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CJ Wildheart has not been idle following the The Wildhearts hiatus. With Lives, released on 9 September, he has provided more than a standard 'best of' album.

Progressive Metal band Erra will hit mainland Europe in February 2023, with the first of six UK dates to be held at Stylus in Leeds. Support on tour comes from label mates Silent Planet and Invent Animate, as well as Sentinels. @erraband @silentplanetband @sentinelsnj

Metallica will host The Helping Hands concert and auction on 16 December 2022 at The Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The previous show was live-streamed on 14 November 2020 and raised more than $1.8 million.

Dio: Dreamers Never Die. MetalTalk spoke with Wendy Dio, widow of the Heavy Metal legend Ronnie James Dio. In part two, they cover Rainbow and Black Sabbath. @_ronniejamesdio

Guns N' Roses The ultimate box set of their 1991 multi-platinum releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, will be released on 11 November 2022.

One Night In The City of London, next week, the emotional new Ronnie James Dio film, Dio: Dreamers Never Die, will hit the cinemas. @_ronniejamesdio

Everyone is aware of how important music is to express emotions in today's society. Even in the most gloomy situations, music may evoke excitement, joy, and other pleasant feelings in the listener....

The Night Flight Orchestra will honour the memory of guitarist David Andersson in Death To False AOR, a mini European club tour in November. Andersson died this week, aged 47. @nightflightorchestra Photo: @rock_pixs

The Thunder Valley Rally in Cottonwood, Arizona, will be headlined this year by Slaughter and Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame drummer Steven Adler, who originally burst to fame as one of...

Iron Fist. A seminal Motörhead album or the runt of the litter from the classic line-up? 40th Anniversary set. One of Heavy Metal's finest bands at their peak. @officialmotorhead

Soilwork and Night Flight Orchestra guitarist David Andersson has died aged 47. Andersson has played with Soilwork since 2012, including the band's latest album, Övergivenheten, released only last month.

Haken will embark on a co-headline European tour in 2023 with Between The Buried And Me, which will be the progressive rocker's first European dates since December 2019. Support is from Cryptodira.The...

Watain and Abbath will co-headline the Chariots of Fire European Tour 2022, along with special guests Tribulation and Bölzer and will hit London on 30 September. @tribulation_official @watainofficial @abbath_official @bolzerband

The leg operation for former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno was successfully conducted yesterday at the Traumatology Clinic of the Sisters of Mercy Clinical Hospital Center in Zagreb.

The Hunna release their self-titled album on 28 October 2022 via Believe. Their headline UK tour starts on the 18 October at the Tramshed, in Cardiff. Already, most of the dates are sold out.

To give you a perfect example of how heavily populated the whole stoner rock/psychedelic/doom scene is, I was only introduced to Dreadnought earlier this month. @dreadnoughtdenver Words: @mathematicaljester

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has died at the age of 96, and British Heavy Metal stars have begun to express their sadness at the news."Dignity. If there's...

James Kennedy was part of a music industry delegation that presented the case for the post-Brexit touring musician at a House Of Lords roundtable on Tuesday.