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- August 31
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- Gong continue their intergalactic voyage with new album Unending Ascending
- Doja Cat's new album artwork looks almost identical to a new album cover belonging to a German metal band, and The Internet is confused
- Listen to an exuberant, previously unreleased live version of Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way
- "These ****ers opened with Whiplash!" Watch Jason Momoa excitedly moshing at Metallica's record-breaking Los Angeles show at the Sofi Stadium
- Watch this drummer smash out a classic metalcore song with the unexpected special touch of Michael Scott from The US Office
- Toyah and Robert Fripp played an epic version of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir as Robert Plant watched on at a festival three weeks ago and somehow we missed it
- "It took us ten years, for a million different reasons." Moon Safari announce Himlabacken Vol. 2
- Peter Gabriel releases brand new single Love Can Heal, a tribute to murdered MP Jo Cox
- Magma announce limited edition seven disc 50th anniversary Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh vinyl box set
- August 30
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- Marshall’s new Motif II ANC earbuds are primed and ready to rock
- Pink Floyd to release newly remastered Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl, CD and Blu-ray
- "This needs to represent the UK in Eurovision". Watch Jedward react to music videos by metal sensations Sleep Token and hardcore bands Knocked Loose and Scowl
- Hell's Bells, beer and an unexpected trombone: this rare footage of AC/DC backstage in 1983 is an absolute delight
- "Do the holes for your neck in your t-shirts have to be cut bigger for that neck you have?": Watch Corey Taylor react to hilarious trash talk from fans
- Get your exclusive Within Temptation x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an art print signed by Sharon den Adel
- "Sorry, we lied. Everything’s not okay": Neil Peart's sister recalls how family members broke the news of the late Rush drummer's death
- "I'm rediscovering songs I have written and sung over the years." Justin Hayward announces UK tour for March 2024
- August 29
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- "I still confront the expectations of my audience. I rarely give them what they want": Steven Wilson on the "privilege" of being able to do what the hell he likes
- "When I heard that on the radio, I went, Dammit, I should have written that song": Alice Cooper names the emo and grunge anthems he wishes he had written
- The sexual assault investigation into Rammstein's Till Lindemann has been dropped
- Watch Thin Lizzy's historic first appearance on The Midnight Special: grit, charisma, Jailbreak and Don't Believe A Word
- Lemmy's favourite bar is being sued for allegedly creating a "dangerous, sexualized, and hostile environment" for women customers
- "It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Steven Wilson shares first music from The Harmony Codex. Watch the video for Economies Of Scale here
- A beginner's guide to folk metal in five essential albums
- Watch Sophie Lloyd's dazzling shred version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
- August 27
- August 25
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- Former Whitesnake guitarist and solo artist Bernie Marsden dead at 72
- Blackberry Smoke announce new album Be Right Here, launch Dig A Hole single
- "When it came out, I was a raging alcoholic prick...I wasn't paying attention to the songs": Corey Taylor on why he now loves Metallica's St. Anger
- D'Virgilio, Morse and Jennings to release second album
- August 24
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- "Where you hold your guitar for the first time is crucial. It kind of signifies how much of a c**t you’re going to be:" Noel Gallagher reveals a crucial piece of rock star etiquette he learned ahead of his very first gig with Oasis
- "The voice had been there all along... Hidden in plain sight": Listen to Roger Waters' atmospheric new version of Pink Floyd's Time, from his reimagined The Dark Side of the Moon Redux album
- Get your exclusive Skindred x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed art print and a special Smile patch
- Previously unreleased Dieter Moebius album out in October
- O.R.k. team up with Nervosa drummer Michaela Naydenova for 2Days Prog + 1 Festival
- August 23
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- Yes singles collection to be released on vinyl in October
- Ozric Tentacles announce brand new album Lotus Unfolding
- Have the Rolling Stones just launched a new album via a cryptic advertisement in an east London newspaper?
- Fish On Friday will release new album 8mm in October
- Watch Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Taylor Hawkins' son Shane cover Led Zeppelin, Queen, AC/DC and Van Halen classics in a pizza joint
- Disturbed's David Draiman would "love" to collaborate with Taylor Swift: "She's a brilliant woman and one of the great songwriters of our time"
- Are Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith making new albums? Alice Cooper seems to think so
- Watch Chrissie Hynde join Guns N' Roses onstage in Boston for a lively romp through Bad Obsession
- VOLA return with anthemic new single Paper Wolf
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- August 18
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- “I waited for the call from David but it never came. Two days later he was dead”: Graham Nash and David Crosby were on the verge of reconciling earlier this year
- "Sometimes you take a gamble and luck’s on your side": Listen to raw demos from Green Day's 30th anniversary reissue of their 20 million-selling masterpiece Dookie
- "I mean, seriously, how much better does it get?" Dolly Parton on her version of The Beatles' iconic Let It Be, featuring Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood
- Jean-Michel Jarre teams up with Nina Kraviz for chilled out remake of Sex In The Machine
- White Willow reissues programme announced
- "I promise you this, as long as you are here, I will always be here for you": Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor break down in tears during an emotional speech to fans
- The albums! The bands! The stories! The new issue of Classic Rock is the ultimate celebration of the 1980s
- King Crimson announce 50th anniversary issue of Larks Tongues In Aspic
- Rival Sons confirm Lightbringer album details, launch new single Sweet Life
- August 17
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- "Maybe they just don’t care": System Of A Down's Serj Tankian calls out Imagine Dragons for ignoring his pleas to cancel a scheduled show in Azerbaijan, which he claims will help "whitewash" brutal human rights abuses in the country
- "The next day I started putting signs up in guitar places." Corey Taylor reveals the band that inspired him to pursue a career in music - and how it came during his darkest moment
- Tobias Forge wrote Ghost's first song "almost as a joke"
- The Omnific announce world tour for September and October
- A man has set a new world record after playing Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd perfectly on Guitar Hero II but three times faster than the original
- If you'd like to watch 18,812 Australians singing Africa by Toto, that option is now available on the internet
- "You take me back to that time. You remind me what I did on the stage": Jimmy Page on the Japanese fan with the obsession that's been turned into a film
- "We can talk about bubblegum, but I can also talk about things that matter.” Within Temptation return to the cover of Metal Hammer for a world exclusive interview
- August 16
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- Corey Taylor: "For eight years I was married to the wrong woman. It was a very toxic relationship and it ate a part of me that I don't know if I'll ever get back"
- "Nobody with any sense would pay and queue for a ticket just to stand on a seat and scream and not hear one sound from the stage": it turns out George Harrison's mum had her doubts about The Beatles
- Dave Lombardo defends Lars Ulrich and isn't happy with his haters: "I admonish the people who talk **** about him"
- Rick Wakeman teams up with Jah Wobble and Chester Thompson for new track Io
- Chris Daughtry says Joe Perry called him about replacing Steven Tyler in Aerosmith
- TesseracT reveal new video game play in visualizer for The Grey
- "It sounds a bit like they’re speaking underwater, but it’s our first shot at this": scientists have recreated Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall using patients' brainwaves
- House Of Marley “satisfy the soul” with the new Stir It Up Lux turntable
- August 15
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- Curved Air appeal for new guitarist on social media
- "It had a very spiritually sexual vibe": Red Hot Chili Pepper's John Frusciante once claimed to have an encounter with a horny ghost whilst recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik in a haunted mansion
- Oceans Of Slumber sign new record deal with Season Of Mist
- Subsignal unveil new line-up for album number six
- August 14
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- Some people on the internet are angry at Stevie Nicks for being "tone deaf" to wildfire situation in Hawaii
- "We will ALWAYS encourage creative expression, we will NEVER stifle it": Ghost fans were asked to remove face paint at a show, and the band were not impressed
- "It’s so dope and so different... it really is the long-lost album": Corey Taylor says Slipknot's Look Outside Your Window album will finally be released in 2024, and admits that he's kinda to blame for the delay
- “This motherf****r better know the song!” Watch Michael Bublé front Foo Fighters in San Francisco
- August 13
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- August 11
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- Nice moves, Robert! Watch Fripp and Toyah's backstage dance-off
- Dee Snider takes aim at Kiss, Ozzy and Scorpions over retirement plans: “I see people singing Crazy Nights and they’re not so crazy any more”
- "I’d pay to be in it!": Noel Gallagher names his dream supergroup, featuring some very familiar faces
- Greta Van Fleet take lessons on longevity from tour partners Metallica
- Mick Fleetwood's Hawaii restaurant destroyed by wildfire
- August 10
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- Tonbridge Castle's Walled Garden Festival cancelled
- "With Van Halen, I learned a lot of how I didn’t want things to be with Mammoth": Wolfgang Van Halen on the lessons he took away from playing in his dad's band
- David Gilmour and The Orb's Metallic Spheres remixed and reimagined
- The 1975 must pay Good Vibes festival promoters two million pounds by August 14 or face court action
- "Their collective dishonesty is beyond shameful. God help Britain": Queen's Brian May hits out at the UK government and Britain's right-wing press
- "This album almost destroyed our lives!" Earthside return with first new album for eight years
- August 9
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- The Band’s Robbie Robertson dies at 80
- It turns out that Kiss sound like the happiest group of musicians in the world if you mix them with the J. Geils Band
- Corey Taylor: "There are a lot of people in Iowa that are very ashamed of the fact that Slipknot comes from there"
- Hawklords announce new album Space
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson: "Euronymous got me into prog!
- August 8
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- "It's like two different people, like watching a movie": AC/DC's Angus Young reveals what it's like to be Angus Young onstage
- GOAT will release new album Medicine in October
- This Winter Machine sign new deal for album number four
- "Oh god, there’s a weird old guy naked right in front of me": Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong share his memory of meeting a nude Roger Daltrey
- "From the moment that Steph gets the mic, this is no longer a Paramore show, this is a Steph Curry show": watch NBA superstar Stephen Curry sing Misery Business with Paramore in San Francisco
- Fates Warning to stop releasing new albums
- August 7
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- "There is not a single redeemable factor involved in this film. I'm in." A new horror film about a killer sloth called Slotherhouse is going viral for just how ridiculous it is: watch the trailer now
- Crazy On You: Watch Heart's explosive television debut on The Midnight Special in 1977
- In 2001, Nintendo approved a Pokémon nu metal song, and it’s honestly worse than you could ever imagine
- "Oh lord, YEAAAH!": Listen to this "scary accurate" AI James Hetfield cover of Black Sabbath's War Pigs
- "If it's not good enough for myself, it's not good enough for you!": Watch Kirk Hammett botch the intro to Metallica's Nothing Else Matters at a recent show
- "I can't do this": Watch Chad Kroeger halt Nickelback show due to "absolutely destroyed throat"
- August 5
- August 4
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- Bill Bruford surprises fans with live performance at John Wetton Tribute show
- Prog teams up with Voyager for a keytar-tastic bundle
- Trevor Rabin shares first new vocal-led music for over 30 years
- Downes Braide Association hook up with Francis Dunnery for Keep On Moving
- You can now view Freddie Mercury's stage costumes, photos, hand-written lyrics, the piano on which he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and his silk kimono collection before they go under the hammer
- Watch Dave Mustaine angrily call out a drunk loudmouth fan at a Megadeth show before making a weird joke about incest
- Pink Floyd grace the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
- August 3
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- Rare footage of Fanny playing live is vivid proof of what a special band they were
- "I can't work a bloody digital watch, never mind a phone": Ozzy once accidentally texted Robert Plant looking for his missing cat
- John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life tribute concert - important information!
- Someone has designed a load of comfortable armchairs inspired by classic album covers
- "It left me paralyzed on my right side...I was worried my career was over": Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain suffered a stroke in January, is still recovering.
- John Lydon has a stalker who claims to be his daughter: "It’s making me a bag of nerves"
- Haunt The Woods share new single, the "angry proclamation" Now Is Our Time
- Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme thinks bands who don't want to play their biggest hits for their fans are "a little c**ty"
- August 2
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- "A lot of people were saying that they didn’t even know this record existed": Steven Wilson says Richard Wright's reissued 1978 solo album Wet Dream is like "a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album"
- The Emerald Dawn tease new album In Time
- "Wild adventures and wise ruminations": Stewart Copeland on his upcoming Police Diaries
- "Congratulations, this is the most Tool fan post I've ever seen": man divides online opinion after postponing his wedding to see Tool, upsetting his bride-to-be
- Watch Corey Taylor walk through the Blood Prison experience at the "notoriously haunted" Ohio State Reformatory
- Nickelback have taken part in a documentary that explores why people hate Nickelback: watch the trailer
- August 1
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- "If you think you're rebelling against the authority or the man, the only people you're really rebelling against is Metallica": Lars Ulrich explains why he had to stop fans stealing cushions from venues
- Roadrunner Records held a “funeral” for nu metal in 2002 in honour of Killswitch Engage's Alive Or Just Breathing album and the footage is hilarious
- "Sick! So punk!": Luxury fashion brand Saint Laurent is selling second-hand Nirvana T-shirts for thousands of pounds
- "Make it cream, make me scream": Prepare to do the most aggressive twerking of your life to this cover of Cardi B's WAP performed in the style of Slipknot
- If you've got a lot of spare cash you can buy a 10% stake in Led Zeppelin
- Find the perfect fit in Converse’s big Back To School sale
- "Neither James nor Bruce are gonna suck your d**k for this, LOVE": Hayley Williams calls out "incel internet bros" after suggestions that Paramore's enthusiasm for touring compares badly to Metallica and Iron Maiden
- Listen to uptempo new Peter Gabriel single Olive Tree here
