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December 2016
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- December 25
- December 23
- December 22
- December 21
- December 20
- December 19
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- Why David Lee Roth and Steve Vai were the greatest partnership of the 80s
- Mike Oldfield talks Tubular Bells, the dark side and getting his mojo back
- Joanne Shaw Taylor goes Wild again in the UK
- Clutch frontman Neil Fallon's Guide To Go-Go
- Vote for your favourite album of 2016
- Fight the system: How Lzzy Hale is empowering metal's next generation
- How to have the most metal Christmas ever
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Jesse Leach, Killswitch Engage
- December 18
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- Rob Halford looks back on Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell
- Camel To Release Live In Japan DVD
- Welcome Back: Blackfield – Israeli star Aviv Geffen reunites with Steven Wilson
- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Gibson Explorer
- High Hopes: Bad Touch – Southern-fried goodness from...erm, Norfolk
- New York: Remembering Lou Reed's creative rebirth
- The story behind Motörhead’s Bomber album artwork
- December 17
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- Welcome Back: Michael Chapman - veteran progressive singer-songwriter returns
- From rags to riches and back: The turbulent story of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- How Blue Oyster Cult made Imaginos, the longest-gestating album ever
- High Hopes: Xander And The Peace Pirates – "We want to uplift people"
- The Story Behind The Song: Mary Long by Deep Purple
- Greg Lake: November 10, 1947 – December 7, 2016
- Video Breakdown: Queen – I Want To Break Free
- The 10 worst Slipknot songs
- December 16
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- The devastating story of Rare Earth, Motown's funkiest white band
- New Music From The Tangent Coming Tonight!
- Gentle Giant: You look back and think why the hell did we do that?
- 10 facts about Guns N' Roses' Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide EP
- What happened at Metallica's intimate gig in Hollywood?
- Deep Purple, Steel Panther, Halestorm & more: Vote for your Track Of The Week
- Every Type O Negative album ranked from worst to best
- Every song on the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks ranked from worst to best
- December 15
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- Bebe Buell on groupies, fake boobs, God and sacrifice
- Top 10 Best Kiss Without Make-Up Songs
- 10 of the best rock bands from Scotland
- Why I love Led Zeppelin by Corrosion Of Conformity's Pepper Keenan
- Woody Woodmansey: 'Bowie got lost in his creation - the monster took over'
- "We got arrested at the Vatican!" the confessions of Dani Filth
- Marillion To Release Marbles Live!!
- Watch Michael Fassbender play air guitar to Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
- December 14
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- Foo Fighters get their freak on in monster funk mash-up
- The 10 best Overkill songs by Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth
- Steve Howe: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Ne Obliviscaris to tour Europe in 2017
- IO Earth launch Harmonix prog festival in 2017
- Christmas songs go metal
- Dom Lawson's Top 10 Albums Of 2016
- Watch Boy Jumps Ship re-enact Home Alone in Christmas video
- The Story Behind The Shot: Danny Clinch on 6 of his greatest pictures
- The story behind Roger Dean's artwork for Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans
- December 13
- December 12
- December 11
- December 10
- December 9
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- Every Dillinger Escape Plan Album (and one EP) Ranked From Worst To Best
- The Stones, Def Leppard, Ryan Adams & more: Vote for your Track Of The Week...
- The 10 best fictional bands on TV
- The A-Z of Nightwish
- Watch a mesmerising new video from Tribulation guitarist Jonathan Hultén
- 10 things you might not know about Green Day drummer Tré Cool
- Rick Astley's top 10 favourite rock songs
- Why I Love Oasis, by Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds
- The Six Best New Songs You'll Hear All Week
- December 8
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- How Avenged Sevenfold wrote Exist
- Greg Lake: 10 Essential Songs
- Watch Mongolian folk-metallers Tengger Cavalry cover Motörhead's Fight
- Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells, punk rock, and why you should get a lawyer
- Remembering Greg Lake
- 10 of the best rock bands from Holland
- The 10 best songs by Against Me!
- Polar release video for Deus Ex Machina
- Rock Icons: Ritchie Blackmore by Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson
- Corey Taylor: My Life Story
- Dark Proggers Awooga Unveil Moody Video For Thief
- The death of Razzle: a story of Vince Neil and a car crash
- Mike Oldfield Returns To Ommadawn
- Watch this bassist play AC/DC songs in an unconventional ACDC tuning
- December 7
- December 6
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- Uli Jon Roth's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- New Issue Of Prog Is On Sale Today
- The 10 meanest Nickelback memes
- Have Yes Re-recorded Fly From Here With Trevor Horn On Vocals?
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine reviews Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct
- Famous Firsts: Zacky Vengeance on The Monkees and messing with illegal fireworks
- What would Green Day's American Idiot video be like without any music?
- Shaman Elephant Stream New Album With Prog
- Watch Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody re-imagined as a violent crime drama
- What does Europe's Joey Tempest really think about Europe's The Final Countdown?
- Blueneck Release Free Christmas Album
- Avenged Sevenfold lead Metal Hammer's special end-of-year issue
- Thinking Out Loud: Chester Bennington on drugs, success and going to the shops
- December 5
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- The 20 best prog albums of 2016
- Marillion Sell Out Royal Albert Hall In Minutes!
- 10 Things We Learned From Maynard James Keenan's Biography
- Melvins get into the festive spirit with this weird cover of Carol Of The Bells
- IQ To Release First Ever Blu-ray!
- The 10 best metal bands from New York
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Dani Filth
- Summer's End Confirms Date And Venue
- Watch a heavily bearded man play and shoot a guitar built from a shotgun
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- Thinking Out Loud: Max Cavalera
- The 10 best Mansun songs chosen by Paul Draper
- December 4
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- Klaus Schulze: 'Forget electronica and prog, it's all just music'
- Steve Hillage: 'Being part of Gong was both exhilarating and exasperating'
- Duff McKagan: The 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Prog-metallers A Sense Of Gravity on making the craziest music in the game
- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Jackson Randy Rhoads
- Every A Day To Remember album ranked from worst to best
- December 3
- December 2
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- Why Paul Kanter and Grace Slick are prog, just not as we know it
- Does the synthesiser have a role in the future of progressive music?
- Why Mike Oldfield's returning to Ommadawn
- Avenged Sevenfold: 'We had the f**king balls to do something different'
- My life in 10 songs, by Dani Filth
- Sabbath, Leppard, Rainbow & more: Vote for your Track Of The Week...
- Creeper's Will Gould tells us why he loves AFI
- The best metal gigs of 2016
- The Xbox is 15 years old. Here Are 8 Almost-Forgotten Games That Built A Legend
- Trivium's Matt Heafy picks his 10 favourite Queen songs
- Every song on Queen's A Night At The Opera, ranked from worst to best
- 18 Legendary Rock Stars Who Died in 2016
- Kansas Headline Prog Stage At Ramblin' Man
- The Six Best New Songs You'll Hear All Week
- December 1
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- Just how metal is Nightwish's Floor Jansen?
- Introducing L'Anima: Seasoned rockers indulging their love for prog
- Outer limits: How prog are Meshuggah?
- Meet Kyros: The band formerly known as Synaesthesia
- Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on Guns, God, and America
- Are Guns N' Roses about to announce UK tour dates?
- The story behind Deliverance by Corrosion Of Conformity
- Hear that annoying Pen Pineapple Apple Pen song done in the style of Rammstein
- Top 10 Best Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion Songs
- James Hetfield reacts to old pictures of Metallica
- Spirit Adrift: Here to heal the world with doom music
- Tim Bowness To Release Lost In The Ghost Light In February
- The 10 weirdest Primus videos
- "I got caught on a ceiling fan during an orgy": the confessions of Dave Wyndorf
- This metal Star Trek cover is incredible
- Rock Icons: Vinnie Stigma by Dropkick Murphy's Al Barr
- System Of A Down: how four outcasts became a metal legend
- Gamma Ray's Kai Hansen chooses Animals As Leaders as his prog heroes
