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April 30
- Meet the chef giving vegan cookery the black metal treatment
- “The bar has just been raised again”: Randy Blythe reviews Gojira’s Fortitude
- Is Laura Meade the most dangerous woman in America?
- Skarlett Riot won’t let the pandemic stop them
- The 10 most pivotal musical moments in the history of TV
April 29
- The best metal albums of 2021 so far
- How Royal Blood left a seven-year stag party behind and made a disco-ready rock classic
- The Holy Trinity: How Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ruled the 60s
- 50 things you need to know about The Beatles' White Album
April 28
- "We had the desire to create something extraordinary" - how Queen found themselves and made Queen II
- Elvis Presley: a guide to his best albums
- Six Things You Need To Know About… Skam
April 27
- Watch Tetrarch’s electrifying acoustic cover of Mudvayne’s Forget To Remember
- Why I ❤️ The Clash's London Calling, by Tom Morello
April 26
- “Extra-terrestrials are kind of a new religion”: a strange conversation with Maynard James Keenan
- The Pretty Things: life, legacy, and the original bad boys of rock'n'roll
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Yola, Mammoth WVH, Buckcherry and more
April 25
- "Crimson defined prog": Rosalie Cunningham on her favourite prog icon Ian McDonald
April 24
- A New Day Yesterday: the story of Jethro Tull's Stand Up
April 23
- Dino Cazares: “I think Burton C Bell left Fear Factory many, many years ago”
- Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch: “We don’t want to watch this band grow old and go downhill”
- Francis Rossi interview: Status Quo, lockdown, and getting back out on the road
April 22
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1996
- Why I ❤️ The 3rd And Mortal’s Tears Laid in Earth by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen
- Why I ❤️ Genesis's Selling England By The Pound, by Fish
- Whacked-out occultists, scary séances, and the saga of Uriah Heep's Demons And Wizards
- How Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding inspired an AC/DC tradition
April 21
- Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher is here to help you win on claw machines every single time
- The mad genius of Jim Steinman in seven glorious songs
- Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix: “The TikTok cover of Last Resort? That sh*t is slapping!”
- Get ready for the Get Ready: what Damon Johnson did next
- How Mick Jagger made the greatest blues album he's never released
- Drug abuse, violence, and the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night
April 20
- Every Beastie Boys album ranked from worst to best
- Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf: 10 albums that changed my life
- The 8 best jam-centric albums ever, by Warren Haynes
- Skindred's Benji Webb: "punk rock was born in Newport"
April 19
- Rammstein's maddest merch ranked in order of WTF!?!-ness
- “This is Alexi at his best”: how Bodom After Midnight’s new EP became Alexi Laiho’s epitaph
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Myles Kennedy, The Struts, Royal Blood and more
April 18
- Vote for the greatest metal cover song ever
- “We were bored of doing things the same old way". How Rush made Signals
April 17
- Drugs, guns, and the tragic death of Mountain's Felix Pappalardi
April 16
- The most underrated albums by 20 major metal bands
April 15
- Why I ❤️ The Beatles' White Album, by Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale
- When mellow was king: Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the saga of Jackie Blue
- At war, unravelling and flying high: how Black Sabbath made Sabotage
April 14
- An epic interview with George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher, a hero for our times
- What the f**k is an NFT anyway?
- Svalbard’s Serena Cherry: “Metal’s not a utopia. If your face doesn’t fit, it’s hard to get attention”
- The story of Andrew W.K. and the most bizarre TV performance in music history
- Thunder: how we made All The Right Noises
April 13
- Every Clutch album ranked from worst to best
- Exploding heads and mellotrons: The story of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy
- A spiritual mission: the tragic story of grunge supergroup Mad Season
April 12
- Gun-raids, back-stabbings, bust-ups and bitterness: The madness of late-70s Hawkwind
- Voivod’s Michel ‘Away’ Langevin: 10 albums that changed my life
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Massive Wagons, Ayron Jones and more
April 9
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1992
- “Maybe bits of me don’t want to grow up. Maybe I am an escapist, a romantic. I dislike cynicism. It’s bad energy. Does that make me childlike?” Kate Bush on the inspiration behind Hounds Of Love
- The Story Behind The Song: My Dying Bride’s The Cry Of Mankind
- A love letter to a city: How Alice Cooper and Bob Ezrin made Detroit Stories
April 8
- Bust-ups, bankruptcy and backstabbing: how Burton C Bell escaped the wreckage of Fear Factory
- Sullivan King: 10 albums that changed my life
- Acolyte keyboard player Dave van Pelt chooses his favourite prog synth solos
- We got Hollywood Undead’s Johnny 3 Tears to make us the mixtape of his life
- Eric Bloom: The Soundtrack of my Life
- The story of Def Leppard's Jim Steinman sessions, the most expensive unreleased album ever
- Why I ❤️ The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, by Manfred Mann
April 7
- How to get into… Eyehategod
- Blondie: The Soundtrack To My Life
- Meet the guy who hated The Clash's last album so much he re-recorded it for them
April 6
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: "Playing the guitar was one of the only ways I could express myself"
- We asked an Oxford professor what the hell Rammstein’s Mutter album is really all about
- The 10 best blues rock albums ever, by Walter Trout
- The ego has landed: Inglorious singer Nathan James strikes back
April 5
- Megadeth’s David Ellefson: “I was a heroin addict and playing the biggest shows of my life”
- How ELP survived the 80s
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Blood, Peter Frampton and more
April 2
- Tetrarch’s intense new single Negative Noise will make you think nu metal never went away
- 20 things you didn’t know about Rammstein’s Mutter
- Smith/Kotzen: putting two guitarists together in a studio can be dangerous
- The 10 best Leon Russell songs, by Bruce Hornsby
- Brick by brick: how The Dirty Nil's one-step-at-a-time climb has finally paid off
April 1
- Catch up with all the latest from the Metal Hammer podcast
- 11 Queen songs you never hear on the radio but should
- The return of Black Spiders: "Every song needs to punch you in the face"
- Revolution: The story of the lost pioneers of heavy metal