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- August 31
- August 30
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- “It’s boring. It’s over. He left our pop group when I was in my 30s.” David Gilmour says he'll talk about his fall-out with Roger Waters “one day”, admits he doesn't know his old friend's post-Pink Floyd work
- “Don't even think about using my music you fascists.” Jack White labels Donald Trump “scum”, and promises the former US President that he'll be hearing from his lawyers
- Watch Metallica’s James Hetfield act opposite Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage in new clip from The Thicket
- Order your limited edition Nightwish x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an exclusive t-shirt!
- Marilyn Manson claims Evan Rachel Wood faked letter from FBI agent in new legal appeal
- Christine McVie's Fleetwood Mac memorabilia, wardrobe and belongings to be sold in auction as a "celebration of her extraordinary talent and enduring impact on music"
- Watch Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale cover Crawling amid rumours of Linkin Park returning with female singer
- Beardfish share first new music since reuniting. Listen to In The Autumn here...
- “Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” Primal Scream offer a cautionary warning about our troubled world with Deep Dark Waters
- “It’s a warning to those who have crossed me”: Irish Eurovision alumnus Bambie Thug releases new single Hex So Heavy with nightmarish music video
- Rosalie Cunningham reveals details of new album To Shoot Another Day
- “My pursuit of work and all things ego was killing me. And nearly killed me.” Slipknot’s Corey Taylor explains 2024 breakdown
- You can now stream Gojira’s performance at the 2024 Olympic Games on Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
- Linkin Park announce next announcement
- August 29
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- "A joyous anthem for an era of self-hatred": Manic Street Preachers launch celebratory new single Decline & Fall
- New six-disc reissue for Porcupine Tree's Fear Of A Blank Planet
- "I just thought he looked like a 13th-century serf from Monty Python": Why Courtney Love turned Oasis' Liam Gallagher down
- "Like Van Halen reincarnated": Watch 10-year-old guitarist Maya Neelakantan blaze through her Metallica-approved performance of Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent
- How to watch this weekend’s epic WWE Bash In Berlin
- “We’ve been creative little weirdos.” The Last Dinner Party share cover of Sparks' This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us, talk up second album plans
- “I really thought this album might be the last one I ever made…”: Halsey shares time-warping trailer for new album The Great Impersonator
- Oasis tickets haven't even gone on sale yet and they've already added more dates
- Michael Schenker launches version of UFO classic Only You Can Rock Me aided by Joey Tempest and Roger Glover
- Joy Division Day in Macclesfield will celebrate iconic band and late frontman Ian Curtis
- "Mr Cain is elated with the outcome": Jonathan Cain claims victory in ongoing legal dispute with Journey bandmate Neal Schon
- Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"
- August 28
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- Bryan Ferry hooks up with Nine Inch Nails for his first original song in more than a decade
- Linkin Park countdown starts counting back up, everybody confused
- Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, more added to 2025 Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park lineups
- Gryphon to release their first ever live album
- There’s a metal festival simulator game coming out, overseen by a member of Sabaton
- Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up about offering guidance to fellow LGBTQ+ musicians: "I'm here. I'm queer. Get ****ing used to it."
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor make typically cryptic announcement about new album
- “Shane had dropped an enormous amount of acid. Mark E. Smith was out of his mind on amphetamines. I was literally one day out of rehab.” Nick Cave recalls his “disastrous” first meeting with his dear friend and “angel” Shane MacGowan
- Kate Bush on her love of David Bowie: "He was just the right amount of weird, obviously intelligent and, of course, very sexy"
- "I have a lot of compassion for them...they’ve lost good people." What Mushroomhead think of fellow masked metallers Slipknot now
- "Genesis owes him so much." Band members pay tribute to former tour manager Richard Macphail
- Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night
- Spotify are hosting fake songs by at least 30 major metal bands, including While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Art Is Murder
- August 27
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- Watch Mick Rock's previously unseen video for David Bowie's Starman
- Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley: “I am not joining Linkin Park”
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada
- “I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short
- “I thought the remake was a cynical cash-grab. Not much cash to grab it seems.” Despite all those scathing reviews, The Crow 2024’s harshest critic is the first film’s director
- Haunt The Woods, League Of Lights, Beardfish and more announced as support acts for Big Big Train tour
- Watch this The Voice Australia contestant cover Britney Spears’ Toxic – with death metal growls!
- Johnny Marr posts cryptic response to quash any hope of a reunion from The Smiths following Oasis comeback news
- Japanese metalcore squad Hanabie release heavy new single Metamorphose
- Sabaton will release concert film The Tour To End All Tours to theatres in October
- Will Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley front a reunited Linkin Park? The internet is starting to think so…
- "The great wait is over": After 15 years and countless arguments, the worst-kept secret in music has been confirmed: Oasis have reunited
- August 26
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- Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra have played the first show of their final US tour: setlist, pics, video
- Tim Bowness embraces electro-pop on new single Lost/Not Lost
- Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt features on poignant new Pure Reason Revolution single Betrayal
- Devin Townsend shares first music from new album PowerNerd
- “I had, like, 18 whiskies”: The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to post-rock idol Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham
- Watch Paul Rodgers take a rare guitar solo as Bad Company rock The Midnight Special in 1979
- Watch Status Quo play the last live song they will ever play, probably
- August 25
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- Queens Of The Stone Age cancel all remaining 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives "essential medical care"
- Bryan Adams showcases the "chaos and destruction" of battle in new video for War Machine
- “When you hear the Monnow Valley stuff, it’s not got a swagger to it”: Noel Gallagher on the version of Definitely Maybe that Oasis binned
- Foo Fighters take action over Donald Trump's use of My Hero at rally – and they'll donate royalties to his opponent Kamala Harris
- Linkin Park launch countdown timer on their website – hinting at upcoming major announcement
- August 24
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- “It’s been one of the peaks of my musical life”: Foals’ Yannis Philippakis on his long-awaited project with late drumming great Tony Allen
- “My eyebrows are singed, my mouth is blistered, my arms are pretty bad”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson is hospitalised with “serious burns” following farming accident
- “The Moors Murderers’ Manchester was the same as our Manchester”: Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle on growing up next door to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
- August 23
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- Mötley Crüe have unleashed a cover of the Beastie Boys' Fight for Your Right
- “Putting out a concept album about Moby-Dick could be career suicide”: Mastodon explain why Leviathan is so obsessed with the white whale
- “Everyone thinks it’s Zorro, or Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat”: Crypta frontwoman explains “bad” Beyoncé tattoo
- Spiritbox announce biggest-ever London show at Alexandra Palace, Periphery and Stray From The Path supporting
- Def Leppard's Record Store Day live album is getting a full release
- August 22
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- Ihlo share new video trailer ahead of reissue of their debut album Union
- The tracklisting for The Crow 2024’s soundtrack is pretty goth, to be fair
- System Of A Down aren’t releasing a new album, but bassist Shavo Odadjian is, with new project Seven Hours After Violet
- Robert Fripp, Mike Portnoy, Pat Mastelotto and more guest on new Tony Levin album
- “Maybe I’ll be a bro and let them take our spot up there”: Kerry King names the band who could replace Slayer in the Big Four
- Cyan share video for emotional new version of All Around The World
- The Sheepdogs drop Paradise Alone EP led by "dumb rock song" Take Me For A Ride
- Paul McCartney just made a surprise appearance with Andrew Watt and Chad Smith at a 250-capacity club in Amagansett
- Helmet cancel US tour over financial concerns and poor ticket sales
- August 21
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- Amazon Music Listening Party lets you rock the night with friends directly through Discord
- Cammie Beverly shines on Oceans Of Slumber's epic new single The Given Dream
- Former Anthrax guitarist too busy “****ing around with crazy-ass expensive watches” to think about comeback
- “It wasn’t really till we got out and played live that we realised it was a couple of things”: Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris admits there was “maybe an issue or two” with Blaze Bayley’s voice at shows
- "It's about finding hope in the darkest of places": RØRY unveils the gorgeously cathartic new single In The Bible
- Big Big Train share new live video for Love Is The Light
- “We will look to the horizon of the underground and beyond”: Roadburn festival announces first bands for 2025, including reunited Kylesa
- Hawklords announce upcoming album Relativity
- Listen to lairy new Pendulum single Napalm, featuring Joey Valance & Brae
- See a de-aged Fred Durst appear in trailer for suitably 2000s-themed horror/comedy Y2K
- Watch Tool bassist Justin Chancellor dress as Willy Wonka to prank support band onstage
- "More hair! More clothes! Tighter pants!": The trailer for that Paramount+ show about 80s hair metal has been unleashed
- August 20
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- Listen to Foreigner's previously unreleased Turning Back The Time featuring Lou Gramm
- The Black Crowes announce additional Happiness Bastards dates following Aerosmith tour cancellation
- Three years in the making, the Victrola Automatic could be the perfect turntable for beginners
- “We were a bunch of dirty, stinky pirates!” Order your limited edition Metal Hammer x Mastodon bundle – featuring an exclusive Leviathan t-shirt!
- Canadian prog rockers Huis share brand new single Westminster Bridge
- Solstice, Ghost Of The Machine and Clive Nolan all sign for Progrock.com’s Essentials label
- Legendary New York metal venue Saint Vitus closes permanently
- The biggest rock tour of all time has officially been confirmed - and it's Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres world tour
- “We hired male strippers to come onstage and dance”: Kittie’s Morgan Lander names her goofiest tour memory
- Former Jethro Tull members Martin Barre and Doane Perry guest on new Chris Herin single
- The Hives' joyous video for Rigor Mortis Radio is the greatest 2 minutes and 57 seconds of anything you'll watch today
- "Imagine how much money is being made here": Brian May slams the Countryside Alliance for criticising his badger culling documentary
- August 19
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- Babymetal and Electric Callboy team up with WWE for Bash In Berlin with Ratatata
- Ulver keyboardist Tore Ylwizaker dies
- Black metal breakout stars Blackbraid return with cover of genre classic Warriors
- Win a PRS Guitar signed by Creed!
- Marshall “redefine cool” with the brand new Emberton III and Willen II Bluetooth speakers
- “There are three songs that don’t sound like anything we’ve done before”: Anthrax have written “13 or 14 songs” for new album
- The Fierce And The Dead and Brontide among first bands announced for Portals 2025
- Amplifier announce tour dates for March and April 2025
- "I was just really, really ****ing tired." Nightwish singer Floor Jansen explains why making new album Yesterwynde was a challenging experience
- Von Hertzen Brothers share first music from In Murmuration. Listen to Starlings here...
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon play songs with alt-pop star Aurora and kawaii metal sensations Babymetal at Japanese concert
- Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp release footage of Enter Sandman filmed at Isle Of Wight festival
- August 18
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- August 16
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- Halsey drops Nine Inch Nails and Bring Me The Horizon-inspired rock track, Lonely Is The Muse
- Tiger Moth Tales preview brand new single Return To Chigwick
- Ever dreamed of going on a dinner date with James Hetfield? Well now you can, you just need to bid for his time in a charity auction and foot the entire bill
- Hear the first new Frost* music from upcoming album Life In The Wires
- "People were walking around with water guns full of acid, squirting them in your face": What Aerosmith's Steven Tyler saw at Woodstock
- "We were out on our asses": How Aerosmith took flight with Get Your Wings - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Former Great White frontman Jack Russell dead at 63
- Power pop icon, DJ and novelist Greg Kihn dead at 75
- August 15
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- “We’re lucky to be alive!” Nightwish are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer – and it comes with two exclusive gifts
- Beastie Boys broke open their gold record to play it – only to be confronted by piano covers of Barry Manilow "and some other shit"
- If Creed release new music, Mark Tremonti insists it will not stray too far from their original sound
- August 14
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- Camels, swords and dance: The film of Mdou Moctar's concert at the edge of the Sahara desert is a thing of joy and magic
- “It’s been one of our favourite unreleased tracks to perform live”: Up-and-coming metalcore heroes Heriot get groovy on new single At The Fortress Gate
- "Feeling things so deeply can be a burden": Bones UK drop heavy-hearted new track Knee Deep
- “It’s not Motörhead, and it’s not Radiohead either.” Watch The Jesus Lizard's video for Moto(R), the latest single from their brilliant comeback album Rack
- "I also want to walk through orchard fields and grab apples off of trees at will and fill my belly full of that fruit": Jack White shares unusual plans for No Name tour
- Leprous share video for brooding new single Like A Sunken Ship
- “I’m having the time of my life here!” Watch The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter play ferocious versions of Bodies and God Save The Queen at the first of their three sold-out shows in London
- Fast-rising Australian hardcore crew Speed to headline 16-date Flatspot World UK/EU tour with End It and Life’s Question
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe has seriously had enough of fans filming performances: "You're not Steven Spielberg. Sit here and enjoy the show with me"
- August 13
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- Escuela Grind continue their grindcore rampage with new single Concept Of God
- The Tirith announce new live album Earth Songs
- Gojira who? Another extreme metal musician secretly played the Olympics this weekend
- “It’s very Orwellian, what’s going on. They’ve expanded the parameters of hate speech so that everyone gets offended about everything.” The The's Matt Johnson fears that the world is sleepwalking into a dark dystopian future
- Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo jam Ministry’s Just One Fix live onstage
- Watch Megadeth play rare ’80s cut Liar live for the first time in almost 20 years
- black midi announce they're on "indefinite hiatus"
- The Fierce And The Dead will release new live album Live At Ramsgate Music Hall '24 in October
- Michael Schenker reveals that Axl Rose sang three songs during sessions for his upcoming album My Years In UFO
- Avenged Sevenfold announce intimate club show, playing Waking The Fallen and City Of Evil songs
- "Well here we are again. In the middle of a wonderful tour": Neal Schon responds to Jonathan Cain's lawsuit
- August 12
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- A convoy of 55 Harley Davidson motorbikes has delivered Lemmy's ashes to Nottingham's Rock City
- "I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me
- “It’s the definitive Oasis album. It has the spirit, the arrogance of youth.” Thirty years on, Noel Gallagher looks back at Oasis' era-defining debut album Definitely Maybe
- “Charley was the coolest rock litterati bookworm to ever be lucky enough to know.” Music writer Charles R. Cross, author of definitive Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Heart biographies, dead at 67
- “You’re going to get what you deserve.” Nine Inch Nails to score upcoming Tron: Ares film, starring Jared Leto
- Mongolian metal sensations The Hu announce North American headline shows amid Iron Maiden tour
- “I feel so proud of what we’ve achieved as a band in the last two decades, and it all started with that debut album”: Bullet For My Valentine to release 20th anniversary edition of The Poison, featuring bonus songs and Live At Brixton album
- Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt says he doesn't consider himself a singer or guitarist: "I don't know what the hell I'm doing most of the time"
- “Everyone went mad”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson reveals “the most decadent thing I’ve ever done in my life”
- "He just starts sh***ing in the middle of the room...then bends down, picks it up and starts painting the walls": Tommy Lee on the outrageous prank Ozzy Osbourne pulled next after he snorted ants whilst on tour with Motley Crue
- Hear Pest Control prove why they’re the UK’s most hyped young thrash band with scrappy new single Time Bomb
- “We have talked about this, and I’m sure we’re gonna try to do it”: Tom G. Warrior wants to reunite Celtic Frost for tribute shows to late bassist Martin Eric Ain
- “I don’t play the Trooper fill anymore”: Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain reveals effects of 2023 mini-stroke
- “I was falling in a black hole. It was totally surreal.” Sepultura singer was “in shock” when Eloy Casagrande left to join Slipknot
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers perform Can't Stop in Los Angeles as part of Paris 2024 Olympic closing ceremony
- August 11
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- “They were all about Joy Division. They weren’t about Limelight.” Dave Navarro admits that he's been sneaking his love of Rush into Jane's Addiction songs for years without his bandmates ever realising
- “Hold onto your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!” Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira to headline stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup
- “Audacious, rebellious, and stressed out by the state of the country.” Green Day share plans for epic 20th anniversary American Idiot reissue, featuring a new documentary, demos, live cuts and more
- Swallow The Sun reveal new album Shining will be released in October
- Order your limited edition Machine Head 'Diamonds In The Rough 92-93' red/black Splatter vinyl
- David Sylvian's career-spanning Everything And Nothing gets first ever vinyl release
- August 8
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- “I was that kid making riffs all day in my bedroom p***ing off the neighbours.” Royal Blood take a trip down memory lane in a preview of new documentary Shouting Through The Letterhole
- The Ecstasy Of Gold! Metallica’s Ride The Lightning sales soar amid 40th anniversary celebrations
- “It was like Spinal Tap, but worse”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist says The Prince Of Darkness struggled to write lyrics with Randy Rhoads
- Elephant9 to release new live album with Norwegian guitar legend Terje Rypdal
- “People get their ya-yas when they see people struggling for some crazy reason”: Dave Mustaine explains “animosity” he received after Metallica exit
- VOLA share hypnotic new single I Don't Know How We Got Here
- Listen to ultra-symphonic surprise new Nightwish song The Day Of…
- August 7
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- “A visceral thrill like nothing they have attempted before.” Bright Eyes share punky, Beastie Boys-inspired single Rainbow Overpass, announce huge North American tour to follow European trek
- Watch Deftones give very rare performance of White Pony classic Passenger at Lollapalooza this weekend
- "He was kind, patient and self-deprecating..." Julianne Regan recalls All About Eve working with David Gilmour
- “We’ll be back when it feels right”: Jack Black says Tenacious D will return from hiatus… at some point
- Icelandic post-rockers Sólstafir share melodic new single Hún andar
- Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes reveals that he "fell back into drugs" during the pandemic: "I was just so bored"
- “I returned home from tour an absolute hot mess. So broken that my poor husband had to push me through Heathrow and LAX airports in a wheelchair.” Shirley Manson reveals why Garbage had to cancel their 2024 plans
- “Nothing you are about to hear tonight was written after 1999!” Watch Slipknot kick off their anniversary tour by playing nothing but old school cuts - including two songs not played in almost 25 years
- Tim Bowness announces launch gig for new album Powder Dry
- Nancy Wilson, Lita Ford, Nita Strauss and more to head up women-only Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp
- Famed sad clown Puddles Pity Party launches heartbreaking version of Black Sabbath's classic Changes
- August 6
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- Journey cancel upcoming UK and Ireland tour due to "circumstances beyond the band's control"
- Watch the Metal Queen Doro join Scorpions to perform Big City Nights live at Wacken
- Order your world exclusive Metallica Ride The Lightning t-shirt with Metal Hammer
- “I learned Irish history through Stiff Little Fingers and my worldview education through punk rock.” Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan on the history lessons you don't learn in a school class room
- ”Every time you go into the mainstream, I get really uncomfortable”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt declined to join an Abba tribute band at Eurovision this year
- This Viking folk version of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed is the weirdest thing you’ll hear today
- August 5
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- "If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who
- Listen to the incomparable, much-missed Mark Lanegan on the driving Heard A Train, a previously-unreleased out-take from 2004's brilliant Bubblegum album
- “Bring Me The Horizon? Who the **** is that?” Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith get his head around Oli Sykes' Sheffield shape-shifters
- "I remember thinking, 'Good God, I'd love to front that band.'" Bruce Dickinson on the first time he saw Iron Maiden live - long before he became their singer
- Watch Wishbone Ash play the classic Blowin' Free on The Midnight Special 50 years ago
- "If you're going to do something like this, this is where to do it": Watch Billy Idol play Rebel Yell live at the top of the Empire State Building
- Journey's Jonathan Cain has sued bandmate Neal Schon again, this time as they're on tour together
- August 4
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- “What is happening is the direct result of years of normalised racism and Islamophobia, enabled by politicians and the British media.” Massive Attack share statement calling out the UK government amid violent, racist, far-right riots
- “I've seen parties behind the Iron Curtain that were just too wild to describe.” Deep Purple's Ian Gillan recalls the debauchery and hedonism of the Swinging Sixties
- Gojira, Machine Head, Papa Roach, Within Temptation and many more for Wacken Open Air Festival 2025
- August 3
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- Stars from across the world of rock pay tribute to Aerosmith after the iconic band announced their retirement from touring
- Watch James Hetfield sing Metallica hit Enter Sandman after inhaling helium
- Fontaines D.C. announce biggest ever UK headline show, with Amyl & The Sniffers and Kneecap in support
- Elder side-project delving share trippy video for new single Omnipresence
- “We just wanted to find authentic, heavier, evil-sounding music”: Mikael Åkerfeldt explains how Opeth rediscovered death metal on new single §1
- August 2
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- "Dream On. You've made our dreams come true": Aerosmith announce retirement from touring, cancel farewell tour
- Order your exclusive Evergrey bundle featuring a unique front cover, signed art print and sticker
- Tony Iommi to re-release his two solo albums recorded with Glenn Hughes
- Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
- "It feels like a dream." Opeth reveal new concept album The Last Will And Testament will be released in October
- Before he was famous, Bryan Adams co-wrote Rock And Roll Hell and War Machine for Kiss: Now he's recorded his own versions
- August 1
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- “Loneliness and lack of meaning seem to inhabit the same dark orbit.” Nick Cave offers words of comfort and advice for anyone feeling lonely or lost
- Rick Wakeman pens new adaptation of Yes music for vinyl release
- Jinjer return with climactic new single Someone’s Daughter
- Listen to new MC5 single Can't Be Found featuring Living Colour's Vernon Reid and Dennis 'Machine Gun' Thompson
- Snoop Dogg claims that the late Queen Elizabeth II was “a fan” of his work: “Rest in peace to the Queen, that was my girl.”
- Robert Reed shares cover of Pekka Pohjola's Mathematician's Air Display
- “We absolutely adore his voice and his evil laugh!” Lacuna Coil team with Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe for powerhouse single Hosting The Shadow
- Watch Ian Anderson unbox his new solo career set 8314 Boxed
- "It has become the cult classic we always intended it to be…" Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt's Storm Corrosion gets deluxe reissue
- "I took some of his chill vibe but tried to write something a bit more heartfelt": Listen to Darlin' Baby, the new, Jimmy Buffet-inspired single by The Sheepdogs
