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May 2020

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May 31
- Red Death: the band bringing the danger back to thrashcore
May 29
- “I’m covered in piss!”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy opens up his photo scrapbook
- Podcast: Bleed From Within on fifth album Fracture, their self-imposed hiatus, Pantera and pandemics
- Podcast: Havok's David Sanchez on their new album, inspirations and the future for the band
- Playlist: A guide to the world's best soundtracks, by Loathe
- The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant bands
- Vandenberg: Inside 2020, the reunion album 35 years in the making
May 28
- Pabst: A punk's guide to Berlin
- Ithaca interview: Chaos, survival and the tours that never were
- Suicide Silence f**ked up their own career. Now they’re trying to put it right
- The World According To William DuVall: “Alice In Chains’ reincarnation was not out of the blue”
- The best metal quarantine concerts and live streams you may have missed
May 27
- 10 of the best songs by Gregg Allman
- A love letter to the lost art of the liner note
- Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir: My Life Story
- Aerosmith: a guide to their best albums
- Men for all seasons: The inside story of Marillion's Season's End
- The 10 best groove metal riffs ever
- In This Moment’s Maria Brink: “Trent Reznor would be a dream to work with”
May 26
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Texas Gentlemen, Massive Wagons and more
- We put together the ultimate Holy Diver covers album
May 25
- Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells: "There’s been nothing like it, before or since.”
- Alive Or Just Breathing: how Killswitch Engage saved metal from itself
May 24
- 5 minutes alone with… Betraying The Martyrs’ ‎Aaron Matts
May 23
- Playlist: A guide to Bring Me The Horizon, by Derange
May 22
- Playlist: A guide to Kyuss, by Louise Lemón
- Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best
- What happened when goth went metal: an oral history
- What we do in the shadows: an oral history of 80s goth
- The 10 best Fields Of The Nephilim tracks
- Harrowed’s cathartic hardcore is perfect for these chaotic times
- The 10 best metal covers of classic goth songs
- The Story Behind The Song: Strapping Young Lad’s Love?
May 21
- The 11 songs that changed Klaus Meine's life
- It's a long way to Retford if you wanna rock'n'roll: on the road with AC/DC in 1976
- The scandalous story of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies
- Trees Of Eternity's Aleah Starbridge is remembered through a gorgeous new lyric video
- Ihsahn: why a black metal visionary has gone back to his roots
May 20
- The Top 10 best Megadeth songs featuring Nick Menza
- The science of nostalgia: Why we're returning to the albums we loved as teens
- The best Slipknot merch 2021: Show your Slipknot love with our essential gear guide
- Every Cheap Trick album, ranked from Worst to Best
- 10 tips for black and white photography
- The 10 best thrash metal albums: a buyers guide
- Metallica: how we made Ride The Lightning
- Vote for the greatest Rammstein song ever
- The 10 heaviest breakdowns in metal
- Every Killswitch Engage album ranked from worst to best
May 19
- The Top 10 most underrated Pete Townshend songs
- What happened when David Lee Roth took over Van Halen
- Metallica's James Hetfield: My Life Story
- The World According To Baroness’ John Baizley: “I'm a neurotic, obssessive control freak”
- Life in the fast lane: the turbulent tale of The Eagles
- Rammstein - Rammstein: your ultimate track-by-track guide
- We put together the ultimate AC/DC Back In Black covers album
- The Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 Challenge #5: Black and white photography
- Satyricon’s Satyr: “Metal is the most vain movement I know”
- Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott: the day I kidnapped David Bowie
May 18
- Rammstein Deutschland: the song and video explained
- Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen: 10 albums that changed my life
- The latest livestreams, online gigs and innovations from the music world
- How Sepultura’s Chaos AD changed the game for 90s metal
- Marshall give their Stockwell II portable speaker a shiny new Black And Brass makeover
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crown Lands, Fantastic Negrito and more
- Listen to some lunatic cover Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell on the hurdy gurdy
- The Pretty Things' Phil May on sharing girlfriends with Jimi Hendrix and living with a Rolling Stone
- Chester Bennington: “Chris Cornell’s contribution to music was unrivalled”
- The Top 10 metal bands from Denmark
May 17
- 5 minutes alone with… HammerFall’s Oscar Dronjak
May 15
- Ronnie James Dio: My Life Story
- The 10 greatest alter egos in music history
- The 50 best death metal albums ever
- Misfits’ Jerry Only: I partied with Sid Vicious the night he died
May 14
- How AC/DC made High Voltage and T.N.T.
- Pete Wentz interview: Poetry, isolation and how to stay sane during lockdown
- Best music streaming services 2021: how do Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music, Qobuz and others compare?
- Demons & Wizards: return of the power metal kings
- Listen to Killswitch Engage’s acoustic lockdown version of We Carry On
- The 10 bleakest metal albums ever
- The Story Behind The Song: Papa Roach’s …To Be Loved
May 13
- Every System Of A Down album ranked from worst to best
- Rush: how we reinvented ourselves and made Permanent Waves
- Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy: My Life Story
- Bernie Marsden interview: fighting UFO, meeting James Bond, and clicking with David Coverdale
May 12
- The Hu: from Mongolia with love
- The best deals on Sony’s PS4 2021: Get in the game with the PS4 Pro, PS4 Slim, bundle packs and more
- You wanted the best, you got the best: How Kiss came Alive!
- We put together the ultimate Black Sabbath Paranoid covers album
- Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen: “It's not impossible we could headline Download”
- The Last Goodbye: How Queen made Innuendo and Made In Heaven
- Asking Alexandria’s Ben Bruce: 10 albums that changed my life
- Godthrymm: doom architects call in from the abyss
May 11
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crobot, Blitzen Trapper and more
- Vinyl record storage ideas for housing and displaying your growing collection
- The tragic story of Eros – the great lost Deftones album
- Why Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP is Trent Reznor's greatest ‘f**k you’
- 5 minutes alone with… Anthrax’s Scott Ian
May 10
- The 10 best thrash metal solos ever
May 8
- The 10 best metal bands from Germany
- That time all of Metallica dressed up as Lemmy to play his 50th birthday gig
- Brian Howe interview: Bad Company and beyond
- The Story Behind The Song: Andrew W.K.’s Party Hard
- Code Orange: an audience with the future of metal, hardcore and everything else
May 7
- The 10 best DC hardcore songs, as chosen by Fake Names
- What happened when AC/DC arrived in America
- How Dave Mustaine took on cancer and won
- The Story Behind The Song: Bullet For My Valentine’s Scream Aim Fire
- Watch a guy nail Rage Against The Machine and Nirvana on a slide guitar in the middle of Montana
May 6
- The Stranglers: a guide to their best albums
- How Judas Priest made Stained Class, the album that transformed heavy metal
- Vote for the greatest metal debut album ever
- The truth behind the Mark Lanegan and Liam Gallagher feud
- Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best
May 5
- 10 essential Deathcore albums
- The chaotic story behind Rod Stewart's classic Every Picture Tells A Story
- Tom Morello: “Metal will be here long after other genres have come and gone”
- We joined Testament the first time they played Nepal and this is what happened
- The strange tale of Rod de'Ath: the drummer who came back from the dead
- Sugar, We're Goin' Down by Fall Out Boy: The story behind the song
- Vesperith: the unearthly visionary taking black metal into cosmic realms
- Introducing CMON: Post-punk, Grace Jones and a complete disregard for the rules
- We put together the ultimate Reign In Blood covers album
- Lzzy Hale interview: “A guy asked me to sign his ass. It was sweaty down there”
- Playlist: Positive metal attitude, by Tenside
May 4
- Playlist: A soundtrack to life on the road, by Khemmis
- 5 minutes alone with… Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Patrón, Seasick Steve and more
- Vote for the Metal Hammer Track Of The Week
- Meshuggah’s Destroy Erase Improve: the tech-metal masterpiece that reinvented noise
May 3
- From Under The Cork Tree: 15 years of Fall Out Boy's emo milestone
May 1
- Sex, Spongebob and sweaty hands: Inside the wild world of Waterparks fanfiction
- Testament’s Chuck Billy: My Life Story
- How Joni Mitchell made Ladies Of The Canyon and galvanised the singer-songwriter movement
- The curious story of Krokus: drugs, fistfights, and the very end of the road
- Babymetal are officially one of the 10 greatest metal bands ever
- Playlist: Songs to get you stoked, by GroundCulture
- Slipknot vs Mushroomhead: revisiting nu metal’s most ridiculous feud
- Vote for the greatest rock song of the 21st century