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February 2023
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- February 28
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- How Metallica's James Hetfield helped Ghost become the biggest metal band of the decade
- Born from rage, U2's War was intended to "give people a slap in the face". It ended up making U2 superstars
- Six cool new prog songs you must hear this week!
- How to keep your earplugs clean so you can use them time after time
- Here are the 20 greatest Babymetal songs ever as voted for by you
- Paul Stanley knows the End Of The Road is nigh, but he's determined to out with a bang
- Heavy Metal Love: The story of Helix, Canada's mightiest hair metal heroes
- February 27
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- Ricky Warwick on The Almighty's wild and wonderful rock 'n' roll adventures: "We were the real deal. We were like Vikings!"
- The 10 most emotional Slipknot songs
- God Save The Streets: UK rapper Avelino and Sex Pistol Glen Matlock on why rap is the new punk
- The 10 best Southern Rock deep cuts according to Johnny Van Zant
- The eight best new rock songs you'll hear this week
- February 25
- February 24
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- The 10 best Motorhead songs (that sound nothing like Ace Of Spades)
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "Where is my dog poop?": How porn, poop and chicken coops derailed Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- “I really didn’t expect the scale of the success”: The story behind Asia's self-titled debut album
- Kashmir: the story of the song Robert Plant calls "Perfect Zeppelin"
- February 23
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- Carmine Appice: my stories of Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, John Bonham and more
- "I was never a show off!" - Tony Banks in The Prog Interview
- "It's Rant City all the way!": The Mute Gods and how tardigrades will inherit the earth
- The story behind Tool’s Lateralus: "A real moment of experiment and risk”
- 5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month
- From Russia with love: the story of Gleb Kolyadin's debut solo album
- “So much prog is prog by numbers". How John Mitchell launched Lonely Robot
- Light Up The Sky: How Hundred Reasons rose from the dead to make the comeback of the year with Glorious Sunset
- How Anthrax's cameo on Married With Children was inspired by real life chaos
- The Doors in London: "Jim was enigmatic and almost unbelievably beautiful"
- Iggy Pop: "Once you’re my age, every day has to carry some risk"
- February 22
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- The Story Behind Soulfly's nu metal anthem Jumpdaf***up: "We were the Wu-Tang Clan of metal"
- One Step Beyond: How Rancid, Sublime, No Doubt and a generation of US ska-punks spread the Two Tone gospel to the world
- Six great new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- Sam Ryder: The soundtrack of my life
- From the sublime to the ridiculous: What happens when drummers go solo
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- February 17
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- "I’ve never made a deadline in my life. They’re finished when they’re finished.” Spiritualized and the story of their first four albums
- The story of Tim Bowness' Lost In The Ghost Light
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Manic Street Preachers: the rise of the Generation Terrorists
- February 15
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- Chase The Dragon: the true story of Magnum's magnum opus
- 10 brilliant goth songs every metalhead needs to hear
- The 10 best Bring Me The Horizon songs
- 13 musicians declaring their undying love for Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
- Rush producer Terry Brown: "they were pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone"
- Meet Spell: they've had enough of fighting dragons and swinging swords
- A sped-up version of Aerosmith's Dream On is massive on TikTok: we've figured out why
- February 14
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- The victorious rebirth of goth metal's dark prince Ville Valo: "VV had a ‘V for Victory’ kinda vibe"
- Six new prog tracks you must hear this week!
- Thunder's Danny Bowes: "I'm getting a bit better every day, but it’s a very slow process"
- Justin Hawkins on songwriting: "There’s always got to be an intangible ingredient"
- February 13
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- "I can't afford to waste any time": Horror legend John Carpenter on making albums in his 70s
- Moby nearly formed a supergroup with members of Pantera and Mötley Crüe… and a metal band with Bjork
- The greatest new rock songs you'll hear this week
- Purple Rain in a deluge: How Prince stole the Super Bowl
- February 12
- February 11
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- “Kingston Wall only did three albums but they had a huge influence on us.” The story of Amorphis and 2022's Halo
- "The Wake was so well received because we went down a prog rock path with that album, so with the new album we continued down that path.” Voivod and the making of Synchro Anarchy
- Jared James Nichols: "After making this record I felt like I’d just got out of a rugby game"
- February 10
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Vote for the best Babymetal song ever
- “In 10 years time, this album will be a classic”: how In Flames fell in love with melodeath again
- "We were living on next to nothing and weren't even able to pay the gas bill": The song that transformed Dire Straits' fortunes and set them on the path to global fame
- The story of the man who jammed with Led Zeppelin then sold Jimmy Page his most famous guitar
- February 9
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- The 10 bands saving deathcore
- “After Nirvana, anything seemed possible”: Quicksand's Walter Schreifels on Slip, the greatest '90s rock album that you've probably never heard
- 5 bands every metal fan is going to be talking about in 2023
- Blazing squad: A deep dive into Rammstein’s fiery cameo in xXx
- Ville Valo: "There’s no time for a hangover in the music business these days"
- Ugly Kid Joe's Everything About You: a story of MTV, beer drinking and escaped sex dolls
- February 8
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- February 3
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- Transatlantic and The Absolute Universe
- Lifesigns in the beginning: the story of the band's debut album
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Given To Fly: How Yield taught Pearl Jam to chill the f**k out and fall back in love with being a killer rock 'n' roll band
- The top 20 best Nightwish songs ranked
- Kerry King: "Metallica certainly influenced me"
- February 2
- February 1
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- 20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023
- 12 times rock stars gatecrashed another band's video
- Are Babymetal teasing a new member? 10 things we want from the Japanese metal stars in 2023
- "When I’m onstage, it’s my world": what happened when we joined Ozzy Osbourne on his final ever tour in 2018
- Breaking down The Beatles: Giles Martin and the miracle of the Revolver de-mix
- Adrian Vandenberg: "I turned down an offer to join Thin Lizzy because I knew they were heavily into drugs"
