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June 2016
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- June 30
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- Booker T Jones: The Hitman
- Wilko Johnson And The Best Of Chess Records
- The First Time I Met The Blues: No Sinner
- Linda Gail Lewis: Hard Rockin' Woman
- Can you identify these 12 rock bands translated into emoji?
- Your guide to Bloodstock's Metal 2 The Masses: Part 2
- The 10 Sexiest Rock Songs Ever
- Dan Patlansky: Meet The Rising Star Of The Blues
- The story behind Pixies' Debaser
- Epic Ukrainian black metallers Drudkh unveil a stunning new track
- Bernie Marsden: Why I Love The Gibson Les Paul
- How Master Of Puppets changed my life, by Mark Tremonti
- The 10 most underrated Sepultura songs
- The Best Of 1966
- A Metalhead's Guide to MMOs
- June 29
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- Why Wes Borland wrote a soundtrack for an 80s film that doesn't exist
- 10 albums we're still waiting for in 2016
- The 10 Best Political Anthems by Anti-Flag's Chris #2
- Nightdive Studios takes to Kickstarter to make System Shock remaster heavy
- Why Guns N' Roses shouldn't play Glastonbury
- Icelandic football commentary has been given a black metal remix
- Rock Icons: John Bonham by Chad Smith
- The top 10 best Badfinger songs
- June 28
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- This is the new book every black metal fan should read
- The Top 10 best King Diamond and Mercyful Fate songs
- Metallica on the moon? 8 festivals science will eventually make possible
- Thinking Out Loud: Justin Hawkins
- The 25 weirdest bands of all time
- Noise rock trio Ghold unveil a disturbing new video
- UFO’s Strangers In The Night: the live album that nearly restarted World War 2
- Faith No More’s We Care A Lot: the cult debut album that changed everything
- Dear Aerosmith: this is why farewell tours suck
- Five moments where game soundtracks rocked
- How Palehorse made a soundtrack for the end of the world then broke up
- The top 10 best Cheap Trick songs
- I’m A Led Zeppelin Fan – But I Still Wanted Them To Be Found Guilty
- June 27
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- How Motorhead's No Remorse Tour changed my life
- The top 10 best Beastie Boys songs with classic rock samples
- 21 guitarists who look scared out of their mind
- Is this a previously unreleased Nirvana song?
- Flash Metal Suicide: Dogs D'Amour - In the Dynamite Jet Saloon
- Destiny: Rise of Iron heralds the end of Destiny on PS3 and Xbox 360
- New Band Of The Week: Vomitface
- Motorhead: "There are mistakes on No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith. Life ain't perfect"
- Candye Kane: November 13, 1961 - May 6, 2016
- Call & Response: Ben Poole
- Payin' Dues: Martha High
- Bluesbreakers: Seratones
- Payin' Dues: The Excellos
- Eli 'Paperboy' Reed discusses new album My Way Home
- Under The Influence: Black Stone Cherry’s Chris Robertson
- Laurence Jones on new album Take Me High
- Payin' Dues: The Blind Boys Of Alabama
- The Kentucky Headhunters start their debut UK tour
- Payin' Dues: Sulfur City
- Bluesbreakers: Saint Agnes
- William Stout's Legends Of The British Blues: Ralph McTell
- Cuttin' Heads: Pony Blues
- Bluesbreakers: The Cold Heart Revue
- Steelhouse: the underdog tale of a monthly rock club that built a festival
- June 26
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- June 24
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- The Top 10 Best Killing Joke Songs
- Alice Cooper: "I used to carry a gun around with me"
- The Confessions of Wes Borland
- No Halo 5 for PC but Halo 6 might see a PC release
- Steam Summer Picnic Sale kicks off
- The Top 10 Best Pink Floyd Roger Waters Songs
- Watch a 360º video of Megadeth walking to the stage at Download festival
- The History Of Rush by Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson: Moving Pictures and the 1980s
- From Dusk Till Dawn director Robert Rodriguez on horror movies and heavy metal
- The six new songs you need to hear this week
- June 23
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- The 10 Best Aussie Rock'n'roll Bands, by Radio Birdman's Deniz Tek
- Napalm Death: Barney Greenway's Guide To Life
- TeamRock's 21 Best Albums Of 2016 So Far...
- Battle Of The Bands: The Offspring vs Bad Religion
- Why Slipknot's Clown made his new movie Officer Downe
- What's it like to grow up with Keith Moon for a dad?
- Dark Souls makers have three games in the works, none being Dark Souls games
- Bethesda confirms they're working on The Elder Scrolls 6
- The 10 best Queen cover versions
- 10 obscure but amazing 1990s metal bands everyone should know about
- This is the most metal chat show you'll ever see
- Jon Anderson Q&A: “I have songs that will last me the next 30 years”
- June 22
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- Your guide to Bloodstock's Metal 2 The Masses: Part 1
- Osiah stream debut album Terror Firma
- Slipknot: The Story So Far
- Kettles and chaos: the crazy story of Pink Floyd's lost album, Household Objects
- Killswitch Engage rank their albums from worst to best
- The top 10 best Queens Of The Stone Age songs
- Metal Hammer's 20 best albums of 2016 so far
- The 11 best Queen covers
- The 10 best bands we saw on the Sunday of Hellfest 2016
- Nintendo's E3 was all about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Playstation VR is coming to PS4 in October with a host of games
- June 21
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- The 10 best bands we saw on the Saturday of Hellfest 2016
- Andrew Eldritch: Sisters of Mercy will make another album if Trump is elected
- Thinking Out Loud: Lzzy Hale
- Joey Jordison reveals the truth in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- What's the most metal sport? 'Hockey!' says Metal Blade Records chief
- Beating the odds: how Joey Jordison fought his way back from paralysis
- How Joey Jordison's new band Sinsaenum came to life
- Quantic Dream promises your own story in Detroit: Become Human
- Resident Evil 7 is coming in January
- Hideo Kojima returns to Playstation with Death Stranding
- New Band Of The Week: Fallen To Flux
- Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried & Me) – 10 Records You Should Hear
- Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale loves Ronnie James Dio. And here’s why
- Everything you need to know about Of Mice & Men's new album Cold World
- Hot new band: Whispered – melodic death metal from Japan
- 10 years after Nightwish, Tarja Turunen is stronger than ever
- Hot new band: Making Monsters – Ireland's spikiest new noise makers
- Hot new band: Sanzu – thunderous left-field metal from Australia
- Hot new band: Conjurer – ultra-gnarly, "monstrously heavy" post metal
- Hot new band: Grove Street Families – gaming freaks on a hardcore mission
- What the fuck is going on with Five Finger Death Punch?
- Welcome Back: Death Angel – Bay Area thrash metal legends return
- June 20
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- Chuck D and Scott Ian: How we made Bring The Noise
- Hot new band: From Sorrow To Serenity – Glasgow metallers keep it raw and real
- 19 Things We Learned At Stone Free
- Capcom rumoured to be showing Resident Evil 7 at E3
- What have The Ramones ever done for us?
- The 9 best bands we saw on the Friday of Hellfest 2016
- Do old people like Bring Me The Horizon?
- Loss, loneliness and redemption: Sylvaine offers salvation in dark times
- Why have Lacuna Coil written an album about insane asylums?
- Flash Metal Suicide: Asphalt Ballet
- The Last Guardian finally gets a proper release date
- Kratos is back with snow and dragons in God Of War 4
- Sons of Anarchy meets The Last of Us in PS4 exclusive Days Gone
- Are Nails the nastiest band in metal?
- Incantation, Pentagram and Wolves In The Throne Room – reissue reviews
- Puppy: Metal's favourite new misfits
- June 19
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- June 17
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- The Top 10 Most Underrated Foreigner Songs
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Korn's chilling album closers ranked from worst to best
- North Carolinian doom agitators MAKE unveil a furious new track
- The 10 Weirdest Concert Locations Ever
- Prog and Psych: A Kind of Love-In
- The Best Psych Prog Debut Albums
- Take A Trip: Drugs And Psych Rock
- 10 Psychedelic Songs That'll Shake Any Progger's Tree
- The real Syd Barrett – by the people who knew him
- Someone has turned School Of Rock into School Of Djent
- 10 obscure but brilliant 70s bands who should have been huge
- Inside Psych Compilation Another Splash Of Colour...
- Gears of War 4 details and gameplay drop
- Dead Rising 4 shuffling to PC and Xbox One in time for Christmas
- Forza Horizons 3 takes to the road in Australia
- What Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman really thinks about Rob Reed's Sanctuary
- Rob Reed: "Half of Mike Oldfield’s fans think I’m a saviour!"
- Just how extreme are Parkway Drive?
- Jean-Michel Jarre: an audience with the godfather of electronic prog
- June 16
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- Outer Limits: How Prog are Explosions In The Sky?
- Be Prog! My Friend... Festival Preview
- Q&A: Japanese pianist Hiromi on Zappa and working with Simon Phillips
- Bait, Conjurer and Earthless/Harsh Toke – new albums reviewed
- The Managers That Built Prog: Gail Colson - the woman behind Peter Gabriel
- The Top 10 best Rush songs from the 1970s
- Prog Manager Gail Colson on her favourite songs and shows
- Ex-Oceansize man Mike Vennart on making laptop music with British Theatre
- Kip Winger takes on the classical greats - Interview
- Horror, folk and witchcraft: Introducing Blood Ceremony
- We tracked down the Nightwish dancer from that video at Download festival
- Everything you need to know about Cuneiform Records
- The best Abbath memes on the internet
- How to have a creepy Creeper summer
- Cosmograf's Robin Armstrong on concept albums and staying independent
- Limelight: New Keepers Of The Water Towers
- Marillion and us: Jump praise the band that helped boost their career
- 100 Years stream debut album in full
- Limelight: Last Flight To Pluto
- From Sgt Pepper to Syd Barrett: the psychedelic birth of prog rock
- The 10 Best Songs By The Fall Of Troy
- Stone Free Preview – Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
- Microsoft announces all the new Xbox hardware at E3
- Dishonored 2 shown off in much more detail
- Has a new Wolfenstein game just been teased by Bethesda?
- Why Faith No More's frontman Mike Patton teamed up with composer John Kaada
- What we want from Download Festival 2018
- "I do not date prog women!" Roine Stolt's confessions in My Prog
- Roach motels and Bill Bruford: Welcome to Bent Knee's crazy world
- June 15
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- All Around The World: Plini
- How 65daysofstatic Ended Up Creating No Man's Sky's Soundtrack
- Dead Letter Circus on Alt-Prog, Dream Theater and politics
- Led Zeppelin: The TeamRock Archives
- Jay Buchanan - The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Henry McCullough: Wings’ forgotten guitar hero
- We are witnessing the return of industrial metal
- Eric Clapton is on the cover of the new Classic Rock, out now
- The best tweets of Download 2016
- Arkane Studios reveals the return of Prey
- The 10 best Red Hot Chili Peppers songs
- Skyrim gets an update for release on PS4 and Xbox One
- Review roundup - the best of the rest from the latest prog releases
- Quake returns to the multiplayer arena with Quake Champions
- Stone Free preview: Rick Wakeman
- June 14
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- Wings’ Henry McCullough: his 5 best songs
- Anthrax's top 10 best classic rock covers
- Jimmy Page: the 10 best Led Zeppelin guitar solos
- 7 Things We Learned During Red Hot Chili Peppers' Carpool Karaoke
- Is this guy the world's biggest Nightwish fan?
- Thinking Out Loud: Rob Caggiano
- Greek titans Rotting Christ unleash a mesmerising new video
- In Pictures: The Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2016
- Why metal should show solidarity with the Orlando shooting victims
- Rock Icons: Jimmy Page by Ian D'Sa
- ELP's Tarkus: The Story Behind The Album
- June 13
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- June 10
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- The 10 Most Expensive Albums Ever Made
- DC brawler Injustice 2 announced
- Tony Visconti: My Top 6 productions
- The 10 best Black Flag songs according to Pennywise's Fletcher Dragge
- Destiny: Rise of Iron expansion confirmed and dated
- The top 10 most metal anime
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Love Q&A: “Arthur Lee wasn’t the asshole he’s portrayed as”
- The 10 emo bands that helped shape Real Friends' sound
- The Many Faces Of Eric Clapton: ‘God’ speaks!
- Unplugged! The 25 greatest acoustic albums ever made
- Paul Stanley’s guitar could be yours (sort of)
- Johnny Cash: the unplugged album that saved a country legend’s life
- June 9
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- Ritchie Blackmore: the lost interview
- 10 Reasons To Get Excited About Seeing Sabbath At Download
- What really happened with Led Zeppelin and the mudshark?
- Marillion Q&A: "We're going on and on and on, until somebody dies"
- Back In N.Y.C. to Bach - Steve Hackett's Musical Journey
- Kiko Loureiro's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Dear Axl Rose, don’t try to control how we see you. You’ll lose.
- In praise of… dogging?! Inside the grubby world of Massive Wagons
- The 10 best punk songs according to Duff McKagan
- Feral Brazilian metallers Grave Desecrator stream their new album in full
- XCOM 2 to invade consoles later this year
- Wilko Johnson Q&A: "Lemmy sussed me out as a speed freak"
- Do Chelsea Grin hate the music media?
- What happened on the first day of Heavy Metal Truants 2016?
- Watch Dogs 2 details leak before official announcement
- Gary Clark Jr Q&A: “Saviour of the blues? That makes me uncomfortable”
- 6 things you need to know about… The Virginmarys
- Stormcock: the story of Roy Harper’s acoustic masterpiece
- June 8
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- BoneHawk: where AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and the lecture theatre collide
- “I was in a bad spot”: the darkness behind the Goo Goo Dolls’ new album
- Why NOFX are still mates after writing their grubby autobiography
- Heart: the gospel according to Ann Wilson
- Doug Scarratt's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Download: The TeamRock Archive
- The top 10 best 70s Sammy Hagar songs
- The A-Z of Rammstein
- Mastodon's Troy Sanders: "Gone Is Gone is not a supergroup!"
- Final Fantasy XII getting remastered for PS4
- Watch this 82-year-old perform Bodies by Drowning Pool on America's Got Talent
- Saints Row gets a comic hero spin-off Agents of Mayhem
- What we learned at Buma Rocks! and FortaRock
- ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons: “Prince and I discussed guitar techniques”
- 20 songs to listen to on the way to Download festival
- June 7
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- Brad Whitford Q&A: “Aerosmith is a colossal pain in the ass”
- Kentucky Headhunters: “Black Stone Cherry told us to put up or shut up”
- Diamond Head: the return of the band who invented Metallica
- The Top 10 greatest Ritchie Blackmore songs
- The 10 Records That Changed Steve Hackett's Life
- Thrice were supposed to be on hiatus. Why did they return so soon?
- Granicus: Granicus – "piercingly high-pitched" proto-metal from Ohio
- Stop being mean to Axl! Here's six really nice memes to redress the balance
- What happened at Prophets Of Rage's Los Angeles show?
- Welcome Back: Sean Lennon & Les Claypool – rock’s oddest couple
- Are Nintendo delaying their new console to add VR?
- Fender strikes a new chord with Rock Band developer Harmonix
- Babymetal talk Download festival, Rammstein and touring America
- June 6
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- This is what Cannibal Corpse would sound like on Radio Disney
- In Pictures: Camden Rocks 2016
- Blackened metal voyagers Necronautical unveil a brilliant new video
- Iron Maiden’s 10 Most Epic Songs
- Why Roger Daltrey is wrong about the music industry... and how he's right
- Flash Metal Suicide: Lunachicks' Babysitters On Acid
- Track by track review: Sinsaenum – Echoes Of The Tortured
- The stories behind every Slayer album cover
- New Band Of The Week: Grieving
- A Metalhead's Guide To E3
- June 5
- June 4
- June 3
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- King Diamond: the confessions of Satan’s little helper
- Axl Rose's 10 best guest appearances
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Homefront: The Revolution Review [PS4]
- 10 metal songs perfect for your BBQ
- The 10 Worst AC/DC Songs Of All Time
- A Short History Of Angus Young's School Uniforms
- What is the new Volbeat album all about?
- Meet Slot Machine, Thailand's biggest rock band
- Watch Dogs 2 Confirmed By Branded Merchandise?
- June 2
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- The Top 10 greatest Iron Maiden stage sets ever
- Meet the band who ditched London to live on a fish farm
- WATCH: Warren Haynes play Beat Down The Dust
- Yes: the story behind Owner Of A Lonely Heart
- How have attitudes changed towards non-English speaking bands?
- Your track-by-track guide to Real Friends' new album
- The 10 best hardcore songs according to Vinnie Caruana
- This is the most metal toddler on the planet
- June 1
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- Brian May launches Virtual Reality headset
- Rob Caggiano's track by track guide to Volbeat's new album
- The top 10 best Allman Brothers Band songs
- Listen to some windscreen wipers accidentally cover We Will Rock You
- Maiden, Rammstein, Parkway and more speak in Metal Hammer's FREE Festival Guide
- Motorhead: The TeamRock Archives
- Rise Above: The story behind Billy Talent's new album, Afraid Of Heights
- Tarja Turunen's Guide To Life
- Hello Games receive death threats after No Man's Sky delay
