Category: Music

In this exclusive extract from his new Fleetwood Mac book, Mark Blake tells the tale of Bob Welch, the man Mick Fleetwood credits as having played a crucial role in keeping the Mac together (LouderSound)

Scarlet Page has shot portraits of some of our greatest rock stars, and she’s got stories about all of them (LouderSound)

Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart (LouderSound)

While in California to promote their Apples And Oranges single, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett began to show signs of the behaviour that would lead to his departure from the band (LouderSound)

Hot off tours with Trivium, Lamb Of God, Mastodon and more, rising metalcore champions Malevolence have returned with a crushing new tune (LouderSound)

Sum 41’s farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever (LouderSound)

The Metal Gods will play across the continent on their Shield Of Pain run from June to July (LouderSound)

Positive Grid launch their Black November sale – and along with price reductions on their groundbreaking Spark Amp, there’s up to 50% off products across the board (LouderSound)

The ‘Amplified History’ collective will take a break for an undisclosed period of time after their summer 2025 tour (LouderSound)

Next year’s Midsummer Prog Festival was due to feature Riverside, The Flower Kings and more (LouderSound)

Dickinson reflects on his 2015 cancer battle and reveals he would have helped Iron Maiden replace him had his voice been affected (LouderSound)

The 20th anniversary of Summer’s End Festival takes place at the Chepstow Drill Hall from October 2 – 5 (LouderSound)

Kisser has invited all former Sepultura members to play at the band’s final show, including the foundational Cavalera brothers (LouderSound)

Unrelentingly Northern in attitude, both parts the slow-burning band that split in two seemed happy with their lot – but is their story one of unfulfilled achievements? (LouderSound)

Former too-rock-for-goth family affair Balaam And The Angel are about to kick off an eight-date UK tour (LouderSound)

It’s only taken the Hall Of Fame two years to upload the official footage (LouderSound)

Stevie Nicks says The Lighthouse is the most important thing she’ll ever do (LouderSound)

Facebook continues to be a source of unreliable information (LouderSound)

Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra’s vision for San Francisco was both a great prank and barbed social commentary (LouderSound)

The Gallagher Brothers have now confirmed 38 stadium shows for 2025 (LouderSound)

London’s best independent music festival confirms 2025 headliner and stellar supporting cast (LouderSound)

Delain continue building up to their new EP, which contains new music, live recordings and updated versions of classic tracks (LouderSound)

A Metal Hammer reader asked Alice In Chain’s guitarist/vocalist which riff defines the band. This is what he said. (LouderSound)

We sit down with the Oceans Of Slumber frontwoman for a quick but entertaining catch-up (LouderSound)

With 1369 pieces and eight minifigures included, this winged wonder from the Dune movie is a sci-fi fan’s dream – and it’s on sale at Very right now (LouderSound)

Percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan reveals how he lost 25 percent of his arm and opens up about that mysterious Slipknot album from 2008 that’s still yet to be released (LouderSound)

Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight (LouderSound)

Tim Bowness’s Butterfly Mind will feature former No-Man drummer Andrew Brooker at December gig (LouderSound)

Jazz, fusion, and a dash of muzak from the drummer’s electronic and acoustic experiments from 1977 to 2007 (LouderSound)

Celtic Frost: From brutality and ethereal beauty to ham-fisted, party-glam travesties (LouderSound)

Retiring Brazillian metallers Sepultura are about to bring the hammer down on the anvil for the last time (LouderSound)

With Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, Scott Weiland fronted some of the best hard rock albums of the early 21st century (LouderSound)

We Are Not Robots is Terrorvision’s first new album in more than a decade, and it’s full of top tunes (LouderSound)

See Robert Plant as you’ve never seen him before, travelling through Italy aboard a luxury Frecciarossa 1000 train (LouderSound)

Bill Nelson digs out 2015’s “gleaming guitar melodic soundscape” album Studio Cadet from the archive for December release (LouderSound)

The punk pair wrapped up a hugely successful 2024 with a riotous Halloween show in London last week (LouderSound)

The lead single from Vitalogy turns 30 this week and now appears to be a line in the sand for the Seattle giants (LouderSound)

Prog supergroup O.R.k. will be supported by UK proggers The Paradix Twin on all dates (LouderSound)

He started out in a college so strict that he couldn’t understand prog when he first heard it. But the composer, educator and tech fan, has made the most of opportunities that came his way (LouderSound)

Living guitar god Zakk Wylde hammers out The Star-Spangled Banner (LouderSound)

The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s (LouderSound)

If you thought they didn’t like Creep, wait til you hear what Thom Yorke & co. make of Pop Is Dead (LouderSound)

The punk trailblazer will be heading to Alexandra Palace next May (LouderSound)

We catch up with New Delhi’s finest Bloodywood in the studio (LouderSound)

Incubus are set to play their iconic 2001 album Morning View in full next year at one very special show at London’s 02 (LouderSound)

Defences haven’t quite perfected their formula yet, but if you love yourself a good slice of modern metalcore, you’re gonna wanna hear this (LouderSound)

The Boss celebrated Halloween in Montreal with a performance of Ray Parker Jr.’s spooky chart-topper Ghostbusters alongside his full band (LouderSound)

The Coldplay frontman was thankful that an alert crew member broke his fall (LouderSound)

Next summer is looking increasingly lively (LouderSound)

Lavish 10-disc package celebrates the Canterbury legend, with hard work done to deliver contemporary commentary and revitalize his 1970 Hyde Park show (LouderSound)

Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album (LouderSound)

Prince’s Purple Rain was the epic ballad that reclaimed rock for black musicians, enjoying airplay everywhere from country to rock radio (LouderSound)

Including Black Stone Cherry, CJ Wildheart, Night Flight Orchestra and five other rock-it scientists (LouderSound)

Ed Sheeran was accused of infringing copyright of Marvin Gaye’s massive hit on his own song Thinking Out Loud (LouderSound)

The Offspring’s Dexter Holland picks his G.O.A.T punk band – and it’s not the answer anyone expected (LouderSound)

Over 350 grassroots music venues, 75,000 events and more than 12,000 jobs are at risk, say the Music Venue Trust (LouderSound)

Is there room for another small piece of Marc Bolan? (LouderSound)

11-CD collection of Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera’s solo work (LouderSound)

Acoustic Sessions reimagines highlights from Thin Lizzy’s first three albums, with new contributions from guitarist Eric Bell (LouderSound)

The Gallagher Brothers’ effigies were burned at the annual bonfire night celebrations in Edenbridge, England (LouderSound)

From All The World’s A Stage to Rush In Rio, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back over Rush’s journey as a live band (LouderSound)

The pressures of fame, blond mullets, ignoring phone calls from rock stars – up close and personal with Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson (LouderSound)

Bowie and Petty loved him, Jagger danced onstage with him, Slash jammed with him – this how Lenny Kravitz’s retro mix of rock, soul and funk made him a crossover star (LouderSound)

Nightwish say they won’t comment until assault case against manager Ewo Pohjola is fully resolved (LouderSound)

Former Primus drummer Tim Alexander explains he has been in a “dark place” recently and desperately needed change (LouderSound)

Singer, band leader, icon – this is the story of Ronnie James Dio’s epic solo career (LouderSound)

Peter Green was one of the greatest guitarists of the late 60s British blues boom – but he never truly conquered his demons (LouderSound)

British drummer Andy Edwards announces he’s quitting (almost) all the bands he’s in via lengthy YouTube statement (LouderSound)

In 2003, Metal Hammer flew to New York to interview Metallica ahead of St Anger. We found a band who were bruised, battered but defiant (LouderSound)

From The Boss to Chuck Berry, Nils Lofgren has played with them all and lived to tell the tale (LouderSound)

At the intimate Troxy venue, The Cure celebrate the newly released Songs Of A Lost World and so much more, offering three hours of surprises, singalongs and pure emotion (LouderSound)

Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird takes deep dive into the friendship Mars Volta and At The Drive-In duo (LouderSound)

Symphonic metal outfit Within Temptation feel the time is right to speak up on the important things (LouderSound)

Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don’t need big production to put on a massive show (LouderSound)

Becoming the bassist for heavy metal’s godfather should have been a no-brainer – but The Prince Of Darkness didn’t have the best reputation after his Black Sabbath firing (LouderSound)

Powerflo, The Halo Effect and Raging Speedhorn are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite! (LouderSound)

The drummer’s baby girl was born weeks prematurely in August, with donations going towards medical fees and other expenses (LouderSound)

Great new prog to enjoy from Keys, Mission Jupiter, Empire Springs, Tim Morse and more… (LouderSound)

The film, about the rise of New Zealand’s Māori metal sensations, will start rolling into cinemas in February (LouderSound)

Scandinavians expand their horizons yet again, but remain in sight of their ethereal, stargazing base (LouderSound)

The Icelandic trio, who’ve toured with Deftones and Him’s Ville Valo, have shared their first original music since 2021 (LouderSound)

The wheels were already beginning to come off Rage Against The Machine by 1998. Luckily, they managed to get into the studio together and prove they had one last statement to give the world (LouderSound)

VOLA kick off their European tour in support of fourth album Friend Of A Phantom today (LouderSound)

According to science, metal is apparently the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to (LouderSound)

Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1984 album Zoolook to be reissued on vinyl with bonus track in January (LouderSound)

Rearranging Testament’s back catalogue into order of greatness (LouderSound)

We dissect the fascinating career of genre-hopping alternative artist Moriah Rose Pereira – known to millions as Poppy (LouderSound)

From their self-titled debut album to to most recent offering Supercharged, this is every Offspring LP in reverse order of greatness (LouderSound)

First new music in almost nine years picks up where the acclaimed +4626-Comfortzone left off in 2015 (LouderSound)

How Bill Ward’s final performance with Black Sabbath was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne’s buttocks (LouderSound)

Allmans/Gov’t Mule man Warren Haynes goes it alone again (LouderSound)

Only Ones singer Peter Perrett follows 2017’s I Wanna Go With Dignity with an album of helpless romance and everyday reality (LouderSound)

Glittering prog-psych indulgence for all (LouderSound)

The greatest band you never heard. Again (LouderSound)

Mastodon man gives brutally honest insight into why touring is so much harder now and why merch got so expensive (LouderSound)

Watch busker play Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Otherside to an audience of one – the man who plays on the record (LouderSound)

Breaking news: The Quireboys finally got off the barstool long enough to make a new album (LouderSound)

Never mind the bollocks – here’s the greatest punk albums that have raged against austerity, Trump and so much more (LouderSound)

Broken Spells, her first release under her own name, is the result of a complete change of worldview, a spiritual awakening and a determination to deliver the mesmerising work despite heartbreaking hurdles (LouderSound)

Alt.prog quartet Envy Of None will release their second album in Spring 2025 (LouderSound)

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades (LouderSound)

Manchester’s premier progressively-minded rock and metal festival has unveiled its first announcement for 2025 (LouderSound)

Black Friday is approaching faster than the Millennium Falcon doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs – but you can save a pile of Imperial Credits on these two Star Wars Lego favourites right now (LouderSound)

Brian May and Roger Taylor go behind the scenes of the making of their debut album (LouderSound)

Fresh from Ice Nine Kills’ collaboration with Terrifier, Spencer Charnas names the horror movie GOAT – and gives an update on The Silver Scream 3 (LouderSound)

Two-stepping in God’s house? It happened, thanks to Oregon’s most exciting metalcore export. (LouderSound)

Amon Amarth x Z2 comic The Great Heathen Army is now available (LouderSound)

The guitar Iommi played on the first “four or five” Black Sabbath albums is still in the restaurant franchise’s possession (LouderSound)

1976 was a pivotal year for Thin Lizzy. Guitarist Scott Gorham, one half of the band’sclassic twin-guitar sound, takes a trip down memory lane (LouderSound)

The incident happened as Thom Yorke approached the end of his Everything tour set in Melbourne, Australia (LouderSound)

Celebrating the finest in American trash and kitsch culture, The Cramps played rock’n’roll at its delinquent, b-movie best (LouderSound)

Guns N’ Roses have been talking about a new album for some time – and now Duff tells fans to stay tuned (LouderSound)

The new six-disc set includes Rush’s Presto, Roll The Bones, Counterparts and Test For Echo albums (LouderSound)

After getting their set cancelled by adverse weather at last month’s Louder Than Life, thrash icons Slayer will be back for the 2025 bill (LouderSound)

From the sadistic brutality of Art The Clown in Terrifier 3 to the stomach-turning dysmorphia of The Substance, 2024 has been a great year for all things horror (LouderSound)

Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda recorded heartfelt collaboration The Old Peace to honour a young fan, Alec Wildey, who sadly died from cancer (LouderSound)

The Body Count leader and Law & Order: SVU star sounds off on Trump, Harris, partisan politics, local government and weed (LouderSound)

Your favourite face-painted, synthpop-loving metal duo will play across the UK next year (LouderSound)

Irish post-punk rockers Fontaines D.C. share details of their 2025 run across the US (LouderSound)

In his new memoire, Brothers, Alex Van Halen says that David Lee Roth was “convinced he was going to be a movie star” so didn’t want the spotlight to shine too long on anyone else (LouderSound)

Portals celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2025 at London’s EartH in Hackney on May 24 and 25 (LouderSound)

The shirts will soon be available to buy in very limited quantities (LouderSound)

Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward unveils his latest original poem, It’s Near, in time for Halloween (LouderSound)

The London hardcore beloveds will host their own Cremation Party at O2 Academy Islington in February (LouderSound)

“We have an orchestra now haha” (LouderSound)

Kiss’ Paul Stanley says that the band had a very “wholesome” relationship with their many groupies (LouderSound)

“Unless you’re Glassjaw, Converge, Refused or further than that, heavy is fucking lame” (LouderSound)

Their 1971 album marked the move from experimental live band to studio-based architects, paving the way for a decade of dominance (LouderSound)

Australian trio’s second album The Law Of Augmenting Returns lays out their case for a rethink… they only wish Jaco Pastorius was alive to hear it (LouderSound)

“Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists”: Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure’s sombre Songs Of A Lost World (LouderSound)

Jerry Cantrell’s new solo album I Want Blood features members of Guns N’ Roses, Metallica and Faith No More (LouderSound)

Two years on from their less than amicable split, The Wildhearts are back, re-energised, with a reconfigured line-up and live shows on the way (LouderSound)

US prog metallers Primus’s live date in the Dominican Republic will go ahead with Tool’s Danny Carey filling in on drums (LouderSound)

Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey are currently on the road playing the music of 80s-era King Crimson (LouderSound)

The Electric Orchestra have scheduled two more UK shows in addition to their final Hyde Park blow-out (LouderSound)

When We Were Young festival 2025 is packing another monstrous lineup of pop punk, emo and alt rock superstars (LouderSound)

In 1999 Metal Hammer flew out to Memphis to meet Slipknot for the first time. A near-miss with SWAT teams, legions of fans and an insane show later, we knew they’d change the world (LouderSound)

Vola continue to move their sound forward on album number four (LouderSound)

The kings of metalcore will hit the road next Spring! (LouderSound)

Graham Gouldman will perform songs he’s written for 10cc and other artists, acoustically, throughout the UK in March (LouderSound)

You can’t get this bundle anywhere else! (LouderSound)

Soccer Mommy – AKA Nashville songwriter Sophie Allison – has released her masterfully emotional fourth album Evergreen. But does its vulnerability strip away its ambition? (LouderSound)

If you were hoping for a City Of Evil 20th anniversary tour to happen next year, we have some bad news… (LouderSound)

Mogwai’s The Bad Fired draws inspiration from a series of tough personal moments that the band have endured in recent years (LouderSound)

Ghost famously banned phones from their L.A. concerts last year, and it seems the practice is here to stay (LouderSound)

With an approach based on belief and cameraderie, the self-described captain of the band’s pirate ship steered them from failing pop group to hit records including Crime Of The Century and Breakfast In America (LouderSound)

Embracing their roots on record for the first time, The Cold Stares’ seventh album The Southern shares a vision of the South you won’t see from other musicians or the media (LouderSound)

Informed by childhood memories, Louise Patricia Crane’s new album is an intensely personal dark fantasia (LouderSound)

The shows will hopefully give fans another chance to behold the majesty of Elwood Francis’s 17-string bass (LouderSound)

“We’re now eager to make a noise and make a mess and make mistakes”: Pete Townsend says The Who will work together again in 2025 (LouderSound)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan group is spearheading a move to get Keith Emerson. and ELP recognised by the BBC’s annual proms programme (LouderSound)

Box set edition gives former Beatles and Pink Floyd engineer the chance to recall the crazy times and ambitious attitude that resulted in 1978’s Pyramid (LouderSound)

In spite of their particularly shouty crowd, Lankum give a dazzling performance at their biggest UK show to date (LouderSound)

Brothers Of Metal harness everything from 80s glam to gothic rock on their fun as hell third album (LouderSound)

Something wicked this way comes, as Papa Emeritus and his ghouls announce their return to the road (LouderSound)

Dorie Jackson enlists the help of Kaprekar’s Constant bandmates, including her father, David Jackson, on new solo album (LouderSound)

Swedish troupe Goat get the room moving to their unique fusion of Pagan rock, afrobeats and tantric psychedelia (LouderSound)

All Day, I Dream About Swag (LouderSound)

The alt-metal pioneers haven’t performed together since 2016 (LouderSound)

Tribulation continue to flirt with the gothic rock flourishes they’ve moved towards in recent years (LouderSound)

11 songs from the era when the charismatic Scotsman and Aylesbury’s finest prog adventurers defined a musical identity that defied dismissal (LouderSound)

Recorded in Nigeria as his bandmates deserted him, Band On The Run might just be the best post-Beatles work by any Beatle (LouderSound)

Including Larkin Poe, The Sheepdogs, Beth Hart (featuring Slash) and five other players, performers and portrayers, each another’s audience outside the gilded cage (LouderSound)

Watch aghast as Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp wrestle David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) into the grave (LouderSound)

Avenged Sevenfold thrill fans at sweaty throwback 25th anniversary show packed with early favourites (LouderSound)

Stay In Your Grave comes from an expanded edition of this year’s Black Keys album Ohio Players (LouderSound)

That old wax magic works for a final lineup ‘best-of’ spread over eight 45rpm discs (LouderSound)

Beth Hart delivers soul, swagger and Slash on album number eleven (LouderSound)

Six Mountain live sets – get ready to climb! (LouderSound)

John Mellencamp is one of American’s great heartland rockers – and record labels, bad press and a heart attack couldn’t stop him (LouderSound)

The electro trailblazers moved away from their poppy beginnings on their fifth record, and the singer says it set them up for everything that happened next (LouderSound)

Straight out of Maryland, Clutch have spent 30 years following their own path and no one else’s (LouderSound)

The Cape Fear star and singer was drawn to a Robert Smith classic from 1989 in the wake of her own troubles (LouderSound)

The band capped off one glorious era with a Best Of and huge arena show in 2011 but it left their singer and guitarist feeling like they’d lost their way (LouderSound)

The Allmans’ big finish, recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York (LouderSound)

Pixies advise Oasis to avoid physical violence –and make plea to open for the Gallagher brothers in Los Angeles (LouderSound)

“Divided between acoustic and electric sets, this is a joy from start to finish”: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are still in thrall to each other on Fillmore East 1969 (LouderSound)

Tensions between bandmates, bust-ups with their producer, divorce – Deftones’ fifth album Saturday Night Wrist almost didn’t happen (LouderSound)

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes reunited in 2005 to make the Fused album (LouderSound)

Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom (LouderSound)

Paul Di’Anno sang on Iron Maiden’s classic debut single Running Free – speaking to Metal Hammer earlier this year, this is what he remembered about making it (LouderSound)

Phil Lynott, Lemmy, Rush, Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins – former Thin Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson crossed paths with them all and has the hangovers to prove it (LouderSound)

Celebrating 50 years of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry as solo artist (LouderSound)

The Scottish trio recently celebrated their first three records with a series of special gigs in London and Glasgow (LouderSound)

Megadeth’s first two albums were thrash classics. And then they made So Far, So Good… So What! and the debauchery caught up with them (LouderSound)

The guitarist gave up a cushty job in the US Air Force to join her twin sister Kim in the band, but soon she was being packed off to rehab (LouderSound)

1999 modern prog masterpiece – their first record with Jordan Rudess – came after the dismissal of Derek Sherinian, the demise of internal “fake democracy” and fights with their label and the media (LouderSound)

An album of covers makes for underwhelming return for LA country rockers Lone Justice (LouderSound)

Phil Lesh, the bassist with The Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, The Dead and Phil Lesh And Friends has died (LouderSound)

Linkin Park, Jinjer and Cradle Of FIlth are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite! (LouderSound)

“In all likelihood, this will be the final Shineback album,” reveals Simon Godfrey of impending third album (LouderSound)

Cool new new proggy sounds from Virtual Symmetry, Alex Carpani, Raven Sad and more… (LouderSound)

Tool Live In The Sand will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from March 7 – 9 2025 (LouderSound)

UK prog rockers The Pineapple Thief will release new EP The Last Run in November (LouderSound)

Stevie Nicks revisits the moment she knew she didn’t want to be in a band with Lindsey Buckingham anymore: “I dealt with Lindsey for as long as I could. You could not say that I did not give him more than 300 million chances.” (LouderSound)

Halsey’s fifth studio album embodies the women who have been eaten up and spat out by Hollywood – and does so marvellously (LouderSound)

The Welsh rockers will release Critical Thinking, their 15th record, in January and a tour will follow in the spring (LouderSound)

The news arrives with Kate Bush’s new self-directed video, Little Shrew, released in aid of charity War Child (LouderSound)

Mastodon will subheadline Sunday at Bloodstock, playing right before Gojira (LouderSound)

The Von Hertzen Brothers are back from the brink (LouderSound)

Canadian maverick Devin Townsend releases his most straightforward album in years (LouderSound)

Hip hop heavyweight Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Spiritbox for the second time (LouderSound)

Let’s do the timewarp again (LouderSound)

Big issues are buried beneath thrilling next-gen punk on the Aussie bawlers’ third album (LouderSound)

80-year-old ex Yes singer recalls effectively passing in his wife’s arms – before a series of incidents returned him to health, creativity and a new appreciation of his past and future (LouderSound)

Regal reissue of overlooked debut album, now with previously unreleased material (LouderSound)

Influential icons Pixies’ second act refuses to die (LouderSound)

Forever big in Japan (LouderSound)

A short tribute to one of rock’s all-time great bassists, Cream legend Jack Bruce (LouderSound)

She’s only saying what we all think (LouderSound)

Over Each Other is the third Linkin Park single since the nu metal legends resumed service in September (LouderSound)

The hard rock pontiffs’ concert/comedy movie will soon be available on DVD, Blu-ray and VHS, and via Amazon and iTunes (LouderSound)

A symphonic metal band adapting a classical piece to promote the opening of a rollercoaster? Why not! (LouderSound)

Lacuna Coil might’ve started out in goth metal but three decades on its only a small part of their magnificent sonic offering (LouderSound)

Singer explains how Arjen Lucassen helped realise her long-held dream, what she’s saying with her songs, and why she chose a colour as her solo record’s title (LouderSound)

The Cheltenham weekender will also host Million Dead, Kid Kapichi, La Dispute, Bambie Thug and dozens more in July (LouderSound)

It had a cow’s arse on the cover and a features track sampling their roadie cooking bacon – but their fifth record’s wild genius paved the way to their future (LouderSound)

70 of the 100 bands that will play Germany’s two monster metal weekenders have now been named (LouderSound)

The song TYG, out October 25, will mark the prog metalcore sensations’ second collaboration with Stallion (LouderSound)

After breaking into the US top 50 with 2022’s Oh What The Future Holds, Fit For An Autopsy are still pushing boundaries of deathcore (LouderSound)

Dialling back on the aggressive approach that has helped bring Idles this far, and putting swing to the stomp, Idles’ latest album is intended to make you shake a leg rather than a fist (LouderSound)

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is currently taking his one-man prog band concept to arenas across the Pacific Rim (LouderSound)

“Mockingbird is a tender reflection on the perpetual journey of becoming” – Rebecca Lovell (LouderSound)

The limited edition book “offers an unfiltered peek into the mind of a man whose view of the world was wryly humorous and timelessly prescient” (LouderSound)

18 months after Metallica’s M72 tour began, the band have finally announced shows down under (LouderSound)

To quote John Cena: “Are you sure about that?” (LouderSound)

Linkin Park and Korn will join a double dose of Metallica, plus more than 100 other bands, at the Columbus weekender in May (LouderSound)

25 years on from their self-titled debut, Slipknot look back at the years that helped them define 21st Century metal (LouderSound)

“They were ripping these albums apart and killing it before these other bands!” (LouderSound)

Black Friday means amazing deals on Lego sets for all ages – everything from Lego Star Wars and Marvel, to family favourites. Here’s everything you need to know (LouderSound)

Amyl And The Sniffers hit the cover of Louder, where they discuss everything from new album Cartoon Darkness, to the best rumours they’ve ever heard about themselves and how to succeed in pub rap battles (LouderSound)

Ukraine’s finest will release their next record in February (LouderSound)

Brian Eno and Dutch artist Bette A. will release What Art Does in January (LouderSound)

Hevy Devy says savvy branding on Instagram and TikTok is a bigger part of being a musician than actually making music (LouderSound)

“To all the folk who are crying about us not showing love to the young bands and not letting them support there’s LEVELS to this game and I’m afraid 99% of ya are way off” (LouderSound)

“I’ll still be banging my head to [Lady Gaga’s] Paparazzi on my deathbed,” the Metal God declares (LouderSound)

The infectiously groovy Metallica bass player RobTrujillo was floored when he discovered Steven Wilson (LouderSound)

Babymetal will return to Europe in 2025, and they’re bringing some stellar supports with them (LouderSound)

Bassist/vocalist reflects on his band being called the next big thing – but also the most unsellable product of all time (LouderSound)

Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you’d want to join (LouderSound)

Almost 50 years on from their formation, NWOBHM spearheads Saxon and much-loved frontman Biff Byford are verging on national treasure status – and these are their best albums (LouderSound)

The Living Room Sessions tour will find Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger telling stories, playing Halestorm classics and deep cuts, and covering some of the songs that inspired them (LouderSound)

Some fans still cite Iron Maiden’s first two albums as their greatest. This is the best of Paul Di’Anno, the late, great man who sang on them (LouderSound)

House Of Marley reveal the Revolution turntable & speakers sound system, Zion true wireless earbuds and the Smile Jamaica mini true wireless earbuds (LouderSound)

Before you ask: no, Ed Sheeran isn’t on it (LouderSound)

Wes Orshoski, co-director of 2010’s Lemmy documentary, hopes his film about Iron Maiden’s late former singer will hit festival screens next year (LouderSound)

“When they put us in a group, I would always be like, ‘We’re not nu metal, we’re our own thing!’ Now I’m older and wiser…” (LouderSound)

Even if we didn’t know it at the time, this was a nice way to say goodbye to Paul Di’Anno (LouderSound)

Von Hertzen Brothers will release their ninth studio album In Murmuration this Friday, October 25 (LouderSound)

Kentucky hardcore punks Knocked Loose will be hitting the road across the UK and EU next Spring, with special guests Basement, Harm’s Way and Pest Control (LouderSound)

The Radiohead frontman states he has “earned the right” to work on whatever projects he wants to (LouderSound)

There’s still a healthy demand for CD players, and Black Friday is the perfect time to either buy your first one, or upgrade to a newer model. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of this year’s big sales (LouderSound)

Aussie punks Amyl & The Sniffers celebrate nudity with their NSFW video for new potty-mouthed single, Jerkin’ (LouderSound)

The first Better Lovers album is what you’d imagine, which is certainly no bad thing (LouderSound)

A big change of pace from both parties as Nightwish’s Floor Jansen will appear on a track on the new Testament album (LouderSound)

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Erik Rutan updates fans on the profound damage two huge hurricanes have caused (LouderSound)

Inspired by Tolkien at an early age, the Tennessean encountered prog when a punk friend handed over his suddenly unwanted record collection (LouderSound)

There is no greater snapshot of the 1990s than the Nymphs album, but Inger Lorre and her band are remembered for all the wrong reasons (LouderSound)

Billy Idol was part of the celebration that saw Ozzy Osbourne inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame at the weekend (LouderSound)

The Red Rocker also reveals he wanted to audition for Foreigner, but Mick Jones couldn’t afford it (LouderSound)

Unfinished / Between Us Two is an epic, six-minute instrumental (LouderSound)

Watch as Joan Jett morphs into a series of other women and female animals (LouderSound)

The death of former Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di’Anno at 66 was confirmed yesterday (LouderSound)

The release of Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts will be celebrated with an eight-date UK tour (LouderSound)

Paul Di’Anno’s former bandmate reveals he had been speaking to the singer in recent weeks. Di’Anno’s death at the age of 66 was announced today (LouderSound)

Ex-Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di’Anno, who fronted the band from 1978-1981, has died (LouderSound)

Breakout indie game Cult of the Lamb is getting a special soundtrack makeover courtesy of some metal heavyweights (LouderSound)

Psych-punk drummer says his duo took inspiration from the krautrock pioneers’ ability to twist pop ditties into heavy drone experiments (LouderSound)

Metalcore giants Bad Omens will head down under for a run of shows next year with Poppy and House Of Protection (LouderSound)

Alex Van Halen explains why he didn’t join his former bandmates on the road for The Best Of All Worlds tour, performances which focused on Sammy Hagar’s time in Van Halen (LouderSound)

Norwegian prog rockers Seven Impale will release new album Summit, their first for seven years, in May (LouderSound)

Kimi, frontwoman of Japanese power metallers Bridear, makes us a mixtape composed of songs that have shaped her life (LouderSound)

Industrial nu metal meets dub-step on this heavy AF new single by Hi I’m Ghost (Jonathan Davis’ son, Nathan) (LouderSound)

Black Friday will be with us next month – and if previous years are anything to go by, there will be brilliant bargains on CD box sets and more – here’s everything you need to know (LouderSound)

Slipknot’s chaotic, infamous headline show at London’s Astoria on December 13 1999 cemented their status as metal’s next superstars (LouderSound)

Emo kings My Chemical Romance performed their iconic Black Parade album in full for the first time since 2007 at this weekend’s When We Were Young festival (LouderSound)

The Electric Light Orchestra are about to switch themselves off (LouderSound)

Nu metal legends Limp Bizkit are returning to the UK next year! (LouderSound)

Determination to pay tribute to his influences prove he’s a risk-taker with a thirst for growth – which is very prog (LouderSound)

Most sequels suck – but Rob Zombie’s 2010 album Hellbilly Deluxe 2 put modern metal’s favourite boogie-man back on top (LouderSound)

Rush’s 2007 album Snakes & Arrows found the prog icons back from their late 90s hiatus with a vengeance (LouderSound)

At her debut solo concert, shredder extraordinaire Sophie Lloyd largely eschews the hard rock covers that made her famous (LouderSound)

Nu gen trailblazer and Metal Hammer cover star Poppy is a huge fan of Kittie – and here’s why (LouderSound)

The first six albums from Norwegian prog rockers White Willow’s back catalogue are being reissued (LouderSound)

Tribulation guitarist Jonathan Hultén will release his new album, Eyes Of The Living Night, in January (LouderSound)

By 1995, death metal was in terminal decline – but Sweden’s At The Gates made a record that changed everything (LouderSound)

The people wanted Kids Part 2 but the US duo offered up a mind-bending, no-hits trip instead (LouderSound)

The Endtroducing… creator helped to usher in a new sound in the mid-90s, but he’s not exactly happy about it (LouderSound)

Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more (LouderSound)

The Mercury Prize-winning singer cut her teeth in local venues and says they are crucial to artists breaking through (LouderSound)

The death of Nymphs singer Inger Lorre has been confirmed by her record label (LouderSound)

Jack Bruce, John Paul Jones and his ex-bandmate – these are former Van Halen man Michael Anthony’s biggest musical influences (LouderSound)

David Gilmour’s first studio album in nine years, Luck And Strange, went straight into the UK charts at No. 1 (LouderSound)

Standalone single Villain Arc suggests a heavy new direction for Bury Tomorrow – but are they really going deathcore? (LouderSound)

Arch Enemy, Slaughter To Prevail and Bloodywood are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite! (LouderSound)

Great new prog you must hear from Days Between Stations, Tomo Katsadura, Sarah Neufeld / Richard Reed Parry / Rebecca Foon and more (LouderSound)

Bloodywood’s rager of a new single is a love letter to the “vibrant chaos” of the band’s hometown of New Delhi (LouderSound)

There are only 200 available, so get yours now! (LouderSound)

There are only 200 worldwide, so get yours while you can! (LouderSound)

We’re celebrating 40 years of Powerslave – get your limited edition bundle while you can (LouderSound)

The Prince Of Darkness, Foreigner and Peter Frampton are among this year’s Rock Hall inductees – here’s how you can can watch the ceremony live (LouderSound)

There are only 200 available, so get yours now! (LouderSound)

UK prog pop trio Exploring Birdsong will begin work on their debut full-length album soon (LouderSound)

The Aussie duo have crafted a career-best album and one of 2024’s essential dance releases (LouderSound)

One of metal’s biggest bands are celebrating a huge milestone in the most Avenged way possible (LouderSound)

New producer helps Finnish dark proggers explore their more accessible side on ninth album (LouderSound)

Plus Tony Banks, John Lees Barclay James Harvest, Opeth, Phil Manzanera, Frost*, Von Hertzen Brothers, Stuckfish, Haze and more (LouderSound)

Keyboard and guitar solos are back in abundance as Jem Godfrey and his ‘classic’ line-up mixes the best atrributes of their previous four albums into something quite marvellous (LouderSound)

The Hall Of Fame is having another interesting year (LouderSound)

A guitarist who helped define the sound of a genre, both pre- and post- Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore has a formidable back catalogue of classics (LouderSound)

With guests including Axl and Slash, for his new album maverick guitarist Michael Schenker went back to the songs he recorded first with UFO (LouderSound)

A remastered Tom Petty classic, with previously unreleased and extra tracks (LouderSound)

Eavesdropping the blues as two greats join forces for 1983 TV special (LouderSound)

Undervalued pioneers The Yardbirds rock the corporation on 90-track collection (LouderSound)

Ukulele blues from Fleetwood Mac founder and Hawaiin YouTube sensation (LouderSound)

Alice In Chains mainman Jerry Cantrell keeps it dark on solo album number four (LouderSound)

The tenth album from Swedish metal standard bearers Grand Magus minessome legendary themes (LouderSound)

The MC5’s final album Heavy Lifting is a vibrant joint epitaph (LouderSound)

Cult prog rockers The Greatest Show On Earth were one of the first band’s signed to the legendary Harvest label (LouderSound)

Riding high after 2002’s Komalies, Lacuna Coil established themselves as breakout stars – with a little help from Ozzfest, Middle Eastern melodies and a movie about werewolves and vampires (LouderSound)

The track, featuring rare melodic vocals from Alissa White-Gluz, is a snapshot of upcoming album Blood Dynasty (LouderSound)

Henge will release new album Journey to Voltus B in January and announce tour dates for 2025 (LouderSound)

Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions is conflicted on how to approach a second Brütal Legend title, given how the original controversially mixed genres (LouderSound)

The project, named after The Who’s 1970 classic The Seeker, features music from Pete Townshend and classical composer Rachel Fuller (LouderSound)

Stewart Copeland brings his Have I Said Too Much? – The Police, Hollywood, and other Adventures back to the UK in September and October next year (LouderSound)

The former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist was shot while walking his dog early Tuesday morning (LouderSound)

The pop icon recorded the album in 1995, but it is yet to be released into the wild (LouderSound)

The track is from an expanded reissue of the industrial pop-rockers’ latest album Rat Wars, released today (LouderSound)

To celebrate Ozzy Osbourne’s solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, we asked some of metal’s biggest stars for the ultimate Ozzy playlist (LouderSound)

Revisit some sparkling gems from Pink Floyd and beyond, as chosen by members of Marillion, Roxy Music, Asia, Solstice, TesseracT, Haken and more (LouderSound)

It turns out Queen’s Brian May is a big fan of the Queen-influenced The Last Dinner Party (LouderSound)

Can’s classic releases sound only like themselves, yet the band’s influence lives on. These are their best albums (LouderSound)

Mr. Big guitarist and solo artist Paul Gilbert picks his records, artists and of lasting significance (LouderSound)

Featuring Gillan, Thin Lizzy, Suzi Quatro, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Meat Loaf, 10cc, The Who, Max Webster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Queen and more (LouderSound)

“Ronnie started to do art to feed his family” – Bill Wyman (LouderSound)

Get your bids in NOW for a chance to own ultra-rare collector’s items from Iron Maiden, AC/DC, The Cure, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and more – and help support four amazing charities – in the Heavy Metal Truants’ Monster Rock Auction, closing tonight, October 16 (LouderSound)

Joy Division opened up for Buzzcocks in Glasgow in October 1979. Jim Reid from The Jesus And Mary Chain was there, and the gig changed his life (LouderSound)

A short story about David Bowie, Glen Matlock, Iggy Pop and a Pablo Picasso painting (LouderSound)

UK prog rockers Also Eden are currently had at work on a new studio album with a view to a 2025 release (LouderSound)

More Questions Than Answers has come eight years after their previous studio album, but bandleader Gary Chandler knows why it might just be their best-ever release (LouderSound)

The Cure’s Robert Smith picks a 13-track playlist to get fans in the mood for his band’s new album, Songs of a Lost World (LouderSound)

Fish played with Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta, formerly of Fever 333, in London for just their second show ever (LouderSound)

US Chinese prog quartet OU are under Grammy consideration for their single 蘇醒 Frailty and album OU II 蘇醒 Frailty (LouderSound)

“I think about it constantly – that movie is my ‘Roman Empire’” (LouderSound)

Hash pipes, bust-ups and a death metal landmark – how Carcass made 1993’s classic Heartwork album (LouderSound)

The folkloric up-and-comers will headline their biggest-ever UK shows in London and Manchester next year (LouderSound)

Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls drop the new track Big D*** Energy, share details of their debut album Who Let The Dogs Out (LouderSound)

Both tracks will appear on the Metal Hammer cover star’s new album Negative Spaces next month (LouderSound)

From metal legends to rising stars, Aftershock was stacked with amazing moments (LouderSound)

“It’s been 37 years since I’ve seen Jake E. Lee, but that still doesn’t take away from the shock of hearing what happened to him today” (LouderSound)

Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd were the guitarist’s early purchases – making more sense of his presence in Saucerful Of Secrets than it may have seemed (LouderSound)

Livewire, turbo-harmonised, disco-rocking Swedes Royal Republic are getting ready for upgraded UK and Europe dates (LouderSound)

‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke: “Once we’d cracked the formula of how to work together on Overkill, that’s when we really started to take off” (LouderSound)

The rare Jimi Hendrix tape, recorded in 1968, is expected to fetch up to £200,000 next month (LouderSound)

Orianthi wielded her axe on the runway as I Love Rock N’ Roll and Are You Gonna Go My Way soundtracked the strutting supermodels (LouderSound)

Alex Van Halen has approached the makers of ChatGPT to explore the possibility of creating new guitar solos (LouderSound)

With UK and US dates sold out across the board, Oasis are busy padding their wallets further down under (LouderSound)

With I Want Blood, his new solo album, set for release later this week, Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell reveals his early 2025 tour plans (LouderSound)

Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley is angry that his former mentor and manager Greig Nori is calling him a liar over allegations made in Whibley’s memoir Walking Disaster. Watch his emotional video (LouderSound)

The line-up for Sick New World 2025 has been revealed, and it’s ridiculously great, tbh (LouderSound)

The shooting took place as Jake E. Lee was out walking his dog (LouderSound)

Alex Van Halen reveals that Ozzy Osbourne was in the frame to front a new look Van Halen at the start of the millennium, and Ozzy says that he was up for it (LouderSound)

In 2014, metal star, movie director and bona fide horror hound Rob Zombie tore into the worst horror movie in history (LouderSound)

Co-vocalist Joel Hokka reveals the band whose success made Blind Channel realise they can step away from the spotlight (LouderSound)

Chelsea Wolfe announces her final offering from She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, and shares a music video for Place In The Sun (Unbound) (LouderSound)

The Aussie metalcore stars will be supported by Thy Art Is Murder and The Amity Affliction when they demolish arenas next year (LouderSound)

The French duo’s seventh album, Les Chants De L’Aurore, arrived after a period of writer’s block. It’s still blackgaze, but it’s surprisingly uplifting – and there’s a reason for that (LouderSound)

The werewolf-obsessed keyboardist of Powerwolf also has secret ambitions to be a truck driver (LouderSound)

August’s Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger with the likes of Ministry, Nailbomb and Fear Factory joining the bill (LouderSound)

From Aces High to Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, we’ve arranged everything on Iron Maiden’s 1984 classic in reverse-order of magnificence (LouderSound)

Roger Taylor reveals Queen’s potential plans on releasing new music (LouderSound)

Manchester pop proggers Elbow releaed their latest album Audio Vertigo last year (LouderSound)

Operating on the cusp of the genre, they’ve provided plenty of evidence over the years that their roots lay in prog (LouderSound)

The Jesus Lizard are back with a bang, referencing their past, building on it and retaining their sense of humour (LouderSound)

Deep Purple’s albums ranked, from patchy Purple to purple patches, from iconic albums to the one Ritchie Blackmore dubbed “cattle grazing” to the one with the new chap (LouderSound)

With their label ready to drop them after a so-so first album, Aerosmith clung on, dreamed on, and recorded a second that gave them lift-off: Get Your Wings (LouderSound)

Judge orders Martin Shkreli to testify as to how many copies of one-off Wu Tang Clan album he purchased in 2015 might now be in circulation (LouderSound)

Includes the fastest version of The Kinks’ You Really Got Me you’re ever likely to witness (LouderSound)

Jury in Santa Cruz, California finds Theo Lengyel guilty of murdering his girlfriend Alice ‘Alyx’ Herrmann in December 2023 (LouderSound)

Sir Elton John opens up in forthcoming intimate documentary Elton John: Never Too Late (LouderSound)

Produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by David Tedeschi, Beatles ’64 explores the band’s American debut – and will include never-before-seen footage (LouderSound)

German prog metallers The Ocean will perform the whole of Holecene and the best of Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic on European dates (LouderSound)

Devin Townsend will release his latest album PowerNerd, the first of a new trilogy of releases, in October (LouderSound)

We celebrate one of Iron Maiden’s most iconic albums in the new issue (LouderSound)

The Center For A Humane Economy organisation has honoured Geezer Butler for his commitment to animal welfare (LouderSound)

Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós surprise released their experimental album Átta last year (LouderSound)

Blending metal, hardcore, drum ‘n’ bass and hip hop, House Of Protection are a breath of fresh air for heavy music (LouderSound)

Skunk Anansie share details of their 2025 UK headline tour (LouderSound)

Swallow The Sun’s ninth studio album is a subtle wade into lighter waters (LouderSound)

When asked who could play Kerry King in a movie, Kerry King picks out a couple of action movie legends (LouderSound)

The Within Temptation frontwoman and former Nightwish singer would eventually team up for a blockbuster single (LouderSound)

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year (LouderSound)

Pop punk legends The Offspring will hit the UK next year! (LouderSound)

Saturday Night Live has been running for 50 years. This weekend’s Oasis sketch might be the least funny three and a half minutes in its entire history (LouderSound)

This is becoming a habit (LouderSound)

Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks performed two songs on Saturday Night Live this weekend, including recent single The Lighthouse (LouderSound)

It may not entirely surprise you to learn that The Cure’s first album in 16 years is not an upbeat party record (LouderSound)

Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong, Hatfield And The North – how a small town in England changed progressive music forever (LouderSound)

Alice Cooper was the original shock rocker who paved the way for Kiss, Slipknot and every parent-baiting rock and metal act that followed (LouderSound)

Known as “ABBA from Hell,” the German synth-poppers’ 1985 debut had links to Yes, Mike Oldfield and Die Krupps (LouderSound)

Iron Maiden’s current world tour touches down in Aftershock for an incredible Saturday night headline set (LouderSound)

Judas Priest remind Sacramento why they are and always will be Metal Gods (LouderSound)

In 1978, The Grateful Dead and their entourage landed in Egypt for three gigs at the Pyramids of Giza. This is what happened (LouderSound)

New music is a vital part of the package that thrash metal icons Metallica want to keep giving their fans (LouderSound)

Evanescence roll out the hits and some modern anthems in a emotionally resonant set at Aftershock (LouderSound)

UK metal national treasures Architects bring the bangers to Aftershock (LouderSound)

Improbably Poppy is a twisted Sesame Street with creepy vibes, dark humour & threats of violence. It’s brilliantly bonkers (LouderSound)

Poppy brings her unique, genre-hopping sounds to the Aftershock party (LouderSound)

In 2011, Metal Hammer boarded Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden in South America for scenes of madness, mayhem and pisco sour (LouderSound)

Joe Cocker was the unlikely Sheffield superstar loved by The Beatles – but drink, drugs and debauchery almost sent him over the edge (LouderSound)

With 2014’s fourth album Walking On A Flashlight Beam Lunatic Soul found themselves travelling down a far deeper and darker path (LouderSound)

How Opeth seized the prog metal throne with 2001’s genre-defining Blackwater Park album (LouderSound)

Iggy, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Meat Loaf crossed paths with them all (LouderSound)

Slipknot’s anniversary tour touches down in Aftershock for a savage, unforgettable headline set (LouderSound)

Stubbornly starting out with rock operas in the grunge era, he’s managed to secure guest spots from James LaBrie, Fish, Mikael Akerfeldt and others – but he still regrets the ones who got away (LouderSound)

2013 was a banner year for Metallica – a brand new record label, their first gigs in China and the ambitious but divisive 3D movie Through The Never (LouderSound)

In 1973, Rick Wakeman released The Six Wives of Henry VIII as his second studio album. Now, 51 years on, he’s revealed which wife is his favourite (LouderSound)

Watch the video for Next Big Thing, the latest single from Du Blonde’s forthcoming Sniff More Gritty album (LouderSound)

Alt pop-star Halsey drops I Never Loved You, the latest track to arrive from her upcoming new album The Great Impersonator (LouderSound)

From such stars as Dream Theater and Myles Kennedy to an array of up-and-coming talent, hear the best new music of the week – and vote for your favourite! (LouderSound)

It’s been a long road, but RØRY is finally reaping the rewards of her hard work (LouderSound)

Ice Nine Kills share the gruesome new video for A Work Of Art, lifted from the Terrifier 3 soundtrack, featuring gnarly murders, a bloody mosh pit and a Art the Clown bass solo (LouderSound)

On October 11 1994, five misfits from Bakersfield, California would release an album that would change metal forever (LouderSound)

Great new prog you have to hear from Ross Valory, We Are Bodies, Yenisei, The Progressive Souls Collective and more (LouderSound)

Pritam Adhikary of the Indian metal band Aarlon features on a Bhangra vocal playthrough of Tyranny (LouderSound)

Imminence dazzle a packed-out Ballroom with their bewitching orchestral metal (LouderSound)

Halestorm confirm their status as one of modern rock’s most reliably enjoyable live bands (LouderSound)

His colourful life and remarkable times feature Sir Richard Attenborough, The Nolan Sisters, Ruud Gullit, Michael Jackson (and Morris Minor And The Majors’ Stutter Rap) (LouderSound)

Ayreon will perform five shows in Tilburg in the Netherlands in September (LouderSound)

Still got it? Slayer never lost it. What a show! (LouderSound)

Marking the Canadian trio’s R40 Tour, Prog asked 40 people including Steven Wilson, Arjen Lucassen, Steve Rothery and more famous fans to pick their top tracks – with some surprising results (LouderSound)

Hayley Williams shares message boosting supportive mental wellness organisations on World Mental Health Day (LouderSound)

With friends (and bandmates) reunited for Dream Theater’s 40th anniversary, it’ll be a special night for fans at Wembley Arena later this month (LouderSound)

Almost 40 years after the band called it a day, Viva Lone Justice is just around the corner (LouderSound)

Also in this issue: Jack Russell, Nikki Sixx, The Offspring, Myles Kennedy, Bill Wyman, Tuk Smith, Howlin’ Wolf, MC5, The Damned, Steve Howe and more (LouderSound)

Def Leppard’s spectacular homecoming show, now available on CD and DVD (LouderSound)

Southern-fried blues by way of Manchester, in need of more stardust (LouderSound)

The blues boy from Ballyshannon at his peak (LouderSound)

Earthy roots are revisited for Swedish collective Goat’s surprise-laden sixth album (LouderSound)

The Offspring hit a late-career peak with fired-up 11th album Supercharged (LouderSound)

Good vibes galore on the 11th album from tireless Californian pop-punk lifers The Offspring (LouderSound)

Doctor Bryan Keith ‘Dexter’ Holland, Ph.D., gets very excited talking about viruses, and his passion is kinda contagious (LouderSound)

English indie-rockers The Libertines were always surrounded by drama, but when supermodel Kate Moss entered their lives, things got even wilder, sometimes dangerously so (LouderSound)

Three Days Grace, Daughtry, Sevendust and Nothing More will join the arena-metal giants as they play across North America next year (LouderSound)

Ice-Ts metal band Body Count will release their new album Merciless in November (LouderSound)

Parasomnia, Dream Theater’s first new album with Mike Portnoy for 16 years, will be released in February (LouderSound)

How have Scorpions, Trouble and an obscure power metal band shaped one of melodeath’s biggest names? Michael Amott and Daniel Erlandsson explain. (LouderSound)

Nixon, known for their Metallica, Rolling Stones & Grateful Dead timepieces and merch, release an eye-catching range of Nirvana watches (LouderSound)

Starting as an art-rock project in the vein of 10cc or Queen, work with producer Mutt Lange and the 1978 single 5.7.0.5. let to dispute, distraction and eventual destruction after several promising proggy albums (LouderSound)

Alex Van Halen makes a beautiful tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen in his new audiobook, Brothers, which is also set to feature a previously unreleased song composed by the pair (LouderSound)

“New evidence has emerged within the last few weeks,” says D.A. George Gascón (LouderSound)

Genre-splicing star Poppy appears on Metal Hammer’s cover for the first time ahead of new album Negative Spaces (LouderSound)

Liam Gallagher says him and his brother won’t be engaging with the media as a pair due to worries that journalists might try to spark conflict between them, but also because they “can’t be arsed” (LouderSound)

After their first show in five years, System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian admits Scars On Broadway already have their third album ready and waiting (LouderSound)

In 2012 Rush’s drummer Neil Peart told us about modern alchemy, thinking big, how Nirvana influenced Rush, and why he’d never watch Beyond The Lighted Stage (LouderSound)

Almost 20 years since his last ful-length album, Shavo Odadjian is roaring back with his heaviest band to date (LouderSound)

Tales of the first true progressive rock album, from two of the men who made it (LouderSound)

The official sound of prog, made in Birmingham (LouderSound)

Riffs and sky-high choruses galore on Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy’s third solo record, The Art Of Letting Go (LouderSound)

Songs Of A Lost World will be the first album from The Cure since 2008’s 4:13 Dream (LouderSound)

“It finds complexity in simplicity, and power in loss“: James Dean Bradfield on Dirt (LouderSound)

Piece By Piece is “a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams”, apparently (LouderSound)

Want to own a single track from Green Day’s Dookie on a toothbrush, mini disc, wax cylinder, teddy bear or Fisher Price record? Of course you do, but you have to earn it (LouderSound)

Simmons has been criticised for offering shallow critiques and making “weird and gross comments” (LouderSound)

Get your neck broken by Neckbreakker when they release their first album on December 6 (LouderSound)

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recalls being nine years old and getting to watch the band that were “loudest and coolest thing” he’d ever seen (LouderSound)

Neal Morse & The Resonance will release new album No Hill For A Climber in November (LouderSound)

Stephen Shult, 58, died after sustaining injuries at Riot Fest on September 22. His friends and the festival have offered disputing accounts of what happened. (LouderSound)

Motley Crue make a not-so-grand entrance for the first of their Hollywood Takeover shows as they roll out of the back of a trash-filled garbage truck (LouderSound)

This year’s Aftershock is stacked with massive names, but there are some outstanding young bands on the bill that deserve your attention (LouderSound)

Avery auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, but the role ultimately went to Robert Trujillo (LouderSound)

Inspired by a new synth, the Yes veteran has created something of a taster showreel in his latest outing with son Dylan (LouderSound)

Build a slice of movie magic for less with these Hollywood-inspired Lego Icons kits. Save money ahead of the Christmas rush (LouderSound)

It’s the last day of Amazon’s Big Deal Days, but there’s still time to get your hands on discounted rock and metal t-shirts – up to 30% off (LouderSound)

Amplifier celebrate the 20th anniversary of self-titled debut album with a live stream in November (LouderSound)

19 years after first singing about banana terracotta pie on Vicinity Of Obscenity, System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian has tried one (LouderSound)

The track is taken from the melodeath stars’ impending album Blood Dynasty (LouderSound)

Not content with mastering melodeath Mikael Stanne is leading a goth pop revolution with Cemetery Skyline’s debut, Nordic Gothic (LouderSound)

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night (LouderSound)

Foreigner blended hard rock and atmospheric ballads to the tune of more than 80 million sales – and now they’re on their way to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (LouderSound)

Delivering a deafening but dextrous bass-in-your-face assault, John Entwistle was a key part of The Who’s sound – and also their chemistry. This is his story (LouderSound)

Twenty-five years ago the Human Clay album put Creed on top of the world, but it was the calm before the storm (LouderSound)

1965 marks the 60th anniversary of Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison’s first encounter at Venice Beach (LouderSound)

Anyone at the show not bitten by a bat does not need to seek medical attention (LouderSound)

The Limp Bizkit frontman filed the suit at federal court in Los Angeles (LouderSound)

The Struts frontman Luke Spiller hasn’t given up on his dream of writing a James Bond film theme, even if he lost out to Billie Eilish last time (LouderSound)

The success of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral album made Trent Reznor lose his mind. But as a new millennium dawned, he found a way out of the abyss (LouderSound)

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event is now in full swing – here are my favourite CD and vinyl bargains you can grab on both sides of the Atlantic (LouderSound)

Mikael Stanne picks the ten death metal albums that put him on the path to making melodeath history (LouderSound)

All proceeds will go to US charity Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (LouderSound)

The Keenans’ Queen B Vinyl cafe will host such artists as Thou, Galactic Empire and more from October 23 (LouderSound)

After spending endless nights on the road – complete with Stacia Blake colouring their shows – the band proved what a musical powerhouse they’d become with their second record in 1971 (LouderSound)

The Los Angeles band’s mix of angst and anthems prove to be as effective – and emotionally resonant – as ever (LouderSound)

Across five blistering songs, Reading bruisers Sylosis summarise everything that makes them one of Britain’s best metal bands (LouderSound)

Rubin, who co-produced every System Of A Down album from 1998 to 2005, explains why the band split his sides for an entire set (LouderSound)

Deryck Whibley alleges he was groomed and sexually abused by Sum 41’s first manager, Greig Nori, while he was a teenager (LouderSound)

Tears For Fears will release Tears For Fears Live (A Tipping Point Film) and live album Songs For A Nervous Planet in October (LouderSound)

Jean-Michel Jarre will release ‘phygital’ live album Versailles 400 on vinyl and CD with exclusive digital content (LouderSound)

Reactivated nu metal sensations Linkin Park played Heavy Is The Crown live the day it came out last month. Watch the performance in glorious HD now. (LouderSound)

UK prog quartet Frost* will release double concept album Life In The Wires in October (LouderSound)