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September 2021

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September 22
- Cyber Monday record player deals 2021: what to expect
- Black Friday record player deals 2021: what to expect
- Filth Is Eternal: "We lost a tour because people objected to our old name"
- Health: The Trent Reznor-approved industrial band angering hipsters
- Green Lung’s Top 10 Occult Rock Albums
- Every David Coverdale and Whitesnake album, ranked from worst to best
September 21
- "You need to be able to stare into the abyss": Transylvania's Dordeduh make peace with their past
- Sepultura's Derrick Green: "I knew there would be backlash when I joined"
- Best Marshall speakers 2021: From portables to home Hi-Fi, here’s what you need to know...
September 20
- Jeff Walker: "Tom Hanks used to play Carcass to his friends"
- How Opeth ditched the death metal on Heritage
- Between The Buried And Me: the story behind Colors II, the bizarro, brilliant sequel to a landmark album
- Why The Old Grey Whistle Test Rocked
- How Ozzy Osbourne found Randy Rhoads and made a masterpiece
- 10 Britrock albums you should definitely own
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Don Broco, Doom’s Children and more
September 19
- Bon Jovi: How the New Jersey album nearly killed the band
September 18
- The 10 best Jimi Hendrix songs released after his death
September 17
- The Story Behind The Song: Kittie's Spit
- Betrayal, murder, colonialism: Alien Weaponry are confronting the dark heart of New Zealand
- Employed To Serve: "This is an album about empowerment - about conquering yourself".
- 82 Minutes, 10 Songs, one Samurai: the real story behind Iron Maiden's epic new album Senjutsu
- Every track on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II, ranked from worst to best
- What's the greatest solo album ever? You tell us
September 16
- Loudest Bluetooth speakers 2021: The best speakers capable of summoning the devil himself
- The metal world weighs in on Iron Maiden's Senjutsu
- Six things you need to know about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
- The true story of Marc Bolan's final days
September 15
- BB King: a guide to his best albums
- Stargazers: How Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood transformed Seattle rock, then the world
- The Stranglers: Dark Matter and the death of Dave Greenfield
- The story of Richard Wright's last ever show
September 14
- Glenn Hughes: my stories of Ritchie Blackmore, Keith Moon, Phil Lynott and more
- Wardruna and Enslaved: the birth of the stunning union, Skuggsjá
- 10 brilliant bands that broke up far too soon
- Ian McNabb: the long road to Utopian
- How Nancy Wilson created the Almost Famous soundtrack
- Why I ❤️ Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album, by REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin
September 13
- The 10 best Australian prog metal bands
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dangereens, Mastodon and more
September 12
- In and out of Traffic: the fantastic career of Jim Capaldi
September 10
- Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best
- Incineration Festival returns in 2022 with an exclusive Emperor headline set
- Inglorious: Nathan James's track-by-track guide to Heroine
September 9
- The Sisters Of Mercy's Ben Christo: My life in 12 songs
- Songs about body odour and a bath full of beans: The story of The Who Sell Out
September 8
- Platters of the gods: the Led Zeppelin albums you'll never find
- Elton John at the Troubadour: the story of the triumphant show that changed his life
September 7
- Anxiety, freedom and pissing yourself: Times Of Grace's Adam D and Jesse Leach go head to head
- An interview with Andrew Eldritch: 'I don’t regret anything, but I’m sure other people regret stuff where I was present'
- Imelda May: When I hit number one it was my perfect 'up yours' moment
- Is Rock Star really the worst film ever made about rock?
September 6
- 10 obscure but brilliant grunge bands who should’ve been huge
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dirty Honey, GATC and more
September 5
- King Crimson in Pompeii, by comedian Al Murray
- Al Stewart: The Prog Interview
September 4
- The greatest 70s rock bands, ranked by their facial hair
September 2
- The 10 best budget turntables 2021: Grab a great deal with our choice of the best budget record players
- Best Amazon Echo Studio deals in September 2021: save £30 on the smart speaker that puts the music first
- Best cheap AirPods deals in September 2021: AirPods Pro slashed to just £185/$189
- Best Sony headphones deals in September 2021: save up to £65/$72 off Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless noise cancelling cans
- New vinyl releases 2021: Here’s what’s coming out in rock, metal, prog and more
- The 10 best must-see acts at Wide Awake festival
- Shane Embury: My Life In 10 Songs
- David Bowie changed my life: the story of Earl Slick
- The jaw-dropping story of the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, the worst festival in history
- Four into three: How Genesis lost a guitarist but set off on a bold new path
September 1
- Why I ❤️ punk rock, by football legend Stuart Pearce
- Cheap vinyl records in September 2021, featuring the best vinyl records on sale in rock, metal, prog and more
- Styx interview: 'We’ve had to circle the wagons many times as a band'