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- July 6
- July 5
- July 4
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- Cool new prog you must hear from Auri, L.O.E., Gaupa and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here's everything you need to know about Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final ever show, Back To The Beginning, including who's playing, where you can watch it and more
- "Is this Ozzy's last show? One thousand per cent": Sharon Osbourne on Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning all-star blowout
- Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best
- "The last thing I remember, I was playing at a topless bar and had a Volkswagen bus and a hundred bucks": What former Heartbreaker Stan Lynch did next
- “A lot of metalheads wind up finding prog – but it’s in a lot of their favourite bands already”: Progressive metal has never been healthier, and here’s why
- July 3
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- "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
- 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
- Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King, band lineup changes, and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
- July 2
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- "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
- Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts
- 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
- 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
- "Peaches is voyeuristic, but it's not misogynistic": The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches
- The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
- "What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
- “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
