Rock Music

Ozzy Osbourne has been formally recognised in the United States Congressional Record, with Representative Victoria Spartz paying tribute to the late Black Sabbath frontman's impact on music, popular culture and American life.

Iron Maiden have played the first show of their Run For Your Lives world tour in Athens, Greece, giving Australian fans their clearest picture yet of what to expect when the band returns in November 2026. The opening night leaned heavily on the earliest chapters of the band's catalogue and restored several classics absent from their previous Australian visit.

Fifty years after Blue Öyster Cult released Agents Of Fortune, the album remains the band's commercial breakthrough and the record that delivered one of rock radio's most enduring songs, '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'.

The Hu have confirmed their third studio album, Hun, will be released on July 24, while unveiling the new single Lost Soul, a collaboration with Jonny Hawkins of Nothing More that signals the next phase of the Mongolian band's evolving Hunnu Rock sound.

Killswitch Engage will return to Australia and New Zealand in late 2026 for their first headline tour of the region since releasing their 2025 album This Consequence, with British metal band Sylosis joining as special guests.

Fifty years after its release, Rainbow's second album Rising remains one of the defining records of hard rock and early heavy metal, with “Stargazer” continuing to influence generations of metal musicians and fans.

Bay Area thrash metal veterans Testament have revisited one of the defining records of their catalogue with a newly remastered edition of 1989's Practice What You Preach.