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- July 31
- July 30
- July 29
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- The top 10 best Traffic songs
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- This is the ultimate 21st century playlist
- Top five free-to-play games that won't force you to pay
- The 10 best UK punk bands from 1982
- How a James Hetfield doodle led to one of metal's most iconic album covers
- Cane Hill's track by track guide to Smile
- Why the world needs a band like Wakrat more than ever
- Why Despised Icon are back for good
- Albert King Buyer's Guide
- July 28
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- Meet the man behind Dream Theater’s trippy concert films
- Marilyn Manson: the story of Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
- Meet Candlemass' new vocalist Mats Levén
- I was held at gunpoint in the Vatican with Cradle Of Filth
- Opinion: Who says British metal has a problem? It’s the best it’s been in years
- The top 10 best System Of A Down songs
- Scandals, Skins and gambling on Counter-Strike
- 10 reasons why David Brent is punk as fuck
- Airbourne's top 5 BBQ tips
- ZZ Top: The First Time I Met The Blues
- July 27
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- How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain
- The Story Behind The Song: Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- The Top 10 Best Limp Bizkit Videos
- Opinion: British metal has a massive problem – and here’s why
- Is It Time For Yes To Call It Quits?
- The 10 Sexiest Prog Songs... Ever
- King 810 have been given a Pokemon remix
- Why I still hate Final Fantasy
- Listen to the ultimate 4 chords alt-rock mashup song
- In Pictures: Wakrat take the fight to the streets of London
- Why Dave Grohl joined Queens Of The Stone Age
- Rock Icons: Malcolm Young by Joel O'Keeffe
- Metal Hammer readers vote Babymetal as the best album of the 21st century
- The 20 Greatest Chicago Blues Records
- Ryan Adams slays Slayer
- July 26
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- Pokemon GO Crazy – 5 People Who Went Too Far For Pokemon Go
- Watch this man nail 155 Iron Maiden riffs in a row!
- Is drumming actually good for you?
- The Top 10 Best Ramones Songs
- In Pictures: Robb Flynn's 49th birthday bash
- The Top 10 best heavy metal songs about heavy metal
- Every Therapy? album ranked from worst to best
- The Rolling Stones – 50 Years Of Rock'n'roll
- Why Twisted Sister are saying farewell
- July 25
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- Flash Metal Suicide: Jackyl - the chainsaw-wielding princes of backyard BBQ
- Metallica: every song on the Black Album ranked from worst to best
- Why I love Boston's debut album, by Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto
- Weird website of the day: Bruce Dickinson's Rubber Chickens
- Dead Island: Definitive Edition – Review
- Selena Gomez fans react to metal
- The King Is Blind release video for Fragility Becomes Wrath
- Every Meshuggah album ranked from worst to best
- The 10 Best History Lessons In Rock
- The Top 10 Faces Songs
- New Band Of The Week: Landmarks
- July 24
- July 23
- July 22
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- The Top 10 Best Bob Dylan Songs About Women
- Dear Donald Trump: here are the songs that will get you elected President
- Why AC/DC, Sabbath and Ramones are referenced on Green Day’s Dookie artwork
- The 10 Best Songs Of Matt Pike's Career
- Vote for your favourite album of the 21st century
- The first reaction to Korn's new song Rotting In Vain
- The Top 10 Most Underrated European Hardcore Releases
- The Kentucky Headhunters - Kentucky Fried Pickin' lands in the UK
- July 21
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- Black Sabbath: the madness behind Master Of Reality
- The A-Z of Green Day
- 10 of the best black metal albums from the 2000s
- Denmark's black metal siren Myrkur covers Bathory
- Lord Of War premiere Suffer lyric video
- Joey Tempest's Top 10 Europe Songs That Aren't The Final Countdown
- The Top 10 Best Hair Metal Videos
- What are My Chemical Romance up to?
- The White Buffalo: songs of love, murder, booze and violence
- The Top 10 Best AC/DC Bon Scott Lyrics
- July 20
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- Fresh meat: the three best new bands from metal's underground
- The 10 Best Blue Oyster Cult songs that aren't (Don't Fear) The Reaper
- 20 of the best black metal albums from the 1990s
- Gallery: The Bucolic Frolic - Knebworth Festival 1974 in pictures
- Meet Ghost Community, prog's newest supergroup
- Korean post-rockers Jambinai are putting the Seoul back into prog
- This is what Smells Like Teen Spirit would sound like if Nirvana played reggae
- The 10 Essential 70s Prog Rock Albums
- The Gift Studio Report
- A story of Motorhead, a caravan in Finland, a fire and a food fight
- Howlin' Wolf Vs The Doors - who sang Back Door Man best?
- Ray Wilson on Genesis, going solo and covering Pink Floyd
- July 19
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- The top 20 proggiest prog epics ever
- 10 of the best old school black metal albums
- Proof that Jason Butler from Letlive has balls of steel
- The 5 Best Mobile Games Right Now (That Aren't Pokémon Go)
- Here's what happened when snooker champion Steve Davis DJed at Glastonbury
- Black Stone Cherry - How We Made Kentucky
- The confessions of Bury Tomorrow frontman Dani Winter-Bates
- 10 Metallica songs that showcase the genius of Cliff Burton
- Deep Purple - Playing With Fire
- Meet Jinjer, the band hell-bent on putting Ukranian metal on the map
- The Best Prog Albums Of 2016... So Far
- The 100 Greatest Albums Of The 21st Century – only in the new issue of Hammer
- A Tribute To Bobby 'Blue' Bland
- Necronautical tackle life's big questions with their brand of black metal
- July 18
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- Doomy Londoners Landskap evolve again for third album III
- Limelight: Metaprism
- The 10 Best Industrial Metal Albums
- How Dark Passion Play saved Nightwish’s career – and Tuomas Holopainen’s sanity
- 10 bands you can't afford to miss at Bloodstock this year
- 10 reasons Suicide Squad will kick ass
- Nintendo announces the NES Classic Edition but do they understand retro gaming?
- The 15 best photos from the first Lollapalooza festival in 1991
- Rick Wakeman rails against travel insurance in this month's Caped Crusade
- WWE Superstar Xavier Woods picks his favourite Babymetal songs
- Your guide to Bloodstock's Metal 2 The Masses: Part 3
- From Smalltown Heroes to Arena Rock: The Rise Of Black Stone Cherry
- Flash Metal Suicide: Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
- Hubert Sumlin: Howlin' Wolf's Right Hand Man
- Satan and spiritualism: Inquisition's journey to becoming the perfect cult band
- New Band Of The Week: Area 11
- Gandalf's Fist might have created the first ever steamprog concept album
- Panic Room guitarist Dave Foster is on a mission to bring prog to new ears
- July 17
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- Limelight: Three Trapped Tigers
- Artist Charles Uzzell-Edwards let us rummage through his record collection
- "I was an arsehole": Fish looks back on his career and reveals what's next
- Blossom Toes' If Only For A Moment was prog - just maybe not as we know it
- Are you a discerning prog fan? Bert Hodds has the label for you
- Guns N' Roses, Metallica and the Greatest Rock Show on Earth
- Three musical gadgets putting the prog into progress
- Guest stars, bass and embracing AOR: Lee Abraham on life after Galahad
- Can Tiles finally hit the big time now they have Ian Anderson on board?
- They specialised in music you couldn't dance to, but how prog were Pavlov's Dog?
- After 33 years Peter Baumann is back to expand the frontier of electronic music
- Why Ville Valo is obsessed with the dark side
- July 16
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- Sir Richard Bishop picks Yes maestro Steve Howe as his prog hero
- Joey Jordison wins the Metal Hammer Golden God Award
- Golden Gods 2016: the winners in full - part 2
- Golden Gods 2016: the winners in full - part 3
- Golden Gods 2016: the winners in full - part 4
- No sleep 'til Metal Hammersmith! Behind the scenes at the 2016 Golden Gods
- The Top 10 Best Alter Bridge Songs
- July 15
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- Black Stone Cherry's John Fred Young on his top 10 albums of all time
- Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, The Mission's Golden Years
- Johnny Winter Buyer's Guide
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Exploring The Technomancer on PS4
- Dragonforce's Frédéric Leclercq wants you to travel the world
- Why Southern Rock Is Exploding Worldwide
- ((RSJ)) release video for Hit The Road Jack
- Suffering from Game Of Thrones withdrawal symptoms? This video will help...
- System Of A Down's Chop Suey covered by different animals
- The inside story behind Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman
- Every Anti-Flag album, ranked from worst to best
- Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt: The story behind new album Invention Of Knowledge
- The real reason why Jon Anderson won't be making another album with Vangelis
- Prog God 2016 Jon Anderson: in his own words
- July 14
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- How The Who and Camel manager Max Hole kick-started his career
- The top 10 most underrated US hardcore albums
- Behind the scenes with new Dream Theater side-project The Jelly Jam
- The Top 10 Best Kansas Songs
- Dragons in Call of Duty? The latest DLC arrives for Black Ops III
- Bad Breeding are the punk band Britain needs
- The Top 10 best Corey Taylor guest appearances
- Why Doro Remains The Undisputed Metal Queen
- Why Biffy Clyro got naked for their new album cover
- Black Peaks' Will Gardner on why he loves French metallers Gojira
- How Dave Grohl's metal project evolved into Probot, the heaviest album of 2004
- Norwegian proggers Airbag show what happens when prog and metal collide
- Black Crown Initiate might be the world's smartest prog metal band
- July 13
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Heartbreaking Story of an American Legend
- Exclusive: Nu metal legends Korn are going "heavier" for their new album
- The A-Z Of Clutch
- The Beatles are on the cover of the new Classic Rock, out now
- 5 most metal game characters of all time
- Peter Gabriel's solo albums Us and Up abandoned pop for prog's darkest side
- The story behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall album cover
- Metallica covered by cats – it's Meowtallica!
- How Kiss changed my life, by Charlie Benante
- Eistnaflug Festival Report
- July 12
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- The top 10 best Bachman-Turner Overdrive songs
- The 10 Albums That Shaped Despised Icon
- 9 Classic Album Sleeves Inspired By Pokemon GO
- Thinking Out Loud: Frank Iero
- The Forgotten Classic
- UK's avant-black adventurers Caïna unveil their mindboggling new album
- Listen to the new Jeff Beck album Loud Hailer in full
- The road to Download: The Heavy Metal Truants ride again
- Watch a horse headbanging to Pantera
- The top 10 best Blink-182 songs from 1994-1999
- July 11
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- The Top 10 best albums produced by Ross Robinson
- No Man's Sky makes its own music with the help of mathematics
- The Top 10 Best Metal Pokemon Covers
- Royal Southern Brotherhood: two blues dynasties collide.
- Marillion: a track by track guide to F.E.A.R
- New Band Of The Week: Hercules Morse
- Every New Found Glory album ranked from worst to best
- Classic Rock's reviews of the week - July 11th
- July 10
- July 9
- July 8
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- Deep cuts: Dragonfly – the '60s band that gave Blue Cheer a run for their money
- Buddy Guy: How I Lived The Blues
- Appetite For Destruction: every song, ranked from worst to best
- Pop punk pioneers The Descendents on their upcoming date at Rebellion Festival
- Walter Trout discusses his "overwhelming" new UK tour
- 20 albums that changed the course of rock'n'roll
- Frost* return to the stage with their first album in eight years
- Why Marilyn Manson can thank Elle MacPherson for this iconic album sleeve
- The Top 10 Best My Chemical Romance Songs
- Blue Öyster Cult celebrate 40 years of 'Agents Of Fortune' with live shows
- The 6 best modern bands championing 80s-style arena rock
- Playlist: 13 songs to celebrate Cow Appreciation Day
- Flash Metal Suicide: Rene Berg - The Leather, The Loneliness, and Your Dark Eyes
- Why Chris Robinson traded the music industry for artistic freedom
- Ex Mötley Crüe singer John Corabi on the upcoming Dead Daisies tour
- "Revolver raised the bar": Sean Lennon on his favourite Beatles album
- The six best covers of songs from the Beatles' Revolver album
- July 7
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- Someone has turned Black Sabbath's Paranoid into a jazz song
- He reinvented rock guitar, now Jeff Beck's back with a new album, group and tour
- Iron Maiden - Legacy of the Beast First Impressions
- Top 10 Most Successful Rock Star Entrepreneurs
- Halestorm singer Lzzy Hale on life, death and the last time she cried
- Big Big Train: six things you need to know
- Sinsaenum: the inside story of Joey Jordison’s OTHER new band
- July 6
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- We got to grips with the Emerald Chimaera Artisan double-necked guitar
- Body Count have covered Slayer's Raining Blood and it's amazing
- How Whitesnake conquered America
- “I want your babies!”: Why The Struts are out to seduce the UK
- Hey Brian Johnson, We Have A New Gig For You!
- Cane Hill's guide to Alice In Chains
- Here's what happened when we let Rival Sons loose in a record store
- Maritime mischief: pirate radio's rock'n'roll revolution
- Gojira – Magma voted your favourite album of 2016 so far
- Alter Bridge Are Coming To The UK – And We’ve Picked Their Perfect Setlist
- Red Hot Chili Peppers on Bowie, Trump and bromances
- 10 Of The Greatest Welsh Anthems Ever Written
- The Top 10 Best Green Day Videos
- Meet the team behind Iron Maiden's Legacy Of The Beast game
- Saxon frontman Biff Byford on Yorkshire, Metallica and rock'n'roll
- July 5
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- The 10 best Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac songs
- Inside Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin’s lost jam session
- You can now play Iron Maiden's Legacy Of The Beast game on your mobile
- Thinking Out Loud: Billie Joe Armstrong
- Black Forest metallers Imperium Dekadenz unleash an epic new track
- Foghat: Under The Influence with wine-fuelled new album
- Watch this person play the Stairway To Heaven solo simply by touching the air
- The Top 10 Best Queen Videos
- The top 10 most underrated UK hardcore records
- LA alt.rockers Rooney return with new album Washed Away
- Classic Rock's albums of the week - 4th July
- Classic thrashers Onslaught celebrate a milestone at Titanfest 2016
- July 4
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- The Top 10 Best Who Songs
- The 10 Best Unexpected Rock Covers
- Total War: Warhammer Review [PC]
- The ultimate buyer's guide to Devin Townsend
- 11 things Metallica would rather do than finish their new album
- High Hopes: introducing Texan noise lords Wo Fat
- Nordic black metal champions Kampfar reveal their spectacular new video
- Flash Metal Suicide: Danger Danger - Danger Danger
- Cradle Of Filth stream Dusk... And Her Embrace: The Original Sin
- The 10 best underrated Pearl Jam songs
- High Hopes: Introducing Icelandic blues-rockers Kaleo
- Playlist: The United States of Rock – 50 Songs For 50 States
- New Band Of The Week: Youth Man
- July 3
- July 2
- July 1
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- 10 weird cover versions, from the ridiculous to the sublime
- This is what Bohemian Rhapsody would sound like if Queen were a reggae band
- Opinion: Shut up Apple, I'll use my iPhone at gigs if I want to
- 10 unmissable bands playing at this year's 2000 Trees festival
- The top 10 best acoustic Led Zeppelin songs
- 10 rock albums we're still waiting for in 2016
- Metal Fashion Mad: When Rock And Modelling Collide
- Opinion: Apple are heroes for trying to limit iPhones at gigs
- These are the best six new songs you'll hear all week
- Vote for your favourite album of 2016 so far
