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- July 3
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- "I thought, 'When I can play that, I'll finally admit I'm a good guitarist.'" Watch Sophie Lloyd pick out her five favourite guitar solos of all time
- "Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo Odadjian on nu metal vs deathcore, weird lyrics and whether a new System Of A Down album can live up to their legacy
- A Mass by Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Judge Smith to be premiered 50 years after it was written
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- From hardcore to hard rock to the nation’s favourite balladeers: The Goo Goo Dolls albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
- "There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
- “There was an ambulance waiting for Ozzy. Sharon says, ‘He bit into a bat’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident
- “The intoxicating beauty remains 20 years on, reinforcing the notion that her softly charismatic voice can enchant in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light – The Recordings 2004-2006
- Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King, band lineup changes, and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
- "It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake
- July 2
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- "We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury
- "You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem
- "Over the years, we’ve had moments of unbridled joy, and moments of devastating heartbreak." Foo Fighters celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of new single, Today's Song
- Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts
- Supertramp's Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? to get 50th anniversary reissues
- "Best song of the night." Liam Gallagher reacts to footage of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong kicking a fan offstage for playing Oasis anthem Wonderwall instead of Green Day's Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
- Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
- Why is everyone talking about Bob Vylan? Glastonbury festival's biggest controversy explained
- BEAT share live clip of Neal And Jack And Me as they announce new live release
- Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to fellow Brummie icons Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover
- Marshall turn up the volume on the portable speaker market with the all-new Middleton II
- “I remember being physically frightened”: Tom Morello looks back on the first time he heard Black Sabbath
- From Black Sabbath to Napalm Death: these are the 10 greatest metal bands from Birmingham
- "We're one of the only bands where the original members are still alive and speaking with one another": The final Black Sabbath interview
- "I really have beat the odds here. It's very surreal": Meet Ally Venable, the young blueser who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy
- “It was only after Woolly killed himself that it seemed an opportune moment to make a last statement, if you like”: Barclay James Harvest probably wouldn’t have made North if co-founder Wolstenholme hadn’t died
- "This collaboration is a testament to Ozzy’s impact on the gothic and alternative communities": Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
- July 1
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- “At one point, he held up an inflatable doll with an erection, dressed like a bee." From orgasmic laugh yoga to shamanic drumming for Mother Earth, here’s what really happens at Glastonbury Festival beyond the music
- Here are five brilliant sets from Glastonbury this year that you probably haven't heard about
- The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age
- The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
- Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
- Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?
- Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
- "Peaches is voyeuristic, but it's not misogynistic": The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches
- Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades, statistically working at a rate of 2.67 seconds a year
- The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
- Peter Hammill announces live dates for England and Scotland in September and October, his first UK solo shows for seven years
- "What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
- “A lost gem featuring the best of the best being put through their paces by the ever-controlling bandleader”: Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep
- Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath team up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
- "The health and well-being of the band has to come first": Saxon cancel 10 summer shows as Biff Byford undergoes emergency surgery
- “The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease
- There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist
