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The making of Unitopia's Artificial
2010's Artificial would turn out to be the final studio album from Australian symphonic proggers Unitopia
New vinyl releases 2022: Here’s what’s coming out in rock, metal, prog and more
There are loads of new vinyl releases on the horizon - here are the records you need to know about in 2022
Spock's Beard and the making of X
On their tenth album X Spock's Beard dialled up the prog quota and looked to Marillion's business model for inspiration
Cheap vinyl records in May 2022: The best vinyl records on sale in rock, metal, prog and more
We've got the best cheap vinyl deals all in one place - along with essential buying advice and much more
The best audiophile headphones for Hi-Fi listening 2022: Wired, Bluetooth, noise cancelling and gaming cans
High performance audiophile headphones will give you the most from your music. Here’s our pick of the best you can buy from wired over-ears to pro-style in-ear monitors
“By 14 I was doing drugs and stealing booze”: the life and times of stoner icon Matt Pike
Sleep/High On Fire man Matt Pike talks juvenile delinquency, military school and losing a toe
“Tool is a machine": an exclusive interview with Adam Jones
The Tool guitarist talks banning phones at gigs, turning down stadiums and life in Tool in 2022
The Story Behind The Song: Slayer’s Angel Of Death
How a sadistic WW2 surgeon inspired Slayer’s landmark 1986 thrash classic
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From Bambie Thug’s witchy electrogoth to Graphic Nature’s gnarly nu-metalcore, these are the new bands annoying Metal Hammer’s neighbours
The 15 songs that defined Dillinger Escape Plan
In 2016 we asked Greg Puciato to pick the ultimate Dillinger Escape Plan playlist
Gojira: "We grew up with Mike Oldfield's Crises..."
With Fortitude French quartet Gojira placed themselves firmly in the prog metal world. Here they discuss wide-ranging influences from Mike Oldfield to Eastern drumming rhythms
OPPO Find X5 Pro Empowers Music Fans at Coachella
America's biggest music festival now has the perfect phone to capture the experience
The Story Behind The Song: Insane In The Brain by Cypress Hill
How a weed-loving hip hop outfit delivered one of the greatest rock club floor-fillers of the 1990s
10 obscure but brilliant 2010s bands that deserved more
The internet might bring us more music than ever, but these 10 bands never got the massive audiences they deserved
How love, chaos, ego and drug abuse fuelled an Eric Clapton classic
Was Duane Allman the catalyst for Derek and the Dominos' Layla, or did his “out of tune” playing spoil it? And was the piano outro nicked from another song?
The real story of that time Keith Richards fell out of a palm tree
A story of Keith Richards, an exaggerated tree, and the surgeon who saved the life of a Rolling Stone
"Birth with Rammstein had to be graphic": the inside story of Rammstein's Zeit video
Director Robert Gwisdek talks us through the making of Rammstein's epic music video for Zeit
Every The Pogues album ranked from worst to best
With seven albums released across an 11-year recording career, Shane MacGowan's London-Irish folk-punks The Pogues worked and played hard. But which album is their crowning glory?
