Fish announces the Road To The Isles European Tour 2024
Fish's Road To The Isles tour will be his last European tour ahead of retirement
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Fish announces the Road To The Isles European Tour 2024
Fish's Road To The Isles tour will be his last European tour ahead of retirement
“If one person deserves a knighthood, it’s Ozzy Osbourne”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford urges King Charles to knight the Prince Of Darkness
“Arise, Sir Ozzy” – at least that’s what it would be if Rob Halford had his way
"We’re so excited about our future!" Green Day celebrate scoring fifth UK number one album with 'Saviors'
High five! Green Day score their fifth UK number one album
Robert Fripp and King Crimson manager David Singleton announce West Coast US dates
Robert Fripp and David Singleton tell Calidfronia to "ask the questions that get us out of bed in the morning..." on their upcoming Californian spoken word dates
Nova Cascade launch Kickstarter for "our most ambitious project yet."
UK proggers Nova Cascade plan their follow-up to last year's acclaimed The Navigator album
Caligula's Horse announce European and UK tour dates for May and June
Australian prog metal quartet Caligula's Horse have just released brand new album Charcoal Grace
"I'm still standing up and there's nothing you can do": Frank Turner faces down the haters on new single Do One, announces tenth solo album Undefeated
Frank Turner offers a first taste of Undefeated, "a record about survival and defiance"
Listen to the brand new Elbow single Lovers' Leap here...
Elbow will release their tenth studio album Audio Vertigo in March and your the UK in May
"I'd seen Led Zeppelin, loved it, but you can't touch them: they fly away on a jet plane that says 'Led Zeppelin' on it. The Clash pulled up in a station wagon": Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan on the gig that changed his life forever
In October 1979, 15-year-old Michael 'Duff' McKagan attended a punk rock show in Seattle which turned his world upside down
"You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued
If you've ever craved a fix of truly alternative rock, Gibby Haynes' noise-rock experimentalists had you covered from day one
"We weren’t lying when we said our 10th year is going to be the biggest ever!": Mogwai, Electric Wizard, Explosions in the Sky and Ihsahn among artists newly confirmed for ArcTanGent 2024
The 10th anniversary staging of ArcTanGent is shaping up to be an absolute beast, with over 50 artists added to the bill
"We cannot thank you enough for joining us on our journey." Evanescence's Bring Me To Life reaches one billion streams on Spotify
Evanescence's breakthrough nu metal hit Bring Me To Life is the latest metal song to enter Spotify's Billion Club
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“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard
What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand
“It’s a blessing and a curse… there’s times you feel like they’re hacking up your child! But the real freedom comes in trusting that it will all work out for the best”: How supergroup Transatlantic made Kaleidoscope
Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt either flowed together like streams entering a powerful river – or made a pact to leave control-freak tendencies at the studio door
"They're as good as anything anyone's ever written": My 10 favourite Thin Lizzy songs, by Brian Downey
Drummer Brian Downey, who co-founded Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott, picks his 10 favourite Lizzy tracks
“That was when I knew we had really accomplished something”: Alice In Chains on the transformative success of their Jar Of Flies EP as it turns 30
The grunge trailblazer's had their first Number One with the 1994 EP
"I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness
Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems
"Everybody freaked out about how beautiful Debbie Harry was, but more focus should’ve been on how great that band were." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes picks the 10 songs that changed his life
Paradise Lost, Host and Bloodbath frontman Nick Holmes picks the songs that have soundtracked his musical journey
“I’ve been thinking of taking drum lessons… What I won’t do is put together a new band”: What Nick Mason said before he put together a new band
With Pink Floyd recently wound down, their drummer considered his future – and at the time it didn’t include his Saucerful of Secrets project
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
Bruce Dickinson, Bad Omens and Ministry are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
Great new prog from No-Man, Sleepmakeswaves, Temic and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
The week's coolest new prog music to check out from Exist Immortal, Slowshift, i Häxa and more...
“Headbanging is more fun than going through a windshield!” Watch Iron Maiden star in the bizarre seatbelt safety advert from 1991 that almost got them a meeting with the President Of The United States
Iron Maiden appeared in a Crash Test Dummies commercial in the early ’90s, and Bruce Dickinson almost met the President because of it
"MTV said that if Trump was in our video, they'd put it on high rotation straight away": The story of Donald Trump, $250,000, and the all-girl metal band
How LA hair metallers Precious Metal got Donald Trump to be in a video... and how it all went wrong
"What a revelation! In-your-face, bare-boned, all Ramones, all the time, balls-to-the-wall": How Dee Dee Ramone's private teenage escape inspired a punk classic
After moving to New York to escape an abusive father, pre-Dee Dee Ramone Doug Colvin wrote a song about the coastal escape he frequented
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"Ploughing a uniquely distinctive furrow for over 40 years": New Model Army's Unbroken is timeless, ireful and poetic
Unbroken is album number 16 from enduring British punk/folk/rock mainstays New Model Army
"There's a charming vulnerability to it all, although they still amp up the rock when necessary": Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes' Dark Rainbow
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes shed another skin to show their most sensitive side on album five
“Ginger Baker stamps, thumps and whacks his personality into these numbers… he sounds a bit confused and well-lubricated, much to the evident, if a little strained, amusement of his bandmates”: Baker Gurvitz Army’s Neon Lights: The Broadcasts 1975
They own the stage in collection of five live performances which will please old campaigners and new recruits alike
“There’s bravery in their willingness to express deep, often dark emotions. The subject matter may be confounding for some… but they sound completely assured of their direction”: Caligula’s Horse return with Charcoal Grace
It’s a sombre, reflective counterpoint to 2021’s Rise Radiant, which hopefully offers the band some catharsis
"What these boys never had was that one great album or hit single that could lift them into rock's premier league": Mama's Boys' Runaway Dreams is a reminder of early potential
Runaway Dreams 1980-1992 is a five-CD collection from Northern Ireland’s much-missed band of brothers, Mama's Boys
"Bursting with ambition and energy from start to finish, Lucifer’s latest is a reminder that the Devil still has the best tunes." Lucifer's V is another knockout from the Swedish occult rockers
Five albums in and Johanna Platow Andersson's doomy occult sect are still producing retro-style infernal brilliance
Bright & Black's self-titled debut: members of Opeth, Meshuggah, Apocalyptica, Entombed AD and Watain unite to make epic orchestral metal
With an all-star line-up of metal musicians serving as composers, Bright & Black's orchestral debut is the first serious contender for the best metal album of 2024
"There is a compelling argument that with Goodnight L.A. Magnum temporarily lost their identity and became something they were not": Goodnight L.A. by Magnum
Goodnight L.A. was meant to be Magnum’s big chance to break America, but eventually wasn't released there at all
“It’s no wonder the lyrics are maudlin, but despite the difficulty of its creation, it’s still worthy of celebration”: Damnation is the Opeth album that works best on vinyl
"Saviors is the sound of reassuring rebellion from the midst of the 21st Century breakdown": Green Day's Saviors is part hurtling punkarama, part political rock drama
Punk pop masters Green Day return to formula on 14th album Saviors, with the odd sprinkle of Gallagher
