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- September 30
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- Placebo – "We appeal to the square pegs in the round holes"
- Why Black Sabbath's Paranoid is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time
- Metallica, Steel Panther, FNM & more: Vote for the best Track Of The Week...
- The A-Z Of Avenged Sevenfold
- My First Gig: Mike Hranica, The Devil Wears Prada
- British black metallers Eastern Front unveil their striking new video
- The brilliant, bizarre world of the Johnny Winter auction
- Every Song On Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Ranked From Worst To Best
- Psychedelic UK voyagers Dark Moon unveil their ravishing debut single
- It's official: Led Zeppelin's Stairway is the greatest guitar solo ever
- It's Electric: How Marc Bolan Made The Greatest Album Of His Career
- The 10 best Less Than Jake songs, by their drummer Vinnie Fiorello
- Rush: "We Were Just Happy That We Were Still Around After 2112"
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- The story behind Dr Feelgood's Paradise
- September 29
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- Interview: Gene Simmons on the majesty of Gene Simmons
- The story behind Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell
- Iron Maiden: The secrets of the Somewhere In Time album artwork revealed
- Halshug stream new album Sort Sind in full
- The Olympus LS-P2: a hi-res recorder that proves size isn’t everything
- "Our bassist mows his lawn naked": the confessions of Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg
- Blues Pills: “We're still heavy, it’s just a different kind of heaviness"
- Why Somewhere In Time is Iron Maiden’s most underrated 80s album
- Why I love Pearl Jam, by Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul
- Listen to the new Korn song featuring Corey Taylor
- Rock Icons: Johnny Rotten by Suicidal Tendencies' Mike Muir
- The World's Funkiest Black Sabbath Tribute Band Are Back
- September 28
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- Saxon's Biff Byford - The 11 Records That Changed My Life
- Your track-by-track guide to SikTh's Death Of A Dead Day
- Dom's Iron Sandwich: Opeth – Sorceress
- The story behind Muse's Absolution album artwork
- Balaam And The Angel rediscover their wings
- 10 Songs I Wish I'd Written By Boston Manor's Henry Cox
- The Stars Look Down: The Great And The Good Celebrate Peter Gabriel
- What happened at Metallica's exclusive fan club show
- Extreme release live track to celebrate Pornograffitti anniversary release
- Why this cover of a classic by Meat Loaf is preposterous but chillingly honest
- September 27
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- Steve Davis' Interesting Alternative: how compression is killing our music
- How Jimmy Eat World made Integrity Blues
- Alex Skolnick’s guide to shredding with soul
- 10 of the best metal bands from Greece
- Scott Ian: "Cliff Burton Was The Most Original Human Being I Ever Met"
- The 12 greatest Slayer memes
- 'Fast Eddie' Clarke on why Fastway are hitting the road in honour of Lemmy
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusades: going for the one prize
- What is Serpentine Dominion all about?
- Cliff Burton: "He Was Just A Beautiful, Beautiful Human Being"
- Stop everything! There's a floating Death Star speaker!
- The story behind WWE Superstar Sami Zayn's punk entrance music
- “I don’t hate people who hate Heriatge. Just the ones who try to tell me what to do." Opeth continue their own unique path with Sorceress
- Lionheart: is the NWOBHM supergroup ready to roar again?
- Nosound reveal the story behind the spark that ignited Scintilla
- September 26
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- Saga's Michael Sadler: "I try to be a mix of Peter Gabriel and Freddie Mercury"
- Glass Hammer: Norse mythology and videogames
- The Six-string Interrogation: Mick Ralphs
- The first reaction to Metallica's new song Moth Into Flame
- Steven Wilson: I Can't Emphasise How Much I Learned Working With King Crimson
- What really happened when Steve Walsh left Kansas
- What happened when Nergal went to India
- Famous Firsts: Asking Alexandria's Denis Stoff talks Slipknot and headline tours
- Machine Head: how we made Unto The Locust
- John Lydon answers life's big questions
- Citizen: What To Expect From Album Three
- Could your next favourite song be written by Artificial Intelligence?
- Alcest's track by track guide to Kodama
- The Prog Interview: John Carpenter on stage fright and Ennio Morricone
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Fredrik Åkesson, Opeth
- Fad Gadgets: Mune electronic instrument and Soundstage virtual reality app
- Jeremy Corbyn sings Queen
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- Why While She Sleeps decided to ditch their record label
- Glenn Hughes: My year of living dangerously with David Bowie
- Gong on life after Daevid Allen
- Big Country Go Wild In The Country
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- September 25
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- Have A Cigar: Blacklake - the team behind Haken and Headspace's album covers
- All Around The World - Different Light from the Czech Republic
- Limelight: Tilt
- My Record Collection: Mark McCaughrean on Yes, Frost* and Moon Safari
- Stone Cold Steve Austin: 10 albums that changed my life
- The 16 least-played Iron Maiden songs
- My life in 10 songs by Feeder's Grant Nicholas
- September 24
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- The Story Behind The Song: Ace Frehley's New York Groove
- Brian Eno on Roxy Music, The Velvet Underground and David Bowie
- How Nirvana Changed The Face Of Rock Music Forever
- Limelight: If These Trees Could Talk
- Stick Men discuss King Crimson, Prog Noir and #livingthedream
- The 10 worst Motley Crue songs of all time
- Video Breakdown: Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
- September 23
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- Rolling Stones, Opeth, Airbourne & more: Vote for the best Track Of The Week...
- Frederic Leclercq reviews Babymetal's Tokyo Dome shows
- The Story of Alter Bridge's Blackbird
- Rainbow Ffolly release second album. 48 years after their debut!
- Iron Maiden: The T-Shirts of the Beast
- "We embrace being weirdos!" Welcome to the world of Thank You Scientist
- ((RSJ)) stream new album Giant Glenn in full
- 'War torn' UK black metallers Eastern Front stream their epic new album in full
- Toni Childs' The Woman's Boat - it's prog, Jim, but not as we know it
- Meet Darkher: Yorkshire's answer to Jex Thoth
- The Six Best Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- Behind the scenes at the Progressive Music Awards 2016
- Kai Hansen's 6 Essential Guitar Albums
- Prog Awards 2016: the winners in full
- Epica's track by track guide to The Holographic Principle
- The Nirvana baby is now 25 years old. Do you feel old yet?
- The inside story of Pink Floyd's The Early Years 1965-1972 box set
- Sebastian Bach: "It's the music that people remember, not all the other stuff”
- September 22
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- Paper Late: Sexism in prog
- Pink Floyd's More and Obscured By Clouds go under the microscope
- Pink Floyd: The Story Behind Atom Heart Mother
- The power of positivity: Why Mike Muir will always fight for freedom
- Every song on Metallica's Master Of Puppets ranked from worst to best
- My Prog Hero: Fallujah's Alex Hoffman on Devin Townsend
- Who are Super Unison and what do they want?
- "I was so high my doll started talking to me": The confessions of Rob Zombie
- Limelight: Vola
- Rock Icons: Kurt Cobain by Chad Channing
- Is Do Not Disturb really going to be Van der Graaf Generator's final album?
- Q&A: The inside story behind Dec Burke's Book Of Secrets
- September 21
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- Interview: Dokken's George Lynch on the band's 'complicated' reunion
- Devon Allman - The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- So, Vicky Hamilton: how do you handle Guns N' Roses?
- 5 heavy Metallica riffs made heavier
- Employed To Serve cover Norma Jean's Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
- We went to Nightwish's exclusive new DVD screening in Finland
- The 10 best Sleater-Kinney songs, as chosen by Muncie Girls’ Lande Hekt
- Dear Cliff Williams: Thank you for the music
- Metallica's Rob Trujillo: Why Jaco Pastorius Is My Hero
- 10 obscure Roadrunner Records albums that should have been massive
- The 10 albums that changed my life, by Nothing More's Jonny Hawkins
- September 20
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- Listen to Led Zeppelin talk about their BBC Sessions
- The 11 best Korn memes
- Watch Osiah perform live at Tech-Fest
- ‘Metallica has always enjoyed jumping off a cliff’: inside the mind of Lars Ulrich
- Famous Firsts: Devildriver's Dez Fafara on psychobilly and meeting Danzig
- Ian Gillan: The Day I Left Deep Purple
- Meet The Whosoevers: the men who baptise rockstars
- Confessions Of A Traitor premiere Illuminating The Night video
- Someone's made a metal version of The Lego Movie theme EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!
- Watch Biters' Tuk Smith join Cheap Trick onstage for Surrender
- September 19
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- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- 10 of the best metal bands from Japan
- Video: What happened when Sleeping With Sirens played Reading?
- Airbourne's track by track guide to Breakin' Outta Hell
- Interview: Marillion's Steve Hogarth on being punk and replacing Fish
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Dave Mustaine, Megadeth
- September 18
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- Temple Of The Dog: The Return Of The Great Lost Grunge Band
- How Paranoid Made Black Sabbath Heavy Metal Superstars
- The Six-String Interrogation: Nuno Bettencourt
- Wes Borland: 10 albums that changed my life
- This is what it would look like if Marilyn Manson starred in Peaky Blinders
- The 10 best Blue Oyster Cult songs, by Eric Bloom
- September 17
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- The Story Behind The Song: Motorhead by Motörhead
- The chaotic, crazed story of Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion
- Drugs, Death And Dark Days: Chino Moreno's History Of Deftones
- Behemoth: Nergal's Guide To Life
- The Top 10 German Metal Bands According To Kai Hansen
- Hey! Guns N Roses! We've fixed Use Your Illusion!
- The 10 worst Marilyn Manson songs
- Video Breakdown: Warrant – Cherry Pie
- September 16
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- The story of Moby Grape: chaos and courtrooms, acid and white witches
- Why the metal world will miss Bolt Thrower
- Dream Theater, Ghost, The Answer & more... vote for your Track Of The Week
- South Park’s greatest rock cameos
- The A-Z Of Linkin Park
- The story behind Iron Maiden's The Number Of The Beast album artwork
- Raveneye unleash Madeline, and it might just blow your head off
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- September 15
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- The 10 best drummers in modern metal
- Interview: Nikki Sixx - the man who snorted Colombia and lived to rock again
- Watch: Dream Theater play Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
- Rock Icons: Jimi Hendrix by William DuVall
- The confessions of Tuomas Holopainen: ‘I passed out drunk on a blind date!’
- The 48 minute long classic album hidden inside The Clash's Sandinista!
- 1966-70 Was The Greatest Time For Music And These Records Prove It
- Three kids cover Metallica classics in a shopping centre – and it’s amazing
- September 14
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- Russ ‘Satchel’ Parrish - The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Diamond Head have filmed a video on a military base, and it's epic
- Gallery: 14 Beatles Album Spoofs, from Def Leppard To Genesis and beyond...
- Meet Dorje: The metal band fronted by a YouTube sensation
- Korn: “We blew the whole metal scene wide open”
- Watch Slayer and Joey Belladonna play Bryan Adams' Summer Of 69
- The 10 essential stoner metal albums
- EXCLUSIVE: Watch the Prog Awards in full!
- 6 Things We Want To See On The Korn/Limp Bizkit Tour
- Queen and Google collaborate on Bohemian Rhapsody virtual reality experiment
- Living Colour are angry. Marillion are angry. Where are the angry young bands?
- The A-Z of Mike Patton
- Someone's made a metal version of Carpool Karaoke – and it's brilliant
- Why Brujeria's new NSFW video is the most horrific thing you'll ever see
- September 13
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- Richie Sambora's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Remember when Slipknot met ICP on Howard Stern?
- The best Foo Fighters memes
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Anthony Raneri, Bayside
- Interview: Rick Wakeman on David Bowie, Black Sabbath, John Lennon and more...
- Thinking Out Loud: PAIN's Peter Tägtgren
- Famous Firsts: Crossfaith's Ken on loving Aerosmith and playing with crap bands
- Maiden, Metallica, Slipknot, Babymetal and more in our 30th birthday spectacular
- September 12
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- A tribute to Johnny Cash, the ultimate rebel and rock star
- Rush: Neil Peart - Man Out Of Time
- Why SubRosa are taking doom metal into bold new waters
- Macabre black metallers Carach Angren unleash a spectacularly creepy new video
- This is what it would look like if Freddie Mercury and Bruce Lee were BFFs
- Download the new All Them Witches live album for free
- 5 Things I Can't Live Without: Erik Chandler, Bowling For Soup
- 10 of the best metal bands from France
- Skreamer give away new album King Of Crows as free download
- Listen to The Answer save their career on darkly epic new song Solas
- The story of how a spiteful ballad turned Green Day into megastars
- New Band Of The Week: Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
- The confessions of Skindred's Benji Webbe
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- September 11
- September 10
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- Nearly a decade in, Asking Alexandria have brought heavy to the next generation
- Fear Factory: Burton C Bell's Guide To Life
- Of Mice & Men and the struggle to join metal's big league
- The 80s heavy metal compilations that changed our world
- How Killswitch Engage surfed the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal to glory
- The 10 worst cover versions ever
- Video Breakdown: Judas Priest – Breaking The Law
- Slayer look back on three decades of aggression
- September 9
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- Bring Me The Horizon and being one of metal's least likely success stories
- Rush - Rise Of The New World Men
- A sneak peak at Metal Hammer's world exclusive covers CD
- Ian Gillan's guide to the five Gillan albums
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- These are six best new songs you'll hear all week
- All day I dream about success: how Korn dragged nu metal into the big time
- We put Mastodon and Neurosis together in a room and here's what happened
- In Flames and the importance of Gothenburg on metal
- Premiere: Ruts DC and Henry Rollins team up on Music Must Destroy video
- Twin Atlantic: Sam McTrusty's track-by-track guide to GLA
- Is this man the most metal politician on the planet?
- "Welcome to a dream come true!" – The story of Slipknot so far
- The story behind Mötley Crüe's Dr Feelgood album artwork
- New albums reviewed – Godless, God Mode and Hyponic
- From cult heroes to global phenomenon: the unstoppable rise of Ghost
- September 8
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- Machine Head: how four obnoxious party boys became a metal powerhouse
- 10 albums that changed my life by Thrice's Riley Breckenridge
- Matt Heafy and the challenge of keeping Trivium relevant in 2016
- Watch: Red Fang's stupidly funny new Predator-goes-gonzo video
- The bands you love celebrate 30 years of Metal Hammer
- Metal Hammer Is Turning 30: Get Excited!
- Okkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn album review
- "Papa has rotating glands under his cloak": The confessions of a Nameless Ghoul
- Secretive, cinematic Swedes Tid unveil a mesmerising new video
- Alter Bridge premiere My Champion video
- Rock Icons: David Lee Roth by Michael Starr
- Could mathcore mob Marmozets be the next Slipknot?
- Meet Galactic Empire, the Dark Side of Metal
- Every song on Rush's Moving Pictures, ranked from worst to best
- The 13 best guitarists according to Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins
- The 10 most metal WWE PPV theme songs
- British steel: Rob Halford remembers 30 years on metal's frontline
- Lars Ulrich on the fall and rise of Metallica
- How The Guess Who's American Woman was written by accident
- September 7
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- Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel on the evolution of women in metal
- Pink Floyd's Descent Into Madness
- Richie Kotzen - The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Dazed and confused: the glorious birth and epic rise of Led Zeppelin
- 10 Songs Metallica Should Cover
- The A-Z Of Cradle Of Filth
- Metallica's epic journey from Death Magnetic to Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
- Of Mice & Men's track by track guide to their new album Cold World
- Bullet For My Valentine: "Trust your instincts and ignore the haters"
- Gigging Meets Gaming
- If Whiplash was about a Meshuggah covers band
- Celebrating 25 years of Grunge: the new issue of Classic Rock is out now
- 10 songs that shaped the Misfits' sound by Jerry Only
- Gojira's Joe Duplantier and the power of positive thinking
- September 6
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- Black Oak Arkansas: the band who had it all, then gave it all away
- Steve Harris: three decades of heavy metal thunder
- 10 Things We Learned Watching The New Version Of The Beatles At Shea Stadium
- Have you seen the one-man hardcore band?
- How Nirvana and abusive relationships shaped the new Norma Jean album
- The 10 most underrated Marilyn Manson songs
- 10 Roger Waters tracks every Pink Floyd fan should own
- Thinking Out Loud: Lou Koller
- My Life Story | Nick Oliveri
- The 30 best moments from the last 30 years of metal
- The 10 least-played Metallica songs
- Interview: Meat Loaf on The Who, Joe Cocker, Edward Norton and the MC5
- Lock up your stadiums, Steel Panther are on a quest for world domination
- The 12 best Iron Maiden memes
- 10 crowd gimmicks bands should implement
- “If music stops being fun, it’s not worth it”: the world according to Beartooth
- September 5
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- 30 Legendary Rock Stars Who Have Died In Metal Hammer’s Lifetime
- The Who: Albums Ranked From Worst To Best
- Monte Pittman's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- The 10 best Panic! At The Disco songs according to Brendon Urie
- New Band Of The Week: Dead!
- 10 of the best metal bands from Brazil
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Sam McTrusty, Twin Atlantic
- In Pictures: Denver Riot Fest 2016
- Famous Firsts: IKTPQ's Jona Weinhofen on learning to crowdsurf and loving rave
- 1991: The Year That Grunge Broke
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- September 4
- September 3
- September 2
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- The A-Z Of Devin Townsend
- Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week
- Meat Loaf: “I'm not afraid of anybody!”
- The top 10 best Yes songs from the 70s
- Ian Hunter: not-so-young dude
- Opinion: Rock needs to get over its fascination with heroin
- The six best new songs you’ll hear all week
- Nazis, moon landings and Black Knights: Inside the mind of Pain's Peter Tagtgren
- The story behind Metallica's Kill 'Em All album artwork
- 10 songs the Misfits should play during their reunion shows but probably won't
- Insomnia Gaming Festival is 72 non-stop hours of Vlogging, Cosplay & Jagerbombs
- "I've had enough of politicians telling me what to do": Ruts DC are back
- September 1
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- Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward talks life on the road
- Vince Neil: I’d rather open another restaurant than make a record
- The Progressive Music Awards 2016: Live Blog
- ‘Lemmy’ and ‘Motörhead’ bass guitars honour the legend
- Graham Parker on why it's important to be radical at 65
- Keith Moon: the man behind the myth
- Every Song On AC/DC's Back In Black Ranked From Worst To Best
- Exodus’ Bonded By Blood: the story behind thrash metal’s ultimate lesson in violence
- The Top 10 best Amon Amarth Viking songs
- What are System Of A Down teasing?
- 14 things we learned from punk legend Keith Morris' new book
- Jon Anderson: There's No Point Pretending That I'm Mates With Yes
- We let Opeth loose in a record store and here's what happened
- Rock Icons: Elvis Presley by Frank Turner
- The Top 10 Best Kiss 1980s Songs
- The confessions of Nikki Sixx: “I woke up in the Bahamas after a four-day binge in LA”
- Watch Corrosion Of Conformity's entire set live from Bloodstock 2016
- High Hopes: Illustr8ors – "Black Sabbath meets Michael Jackson"?
