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May 2021

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May 31
- Steve Cropper interview: Jimi Hendrix, John Belushi, and celebrity cowbell
- The Top 10 best, worst and drunkest Orange Goblin gigs
- Asia: the story of a supergroup
- The triumphant return of Green Carnation
- The unstoppable rise of UK proggers Lifesigns
- Led Zeppelin: a timeline of the Stairway To Heaven trial
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Lee Aaron, The Sheepdogs and more
May 28
- Is Untouchables Korn's greatest album?
- Live streaming: what we learned from a year of streamed shows
- Blackberry Smoke are 20 years old and just hitting their peak
May 27
- "I want to keep metal alive": Meet the influencers bringing metal to a new generation
- 'Got any Puddle Of Mudd?' Why 00s rock clubs ruled
- Get our exclusive, limited edition Billy F Gibbons Bundle with t-shirt and collector's cover!
- Paul Stanley interview: soul, loneliness, and why Download will be mind-boggling
- Why the early Beatles were dangerous, by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson
- The story behind Stone Cold Crazy by Queen
- Why I ❤️ Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction, by Myles Kennedy
May 26
- “Sometimes you just need rock’n’roll to save you”: Neurosis' Steve Von Till picks his top tracks
- “We were standing in our house with our titties out and our ritual props”: Twin Temple on their new single Babalon
- Rick Wakeman: the soundtrack of my life
- Mick Ronson: a short history of his greatest moments
May 25
- Persephone's Last Breath could be the heaviest thing to come out of Covid...
- "They had no idea what was coming for them": new photobook goes behind the scenes on Bullet For My Valentine's rise to fame
- The 38 best Rolling Stones songs, as chosen by 57 different musicians
- 71 reasons why 1971 was the greatest year in rock music history
May 24
- The Classic Rock Album Of The Week Club
- The Story Behind The Song: My Chemical Romance’s Thank You For the Venom
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Mdou Moctar, Creamer and more
May 21
- Lindemann Live In Moscow: a pervert's disco hosted in hell
- Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen: “I've been gathering up ideas for the new Nightwish album”
- Wormwood's new single The Archive is the terrifying sound of society falling apart
May 20
- Twisted Illusion bring us a track by track guide to new album Temple Of Artifice
- Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe: “It took years of trying for me to get sober”
- Counting Crows' Adam Duritz: My Life In 10 Songs
May 18
- “We are riff machines”: how Tetrarch are leading nu metal’s resurrection
- 2021 Festivals: Here's a round-up of all events going ahead this summer
- Rick Wakeman, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Hampton Court
May 17
- How Big Big Train broke through with The Underfall Yard
- Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf: “Was rock’n’roll better in the 70s? Yeah. People put more effort into it”
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Billy Gibbons, Blackberry Smoke and more
May 16
- The 100 greatest metal songs of the 21st century
- “The music industry is filled with liars, con artists and assholes”: a no-bullsh*t interview with Tairrie B
May 15
- Why I ❤️ Karnivool’s Sound Awake, by Wolfgang Van Halen
May 13
- Todd Rundgren: hall of famer, singer, producer, songwriter... and guitar hero?
- Rock's Big Bang theory: Jimi Hendrix and the most influential debut album ever
May 12
- Acolyte singer Morgan-Leigh Brown talks us through brand new album Entropy
- “My brother is all over this record”: how Amy Lee’s private tragedy shaped Evanescence’s new album
- Loathe’s Kadeem France: “When I saw Chino Moreno had tweeted about us, I thought he’d been hacked”
- Why I ❤️ Rush’s Permanent Waves, by Taylor Hawkins
- Slipknot and Gnarls Barkley's Sulfur Crazy should be the feel-good hit of the summer
May 11
- Ten years of The Treatment: a tale of liquor, vampires, serial killers and Alice Cooper pranks
- The magnificent late-career rise of Cheap Trick, a band too dumb to quit
- The Brits ignored metal, so we made up our own Metal Brit Awards
- Max Cavalera: My Life In 10 Songs
- Suzi Quatro: the soundtrack of my life
- How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
May 10
- Saucerful Of Secrets’ Gary Kemp: “Playing with Nick Mason and Roger Waters was utterly intimidating”
- Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante: 10 albums that changed my life
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Garbage, Seafoam Green and more
- 10 hair metal bands who should have been massive
May 8
- Best rugged smartphones 2025: The most durable phones for festivals and gigs
May 7
- Breaking Brian Warner: The women who refused to let the Marilyn Manson story die
- Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch
May 6
- Listen to Pentral's debut album What Lies Ahead Of Us here
- The Dust Coda: 6 things you need to know
- Michael Schenker on creativity, immortality, and why he’ll never make peace with Rudolf
- Chris Holmes on Blackie Lawless, why he made a documentary, and *that* interview
- 10 Southern rock albums you should definitely own
May 5
- Skindred’s Benji Webbe: “I went to A&E cos I thought I was dying”
- How Pink Floyd reinvented themselves and journeyed towards The Dark Side
May 4
- These nu metal looks are giving us pure 2001 energy and we're here for it
- Why I ❤️ Faith No More’s The Real Thing, by Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch
- Flames, fetishes and pickled babies: the twisted story of Rammstein‘s Mutter
- Introducing Levara: where rock-star genes and synth-rock jams collide
- Nancy Wilson interview: the Heart vortex and the lost Eddie Van Halen song
May 3
- The secret inspiration behind Gojira’s Fortitude album artwork
- Girlschool: the story of metal’s original riot girls
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Sheepdogs, Fantastic Negrito and more
May 2
- The making of IQ's Tales From The Lush Attic
- This medieval cover of Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name is what the lute was invented for