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- July 31
- July 30
- July 29
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- Watch Metallica jam with Stranger Things actor Joseph Quinn backstage at Lollapalooza
- Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante comment on Pantera 'reunion': "it was an emotional thing to do this"
- Darryl Way teams up with Steve Hogarth on The Rock Artist’s Progress
- This teenager aggressively scatting to Korn's Twist at his school's karaoke will make your Friday
- Mudvayne's Chad Gray explains what happened with stage fall: "I thought I was gonna p*ss my pants"
- Glass Hammer announce final Skallagrim album At The Gate – check out the teaser!
- Icon For Hire ignite flames and chaos in the anarchy-filled music video for new single Breakdown
- David Ellefson has made a Megadeth supergroup with two other ex-members
- Watch Shinedown's Brent Smith jump into crowd during set to break up fight
- Anekdoten's Nicklas Barker releases new solo album Epektasis
- Former Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton releases debut single Does It Work For You
- Metallica shoutout Stranger Things' Eddie Munson during Master Of Puppets Lollapalooza performance
- Check out Snarky Puppy's performance video of Bet
- Bullet For My Valentine get emotional on brooding new single No More Tears To Cry
- Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are staging a musical based on Romeo and Juliet
- July 28
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- Watch Slipknot play new single The Dying Song (Time to Sing) for the first time
- Watch the vibrant video to Derek Sherinan's new single, Aurora Australis
- Keytars at the ready: Voyager are Hyperventilating with the latest video from their upcoming live release
- Nu gen star Zand shares emotional and ambient new single Battery Acid
- Ultravox to release deluxe 6CD/DVD Rage In Eden box set
- There is now a comic book you can buy that's all about Stevie Nicks
- Brian Eno announces his new solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE – watch the video to There Were Bells
- Rina Sawayama shares dazzling, genre-bending new single Hold The Girl
- Watch Lamb Of God rope in a bunch of murderous stage magicians for new video Omens
- Mötley Crüe were apparently caught using a backing track for Tommy Lee's drumming
- Watch Mudvayne's Chad Gray fall offstage while singing Not Falling
- Watch Nita Strauss rehearse with Demi Lovato ahead of upcoming tour
- David Lee Roth has released a song about Van Halen and the lyrics are something else
- July 27
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- Listen to Lorna Shore's epically heavy new symphonic deathcore anthem, Cursed To Die
- King's X's push ahead with new single, Give It Up
- Enjoy Six By Six's debut in visual form with their companion graphic novel
- Rina Sawayama announces US headline tour for 2022
- Leah Kate throws caution to the wind on new uplifting track Life Sux
- Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows admits he once thought the Offspring were sellouts: "Yep, I was that guy"
- Sid Wilson's old mask is now an animatronic puppet that sings along to Slipknot onstage and it's creepy as hell
- Jean-Michel Jarre announces immersive new album Oxymore
- Joey Jordison's family marks first anniversary of death with memorial video
- Jesus Jones announce massive 15-disc signed box set
- There's now an Iron Maiden train and we desperately want a go in it
- At The Gates part company with guitarist Jonas Stålhammar days after alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour accusations
- This new pro-shot footage of Metallica playing Bleeding Me is a reminder of how underrated Load is
- Watch the weird and unsettling video for Ghost’s epic new single Spillways
- 36 years on, Metallica have released a video for Master Of Puppets
- July 26
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- Smith/Kotzen launch new live/studio EP Better Days ...And Nights
- Meet the man who can make guitars out of literally anything, from shovels to bottles of Mountain Dew
- Taipei Houston, aka the band featuring Lars Ulrich's sons, release debut single As The Sun Sets
- Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn remixing Eddie Munson’s big speech in a bunch of different accents is absolutely hilarious
- Stevie Nicks announces second leg of US tour
- Ivan Moody hated Five Finger Death Punch’s controversial ‘anti-mask‘ video for Living The Dream
- Nova Twins nominated for Mercury Prize for Supernova album
- There was a full-on discussion about thrash and doom metal on Eastenders last night and the internet can't take it
- The Dead Daises temporarily replace frontman Glenn Hughes while he battles Covid
- July 25
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- Watch the Manga-inspired video for Ghostemane’s warped remix of Simpsons composer Danny Elfman’s Native Intelligence
- This is what Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill would sound like as a Metallica song… with Matt Heafy on guitar
- Rob Halford says Judas Priest “were dancing with death” in the early 80s
- Watch Tom Morello get accidentally taken out by a security guard at a Rage Against The Machine gig
- ZZ Top: Life after Dusty Hill - only in the new issue of Classic Rock, out now
- Colin Harkness, frontman with NWOBHM stalwarts Spider, dead at 62
- July 24
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- July 22
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- Watch the new video for Oceans Of Slumber's The Hanging Tree
- Ink your own Jester with Mark Wilkinson's official colouring book!
- Watch Queensryche's bittersweet video for latest single Forest
- Watch Corey Taylor and son Griffin singing together onstage with Slipknot
- Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi evoke vintage Black Sabbath on Ozzy's new single Degradation Rules
- Crippled Black Phoenix share new single, Everything Is Beautiful But Us
- Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk: “I hope no other country experiences the same as Ukraine”
- Stream Banco del Mutuo Soccorso's new single Cadere O Volare
- The Fierce & The Dead premiere new video for single Golden Thread
- Steve Howe announces second album with Virgil – watch the cosmic video for Lunar Mist here
- Watch the video for Megadeth’s blazing new Black Ops-inspired Ice-T collaboration Night Stalkers
- July 21
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- Ozzy Osbourne says he once thought Eric Clapton was stalking him around Los Angeles
- Pearl Jam cancel second show this week after Eddie Vedder damages vocal cords at Lollapalooza Paris
- Get Back director Peter Jackson says there's a new Beatles film in the works
- Look out! This Rick James and Dio mash-up is a slice of fried internet gold
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian: Stormtroopers Of Death would be ‘cancelled’ today
- Rob Zombie calls The Munsters "the perfect Halloween movie", announces September release date
- The internet thinks it has discovered the name of Kerry King's new post-Slayer band
- The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon speaks out on the music industry's toxic pressures: "I couldn’t say, I’m having a mental breakdown”
- Listen to Dumb by Envy Of None – as you've never heard it before!
- Muse share fan favourite single Kill Or Be Killed: "This is Muse at our heaviest!"
- Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody “died for three minutes” from alcohol withdrawal
- Slade's live career to be celebrated with new box set
- The Ocean drummer announces his full-length solo debut as Fern
- Jethro Tull launch video for Mine Is The Mountain
- The biggest vinyl releases of the year so far have been confirmed
- Taylor Hawkins, Chad Smith, Stewart Copeland to appear in Let There Be Drums! documentary
- A Cliff Burton museum has opened in Sweden. We went to the opening
- Five Finger Death Punch get up close and personal, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- July 20
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- Official Dio documentary set for release at the end of the summer
- Pearl Jam pull Vienna concert as Eddie Vedder has "no throat"
- This Cliff Burton beer will quench the thirst of the most major of ragers
- Watch the trailer for Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99, a new documentary on the '90s's most infamous music festival
- Watch this heartwarming, newly released footage of Chris Cornell playing Eminem/Rihanna with his young kids
- Watch The Cult's Ian Astbury jump offstage to break up a fight at Washington DC gig
- Watch OSEES' video for A Foul Form, the title track of their upcoming album
- Corey Taylor: "it’s trendy to be offended and outraged by everything, yet nothing happens"
- Listen to the new Afghan Whigs single A Line Of Shots
- David Sylvian vinyl reissues for Blemish and Manafon
- 10 amazing Chester Bennington cover versions
- Mark Peters of Engineers releases new video for Switch On The Sky
- Pale Waves release powerful, emotional anti-bullying single The Hard Way
- Tim Bowness shares nostalgic new video for Glitter Fades
- Tony Iommi and Duran Duran to perform at 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Birmingham
- Marillion announce deluxe version of Holidays In Eden
- This is our first reaction to Slipknot’s new single The Dying Song (Time To Sing)
- July 19
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- Slipknot share video for new single The Dying Song (Time To Sing), announce new album The End, So Far
- Are Slipknot about to release new music?
- This Alice In Chains and Rick Astley mash-up sounds even better than you'd imagine
- Mike Patton addressed mental health issues: "I got freaked out by being around people"
- Listen to Rancid's Tim Armstrong and The Bodysnatchers' Rhoda Dakar guest on uplifting Interrupters single As We Live
- Watch Less Than Jake poke fan at NOFX leader Fat Mike with tongue-in-cheek video for Fat Mike's On Drugs (Again)
- James Hetfield recently gave Frank Carter some Tom Jones-approved throat sweets in the middle of a Metallica show
- Clutch announce new album Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
- Watch Mike Patton terrorise the US Supreme Court in Dead Cross' violent, animated video for Reign Of Error
- Lonely Robot unveil sinister video for The Island Of Misfit Toys
- Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix: "thousands of people have told me that Last Resort saved their life"
- Dim Gray share new video for new single Ashes
- An Eddie Van Halen tribute concert didn't happen because "some people are too full of themselves to let others have a good time" says son Wolfgang
- Roger Waters says he is "far, far more important" than The Weeknd and Drake
- Ed Wynne shares suitably trippy animation for Infinity Curtains
- Brian May and Roger Taylor "honoured" as Queen's Greatest Hits becomes first album to pass seven million UK sales
- We never imagined we'd see Disturbed linked to '90s dance anthem Macarena, but life is full of surprises
- 'Ripper' Owens says he's been "erased" from Judas Priest's history: "The only emails I ever get are threats"
- July 18
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- Ronnie James Dio got spat on by Black Sabbath fans when he replaced Ozzy Osbourne
- Alter Bridge announce new album Pawns & Kings with epic title track
- Ex-Manowar guitarist given 5 year prison sentence for child porn possession
- Kerry King: “I won’t be dragging my feet much longer”
- Polyphia share video for complex new single Neurotica
- Zakk Wylde comments on his involvement in Pantera reunion: "obviously, it's not Pantera"
- Circles share video for brand new single Sleepwalking
- Pearl Handled Revolver replace Maud The Moth at A Sunday In September
- Bruce Dickinson loses temper with fan for lighting flare at Iron Maiden show in Greece
- Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan just jammed System Of A Down’s Aerials with a street band in Mexico
- This insane drone footage of Spiritbox at Inkcarceration Festival is the coolest live video of 2022
- Fruupp to have new limited edition live album released
- Limp Bizkit cancel UK and European tour over “personal health concerns”
- July 17
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- July 15
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- This cover of AC/DC's Thunderstruck played on a traditional Chinese instrument will soothe your mind
- The Darkness pissed off Disturbed 20 years ago. Now David Draiman has apologised
- Prep the TP for your bunghole: there's a new Beavis And Butt-head series coming
- Metallica’s Master Of Puppets crashes into the UK singles chart thanks to Stranger Things
- Paramore announce autumn North American tour
- Threshold return with video for brand new single Silenced
- Marillion announce award-winning weekends for 2023
- ‘Sons of Slipknot’ Vended share savage new single Ded To Me
- Long Distance Calling share video for title track of upcoming album Eraser
- Palaye Royale announce new album Fever Dream, share video for title track
- Regal Worm release suitably psychedelic video for new single Hop
- Nita Strauss joins Demi Lovato's band, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante confirmed for guitarist and drummer roles in Pantera 'reunion'
- July 14
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- Queen's Brian May is now a Doctor of Science: watch his acceptance speech
- Iron Maiden's Trooper-era Eddie has just popped up in a new Marvel comic
- Heilung stream intense new single Asja
- M Shadows: Zakk Wylde would be “a perfect fit” for Pantera reunion
- Steve Hackett guests on latest album from The Rome Pro(G)ject
- Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson launches new death/thrash trio Dieth, shares brutal debut single
- Disturbed's new single Hey You is a 'wake up call': "We've become our own worst enemies"
- "What's the f**king point?": the internet reacts to Pantera's 'reunion'
- Nita Strauss’ replacement in Alice Cooper's band has been revealed
- The Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power trailer has arrived
- Voyager reveal hilarious nautical themed video for Submarine
- Prime Day music deals 2024: Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days ends tonight - but there's still time to grab a bargain
- Watch 1,000 musicians play Guns N' Roses classic Paradise City
- A Pantera reunion is happening in 2023
- Bruce Springsteen announces four huge UK shows
- “Something’s coming”: Slipknot tease big announcement… with a West Side Story clip
- The Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship is as bonkers as you'd expect
- July 13
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- John Petrucci announces solo dates with Mike Portnoy on drums
- Alice In Chains announce Funko Pop! box set to mark 30th anniversary of Dirt
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame curator charged for allegedly attempting to sell stolen Hotel California lyrics
- God Is An Astronaut share video for "oldest song" Route 666
- Ex-Every Time I Die guitarist/pro wrestler Andy Williams explains how wrestling is like writing a rock song
- Leprous announce lengthy European tour for Aphelion
- The first trailer for Rob Zombie's take on The Munsters has dropped, and it's an absolute scream
- Prime Day turntable deals 2024: 7 of today's best record player savings
- Anette Olzon and Russell Allen stream new single Army Of Dreamers
- No Devotion announce second album, No Oblivion, share new single Starlings
- Sun Ra Arkestra team up with Paul Simon's son Harper for new track
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce remastered vinyl singles box set
- Unsane to re-release their 1991 self-titled album, with original decapitated corpse cover
- Missed out on seeing Guns N' Roses? Watch this rubber chicken do Sweet Child O' Mine instead
- Descendents slap down former Oath Keeper sporting band T-shirt at Congress hearing on 2021 Washington DC riots
- Bob Dylan announces his first UK tour in five years
- Mastodon share new psychedelic horror-themed video for More Than I Could Chew
- July 12
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- Restock your stash with these unmissable Prime Day alcohol deals
- Dave Kerzner shares video for brand new single A Time In Your Mind
- Evanescence's Amy Lee and violinist Lindsey Stirling go back to medieval times in video for Love Goes On and On
- Rico Nasty says "everyone hates" her new single Skullflower and she could not care less
- Ms Amy Birks confirms London support act and new Beatrix Players line-up
- These 9 Prime Day headphone deals left us thunderstruck
- And now here's a Master Of Puppets drum cover by a Max from Stranger Things lookalike
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announces 31-date US tour
- Rage Against The Machine's Zack De La Rocha injures leg on stage, does most of show sat against monitor
- Watch The Mysterines' dreamy video for new single All These Things
- The Universe By Ear release video for epic new single Salty River
- Video released for new David Longdon single Watch It Burn
- Watch Queen and Adam Lambert cover opera anthem Nessun Dorma in Italy
- This Slipknot vs Coldplay mash-up sounds like God and Satan enjoying a campfire singalong
- Beartooth get their Flashdance on in surprise new video Riptide
- Listen to a 30 second teaser of Disturbed’s brand new single Hey You
- Watch Architects' hilarious sci-fi disaster movie-themed video for Tear Gas
- Amorphis and Eluveitie add more dates to European tour
- Ronnie James Dio’s wife reveals that Holy Diver was written for Black Sabbath
- Metallica’s Master Of Puppets set to hit the UK Top 40 after featuring on Stranger Things
- July 11
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- David Lee Roth releases new piano ballad, Pointing at the Moon
- Silversun Pickups announce new album Physical Thrills, share single Scared Together
- Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss quits band and cancels upcoming solo dates
- Now Westworld has used a Metallica song on its soundtrack
- Hawkwind announce new double live album
- Watch tennis legend John McEnroe jam with Pearl Jam in front of 65,000 fans
- Toyah and Robert Fripp share a reliably unhinged version of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell
- Listen to Mogwai's soundtrack for new Apple TV+ true crime thriller Black Bird
- System Of A Down's John Dolmayan hits out at bandmates for creative stasis: "We've become more and more successful in spite of our best efforts to ruin it"
- Watch pro-shot footage of Iron Maiden’s epic Download headline set
- Watch Taylor Hawkins' 16 year old son play Foo Fighters' My Hero in tribute to his late father
- Watch Eddie Munson actor Joseph Quinn practice Master Of Puppets for iconic Stranger Things scene
- July 10
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- July 8
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- Metallica have filmed a play-a-long with the Master Of Puppets scene from Stranger Things and it's bloody brilliant
- Here's that Kate Bush cover in the style of Killswitch Engage you didn't know you wanted
- King's X cancel all European dates as guitarist Ty Tabor is diagnosed with serious illness
- Iron Maiden release statement on last-minute show cancellation: "we sympathise with the frustration"
- Here's an adorable parrot headbanging to Rammstein's Du Hast to cleanse your timeline
- Flash three-disc Live In The USA set to be released
- Corpsepaint, fire and, er, stripping nuns: the new Powerwolf video is quite something
- Watch Wargasm get heckled by Mad Max zombies in new video Fukstar
- Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick gets 50th anniversary release
- Within Temptation release new song Don’t Pray For Me
- Five Finger Death Punch drop new song Times Like These
- Massive Wagons launch new album Triggered! with F**k The Haters video
- The Hu launch new album Rumble Of Thunder with majestic Black Thunder video
- Pixies gave a young Eddie Vedder advice on how to handle fame and success with Pearl Jam
- July 7
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- The Cult launch Under The Midnight Sun album with Give Me Mercy video
- Remember that 10-year-old who slayed Holy Roller on America's Got Talent? She's released a single
- Amon Amarth unleash cinematic new video for The Great Heathen Army
- Shinedown are battling Paulo Nutini for their first UK number one album
- Disturbed's David Draiman praises bandmate for taking on 'cancel culture' with...a custom guitar design
- Axl Rose offers health update: "I've been following doctor's orders"
- Francis Dunnery's It Bites announce UK dates
- Robert Fripp to publish his first book
- Metallica slapped down a gatekeeping fan over a snarky comment about their music being in Stranger Things
- Rob Zombie unveils first poster for new Munsters movie
- Black Sabbath honoured with engraved mirror of heavy metal bench
- July 6
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- Founding Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton dead at 80
- Bring Me The Horizon release video for anthemic new single, Strangers
- Here's what Eddie Munson would sound like if he hadn't practiced Master of Puppets
- Stranger Things Eddie Munson actor Joseph Quinn reveals the song that would save him from Vecna
- Machine Gun Kelly regrets "ridiculous" beef with Slipknot's Corey Taylor
- Listen to Six By Six's electric new single Save The Night
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim return with new single Skywriting
- Queen + Adam Lambert announce Rhapsody Over London streaming event
- Yee-haw! This is what Bring Me The Horizon's Drown would sound like as a country song
- Listen to The Anchoress' haunting version of Nirvana’s Pennyroyal Tea
- Now James Hetfield's son has weighed in on the ‘rock is dead’ debate
- Parkway Drive announce new album Darker Still, release new video The Greatest Fear
- “He couldn’t have been nicer”: Actor Steve Carell on meeting his lookalike Alice Cooper
- Watch Megadeth tear it up in Germany
- Carlos Santana collapses onstage
- Kiss fans are going nuts over this rare live footage from two legendary 1975 shows
- July 5
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- Someone's recorded a Rage Against The Machine classic in the style of Meshuggah and the results are predictably heavy
- The Best Of Roxy Music to be released on vinyl for first time
- Metallica release statement on Stranger Things' Master Of Puppets scene: "it's an incredible honour"
- Stranger Things Vecna actor Jamie Campbell Bower listened to Darkthrone and Mayhem to get into character
- Aerosmith's Joe Perry says rock isn't dead, credits fans for keeping it alive
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor to headline Barcelona's AMFest
- Iranian prog metallers Hyper Planet release video for To Live With Wisdom
- This genius has turned an angry Christian pastor’s rantings into a killer metal song
- Andy Bell streams reflective new single Lifeline
- July 4
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- Guns N' Roses cancel Glasgow show citing "illness and medical advice"
- The hit that took Kiss into the discos is now more funky than ever
- Watch Dave Mustaine lose his s**t at a guitar tech for warming up during Megadeth's set
- Gwenno shares new video for N.Y.C.A.W.
- “My admiration for you is eternal”: Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser pays tribute to late wife
- Dutch prog rockers For Absent Friends reform
- Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo's son were involved in *that* Stranger Things Master Of Puppets scene
- Metallica get their 'Kate Bush moment' as the internet goes crazy for Master Of Puppets being in Stranger Things
- Metallica have been working on their new album during the pandemic
- Blink-182's Travis Barker shares health update after "life-threatening" emergency
- Former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton diagnosed with cancer
- Whitesnake cancel all remaining European farewell tour dates
- July 3
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- July 1
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- Listen to Elton John playing piano for Yorkshire post-punks Yard Act on 100% Endurance
- Porcupine Tree score highest ever UK chart position for Closure/Continuation
- Listen to a new remix of Firestarter from The Prodigy's 25th anniversary edition of The Fat Of The Land
- "I said, 'I gotta meet this guy'" - why Dave Mustaine and Ice T became BFFs
- The mystery of which song features THAT guitar solo in the new Stranger Things has been solved
- Check out Russian American progger Moses Mikheyev's new song Hollywood Hills
- Startafight by Joey Valence and Brae sounds like the most raucous Beastie Boys' single since Sabotage
- This producer pimped up Meshuggah and the results are truly spectacular
- This pro-shot footage of Metallica playing Metal Militia last month proves they can still nail the classics
- Steve Hackett shares live clip of Genesis classic Squonk
- Rob Halford reveals the cheeky prank Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler played on him when he fronted Black Sabbath
- Listen to Puscifer get remixed by Billy Howerdel and James Iha
- The return of Porcupine Tree is on the front of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Are you a Scorpions fan who also likes trucks? Then you'll love these Mikkey Dee ads
