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April 2023
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- April 29
- April 28
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The Gaslight Anthem, Thundercat, PJ Harvey and more: here are the best songs released this week
- The 10 drummers that inspired Joey Jordison
- Great new prog music in our Tracks of The Week
- Finland's 5th Season show their Pink Floyd connection
- The making of Deep Purple's Machine Head: "Smoke On The Water only made it onto the album as filler"
- April 27
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- Minor Threat's Out Of Step: the bitter, brilliant eulogy for youthful idealism which defined hardcore punk as a force for good
- 10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath
- The full story of metal's greatest supergroup, Roadrunner United: "We even opened it up to Nickelback"
- Keith Richards’ snarling reaction to being told that the Sex Pistols said he should retire
- Ace Frehley: the soundtrack of my life
- From the heart: The 12 best Tom Petty songs
- Five years ago The Answer were out in the cold: now they've made their Sticky Fingers
- Brian May and Roger Taylor once revealed their favourite Freddie Mercury songs
- April 26
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- Black Sabbath only stopped setting Bill Ward on fire after the drummer's furious mum called Tony Iommi a "barmy bastard" and told him to "grow up"
- How a huge onstage brawl with Deep Purple proved the making of AC/DC
- Hollywood Undead's Johnny 3 Tears: 10 records that changed my life
- How Bury Tomorrow went from near-destruction to being the UK's next great hope for metal: "this is our resurgence"
- Watch Iggy Pop's blink-and-you'll miss it cameo as a creepy paedophile in 90s cult movie Tank Girl
- 7 ways to make your vinyl sound better
- We once asked Leslie West who his favourite guitarist was: his answer was not what we expected
- April 25
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- Remembering the time The Clash turned up in Northern Ireland for a gig, but instead ended up causing a riot
- Gavin Rossdale: 8 songs that changed my life
- How David Gilmour used a pair of pigs’ testicles to get one over on Roger Waters
- A beginner's guide to 90s punk in 5 essential albums
- Celebrating the ridiculous moment Megadeth's Dave Mustaine appeared on Daffy Duck spin-off, Duck Dodgers
- Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds: the songs that changed my life
- Every Bullet For My Valentine album ranked from worst to best
- Led Zeppelin and the shows that broke America (and blew Ace Frehley's mind)
- April 24
- April 21
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- The best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- It's Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week!
- Every Parkway Drive album ranked from worst to best
- Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Sleep Token and more: here are the best songs released this week
- Soulfly at 25: how Max Cavalera assembled the metal avengers to save himself from grief, depression and addiction
- Time For Livin': How Check Your Head brought Beastie Boys back from the dead
- 10 legendary metal anthems whose live versions have overshadowed the originals
- April 20
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- A beginner's guide to stoner metal in five essential albums
- How often should you replace your earplugs?
- 10 metal covers of Disney songs that are actually great (no, really!)
- "Are we a f**king punk band now?" The ugly truth behind Mezzanine, the bleak, beautiful masterpiece which ripped Massive Attack apart
- Angry again: how Last Action Hero's incredible soundtrack helped keep metal alive in the 90s
- The story of The Great Gig In The Sky and the best £30 Pink Floyd ever spent
- Six things you need to know about Empyre
- April 19
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- 10 surprising artists who have sampled Metallica
- "New York in the '80s was lawless and f**ked-up": How heroin, hardcore and a headless corpse inspired Unsane's insane early adventures in Gotham
- What happened when AC/DC played an intimate show for 3000 lucky fans in Berlin
- The Rutles: the strange and surreal story of the original Spinal Tap
- Watch Mountain play a thunderous version of Mississippi Queen in 1970 for an audience of schoolkids
- April 18
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- A beginner's guide to melodic death metal in five essential albums
- Have your say on Metallica's new album 72 Seasons
- The story behind every Avenged Sevenfold album cover art
- 10 unexpectedly brilliant metal covers of 2000s pop songs
- Let's Dance: How Nile Rodgers transformed David Bowie from arty outsider to global superstar
- The BBC have released some archive footage of The Sweet and it's pure glam magic
- April 17
- April 16
- April 14
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- The best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Inside Nuno Bettencourt's charmingly weird first meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "other than Elton John, he’s the only musician that kissed me on the lips"
- Overkill's Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth: My life in 10 songs
- A beginner's guide to nu metal in five essential albums
- Six great new prog tracks to check out this week
- British Steel by Judas Priest: the story behind that iconic album artwork
- April 13
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- Inside Babymetal's ambitious new chapter: "there have been times I felt unsure if I could continue"
- Why is Slipknot's Custer so big on TikTok? Dancing cats, 'girly pop' and...erm...the Macarena
- Vote for the best Guns N' Roses song of all time
- What happened when Rage Against The Machine were banned by Saturday Night Live
- The Queensrÿche albums you should definitely own
- April 12
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- Ukrainian hardcore band Death Pill were working on their debut album. Then Russia invaded and their worlds turned upside down
- "Oh, you're the man with the hat!": Why Slash "tripped out" meeting Queen Elizabeth II, after offering Ozzy Osbourne £5000 to flash his ass at Her Majesty
- "I have a set of testicles and I like to use them”: watch Type O Negative discuss male vocalists and music for seduction in a risqué 'in bed with' interview
- The 10 greatest Avenged Sevenfold riffs ever
- The Amish Sex Pistols: the weirdest, unlikeliest, most glorious TV sketch ever
- April 11
- April 9
- April 7
- April 6
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- Napalm Death's Shane Embury: "Tom Hanks apparently said Napalm Death were s**t after Utopia Banished"
- 11 things we learned about Metallica's 72 Seasons in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- The 10 songs that have defined Paramore's career
- The story behind The Offspring's Smash: How a school janitor, a college nerd, a $5000 video and 11 million album sales turned the music industry upside down
- Brilliant new bands you need to hear right now
- How the paisley underground and a fairy tale inspired Jellyfish's classic single The King Is Half-Undressed
- The story of Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics: "I woke up in a pool of blood on the way to the hospital"
- April 5
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- Type O Negative's Peter Steele appearing on Jerry Springer was peak 90s: "Am I happy to be here? I'm less miserable"
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen: 10 records that changed my life
- That time Queen's Freddie Mercury dressed Princess Diana in men's clothing and sneaked her into a London gay club
- Robert Fripp: "Why didn’t I become a blues guitarist? Probably because I wasn’t a very good blues guitarist"
- Say bonjour to French YouTube star-turned-bona fide rock contender Laura Cox
- April 4
- April 3
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- Spock's Beard: The story behind Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
- The 10 most-viewed Slipknot videos ever
- Sire Records: the albums you should definitely own
- Tracks Of The Week: amazing new music from The Cadillac Three, The Dust Coda and more
- The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston: 10 country-rock artists you should definitely know
- Why The Velvet Underground hated The Doors
- Those Damn Crows: "As brutal as life can be, it’s f**king beautiful as well"
- April 1
