Category: Music

Young UK prog rocker Dominic Sanderson will release his second album, Blazing Revelations, in February (LouderSound)

Ivan Jurić – a fan of Napalm Death, Carcass and Obituary – says he’ll bring an “aggressive” style of football comparable to death metal music (LouderSound)

How Cat Stevens became one of music’s biggest stars – then walked away from it (LouderSound)

After making an unlikely connection, three interviews with a punk magazine editor – which she said felt like psychiatrist talks – illustrate her rapid development from Never For Ever to Hounds Of Love (LouderSound)

Dread Zeppelin: A Song of Hope is out now (LouderSound)

The Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt were among the Class of 2024 at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors (LouderSound)

The only music you’ll need this Christmas Day is this brilliant, ludicrous playlist from The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins (LouderSound)

With their ninth studio album In Murmuration, Finnish rockers Von Hertzen Brothers have replaced their erstwhile prog epics for a more honest approach to songwriting reflecting their personal lives (LouderSound)

Billy Gibbons’ home town of Las Vegas, Nevada, rolls out the red carpet with City Hall ceremony for ZZ Top star (LouderSound)

There’s nothing new about popular bands attracting a lot of hate – and Creed are just fine with that (LouderSound)

Quitting? That’s not Max Cavalera’s style (LouderSound)

1981’s High ’N’ Dry was the record that introduced Def Leppard to America – and changed things for ever (LouderSound)

Gary Holt says his thrash aggressors used to hack hair metal tops to pieces – despite secretly admiring Ratt and Dokken (LouderSound)

After writing a memoir, the guitarist has done the musical equivalent with an 11-disc box set exploring his five-decade career. He explains how he landed his dream gig, how Robert Fripp beat him to a tonal ambition, and why, in a way, Roxy is still active (LouderSound)

Who had the vision to let metal’s eco-warriors decimate the Paris Olympics opening ceremony? Joe Duplantier gives Metal Hammer the answer (LouderSound)

Want to know what our writers and staffers have been spinning in 2024? Here’s the breakdown of every Metal Hammer contributors’ album of the year lists (LouderSound)

When Adrian Belew failed to persuade the 80s line-up to reunite, he had to come up with another way of bringing that decade’s three albums back to life – and he did it (LouderSound)

From the cosmic death exploration of Blood Incantation to the welcome return of Nails and Job For A Cowboy, these are the 10 albums that defined death metal in 2024 (LouderSound)

There’s a raft of Yuletide tunes by the Seattle titans to see you through the festive period (LouderSound)

With Gene Simmons in the production chair, Keel conjure up a small batch of decent headbangers and not much else (LouderSound)

Including Black Spiders, Nate Bergman, Ally Venable and five other bearers of festive rock’n’roll gifts (LouderSound)

Watch Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin unleash the King Crimson beast (LouderSound)

Slayer guitarist says metal scene does a good job of not alienating potential fans (LouderSound)

Watch Kevin Cronin pay tribute as REO Speedwagon officially step away from the stage (LouderSound)

After an initial run at IMAX theatres, Becoming Led Zeppelin will go on general release in the US, UK and more (LouderSound)

Bow down before Manowar’s false metal-slaying third album, 1984’s Hail To England (LouderSound)

Fame, death and resurrection – X Japan’s Yoshiki looks back on his band’s unique journey (LouderSound)

“People have slammed Bohemian Rhapsody but who can you compare it to? Tell me one group that’s done an operatic single?”: The epic story of A Night At The Opera, the album that turned Queen into superstars (LouderSound)

How a song about the “hardscrabble lives” of the fledgling rockers became a timeless rock anthem (LouderSound)

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda recalls the wild shoe-related choreography tips the band wisely rejected (LouderSound)

Amen’s Casey Chaos – aka Karim Chmielnski – also worked with Christian Death and a string of other projects (LouderSound)

The drugs really were working for Aerosmith on 1976’s classic Rocks album (LouderSound)

It’s Zakk Wylde’s world – we just live in it (LouderSound)

Modern prog supergroup O.R.k, will release their new album in 2025 (LouderSound)

Drugs, denim and 12 bar boogie – the story of one of the UK’s most successful rock bands (LouderSound)

The ex-White Stripes man and guitar magus on the essential ingredients he thinks it takes to become a six-string master (LouderSound)

Metal’s all-time greatest concept album? Operation: Mindcrime could be it (LouderSound)

Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Mike Keneally and Don Preston discuss dealing with the filthy freak’s genius up close – and what you’re missing if you haven’t investigated his catalogue (LouderSound)

Jamming with Hendrix, partying with The Who, getting hit on by David Bowie’s wife – The God Of Hellfire has done it all and more (LouderSound)

The Fleetwood Mac icon has a contemporary pop favourite but isn’t happy about all the cussing (LouderSound)

Nightwish release 45-minute film exploring the creation of their 10th album (LouderSound)

Biohazard man called Metallica drummer out after nightclub incident and landed a coveted tour support slot (LouderSound)

London punk legends The Clash and and magical Minneapolis maverick Prince to be recognised for their “outstanding artistic significance” (LouderSound)

Coheed And Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez’s new EP features covers of songs by Taylor Swift, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins and more (LouderSound)

Nu metal veterans Kittie pick out their most underrated song and tell us a little bit about it (LouderSound)

Punk-pop: they’re still making it and Liquid Mike is single-handedly saving it (LouderSound)

The story of Kangaroo, the sleazeball song reimagined to capture “the beauty of despair” (LouderSound)

Brant Bjork explains why he had no real interest in seeing pioneering stoner rockers Kyuss become the new Metallica (LouderSound)

Ignore the syrupy ballads. Connections to Alan Parsons, Supertramp and Sky suggest a valid case – and his 1979 album Crusader proves it beyond doubt (LouderSound)

Juuso Laatio talks directing Babymetal, ‘playing’ Wacken and whether we’ll ever get that Impaled Rektum album (LouderSound)

Steven Wilson’s The Overview, a concept album featuring two long-form pieces of music, will be released on March 14 (LouderSound)

Kerry King picks what might just be Sabbath’s heaviest record. Should we be surprised? (LouderSound)

A weighty celebration of Monty Python-preceding trad/psych satirists (LouderSound)

In May 1967, the band’s debut single changed the musical world. Nearly six decades later it’s developed a long and protracted legacy (LouderSound)

Next year, Joe Bonamassa plays the music of the late, great Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher at three special shows in Cork. (LouderSound)

Metallica release video of entire charity show – including acoustic and electric performance by thrash giants (LouderSound)

“We’re only getting more and more dangerous,” says Clown as he reflects on band’s all-conquering anniversary tour (LouderSound)

Life in Deep Purple has never been dull (LouderSound)

Fans are encouraged to visit Lemmy’s ashes at London club Stringfellows (LouderSound)

Proceeds from My Christmas List will benefit Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers (LouderSound)

“Paramore made a huge impression on me and my style.” (LouderSound)

A hit album, a box office-smashing biopic, Oscar nominations, a court victory over the British government, causing a split between Liam and Noel: Kneecap look back on 2024 (LouderSound)

Study reveals the top 10 rock bands inspiring tattoos globally (LouderSound)

Marshall slash prices on a number of their speakers and headphones in both the US and UK, including money off the Emberton II & Woburn III speakers and Monitor II A.N.C. headphones (LouderSound)

Popular UK prog rockers Nova Cascade will release their final album Boxman in April (LouderSound)

Two of metal’s best Matts answer questions from their biggest fans (and no, we still don’t know who the next Metallica is) (LouderSound)

Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy loved Jimi Hendrix, but The Pogues were never going to sound like Seattle’s legendary guitar hero (LouderSound)

Bassist Jon Camp was a member of UK prog rockers Renaissance’s classic 1970s line-up (LouderSound)

With elements of Deftones and Soundgarden in their experimental approach, Newcastle quartet want to preach their prog news at the heavier festivals (LouderSound)

The model and actress does her best Rocket Man impression in a new video for Step Into Christmas (LouderSound)

Arch Enemy will hit the states with three killer support bands in tow (LouderSound)

One legendary heavy metal drummer pays tribute to another (LouderSound)

Profits from the Dublin quintet’s latest single will be donated to the charity set up to help Palestinians in need of aid (LouderSound)

Violet Grohl is working on music with producer Justin Raisen (Kim Gordon/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Viagra Boys) according to The Hollywood Reporter (LouderSound)

The Gallagher brothers celebrate their 1994 anthem’s 30th birthday with a special vinyl remaster (LouderSound)

With close harmonies and a full orchestral suite on Human. :||: Nature. the band proved it was capable of endless expansion. But the experience of being mobbed and drowned out in South America offered pause for thought (LouderSound)

A sequel to the classic Spinal Tap movie will hit theatres in 2025 (LouderSound)

Andrew Eldritch on the meaning of life, jazz-funk and beetroot (LouderSound)

The death of Slim Dunlap, who joined The Replacements in 1987, has been confirmed by his family (LouderSound)

Sum 41 will call it a day in a little over a month –and the reality of the looming end is starting to hit home (LouderSound)

We all chuckled at The Cure frontman’s typically British reaction to excitable red carpet interviewer (LouderSound)

“We both wanted to do the Keith part, but I won!” – Susanna Hoffs (LouderSound)

Pink Floyd man David Gilmour is not ready to quit (LouderSound)

Spiritbox might be one of the fastest-rising bands in metal today, but even they’re overawed at the sheer size of Linkin Park (LouderSound)

Slipknot celebrating their iconic debut album with a visceral – if sometimes slightly too clean – show at the Co Op Live (LouderSound)

Celtic folk harpist Joy Shannon has just released her most recent album An Chailleach (LouderSound)

From rock icons like Guns N’ Roses and Queens Of The Stone Age to metal behemoths Gojira, it’s safe to say Myles Kennedy knows his way around a riff (LouderSound)

The avant-rockers released debut album Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower in 2019, when their guitarist-vocalist told Prog how they took their time and finally got there (LouderSound)

Frank Skinner on the “inspirational” Judas Priest, playing in a cult Birmingham band and the heavy metal sitcom that never was (LouderSound)

Mixing death metal, prog, krautrock and a dozen other ingredients besides, Blood Incantation made one of 2024’s most essential records with Absolute Elsewhere (LouderSound)

Doc Martin and DCI Banks star’s record collection also features krautrock, space rock, acid folk, Canterbury and metal music (LouderSound)

Spider Lilly comes from Saint Lucifer‘s Hospital 1920, the first part of an upcoming horror trilogy (LouderSound)

Every song on Frank Stallone’s self-titled debut album is an AOR throatpunch with a credit roll (LouderSound)

Post-hardcore heroes Fugazi have been on indefinite hiatus for more than 20 years (LouderSound)

Eric Clapton’s best albums, the cream of his decades-stradling crop (LouderSound)

Kid Rock says he’ll work with incoming US President Donald Trump’s administration to protect live music fans (LouderSound)

Hanoi Rocks frontman turned solo star Michael Monroe on living with Stiv Bators and Johnny Thunders, and the possibility that he might never die (LouderSound)

The album compiles material previously only released in physical formats and sold at live shows across the last few years (LouderSound)

Tom Morello heaped praise and love on another guitar legend yesterday (LouderSound)

It’s that time of year again! So then, Prog readers, who was top of your progs in 2024? (LouderSound)

A US tour without enough dates, a move away from the sound that got them signed, frequent line-up changes and never any money – just some of the things that went wrong for the band who once stood alongside The Nice and Van der Graaf Generator (LouderSound)

Genre-hopping singer-songwriter Yungblud gives props to some British metal heavyweights and a music icon (LouderSound)

Although System Of A Down haven’t released a new album in almost 20 years, that hasn’t stopped frontman Serj Tankian from remaining a prolific force (LouderSound)

UK prog trio Circu5 will release their new album Clockwork Tulpa in March (LouderSound)

No Nightwish shows? No problem! Singer Floor Jansen will still be productive during the symphonic metal titans’ downtime (LouderSound)

Late guitar innovator Jeff Beck lived rock’n’roll history – but was much more interested in the future (LouderSound)

Keyboard icon looks back on his classical albums, recently assembled in a box set, recalls being knocked off the No. 1 spot by gardener Alan Titchmarsh – and remembers offering Peter Gabriel a new gig (LouderSound)

Creators of Hulu documentary series vow to go “beyond the mystique” of stars who helped shape metal (LouderSound)

Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan talks new music, debut album anniversary tour and backstage donkeys (LouderSound)

Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading talks about inspirations, what her famous key was about, her popularity with freedom fighters and more (LouderSound)

Co-founder of Sisters Of Mercy and Ghost Dance, influential goth guitarist Gary Marx has returned to his glam roots (LouderSound)

Welsh rockers Those Damn Crows will join W.A.S.P, The Wildhearts, Lita Ford and more at the ‘festival up a mountain’ (LouderSound)

Lady Gaga reveals she was once an extra in an AC/DC video as she joins AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson for Carpool Karaoke special (LouderSound)

The nu-metal-but-not-really favourites will trek across South America in May (LouderSound)

British rapper Slowthai, aka Tyron Frampton, is cleared of two charges of rape by a jury at Oxford crown court (LouderSound)

Whether you’ve loved Judas Priest or Linkin Park, Poppy or Kerry King, we want to know what albums have excited you most in 2024 (LouderSound)

Big Big Train re-record Brew & Burgh, originally recorded with late singer David Longdon, for the 2020 reissue of The Underfall Yard (LouderSound)

Iron Maiden’s 90s singer pays tribute to his fallen predecessor, who died in October at the age of 66 (LouderSound)

The biggest symphonic metal band of them all have had a glittering career so far. Here is every Nightwish studio full-length ranked (LouderSound)

Scottish neo proggers Pallas announce intention to record more but it’s all over as far as playing live goes (LouderSound)

Jarvis Cocker’s pop-rock stars haven’t released a studio album since 2001, but have started debuting new songs live (LouderSound)

Released between two major metal milestones, Somewhere In Time is something of an underrated fan favourite (LouderSound)

Watch it quick, before it’s gone (LouderSound)

Progressive in word and deed, the German group have never achieved the acclaim they deserve – but that’s never stopped them (LouderSound)

Including The Darkness, Black Eyes Sons, Those Damn Crows and five other bohemian rock’n’roll rhapsodists (LouderSound)

In which Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s sons conjure up their inner Simon & Garfunkel (LouderSound)

It’s not just Taylor Swift making money out there (LouderSound)

Billed as Nudedragons, the Soundgarden trio were joined onstage by singer Shaina Shepherd and Duff McKagan (LouderSound)

Little Sidney Wilson joins Slipknot’s backstage bonding ritual – and it’s the cutest thing you’ll see today (LouderSound)

How David Gilmour ended up playing with Body Count (LouderSound)

When it comes to horror Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is the man (LouderSound)

The superstar shares her guide for living so you too can get your Brat on (LouderSound)

You may have been wondering why this beardy indie veteran popped up in a Marvel film last year, and now you can find out (LouderSound)

Spoiler: it’s not Bohemian Rhapsody! (LouderSound)

Their sixth album, released in 2009, was their first with singer David Longdon and drummer Nick D’Virgilio – and it nearly broke the band (LouderSound)

If there’s a thrash metal Big Five, Bay Area bangers Testament ares strong contenders (LouderSound)

The 4th edition of Metallica’s Helping Hands charity show featured guest appearance from Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament (LouderSound)

How Bob Dylan changed the course of music forever with Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde (LouderSound)

High praise indeed from the late Slipknot drummer (LouderSound)

Krautrock Eruption has been written by former Eruption member Wolfgang Seidel (LouderSound)

David Gilmour’s new live video for The Piper’s Call was recorded from performances in Brighton, Rome, London, Los Angeles and New York (LouderSound)

David Coverdale looks back on the making of Whitesnake’s hair metal-era classic 1987 (LouderSound)

Jamming with Keith Richards, laughing at Bob Dylan’s gags, buying Rod Stewart’s drinks – former Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan did it all and more (LouderSound)

An ex-housesitter spills the beans on the “nerve-wracking” experience of lodging at Elton’s pad (LouderSound)

The Radiohead bassist has just completed a stint in Nick Cave’s band and opens up on “the best time with the loveliest people” (LouderSound)

The “Dada version of Bryan Ferry” – who says he uses bandmate Boris Blank’s audio imagery to find structure then leap off into chaos – admits he was never a tortured artist (LouderSound)

Iamthemorning pianist Gleb Kolyadin will release his new solo album Mobula in February (LouderSound)

German prog rockers Everon will release their new album Shells in February (LouderSound)

Friedman claims an insultingly low salary offer prevented Megadeth’s most legendary lineup from regrouping 10 years ago (LouderSound)

Robert Smith claims he’s written a “really catchy” pop song, and it could be the next Christmas chart-topper (LouderSound)

UK prog pop trio Exploring Birdsong are currently working on debut full-length album, expected next year (LouderSound)

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root! (LouderSound)

Ex-Be Bop Deluxe leader’s 1981 solo release is greatly expanded to impressive effect (LouderSound)

A-listers, established artists, up-and-comers, previously unknowns and more (LouderSound)

17 CDs and three DVDs provide everything you need to know about a counterculture band many have heard of, but fewer have listened to (LouderSound)

Neil Young knows who’s been naughty and nice (LouderSound)

Elton John muses on his life, streaming now (LouderSound)

Shakey gets the blues on this limited edition 50th anniversary vinyl reissue (LouderSound)

Live – Perpetual Change will be released in March (LouderSound)

“Music feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background” (LouderSound)

From Los Angeles to London, Belfast to Tampa, the hip-hop world has thrown up some of 2024’s most thrilling, imaginative and essential releases (LouderSound)

Marshall take a serious shot at rival premium noise cancelling headphones with the company’s third generation Monitor III A.N.C. over-ears (LouderSound)

Hale will probably never join Skid Row full-time, but she says she’ll be there if the glam veterans ever find themselves in dire straits (LouderSound)

“She’ll be dead by then, so we can change the tracklisting” (LouderSound)

The SatchVai band will embark on a UK and European tour next summer (LouderSound)

Scottish rocker discovered Jethro Tull fan, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream as a teenager – but Rush really stood out to him as he learned to play (LouderSound)

All roads lead to Geneva (LouderSound)

Only got half an hour to spare? These mighty producers of musical brevity are here to answer your prayers (LouderSound)

From Oceanside, California, Sacri Monti met in high school in the early 2000s and have been jamming (and other things) ever since (LouderSound)

Boardwalk Rock will take place in Ocean City, Maryland, next May (LouderSound)

After 81 shows in 25 countries, Iron Maiden’s latest globe-straddling tour has come to an end (LouderSound)

Art rock quartet Envy Of None plan to release their second album in Spring 2025 (LouderSound)

Lowen’s Nina Saedi is reclaiming a cultural heritage she is exiled from through a stunning mix of doom and prog metal (LouderSound)

Canadian post-rocker Alex Henry Foster has just released the A Whispering Moment EP (LouderSound)

Paradise Lost, Angel Witch and Unto Others will support King Diamond at select headline shows in 2025 (LouderSound)

UK prog boffins Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate will release new album The Uncertainty Principle in May (LouderSound)

Metalcore heroes Bring Me The Horizon may be taking a break soon, frontman Oli Sykes says he’s “so fried” (LouderSound)

French metal heavyweights Gojira have released the official music video for their Grammy-nominated single Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) (LouderSound)

Kerry King reaffirms that Slayer won’t be making a full-scale comeback (LouderSound)

Box set edition of 2003 release proves that, even though it was viewed as a curio, it’s in line with Ian Anderson’s regular musical explorations (LouderSound)

They’re unmistakably American, but their lead visionary names Henry Cow, Soft Machine, Gentle Giant and Van der Graaf Generator among his motivators, and explains why his band is definitely not punk (LouderSound)

When The Late Show celebrated its 10th anniversary they organised the starriest of all-star bands to back Bob Dylan. It did not work out (LouderSound)

King Crimson guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk picks his 10 favourite tracks by his favourite band (LouderSound)

Welcome to Alice Cooper guitarist Tommy Henriksen’s Mutt Lange-produced 80s-rock-leaning project (LouderSound)

Back from the brink: Thunder vocalist Danny Bowes returns after major medical trauma (LouderSound)

Still comes from Those Damn Crows’ upcoming album God-Shaped Hole (LouderSound)

I Hate Myself comes from The Darkness’s upcoming eighth album Dreams On Toast (LouderSound)

Tesseract will release an expanded edition of latest album War Of Being, featuring new live tracks, in January (LouderSound)

The outspoken Body Count frontman also names his favourite rap and metal albums in the new issue of Metal Hammer (LouderSound)

Lauded concept album from Oklahoma City’s finest has lost nothing in 22 years, while gaining new nuance in Dolby Atmos (LouderSound)

After announcing his intention to retire from the live stage, McBrain played his last show with Iron Maiden over the weekend (LouderSound)

Korn have a lot written for the followup to 2022’s Requiem – but they aren’t quite sure when it’s coming out (LouderSound)

Another uniquely mesmerising metal band from Iceland has entered the chat (LouderSound)

Finding My Way by Jump bassist Andy Faulkner tells his story as a Rush fan from hearing 2112 to the band’s farewell show (LouderSound)

Didn’t get tickets to Deftones’ blockbuster London date? The quasi-nu metal beloveds have just announced extra stops in Yorkshire and Cornwall (LouderSound)

Xavier Dphrepaulezz on Sion Of A Broken Man, the concept album inspired by his tumultuous relationship with his late father (LouderSound)

He may not always have been life and soul of the party, but he’s been the heartbeat behind songs across a huge range of genres – to his lasting pride (LouderSound)

Pop-leaning rock band Cats In Space and multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and producer Willie Dowling have four dates together this month (LouderSound)

Welsh rockers Those Damn Crows are going from strength to strength – we check in ahead of the biggest show of their lives (LouderSound)

The Phil Collins documentary Drummer First will premiere later this month (LouderSound)

More chances to hear monster tunes from From Hell I Rise played live by some of metal’s finest musicians (LouderSound)

The No Name tour will include four British gigs (LouderSound)

We told you it was the best film of the year back in June (LouderSound)

Big Big Train will also play their very first live shows in Canada and Portugal in 2025 (LouderSound)

Hellfest has announced another heavyweight lineup for next year! (LouderSound)

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events (LouderSound)

The beloved bassist also reveals how Black Sabbath’s lyrics have been “misinterpreted” over the years (LouderSound)

New Unitopia live release Alive And Kicking was recorded at the band’s 2023 show at Boerderij (LouderSound)

Whores unveil 2025 World War Tour schedule (LouderSound)

From UK greats Bring Me The Horizon and While She Sleeps to young innovators like Heriot and Scene Queen, metalcore has had a hell of a year (LouderSound)

With long-time presenter/judge Gregg Wallace stepping down from MasterChef amid allegations about inappropriate behaviour, Snoop Dogg is sensing an opportunity (LouderSound)

The Metal Gods will be joined by the master of shock rock when they play their biggest-ever London show in July (LouderSound)

Apparently the Prince Of Darkness enjoyed wandering off when he was supposed to be recording music… (LouderSound)

You may as well rename Ihsahn, Zeal & Ardor and Witch Club Satan “Spinal Tap”, because there was none more black in 2024 (LouderSound)

Guns N’ Roses will play 24 shows across the Middle East and Europe next summer (LouderSound)

in 1978 Kate Bush appeared on Saturday Night Live, impressing a budding musician and inspiring a future cinema star (LouderSound)

The Bonzo Dog and Rutles man discusses his career and recent studio album Nearly Really… (LouderSound)

Michael Des Barres leads Detective through an album that sounds a little like their Led Zeppelin paymasters (LouderSound)

Including The Wildhearts, Larkin Poe, Dorothy and five other guardians at the rock’n’roll gates (LouderSound)

It’s all kicking off in Toronto (LouderSound)

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has retired from touring after 42 years (LouderSound)

The story behind Paul McCartney’s 1974 vision of making a sci-fi musical film about music-loving aliens (LouderSound)

The epic story of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers’ 1966 blues rock milestone Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (LouderSound)

Les Penning and Robert Reed’s new five-track EP Fairytale Of New York is out now (LouderSound)

A day after the sad news that Nicko McBrain will be retiring as Iron Maiden’s full-time drummer, his replacement has been revealed (LouderSound)

The Oppenheimer director worked with Bowie on 2006’s The Prestige, but the rock’n’roll icon needed some convincing first (LouderSound)

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal (LouderSound)

The greatest ever songwriter to stand on one leg! (LouderSound)

In short: the singer-songwriter is very lucky to have a publisher who doesn’t pay any attention to his instructions (LouderSound)

He hails their punk ethic, their experiments with electronica, and their way of writing songs about real people (LouderSound)

Watch Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell wow the Strictly judges with Viennese Waltz set to Metallica classic (LouderSound)

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne smoked a joint with Beatles icon –and was fascinated by Sir Paul’s “crusty” ear (LouderSound)

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard’s other band Brad should have been as big as Pearl Jam themselves (LouderSound)

The story of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture, the album that rewired metal forever (LouderSound)

While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights (LouderSound)

With his red cap and hip hop swagger, Fred Durst was the biggest and most divisive star of the nu metal era. But that’s only half the story (LouderSound)

Beloved Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is officially stepping away from the band (LouderSound)

Playing with The Who, jamming with Hendrix, partying with Bowie, Jagger and Lennon -late Mountain man Leslie West did it all and more (LouderSound)

Expansive 10-disc collection is the first of three charting decades of his onstage work (LouderSound)

Confidence Man are a dazzling, ludicrous triumph in Brixton. Surely arenas beckon? (LouderSound)

US prog metal legends Savatage will play their first live shows in over a decade with singer Zak Stevens throughout Europe next year (LouderSound)

Drink, drugs, urinating up unsuspecting keyboard players’ legs – fellow hellraisers Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy were partners in crime for decades (LouderSound)

A famous frontman looks back on a childhood surrounded by rock stars, actors and welders that his dad had brought home from the pub. (LouderSound)

Hanoi Rocks were the cult Finnish livewires who accidentally helped invent the glam metal scene – and 1983’s Back To Mystery City album was their crowning glory (LouderSound)

It was the Metallica man’s birthday and an iconic rock veteran wanted to make sure it was properly celebrated (LouderSound)

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song (LouderSound)

He welcomed Slipknot, Lamb Of God and more onto The Tonight Show – now, Conan O’Brien has followed in their footsteps and played with a metal band (LouderSound)

UK prog sextet Ghost Of The Machine will release second album Empires Must Fall in March (LouderSound)

Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year (LouderSound)

The biggest metal bands in India and Japan have joined forces to make an absolute anthem (LouderSound)

A 20-disc, career-spanning Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band box set Still Barking is released in December (LouderSound)

German electronic music legends Kraftwerk promise “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art” for 2025 multi-media tour (LouderSound)

Band members past and present, plus collaborators and peers, choose the greatest Sisters of Mercy songs (LouderSound)

On what would have been Mark Lanegan’s 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick (LouderSound)

Norse folk shamen Wardruna will release new album Birna in January (LouderSound)

My Dying Bride are back! There’s just one enormous caveat… (LouderSound)

The groove metal behemoths previously teased a new album for April, and now they’ve offered a glimpse inside the studio (LouderSound)

The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal beloveds were twice Grammy-nominated before going on hiatus in 2012 (LouderSound)

Tomorrow singer Keith West found himself at No. 2 in the Top 40 in 1967 with a song he’d never been meant to sing (LouderSound)

The Black Crowes’ comeback album Happiness Bastards has been voted the album of the year in Classic Rock magazine’s annual end-of-year writer’s poll (LouderSound)

Also in this issue: AC/DC, David Gilmour, Foreigner, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Ghost Bruce Dickinson, Hawkwind, the Black Crowes and more – and three exclusive gifts (LouderSound)

Be-bop, beat and ballads (LouderSound)

That Led Zeppelin film everyone’s been waiting for finally has a release date, but there’s a catch (LouderSound)

Soul power: Dutch rockersDeWolff tap into the musical ley lines on tenth studio album (LouderSound)

Seattle legends Pearl Jam have scheduled another run of dates in support of their Dark Matter album (LouderSound)

Travis Scott, Enter Shikari, Amyl & The Sniffers, Chappell Roan, Hozier, among other main attractions for the twin town festival, to be held on August 21-24, 2025 (LouderSound)

Inspired by hold music, movie scenes, Sarah Bernhardt, Carry On Wayward Son and more, the Northumberland-based proggers have a new line-up and a new energy to go with their new music (LouderSound)

Cillian Murphy’s music taste is every bit as low-key cool as the man himself (LouderSound)

“I think a lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album” (LouderSound)

Profits from the Fontaines D.C. x Boheman F.C. shirt will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians for their emergency response action for what is most needed in Gaza (LouderSound)

The song will be on the Swiss outfit’s next album, expected in 2025, and they’ll probably play it on their impending European tour with Arch Enemy, too (LouderSound)

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here. (LouderSound)

“Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me.” The love-in between Bob Dylan and Hollywood star Timothée Chalamet, who’s playing Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, is a pure and precious thing (LouderSound)

“All of the elements of my album are in this video. Mourning of the growing distance between family, homeland, mortality awareness, and the inevitability of death” (LouderSound)

The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it’s on sale now! (LouderSound)

The Greek trio’s musical take on the apocalyptic Gospel of John returns 52 years on with far less controversy and unbroken artistic impact (LouderSound)

An exclusive extract from Kris Needs’ biography Make My Day: The Rock n Roll Story of Eddie Clarke (LouderSound)

Rock, and indeed, roll (LouderSound)

Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron will reunite onstage at a benefit for Seattle Children’s Hospital (LouderSound)

The hard rock/heavy metal titans will play arenas and festivals across the continent in June (LouderSound)

Grateful Dead spin-off Dead & Company will be the first band to play a second residency at the revolutionary Las Vegas venue (LouderSound)

80-minute work from 2009 – of which just a fraction was used in a movie soundtrack – was rescued from his vault following his 2022 death (LouderSound)

Nine Inch Nails might be back with us sooner than we had imagined (LouderSound)

The stomping track is taken from the Arch Enemy album of the same name, out next year (LouderSound)

Adam Ant’s rescheduled Antmusic tour will kick off at Bournemouth Pavilion on October 23, 2025 (LouderSound)

Marking an and and a beginning for the band, this extended version of the 1997 original states its case as an elegant outlier in their catalogue (LouderSound)

UK prog rockers Stuckfish released their latest album IV earlier this year (LouderSound)

From Judas Priest to Poppy, Spiritbox, Ghost and beyond, 2024 has offered some great new metal tunes. But now we need your help deciding the best of the best (LouderSound)

“A new chapter in Wildhearts history – new music, new line-up, new label, new focus…” (LouderSound)

The beverage was served with a side of legitimately chocolate starfish, because how could it not be? (LouderSound)

Native James and Hak Baker complete the nominations in the Best Alternative Music Act category at the 2025 MOBO Awards, to be staged in Newcastle on February 18 (LouderSound)

The former metalcore cohorts have been hard at work on their first album together since 2009 (LouderSound)

The mysterious masked metallers put on a dazzling second show at a packed-out London O2 (LouderSound)

The Scottish metal aggressors have released In Place Of Your Halo following its live debut last week, and the bagpipe-backed track will appear on new album Zenith next year (LouderSound)

One of this country’s best up-and-coming metal bands will hit the road in April (LouderSound)

From breaking out of local clubs to touring with Jethro Tull and attracting guest spots from David Bowie and Peter Sellers, the leading light of British folk looks back – and forward (LouderSound)

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was accused of assaulting former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy in 1989 (LouderSound)

Bill Wyman’s time in The Greatest Rock’N’Roll Band In The World was storied, but there’s been much, much more to his life than that (LouderSound)

It’s exactly why the internet was invented (LouderSound)

The Nine will play sideshows in Adelaide and Auckland in addition to already-announced Knotfest dates (LouderSound)

Slash and Duff McKagan appear together on I Can Breathe, a new charity single by Gibson Brand (LouderSound)

Yacht rock, soft rock – call it what you will. Here are five brilliant albums that define the genre in all its bearded, Hawaiian-shirted glory (LouderSound)

Kneecap unveil their manifesto for a better way to live (LouderSound)

The Grammy-nominated metalcore stars will trek across the States and Canada shortly after the release of new album Tsunami Sea (LouderSound)

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

The role-playing game, which lets players control multiple eras of iconic mascot Eddie, will no longer be playable or downloadable after December 31 (LouderSound)

The Ocean and Sierra release a limited edition 7″ single featuring reworked versions of Boreal and Traum (LouderSound)

A Public Service Announcement for anyone who needs to hear it: Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to f**k with Cher, ever (LouderSound)

Gene Simmons: “Ask the first young person you meet, ‘Name me anybody in Pearl Jam.’ Good luck with that” (LouderSound)

UK prog folk duo Candacraig will perform their retelling of Marilllion’s Brave and their own material in new livestream (LouderSound)

Symphonic metal heroes Epica offer a peek behind the curtain of their upcoming ninth album (LouderSound)

Storm Thorgerson’s right-hand man on breaking the law, pushing creative concepts, refusing to work with record labels, watching Pink Floyd get rich and staying friends by never taking sides (LouderSound)

From Italian power metallers Alterium to French psych metal from Slift, Brighton’s prog metal mavericks El Moono and death metal horror fanatics Fulci, these are the bands you need to hear in December 2024 (LouderSound)

UK prog rockers Suns Of The Tundra celebrate the 20th anniversary of self-titled debut album with new reissue (LouderSound)

How Mick Jagger helped Sonny and Cher get discovered, then wound up miming to their biggest hit on primetime television in 1965 (LouderSound)

The annual list honours “inspiring and influential women from around the world” (LouderSound)

German electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream continue to celebrate their groundbreaking Phaedra album with shows in Birmingham and Manchester (LouderSound)

Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be over for another year, but some price drops are still hanging around. Here’s my pick of the best discounts (LouderSound)

Ninth album deals with two different concepts, as the Finnish group look forward to a future of total control over their catalogue (LouderSound)

For some people, travelling life’s road is easy. For lifelong worrierMyles Kennedy it’s anything but (LouderSound)

The Cure have gone from sullen outsiders to stadium-sized riff monsters via all points in between (LouderSound)

And we still don’t have personal jetpacks (LouderSound)

Watch 20 minutes of highlights and explosions from Kiss’s final blow-out in New York City – as Gene and Paul talk about the future (LouderSound)

You still have a few hours to pick up some vintage WWE shirt designs if you’re based in the US (LouderSound)

Ticketmaster have a few metalhead-friendly acts in their 2-4-1 Cyber Weekend offer – but you’ll need to be quick to get them! (LouderSound)

The Loop Experience 2 earplugs are down below $30 this Cyber Monday – an essential for all gig-goers. Get them before the deal door slams shut (LouderSound)

Replacing beloved classics or jumping on the unexpected CD boom bandwagon? Here are ten discs you need in your collection (LouderSound)

Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Sleep Token: Displate have you covered for epic wall art posters this Cyber Monday – but you’ll have to be quick (LouderSound)

The Cyber Monday sales are drawing to a close, but there’s still time to save 21% on the high regarded Audio-Techinca LP5X turntable (LouderSound)

This very popular Denon turntable has had its prices slashed, but be quick, because the deal won’t be around for much longer (LouderSound)

From a truly atrocious Metallica monstrosity to a One Piece number that’ll make your eyes bleed, these are the jumpers to go for on Cyber Monday if you want to ruin Christmas for everyone (LouderSound)

Bose have slashed prices on some of their most popular speakers – including their lowest ever price on Ultra Open Earbuds – for Cyber Monday, but hurry, because they won’t be around for long (LouderSound)

Damon Albarn, the gift that keeps on giving (LouderSound)

With 26% off the all-new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, I’ve finally upgraded from my creaking 2012 model – and there’s money off some brilliant books too (LouderSound)

Dunn has suffered two heart attacks since 2018 but says “personal issues” have also made him step away (LouderSound)

“Round two let’s fking gooooo!!” (LouderSound)

With limited stocks and an even more limited time span, you won’t want to linger too long before grabbing a record player from Walmart (LouderSound)

U2’s frontman says their producer forced the band to record it live, and he’s glad he did (LouderSound)

The travelling adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi epic has now got added post-hardcore/pop-punk cred (LouderSound)

Maiden, Sabbath, Sepultura and Alice In Chains are just some of the artists whose classic albums are included in these cut-price Walmart deals (LouderSound)

The North American leg of the rock legends’ Power Up tour will see Angus & co. work their way across the country next spring (LouderSound)

The muscular track will come out later this week as the firebrands prepare to Europe with Slipknot (LouderSound)

If you ever wondered who the coolest Gallagher is, it’s Peggy, Liam and Noel’s mum (LouderSound)

34 bands, including all of the Manchester weekender’s headliners, are still to be announced (LouderSound)

The 1985 novel that rarely left the Nirvana frontman’s pocket and became the basis for one of In Utero’s heaviest tracks (LouderSound)

Lego has been holding a big sale over the weekend, and there are still excellent deals to be nabbed for Cyber Monday – but you’ve got to be quick as the sale is ending at midnight (LouderSound)

The co-founder of Sick New World is the CEO of System Of A Down’s management company, making John Dolmayan something of an insider (LouderSound)

Ohio rock ‘n’ roll fundamentalists The Black Keys will cross the Atlantic for 15 shows in June/July. (LouderSound)

Even as they began spiralling out of control, the cut-down double album delivered 46 minutes of creativity, complexity and power (LouderSound)

The Radiohead man also says he’d love the band to get back on the road in 2025, but there is a caveat… (LouderSound)

Pearl-clutching Facebook parents haven’t stopped the ABC chat show from booking Ice-T’s outspoken rap metal icons. Or perhaps they’ve encouraged it? (LouderSound)

The Temperance Movement have a UK and European tour lined up for March next year (LouderSound)

Just when you thought you couldn’t love David Bowie more, along came his surprise cameo in a hit British comedy series (LouderSound)

New UK festival Forever Now, a celebration of alternative culture, will take place at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes on June 22 (LouderSound)

The Rocket Man was speaking at a performance of his new musical The Devil Wears Prada, which he says he can only listen to (LouderSound)

U2’s frontman on being enlightened by a true rock’n’roll sage (LouderSound)

Keyboard master – who took the plunge and played guitar on his new solo album – on his decision to lay aside some of the crazy and create a song-based work (LouderSound)

Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog’s 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music (LouderSound)

Including Crossbone Skully, Three Days Grace, Eisbrecher and five other leaders of the rock’n’roll pack (LouderSound)

Gene Simmons’ sultry cover of Stormy Weather comes from the soundtrack of the Dennis Quaid movie Reagan (LouderSound)

Former Deep Purple man Ritchie Blackmore has spoken (LouderSound)

Ding dong merrily on high indeed (LouderSound)

Former Pink Floyd man Roger Waters does not hold back (LouderSound)

The Cure’s royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child (LouderSound)

Amazon are offering deals on a range of vinyl record players this Cyber Monday (LouderSound)

You may already have Rush’s 1976 masterpiece 2112 on your vinyl shelf, but do you have the awesome Hologram Edition? If not, now’s your chance (LouderSound)

The early Cyber Monday Lego sales have already started, making it the perfect time to grab something for yourself or an early Christmas present (LouderSound)

We’ve picked out a selection of our favourite discounted CD players that offer great value for money ahead of this year’s Cyber Monday (LouderSound)

The Cyber Monday CD deals have started to filter through – here’s the Louder team’s favourite sales (LouderSound)

Paramount Plus have slashed their prices for Cyber Monday, and there’s plenty of excellent music content to discover (LouderSound)

The story behind the smooth sounds of Yacht Rock has hit HBO Max. Here’s the cheapest way to watch it, with 70% off for Cyber Monday (LouderSound)

In a small London studio, two Yardbirds, one member of The Who and a pair of passing session maestros united to record a spontaneous instrumental track. Things would never be the same again. (LouderSound)

Second Coming turns 30 this week but the Mancunian indie-rockers’ resurrection didn’t last long (LouderSound)

Thin Lizzy: A charismatic frontman, a glorious twin-guitar attack, and some of the most enduring anthems in rock (LouderSound)

As 2022’s The Tipping Point confirmed, they’ve always known how to go big without ever going over the top (LouderSound)

Las Vegas festival Sick New World was due to feature Metallica, Linkin Park and more (LouderSound)

Bob Bryar played on My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade and Danger Days (LouderSound)

I thought my kids would be a little army of music nerds but social media and video games had other plans for them. And then I got them a serious pair of headphones… (LouderSound)

Save on iconic designs from bands including AC/DC, Blondie, Black Sabbath and more with Amazon this Cyber Weekend (LouderSound)

Lego can be pricey, even in the Black Friday sales – but we’ve rounded up some of the best sets which are reduced to under $25 (LouderSound)

Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Stranger Things, Power Rangers and some horror icons are all included in this special Black Friday Zavvi deal (LouderSound)

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Metallica’s Black Album aren’t just generational albums – they can be bought cheap in this massive deal for Amazon US customers (LouderSound)

There’s still a little bit of time to snag some bargains in Marshall’s Black Friday sale, but we recommend acting quickly because the best deals are time-limited (LouderSound)

Lego have a nice little wedge of Marvel sets available in their Black Friday sales this year. But which are must-haves? (LouderSound)

Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band announce An Evening of Carols and Capers – The 40th Anniversary Farewell Tour (LouderSound)

Glorious visual celebration of the neo-prog survivors in the present, accompanied by New Light, a fascinating documentary of their past (LouderSound)

From guitars to plectrums, amplifiers to bags, you can get it at a major discount thanks to Fender’s Black Friday deals (LouderSound)

From Bonehead to Andy Bell and Guigsy to Gem, your essential guide to the contenders to join the Oasis Live ’25 bandwagon (LouderSound)

Transatlantic leader’s latest album sees him working with younger musicians and letting them work their own magic – while adding plenty of his own (LouderSound)

Producer Nigel Godrich on the “clusterf**k” that was putting together the 2004 charity single (LouderSound)

From legendary Metallica albums to landmark releases from Oasis, Green Day, Type O Negative and more, you need to check out these massive deals (LouderSound)

The entry-level Fluance RT81 is a sturdy, slick-sounding vinyl-slinger, and a veritable steal with this 15% Black Friday discount (LouderSound)

Imperial Credits are not required to snaffle one of the most famous ships in the Lego Star Wars galaxy – get Mando’s pride and joy with a deep discount this Black Friday (LouderSound)

Save in excess of up to 50% on releases from Sleep Token, My Chemical Romance, Type O Negative and more (LouderSound)

Amazon have shredded prices on a mountain of CD and vinyl – don’t miss your chance to fill your shopping basket for less (LouderSound)

Buy the Metallica lead guitarist’s signature model for $8,999 in Sweetwater’s Black Friday sale (wah-wah pedal not included) (LouderSound)

Move over Amazon – Townsend Music’s Black Friday music sale is offering some of the biggest discounts we’ve seen this year (LouderSound)

Ringing in your ears? Not anymore; that’s the sound of savings! 25% off, to be exact, on quality ear protection courtesy of Amazon’s Black Friday sale (LouderSound)

Max and Iggor Cavalera’s re-recordings of Sepultura’s Bestial Devastation EP, Morbid Visions and Schizophrenia aren’t appreciated by guitarist Andreas Kisser (LouderSound)

Iron Maiden’s Live After Death – one of the greatest live albums of all time – is currently available for a total steal (LouderSound)

Want the best music magazines ever made, for cheap? Step this way, friend (LouderSound)

The story goes that the other members heard him singing Bowie’s “Heroes” in the room next door – but was it Gahan on the mic or not? (LouderSound)

Nixon Watches are offering 25% off on everything online, including pieces inspired by Nirvana and the Rolling Stones. Here’s what you need to buy… (LouderSound)

Desertfest 2025 just got darker, doomier, heavier and more exciting with the addition of 20 artists to the line-up (LouderSound)

Rock out and save with these deals on records by Foo Fighters, Lamb Of God, Amon Amarth and more (LouderSound)

Everyone’s favourite totally gnarly skate shoes are up to 60% off this Black Friday (LouderSound)

It may not surprise you to learn that there is no place for Love Actually, Titanic, or The Muppet Christmas Carol on Trent Reznor’s all-time favourite movies list (LouderSound)

Cool new proggy sounds you really should check out from Allamedah, Astreyane, The Wring and more… (LouderSound)

The Manics man, who also reveals the very unique approach he has to making baked beans, probably didn’t tune in to the Great British Bake Off finale this week (LouderSound)

The Anchoress has signed a new record deal with the Scottish label Last Night From Glasgow and will release her new album in the Autumn (LouderSound)

The Scorsese-directed Beatles documentary has landed on Disney+. Here’s the cheapest way to watch it (LouderSound)

Lana Del Rey extends her summer 2025 stadium tour to six shows in the UK and Ireland (LouderSound)

New Roger Dean exhibition Horizon Line is on at Trading Boundaries in East Sussex until December 31 (LouderSound)

Karmakanic will release their brand new album Transmutation in March (LouderSound)

Belfast court rules that the UK government acted illegally in withholding funding from Irish rap trio (LouderSound)

Diving into the beginnings of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s virtual pop side-project that became even bigger than Blur (LouderSound)

“We made records every four years. In that gap, labels were like, ‘How can we get a band that sounds like Rage but sang about girls and showed up for video shoots?’” (LouderSound)

Debbie Harry’s new wave trailblazers had a special formula to knocking out the hits in the late 70s, not one your doctor would recommend (LouderSound)

The music business has lost too many hugely talented artists who’ve died too soon, but only one, as far as we know, has faced the prospect of being trampled to death on an English farm (LouderSound)

Dark proggers revisit their past and banish memories of bad blood in a collection of re-recordings that could easily have been so much less, plus a set of impressive covers (LouderSound)

Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee was wounded in the unprovoked attack in October (LouderSound)

Glam royalty Sweet buff up their crown jewels (LouderSound)

Two nights, four CDs, one six-string feast (LouderSound)

The 20th album from Underground linchpins Crippled Black Phoenix comes with a second disc of covers (LouderSound)

Sir Rod Stewart’s wife Penny Lancaster appeared on the Greg Wallace-hosted Celebrity Masterchef in 2021 (LouderSound)

English trio SKAM find an intensity of their own on From The Depths (LouderSound)

This mini hi-fi system from Denon is powerful, practical and priced to wow – and Currys will throw in Apple TV+ for 4 months too (LouderSound)

Filmed during the nu metal stars’ enormous show in São Paulo two weeks ago (LouderSound)

Metalheads loved it when Knocked Loose and Poppy destroyed Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week. These people didn’t… (LouderSound)

Former Nightwish bassist and singerMarko Hietala will release new album Roses From The Deep in February (LouderSound)

Marillion singer Steve Hogarth will play live shows in England Germany and the Netherlands over the festive period (LouderSound)

Metal’s OG guitarist pays tribute to the generation that followed his (LouderSound)

Enjoy massive savings on a wide range of Beats headphones at Amazon US and Argos in the UK this Black Friday – with up to 54% off (LouderSound)

The date is part of a monster tour that will stretch across Europe from 2025 to 2026 (LouderSound)

John Hackett Band will release their third album, Red Institution, in the first half of 2025 (LouderSound)

Etsy is the place to be for amazing products not found on the high street – and with 30% off this Black Friday, you can save while also helping independent retailers (LouderSound)

After their brief collaboration together in 1969 with the Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon had hopes of recruiting Clapton for a “revolutionary” new supergroup, one where wives and girlfriends were “welcome” on the road instead of “frowned upon” (LouderSound)

The Oasis brother has hit back at Glen Matlock with some icy words (LouderSound)

US prog metal legends Savatage will play their first live shows in over a decade with singer Zak Stevens next year (LouderSound)

Creed frontman Scott Stapp names the album that put him on the road to rock’n’roll (LouderSound)

Folk and folk rock bands are responsible for some of the most progressive music ever made. Not only that, but they influenced the rock world as we know it (LouderSound)

The band suffered a few false starts before delivering a triumph with a daring album that explored a new kind of energy (LouderSound)

Before Queen + Adam Lambert there was Queen + Paul Rodgers. We spoke to them about the plusses and the minuses (LouderSound)

Lemmy’s afterlife continues to be more lively than many peoples’ actual lives (LouderSound)

And he’s proved it once again, paying tribute to New York City via the medium of dance (LouderSound)

In an excerpt from memoir Dreaming Japanese, Friedman looks back on the “unusually strong” panic attack he suffered on Christmas morning, 1999 (LouderSound)

How an unsettling, misogynistic encounter in Kim Deal’s hometown inspired one of her most unsettling songs (LouderSound)

Ahead of their impending retirement, Derrick Green and Andreas Kisser explain which songs have most shaped Sepultura’s career (LouderSound)

Courtney Love nominates some of her favourite emerging artists, among them “the Gen Z Trent Reznor or Brian Eno” (LouderSound)

The story of Marillion. keyboard player Mark Kelly’s first solo venture with Mark Kelly’s Marathon (LouderSound)

Phil Bozeman explains in a video statement that he’s trying to come off antidepressants which he’s used his teenage years (LouderSound)

“He said, ‘Well, clearly your wife has impeccable taste where you have little. I suggest you listen to her’.” (LouderSound)

Squeeze celebrate 50 years at The Roundhouse, London (LouderSound)

The Emerald Dawn will headline London’s Camden Club in July with Viper Soup Complex as support (LouderSound)

If you’re a UK-based fan of ’80s post-punk, alt. rock, new wave and goth, you might want to clear a date in your diary next summer for Forever Now festival (LouderSound)

A song so long and so brutal it had to be split into two parts (LouderSound)

The Manchester festival will be starting an offshoot in the UK capital as of next year, with Knocked Loose, Alex G and others also populating the bill (LouderSound)

The Knocked Loose and Poppy team-up was recently nominated for a Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance (LouderSound)

Beneath Pamela Des Barres’ infamous groupie exterior beats a romantic heart (LouderSound)

A quarter of a century after its original broadcast on Saturday Night Live, the Cowbell Sketch’s ripples are still spreading (LouderSound)

Dead Boys frontman Jake Hout has hit out after leaving the band, but guitarist Cheetah Chrome isn’t taking it lying down (LouderSound)

Gigs today ain’t what they used to be (LouderSound)

Orianthi will fill in for Nita Strauss on a run of dates early next year after a decade away (LouderSound)

Evan Rachel Wood’s legal team say Marilyn Manson’s “attempt to silence and intimidate” their client has failed (LouderSound)

From 1995’s Orchid through to 2024’s The Last Will And Testament, we ranked every Opeth album in order of greatness (LouderSound)

In 2001, US singer/songwriter Tori Amos recorded an ethereal cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood for her sixth studio album Strange Little Girls. For this, you can thank the Taliban (LouderSound)

German label Pelagic Records has become home to some of metal’s brightest and most experimental names – these are their five most landmark releases (LouderSound)

The build-up to 2025 album Duél continues! (LouderSound)

Outbreak festival announces typically bold and eclectic 2025 line-up (LouderSound)

Hot Topic’s wide-ranging sale has t-shirts available from as little as $15 from some of the biggest names in music – stock up while you can (LouderSound)

Edvard Graham Lewis will release his new solo album Alreet? in January (LouderSound)

Durst’s suit claims the multinational behemoth tried to short Limp Bizkit and possibly “hundreds” of other artists out of owed royalties (LouderSound)

The Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? singer has been announced for Glastonbury Festival’s coveted legend slot (LouderSound)

Courtney Love is writing new music, but not everyone she wants to work with is interested (LouderSound)

The singer/guitarist claims he’s had more energy during live performances since going vegan in 2014 (LouderSound)

The collective of former Palm Reader, Black Peaks and Toska members have released their first song since this summer’s lauded Apricity EP (LouderSound)

The masked metal sensations are doing their own Eras Tour, playing tracks from their three albums in chronological order (LouderSound)

The amateur impressionist on finding his birth mother then closing communications with her, Stiff Records’ plans to make him a star, and saying the “stupidest thing” to Michael Jackson (LouderSound)

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they’ve been talking up over the past few years (LouderSound)

In 2005, Classic Rock spoke with former Marillion frontman Fish as he released a best-of collection, Bouillabaisse (LouderSound)

In 1968 the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band’s legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album (LouderSound)

The hard-working, fuzzed-up Detroit rock’n’rollers who became blue-collar America’s – and Homer Simpson’s – favourite band (LouderSound)

The popular Aerosmith-themed Rock’N’Roller Coaster is getting a Muppet makeover after 25 years in business (LouderSound)

Shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine will play a rare hometown show in 2025 (LouderSound)

Pearl Jam share rare outing of Temple Of The Dog masterpiece Hunger Strike in Sydney, Australia (LouderSound)

Therapy? roll back the decades in joyous communal celebration of their best-loved album, 1994’s Troublegum (LouderSound)

Folk metal heavy hitters and one of America’s most exciting young death metal bands will join Arch Enemy on tour in 2025 (LouderSound)

Papa Het can’t quite reach the Judas Priest frontman’s high notes without a little assistance, but nevertheless he gives it his best shot in this behind the scenes clip from Metallica’s 2003 St. Anger sessions (LouderSound)

Big Big Train will release 2002 album Bard on vinyl and CD in March (LouderSound)

Former Purson leader’s third solo album is far more self-assured than her first two outings, with a loose concept that lets her imagination run wild (LouderSound)

Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show (LouderSound)

UK prog rockers Kyros have just released the brand new Fear & Love mini-EP (LouderSound)

With the Converse Cyber Week sale offering discounts of up to 50% off in the US and up to 40% off in the UK, it’s the perfect time to replace your battered old Chucks (LouderSound)

Saxon will hit the road next year to play an all-time great heavy metal album in its entirety (LouderSound)

Bleed From Within are making a big step up for 2025! (LouderSound)

From the history-making brilliance of debut album Hybrid Theory to the triumphant comeback of From Zero, we rate Linkin Park’s impressive discography (LouderSound)

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian reveals that his first ever metal show involved one of the greatest metal bands of them all (LouderSound)

The self-proclaimed second-loudest drummer in Birmingham recalls his time with The Move, Black Sabbath and more – and he wants you to know he hasn’t retired (LouderSound)

Dark Room is the fourth studio album by Aussie rockers The Angels, released in 1980 (LouderSound)

Including Smith/Kotzen, Those Damn Crows, The Sheepdogs and five other riders on the rock’n’roll storm (LouderSound)