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- April 30
- April 29
- April 28
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- Watch Guns N' Roses duo Slash and Duff McKagan play Stooges classic I Wanna Be Your Dog with Iggy Pop in Hollywood
- Listen to new HEALTH single, Hateful
- Alice Cooper is writing a concept album called Road, about life on the road
- Tony Iommi is loving the new Black Sabbath ballet: "I never thought we would have people dancing to War Pigs and Iron Man"
- Enter Shikari score first UK number one album with A Kiss For The Whole World: "It’s mad that we’re in this position!"
- In 1991, police raided grindcore label Earache Records in search of 'obscene' material designed to 'corrupt or deprave', and seized an Alice Cooper poster
- Steve Perry has joined forces with Irish folk group The High Kings for their new single - and he's told us why
- Corey Taylor reveals his favourite ever horror movie scene
- A petition to save Brixton Academy has amassed 12 thousand signatures in two days
- Rob Halford reveals the wholesome moment he met Pink: "she used to stencil the Judas Priest logo on her school notebook!"
- XTC's second album Go2 to be reissued on vinyl
- Coke! Ghosts! Chaos! Inside the recording of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Listen to Positive Charge, The Gaslight Anthem's first single in nine years
- Eddie Van Halen was planning a farewell tour with the original Van Halen lineup
- April 27
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- Metallica's first set of the M72 tour: new songs, old classics, and one big surprise
- Watch a teenage Green Day perform outside their high school back in 1990
- Noel Gallagher confirms Definitely Maybe 30th anniversary reissue, shuts down hopes of an Oasis reunion tour in 2024
- "It's a tragedy": Watch a shocked Led Zeppelin react to news of the death of Jimi Hendrix in rare 1970 interview footage
- Ozzy Osbourne names his dream supergroup
- Watch Alice Cooper share his top five favourite horror movies of all time
- Carl Palmer sends fans message after heart surgery
- We let Tenacious D guest edit our new issue - so they went to Ozzy Osbourne's house to interview him
- April 26
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- Aerosmith appear to be teasing a farewell tour
- Chester Bennington's son Draven releases NSFW debut single: listen to it here
- PJ Harvey releases atmospheric single A Child's Question, August, announces tenth album I Inside The Old Year Dying
- Watch the trailer for the new Syd Barrett movie
- Rammstein's Till Lindemann announces solo headline European tour - including a huge UK arena date
- Watch three different contestants on The Voice stun judges with jaw-dropping Rammstein covers
- Yes launch video for epic nine-minute single All Connected
- Met Police call for permanent closure of Brixton Academy
- Blink-182's Travis Barker is posing nude to sell his own 'luxury' enema kit
- Freddie Mercury's amazing private collection of everything to be exhibited before being sold at auction
- Frankfurt court overturns ruling barring Roger Waters from playing live in the city
- Michael Anthony says there's a "ton of stuff" in the Van Halen vaults that could be released
- Crazy Town members engage in violent altercation over money after disastrous show
- Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem's Rock On might just be the feel-good classic rock hit of the summer
- April 25
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- Next month's ManorFest metal weekender has been cancelled
- Corey Taylor reveals which actor he'd like to play him in a Slipknot biopic
- Empire State Bastard share live footage video for Harvest, featuring heroic work from ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo
- New data shows that nu metal is more popular than it's been in almost twenty years
- Amy Lee on the moment Evanescence shockingly beat 50 Cent to the Best New Artist Grammy in 2004: "I had my shoes off when they called our name"
- Are Jethro Tull headed back to the UK Top 10?
- Phil Lynott once invited Cliff Richard into the studio to hear new Thin Lizzy songs while his dealer chopped out heroin behind the squeaky-clean pop star
- Watch Jon Anderson perform Yes classic Gates Of Delirium
- Watch Blondie play One Way Or Another while dancers in see-thru plastic trousers pretend to fight
- April 24
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- Queen, The Beatles, The Who, ELO, David Bowie and Kate Bush appear on UK government-curated Coronation playlist
- Ritchie Blackmore is a huge ABBA fan, according to his former Rainbow/Deep Purple colleague Joe Lynn Turner
- Joaquin Phoenix warns against watching the new A24 film Beau is Afraid on magic mushrooms
- JeGong premiere video for brand new single KurkOM
- R&B icon Aaliyah was a Nine Inch Nails fanatic, and the internet is loving it
- Metallica's Robert Trujillo reveals the secret behind his "beautiful hair"
- The Dillinger Escape Plan/Every Time I Die supergroup Better Lovers announce debut UK tour
- Sammy Hagar says "embarrassing" David Lee Roth doesn't care about singing or his voice, states "I care more about my voice than I do my dick"
- Alcest announce second album Ecailles de Lune 10th anniversary European tour
- Geezer Butler names his least favourite Black Sabbath album
- Ruby Dawn announce debut studio album
- Watch Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson perform Deep Purple's Burn with an orchestra
- Glastonbury Festival is giving tickets away in chocolate bars, Willy Wonka-style
- Someone has made the most dramatic video of the Black Sabbath bench in Birmingham you can possibly imagine
- 72 Seasons becomes first Metallica studio album not to hit #1 on US chart since ...And Justice For All
- April 23
- April 22
- April 21
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- 72 Seasons is Metallica's first UK number one album since Death Magnetic
- Kinetic Element release new album Chasing The Lesser Light
- Seal reveals his love for Alice In Chains: "It's dark, it's beautiful, it's melancholic, but it's really sexy"
- Watch the official music videos for all 12 songs on Metallica's 72 Seasons album
- Blink-182's Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian reveal the Pink Floyd song they fell in love to
- Watch Eivør's stunning display of throat singing in live video of The Last Kingdom: Main Theme
- Roger Waters to release The Lockdown Sessions on vinyl and CD
- Gentle Giant to reissue remixed version of eighth album Interview
- Pearl Jam announce short US tour
- April 20
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- Envy Of None return with new That Was Then EP
- Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution share The Golden Age Of Music video
- Anthrax cancel European tour dates again
- Watch this metalhead sum up different types of metal fans in this tongue-in-cheek video
- Haunt The Woods release video for brand new single Fever Dream
- "I can’t stop crying!": Will Smith filming his daughter Willow's Coachella set is the cutest thing you'll see online today
- Eight diehard Pink Floyd fans travelled to a remote Australian beach to listen to Dark Side Of The Moon during a solar eclipse
- Tomorrow share brand new video for psychedelic classic My Whte Bicycle
- The Ocean share epic cinematic video for Subatlantic
- Today is a beautiful day to be an Extreme fan: they've released two new videos
- Staind release Lowest In Me, first new single in 12 years
- April 19
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- Billy Corgan is preparing a Zwan box set, featuring 65 unreleased songs
- The Pineapple Thief's early years celebrated in new box set
- David Bowie used to store his urine in a fridge as he feared that Jimmy Page and a satanic coven planned to steal his bodily fluids to conceive the Antichrist
- Twisted Sister's Dee Snider says the "stupidity" of US anti-drag mandates are making him want to start wearing makeup again in protest
- Listen to energetic, edm-influenced new Spiritbox single The Void
- Watch Tool and Queens Of The Stone Age members perform Led Zeppelin and AC/DC songs with Primus
- Liam Gallagher has heard that AI Oasis album, and thinks it's "mega" and "mad as f**k"
- Foo Fighters confirm new album But Here We Are coming this June - listen to emotional new single Rescued now
- Nine Skies announce Riccardo Romano as vocalist for The Lightmaker tour
- Midsommar director Ari Aster names his top five favourite horror films
- Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows says opening for Metallica feels "like you're going to war"
- Voyager share rocking cover of the Cyprus Eurovision entry
- Watch The Conjuring’s Vera Farmiga smash a cover of Slipknot’s Duality: "this is for all the eye-pushers!"
- April 18
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- Jethro Tull announce The Seven Decades US tour
- "The pain is overwhelming": Blackie Lawless details physical suffering on current tour
- Carl Palmer announces Return Of ELP US live dates for July
- Norwegian jazz rockers The Verge sign to Is It Jazz? Records
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett says James Hetfield is "doing everyone a huge service" on new album 72 Seasons by addressing subjects "no-one will touch"
- This "lost" Oasis album created by AI might unite Noel and Liam Gallagher in fears they're going to be redundant soon
- Rancid's uncompromising new single Tomorrow Never Comes will make you want to punch holes in walls
- Upcoming Stephen King film The Boogeyman had to be recut after audiences at test screenings screamed too much
- Roger Waters' This Is Not A Drill tour gig in Prague on May 25 to be screened live in cinemas in over 50 countries
- Massive 32-disc Camel box set covers the band's MCA and Decca years
- Machine Gun Kelly to screen Mainstream Sellout Live from Cleveland: The Pink Era in 1000 cinemas across 29 countries
- Greta Van Fleet announce Starcatcher world tour
- Watch previously lost footage of The Enid from Hammersmith Odeon in 1979
- Watch Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Jason Schwartzman and Justin Long as The Beatles in this ridiculous movie clip from 2007
- This Judas Priest, Roxette, Van Halen, Winger mash-up is the greatest number one single from the '80s that never was
- Quicksand announce UK / European tour
- Queens Of The Stone Age announce three unconventional UK shows
- Chris Cornell's seven final recordings are going to be released by Soundgarden
- April 17
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- Limp Bizkit announce biggest UK headline show in decades, Pendulum to support
- Magma announced as special guests for Porcupine Tree's only UK show
- Metallica weren't allowed to make eye contact with Mick Jagger when they supported the Rolling Stones
- Roger Waters issues defiant statement on Frankfurt concert ban: "We’re coming anyway! Because human rights matter! Because free speech matters!"
- Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato has united with members of Every Time I Die for blistering new project Better Lovers - listen to first single 30 Under 13
- Noel Gallagher tormented brother Liam for years by moving furniture around and pretending to be a ghost
- Damanek share new promo video for Oculus Overture
- Watch Knocked Loose bring some much needed hardcore mayhem to Coachella 2023
- Watch Dave Mustaine, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield and more reimagined as stunning Balenciaga models in this strangely creepy AI vid
- Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson says Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are misappropriating umlauts: "it ought to make you either laugh or get angry"
- New book to lift the lid on David Gilmour's private life
- A statue of AC/DC's Brian Johnson has been erected in a park in Belgium
- Eric Clapton launches The Definitive 24 Nights box set, announces global cinema event
- April 16
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- April 14
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- Max and Iggor Cavalera have re-recorded Sepultura's first EP and album, Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions, for release under Cavalera band name
- Check out Paramore's banger-filled setlist from the first night of their UK and Ireland tour
- Metallica's Lars Ulrich has moments where he feels as insecure as the rest of us: "I have days where I feel like a ****ing idiot"
- The Parallax Method return with new album and single in July
- Stranger Things' Eddie Munson to get his own prequel story
- Check out The Anchoress' cover of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle
- AVKRVST stream "anthem of forsaken hope" Arcane Clouds
- Watch Metallica try to actually master puppets in this ridiculous Jimmy Kimmel skit
- Rush take centre stage with Signals on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- Watch Metallica perform a monstrous Master Of Puppets on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Steve Lukather announces new solo album Bridges and it's gonna make Toto fans happy
- April 13
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- Voivod will release 40th anniversary album Morgöth Tales in July
- Motorpsycho announce surprise new album Yay!
- Three of Jean-Luc Ponty's 80 and 90s albums to be reissued
- Gene Simmons appears to fall ill at Kiss show in Brazil, sits out part of song before set is paused
- Ring Van Möbius return with brand new single The 11th Chapter: The Nine
- Metallica fan in New Zealand becomes first person in the world to buy 72 Seasons over the counter
- Einar Solberg shares video for uplifting new single Over The Top
- Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth on his collaboration with Ed Sheeran: "it's got acoustic guitars...but also a blast beat"
- The 1975's Matty Healy: "The era of me being a f***ing a***hole is coming to an end"
- Watch this amazing orchestra turn The Prodigy's Voodoo People into a thunderous heavy metal banger
- April 12
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- Video: Geddy Lee tugs heartstrings with stirring baseball narration
- Foo Fighters are teasing new music: listen now
- Sleep Token announce US tour
- Watch Tommy Lee, Weird Al Yankovic and more in the brilliant trailer for new Muppets series, The Muppets Mayhem
- Comedy Of Errors, The Paradox Twin and Red Bazar to headline Danfest 12
- Pink Floyd book A People's History wants your recollections
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett isn't having the abuse he's taken for his Lux Æterna guitar solo
- Watch Lizzo defend Nickelback before jamming out to How You Remind Me
- O.R.k. team up with Italian singer Elisa for Consequence video
- Peter Frampton announces ironically titled Never Say Never US tour
- A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban
- April 11
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- Listen to the new single from Aerosmith's Joe Perry with the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson
- Foo Fighters add six more headline shows to ever-growing list of 2023 dates
- The Emerald Dawn forced to cancel UK tour
- Steve Hackett and Djabe share live video for Lake By The Sea
- Babymetal announce 2023 North American tour with Dethklok
- Anya Taylor-Joy says she learned how to speak English by watching School Of Rock
- Lenco lift the lid on their walnut wonder - the LBT-225WA Bluetooth turntable
- Watch David Bowie serve up a hilarious impression of Mick Jagger during a UK TV chat show interview
- Fred Durst: “People call Limp Bizkit 'jock rock'. I despise jocks - those were the guys beating my ass all the time”
- Fyre Fest 2: The convicted fraudster behind the worst music festival never staged wants your money again
- Ray Alder shares brand new solo track This Hollow Shell
- Jack Black has released a frankly deranged music video for his new Super Mario Bros. Movie single Peaches
- Metallica's James Hetfield on going to rehab: "there was a rebirth...realizing my life was needing some help"
- Eight-disc Lindisfarne BBC box set due in April
- Rival Sons announce Darkfighter UK and European tour
- The Hold Steady: Craig Finn on revolution tourists, desperate characters and exploitation
- Four more classic Journey performances from The Midnight Special have appeared online
- April 10
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- Roger Daltrey says it's unlikely The Who will ever tour The US again
- A “Netflix for heavy metal” has launched and it costs $6.66 a month
- Jon Anderson adds extra UK show as he extends European tour
- Watch Rod Stewart & Faces cover It's All Over Now on US TV before Ronnie Wood quit to join The Rolling Stones
- Ghost have recorded covers of classic songs by Rush, U2 and Misfits, plus a piano version of a Motorhead anthem
- Metallica's Lars Ulrich drinking nothing but Earl Grey tea is metal AF
- Ihsahn "would be open" to new Emperor album
- German band ditch UK tour after being treated “like criminals” at border, blame Brexit
- April 9
- April 8
- April 7
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- Founding Quireboys guitarist Guy Bailey has died
- Geddy Lee autobiograpy now slated for November release
- Newly restored Pink Floyd footage from 1975 surfaces
- Lars Ulrich thinks Metallica have about ten years left as a touring band
- Greta Van Fleet launch new album Starcatcher with epic Meeting The Master single
- On anniversary of Kurt's death, Frances Bean Cobain urges fans to seek help for mental illness
- April 6
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- Mick Mars launches explosive lawsuit against Motley Crue
- Diamond Head's Brian Tatler steps up to replace Paul Quinn as Saxon live guitarist
- Nora Forster, John Lydon's wife, has died, aged 80
- A father of a US school shooting victim has reacted furiously to Kid Rock's dumbass, anti-trans beer-shooting stunt
- Nightwish retire from touring for the foreseeable future: "we won’t be touring the next album"
- Josh Klinghoffer says Red Hot Chili Peppers made "cooler music" when he was playing guitar in the band
- Kyros share video for brand new single The End In Mind
- Godsticks return with video for new song Mayhem
- Magma premiere their very first music video with Prog!
- Pallas launch digital album to raise funds for former keyboard player Mike Stobbie
- Watch Twisted Sister's Dee Snider be unmasked as a freaky, gothic doll on The Masked Singer
- Hayley Williams says if Paramore hadn't gone through so much "reality show-style drama", they would've been "the most boring band of all time"
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett says he's "bored" of playing "that f**king guitar solo in Master of Puppets"
- Jack Black's Mandalorian debut with Lizzo has the internet losing its mind
- Devin Townsend added as headline act for ArcTanGent
- Peter Gabriel reveals rousing title track of upcoming album i/o
- That time a long-haired Peter Frampton appeared in a WWII period drama drinking tea in the jungle and singing
- Ace Frehley says Kiss frontman Paul Stanley called him to say "f*** you" and then hung up
- April 5
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- Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson reveals engagement to Leana Dolci
- Australian proggers The Omnific announce London headline show
- Four f**ks, three p*sses, two sh*ts: Listen to Richard Hawley's fabulously sweary tribute to late Pulp bassist Steve Mackey
- Jethro Tull share striking video for new single Hammer On Hammer
- Gov't Mule announce new album Peace... Like A River, launch Dreaming Out Loud single
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett shares tender memories of the late, great Cliff Burton: "When he left us, Cliff was as powerful as he could be as a person"
- Here's Slipknot's Sid Wilson speaking alien to a hapless reporter soon after Clown promises to "destroy" him
- North Atlantic Oscillation return with first new album for five years
- Therapy? launch video for new single Poundland Of Hope And Glory
- Tommy Lee is auctioning off the chance to join him at a bonsai tree landscaping workshop
- April 4
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- Metallica's Kirk Hammett teams up with Gibson guitars for limited edition 1979 Flying V
- Franck Carducci & The Fantastic Squad announces new live album
- Ian Hunter on the "ruthless, fabulous" David Bowie: "David wanted to be a monster"
- This 1994 Oasis show is all the proof you need to never do crystal meth
- Listen to Aisles brand new album Beyond Drama here for free ahead of release!
- Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach says this is the best hardcore song ever written
- Yes, Lars Ulrich reads online comments about Metallica's music: "I challenge anybody in a band to say they don't"
- James Gunn's cracking Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 soundtrack features Radiohead, Faith No More, Alice Cooper, Heart and more
- Watch Paula Yates conduct a cheeky backstage interview with David Bowie at 1985's Live Aid mega-gig
- Mike Shinoda labels nu metal "toxic masculinity", says Linkin Park didn't fit as they "didn’t identify with tough-guy sh*t"
- "We were trying to find some light in the dark": Metallica return to the cover of Metal Hammer
- Metallica's 72 Seasons: the full story is told in the new issue of Classic Rock
- An hour-long recording of The Beatles playing at a Buckinghamshire boarding school in 1963 has just been unearthed
- The Cure's Robert Smith steps up crusade on secondary ticket sales
- April 3
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- Watch Rammstein's Till Lindemann play multiple characters in typically maniacal poker advert
- Lynyrd Skynyrd are to continue touring without any original members, following the death of guitarist Gary Rossington
- Ex-Yes vocalist Jon Anderson says his former bandmate Chris Squire visited him in a dream after his death, en route to Heaven: "It was an incredible moment"
- So that wild German Eurovision metal band Lord Of The Lost ended up playing for King Charles last week
- Watch Slash and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons play Sweet Home Alabama at star-studded Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute
- Watch 100 Gecs debut their bizarre, hyper-pop version of System Of A Down’s Toxicity
- Marshall make a splash with their spring sale - speaker prices down by up to 30%
- The Anchoress to release new version of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle
- Maynard James Keenan says he's too old to do a full set of classic Tool songs
- Charlie Benante isn't happy with the hate he gets for taking the Pantera gig: "I’ve never seen more of it in my life"
- I Am The Manic Whale announce Bumper Book Of Mystery Stories and 2023 tour
- Steven Tyler requests dismissal in sexual abuse lawsuit
- Babymetal officially reveal new third member, Momometal
- Watch: WWE superstar Edge used Slayer's South Of Heaven for his spectacular, metal-as-hell entrance at Wrestlemania last night
- Famed record company executive Seymour Stein dead at 80
- April 2
- April 1
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- Morbid Angel fans praise "heroes" who helped injured from venue devastated by deadly tornado
- Slipknot's Jay Weinberg reveals striking new mask for Knotfest Japan
- Gentle Giant's Ray Shulman dead at 73
- “I’m not gay!” How Bowie backtracked on his bisexuality for Let's Dance
- Fan reportedly killed at Morbid Angel gig after tornado rips roof off venue
