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"Some other very well-known people were at that first jam": Adrian Smith on how Smith/Kotzen got started, bonding over British rock and Iron Maiden's big homecoming

"Some other very well-known people were at that first j...

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Guitarists Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are preparing to take their side proje...

"He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend

"He came down with this battered old Telecaster and pla...

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All the elements of the classic rock'n'roll lifestyle fed into a storming tune a...

“Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

“Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing...

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1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading b...

“Strange people just appeared. We had awful visions of ghosts in the room. There was rustling and scraping at the window. It was happening every full moon”: The creepy tale of Camel’s Moonmadness

“Strange people just appeared. We had awful visions of ...

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Charged with matching The Snow Goose’s surprise success, Andy Latimer’s band wro...

How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards: Ghost, Deftones, Sleep Token & Amyl And The Sniffers among this year’s nominees

How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards: Ghost, Deftones, S...

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The 68th annual Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on February 1 - here’s...

Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Cr...

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Great new prog you must hear from Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, plantoid, Maebe and ...

"I said, 'Only call me if it’s AC/DC or the Rolling Stones.' A week in, the phone rings, and it’s my agent saying AC/DC called. What?!" From her dad touring with Aerosmith to singing in The Grinch, Taylor Momsen on her life in music and movies

"I said, 'Only call me if it’s AC/DC or the Rolling Sto...

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The Pretty Reckless singer has learned some extremely useful lessons across her ...

From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these are the 11 new metal tracks that everybody needs to hear this week

From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these ...

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Skindred, Sevendust and Møl spearhead a week of amazing new music. Listen to it ...

“We got airplay with that song, and that was remarkable. Unless you were Nirvana or Pearl Jam, radio stations weren’t interested”: How William Shakespeare inspired the song which became a surprise grunge-era hit and saved an entire genre

“We got airplay with that song, and that was remarkable...

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This 1992 classic was a turning point for progressive metal

Here are 5 ways to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards for less – find out if Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Spiritbox and Ghost scoop any gongs this year

Here are 5 ways to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards for les...

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With a totally stacked lineup for rock and metal fans, as well as an all-star tr...

“It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people”: The three iconic metal albums that changed Ice-T’s life

“It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always ...

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Riffs, beats and smackdowns - this is the soundtrack to Ice-T’s life

“I had the door slammed in my twice. I decided I’d make damn sure it never happened again”: The iconic singer who rose from the ashes twice to make one of metal’s greatest ever debut albums

“I had the door slammed in my twice. I decided I’d make...

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How Dio made their iconic 1983 debut album

"The real ideological Nazis began coming out of the closet and attacked our shows." How pockets of mindless violence inspired the most important 63 seconds of punk you'll ever hear

"The real ideological Nazis began coming out of the clo...

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Even 45 years after its release, this 1981 single remains depressingly relevant ...

“Everyone thought we were going to make an album that sounded like Green Day. So we made one that was even heavier than anything we’d done before”: How the reluctant ‘Godfathers Of Hardcore’ wrote the mosh-pit classic that put East Coast punk on MTV

“Everyone thought we were going to make an album that s...

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Sick Of It All helped take hardcore into the mainstream

“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”

“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into thi...

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How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’

"We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters

"We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of o...

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Jett read a prepared statement during a show in New Zealand