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- April 30
- April 29
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- Kaipa release visualiser video for lengthy instrumental Wilderness Excursion
- Tool’s Adam Jones wants to take Arch Enemy on tour
- Watch Rammstein’s weird and disturbing video for new single Angst
- Derek Sherinian teams up with Steve Stevens for the The Vortex
- New Nordic folk outfit Nebala introduce themselves with epic video for Laþu
- Halestorm, Rammstein, Jason Newsted, Matt Heafy and more in the new Metal Hammer
- New John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola and Paco De Lucia live recording surfaces
- The return of the unstoppable Def Leppard: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Unreleased Peter Gabriel soundtrack surfaces in new box set
- Ozzy Osbourne has Covid, wife Sharon confirms
- Watch Fred Durst kick off Limp Bizkit's US tour sat in a big, crusty ol' armchair, because Fred Durst
- GWAR share Mother F**king Liar, the first single from new album The New Dark Ages
- April 28
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- This might be the sludgiest Black Sabbath cover ever
- Maraton stream powerful new single Non-Euclidean Heart
- Evergrey make acting debut in their new video for Blindfolded
- ONI unleash explosive new track Secrets, featuring Iggy Pop and Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe
- Sharon Osbourne offers update on Ozzy's health: "He's got one more operation left"
- The Ocean announce UK and European tour with LLNN and Playgrounded
- Rammstein serve up disturbing teaser video for new single Angst
- Cult Of Luna's Johannes Persson hooks up with Perturbator for Final Light
- Man regrets buying cockatoo after discovering it likes to sing Drowning Pool's Bodies
- Actress Esmé Bianco claims Marilyn Manson pressured Deftones to cut footage of her from tour visuals
- Watch Keith Emerson's grandson play the first piece of music he ever wrote
- Gene Simmons still wants Ace Frehley to appear at Kiss farewell shows
- April 27
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- Nirvana's horrified reactions to 1993 ticket prices are a sweet reminder of more innocent days
- Watch Rina Sawayama bring some nu metal energy to Coachella
- "We played like punks. All our anger was coming out": Black Sabbath and the messy birth of Heavy Metal
- Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze dead at 74
- Watch: good guy Dave Mustaine sneaks into Megadeth crowd to give kids guitar picks
- Asia release live video of Sole Survivor with Greg Lake
- The Lickerish Quartet unveil video for single New Days
- "You can't just be making music": Jason Newsted discusses the "origins" of his problems with Metallica
- Adrian Belew streams new single a13
- Machine Gun Kelly says he is "done with rock" now
- Death metal vocalist shot, one man killed as gun violence brings terror to California metal show
- Pure Reason Revolution release a video for powerful new single Dead Butterfly
- The Batman sequel confirmed, Robert Pattinson to return
- Big Big Train announce Alberto Bravin as new lead singer
- Founding Autograph bassist Randy Rand has died
- April 26
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- No pics, no peeing, no chill: inside Tool's Fear Inoculum Tour 2022
- Shearwater release video for mellow new single Aqaba
- James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine rewiring a Beverley Hills Cop soundtrack classic is the purest hit of '80s nostalgia
- Listen to new Journey single You Got The Best Of Me, as AOR gods unveil Freedom, their first studio album since 2011
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate release teaser video for new album
- Mogwai release video for sweeping, epic new song Boltfor
- Alter Bridge announce huge European / UK winter tour
- Creeper will be the special guests on Alice Cooper and The Cult's co-headline UK tour
- Haken release video for epic new single Nightingale
- Stevie Nicks announces US headline tour
- Crippled Black Phoenix announce new album Banefyre
- My Soliloquy release trailer for third album Fu3ion
- April 25
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- Eminem’s Lose Yourself in the style of Linkin Park is the greatest early 2000s banger you’ve never heard
- This video of a young metalhead smashing Corey Taylor's vocals on Slipknot's Psychosocial will warm your stone cold heart
- Watch Envy Of None's new video for Never Said I Loved You
- ZZ Top release new version of the classic La Grange
- Mick Jagger says Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud are the reason there is "still a bit of life in rock 'n' roll"
- Jason Newsted thought Metallica's Enter Sandman was "kinda corny", was "scared" by Nothing Else Matters
- New Genesis book to be published in September
- Chinese prog rockers OU release video for 'alien' new single Farewell
- SOM premiere brand new video for Wrong
- Ozzy Osbourne's daughter Aimée releases new single, discusses father's "unbelievable" dedication to music
- Rage-fuelled Karens screaming along to metal riffs is comedy gold once again
- Sharon den Adel on early reactions to Within Temptation: "they'd never seen a girl in a dress playing with this kind of band"
- Ms Amy Birks, The Emerald Dawn and more for Prog The Forest 2022
- Watch Billie Eilish and Hayley Williams duet Paramore's Misery Business at Coachella
- Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach discusses "over-saturation" of metalcore, picks the band that stands out most in 2022
- April 24
- April 23
- April 22
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- Get prepped for festival season with up to 60% off tents, coolers, BBQs and more at Go Outdoors
- Code Orange, The Distillers, The Pretty Reckless exit Download bill, Napalm Death, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes step in
- Kirk Hammett: "Metallica are not perfect as people. We make mistakes left and right"
- Jacob Holm-Lupo and The Boozer Cruiser Release No Liars video
- Wardruna release striking video for new single, a live version of Fehu
- PinkPantheress and Willow join forces on Paramore-sampling single Where You Are
- Watch Bob Vylan's video for "mosh pit, festival ready banger" Wicked & Bad
- The Blackheart Orchestra release video for brand new song Under The Headlights
- Listen to new Bring Me The Horizon and Sigrid collaboration, Bad Life
- Rush's Moving Pictures on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- April 21
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- Limp Bizkit and Steel Panther in a Dad Vibes dance-off is the video collab we’ve been waiting for
- Rammstein’s Zeit is coming to cinemas the day before it is released
- Heriot: the reborn British band who have got the metal world losing its sh*t
- Watch Korn's freaky, high-tech video for Worst Is On Its Way
- M Shadows has news about that Avenged Sevenfold album we're all waiting for
- Ozzy Osbourne: "I was talking to Lemmy on the morning he died"
- John Carpenter streams brand new version of Firestarer (End Titles)
- The Pineapple Thief release new video for Dead In The Water (Rewired)
- Alexisonfire unleash Reverse The Curse, single two from new album Otherness
- Alice Cooper has written a Welcome To My Nightmare musical for the ultimate ghouls' night out
- Nick Cave to release Seven Psalms, exploring "faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise"
- Curved Air bassist Ian Eyre has died aged 70
- Knot your average jewellery: Check out this awesome Slipknot-inspired silver ring
- Sophie Lloyd's hypnotic shred version of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb is breathtaking and beautiful
- The Robin confirms commitment to live prog music
- Listen to Lili Refrain's otherworldly new album Mana here!
- Cyan and Omega Point forced to pull Robin all dayer
- Yes reschedule Relayer live European dates for 2023
- April 20
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- Ann Wilson launches dramatic version of Queen's Love Of My Life
- Watch brand new Architects video When We Were Young
- New album from Umphrey's McGee? Asking For A Friend!
- Chester Bennington's former band Grey Daze announce new album celebrating the frontman's life and legacy
- Static Dress preview one of 2022's most anticipated debut albums with new single Fleahouse
- Hear Coheed And Cambria's bewitching acoustic cover of Kiss' Love Gun
- Listen to Def Leppard's stomping new single Take What You Want
- There's another new Jackass film coming and we can hardly contain our excitement
- Black Stone Cherry launch live album and film recorded at Royal Albert Hall
- Greta Van Fleet's Josh Kizska apologises for cultural appropriation of Indigenous culture
- Heart's Ann Wilson shares her memories of "complicated, dynamic, troubled" Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell
- Heilung's music used in new trailer for The Northman
- Trivium's Matt Heafy has become a children's book author because he's the most wholesome man in metal
- Watch Lamb Of God perform with Trivium, In Flames and Chimaira frontmen on vocals
- Audio-Technica reveal their dark side with the AT-LPW30BK turntable
- Prognosis 2023 will take place in the UK at Indigo O2
- Tedeschi Trucks Band announce massive I Am The Moon quadruple album project
- Tyson Fury hooks up with Don McLean for unlikely American Pie update
- April 19
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- Limp Bizkit's John Otto dancing with his young daughter on TV's Come Dance With Me is seriously wholesome
- Watch Toni Cornell cover Nothing Compares 2 U on US TV as a tribute to her late father Chris
- Zola Jesus releases striking video for new minimalist new single Desire
- Slipknot launch their own metaverse, the Knotverse
- John Lydon slams ex-bandmates over Sex Pistols TV drama: "None of these f**ks would have a career but for me"
- Why is Danny Elfman doing The Simpsons theme at Coachella the most badass moment of 2022 so far?
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford names litter of kittens at LA rescue shelter
- Watch Måneskin's raunchy cover of Britney Spears' Womanizer at Coachella
- MONO stream haunting new song Kioku from their first ever soundtrack album
- The Thor: Love And Thunder trailer features Guns N' Roses, Viking existential crises and a female Thor
- Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth and Joe Satriani have discussed a Van Halen tribute tour
- April 18
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- April 16
- April 15
- April 14
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- Motionless In White's Masterpiece is an emotional epic fit for the Black Parade
- Mother Of Millions release new video for No Light, No Light
- Deadly Circus Fire return with video for intense new single White Wash
- The Distillers postpone European tour, including Download festival show
- The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live are on sale right now with up to 62% off the RRP
- Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite to release memoir
- April 13
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- Study reveals surgeons work better if they listen to AC/DC during operations
- Watch Gilbert Gottfried pretend to be Tortilla Man, reference infamous Corey Taylor meme
- Gene Simmons: "I stand by my words, rock is dead and the fans killed it."
- Monuments guide us through their new album In Stasis in new video
- Ghost's Tobias Forge says Star Wars inspired the Nameless Ghouls' new look
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe recalls the time Gene Simmons dissed his vocals
- Oliver Wakeman releases video teaser for Collaborations box set
- This rap-metal mashup featuring Disturbed, Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, Dr. Dre and more is a true gift to the world
- Listen to In The Mirror, the first taste of The Interrupters' new album In The Wild
- James LaBrie hits out at corporate greed in video for new single Give And Take
- "I think about Rick Parfitt most days" admits Status Quo's Francis Rossi
- Last Flight To Pluto return with video for Stop Yourself From Turning Into Dust
- The Stranger Things season 4 trailer is surprisingly metal AF
- Derek Sherinian announces new album Vortex
- Cannabis collection launched to "honour" George Harrison
- April 12
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- Sylvia Lancaster, mother of Sophie Lancaster and founder of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, has died
- The guitar Kurt Cobain used in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video can be yours
- Art Griffin’s Sound Chaser release second album The Seven Ages Of Starlight
- Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam men form supergroup, release debut album
- Celestial Son team up with Gavin Harrison for video for new single Avian Heart
- Five Finger Death Punch unleash new album title track AfterLife, announce US/Canada tour
- Listen to doom punks Witch Fever's new single Blessed Be Thy, an unholy racket to crush holier-than-thou bigots
- Watch a baby-faced Tobias Forge perform in his early pop rock band Subvision
- Dave Mustaine once peed on the White House floor, because that’s what Dave Mustaine does
- Grammy winning Dream Theater discuss upcoming "energetic" UK live dates
- Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman: “I nearly died last year”
- Ann Wilson: I'm not feuding with Nancy, but there is a real split
- Machine Head announce anime-inspired album Of Kingdom And Crown, drop new song Choke On The Ashes Of Your Hate
- April 11
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- Kikagaku Moyo to release final album, Kumoyo Island – stream Cardboard Pile here
- Chinese proggers OU share blistering new single Mountain – watch the video here
- Amazon's spring sale has up to 40% off headphones and speakers from Bose, Marshall and more
- Tame Impala's Kevin Parker performing alongside children's entertainers The Wiggles is both surreal and hilarious
- UK proggers Solstice tease pre-orders for their seventh album
- Gandalf's Fist sign Agile Thumb to their label – listen to In One Ear (Out The Other)!
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Unlimited Love debuts at number 1 in the UK and US
- Disturbed have finished recording their new album
- Watch Jack White propose and then marry his girlfriend on-stage
- Frank Zappa's mid-70s live sets explored in Erie 6-disc box set
- Slipknot tease the 'Knotverse' in cryptic Knotfest video
- April 10
- April 8
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- The Tangent reveal new "mega prog" album Songs From The Hard Shoulder
- The Flower Kings begin 2022 reissue campaign with 90s albums
- Alex Lifeson's Envy Of None announce 7" single to raise money for Ukrainian refugees
- Haken's Charlie Griffiths announces Tiktaalika – "the world’s first palaeontology-based progressive metal album!"
- Watch Ville Valo romancing a sheep in the video for new single Loveletting
- TesseracT release prog metal charity single to raise funds for Ukraine
- Clannad team up with Journey's Steve Perry for new version of White Fool – stream it here!
- Mein Gott! That Joe Payne lives the dream in saucy dark cabaret video – watch it here!
- Watch the powerful video for Ms Amy Birks' art-rock single Brothers
- Listen to the first new music from Klaus Schulze's Deus Arrakis
- Summer is saved: The Sheepdogs announce new album Outta Sight
- April 7
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- Watch the video for new Pink Floyd song Hey Hey Rise Up
- Enneade release trailer for new album Withered Flowers And Cinnamon
- Watch Rammstein's brilliantly daft new video Zick Zack
- Pink Floyd to release brand new single Hey Hey Rise Up
- A Cliff Burton museum is opening and we want to go ASAP
- Jinjer post video showing how donations are helping Ukraine
- Gwenno releases new video for mesmeric new single Men An Toll
- Winter's End announces running times for this year's event
- Kurt Cobain’s final days to be played out in an opera
- Machine Gun Kelly lands second Billboard chart-topping album with Mainstream Sellout, outselling even Ghost's Impera digitally
- Disturbed frontman David Draiman defends rapper Lil Nas X
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea provide bonkers cover of the American national anthem
- Technics celebrate golden milestone with fresh spin on their iconic SL-1200 turntable
- Michael Romeo releases video for brand new single Hybrids
- Rammstein dress up as glamorous divas in new single Zick Zack teaser video
- Ville Valo announces massive European, UK and US tour, confirms new album
- Bullet For My Valentine releasing new single this Friday
- Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix: “I am so much more f**king punk rock than Fred Durst”
- Duran Duran's Hungry Like The Wolf in the style of Type O Negative will be the best thing you'll hear all day
- Listen to previously unreleased version of The Clash's Rock The Casbah featuring Ranking Roger
- April 6
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- Sum 41's Deryck Whibley says replacing Chester Bennington in Linkin Park is "an impossible task"
- Tom Morello: “Zakk Wylde doesn’t love heavy metal as much as I do!”
- Spiritbox reveal that they are already working on eight new songs
- Tron soundtracks to be reissued on heavyweight vinyl
- SpongeBob metal is now a thing, thanks to one musical genius on the internet
- Gong and Ozric Tentacles announce joint co-headline tour
- Metallica donate $500,000 to help feed Ukrainian refugees
- HIM's Ville Valo is releasing new music this week
- April 5
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- Primus take aim at paranoid conspiracists on wacky new track Conspiranoia
- There's now a new emoji that's perfect for metalheads
- Watch Dee Snider perform acoustic version of We're Not Gonna Take It at Concert For Ukraine
- Korn and Evanescence announce huge co-headline tour
- New official Barney Bubbles online store opens
- Saturday Night Live share axed skit about goths and now we understand why it was dropped
- The Kompressor Experiment stream whole of new album Ebb & Flow
- "Prettier, Bigger, Harder!" Rammstein are teasing us with a new social media campaign, and we've found out why
- Cassyette's spellbinding cover of My Chemical Romance's I'm Not Okay (I Promise) will give you goosebumps
- Warflower release video for epic new single I Am The Universe
- Korn and Evanescence are up to something together, but what?
- Clutch drop riotous new single Red Alert (Boss Metal Zone)
- Island Records founder Chris Blackwell to publish autobiography
- April 4
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- Kontinuum release video for another new track, Hafið Logar
- Watch The Conjuring actress Vera Farmiga smash a cover of Iron Maiden's The Trooper
- Black Stone Cherry launch new video for Ringin' In My Head
- Watch Anthrax's Scott Ian and his son pay tribute to Taylor Hawkins with three Foo Fighters covers
- The Emerald Dawn announce live show of fourth album To Touch the Sky
- Babymetal team up with a digital fashion label for release of virtual NFT sneakers
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe wants blessing of deceased fan's family before playing in the Czech Republic again
- Klaus Schulze will release new album Deus Arrakis in June
- Sex, satanism and Scooby Doo: Ghost's mythos explored in new mockumentary
- The Crow reboot is finally underway
- Comedian Bill Bailey really wants to join Wardruna, because of course he does
- Foo Fighters sweep Grammys, Dream Theater, St Vincent also win awards
- The Grammys ignored Joey Jordison in their In Memoriam tribute
- Billie Eilish leads tributes to Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins at the Grammys
- Babymetal have released a mysterious new video clip teasing the ‘Metalverse’
- April 3
- April 2
- April 1
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- Mike Batt launches new prog rock concept album
- Lamb Of God and Megadeth join forces for blistering remake of Wake Up Dead
- VOLA release new live video for These Black Claws
- Tubular World release charity cover of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge
- Listen to Bring Me The Horizon's collaboration with Australian rapper Masked Wolf on Fallout
- Watch Manic Street Preachers cover Madonna's 1984 single Borderline
- Tim Bowness launches new album with video for Always The Stranger
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly cover System Of A Down's Aerials
- The interview-packed 300th issue collector's edition of Classic Rock is on sale now
- Have Rammstein just invested in a Berlin beauty clinic?
- Mick Jagger releases creepy new solo single Strange Game
- Chloe Alper bows out of Pure Reason Revolution shows for remainder of year
- The new Metal Hammer features FOUR legendary cover stars interviewed by four iconic guests
- Beth Hart releases completely silent video for cover of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog
