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The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs
By Paul Moody published
Led Zeppelin may have shunned singles, but they wrote some of rock's most iconic songs – and here are 50 of the very best

The 10 best artists to see at BST Hyde Park, London this summer from Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee to Neil Young and Stevie Wonder
By Paul Brannigan published
Glastonbury isn't the only major UK festival launching this week

Meet Kuunatic: the Japanese band mixing Shinto, Sci and folk-doom
By Alex Deller published
Drawing on Shinto, sci-fi and traditional Japanese folk, Kuunatic are one of metal's most fascinating new bands

This is the soundtrack of Robin Trower's life
By Henry Yates published
Blues lifer Robin Trower picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names his favourite Robin Trower album (Hint: It's not Bridge Of Sighs)

It's been 18 years since the last King Diamond album and he's getting impatient
By Dave Ling published
Danish shrieker King Diamond has returned to the road with "a horror show set to music"

Billy Sherwood’s journey to Yes started with the wayward World Trade
By Dave Ling published
By the time he reunited his 80s group for third album Unify, he’d replaced Chris Squire and started fronting Asia. None of it would have happened without Toto and Gentle Giant

Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse
By Metal Hammer published
As 28 Years Later lurches its way towards box office success, we suggest the rock and metal albums that would best soundtrack a zombie killing spree

Black Country, New Road battled steep odds to make Forever Howlong - but they won
By Jeremy Allen published
Line-up changes, cancelled tours, shyness, outside commitments left the Canterbury crew with no option but to gamble on their future. Their third studio album proves they won
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