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- May 31
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- Devilish secret hidden in new Doom soundtrack
- Watch: Warren Haynes play Govt. Mule's Captured – unplugged
- I went behind the Iron Curtain with Iron Maiden
- When Black Metal Gets in Touch With its Roots: The Making of Skuggsjá
- Freddie Mercury's Massive Moustachioed Birthday Party
- Wino: A Buyer's Guide
- New Xbox One hardware to debut at E3?
- 10 Things We Learned At Slam Dunk 2016
- How Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas changed metal
- Listening to every Emmure song at the same time will make you feel sick
- No Man's Sky delayed
- May 30
- May 29
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- May 27
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- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- 5 Games to let your inner Goth out
- How Death Angel have kept the faith for 30 years
- Top 10 best Kiss songs as chosen by you
- 10 songs that shaped Band Of Skulls’ musical education
- Why Good Charlotte are back and doing things on their own terms
- The ultimate metal workout music playlist
- Microsoft's Games With Gold gets pretty metal in June
- May 26
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- Kiss Rocks Vegas - Cinema Review
- The A-Z Guide To Motorhead
- Watch Andy Biersack pick three highlights from The Shadow Side
- Unique Viking and metal culture festival Midgardsblot returns
- Amon Amarth throwing axes might be the most metal thing ever
- Download 2016 Stage Times: The Full List
- Titanfall 2 rumours abound in the run up to E3
- Grove Street Families stream The Las Venturas EP in full
- We asked King Diamond what he does on his days off – and it involves cats
- Aerosmith: From Dream On To Music From Another Dimension
- Parkway Drive: Winston McCall's Guide To Life
- I Am Setsuna gets a gameplay trailer
- The 11 best Cave In songs according to Thrice's Riley Breckenridge
- May 25
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- The 20 Best Rock Duets Of All Time
- Brazilian thrashers Nervosa unleash a visceral new video
- Rock Icons: Jaz Coleman on Brian Jones
- Alice Cooper – 10 Songs That Changed My Life
- The 10 best new bands you'll hear all month
- Watch Jacoby Shaddix and David Draiman cover Rage Against The Machine
- OlliOlli 2 hits the Xbox One
- This is what Rammstein would sound like if they were a bossa nova band
- "I hope we'll be the standout band of the era!" – Monster Truck's rise continues
- The 10 Best Iron Maiden Songs Sung By Blaze Bayley
- How metal is building motorcycles? Ask Scorpion Child's Alec Padron...
- Monkey Island creator wants his series back
- May 24
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- Discs Of Doom: Katatonia's Jonas Renkse
- Devildriver’s Dez Fafara: "There were some terrible nu metal bands"
- Broken Teeth – Northern hardcore crew keeping the DIY spirit alive
- Abnormality – death metal's smartest (and nastiest) new band?
- New Testament: Creeper's Will Gould says it's okay to be different
- Van Canto – the world's first power metal choir
- The 10 greatest Carole King cover versions
- The 10 best NWOBHM songs according to Diamond Head's Brian Tatler
- Lacuna Coil's track by track guide to Delirium
- Thinking Out Loud: Barney Greenway
- Why Virus might be black metal's most enigmatic band
- Gojira and the bands changing the world in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Doom Review [PS4]
- Why Bill Bailey Loves Mastodon
- New Noise: Ghost Bath
- May 23
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- Why Vektor are taking trash into the final frontier
- New Noise: Wytch Hazel
- Beartooth: At home with Caleb
- New Noise: Jonestown
- Opinion: Maybe it's time for Jesse Hughes to take a break
- Top 10 metal songs featuring bells
- Virus and Costin Chioreanu combine for a mind-melting new video
- Why have Kvelertak ditched black metal for classic rock?
- Why are Dark Funeral black metal's most mocked band?
- The Thrash Prince Of Bel-Air
- Nita Strauss' 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Next Hitman Elusive Target, The Congressman, to hit the game on Friday
- Volbeat: Inside the unlikely rise of The People's Band
- Flash Metal Suicide: The Sweet's Identity Crisis
- New Destiny expansion, Rise Of Iron release date leaked
- Nick Menza: Obituary
- Haast's Eagled premiere new album II: For Mankind
- The 10 best Bad Brains songs, chosen by Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach
- New Band Of The Week: Making Monsters
- May 22
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- May 20
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- The Top 10 Goo Goo Dolls songs (that aren't Iris)
- Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4 is here
- Stunning limited edition metal art book unveiled
- Dutch doom voyagers Ggu:ll team up with The Devil's Blood frontwoman
- I went to a beach clean-up with Sea Shepherd and Architects
- Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City swooping onto PS4 and Xbox One
- How Monkey Wrench brought Foo Fighters a whole new audience
- Letlive's Jason: "They shot at our windows. At my mom."
- The real story of Rage Against The Machine's debut album
- Has the true spirit of punk gone up in flames?
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- May 19
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- Metal Takes A Stand: Meet The Bands Making A Difference
- Why your favourite rock band is a tool of Satan… and must be stopped!
- Andrew WK: is this man the next President of the USA?
- 10 Bands You Must See At Slam Dunk
- Homefront: The Revolution has some great Timesplitters Easter eggs
- Go and see the Warcraft movie and get World of Warcraft for free
- What if pop songs were metal songs?
- 10 Things You Really Need To Know About Hesitation Wounds
- Doom: A bloody history
- Your essential guide to the Golden Gods Best Live Band category
- May 18
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- Classic Rock's Guide to the very best in Rock'n'Roll Cookbooks
- Watch this man play every Metallica song in just under four minutes
- Inquisition return with a mindbending new track!
- The A-Z of the Misfits
- The Rock 'n' Roll Gospels
- Bioware confirms E3 appearance and launch window for Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Man On A Mission: Wayne Hussey on the band’s past, present and future
- Ben Bruce's Guide To Life
- Listen to a stream of Empire's new EP, Our Simple Truths
- The new issue of Classic Rock is out now – and Black Sabbath are on the cover
- Your essential guide to the Golden Gods Breakthrough category
- Steam Summer Sale scheduled for next month?
- May 17
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- Q&A: Roy Bittan – Bruce Springsteen's secret weapon
- Dez Fafara's top ten punk songs
- Rock in a hard place: why are Iran and Afghanistan jailing metal bands?
- The 10 best Slipknot songs that are definitely NSFW
- Led Zeppelin: why lawyers must not dictate the future of rock‘n’roll
- Why is Ilan Rubin one of rock's most in-demand drummers?
- The 10 best metal gigs to ever take place at Hammersmith Apollo
- Your essential guide to the Golden Gods UK Band category
- 10 of the best metal bands from Finland
- Blizzard's Overwatch open beta pulls in over 9 million players
- System Shock Remastered Edition Kickstarter to launch next month
- Microsoft snuffs out Project Spark
- Doom's composer talks taking the game's music to the next level
- May 16
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- The Best Of The Best Of Everything, One Year On...
- Mother’s Milk: the album that saved the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ lives
- How Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines Could Cost Led Zeppelin
- Comic book band Sons Of Balaur come to London's premier comic book store
- The Songs That Forged Metal: Part 3 - 1990-1999
- 7Horse: a story of gunplay, death blues, perseverance and survival
- 10 most defining moments in Ozzfest history
- Jim Breuer: Judas Priest, Metallica, AC/DC and Me
- Rock Icons: Ronnie James Dio by Jack Black
- Your essential guide to the Golden Gods Undergound Band category
- New Band of the Week: Fangclub
- May 15
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- May 13
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- In praise of Gene Simmons, uber-troll
- First look: Punk 1976-78 at the British Library
- The Led Zeppelin songs that Led Zeppelin didn't write
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- The Songs That Forged Metal: Part 1 - 1964-1978
- Jamey Jasta's track-by-track guide to the new Hatebreed album
- Whispered stream new album Metsutan - Songs Of The Void in full
- Live Evil fest returns with Pentagram and Girlschool
- Harbinger stream Subsidised Slaughter video
- Why are Architects so pissed off?
- In Pictures: Ozzfest and Knotfest join forces in California
- Live Preview: Iron Maiden
- High Hopes: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – the last band to support AC/DC?
- Looking for a quality portable Bluetooth speaker? Try this for size...
- Shirley Manson – "We worked our asses off. The labels wanted blood"
- Live Preview: JJ Grey & Mofro
- Ugly Kid Joe and beyond – the crazy life of Whitfield Crane
- Classic Rock 224: News & Regulars
- Classic Rock 224: New Albums, A-L
- Live Preview: Foreigner
- Classic Rock 224: Reissues, A-Z
- Live Preview: The Answer
- The strange story of Lone Star, the band that punk killed (or did it?)
- Classic Rock 224: New Albums
- Welcome Back: Augustines – snapping at the heels of prime-era U2
- High Hopes: White Miles – Pole dancing. Broken noses. Revenge.
- Classic Rock 224: Features
- Six Things You Need To Know About Tax The Heat
- Welcome Back: The Jayhawks – "I didn't like music any more"
- Black Sabbath – the final interview
- Dan Reed Network: the unlikely rebirth of funk rock’s nearly men
- Classic Rock 224: Reviews
- Are Pendragon prog's greatest unsung heroes?
- Classic Rock 224: Lives
- TR+ Exclusive: Welcome Back: Terry Reid – extended interview
- Classic Rock 224: Stuff
- Classic Rock 224: The New Issue!
- Live Preview: Brian Wilson
- Classic Rock 224: Reissues
- Classic Rock 224: New Albums, M-Z
- The Gospel According To Gene Simmons
- Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s
- Buyer's Guide: George Martin – the legendary producer of The Beatles and more
- The Hard And Fast Times of Janis Joplin
- Why are all football songs a load of balls?
- May 12
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- This Is Hardcore: The Harley Flanagan Story
- Welcome To Weirdo Canyon: Roadburn Festival 2016
- Sólstafir prepare to play their string-laden Ótta masterpiece in full
- The story of Captain Beyond, stoner rock pioneers
- Less Than Jake rank their albums, from worst to best
- Inside the bonkers concept of Avatar's new album Feathers & Flesh
- Interview: Matt Sorum on Adopt The Arts
- 10 times Sharon Osbourne saved Ozzy's life
- 10 Things We Learned From Ginger’s First Book, Songs & Words
- May 11
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- Exclusive: ‘I’m lucky to be alive’ - Eric Clapton speaks
- The 10 Best REO Speedwagon Songs, by Kevin Cronin
- Why AXL/DC-style mash-ups could be the future of rock
- Glyn Johns: My top 6 productions
- What influenced the new Kvelertak album?
- Watch this man play Megadeth's Rust In Peace in one minute
- The Glorious Rebirth of Saosin
- The Top Keith Emerson Tracks Of All Time
- What we learned at Groezrock 2016
- May 10
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- I Don’t Care About You: The story of Fear
- Opinion: Paul McCartney, the Stones & Dylan at Desert Trip? The best idea ever
- Opinion: Paul McCartney, the Stones & Dylan at Desert Trip? The worst idea ever
- 10 metal stars who have appeared in cult movies
- Aleister Crowley Curse Inspires Folk-Punk Single
- What happened when Skindred met the music stars of tomorrow?
- Thinking Out Loud: Juliette Lewis
- Remembering Keith Emerson: From The Beginning...
- May 9
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- Everybody Wants Some!! Richard Linklater Interview
- Axl Rose: An Apology
- AC/DC and Axl Rose: Lisbon Gallery
- Flash Metal Suicide: The Joneses
- Watch Slipknot's Duality covered by different animals
- First Time I Met The Blues: Ricky Warwick
- New Band Of The Week: Syren City
- Remember when Metallica secretly supported Metal Church in 1990?
- Robin McKelle: “I fell in love with Gregory Porter’s voice.”
- Clutch: Rock'n'roll Preachers
- The Gun Club: Born To Burn Out Fast
- Bluesbreakers: Broken Witt Rebels
- Jeff Beck On His First Album In Six Years
- Matt Andersen: “I like to let the music come to life organically.”
- Obituary: David Egan, March 20, 1954 – March 18, 2016
- Curtis Salgado: "I was John Belushi's muse."
- Charles Bradley: From James Brown Impersonator To Late-Blooming Soul Star.
- The Rock'N'Roll Doctor: How To Cure Domestic Woe
- Buyer's Guide: T-Bone Walker
- Bluesbreakers: Introducing The Ponces
- Cuttin' Heads: Please Set A Date
- Blues Collector: Memphis Jug Band/Cannon’s Jug Stompers
- Bluesbreakers: Larkin Poe
- The Rolling Stones: Photo Gallery From Breaking Stones
- Mike Zito: It's All About The Allmans
- Wilde About Blues: Dani Wilde on Alberta Hunter
- Call & Response: Kyla Brox
- Obituary: Merle Haggard, April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016
- Don't Get Me Started: Save Our Sweatbox Venues!
- Under The Influence: Rich Robinson
- Toronzo Cannon: “Life and living a little bit is a big influence.”
- Albert Castiglia: "I don't take any shit, and I owe it all to Junior Wells."
- William Stout's Legends Of The British Blues: Lonnie Donegan
- Blackberry Smoke, Black Stone Cherry and Southern Rock’s new generation
- Johnny Winter: Life Inside His Final Tour
- May 8
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- May 6
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- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- If You Buy One Album Out This Week, Make It…
- How Dave Grohl's drumming shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' With Teeth
- The 10 Songs AXL/DC Should Play… But Probably Won’t
- Six Of The Best New Songs You'll Hear This Week
- The Outer Limits: How Prog Are Sunn 0)))?
- Steve Hauschildt - Emeralds man goes solo
- Review roundup - The best new jazz prog releases
- Hexvessel: On When We Are Death and being genre-less
- Se Delan: Beyond The Realms Of Crippled Black Phoenix
- Rick Wakeman: the conversations that leave Rick Close To The Edge!
- Ihsahn on Arktis, breaking the mould and what he thinks of Emperor's legacy
- Review roundup - The best new post-rock releases
- The Managers That Built Prog: Charisma's Tony Stratton-Smith
- Mugstar - the return of Liverpool's underground heroes
- My Prog Hero: Novelists guitarist Florestan Durand on Periphery
- Steve Davis on Autechre and DJing at Bloc Weekend
- Fad Gadgets: Rhodri tests a virtual baton, unique speaker and real drum machine
- Review roundup - The best new art rock releases
- It's Prog Jim: The Futureheads
- Steve Thorne: Seeking the truth on Island Of The Imbeciles
- My Prog: Jakko Jakszyk on his admiration for King Crimson for Frank Zappa
- All Around The World: Meet Turin's Koneskin
- Paperlate: The Future Of Prog
- Have A Cigar: Be Prog! My Friend Festival
- None Other - Spyros Charmanis' one-man prog outfit
- The Prog Interview: Hawkwind’s Dave Brock on Lemmy, LSD and celebrity druids
- Jamey Jasta answers your questions
- Big Big Train: Could Folklore be their breakthrough record?
- My Record Collection: Michael Legge, the Smiths fan who LOVES Marillion…
- Keith Emerson: The visionary life of ELP’s endless enigma
- The Life Of Brian: Faux Prog Hero Brian Pern Dissected
- Katatonia: Northern Kings On The Fall Of Hearts
- May 5
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- AC/DC: The epic inside story of Back In Black
- From yoga to music: introducing Heather Findlay and Dave Kerzner's Mantra Vega
- Tiny Giant - the new band from Pure Reason Revolution's Chloë Alper
- What does Pvris' Lynn Gunn do with her spare time on tour?
- Is touring America impossible for British bands?
- The 10 best songs on the Peaky Blinders soundtrack
- Big Big Train: Inside Their Real World Rehearsals
- Watch Halestorm perform Apocalyptic unplugged
- Why Brian Johnson deserves better, by his friend Jim Breuer
- May 4
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- Frost* on their lengthy hiatus: "I love the sound of deadlines whizzing past!"
- Lazuli: Making Music That Transcends Language Barriers
- Obituary: Phil Ryan
- The Metallica TeamRock Archives: The Early Years
- Hear Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits Played In 10 Different Metal Styles
- Death metal deviants Gorguts stream their mindbending new EP in full
- Back In Blaqk: AFI men hit the dancefloor again
- My dad, the soul singer – by Letlive's Jason Aalon Butler
- Al Jourgensen's 11 favourite side-project tracks
- Q&A: Symphony X's Michael Romeo On Prog Metal And Lucky Numbers
- Your essential guide to the Golden Gods New Band category
- May 3
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- UK black metallers Old Corpse Road unveil a mythic new lyric video
- The extraordinary stories behind Kevin Kerslake's greatest rock videos
- Lenny Henry’s five favourite blues albums
- The 10 most metal sports on the planet
- Watch this man play Master of Puppets on a banjo
- The 10 best Miles Davis songs according to Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick
- May 2