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- May 31
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- Enslaved's Ivar Bjornson: "Black metal was revenge against hippies"
- Your essential guide to every Hole album
- Lenny Kravitz once asked Dave Grohl to play drums on an unfinished Michael Jackson song, but it didn't quite go to plan
- A beginner’s guide to groove metal in 5 albums
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Blur
- Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham
- Pop Evil: "I think back to all those bands that helped when doctors, parents, teachers weren’t there for me"
- Watch Ginger Baker enthuse about polo horses before playing a drum solo in a farmyard
- May 30
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- Watch David Bowie create Tina Turner in a laboratory in this Pepsi commercial
- Do you need a great singing voice to be a great rock’n’roll frontman?
- Five new bands you need to hear if you love Radiohead
- 5 new bands to listen to if you love Avenged Sevenfold
- We got Tenacious D to interview Ozzy and it turns out even Jack Black gets star struck
- Six things you need to know about Arielle
- Disturbed: "Sometimes people cannot handle that a band they loved privately is shared with the world"
- Elegant Weapons: "We’re going to do what we can to carry the torch"
- Why I ❤️ Derek & The Dominos' Layla (And Other Assorted Love Songs), by Jason Isbell
- May 29
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- The 10 best metal cover versions of TV show themes
- Here are all the songs Iron Maiden have never played live
- Amazing Grace: how Jeff Buckley got started on the album that defined his genius
- Alice Cooper: "There wasn’t one human being on the planet that thought we’d get past thirty years old"
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now
- DeWolff: If you're going to go old-school classic rock in 2023, this is how you do it
- Bonnie Tyler: the soundtrack of my life
- May 28
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- May 26
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Depeche Mode, Creeper, Royal Blood and more
- Why does metal love bands in masks?
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Haken, Einar Solberg and more...
- A life well lived: remembering the late Alan White
- May 25
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- How Trompe le Monde proved that like most meaningful things, Pixies were simply before their time
- TesseracT and the tale of Altered State
- Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever
- "I hate the term 'neo prog'!" Frost* and the making of Falling Satellites
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- IQ and Frequency: "It's one of our best pieces of work"
- Spock's Beard and the story of Noise Floor
- How Korn got over a major fallout about Jesus and dubstep and managed to become a band again
- May 24
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- A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums
- How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end
- 13 bands keeping occult rock alive who aren’t Ghost
- "America is the most satanic country in the world": How Black Sabbath getting huge in the US opened Ozzy Osbourne's eyes to the cut-throat nature of capitalism
- Celtic Frost’s Tom G Warrior: “They said I sang like Lemmy with the warts inside his mouth”
- 9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer
- Aerosmith's Gap ad may be the greatest single appearance by a band in the entire history of advertising
- May 23
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- Watch Spinal Tap go toe-to-toe with Jonathan Ross on British prime-time TV
- Philip Selway: "Crimson, Floyd... Radiohead have drawn on that ambition"
- 11 metal songs inspired by Dungeons & Dragons
- Metal on Metal: How Mystic Festival has grown to become one of Europe’s most essential events for metal fans
- Aylesbury Friars: the story of a venue
- Lars Ulrich on the band that made him ditch tennis, get a drumkit and change rock history
- UK82: the chaotic story of the 80s punk scene that changed metal forever
- Here’s the real reason behind how Pearl Jam got their name
- How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light
- Ian Anderson fell down a rabbit hole that led to Valhalla: he emerged with a new Jethro Tull album
- May 22
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- Here are the 45 Slipknot songs that have never been played live
- By 1972, the wild rumours surrounding new shock rock superstar Alice Cooper were even freaking out Alice Cooper
- Have your say on Sleep Token's new album Take Me Back To Eden
- A beginner’s guide to goth metal in 5 albums
- Inspector Cluzo: six things you need to know
- Here are all the songs Metallica have never played live
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Greta Van Fleet, Skindred and more
- May 21
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- May 19
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- "The best Yes album in more than 20 years!" How Yes made their 23rd studio album Mirror To The Sky
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from King Gizzard, eMolecule and more...
- Here are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Lana Del Rey, Foo Fighters, PVRIS and more
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "The police should all retire. They're disgusting. England is falling to pieces." Mick Jagger's 1972 state-of-the-nation anarchist rant was quite something
- The story behind every cover version on Ghost’s new Phantomime EP
- How Rick Rubin helped Linkin Park break free from nu metal
- May 18
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- The top 20 best Tenacious D songs ever
- The story of Sound Of Contact and Dimensionaut
- Leprous and Coal: "We're big fans of Emperor!"
- 10 metal musicians who hate backing tracks and 6 who don’t have a problem with them
- Every Nightwish album ranked in order of greatness by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen
- 6 hardcore bands every metalhead needs to know
- Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”
- Before Eddie Munson, Alice Cooper played Dungeons & Dragons on TV once and here’s what happened
- A beginner's guide to shoegaze in five essential albums
- In 1984, Nick Cave and Henry Rollins crashed a fancy Hollywood party at the Australian Consulate: their behaviour soon saw them escorted off the premises
- Are Sid Wilson-approved masked lunatics Swollen Teeth the new Slipknot?
- From triumph to nowhere and back: the story of Kansas, in their own words
- In 1968 Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull for two weeks: it was the making of Black Sabbath
- Joe Satriani: the 10 greatest instrumental tracks ever written
- Myles Kennedy: The Soundtrack Of My Life
- Elton John's 1975 appearance on Cher's TV show is spectacular proof that they really don't make 'em like they used to
- May 17
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- Jesse Leach: "After Alive Or Just Breathing came out, I was not in a great place"
- How Radiohead revolutionised rock music in the ‘00s
- Every song on System Of A Down‘s Toxicity ranked from worst to best
- When Monty Python met Iron Maiden: The story behind Graham Chapman's Can I Play With Madness video cameo
- Sammy Hagar is convinced his dad visited him in a dream to tell him he was dying
- The Josh Homme albums you should definitely own
- Hawkwind's Dave Brock is 81 and would like to go backwards in time instead of forwards
- May 16
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- How A Momentary Lapse Of Reason caused all-out war for Pink Floyd
- The 5 best songs by The Bronx, by vocalist Matt Caughthran
- 7 brilliant metal albums you might have missed last month
- Babadooks, drag kings and The Devil’s Arse: inside the world’s first Ghost convention
- A beginner’s guide to prog metal in 5 essential albums
- A beginner's guide to noise rock in five essential albums
- Billy Cobham: “It was testing the waters of rock and jazz!"
- Joe Bonamassa: "I've sold nine million records. The detractors can say what they want"
- May 15
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- Every Garbage album ranked from the worst to the best
- Vote for the best Metallica album
- “Metallica loved it”: why Hesher is the greatest Hollywood movie ever to be inspired by Cliff Burton
- The Eddie Van Halen I knew, by Gene Simmons
- Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Nita Strauss, Wolfmother and more
- Psychedelic projections, a spinning mannequin head and the music of the future: Is this peak Yes?
- May 13
- May 12
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- Randy are the greatest rock 'n' roll group you've never heard. But you can change that right now
- Prog's Tracks Of The Week: new music from Motorpsycho, Godsticks and more...
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Every Lana Del Rey album ranked from worst to best
- “People came up to us after gigs and said our music terrified them." The saga of Hawkwind's Space Ritual
- Sabaton took over a Swedish island in the dead of winter and it was as crazy as it sounds
- "It's all Steve Harris's fault!": Everything you need to know about Germany's Eurovision entry Lord Of The Lost
- May 11
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- The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch thinks ‘Fear of the Dark’ by Iron Maiden is like a Sisters cover version
- "I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy
- A beginner's guide to rap metal in five essential albums
- Elles Bailey: "I've never been interested in fame. I just want to make good music that can help people"
- Vivian Campbell: "I'm sixty years old now but I still play like I'm sixteen in my head"
- Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it
- The Frank Zappa albums you should definitely own
- May 10
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- How PJ Harvey’s raw, violent, vengeful masterpiece Rid Of Me inspired Nirvana and set hearts ablaze among a new generation of fearless female musicians
- Malevolence: how the band behind 2023's most viral mosh pit took 17 years to become an overnight sensation
- How The Clash made history by visiting some of Belfast's most divided and violent streets
- The time Nirvana got in a food fight with Sonic Youth (and then someone went and urinated in Ride’s champagne bucket)
- A beginner's guide to black metal in five essential albums
- The 50 best Van Halen songs - the ultimate American party soundtrack
- May 9
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- We went on the road with Gojira for their biggest French show ever, and it was mindblowingly good
- The triumph and tragedy of Monsters Of Rock '88: How Iron Maiden's biggest UK show will be forever tinged by disaster
- The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room
- The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever
- The Girlschool albums you should definitely own
- Mike Rutherford: "The last Genesis show felt bizarre"
- 10 occasionally baffling stories of 10 bands named after 10 other bands
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: the soundtrack of my life
- "This is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and they’re playing my song!" - what happened when Def Leppard went to Abbey Road
- May 8
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- May 5
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- Heriot's Debbie Gough: 10 records that changed my life
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- These are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, The Hives and more
- Every Stone Sour album ranked from worst to best
- Get voting with Prog's Tracks Of The Week!
- "It was sort of a devil's bargain" - Ann Wilson tells the story of the Heart album that reinvented the band
- "It was like Dorothy landing in Oz" - what happened when Alice Cooper went to Los Angeles
- May 4
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- Ihsahn and the story of Àmr
- How Meteora showed Linkin Park were no one-hit wonder: "it proved Hybrid Theory wasn’t an accident"
- A beginner's guide to thrash metal in five essential albums
- “Absolutely, horribly gutted, p***ed off, self-righteous”: A pre-fame Thom Yorke on the early days of Radiohead
- Blood, ghosts and tabloids: how Cradle Of Filth's Cruelty And The Beast took black metal mainstream
- What happened the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died - by those who were there
- Say hi to the your new favourite southern rockers, Hillbilly Vegas
- Floor Jansen: the soundtrack of my life
- Blues, booze and debauchery: the agonising life and death of Paul Butterfield
- May 3
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- "I do like a good yarn!" Rick Wakeman and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
- “More cheery stuff from IQ!": The story of The Road Of Bones
- "Metallica is just as clusterf***ed as everything else": How isolation, rehab and personal strife led to Metallica's most dramatic album
- If you ever wondered what The Number Of The Beast sounds like compressed 666 times, we have news
- Every band each member of Iron Maiden was in before Iron Maiden
- Silverhead could have been huge: instead they imploded from a mix of class-A chemicals and "mad, decadent sex"
- "I don't think I could hum any of your stuff" - what happened when Led Zeppelin visited the BBC
- Joey Tempest sometimes wonders what life would be like without The Final Countdown
- May 2
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