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Lord Of The Lost, The Haunted and Malevolence are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
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Catch British singer Elkie Brooks on her farewell tour after more than half a century at the microphone
Propagandhi: “The KKK were phoning my house and threatening me”
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The Brian Fallon and Gaslight Anthem albums you should definitely listen to
With The Gaslight Anthem and solo Brian Fallon has made some marvellous records, but industry pressures extracted a heavy toll
How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
Inspired by the Beatles, a famous piece of classical music and the post-war era, Fool’s Overture isn’t the band’s longest song – but it’s by far their most complex and intense
Every Lacuna Coil album ranked from worst to best
We’ve ranked every studio album to bear the Lacuna Coil logo, from In A Reverie to Sleepless Empire
Two Promoters One Pod pulls back the curtain on what it's like organising independent metal festivals
Created by Damnation organiser Gavin McInally and 2000 Trees/ArcTanGent boss James Scarlett, Two Promoters One Pod shares behind the scenes stories of the music world
“We took it badly – ‘No one wants us any more!’ We’d never been through the school of hard knocks. We didn’t know what it meant to work hard”: When ELP collapsed, Carl Palmer’s career-long lucky streak ended. But he didn’t give up
Born into a musical family and a pro by his teenage years with a real-life education in backstage realities, the passionate drummer has seen dreams come true with Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Asia, Mike Oldfield and others
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Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tucks talks us through every song on the band's groundbreaking debut album
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Their fourth album, a prophetic masterpiece and best-selling work, made them stars – but its creation wasn’t easy
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A broad look at the very best record players on the market today, from affordable automatics to hi-end, hi-fi highlights
“It was like being plugged into an electrical socket that has charged me ever since.” Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody on the rock show that made him want to start a band
“I haven’t ever felt the battery power of that night wane”
A mountain monastery, a bus in a snowstorm: Von Hertzen Brothers’ Nine Lives was tough work
The Finnish brothers created a different working method for their fifth album, but to their surprise the results weren’t much different from the previous four. Which was no bad thing
"My mother took me to see Saga when I was 15. It was fantastic!". A glimpse inside Yogi Lang's prog world
When German prog rockers RPWL released their album Crime Scene we grilled singer and keyboardist Yogi Lang on his prog loves
How doom and occult keyboardist Carl Westholm was converted by Van der Graaf Generator
Ex Candlemass and Avatarium member was won over by prog veterans’ Godbluff album – and it started with a photo of Mikael Åkerfeldt with Peter Hammill
