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September 30
- How Bruce Springsteen battled the "black sludge" of depression to make his brutal, lo-fi masterpiece Nebraska
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Watch Kate Bush dance in front of a giant lizard on 80s German TV in one of her most delightfully strange moments ever
- That time James Hetfield got onstage to sing a grunge classic with Alice In Chains
- Every Evil Dead movie ranked from worst to best
September 29
- The story behind every Slipknot album cover
- What happened when Metallica went to war with Napster
- Remembering the time Jethro Tull were allowed on kids TV and scared the hell out of everyone with a truly bizarre performance
- Want to know what your favourite metal song would look like as a yoga pose? You’re in luck
- 10 things you never knew about Alice In Chains’ Dirt
- The Top 20 best albums of 1998
- Yes frontman Jon Davison: "Taylor Hawkins’ last words to me were ‘I love you’"
- The Verve's Urban Hymns at 25: "a record of phenomenal depth, honesty and complexity"
- The Glenn Hughes albums you should definitely own
- Kate Bush was once the face of Seiko Watches in Japan, and we have the video to prove it
September 28
- The Struts' Luke Spiller on Taylor Hawkins, five-year-old fans, and the joy of bowls
September 27
- Every Venom album ranked from worst to best
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Meet The Chats: straight outta the bong shed and into the bar
- The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and a guitar sound that defined the sixties
- Why the failure of Stray Dog is one of the rock world’s biggest conundrums
- How a new singer and producer helped Skid Row rediscover their fire
- "He went down like a tipped cow": what happened when Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin
September 26
- Death, floods and therapy: how Parkway Drive found their way out of the darkness
- Every Predator film ranked from worst to best
- Hair plugs, cancel culture and the song he refused to play on: the confessions of Anthrax’s Scott Ian
- "It’s my mom trying to hand me to Ronald McDonald": why Rob Zombie really f**king hates clowns
- The life, music and troubled times of Status Quo's Alan Lancaster
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hot Damn!, Weezer and more
September 24
- Monsters, Metallica and Keith Moon: meet Eddie Munson actor Joseph Quinn
- Watch the classic heartwarming moment David Draiman made one Disturbed fan's year
September 23
- Riverside's Mariusz Duda reveals the story behind his 'lockdown trilogy' of solo albums
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson shares his recipe for In The Crust Of The Crimson Pizza Pie!
- Nick Cave's Ghosteen: a mind-blowing prog masterpiece
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian on Alice In Chains: “They were just f**king goofballs”
September 22
- How a blizzard of drugs, violence and record label tensions inspired Korn's Freak On A Leash
- Satan, social justice and the ‘sh*t mafia’: an audience with Watain, black metal’s most uncompromising band
- Torture, bondage and snuff movies: the twisted story behind Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP
- Vote for the best track on Metallica’s Load and Reload albums
- The Joan Jett albums you should definitely own
- Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The debauched tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge
- Timothy B. Schmit: no one wants to hear new music from the Eagles
September 21
- Every Papa Roach album ranked from worst to best
- Isis' Oceanic at 20: the post-metal masterpiece which re-defined 'heavy' music
- “A lot of people think I’m a f**king idiot”: Machine Head’s Robb Flynn comes out swinging
- 10 things you never knew about Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss
- The story of the out-of-focus shot that became one of rock's great album covers
- Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zeppelin? Quite possibly
September 20
- Watch this delightful early interview of a pre-superstardom Yes appearing on early 70s BBC TV
- Every Batman movie ranked from worst to best
- Natural Born Killers: the soundtrack that changed the 90s
- Watch a young, pre-fame Lzzy Hale explain the importance of Avril Lavigne in this wholesome, unearthed video
- Watch Bad News cause mayhem on a British chat show in 1987
- How Kate Bush's Never Forever changed her career... forever!
- Why you should definitely own Rock City by Riot
- David Coverdale once named his 20 favourite British albums ever
- The story of Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod: "Gibby threw up, spit up some gibberish and left"
September 19
- The day Dee Snider and Frank Zappa went to war with The PMRC
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Stryper, Mammoth WVH and more
September 17
- "Refused are the Queen of hardcore!" Superstar DJ Steve Aoki goes deep on his nine favourite hardcore albums
September 16
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "It’s all about making the best music possible." Derek Sherinian discusses The Phoenix
- My life with Genesis: ex-tour manager Richard Macphail spills the beans
- "We don't have any rules!": the story behind Marillion's Sounds That Can't Be Made
- How The Pineapple Thief made Magnolia and entered a new era
September 15
- "It was metal magic at the perfect moment": how Judas Priest conquered the USA with Screaming For Vengeance
- The 8 things we learned from the new David Bowie film Moonage Daydream
- Why the new album from Dawes is an exercise in not checking boxes
- In Through The Out Door: the last days of Led Zeppelin
- From The Inside: How Alice Cooper went cold turkey and made his most personal album
September 14
- Why I ❤️ Uriah Heep, by A-ha's Morten Harket
- The Who's Quadrophenia: It's prog Jim, but not as we know it...
- The story of 1966, the year that built rock
- Why you should definitely own Blues For The Red Sun by Kyuss
September 13
- Total mass retain: How Yes made Close To The Edge
- Bleed From Within: "The new wave of metal is already here"
- This video of Lemmy and Joey Ramone hanging out and bantering MTV (while on MTV) is the definition of friendship goals
- Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer: the inside story of a classic album cover
- Why I ❤️ Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell, by Geoff Tate
- Snowy White: washing up with Peter Green and how to wind up Roger Waters
- Interview: Billy Gibbons on Elwood Francis and the bright future of ZZ Top
September 12
- A deep dive into South Park’s legendary Chef Aid episode
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Nickelback, Smith/Kotzen, Doro and more
September 11
- How Ihsahn ended up covering A-ha and Portishead on his Pharos EP
- The making of Neal Morse's Sola Gratia
September 10
- Styx: "We’ve never moved totally away from our love of prog".
- “It’s a heavier album than I’ve done before..."Steve Hackett on Surrender Of Silence
September 9
- Meet Blackbraid, the one-man project telling Native American stories through compelling black metal
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- 5 essential new metal albums to hear this week
- Every Children Of Bodom album ranked from worst to best
- The Big Interview: Dave Mustaine
- Why you should definitely own Encore: Live In Concert by Argent
September 8
- Why I Love... Rage Against The Machine by Stray From The Path's Thomas Williams
- What happened when Rob Halford briefly became Black Sabbath's frontman
- The return of The Gaslight Anthem: "This is why I wanted to be in rock’n’roll"
- The Siouxsie And The Banshees albums you should definitely own
September 7
- Jinjer's Tatiana Shmailyuk: "Ukrainian culture is rising up again"
- Watch a group of young kids totally own Dream Theater's Pull Me Under
- Every Cancer Bats album ranked worst to best, by vocalist Liam Cormier
- Every Machine Head album ranked from worst to best
- The Warren Zevon albums you should definitely own
- Food fights and fistfights: The story of Alvin Lee, the fastest guitar In the west
- The brilliance of boogie: How Status Quo transformed my life
- In from the cold: How H.e.a.t.'s Kenny Leckremo came home
September 6
- Godflesh's Justin Broadrick: my life in 10 songs
- Sugar's Copper Blue at 30: How alt. rock godhead Bob Mould finally struck gold
- Ten things we learned from the emotional new Ronnie James Dio film, Dreamers Never Die
- How to keep your budget headphones in perfect condition
- Every Arch Enemy album ranked from worst to best
- Bullets, bikers and burnout: the story of Jimi Hendrix's last gig
- Picture gallery: all the action from the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
September 5
- How Soundgarden's Louder Than Love turned up the volume on Seattle's grunge scene
- The Taylor Hawkins tribute show proved rock is more powerful than ever – but not in the way you might think
- 7 things we learned at WWE's spectacular Clash At The Castle event
- This 80s interview featuring a mother and her metalhead son discussing heavy metal and satan is gold dust
- Eight new songs to make your week as great as possible
September 4
- The 11 moments that defined Foo Fighters' amazing Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- How Fish drew inspiration from family WWI experiences for A Feast Of Consequences
September 3
- The Pineapple Thief and the making of All The Wars
- Prog songs inspired by Lord Of The Rings and Middle-earth
- Big Big Train and the making of English Electric Part 1
September 2
- 12 rock and metal songs inspired by The Lord Of The Rings
- “Fred Durst is the most charming person I know”: how super-producer Ross Robinson defined an era
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Every single Alter Bridge album ranked from worst to best
- How Haken made The Mountain
- The 10 heaviest songs featuring Dave Grohl
- The very best of The Gaslight Anthem in six killer tracks
September 1
- Why Open On Sunday is the essential new landing spot for music catalog owners
- Every Saw film ranked from worst to best
- The story of the show that turned Prince into a global superstar
- What happened when Joe Strummer drank 10 pints of beer then ran the Paris Marathon
- Dave Edmunds: my stories of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and more