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Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil is back on stage in Las Vegas, but just nine months ago the band's future was in doubt. The 64-year-old singer revealed that he suffered a stroke the day after Christmas in 2024, a health scare that left him unable to walk and forced the band to postpone the start of their Las Vegas residency.

Next Friday, September 19, heavy music pioneers Kittie, the all-female Canadian metal band that shocked and inspired many when they first emerged, will release Spit XXV, a four-track EP revisiting and reimagining some of their most iconic tracks from the band's gold-certified debut, Spit.

Ill Niño, the Latin-metal pioneers who fused hard-hitting riffs with percussive Latin rhythms, will return to Australian stages in September 2025 after an eight-year absence. The tour marks a new era for the band, with vocalist Tommy Roulette of New Jersey metalcore outfit Jynx stepping in as Ill Niño’s new frontman.

Slipknot’s self-titled debut album landed on 29 June 1999 like a pipe bomb in the middle of the metal world. Twenty-five years later, that same record – the one that introduced nine masked maniacs from Des Moines, Iowa to the world – has been reimagined in a definitive deluxe edition, Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition), out now via Roadrunner Records.

Phil Campbell’s first major gig as a member of Motörhead wasn’t on a stage – it was on television. Within a week of joining the legendary band in 1984, Campbell found himself on the set of the cult British comedy The Young Ones.

The 2024 APRA Music Awards will recognise Hard Rock and Heavy Metal with a new category this year.

Former Skid Row star Johnny Solinger has died at the age of 55.