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October 31
- This month's cover stories
- The 11 best Helloween songs, by Chris Jericho
October 30
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Ian Gillan: "Rodney Marsh Is To Blame For Deep Purple Re-forming"
- How to make a million-selling debut album, by Wolfmother
- Wolfmother: you can't prepare for a million-selling album
- Black metal voyagers Kampfar unveil their spectacular new video
- The Def Leppard fanpack: 36 years in the making
- Black Stone Cherry: from Hollywood to Hell
- High Hopes: The Yawpers
- Billy Gibbons: Don't Mess With Texas
- TR+ Extended Interview – Welcome Back: The Zombies
- Q&A: Dave Gahan
- Def Leppard flying high in the USA
- Classic Rock 217: Reissues
- Classic Rock 217: The new issue!
- Classic Rock 217: News & Regulars
- Classic Rock 217: Reviews
- Live Preview: BulletBoys
- Clutch: Rock'n'roll outlaws
- Classic Rock 217: New Albums, H-Z
- Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History – #9 The Harlem Street Fair
- Raw Power: PRS's 30th Anniversary Dragon
- Magic and loss: The Legacy Of Nick Marsh
- Live Preview: Doro
- Classic Rock 217: Stuff
- Live Preview: Frank Turner
- High Hopes: City And Colour
- Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History – #8 Woodstock
- Live Preview: Judas Priest
- Live Preview: Walter Trout
- Queen: Classic Rock's Living Legends 2015
- Buried Treasure: Tamam Shud
- Live: Rich Robinson
- TR+ Extended Interview – Welcome Back: Jon Anderson
- Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History – #5 Ready Steady Go!
- Classic Rock 217: Features
- “They’ll adore you,” Phil May told Jimi Hendrix
- Hendrix: The gigs that changed history
- Classic Rock 217: Reissues A-Z
October 29
- Why Eddie Is The Most Important Member Of Iron Maiden
- How Protest The Hero are reimagining the way we consume music
- Your guide to Skindred's new album, Volume
- TR+ Extended Interview – Welcome Back: Brian James
- What the hell are Foo Fighters up to?
- Rock fan reveals hidden perils of trick or treating
October 28
- Black Stone Cherry: this time, we write for our fans
- Continents are streaming new album Reprisal in full
- Alan Reed Studio Report Pt. 1
- How to create your own Kerry King Pinhead
- The 10 best songs by The Sweet, by Wednesday 13
- GWAR have covered Cyndi Lauper because GWAR
October 27
- Def Leppard's favourite songs from Def Leppard
- Moonspell announced for Doom Over London VI
- Watch Slipknot's Jay Weinberg's drumcam
- Thinking Out Loud: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman
- Are Skreamer the new voice for the voiceless?
- Heavy Load: Justin Hawkins
- How much does Dani Filth love Halloween?
- The 10 best album covers, by Baroness' John Baizley
- The Essential Playlist: Mike Doughty
October 26
- Listen to the new Puscifer album in full
- Alex Lifeson: "It's Insane To Suggest I'd Pick A Fight With The Cops"
- Phil Collen: "Steve, you’re scaring the shit out of us"
- Under The Church could be your new favourite death metal band
- Flash Metal Suicide: Vain
- New Blood: Dead Soul
- Corey Taylor slaps WWE Superstar in the face
- What happened when Marmozets met Robbie Williams?
- The best 12 Therapy? songs, by Andy Cairns
October 25
- Dave Jerden: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- The 10 best Reel Big Fish songs, by Aaron Barrett
October 24
- A love letter to Hybrid Theory
- The 9 best Nick Cave songs, by Frank Carter
October 23
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Linkin Park, you're a nu metal boy band. Discuss.
- The 10 best Guns N' Roses songs of all time
- Gary Clark Jr: "We Went To Outer Space On This Album".
- Thor: Heavy Metal's First Superhero
- This is how much Iron Maiden hate lip syncing
- Why did Fightstar lose their minds and split in 2010?
October 22
- Chris Squire Honoured With Plaque At London Hotel
- The Def Leppard Death Match: Pyromania versus Hysteria
- Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan: Musical Genius Or Egotistical Idiot?
- Paradise Lost's favourite Alien moments
- Blood On Our Hands: Backstage With Marilyn Manson, Public Enemy No.1
October 21
- Livin' it Large at Louisville's Louder Than Life
- First Time I Met The Blues: Ali MacKenzie
- Kirk Fletcher - Straight Outta Compton
- Shemekia Copeland - The new queen of blues.
- Billy Gibbons: Life Beyond ZZ Top
- Martin Barre - Barre Chords
- Walter Trout - The journey back from Hell
- "In The Future, I'd Love To Experience Virtual Sex!"
- Gary Clark Jr: if he's going to 'save the blues' he's going to do it his way
- The 10 best songs about time travel
- Daptone Records: The House Of Soul
- Gerry Jablonski & The Electric Band: Out Of The Darkness
- Stream Robin Finck and Wordclock’s creepy Noct soundtrack
- Robb Flynn: Metallica used to make fun of Slayer!
- What's the difference between Bay Area and East Coast thrash?
- We interviewed the man who sets Rammstein on fire
- Back To The Future gets the metal treatment
October 20
- Louder Than Life: we get fried in Kentucky
- Why have gigs become a dangerous place for women?
- Paul Jackson's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Gig Attendances: Should We Be Worried?
- Steak Number Eight premiere their brain-melting new video
- Robin Finck's new job: giant spiders and apocalyptic nightmares
- This 10 year old girl is better at guitar than you
- From post-metal to old school hardcore in one nasty step
- Objects of Desire - Epiphone 'Blak & Blu' Gary Clark Jr Signature
October 19
- Ten songs we want Iron Maiden to play at Download festival
- 20 things we learned at Warped Tour UK
- Payin' Dues - Jimmy Winston
- Payin' Dues - Wily Bo Walker
- Payin' Dues - Ironing Board Sam
- Payin' Dues - Nikki Hill
- The 45s that turned Clapton sideman Andy Fairweather Low on to blues
- Cuttin' Heads - Blind Lemon versus Lou Reed
- Listen to the new Earthside album in full
- Call & Response - Chris King Robinson
- Bluesbreakers - Robert Chaney
- The 10 goriest tracks from Carcass' 1988 debut
- Bluesbreakers - Kim Lenz
- Bluesbreakers - Henri Herbert
- New Blood: Masakichi
- Machine Head's Robb Flynn: "I Wasn't Allowed To Listen To Rock Music...
- Flash Metal Suicide: Icon
October 17
- Asking Alexandria: "We're a better live band now"
October 16
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- In praise of Brutal Legend
- If You Buy One Album Out This Week, Make It…
- Viking metal pioneers Hades Almighty return from the wilderness
- 30 Years Of Possessed's Seven Churches
- The story behind the music video that shocked the world
October 15
- Meet Kevin, the man behind Warped Tour
- Saxon Talk To The Metal Hammer Magazine Show
- Blink-182 get the Grand Theft Auto treatment
- Saxon are streaming their new album Battering Ram in full
- The story behind Ride's debut album, Nowhere
- Simple Minds and Stranglers Get A Grip
October 14
- Coheed's Claudio Sanchez: Through A Glass Darkly
- Charlie Starr's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- The 12 most influential post-rock records
- What would metal riffs sound like without distortion?
October 13
- Counting Days are on a mission to make amends and kick some ass
- Thinking Out Loud: Marky Ramone
- Progressive metallers Shrines unveil a mesmerising new video
- Slayer star in the most shocking issue of Metal Hammer ever
- The 12 best Devin Townsend songs, by Devin Townsend
- How The Amity Affliction went from shitsville to hitsville.
- Hot New Band: Abhorrent Decimation
- The New Testament: Anti-Flag's Justin Sane wants to change the world
- Subterranea: With The Dead
- Hot New Band: Caligula's Horse
- Hot New Band: Derange
- Wanking Nuns And Shit-Flinging: The Most Shocking Moments In Metal
- In Clutch's world, it's either go hard or go home
- Road Trippin': While She Sleeps
- Road Trippin': Graveyard
- Hot New Band: A Trust Unclean
- Confessions: Biff Byford
- Hot New Band: For Today
- Hot New Band: Evil Blizzard
- Global Metal: Anuryzm
- Subterranea: Skuggsjá
- Discs Of Doom: Brent Smith, Shinedown
- Why I Love... Converge
- Maynard James Keenan invited us to his vineyard – and we couldn’t turn him down
- Houses Of The Unholy: Dustin Davidson, August Burns Red
- Tesseract: a band reborn
- Hot New Band: Alfahanne
- Hot New Band: Cane Hill
- Slayer: how they became the most shocking band in music
- Holy Vision: Abbath
October 12
- Why The Return Of Guitar Games Could Be Good For Metal Bands
- Win Live Evil tickets and watch Ghost's first UK performance in full
- Why your favourite bands love Sylosis
- New Blood: Broken Hands
- Dinosaur Pile-Up stream new album Eleven Eleven
- It's Prog Jim But Not As We Know It
- Locus Focus: No. 18
- All Around The World: Bauda
- My Prog Hero: Jens Johansson
- Iron Minions are now a thing
- Steve Davis' Interesting Alternative
- Flash Metal Suicide: The Coma-Tones
- Fad Gadgets
- Prog Me!
October 11
- The 10 best obscure songs of the '60s, by Rival Sons
October 10
- Chris Spedding pays tribute to Andy Fraser - with Sharks
October 9
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Slayer: Houses Of The Unholy
- Sikth's Dynamic Return
- Jean Michel Jarre Discusses His Long-Awaited New Album
- Shining Provide Sax Appeal On Their New Album
- Queensrÿche And Operation: Mindcrime Go Head To Head With New Albums
- A Brief History of Chrysalis Records
- Steve Hackett reviews Peter Gabriel's Car
- Peter Gabriel’s German Release Excursion
- Have A Cigar: Bad Elephant Music
- Limelight: Kylver
- The Prog Awards 2015: A Night To Remember
- The Technology Behind Peter Gabriel's Deluxe Reissues
- Limelight: Tom Slatter
- Q&A: Jean-Luc Ponty
- Coheed And Cambria's Sanchez Rediscovers Himself On The Color Before The Sun
- Jakko Jakszyk Reviews Peter Gabriel's Scratch
- My Record Collection: Noel Fielding
- Gear 60: Headphones
- Tim Bowness Reviews Peter Gabriel's Security
- David Longdon Reviews Peter Gabriel's Melt
- Limelight: Circuline
- Martin Barre Discusses His New Solo Album
- Counting Days stream Liberated Sounds in full
October 8
- Mike Peters has a new album and a tour to finish. He also has cancer…
- Why isn't Coheed And Cambria's new album about space this time?
- Love Of My Life: Gail Zappa Dies at 70
- This Gift Is A Curse stream their devastating new album in full
- Butch Vig: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- "I’m really happy to be in Prog. I grew up with that stuff and I absolutely love all those bands, to this day." Steve Harris on his love affair with prog rock
- Bees, biting and pig's heads – the history of Monsters Of Rock
- The 10 best songs by The Ruts & Ruts DC
- Evil Blizzard are here to warp your world
October 7
- The Darkness: "It takes balls to be playful"
- Forget ecstasy and Madchester nostalgia: 1990 rocked
- Some Kind Of Hate: a new kind of slasher
- Johan Hegg's Guide To Vikings
- Classic Rock 216: On Sale Now
October 6
- Abbath take on Immortal's Nebular Ravens Winter
- How Zeppelin's First Three Albums Changed Music Forever
- Thinking Out Loud: Melvins' Buzz Osborne
- Someone has created a Drake/Danzig mashup
- John 5's 5 essential guitar albums
- The 13 best death metal albums of the decade so far
- Classic Rock 216: The New Issue!
- Classic Rock 216: Features
- Don Henley: "You can't be a pushover or a pansy"
- Shinedown: Survival Of The Fittest
- Perfect Beings Discover Themselves On Their Second Album
- Mega Gallery: Motorhead's Motorboat 2015
- Trivium's Silence In The Snow Track By Track: Part Three
- Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of 70s Rock?
October 5
- We have no idea what Slipknot's new video is about
- Why Metallica haven't made a new album
- Doom 101: The story of Grave Pleasures
- New Blood: Demob Happy
- Motorhead: The Three Amigos
- Flash Metal Suicide: Lee Aaron
- Hollywood Vampires: the unlikeliest, soberest supergroup ever?
- Trivium's Silence In The Snow Track By Track: Part Two
October 4
- The Best Iron Maiden Cover Art... As Voted By You
- Hammer's Tracks Of The Week
- The 10 best Korn songs, by Benji Webbe
October 2
- Classic Rock's Tracks of the Week
- Could you beat this Rush Mastermind?
- Someone has created a Linkin Park/Bring Me The Horizon mashup
- Post-metal isn't the hipster genre you think it is
- Is Metalocalypse coming back?
- Raw Power: Victory amp and speaker cab
- Classic Rock 216: Reviews
- Q&A: Steve Harley
- Classic Rock 216: New albums J-Z
- Heavy Load: Marky Ramone
- Classic Rock 216: Reissues A-Z
- The World Is Not Enough: Garbage turn 20
- Tr+ Extended Interview – Welcome Back: Queensrÿche
- High Hopes: Radkey
- Def Leppard: The final album?
- High Hopes: Northcote
- Live Preview: Gong
- Pride & Prejudice: Why Tom Robinson Was Rock's Most Radical Musician
- Welcome Back: Graveyard
- Buried Treasure: The Way We Live
- Live Preview: Opeth
- Live Preview: Michael Monroe
- Live Preview: Donovan
- Live Preview: Jared James Nichols
- County Durham’s punk crew Penetration are back, 36 years on
October 1
- The Alarm: Marching On
- This Is Hardcore: No Warning – Ill Blood
- Trivium's Silence In The Snow Track By Track: Part One
- The 10 best Papa Roach videos, by Jacoby Shaddix
- In Pictures: How Metal Allegiance was formed
- Norwegian black metallers Vreid unveil their spectacular new video
- In Praise Of... Hatebreed – Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire
- Why Mad Max's Doof Warrior is a heavy metal hero