10 Christmas albums that’ll rock your jingle bells off
Hail Santa! We've gathered the best rock and metal Christmas albums to get your festive season started with a bang
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Did the 2010s really see the death of the album?
Did the 2010s really usher in the death of the album, or was it simply a case of artists adapting to the precarious world around them? We examine the last decade in music and weigh up what bands might have to do to thrive in music's next chapter
The Utopia Strong's track by track guide to their self-titled new album
The Utopia Strong take us through their self-titled debut album one track at a time – and unveil the video for new single Strange Altar
How can we encourage inclusivity in the prog scene?
It's just one of the topics discussed in the final part of our #SheRocks prog panel...
Top 10 avant-garde metal bands
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Labels of love: the story of the pioneering record labels that saved 70s rock
As the 70s rock scene exploded, an increasingly out of touch music business lost its stranglehold on the music scene – here, we tell the story of how it happened
10 tips for taking great crowd shots
The second challenge in our Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 competition is Crowd & Venue Scenes – here are 10 tips to make your snaps stand out from the crowd
The Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 Challenge #2: Crowd & Venue Scenes
Join the second stage of our hunt to find the best new rock photographer of 2020
10 awesome metal riffs with odd time signatures
Mancunian metallers Prognosis love a proggy riff, so we asked them to pick their top 10 odd time signature metal songs
Top 10 Sci-fi movies as chosen by Cybernetic Witch Cult
The psychedelic space rockers Cybernetic Witch Cult pick the ten essential sci-fi flicks you absolutely must check out
Tool: The birth of the band
When Tool formed and descended onto an unsuspecting Hollywood, alternative music was about to be dragged into a whole new world of dizzying possibilities
The first winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
This amazing shot of a crowd-surfing Damian Wilson takes first prize in the first round of our photography competition. Plus: Round 2 is launched!
Ahead of Black Friday save 48% on these wireless bluetooth earphones
Black Friday might not be here quite yet, but the bargains have already begun - and there are some amazing deals right now on wireless earphones
Jeff Lynne's track-by-track guide to ELO's From Out Of Nowhere
Jeff Lynne's personal guide to the second ELO comeback album after 30 years in the wilderness, From Out Of Nowhere
Heilung: The force of nature that's leaving metalheads spellbound
What started off as an underground curiosity has become one of metal’s true modern phenomenons. We unearth the mystery of Heilung - the world’s biggest cult band
Why Night Is The New Day is Katatonia's most important album
Klone guitarist Guillaume Bernard explains why Katatonia's seminal 2009 album Night Is The New Day is so important to him
The stories behind John Carpenter's biggest horror themes
Horror maestro John Carpenter has become an unlikely influence on modern rock and metal bands. Here’s the real stories behind his creepiest scores
Anthony Phillips recalls his time in Genesis
Back in 2011 Prog first put Genesis on the cover. These were Phillips' recollections...
Master of reality: A tribute to Tommy Udo
Former Metal Hammer staffer, Classic Rock and Prog writer and scourge of PRs everywhere, Tommy Udo died on 10 October, 2019. Here we pay tribute to a funny, fearsome and much-loved colleague
