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Slipknot eyeing up a £120 million catalogue sale to investment firm
Deal wouldn’t cover future releases
“Festivals are being cancelled due to extreme weather”: Brian Eno and others urge government to cancel new oilfield
New Rosebank field will “accelerate the climate crisis”, they argue
Megadeth to come to an end – Dave Mustaine announces final album and farewell tour for 2026
Next year will see the release of the final Megadeth studio album before Mustaine and co ride off into the sunset – and there will be a tell-all memoir coming too
“It was a dark time in so many ways”: Radiohead to release new live album
Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003 – 2009) is out now
![A composite image of Steve Vai [left] playing his green PIA Ibanez signature guitar onstage with the Satch/Vai band, and right, the late, great Allan Holdsworth playing an S-style with a cigarette smoking wedged on the strings.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4rRFNyBs8iuRk62px4U6yj-840-80.jpg.webp)
Steve Vai on why Allan Holdsworth – the fusion virtuoso who wrote his own rules – was the GOAT
Most players Vai can work out where they were coming from. Holdsworth, he admits, was something different entirely
“Incredibly powerful, efficient, and fast”: Ascendo Immersive unveil the largest subwoofers in the world
Bass: how low can you go?
Taylor Swift on how she threw down the creative gauntlet to Max Martin for new album The Life Of A Showgirl
She says that making the whole record with Martin and Shellback "felt like catching lightning in a bottle”
"Take your pig squeals to the next level": Ablaze's Screamer is a vocal production plugin "crafted for metalheads, by metalheads"
Described as "the ultimate plugin for extreme vocals", Screamer is designed to enhance screamed vocals with the bold and punchy vocal tone that's characteristic of modern metal production
