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February 2017
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- February 28
- February 27
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- Buyer's guide: How to buy the best of Johnny Cash
- Danko Jones' track-by-track guide to new album Wild Cat
- There's a new effects pedal that looks like a massive poop
- The Magpie Salute: Former Black Crowes Rich Robinson and Marc Ford fly again
- Introducing Beth Blade and the Beautiful Disasters
- Mortiis talks remix albums, Godflesh, and the state of industrial metal
- What happened when we took Mastodon record shopping
- Six things you need to know about All Them Witches
- Steve Hackett: "I’m always open to the idea of Genesis"
- This Snoop Dogg x Bring Me The Horizon mashup really works
- The story behind the song: Battle Of The Beanfield by The Levellers
- Witness the rebirth of As Paradise Falls in Star Blind
- February 26
- February 24
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- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- Royal Thunder, Biters, Pretenders and more... vote for your Track of the Week
- Kreator and the positive power of thrash
- Ten Second Song Guy covers Chop Suey in the style of Spice Girls, Ghost and more
- Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell: rock the way it used to be
- February 23
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- Heavy rotation: What Classic Rock have been listening to this month
- What does Yoshiki think about the X Japan movie?
- Introducing Black Mirrors: Belgium's answer to every band out there
- Introducing Me And That Man, Nergal's unlikely new collaboration
- Timothy B Schmit: “I knew what my place was in the Eagles. I had to fit in.”
- We get to grips with Kirk Hammett's new amp head
- The story behind While She Sleeps' new song Silence Speaks
- Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin reflects on trading punk for Americana
- Deep cuts: Riches from the rock underground
- Introducing Bleeker, Canada's new grunge revivalists
- The Jesus And Mary Chain: “We have a lot of love, but a lot of bad vibes"
- Tony Iommi on The End of Black Sabbath... Or is it?
- February 22
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- If you listen to one new track today it should be Royal Thunder’s April Showers
- This is what happens when two metalheads try to write a pop song
- The Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock: the 10 records that made me play bass
- Apocalyptica explain the 'Metallica only' setlist behind their UK tour
- Why former Status Quo drummer John Coghlan is returning to the road
- Julian Cope: "If I die the day after tomorrow, at least I’m going deluded"
- Former Green On Red guitarist Chuck Prophet discusses life back on the road
- Anthrax's Scott Ian gives us the low down on the Among The Living birthday shows
- Metalhead performs Necrophagist on The Voice Quebec and gets through!
- February 21
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- Damian Wilson gives us a glimpse into his prog world
- Drummer Terry Bozzio talks Zappa, Beefheart, and that massive drumkit
- The Outer Limits: How prog are Wardruna?
- Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen: "I always dreamt of being a science nerd"
- What did Gojira get up to at the Grammys?
- Nick Beggs: "The gloves are off. The new album is rant city all the way"
- The managers that built prog: Peter Eden
- Frogs, wizards and lots of drugs: Welcome to the weird world of the Flaming Lips
- This is what Linkin Park's Heavy should have sounded like
- Back to the future: Dream Theater's Images And Words 25 years on
- Why have legendary amp makers Marshall started a record label?
- Tim Bowness: "I want to present something emotional, with no distractions"
- A question of balance: Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen's Blackfield is back
- February 20
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- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite in the studio
- How Avenged Sevenfold became the world's least likely prog stars
- Mountains Come Out Of The Sky: What lies ahead for Anderson, Rabin & Wakeman?
- Bruce Springsteen invites teenager onstage, magic happens again
- We take a look through Penny Smith's record collection
- Jan Schelhaas on outer space, the music industry and keeping perspective
- The 10 most important albums in Jethro Tull's career
- Why Hometruths are targeting Donald Trump with new song Genocide
- Part Chimp: 'A man-child crying out for love'
- Martin Barre: “Ian and I don't communicate – we've gone our separate ways"
- Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull and the importance of looking forward
- How 1000mods are paving the way for a Greek underground explosion
- Wild Lies: "We want to marry the old school with the new"
- Zeal & Ardor: The most unique band to grace the underground this year
- Painted In Exile: "We're a metal band, but we're inspired by jazz and blues"
- Meet Oni, probably the only metal band ever to use a xylosynth
- “We're exploring hyperreality”: Meet Ocean Grove, Australia's weirdest new band
- Revenge of the riff: Meet Star Wars metal band Galactic Empire
- February 19
- February 18
- February 17
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- Wage War: “We have the worst name to travel with”
- Our Hollow, Our Home are on a mission to push British metal forward
- Tracks Of The Week: featuring All Them Witches, Soundgarden and more...
- Listen to the new album by acclaimed blues-rocker Eric Gales
- Five minutes alone with Orange Goblin's Ben Ward
- Bordeaux's The Great Old Ones talk HP lovecraft and the beauty of horror
- Suicide Silence: “We were ready to jump off this cliff”
- Steel Panther: Is the joke starting to wear thin?
- The internet reacts to the new Linkin Park song
- Watch the new video for Datura4's 'full-tilt boogie stomp' Greedy World
- Nidingr are back with an album that refuses to play to expectations
- Nicole Saboune: "I see beauty in darkness – that's what unites me with metal"
- How metal is Asking Alexandria guitarist Ben Bruce?
- Corey Taylor showed us his memorabilia collection and things got really nerdy
- Fresh Meat: The three best new bands from metal's underground
- The 10 records that changed my life: Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo
- February 16
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- Kindred Spirit: folk with a progressive twist
- "I'm a fraud Mike Portnoy!" Bellerophon's shocking confessions
- Paperlate: the modern witch goes prog
- All Around The World - Jupiter Hollow from Canada
- Judas Priest’s Turbo: the darkness behind the most misunderstood album of the 80s
- My Prog Hero: Grant Nicholas on Pink Floyd
- EYE: meet the Mellotron fans from Ohio
- Metal will never die – Hammer is back!
- Prog Jim: Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
- Fad Gadgets: Earin M-2 earbuds, Gecho synth and Stylophone Gen X-1
- Why Tequila Mockingbyrd could be your new favourite Australians
- Why new Code Orange album Forever is one of the most important releases of 2017
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusades: Toilet Humour
- Listen to the new album from French brutalists Benighted
- The story behind Memoriam's For The Fallen album artwork
- We went backstage at an Airbourne video shoot and this is what happened
- GWAR sues Two Minutes To Late Night
- All hope is strong: How heavy metal is helping to unite communities in Africa
- Hero of the day: How Alter Bridge lured Myles Kennedy back to music
- What happened when Babymetal went head-to-head with Metallica in Seoul
- When generations collide: Black Sabbath meet Avenged Sevenfold
- February 15
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- Heavy rotation: What Classic Rock have been listening to this month
- How Dool's debut album embraces the darkness
- Six things you need to know about Deaf Havana
- Steve Jones: "The best part of being in a band is when no one knows who you are"
- The story behind Cinderella's Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
- Introducing blues-rock prodigy Aaron Keylock
- Dave Hause: "I wanted to write the story of falling in love"
- Getting to grips with John Mayer's latest signature model guitar
- Deep cuts: Riches from the rock underground
- Chrome Molly on Van Halen, Def Leppard and how grunge finished them off
- Introducing Mastodon-meets-QOTSA supergroup Gone Is Gone
- Punkoid pioneers the Godfathers explain why they’re not leaving the party yet
- The return of Classic Rock: "When you fall in the pit, they pick you back up"
- Buyer's Guide: How to buy the best of Judas Priest
- The second coming: Lift To Experience on their unlikely comeback
- New Issue Of Prog On Sale Today
- February 14
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- Meet the Solo Trio: the ultimate one man band
- Mike Oldfield: "I used to think 'What's gone wrong with the world?'"
- Worriedaboutsatan: From blank tapes to Vincent Cavanagh
- The Gift: Reincarnated, reinvigorated and reinventing classic prog forms
- Just let it happen: Nearly three years in the making, Jadis' ninth album is here
- No static at all: The story behind Blueneck's sixth album The Outpost
- Donald Trump's tweets have been turned into an emo song
- A Valentine's Day message from Avatar
- Buffalo Summer and the beauty of brass
- February 13
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- Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior talks murder ballads and Dodgy Bastards
- The Outer Limits: How prog are Dillinger Escape Plan?
- How Pain Of Salvation turned their terrifying struggle into a new album
- All hands on deck: Why Kylver are bringing back conceptual prog rock
- Ray Wilson: "My goal was always to control my own destiny – and now I do"
- Darkest Hour: 'Passion is more important than perfection'
- The managers that built prog: Peter Jenner
- February 10
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- Why Dropkick Murphys stand for hard work and doing things the right way
- We took Blackberry Smoke record shopping and this is what happened
- Have Black Star Riders finally stepped out of Lizzy’s shadow?
- The gospel according to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington
- Mastodon, The Godfathers and more: vote for your Track of the Week
- Ian Hunter: "Rock'n'roll gave me everything, I wouldn't swap it for the world"
- The return of Eric Gales, the guitarist who could be king
- How the Kentucky Headhunters finally found their way into the spotlight
- Remembering Rick Parfitt: October 12, 1948 – December 24, 2016
- Meet Ghost Iris: Denmark's next big thing
- Metal Hammer is back! And we've got M Shadows interviewing Ozzy Osbourne!
- Can you picture what will be? Celebrating 50 years of The Doors
- Ignore The Haters: Why I'm Going To See Guns N' Roses
- Classic Rock Magazine: back on sale now!
- February 9
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- Drumming legend Mike Portnoy joins Prog for a chat
- A life remembered: Greg Lake in the words of those who knew him best
- Greg Lake: Five decades at music's cutting edge
- Greg Lake: From the beginning to the end
- The results are in: The Prog readers' poll 2016
- Why The Voynich Code aren't just for tech-metal guitar nerds
- What do Black Sabbath mean to Judas Priest?
- Black Army Jacket revisit the early days of powerviolence
- The Damned in conversation: 40 years of Damned Damned Damned
- February 8
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- Composer Fabio Frizzi talks art, Genesis and being scared of King Crimson
- Little Britain actor Paul Putner lets us leaf through his record collection
- Kepler Ten: "We never really think about Rush when we’re writing music"
- Why Moving Structures are the instrumental rockers you need to know about
- Celebrating Rainbow45, the Turkish record shop keeping the prog scene alive
- Paperlate: A Pause For Quiet Reflection
- Introducing prog-punk pioneers Birdeatsbaby
- Every Time I Die's new video is a NSFW memetastic glorious mess
- Why Dutch proggers Elements are looking to the future
- Oriental Sunshine - it's prog, Jim, but not as we know it
- Paul Hardcastle discusses his prog heroes Hawkwind
- How Brutality Will Prevail's new song heralds a return to their roots
- Steve Davis rounds up the top 10 records of 2016
- Shaman Elephant: It's jazz rock, Jim, but not as we know it
- Marshall amps, Lemmy, Slash, and the film that needs your help
- Speaking in tongues: Rick Wakeman gets to the bottom of 'Manager Speak'
- The best gadgets you can get your hands on this month
- Steve Hackett on the cast behind solo album The Night Siren
- February 7
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- February 4
- February 3
- February 2
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- Harakiri For The Sky: “We all end up dead, so why not deal with it?"
- After 10 years, Fight The Fight are finally unleashing their racket
- The Story Behind The Song: Killswitch Engage’s My Last Serenade
- "I can't even play the songs I'm writing": Introducing Camel Of Doom
- "No one wanted us": Genre-hoppers Bad Sign on being metal misfits
- Metalcore crew The Raven Age are coming for metal’s throne
- Five minutes alone with Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows
- Fresh Meat: The three best new bands from metal's undergound
- Zeal & Ardor are channelling black metal and the American slave trade
- Resonant evil: how synthwave is taking over the underground
- How metal is Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman?
- Soen explore the darkness with new album Lykaia
- All Them Witches: Heavy Music for Heavy Times
- February 1