Faulkner urges KK Downing and Judas Priest to end their ‘sh*t show‘ feud
- IT showcase We’re All In This Together at special London show in May
- Dolly Parton will make a 'great rock album' if she's inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- Marvin Gaye impersonator hired to help endangered species of monkey 'get it on'
- Evanescence and Within Temptation postpone Worlds Collide tour yet again
- Lazuli announce rescheduled UK tour for October 2022
- Nine Inch Nails announce two UK shows
- February 13
- February 11
-
- Shadow Universe share cinematic video for Don't Look At It And You'll See It
- Vein.fm announce UK and EU summer tour dates
- Aerosmith to release raw and rare album Aerosmith - 1971: The Road Starts Hear
- Voivod launch video For Sleeves Off - watch it here!
- Rudolf Schenker reveals how Scorpions thrived during the grunge years while peers flopped
- Ian McDonald: a tribute
- Doja Cat’s cover of Hole’s Celebrity Skin is another hint that America is embracing rock again
- Rush announce Moving Pictures 40th anniversary box set for April
- Steve Jollife to release new album and reissue solo albums in new deal
- Ritual work with Devin Townsend, Anneke van Giersbergen and more on new EP
- Big Big Train announce plans to continue
- Corey Taylor’s Metallica, Kiss, Dead Boys covers to feature on CMFB… Sides album
- Rob Reed teams up with Simon Phillips in new video for Swan Feathered Girl
- Ms Amy Birks unveils video for brand new single In Our Souls
- Ian McDonald, co-founder of King Crimson and Foreigner, dead at 75
- The Sheepdogs release live album Live At Lees ahead of UK tour
- February 10
-
- Watch Eddie Vedder hail The Beatles, The Who, Fugazi in cosy chat with Bruce Springsteen
- Tears For Fears release new video for Break The Man
- Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon are going to collaborate on new music
- Get 25% off the price of the awesome Cambridge Audio Melomania 1+ headphones
- Win an Alex Lifeson Axcess Standard Signature Les Paul
- Yes premiere brand new video for A Living Island
- Let the music flow with 3 months of Tidal HiFi Plus for only $2/£2
- Tiger Moth Tales announce new album and release video for Spring Fever
- Tool’s Forty Six & 2 covered by a classical string quartet is all sorts of wonderful
- Rare Jazz Sabbath TV interview and performance surfaces
- Watch the video for Killing Joke's apocalyptic new song Lord Of Chaos
- February 9
-
- Fantastic Negrito's Highest Bidder video tackles the greed and corruption of capitalism
- Mammoth WVH release on-the-road video for debut album standout Epiphany
- Cancer Bats announce new album Psychic Jailbreak, and share its title track
- Watch Keith Buckley sing acoustic version of Thing With Feathers as he opens up on “heartbreaking” Every Time I Die split
- Decommissioned Forests release unsettling video for A Comforting Uncertainty
- Playgrounded stream brand new single The Swan
- Dave Cureton releases personal video for Puppets Dream
- Mike Keneally replaces Jason Bieler in ProgJect
- February 8
-
- Bring Me The Horizon joined Ed Sheeran onstage at the BRITS and the internet was not ready
- Heart's Ann Wilson releases video for Greed from upcoming solo album Fierce Bliss
- Susanna releases video for mesmerising new single Rose-Pale Dawn
- Winter's End revamps line-up in face of Covid challenge
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett announces his debut solo release, four-song EP Portals
- D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings release video for gentle new single You Set My Soul On Fire
- Listen to High On Fire and Fall Out Boy men cover Van Halen’s Unchained
- Leprous replace Haken as headliners at Prognosis festival
- Avril Lavigne makes “difficult decision” to postpone her UK and European tour
- Robb Flynn says Machine Head’s new album is being compared to The Blackening
- New UK prog outfit Kite Parade release video for Letting Go
- Foo Fighters to play “conceptual” VR gig following Super Bowl LVI
- Asia featuring John Payne announce plans for double anniversary tour
- February 7
-
- Nine Inch Nails announce US tour
- Inglorious announce live album MMXXI Live At The Phoenix
- Watch 11-year old Nandi Bushell tackle Rush's Tom Sawyer
- Frank Turner opens up about struggle with drug addiction: ”It was appalling”
- The Mentulls announce UK live dates
- Layne Staley and Mike Starr’s estates sell their rights to Alice In Chains songs
- The Who announce The Who Hits Back! tour dates for the US and Canada
- High Pulp release video for All Roads Lead To Los Angeles
- Corey Taylor has a new solo collection coming this month
- John Frusciante hails newly ego-free Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side release video for new single Secret Motive Man
- Nikki Sixx and Eddie Vedder do not like each other's bands
- February 5
- February 4
-
- Jethro Tull land first Top Ten album in 50 years with The Zealot Gene
- Korn, Disturbed, Evanescence and more announced for Inkcarceration festival 2022
- Metallica call for fan help in preparing for deluxe versions of Load and Reload
- The Heavy Metal Truants are recruiting riders for their 10th anniversary cycle to raise money for children's charities
- Watain talk blistering new single The Howling: "Our work is an illumination of the abyss"
- Paul Menel announces live dates for April
- Soen announce worldwide recorded live event
- Sel Balamir releases new solo album
- Wet Leg share cover of Ronan Keating‘s Life Is A Rollercoaster, receive approval from the man himself
- Marillion pull no punches with new video for the emotive Murder Machines
- Arch Enemy drop mammoth new single Handshake With Hell
- Machine Gun Kelly's new song Emo Girl featuring Willow will have you fist-pumping in your old fishnet gloves
- It's the return of Marillion on the cover of new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Ithaca's empowering new single They Fear Us is "about inner power, femininity and why people should fear us"
- Halestorm announce new album Back From The Dead, launch single The Steeple
- Saxon release epic single The Pilgrimage
- Watch the video for wistful new Red Hot Chili Peppers single Black Summer
- February 3
-
- Check out this charity version of the Max Webster/Rush song Battle Scar
- Dublin’s Thumper announce debut album Delusions Of Grandeur, share Overbite single
- Gazpacho unveil new live video of Antique
- Steven Wilson announces his new autobiography
- This slide guitar cover of Tool epic Pneuma is genuinely astonishing
- This Winter Machine preview new demo track The River
- “It's like a heavier version of Vol. 3”: Corey Taylor on the “killer” new Slipknot album
- Slash once dressed as a woman to get into a LA rock bar to hit on Steven Adler
- Dave Cureton releases video teaser for debut solo album
- February 2
-
- Man jailed in Russia for sharing Rammstein's Pussy video to be retried
- David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash join Neil Young in departing Spotify
- No, you're not hallucinating: a range of Grateful Dead footwear has been launched
- The metal world reacts to Jon Zazula's death: "Metallica would not be who we are without Jon"
- “Someone called us The Satanic Everly Brothers”: Jerry Cantrell shares memories of his friend Layne Staley
- Velcrocranes announce new deal with InsideOut for debut album What If I Die
- Nova Twins share revenge fantasies in the savage video for K.M.B (Kill My Boyfriend)
- Watch Psychedelic Porn Crumpets trippy new video for Bubblegum Infinity
- “I fired the psychiatrist who kept telling me I was going to kill myself”: Beth Hart reveals lockdown rebirth
- Shadow Academy release animated video for debut single White Whale
- Converge, Ministry, At The Gates, Pig Destroyer for Damnation Festival 2022
- Watch Gong's new video for If Never I'm And Ever You
- “I woke up handcuffed to a bed in a psychiatric ward”: Korn’s Munky recalls SWAT team arrest
- Oliver Wakeman announces Collaborations box set
- How to watch Pam & Tommy, the explosive Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee biopic
- System Of A Down and Korn kick off US co-headline tour and the setlist is a millennial metalheads' dream
- February 1
-
- Megaforce Records co-founder Jon Zazula dead at 69
- Jasmeno announces new mini album
- Pupil Slicer share music video for abrasive new single Thermal Runaway
- Napalm Death announce English and Irish headline shows either side of US tour
- Oh Hiroshima release video for brooding All Things Pass
- Marilyn Manson is working with Kanye West on Donda 2
- Wet Leg announce English record shop tour, share video for new single Oh No
- Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau pays tribute to musical heroes with new prog album
- Kraftwerk Remixes compilation gets vinyl and CD release
- Korn to stream intimate album launch show from inside LA church
- Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe to star in female vampire death metal band movie
- Machine Gun Kelly changes album title... after getting original title tattooed
- Rock's Greatest Cover Versions: only in the new issue of Classic Rock magazine
- John McLaughlin releases live video for El Hombre Que Sabià from new Montreux live release
- Aerosmith cancel European tour as Covid uncertainty takes toll
