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Gentle Giant: Octopus album review
10+ hour, 54+ min ago (1272+ words) The Advent of PanurgeRaconteur TroubadourA Cry for EveryoneKnotsThe Boys in the BandDog's LifeThink of Me with KindnessRiver With its Roger Dean sleeve and just the hint of a concept about its eight tracks (the number from which the title is…...
The chaotic birth of Guns N’ Roses and the wild road to Appetite For Destruction: “If Axl thought someone was looking at him weird, he would just haul off and smack ’em”
18+ hour, 49+ min ago (1801+ words) Sex, strops and strippers – how a bunch of feral LA rockers became The World’s Most Dangerous Band ”I watch MTV and it’s hard not to throw shit at the TV set because it’s so fucking boring. Even the bands around…...
Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best: over 25 years of heavy metal's angriest band
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (508+ words) With Slipknot surprise-releasing new single Arsenal this week, we rate the metal legends' fearsome back catalogue so far The noise around Slipknot's seventh studio album proper did not exactly bode well. Jim Root seemed to confirm rumours that the record's…...
Slipknot surprise release "pummelling" new song Arsenal, listen to it here
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (263+ words) A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth…...
"By 12th grade, people gave us a certain amount of respect. But we were never rock stars, just the weird guys who did music." The story of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo's high school prog metal band Avant Garde
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (299+ words) A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth…...
Gryphon: the unique band who forgot about themselves
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (1622+ words) Five decades after an incredible year of two remarkable albums and large-scale touring, the band look back on crêpe paper mushrooms, stolen costumes and writing classic tracks in half an hour Gryphon experienced a remarkably busy periods in 1974. The release…...
“I’ve never done hallucinogenic drugs, but now it feels like I have”: Metal Hammer writers name their best festival sets of the summer
1+ week, 2+ day ago (218+ words) Louder Your membership journey starts here. Keep exploring and earning more as a member. Explore interviews, stories and insights from iconic bands. Discover album reviews and the latest rock and metal releases. Explore your membership benefits. Stay Ahead With Louder…...
“We were the band nobody wanted to book”: the twisted story of the first American black metal band
1+ week, 2+ day ago (453+ words) Before Emperor, before Immortal, and before the first Mayhem album, there was Von – the punk-loving tearaways who went “as far as human music can go” Historians look back on the first wave of black metal as a mostly European phenomenon:…...
The time Johnny Rotten tried to join Krautrock pioneers Can: “He was phoning and leaving messages at night. And I had to tell him, ‘It’s too late’”
1+ week, 2+ day ago (286+ words) John Lydon hated Pink Floyd – but he loved Can so much he wanted to join them A pre-fame John Lydon may have famously scrawled ‘I Hate Pink Floyd’ on a t-shirt, but behind the punk posturing lay an appreciation for…...
Saxon launch Gods Of Thunder album and release epic title track
1+ week, 4+ day ago (245+ words) Gods Of Thunder is Saxon's 25th album and will arrive ahead of their UK tour next year NWOBHM veterans Saxon have announced a new album. Gods Of Thunder – the follow-up to 2024's Hell, Fire and Damnation – will be released via Silver…...