Better Strangers, featuring Nic Collins, reshape in proggier mould for new instrumental live EP
Better Strangers have released a new live EP, Live At Gramps, and you can watch it all on video here| Latest from Louder Sound
Better Strangers have released a new live EP, Live At Gramps, and you can watch it all on video here| Latest from Louder Sound
The hardcore musician ventured into hardcore porn in the early 2000s, after meeting his ex-wife Tera Patrick| Latest from Louder Sound
The Hives' Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist on Outkast, the Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones and becoming rock royalty| Latest from Louder Sound
Once talked up as “the next Metallica,” this American group rejected easy options and used their developing skills to craft a progressive metal record that arrived without warning in 2016| Latest from Louder Sound
Luke Morley doesn't know what the future holds but right now he's busy| Latest from Louder Sound
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The review of the film of the book about the making of Bruce Springsteen's bleak masterpiece, Nebraska| Latest from Louder Sound
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The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17| Louder
It's been 20 years since the MP3 player explosion - and, against all odds, it's staging a comeback. We explore the reasons why, and why you should be all-in| Latest from Louder Sound
Tony Banks: Man Of Spells – The Magician Of Genesis has been written by Genesis biographer Mario Giammetti and will be published in February| Latest from Louder Sound
Avatar finally go for the commercial jugular on Don’t Go In The Forest| Latest from Louder Sound
Green Day might be a polished stadium rock band now, but they didn't exactly enamour themselves to the Hollywood elite when they first blew up| Latest from Louder Sound
Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will be performing the band's earlier material in the live arena| Latest from Louder Sound
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Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band will hit the UK for four arena dates in July 2026| Latest from Louder Sound
Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12| Latest from Louder Sound
Everyone's favourite Kent-based rock festival returns for a fourth year| Latest from Louder Sound
The tale behind one of Aerosmith's most iconic songs| Latest from Louder Sound
The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is vigorous| Latest from Louder Sound
The first episodes of Song Cake are available to watch online now| Louder
Kiss famously released four solo albums on the same day. Just as famously, only one of them was truly worthy of the Kiss name - Ace Frehley's| Louder
Godflesh are far from metal’s most famous band, but they’ve influenced Metallica, been asked to tour with Danzig and almost had one of their members hired by Faith No More| Latest from Louder Sound
One metal-loving wrestling legend using an Alter Bridge song as his theme tune helped gain the band countless new followers| Latest from Louder Sound
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Michael Monroe, Mammoth, ZZ Ward and more| Latest from Louder Sound
“Lemmy opens up his voice and starts singing, my mind exploded!”| Latest from Louder Sound
Creeper are in full fangbanging mode on their excellent fourth album| Latest from Louder Sound
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Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel's alt proggers A Perfect Circle will tour the EU and UK for the first time since 2018| Latest from Louder Sound
Formed in the musical turmoil of the late 80s, the American group made music based on a theory of melody. But with the help of Rush collaborators they’ve tweaked their approach for the third album of their next generation| Louder
Later regarded as a massively inspirational work, it was too demanding a prospect when American quartet made it| Latest from Louder Sound
A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes| Latest from Louder Sound
Just another Halloween-themed afternoon in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen| Latest from Louder Sound
Thom Yorke insists Radiohead will "absolutely not" perform in Israel again under Netanyahu regime| Latest from Louder Sound
Smashing Pumpkins mainman appears to extend olive branch to bassist with whom he's waged longstanding war of words| Latest from Louder Sound
They say never meet your heroes – Steve Vai would disagree| Latest from Louder Sound
Steve Martin puts a bluegrass spin on My Only Angel, the lead single from Aerosmith and Yungblud's upcoming One More Time EP| Latest from Louder Sound
You may not hear Tremonti favourites Celtic Frost in Creed and Alter Bridge’s music but they’re there| Latest from Louder Sound
The Metal God says that The Prince Of Darkness “really loved” his band’s take on Black Sabbath’s classic| Latest from Louder Sound
In 1978 Whitesnake turned a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland chestnut into one of blues rock’s greatest anthems| Latest from Louder Sound
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Peak 70s Elton John, a songwriting triumph| Latest from Louder Sound
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Commuters on London Underground were stunned to bump into Jon Bon Jovi – "Rock legends take the tube too"| Latest from Louder Sound
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It featured the greatest yodelling since The Sound Of Music| Latest from Louder Sound
The Poisoned Ascendancy tour was supposed to extend from January to December 2025, until Bullet pulled the plug to record their next album| Latest from Louder Sound
The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix – ex-Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has known them all| Latest from Louder Sound
Sumptuous box sets that gather all available versions plus a wealth of bonus material – not all of which will be welcomed| Latest from Louder Sound
Ten weeks ago, Larkin Poe lead singer Rebecca Lovell had a baby. Last night, she and her sister headlined the Hammersmith Apollo and threw in an unexpected cover of War Pigs| Louder
Louder is the definitive guide to the world of rock, metal and alternative music and the online home of Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog magazines| Louder
Metal Hammer gets to grips with Metallica's first album in eight years, and decides that Hardwired... To Self-Destruct finally recaptures the thrash legends' mojo.| Louder
Papa Het has shown a new level of vulnerability on a decent if unspectacular Metallica record| Louder
A guide to the recorded solo work of the late Prince Of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne| Louder
New haircuts, new sound, new Metallica: was Load the sound of metal’s biggest band trolling the world?| Louder
Forty years on from their formation, Dave Mustaine looks back at the volatile early days of Megadeth| Louder
Metallica were already one of the world's biggest bands in the mid-90s. Then came a chapter in their career that'd change many fans' perceptions of them for good| Louder
From his stubborn individuality to his taste in music, Metallica’s Cliff Burton was a true one-off| Louder
The inside story of the album that elevated Metallica to metal’s A-list| Louder
The latest Metallica breaking news, comment and features from Louder| Louder
Nu metal ruled the roost at the turn of the millennium, and these are the 50 best albums the genre produced| Louder
The latest Heavy Metal breaking news, comment and features from the experts at Louder| Louder
There’s more to Bruce Dickinson than just a voice like an air-raid siren, as these 10 Iron Maiden classics prove| Louder
From Genesis to The Who, Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris reveals the songs that shaped him| Louder
Iron Maiden’s monumental Powerslave album was released 40 years ago today| Louder
The epic concept album was more than just Iron Maiden’s most successful album of the 1980s – it took them to heavy metal immortality| Louder
James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Bob Rock tell the behind-the-scenes story of how Metallica made the Black Album| Louder
A guide through the life and times of Maiden's mascot| Louder
How a day out in 1980 changed music festivals forever| Louder
The Latest Iron Maiden Breaking News, Comments and Features from the Experts at Louder| Louder
At a gig just outside Birmingham on August 1, 1969, music changed forever| Louder
Celebrate Babymetal's new album Metal Forth with this special edition cover!| Louder
Babymetal team up with a bunch of metal pals to make another bold stride forwards| Louder
Steve Howe's Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre arfe reissued on CD and vinyl in September| Louder
The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened| Louder
The Prince Of Darkness, heavy metal's original madman and the architect for an entire genre - these are some of the finest songs Ozzy lent his talents to| Louder
How five working class heroes from East London helped kickstart the 80s| Louder
Released in May 1992, Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark was supposed to future-proof the British metal legends. Instead, it hastened the exit of talismanic frontman Bruce Dickinson| Louder
Clown princes of self-spoofing glam continue their bumpy comeback| Louder
The Queen songs the band's fans voted champions of them all| Louder
From Powerage to Power Up, from Back in Black to Black Ice, from Rock Or Bust to... you get the idea. These are AC/DC's albums ranked, from worst to best| Louder
The musicians may have changed, but the search for musical transcendence never wavered. These are the very best albums by Yes| Louder
Justin Hayward and co weren’t sure how long they’d last after inheriting the music of Denny Laine - but they needn’t have worried| Louder
"What the world needs now, is rock, sweet rock"| Louder
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"Rock'n'roll's a dirty job, and no one did it dirtier"| louder
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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett give us a track-by-track rundown of the album that built thrash| louder
More than three decades after their debut, prog icons Dream Theater show no sign of either slowing down or running out of ideas| louder
Classic Rock presents the complete list of Kiss' 29 albums, each ranked from worst to best| louder
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