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October 31
- 10 classic Queen songs that Freddie Mercury didn't sing
October 30
- The ultimate Halloween playlist, by Black Stone Cherry's Ben Wells
- Metal stars remember their spookiest ever Halloweens
- How Alice In Chains confronted their tragic past on Rainier Fog
- 10 killer horror movie/metal crossovers
October 29
- 10 songs I wish I'd written, by Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr
- New Band Of The Week: Walking Dead On Broadway
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Steven Wilson, Naked Six and more
- Without You I'm Nothing: Celebrating the album that made Placebo superstars
- Why it's good that bands have to rely on touring instead of record sales
- The 10 best songs for a Halloween party, as chosen by Derange
- Watch cats destroy everything to Hatebreed's Destroy Everything
October 28
- A tribute to Andie Airfix, Def Leppard and Metallica designer
October 26
- The 10 best horror films (you haven't seen) to watch this Halloween
- Make these ridiculous metal Halloween costumes with items from your house
- Daughters' track-by-track guide to new album You Won't Get What You Want
- The Struts: Luke Spiller's track-by-track guide to Young & Dangerous
October 25
- Does it actually matter that Yuimetal has left Babymetal?
- The true story of AC/DC's chaotic arrival in the UK
- The real story behind One by Metallica
October 24
- Win tickets to see Melvins and meet the band
- Vote for the best Metallica album
- Paper Late: Is narrow-mindedness damaging our scene?
- How I learned to love Queen, by Soundgarden's Kim Thayil
- Here are some exclusive photos from the incredible Rob Zombie picturebook
October 23
- Here's Donald Trump singing Chop Suey by System Of A Down
- Metallica give Rob Trujillo a messy surprise for his birthday
- The 10 best old-school metal albums, as chosen by Haken
October 22
- New Band Of The Week: Prognosis
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Ghost, Ace Frehley and more
- Here's Ghostbusters in the style of Ghost
- Pijn stream new album Loss in full
October 19
- Max Cavalera's track by track guide to Soulfly's new album Ritual
- Welcome to Prog Limelight band Artmagic
October 18
- David Draiman's track by track guide to Disturbed's new album Evolution
- The show goes on at the Queen pop-up store
October 17
- Trump, ageing and the power of rock'n'roll: An interview with Jon Spencer
- This is the setlist from Smashing Pumpkins' ridiculous Wembley Arena show
October 16
- The 20 best albums of 1988
- Your ultimate heavy metal Halloween playlist
- The stories behind Ice Nine Kills' new album The Silver Scream
October 15
- The 7" singles that defined the 1980s
- Inside John Carpenter's 4 most iconic horror themes
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Halestorm, Hands Off Gretel and more...
- 16 things you might not know about about GG Allin
- New Band Of The Week: Primordial Swarm
October 13
- What's the best album ever made?
- The fine art of ludicrous album packaging
October 12
- The 100 Best Debut Albums Ever
- The 100 greatest metal albums of the 21st century
- Kids react to Disturbed
- The 10 best Deftones songs, as chosen by BLKLST
- Lars Ulrich: Why Vinyl Matters
October 11
- It's the Metal Hammer horror issue – guest edited by Rob Zombie!
- The 5 guitarists who built heavy metal
- In the studio with Venom Prison as they work on album number two
October 10
- An Illustrated Guide To Corpse Paint
- Meet Mike McKenna: The world's most metal hockey player
- 90s metal: A guide to the best albums
- Welcome To Prog Limelight band Gulp!
October 9
- Why Def Leppard's Rock Hall nomination has taken far too long
- Bergen's black/death masters Aeternus stream their new album in full
- 16 of the best psychedelic rock albums ever
- In Pictures: London Tattoo Convention 2018
- Puppy take you behind the scenes on their UK tour
- The 20 best albums from 1987
October 8
- Has rock music run out of ideas?
- Interview: Chthonic on politics, music and beyond
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from The Struts, Greta Van Fleet and more
- If you want a big rock show, you have to pay for it
- In Pictures: Wars open Progress Wrestling's show at Wembley arena
- Busting the vinyl myths: does 180g vinyl sound better? And more...
- Myrkur/Winterfylleth collaborator Jo Quail unveils a wondrous new track
- New Band Of The Week: Birds In Row
- This is Machine Head's setlist from their 'farewell tour'
- GG Allin: the gruesome life and tragic death of the most shocking man in music
October 7
- The 10 best Metallica songs, by Diamond Head's Brian Tatler
October 5
- Why is anyone even talking about Greta Van Fleet when we still have The Darkness?
- Aerosmith: the 10 best deep cuts
- The 100 best metal songs of the 90s
October 4
- Steve Perry's track-by-track guide to new album Traces
- Reach back in time with a stunning new video from Winterfylleth
- Listen to God Complex's savage new EP Created Sick
- The 10 best Enter Shikari songs, as chosen by Blank Atlas
- Tommy Vext: The 10 records that changed my life
October 3
- ELO: from pissing in buckets to multimillion-selling rock behemoths
- 8 reasons why it's OK to just relax and love Greta Van Fleet
- 10 reasons Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie could be great
- Britpop: A guide to the best albums
- Limelight - Gwenno
- The story behind Princess Of The Night by Saxon
October 2
- The inside story of Jimi Hendrix's first UK show, by the man who made it happen
- Meet Haiku Salut, the trio forging a progressive future from a traditional past
- I witnessed the death of genres
- Iron Maiden, and the day I heard The X Factor
- Orange Goblin's Ben Ward on respect, the effect of London and the power of heavy metal
- The 20 best albums from 1986
October 1
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Nazareth, Nita Strauss and more
- Norway's black/thrash maniacs Deathhammer stream their new album in full
- The best albums to get stoned to, according to Matt Pike
- New Band Of The Week: Runescarred
- How MTV: Unplugged redefined a generation of rock