MTV have scrapped the ‘Best Rock’ category at their Video Music Awards after 37 years
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Get an exclusive Ghost puff print t-shirt and Metal Hammer cover variant with this limited edition bundle to celebrate their new concert film 2 Big To Rig
Metal Hammer have teamed up with Ghost for a world exclusive bundle! Here's what's inside
Cool new prog from Lonely Robot, Eivør, Colin Moulding, Cult Of Luna and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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The Evanescence singer was unimpressed to hear the cruel remarks one of her fans received
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French duo Eihwar are one of the funnest and most unique things to hit the alternative music scene in recent years
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Nickelback gear up for the release of their eleventh album – and warn fans to be on the lookout for scammers
Fundraiser set up to support guitar great Chris Spedding as he battles lymphoma
Spedding has played with Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Elton John, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney and more
“The Rolling Stones and The Beatles paid for theirs. I see no reason why you shouldn’t pay for yours”: When Keith Emerson tried to blag a £55,000 synth for free
The keyboard genius’ relationship with engineer Robert Moog may have had a shaky start, but it paid dividends to both men – and countless followers
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Ghost share performance of Umbra from forthcoming Skeletour concert film 2 Big To Rig
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Enslaved share transcendent new single, Solar Will, as they announce new album, Mið
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"I did a donor transplant. Unfortunately, it didn't stick. So the cancer has returned." Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell's cancer has returned, but he's refusing to live in fear
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“I ground myself to the bone for this record." Motionless In White celebrate 20 years with their first ever Metal Hammer cover
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“He’d got rid of Lemmy and it was me next… That’s when we decided to get rid of the others instead”: The civil war that left Dave Brock as captain of Hawkwind
He recalls not going to his own band’s gigs, his first acid experience, losing confidence in his playing, annoying druids at Stonehenge, who hit Ginger Baker with a pool cue, and the former member he wished would die (and did)
How The Who overcame internal strife and a drummer behaving like a 'Saudi prince' to make their most poignant album. "Roger punched me once, and I’m sure I asked for it"
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