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March 31
- “Metallica and Slayer were never close”: an interview with the man who discovered Metallica
- Help Musicians offer support to artists over "rising issue" of hearing loss
- “I wanted to see what it’s like when somebody dies”: the darkness inside Whitechapel’s Phil Bozeman
- Loathe want to change metal. But does metal want to change?
- Watch Derek and the Dominos' historic one-and-only TV appearance
- The complicated journey of the song that catapulted Joan Jett towards stardom
March 30
- How Presence pulled Led Zeppelin out of the wreckage
- M. Shadows reveals his favourite Avenged Sevenfold album, talks Kanye, NFTs
- 10 Roadburn 2022 sets that will blow your mind
- 10 metal bands that could play Glastonbury 2022
- Watch Rob Halford make all Sum 41's teenage metalhead dreams come true
- 10 things we want from the new Slipknot album
- How Rainbow turned the "soft" Since You Been Gone into a crunchy rock classic
- Video: Enjoy two and a half hours of David Lee Roth dancing to The O'Jay's Love Train
March 29
- Ozzy Osbourne's advice on how rock stars should treat young bands is wholesome as heck
- It’s official: we are living through a nu metal renaissance
- Jonas Åkerlund: “I have tapes of Bathory in the rehearsal studio”
- Watch Stone Temple Pilots play Plush in a central London park in 1993
- The top 10 best Korn cover versions
- Led Zeppelin, Memphis Minnie, and the levee that broke
- How Heart rescued a song from obscurity and created an 80s power ballad monster
- Hey World! We're Kiss! Watch the moment Kiss launched themselves into orbit
March 28
- “There was conflict”: the inside story of Metallica’s Some Kind Of Monster documentary
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Michael Monroe, Reef and more
March 27
- Watch Taylor Hawkins sing Queen's Somebody To Love at his final Foo Fighters show
- We wanted Taylor Hawkins to review a movie, and the loveliest thing happened
- 11 awe-inspiring non-metal guitarists who will blow every metal fan’s mind
March 26
- Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in the style of Muse is 10 minutes of utter lunacy
March 25
- 10 modern day nu metal bangers you need to hear right now
- Riots and Rollercoasters: How My Bloody Valentine stole the Jesus & Mary Chain’s thunder
- Linkin Park’s Meteora: how the biggest nu-metal band on the planet got even bigger
- The indie vs rock battle at the heart of the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists
March 24
- Watch Slayer’s Kerry King thrash it up onstage with Megadeth… in 1984
- Forget Ghost - Sleep Token will be your new favourite masked metal band
- Don McLean: "I don’t like political people. They have all the answers and they don’t know s**t"
- The story of Thin Lizzy's first hit, the "huge embarrassment" that Phil Lynott hated
- Yes, Ronnie James Dio really did sing War Pigs years before he joined Black Sabbath
March 23
- The unhinged Alice Cooper performance that led to the death of a chicken and years of questions
- 10 of the worst cover versions of classic rock songs known to humanity
- Watch John Lee Hooker conjure up absolute magic on TV in 1964... with The Groundhogs
March 22
- Watch Tool troll a bunch of Scientologists with an exotic dancer, crowd surfers and some light spanking
- Every song on Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast ranked from worst to best
- Sylvain Sylvain: My stories of Mick Jagger, Brigitte Bardot, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more
- How Judas Priest took a Fleetwood Mac song of madness and paranoia and made a heavy metal classic
- That time Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi forced Brian Wilson to go surfing in his bathrobe
March 21
- The 10 best Rammstein songs of the 90s
- Serial killers, Satan and Bon's last stand: the story of AC/DC's Highway To Hell
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Virginmarys, Tysondog and more
March 20
- It was the 7th best track of 1992: so why haven’t you heard it?
March 19
- Woods Of Ypres: the triumph and tragedy of goth-metal’s great lost band
March 18
- New singer, new attitude, new era: how Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast changed metal forever
- Every Kreator album ranked from worst to best
- Rock’s sonic architect: 16 rock stars and engineers on the genius of Jimmy Page
- A tale of Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan, hard drugs and epic infighting
- The 10 best songs by Toto
March 17
- Watch Robb Flynn and Trivium cover Metallica and Iron Maiden in a tiny bar in 2005
- The twists, turns and tragedy behind No Doubt's debut album
- 10 albums that have kept traditional heavy metal alive
- Introducing Splinter: 40 years after punk, they're on a mission to re-evaluate rock'n'roll
March 16
- 10 Bands Who Wouldn’t Exist Without Iron Maiden
- Playgrounded talk us through their new album The death of Death
- 12 albums that prove 1982 was punk's greatest year
- Tarja Turunen: “It was such a shock that I had a stroke”
- Steve Vai: the soundtrack of my life
- Watch budding biological researcher Jimmy Page play guitar on TV in 1957
March 15
- Watch Sepultura and their fans lay waste to a British TV studio in 1993
- Watch a pre-fame Avril Lavigne busking on the subway (and sounding awesome)
- 10 things you didn’t know about Trivium’s Ascendancy
- Why Dolly Parton is wrong to say she's not rock'n'roll enough for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- 10 obscure but brilliant 2000s bands who should have been massive
- Every Metallica album opening song ranked from worst to best
- How Whitesnake took a sad song and made it better
- Eric Gales: the problem with politics and the redemptive power of the blues
March 14
- Vote for the greatest Megadeth song ever!
- This rare My Chemical Romance gig from 2002 shows they were destined for greatness
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crobot, Joan Jett and more
- The 10 best Metallica songs from the 1980s
March 13
- John Hackett in conversation
March 12
- That time Al Jourgensen got ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons so smashed he nearly puked in his own beard
- No drummer! No time! No songs! How Marillion made Fugazi
March 11
- Korn: “Sometimes I think, ‘Why did we survive?’"
- We broke down Rammstein's insane Zeit video and we have some theories
- 10 deep cuts Tool need to add to their setlist right now
- How Cream and Eric Clapton delivered four minutes of magic and the Holy Grail of guitar solos
- Kris Barras on his new album, world turmoil, and why Gene Simmons is half-right
March 10
- Rammstein's Till Lindemann once set Tool's stage on fire
- Our first reaction to Rammstein’s new single Zeit
- Every The Prodigy album ranked from worst to best
- 10 of the greatest uses of bagpipes in rock'n'roll history
- Watch David Gilmour, Lemmy, Mark Knopfler and Gary Moore in a bizarre comedy sketch
March 9
- How Venom Prison became death metal's most vital young band
- Devin Townsend's new album Lightwork is about hope and strength: "Don't give up!"
- Tom Morello: "If you’re a white supremacist this music isn’t for you"
- How U2 looked to America for the album that turned them into the world's biggest band
- 50 women who changed the course of rock'n'roll forever
- Watch Rammstein's Till Lindemann eating a vegan burger while dressed as Andy Warhol
March 8
- Watch this absolute lunatic pull off an epic 70-foot stage dive
- “Metallica were always there”: the story behind Ghost’s Enter Sandman cover
- Ghost: the definitive guide to every member of their crazy universe
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: 10 things they told us about their unexpected reunion
- Spoon interview: toast, marmalade, and Lucifer On The Sofa
March 7
- How Jonathan Davis became “a 400-year-old vampire” to write songs for Queen Of The Damned
- Watch legendary US stand-up Richard Pryor invent ‘Black Death’ metal… in 1977
- Tracks of the Week: new songs from Ghost, Church Of The Cosmic Skull and more
March 5
- Behold! The greatest heavy metal documentary of all time!
- That time Bruce Dickinson sent two bricks to Blaze Bayley when he joined Iron Maiden
March 4
- Jerry Cantrell: “I always held out hope that I’d go back to Alice In Chains”
- Vote for the greatest nu metal album of all-time
- How Beth Hart made the Led Zeppelin album she didn't want to make
March 3
- Master Of Puppets: how Metallica made the greatest metal album of all time
- That time Korn played a gig on a plane because nu metal was wild
- Vote for the best album of Classic Rock magazine's lifetime
- Cream albums: the essential guide
March 2
- Judas Priest’s Rob Halford: “We’ve never made another record like British Steel and never will”
- We asked Lemmy for his advice on drugs. Your mum would probably approve of his answer
- Elbow: "we're prog rock without the solos"
- Slash on GN'R, Axl, Izzy, Scott and the rest - the ultimate interview
March 1
- "If you genuinely love music as art, then you’ll love Gentle Giant." Nik Kershaw discusses his prog heroes
- The making of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon: lyrically bleak, musically bonkers and, somehow, the 4th best-selling album of all time
- We went record shopping with Volbeat and this is what happened
- That time Dame Vera Lynn sang with Hawkwind, Lemmy, and a former topless dancer