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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Swallow The Sun, Band-Maid and Orden Ogan are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

"You move at the speed of inspiration very quickly, and so things feel very possible." Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on the lasting impact of working with his friends Dave Grohl and Trent Reznor

QOTSA's Josh Homme talks influences and inspirations

Louder

“I’ve played some new Gibson and Fenders that really nail it”: Joe Perry says guitar making is as good now as it was in the golden era – and explains why you don’t need to spend $7000+ on a vintage Klon

The Aerosmith guitarist has a formidable stockpile of vintage gear but argues you that the new gear is just as good, and more affordable too

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Chromeo left all of their synths in the studio on their latest tour - except this one: “This was the easiest way to recreate all of the sounds that we have on the album”

Chromeo's P-Thugg gives us an exclusive tour of their live rig and shows us the ins-and-outs of their hybrid electronic/band set-up

MusicRadar

Great new proggy sounds from Swallow The Sun, Kingcrow, delving and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you must hear from Keys, William D Drake, Enigmatic Sound Machines and more...

Louder

“Does anyone know how to play this?”: Yungblud is inviting fans on stage to play guitar – and he's letting them take home his SG Juniors

Yungblud is taking fan engagement to the next level by inviting fans on stage to show off their guitar skills

Guitar World

“There are people listening to Sleep Token now who started out listening to Busted.” Watch Busted discuss metal's gatekeepers, tribalism, and their hurt at being abused by the rock community when they first started

Busted discuss their pride in introducing a generation of 'pop kids' to guitars, even as the rock community initially rejected them

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Watch this Catholic priest perfectly play Bleed by Meshuggah on drums

Father Hyacinth Marie Cordell has gone viral by nailing one of the most difficult drum parts in all of heavy metal

Metal Hammer

Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

Former Oasis guitarist describes festival, which has long championed political causes, as ‘kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling’

The Guardian - UK

How to resolve friendship tension like Lorde and Charli XCX

Do these lyrics resonate with you? “I don’t know if you like me / Sometimes I think you might hate me / Sometimes I think I might hate you.”

The Conversation

So, did things really get better? The cultural legacy of Labour’s 1997 win

Fruits of Blair’s Britain still echo through pop culture, from music and fashion to TV, books and even food

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for the Police’s Stewart Copeland

As the Police’s 1983 classic Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer will take on your questions

The Guardian - UK

Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan recalls menacing response from manager when he asked for money

‘I had never heard anything so horrible in my life,’ the singer said

The Independent UK

Norma Winstone and Kit Downes: Outpost of Dreams review – bonded by jazz tradition

The esteemed vocalist and prolific pianist weave their sounds together in an album of exquisite songs and extraordinary empathy

The Guardian - UK

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Noel Gallagher claims Glastonbury has ‘gone woke’ as general election results pour in

Rock singer said he disliked seeing ‘little f***ing idiots waving flags around and making political statements’

Evening Standard

The Killers at The O2 review: giving more bang for your buck than any other modern band

Brandon Flowers, one of the century’s great frontmen, was like a box-fresh Ken whose job is simply: ‘stage’

The Independent UK

Kendrick Lamar includes hilarious disclaimer in Drake diss music video ‘Not Like Us’

Video takes several digs at Drake and his OVO label

The Guardian - UK

‘Theresa May made the whole country rally against migrants’: UK rapper Berwyn on poverty, perseverance and hostile politics

He moved from Trinidad to Romford and was almost lost in the drug trade. Now Mercury-nominated and on a major label, the musician explains the trauma of those years – and his anger at being demonised by the Tories

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“I didn't tell the band, but I went to the gig and sat at the back. It was strange to see this other guy singing my lines… I really felt for him”: Michael Sadler was always going to rejoin Saga, and they knew it

Canadian singer’s five-year absence was long enough for his bandmates to fail the challenge of reinventing themselves

Louder

"It's difficult to tell which one of the tracks on this album was improvised spontaneously": Focus veer from grandiose to sombre on expansive 12th album

Old Dutch masters Focus return

Louder

A beginner's guide to power pop in five essential albums

Power pop albums for the connoisseur

The Guardian - UK

Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

Guitar World

Struggling to get the right feel in your fusion licks? This John Scofield-inspired lesson will teach you how to make your jazz playing strut

Pickup Music's Arianna Powell drops in to work some magic around the B minor pentatonic scale, demonstrating how a little rhythmic nous can make your phrasing really pop

Guitar World

“An essential member of one of the greatest American bands of all time”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to an unsung Les Paul legend

The Mayor of Nerdville gives us a lesson in the blues style of Tower of Power guitarist Bruce Conte, a player whom JoBo says is one of his favorite guitarists ever

The Conversation

Still fab after 60 years: how The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night made pop cinema history

I first saw A Hard Day’s Night at a film festival over 20 years ago, at the insistence of my mum. By then, it was already decades old, but I remember being enthralled by its high-spirited energy.

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