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August 31
- 10 times rock and metal bands wrote a song dissing another artist
- Songs Of Praise: the gospel truth on King's X's divine debut Out Of The Silent Planet
- Everything we know about Slipknot's new album The End, So Far
- Meet Brave Rival, the piña colada-drinking roots rockers who can't stop head-banging
- Chuck Leavell has played with the Stones for decades but every night is still a thrill
- How Poco invented a brand-new sound, only to have it stolen by the Eagles
- How a song about an imaginary break-up with a twist became The Cars' first classic
August 30
- Six things you need to know about… His Lordship
- A tour to the Dark Side: how Pink Floyd built their biggest album on the road
August 29
- Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti just released the most surprising album of the year, and here’s why
- Tracks of the Week: Ear-pleasuring proof that rock music is in rude health
August 28
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Slipknot’s Iowa: inside the most brutal Number 1 album of the 21st century
August 27
- The story of Motorpsycho's The All Is One
- Interview: Alex Lifeson on grilled octopus, police brutality and disco biscuits
- The 11 best metal songs about wizards
- Death, yoga and X-rated fan fiction: inside the head of Motionless In White’s Chris Motionless
August 26
- “Doom meets Rock Band!”: inside Metal: Hellsinger, the ultimate videogame for metalheads
- “Articifial Intelligence will defend itself at all costs” Five Finger Death Punch face the future
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- Remembering the time a new punk rock icon was crowned courtesy of a naughty nine year old on Wife Swap
August 25
- How Iron Maiden made A Matter Of Life And Death, their best 21st century album
- How Beardfish went heavy with The Void
- Stereophonics' Word Gets Around at 25: gritty, evocative tales of small town life, love and loss, shared with rare sensitivity
- Tim Bowness: "I don’t envy any musician starting off in 2022"
- Watch a giddy Freddie Mercury warm up before his last ever show with Queen
- It looks like a beer bong and sounds like a robot: the story of Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way
August 24
- The Mick Ronson albums you should definitely own
- Master Of Puppets: the man making marionettes of your favourite rock star
- 10 rap acts every metalhead needs to know
- The 30 greatest Nirvana songs ever - and the stories behind them
- The dark allure of Portishead's Dummy: a melancholic masterpiece from a bleak, alien future
- Nita Strauss: "Demi Lovato is a huge rock and metal fan"
- Charlie Watts: the man who didn't know what all the fuss was about
- Meet Amongst Liars, the truth-telling kings of new rock fury
- Fantastic Negrito: the soundtrack of my life
- Judy Teen: the quasi-calypso pop classic that gave Cockney Rebel an unlikely hit
- Why Steven Tyler turned down the chance to replace Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin
- Jimi Hendrix: a tale of 19 nudes and a one controversial album sleeve
August 23
- Matt Tuck: 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual: the messy, chaotic birth of the most important album in alt. rock history
- How David Bowie’s role as the Elephant Man was almost his last
August 22
- How a Tony Iommi riff written in a castle rescued Black Sabbath from despair
- The eight best new rock songs given to the world this week
August 19
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Nine must-see artists set to rock the capital at All Points East
August 18
- Spock's Beard and the making of The Oblivion Particle
- Best budget headphones for music 2026: Wired and Bluetooth headphones from £50
- The story of Moon Safari and Himlabacken Vol. 1
- Between The Buried And Me and the making of Colors II
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week: Five Finger Death Punch, Heilung and more
- “We’re gonna be the biggest band in the world”: why Vended are more just than The Sons Of Slipknot
- Ava Cherry: the 17-year-old singer who changed David Bowie's career
- "Genesis and Queen were in awe of the sounds we were making": The Moody Blues albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
August 17
- Relive the moment Angus Young grabbed a fan by the nose after being drenched in beer
- Watch Pink Floyd calmly carry themselves through this spiky interview with a snooty classical music critic
- Death Dealer Union are the injection of epic metal mastery you've been waiting for
- Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz: Pink Floyd really helped Ukraine
- What happened when we took Michael Monroe record shopping in Helsinki
- Fired up by riots: how Steve Miller found himself at the heart of a musical revolution
- Dee Snider: my guide to life
August 16
- The Top 20 best albums of 1995
- Inside the Hear 'N Aid sessions: "It’s one moment in hard rock history that we can all be proud of"
- That time President Obama pointed out that he wasn’t the lead singer from Korn
- Unbreakable Spirit: the unexpected return of Janick Gers's first band, White Spirit
- Watch an inebriated Ace Frehley wreak havoc during Kiss's interview on The Tomorrow Show
- The trouble with Alice Cooper and the 2,000,000 pairs of flammable panties
- The real story behind the return of Porcupine Tree: "We’re old geezers getting together"
August 15
- Conjurer: the band dragging British metal into a new era of heavy
- 10 essential alt-metal albums
- How Faith No More turned a cheesy 70s hit into the easy listening song it’s OK for metal fans to like
- The top 10 best Old New Wave Of American Heavy Metal anthems
- How The Beatles became the first band to make a stand for civil rights
- The eight best rock songs you need to hear this week
August 14
- Zoltan Bathory’s track by track guide to Five Finger Death Punch’s new album AfterLife
August 13
- The 10 best South Park episodes ever
August 12
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Remember when Tommy Lee teamed up with Fred Durst and Lil Kim for the most obscene nu metal song ever?
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best
- Riots! Pornography! Torture! The strange secrets of Metallica’s Black Album
- Alice Cooper: my stories of Lemmy, Raquel Welch, Pink Floyd and more
August 11
- Johnny Cash may not have shot a man in Reno but he murdered his wife on Columbo
- Maddy Prior: "We toured with Tull in front of 18,000 people. I was terrified!"
- “Every record is its own universe; we don’t think about whether or not it fits into the grand scheme of things." Mike Patton's world of art rock
- "All this is worth it!" - The Pineapple Thief and Your Wilderness
- The 10 best rock and metal sci-fi concept albums
- Spawn at 25: revisiting the most spectacularly mishandled superhero movie of the 1990s
- The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon: the soundtrack of my life
- Rival Sons: Scott Holiday on writing new songs, playing with The Stones and buying a puppy
August 10
- Riots, arrests and a knocked out Geezer Butler: the most chaotic concert of Black Sabbath's career
- Revisiting the car-crash moment Yes inadvertently performed as a power trio on live TV
- 20 years ago, The Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato actually took a dump on stage at Reading Festival
- Satyricon’s Satyr: “Church-burnings and murder, they’re a part of our history”
- Why you should see (and hear) The Retaliators: the ultimate heavy metal revenge thriller
- Why you should definitely own Workingman's Dead by the Grateful Dead
- What happened when the FBI tried to decipher The Kingsmen's Louie Louie
- The odd couple: the brotherly battles at the heart of Journey's Freedom
August 9
- So many drugs the cows got high: the chaotic festival that heralded Woodstock 99
- The 10 weirdest festival bookings ever
- Amanda Lehmann: my life in music
- Paul Samson: remembering NWOBHM's lost star
- Kris Barras used to shout 'Hello Wembley!' at gigs for fun: now he's done it for real
- Whiskey Myers interview: the southern sound hits an exhilarating new peak
- The day John Lennon became a disc jockey on New York's biggest radio station
- 10 historic New York gigs that spun the world of rock'n'roll on its axis
August 8
- This footage of the teenage Beastie Boys playing punk rock on public access TV is just too cute
- Christ Illusion, dodgy crowds and the return of Dave Lombardo: what happened when we went on tour with Slayer in 2006
- Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to rock literally anyone like a hurricane
August 7
- How Limp Bizkit turned an obnoxious George Michael cover into an epic nu metal banger
August 6
- Vote for the greatest prog metal band of all time
- The Top 10 best metal covers of 80s pop songs
August 5
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The Top 20 best albums of 1994
- Our first reaction to Slipknot's Yen: tense, claustrophobic and dripping with atmosphere
- These are Dave Lombardo’s three favourite Slayer songs (and they’re not what you expect)
- Soulfly’s Max Cavalera: “It‘s a f**king miracle that I survived all this sh*t”
- How Peacemaker's opening credits revived the career of faded Norwegian glam rockers Wig Wam
August 4
- Greg Puciato: “it felt really good when Dillinger split”
- “The first transmission of semen by fax”: the story of Bruce Dickinson’s batsh*t crazy horror movie Chemical Wedding
- Chris Jericho: Jimmy Page on one side and Brian May on the other and I was like 'Oh, f**k'
- Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street, and the sax intro that gave birth to an urban legend
August 3
- Ultravox's Midge Ure on his short-lived time in Thin Lizzy: "Was it fun? Was it ever!"
- The 10 most surprising instruments ever used by metal bands
- 11 rock anthems we can't believe weren't written by rock bands
- Every Stone Temple Pilots album ranked worst to best
- Meet Torus, the Toni Iommi-endorsed hopefuls with a big sound and bigger plans
- Wicked Lester: how Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons failed before the success of Kiss
- What happened when Saxon underwent reality TV's most surprising makeover
August 2
- Woodstock ’99 was supposed to be nu metal’s crowning moment. Instead, it was an epic clusterf**k
- Why Korn on South Park remains the greatest cartoon music cameo ever
- Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas: ““When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, I was like, ‘That motherf**ker!’”
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: why you should never take the moon for granted
- Six Things You Need To Know About... Dorothy
- The Chambers Brothers and the acid classic that psychedelicised black American folk music
August 1
- Every Public Enemy album ranked from worst to best
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Exit Stage Left: Inside Rush's final show
- The eight best new rock songs you need to hear right now