Rising UK stoner metal heroes Green Lung will bring rural gloom to a town near you on Midsomer tour 2024
The rising doom metal stars are set to support Opeth and Clutch on the road this summer
The rising doom metal stars are set to support Opeth and Clutch on the road this summer
UK-based proggers ZIO will release a new live album Elibomevil in August
Focus will release the cunningly titled Focus 12, their 12th studio album, in July
David Gilmour will play a six-night run of live shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in October
The incredibly promising alt-metal collective have released their debut single Shroud
Listen to Corey Taylor, Jens Kidman and Bear McCreary’s symphonic metal team-up here
It's all very relaxing
UK proggers IQ upcoming Archive Collection release The IQ Weekender 2024 is now available to pre-order
Just Heriot showing once again why they're one of the best young bands in the UK metal scene right now
Avenged Sevenfold bassist Johnny Christ has looked back on the shocking experience of playing a sparse bar after City Of Evil came out
Cool new proggy sounds you really should check out from Outrun The Sunlight, Lowen, The Twenty Committee and more..
Avantasia mastermind recalls being blown away by Geoff Tate’s vocals – and struggling to copy what he’d heard
Mammoth WVH guitarist/vocalist Wolfgang Van Halen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade
Both Riverside and Klone will be touring the UK and Ireland together in May
We asked Hammer readers to put their questions to Chelsea Wolfe - this is what she had to say
In 1998, Iron Maiden tried to promote Virtual XI by putting on football games with journalists and professional players. It was all a bit weird.
When Milquetoast was picked up for 1994 cult hit The Crow, it looked like Helmet were about to hit the big time - but the New York band had other plans
For many, The Cure of the 1980s was that of smudged lipstick and funny pop songs, but albums like Pornography and Disintegration showed the reality was much darker
Peter Gabriel on his favourite films, how his dad invented on-demand TV, and the space adventure that nearly was
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour gives a TV audience a solo of epic Floydian scale
Fourth album sees leader James Lascelles taking on weighty subjects, backed up by equally weighty music
London’s AOR lifers FM keep up the good work on album number 14, Old Habits Die Hard
Remaster of their 1997 second album – which began life as a Jacob Holm-Lupo solo work – includes vinyl edition for the first time
P.O.D. push forward commendably, but with decidedly mixed results
2007 live set by the West Country’s finest returns in 2CD/DVD package
With Tom Dowd producing, Gregg Allman in fine voice and new guitarist Warren Haynes on board, the Brothers returned after a decade away with Seven Turns
Classic line-up’s 2001 reunion album is enhanced with the inclusion of In The Land Of The Rising Sun
Seemingly without the use of oxygen tents, the supergroup risk exhausting the listener with The Whirdwind, The Absolute Universe and a selection of crowdpleasers
Second full-length album from melodic prog supergroup is far wider-ranging than the members’ CVs might imply