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A long-running civil lawsuit against Marilyn Manson has survived another attempt to have it dismissed — putting the controversial shock-rock musician back on the road towards a potential jury trial. ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses allegations of sexual assault and abuse. Marilyn Manson — real name Brian Warner — is continuing to face a civil lawsuit brought by his...

The UK heavy metal community is rallying around veteran music journalist Dom Lawson after he suffered a heart attack during Bloodstock Open Air, with a GoFundMe fundraiser now launched to support him during his recovery. ❤️ What should have been another weekend filled with riffs, mates, festival madness and gloriously loud heavy metal took a frightening turn for one of...

The sold-out Merauder show is still set to go ahead, but one of the London promoters involved has stepped away following controversy surrounding social media activity attributed to vocalist Jorge Rosado. Well then. This one has become considerably more complicated than your average night of riffs, breakdowns and bodies flying across a hardcore venue. 😬🤘 A London promoter has announced...

Results day can feel like the biggest gig of your life. You’ve spent months revising, smashing through coursework, sitting exams, refreshing portals and convincing yourself you definitely failed that one question you actually answered perfectly. Then the results land. And sometimes… They’re not what you hoped for. 😬 If that’s you today, don’t assume the entire show has been cancelled....

Three frontmen. Three completely different eras. One absolutely enormous heavy metal legacy. But when it comes to throwing around the word “legendary”, former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley reckons there’s one singer who stands apart from the rest. And no, he’s not talking about Bruce Dickinson. He’s talking about Paul Di’Anno. 🤘🔥 Yep, mun. Somewhere in the distance, you can...

Today’s the day, butt. 😬🎓 Across Wales and the rest of the UK, thousands of students are waking up with stomachs doing full Slipknot drum fills as they wait to discover their A-Level, T-Level and BTEC results. Some will be refreshing websites like their lives depend on it. Others will be pacing around the kitchen pretending they’re totally calm while...

Eight years in the making. Nearly nine minutes long. Piano, strings, heartbreak, Slash standing outside a tiny church absolutely murdering a Les Paul… and one of the greatest guitar solos ever committed to tape. Some songs age. Some songs become nostalgic. And then there’s “November Rain.” Thirty-five years after Guns N’ Roses unleashed their ridiculously ambitious rock epic on Use...

Imagine you’re playing guitar alongside one of your absolute heroes. Brian May is standing next to you, Red Special in hand, smashing through a Queen classic… and then suddenly he LEANS AGAINST YOU. What do you do? If you’re The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins, apparently the answer is simple: DO. NOT. MOVE. 😂🎸 Because Hawkins has recalled the gloriously awkward...

Before Enter Sandman conquered the planet, before Metallica became stadium-level monsters, and before Nothing Else Matters became compulsory pub-jukebox material, the band pulled one of the most gloriously ridiculous album launches in heavy metal history. Today — 12 August 2026 — Metallica’s colossal self-titled fifth album, better known to absolutely everybody as The Black Album, celebrates its 35th anniversary. Thirty-five...

Well, this is the sort of rock news that makes you check the calendar, put the kettle down and shout, “WAIT… WHAT?!” Legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore is set to perform with Deep Purple for the first time since 1993, bringing one of the most important — and occasionally combustible — partnerships in rock history back together after a staggering 33...

Dave Grohl and the gang have never needed much encouragement to raid rock ’n’ roll’s record collection… There are Foo Fighters gigs, and then there are Foo Fighters gigs where Dave Grohl suddenly decides the setlist can get stuffed and it’s time for some rock ’n’ roll karaoke. 🎸😂 For decades, Foo Fighters have treated cover songs as part of...

The early ’90s were a bloody strange time to own a can of hairspray and a pointy guitar. One minute, hair metal ruled the planet. MTV was overflowing with leather trousers, enormous choruses, even bigger barnets and enough Aqua Net to punch another hole through the ozone layer. Then along came grunge. Suddenly, flannel was fashionable, guitar solos were apparently...

Same name. Same songs. Absolutely nobody from day one. Welcome to the wonderfully confusing world of progressive rock. 🤘🌀 Prog rock has never exactly been famous for keeping things simple. Why write a three-minute song when you can make it 23 minutes long, throw in four time-signature changes, a Mellotron solo, lyrics about interdimensional wizards and an album sleeve that...

When you think about Guns N’ Roses, you think excess. Excessive riffs. Excessive attitude. Excessive backstage carnage. Excessively long waits for albums. And, quite often, absolutely massive live shows. 🤘🔥 But here’s a statistic that’s genuinely bonkers. Across the core original material released on Appetite for Destruction, GN’R Lies, Use Your Illusion I, Use Your Illusion II and Chinese Democracy,...

Big hair. Bigger choruses. Guitar solos visible from space. Welcome back to 1986. There are years in rock history that were merely good. Then there are years where somebody apparently kicked open the studio door, emptied six cans of hairspray into the atmosphere, plugged a Marshall stack directly into the National Grid and shouted: “RIGHT THEN — LET’S HAVE IT!”...