Rhythm celebrated its 25th anniversary with its September 2010 issue, featuring birthday messages from drummers including Nick Mason, Chad Smith, Joey Jordison, Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio, Stewart Copeland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Neil Peart and Nicko McBrain. If this has been done on purpose or not, Rhythm has their Instagram profile linked to an interview with Jojo Mayer titled: "The music industry is already dead. Something new is going to happen."

According to Future plc's corporate website, Rhythm has a distribution of 9,820 and 165k+ social media fans. Even in a country as big as the UK this doesn't seem to be enough to keep a magazine going.

The London Drum Show
One of Rhythm's and Future's annual events was the London Drum Show, a two day festival held at the Olympia venue in London. Rumours were already out that the 2018 edition was the last. While the website is still up, and mentioning November 2019 as the month for a new edition, it is highly unlikely this event will take place.

Rhythm magazine's announcement on Instagram
Alas, what currently appears to be our final issue. The good news is that it's out now, and you can get your very own copy...today! Thanks to all the readers of the magazine over the years, every drummer we've ever featured in the magazine, and the brands who have continued to value and support the largest independent, unbiased voice in the UK drum community. We truly appreciate it.

Rhythm magazine's announcement on Facebook
Our new issue is out today, and as you might have heard, it is currently scheduled to be the final issue of Rhythm. Inside, we speak to Mastodon's Brann Dailor, Mike Joyce, Mark Richardson of Skunk Anansie and pop session player, Gerry Morgan. To celebrate 25 years of Soundgarden's Superunknown, we show you how to play ‘Spoonman', plus there's also a video lesson for James Brown ‘I Feel Good'
In our gear section we get our hands on the new Alesis Strike multipad, plus the Zildjian Company K Cluster Crashes, K Sweet hi-hats and Crash Of Doom.

It's a sad day, and we'd like to thank you all for supporting the magazine over its 34-year presence on the newsstand. Without the support of our readers, the drum industry and countless artists, Rhythm wouldn't have survived as long as it did. So, thank you. We are truly grateful.

On Instagram and Facebook, Rhythm magazine followers responded with various comments:

@themusicalelitist You guys will be sorely missed.

@888riddim888 Not you too ? This is terrible news :( you were and always will be the UK's best drum magazine ??

@amrsarms It says something about the condition of the drum industry in the UK:(....?

@Matthew Hubbard Is there no way of saving this magazine

@David Jones I’ve cancelled my direct debit just in case future publishing take more money great magazine shame it has to end problem is the digital age but I assume there’s more old school like me that prefer the shiny magazine rather than an iPad version

@Tony Wood Can Future publishing confirm I will still have access to my digital copies (seeing as they haven’t replied to my enquiry on their website)?
Shame they haven’t taken the opportunity to contact subscribers with the news.

@Dan Jones WTF! No!

@Drumazon This is the saddest news. Rhythm has been an incredible resource for the U.K. drumming community for such a long time, it will be incredibly missed! Thanks to the entire Rhythm Magazine team past and present and best wishes to everyone moving forward.