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- March 5
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- Someone’s made a wide-eyed Bobby Liebling puppet amidst all the Pentagram memes and I desperately want to buy it
- Stunning new 4K trailer for Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII revealed
- "Life is short and we need to try to enjoy it, and protect the people and the things that we love. The time to protest will come again.” Punk rock icon Bob Mould is back with an album to get you through another American Crisis
- “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
- "He’s back on the drugs, unreliable." Liam Gallagher suggests that the new Oasis line-up will include Peppa Pig, two close friends from Sesame Street, and a character from a cult 1970s TV show, but not Spongebob Squarepants
- "I was emotionally moved watching Megan Thee Stallion interact with her fans." From surprise collabs with rap superstars to playing with Bring Me The Horizon and explosive new album Tsunami Sea, inside Spiritbox's incredible year
- "People had issues with how he treated people – he was emotionally abusive, he was physically abusive." Prince documentary director addresses Netflix cancellation, says the star's representatives were unable to "confront his humanity"
- "You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits." With Vice Grip, Parkway Drive went from metalcore stars to future festival headliners - and jumped out of a plane
- "The second we got the offer for Jimmy Kimmel I said, 'I'm gonna pig squeal on national television!'" Knocked Loose singer Bryan Garris on the Grammys, THAT performance with Poppy and conquering a phobia to bring heavy music to the mainstream
- Big Big Train share new live clip of The Last English King
- I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album
- “A 10cc reunion? It’s a hard no to that, I’m afraid”: Why Graham Gouldman is one of Britain’s greatest songwriters – even if people don’t know it
- The best Black Sabbath songs that don’t feature Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio
- Watch Ghost's new video Satanized and meet new frontman Papa V Perpetua as the band officially announce brand new album Skeletá
- “I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others
- “He’ll be 78 this year, but Ian Anderson is on something of a later-years creative roll.”: Jethro Tull lean into the twilight on inspired and poignant 24th album Curious Ruminant
- March 4
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- “What they talk about is political, and there’s not many bands that do that”: Elton John heaps praise on Ireland’s breakout hip-hop stars Kneecap
- "Verifies the theory that Big Big Train are a band for whom eloquent inspiration and a prolific brilliance comes naturally." Big Big Train's English Electric Part 2
- The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood!
- Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes join You Me At Six to play Bite My Tongue in Sheffield
- "The only way I could approach this was making it up as I went along": Eric Bell on the controversial recording of Thin Lizzy's "new" album The Acoustic Sessions
- “We always wanted to celebrate this album, and to end our live shows at an iconic venue is the perfect way to finish”: After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
- Eric Clapton announces run of US 2025 autumn tour dates
- Why System Of A Down bassist scrapped a collaboration with Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated”
- Sex! Jazz! LSD! The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore on their extraordinary ride - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more
- "I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song we played together": A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
- "We've managed to bring a little light to a time when we need it": This stunning father-daughter version of Supper's Ready may be the cutest, most wholesome performance of the year
- “We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland
- March 3
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- "A band who could contend with Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token as the next zeitgeist-setting metal act." Spiritbox have unleashed another absolute stunner with Tsunami Sea
- The Offspring announces every punk rock-lover's dream tour with Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "She’s so kind to do this. She’s one of the biggest stars in the world right now": Watch a pink sparkly cowboy hat-wearing Elton John perform Pink Pony Club with Chappell Roan at his Oscars viewing party
- “It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend
- The Flower Kings announce new album and a European tour with Neal Morse & The Resonance
- “Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night
- “V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream
- "We were so fired up to go on before Jim checked out that we didn't acknowledge his death and grieve": When the music's over - the story of The Doors' strange afterlife
- “It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog
- "Like remembering your 16-year-old self watch your parents dance at a wedding": Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels
- March 2
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- "I'd like to think that everything people think about me is a misconception": An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen
- Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland dead at 77
- “A universe of strangeness and charm”: Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme is a trip into a subversive, mischievous world of erratic genius
- “The first time I ever got high was with Alex. He was just a terrific pothead, and a terrible influence on me”: The chaotic story of Rush’s early years and their journey from high school stoners to prog icons
- “I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis
- “I was sitting in the studio, thinking, ‘I don’t think we can pull this together, we’re just going to have to split up’”: how Radiohead pulled themselves out of the depths to make The Bends
- “You see people who are into the glamour and ego of it. Music has nothing to do with ego. Music is like being a bank clerk – it’s work”: How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other
- "It's very hollow and astoundingly creatively unfulfilling." Why Wolfgang Van Halen won't make his living by performing Van Halen songs
- "Will we let the machines take the stage, or will we fight for the irreplaceable magic of human artistry?" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page hits out at UK Government's Artificial Intelligence proposals
- March 1
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- “A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness
- David Johansen, New York Dolls singer, dead at 75
- “We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution
- “I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
- “It has pissed me off over and over again through the years that most fans who are real fans don’t really get the record”: the story of the album that was meant to be Smashing Pumpkins' fantastic farewell until it all went wrong
- “Our manager overheard one of Pink Floyd say something about our keyboardist and he threatened to break their legs”: Andy Fairweather Low’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Tom Jones
