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- October 31
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- Sex, death and Lulu: the real story of Metallica and Lou Reed’s explosive collaboration
- The first reaction to Metallica's new song Atlas, Rise!
- Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti: “Singers? They’re all hypochondriacs”
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Brian Burkheiser, I Prevail
- Enslaved: The Progressive Black Metallers
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- The 5 most metal pumpkin carvings
- Watch UK black metallers The Infernal Sea's plague-infested new video!
- Why Alan Partridge had a panic attack about heavy metal
- Glenn Hughes' track-by-track guide to Resonate
- The Best And Worst New Metal Album Releases This Week
- Watch this Bavarian band's unique cover of AC/DC's Highway To Hell
- We have a leaf through Pub Landlord Al Murray's record collection
- The Top 10 best Rage Against The Machine Songs
- The 10 best songs about werewolves
- Sand's Sam Healy: "There are no facts when you’re listening to music"
- October 30
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- The Top 10 Best Pink Floyd 70s Songs
- Scott Ian: "Anthrax Had Sold 10,000 Records, Suddenly We're Selling 100,000"
- 13 genuinely terrifying bands who definitely aren’t faking it
- David Coverdale: "I’ve Retired More Times Than Sinatra"
- The Answer on how new album Solas brought them back from the brink
- Love And Hate: The Irresistible Rise Of Bring Me The Horizon
- Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake: The Drummers That Changed My Life
- Bearded web sensation sings Smash Mouth lyrics over Radiohead's 'Creep'
- 11 Of The Greatest Isolated Vocals You’ll Ever Hear
- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Gibson Firebird
- The Story Behind The Song: Girl From Mars by Ash
- The 10 best songs about Dracula
- October 29
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- Watch Steven Adler play Guns N’ Roses’ You Could Be Mine for the first time
- The Top 10 essential horror movie soundtracks
- Interview: Lou Reed on the Velvets, Bowie... and his love of heavy metal
- Devil You Know: Howard Jones' Guide To Life
- Chrissie Hynde: Going It Alone With The Pretenders
- Video Breakdown: Kiss – Lick It Up
- Why I ❤️ Rush's Hemispheres, by Steven Wilson
- Bad tattoos of rock stars photoshopped onto the real thing is still the best thing ever
- Shovels And Rope return with a new album of "harrowing beauty and sorrow"
- Guns N' Roses' former manager on 25 turbulent years with Slash
- The 10 worst Limp Bizkit songs
- October 28
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- 12 Great Rush Songs From The 80s
- The A-Z of Anthrax
- The 10 best songs about Frankenstein
- 5 things we learned at Avenged Sevenfold's virtual reality gig
- Devilment: watch the blood-stained video for psychotic new song Hitchcock Blonde
- Jeff Healey, A Thousand Horses and more: Vote for your Track Of The Week
- Rickey Medlocke: The story of Southern rock's brightest star
- Backstage, black eyes and Bowie: the unseen photos of Bill Wyman
- The Six Best New Songs You'll Hear All Week
- Neal Morse Band Premiere So Far Gone
- The story behind The Who's Who's Next album artwork
- The 10 Best Deftones Songs Released During 1995-2000
- Why I love Queen’s News Of The World, by Taylor Hawkins
- Avenged Sevenfold: the first reaction to their new album The Stage
- October 27
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- After 7 years away, Drivin' N Cryin' head back out on the road
- Interview: David Coverdale answers life biggest questions
- How Clown almost drowned during a Slipknot gig and other stories
- The Top 10 Best Asking Alexandria songs
- Syd Arthur's Track By Track For Apricity
- Phil Demmel: My Marriage Was Done, So I Chose Machine Head
- The Dillinger Escape Plan: The Confessions Of Greg Puciato
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Memphis May Fire’s Matty Mullins
- The Downward Spiral: How Scott Weiland And Velvet Revolver Fell To Pieces
- The story behind Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality
- Heather Findlay Postpones Live Dates
- Korean musician Luna Lee plays dazzling cover versions of rock classics
- I Prevail’s Brian Burkheiser picks his 10 favourite Linkin Park songs
- Down To Earth: How Angel Fell From Grace
- New album, old sound: Nu metal's ultimate heroes Korn are back
- October 26
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- The Adventures of Tom Russell, the Scottish Godfather Of Rock
- Crobot's top 10 robots
- Bruce Dickinson: I Knew I'd Joined A Great Band. I Knew I Could Make It Better
- Ginger Baker rides again: 7 things we learned at the Jack Bruce tribute show
- "If the 70s and the 90s had a baby, that'd be us": Introducing the Black Moods
- Meet Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, probably 2016's best supergroup
- Is Myles Kennedy the world's most reluctant rockstar?
- Video Tutorial: How to Sing Like Freddie Mercury
- Attila: metal’s most misunderstood band – or just misogynists?
- The Dillinger Escape Plan: The Story Behind Jim Fear
- The Story Behind 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson
- October 25
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- The 31 greatest Pink Floyd songs ever written
- Readers poll result: Iron Maiden for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
- Bruce Kulick's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Interview: Guns N' Roses Raise Hell In The City Of Angels
- The 12 greatest Megadeth memes
- Blueneck Premiere Brand New Track Ghosts
- Max Cavalera: My Life Story
- Touching The Face Of God: Jon Anderson On Religion
- "Don’t fry bacon when you’re pissed..." The Gospel According To Glenn Hughes
- Out Of The Black - Ozzfest: From One Weekender To Global Phenomenon
- Bands in town: The best UK rock tours to check out this month
- The 10 Best Goth Anthems, by The 69 Eyes’ Jyrki 69
- Shooter Jennings: Meet the outlaw country renegade with a taste for darkness
- Led Zeppelin and Stairway To Heaven - Anatomy of a Guitar Classic
- Thinking Out Loud: Asking Alexandria's Danny Worsnop
- Famous Firsts: WSS's Loz Taylor on discovering nu metal and blagging into gigs
- Testament's track-by-track guide to Brotherhood Of The Snake
- Chad Smith: "There Was Blood, I Hit Sammy Hagar In The Head With My Drum"
- October 24
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- Wayne Hussey: "I spent all my money on birds, booze, drugs and guitars"
- Why Small Bands Need Live Reviews, by Ginger Wildheart
- David Coverdale: How We Made The Coverdale Page Album
- Listen to a gargantuan new track from Swiss cult metal champions Bölzer
- The 10 most underrated Dischord Records albums
- John Lydon: How We Made PiL's Metal Box
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- Haunting Led Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses covers performed by Japanese musicians
- Messin' With The Kid - What Made Rory Gallagher One Of A Kind
- The 11 best Memphis May Fire songs, by vocalist Matty Mullins
- Pink Floyd's Nick Mason: "We wanted to be a pop group and sell records"
- How Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory changed the face of metal
- 10 of the best metal bands from New Zealand
- Deep cuts: Help – Christian power trio featuring future Doobie Brothers drummer
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- Six Things You Need To Know About Deap Vally
- October 23
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- Rob Trujillo: “Ozzy is still the voice of Heavy Metal.”
- Richie Sambora – “I was the guy trying to stick the blues into pop music"
- How Anthony Phillips Went From Genesis To Revelation
- How The Black Parade turned My Chemical Romance into superstars
- 10 rock stars who've hurt themselves in the line of duty
- October 22
- October 21
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- The Top 10 Greatest Prog Album Covers Ever
- The Story Behind The Song: Teenage Kicks by The Undertones
- The story of Starz, the band who grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory
- Every Song On Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Ranked From Worst To Best
- David Bowie, Glenn Hughes, Sixx AM and more: Vote for your Track Of The Week
- Dave Mustaine Q&A: “When I think of Megadeth I think of blood and sweat”
- New documentary Blackhearts confronts the myth of Norway's black metal scene
- 5 things we learned at the first Kiss Expo in Tokyo
- 5 things we learned at Nickelback's London show
- We couldn't take pictures at Nickelback's London show, so we drew them instead
- Why were Pink Floyd's label angry about their Wish You Were Here artwork?
- The 10 Best Walking Dead Scenes by Anthrax’s Scott Ian
- Why the World is right to fall in love with Phil Collins again
- Into The Dark: Emperor - Black Metal's Most Important Band
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- Meat Loaf: The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
- October 20
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- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Gibson Flying V
- Watch Red Dead Redemption 2 video trailer
- Phil Collins: Why I'm not to blame for Led Zeppelin's Live Aid fiasco
- xViciousx release video for Vermin
- "I was begging the doctors to kill me": the confessions of King Diamond
- Jaz Coleman: "Revolution is the only way we'll save the human race"
- Calligram release video for Bed Of Nails
- Why Tonight Alive walked away from the pop punk scene
- Watch Schammasch's dazzling new, Iceland-shot video, Metanoia
- Lady Gaga in the style of Iron Maiden
- Trent Reznor: A Life Less Ordinary
- Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: why I love Kate Bush
- The story behind Motorhead's Overkill
- Steve Hillage Discusses His New Searching For The Spark Box Set
- October 19
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- Have Radiohead accidentally announced they’re headlining Glastonbury 2017?
- Forget Yes – the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame still hates Prog
- This man singing Smash Mouth over Evanescence is a hero of our time
- The 10 essential power metal albums
- Why Taking Back Sunday have left their emo past behind
- How did Epica discover heavy metal?
- Blackberry Smoke launch video for fan favourite Sunrise In Texas
- Forget Bob Dylan's Nobel Laureate Prize - These Are Rock's Ignoble Laureates
- The 10 best songs by The Replacements, selected by Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace
- 5 things we learned at Dark Funeral's London headline show
- Peppa Pig listens to death metal and here's proof
- October 18
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- 18 Bands Who Should Be In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame But Aren't
- Hear The Beatles' Revolver As You've Never Heard It Before
- Al Murray To Join Suns Of The Tundra On Stage This Week
- Famous Firsts: Uncle Acid's Kevin Starrs on Charles Manson and touring with Ozzy
- The 10 greatest Queen memes
- 5 things we learned at Rob Zombie's headline London show
- How contemporary world issues influenced the new Meshuggah album
- Cove release video for Buried
- Louder Than Bombs: What Really Happened When Zack de la Rocha Quit RATM?
- The 10 best Smashing Pumpkins songs
- Dom's Iron Sandwich: Korn – The Serenity Of Suffering
- October 17
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- Watch Blackberry Smoke play the blues classic One Way Out
- Helmet's Page Hamilton: "David Bowie may have saved my life"
- Norse code: how Wardruna's runic trilogy transformed Norway's musical landscape
- Tony Iommi interview: 'Some Nights I'd Do Two Or Three Grams Of Coke'
- Corey Taylor's Top 10 Books
- The top 10 metal bands from Italy (that aren’t Lacuna Coil)
- Listen to Mithras's spectacular new album, On Strange Loops
- The 10 best Enter Shikari songs as chosen by Rou Reynolds
- The troublesome search for Ronnie Montrose
- Roger Dean: How I designed the Yes classic Close To The Edge
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- Fred Durst: “There was always a lot of pain in my life”
- Proof that The Dillinger Escape Plan are the most bonkers live band on Earth
- October 16
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- The Six-string Interrogation: Richie Kotzen
- The High Times and Dark Days of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Dave Lombardo: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Ten Things You Didn't Know About Ozzy Osbourne
- 10 Songs I Wish I'd Written, by Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick
- 11 drummers who look like they've remembered a sad film
- October 15
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- Korn's Head: "Meth Ruined My Mind, My Emotions, My Relationships, My Sanity"
- The Top 10 Most Underrated Pink Floyd Songs
- Lemmy: "Might as well die of something you like than be 120 and bored"
- 10 legendary shows that made CBGB Famous
- Tenacious D: Kyle Gass' Guide To Life
- The Secret History Of Toto
- The 10 worst Ozzy Osbourne songs
- Video breakdown: Iron Maiden’s Can I Play With Madness
- October 14
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- Tech Company Logos Reimagined as Heavy Metal Album Sleeves
- The A-Z Of Korn
- Metallica, Testament, Blackberry Smoke & more: Vote for your Track Of The Week
- 5 things we learned at Band-Maid's first ever UK show
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- Death Valley High stream new song Groei Donker (Grow Dark)
- Every Song On Deep Purple's Burn Ranked From Worst To Best
- Korn, Metallica, Slipknot and more in the Metal Hammer Halloween special!
- Motley Crue's The End review: in the end, was it worth the wait?
- Your track-by-track guide to The Dillinger Escape Plan's new album Dissociation
- October 13
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- We spent 10 minutes with The Pretty Reckless and here's what we learned
- Buried Alive: How Avenged Sevenfold Learned To Go On Living
- The first reaction to Avenged Sevenfold's new song The Stage
- At last! LEGO have launched a Beatles Lego Submarine
- The Confessions Of Dee Snider: “Someone tried to kill me with a pick-up truck”
- Mike Watt's Top 5 Bassists
- 10 Things We Learned From Lego Dimensions
- Ian Gillan's 10 Favourite Gillan Songs
- Red Fang stream new album Only Ghosts in full
- Are Avenged Sevenfold about to release their album without telling anyone?
- Sammy Hagar: "What do you do with $80 million? Anything you want!"
- October 12
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- What the drummer sees: behind the kit with Metallica, Rush, AC/DC and more...
- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Fender Stratocaster
- Steve Hackett's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Six Pack: Austin Carlile on Of Mice & Men, Life And Loss
- Watch this pumpkin dance to Meshuggah
- The 10 essential sludge metal albums
- Serbian kids choir covers Manowar Heart Of Steel
- Tenacious D: How We Wrote Tribute
- Exist Immortal release video for Erode
- 10 Unforgettable Highlights Of Motley Crue's The End
- The Story Behind The Song: New Rose by The Damned
- Who are Twilight Force and what the hell is 'adventure metal'?
- The 11 best emo albums
- Status Quo: Cocaine Completely Screws You Up. By 1984 I Was On The Floor
- October 11
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- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe: My Life Story
- Motorhead's Phil Campbell - the 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Wild Lies release acoustic version of Mason's Vial
- The Top 10 Songs Inspired By New York City
- Heriot release video for China Lake
- Nicky Horne's Top 10 Rock DJs
- Adopting puppies is metal as f*ck
- 6 Things We Learned At Bon Jovi’s London comeback show
- Dave Mustaine: ‘I would have kicked me out of Metallica’
- October 10
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- 7 Things We Want From The New Avenged Sevenfold Album
- Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- Watch Paul McCartney and Neil Young play Beatles' classics at Desert Trip
- Why Black Sabbath's Paranoid is the Quintessential Heavy Metal Album
- Stage Surfers: One Band's Quest For The Ultimate Stage Dive
- When Trivium's Matt Heafy Met Machine Head's Robb Flynn
- The top 10 songs about Los Angeles
- Famous Firsts: Red Fang's Bryan Giles on how The Muppets made him a karaoke king
- Listen to a breathtaking new track from Norway's Madder Mortem
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- Every Nine Inch Nails Album Ranked From Worst To Best
- New Metallica in the style of ...And Justice For All
- The 10 Best David Lee Roth Songs
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Feeder's Grant Nicholas
- October 9
- October 8
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- Anthrax: how The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus ended up joining us onstage
- Alter Bridge: Myles Kennedy’s Guide To Life
- The 100 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever: the new issue of Classic Rock is out now
- Why social media is killing music
- The New Music Blog
- The New Music Hub
- New Music: Discovery
- The 10 worst Aerosmith songs
- Video Breakdown: Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
- October 7
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- Cult Heroes: Night Ranger - The Band Who Invented the Power Ballad
- Spotify Playlist: the ultimate Desert Trip Festival soundtrack
- Every song on Van Halen I ranked from worst to best
- The Best Trevor Rabin-Era Yes Songs
- Slayer: The Making Of Reign In Blood
- Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, Shinedown & more: Vote for the best Track Of The Week...
- Watch black metal mavericks Vreid’s cinematic new video
- What was the first single you ever bought?
- Even if Brian Johnson's hearing gets better – will AC/DC take him back?
- Why Red Fang's Bryan Giles is completely obsessed with pinball
- The story behind Def Leppard's Hysteria album artwork
- The Six Best New Songs You’ll Hear All Week
- Death metal the brutal way: why Asphyx's new album will unite generations
- The confessions of Airbourne’s Joel O’Keeffe
- October 6
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- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler on knives, vegan food and wanking bandmates
- Why a live bootleg could be the greatest album Led Zeppelin ever made
- The Story Behind The Song: Nightwish’s Nemo
- This is what happened when Slipknot met The Walking Dead
- The story behind Sepultura's Roots
- The Devil Wears Prada's Mike Hranica on anxiety, equality and gun violence
- Myles Kennedy: 10 albums that changed my life
- Genesis: Foxtrot Was Where We First Started To Become Significant
- Why have Dillinger Escape Plan really decided to call it quits?
- What Nirvana mean to me, by Frank Carter
- Why Avatar covered a song from South Park
- Fresh meat: bringing you the best new bands from metal's underground
- Serenity and suffering: confronting Korn's dark past
- October 5
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- 10 essential doom metal albums
- Pentagram and Destroyer 666 head up this weekend's Live Evil fest
- 11 rock songs I wish I'd written, by Helmet's Page Hamilton
- Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy – 10 Records That Changed My Life
- We saw Billie Joe Armstrong act in Ordinary World and here's what we learned
- "My voice sounds phenomenal": While She Sleeps join us from the studio
- The stories behind every Foo Fighters video
- The Devil Wears Prada: Transit Blues Track-By-Track
- What exactly is the Church of Satan?
- What are Opeth's most treasured albums?
- How Led Zeppelin III was their most misunderstood album
- Watch Mike Portnoy thrash out metal classics on a tiny drum kit
- Free GUN download – exclusive to TR+ members
- Freaks and Greeks: tech crew Tardive Dyskinesia are coming for us
- Bury Tomorrow's Dani Winter-Bates on why he loves Papa Roach
- Meet Set On End, the band determined to put New Zealand on the map
- October 4
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- The Top 10 Best Big Screen Concert Movies
- The Guitars That Built Rock: The Gibson Les Paul
- The 10 funniest Danzig memes
- Ricky Warwick's new video revives the poetic, vagabond spirit of Thin Lizzy
- Greece's avant-garde metallers Hail Spirit Noir unveil a mindboggling new track
- "I write about force-feeding rapists their genitals..." Introducing Venom Prison
- Korn vs Limp Bizkit: “We laugh about the feud now”
- The Rise and Fall of Sonic The Hedgehog
- How Evanescence Came Back From The Brink
- John Lydon's State Of The Union Address
- Ozzy Osbourne: My Life Story
- WTF? Ric Flair gives Phil Anselmo a chop to the chest
- Love, loss and learning to move on: the story behind Opeth's Sorceress
- Are King 810 doomed, or can they rise again?
- October 3
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- The First Album I Ever Bought: Josh Todd, Buckcherry
- Seasick Steve is just the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll liars
- Deftones' Chino Moreno: "Adrenaline? Those were wild times"
- Famous Firsts: Grand Magus' JB on drunken Goblin tours and loving Uriah Heep
- Biffy Clyro: James Johnston's Top 5 Rock Bassists
- Dreamarcher stream self-titled album in full
- Avatar release video for Night Never Ending
- The Best New Rock Album Releases This Week
- After four weeks of clues, Creeper's creepy new video has finally arrived
- Exit stage left: the joy and fear of replacing an irreplaceable guitarist
- The Best New Metal Album Releases This Week
- Meshuggah's track-by-track guide to The Violent Sleep of Reason
- Feeder’s Grant Nicholas picks his favourite Led Zeppelin songs
- Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick's top 10 guitar solos
- October 2
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- We spent 5 minutes alone with Ghost and this is what we learned
- The 10 Essential 80s Blues Albums
- Steel Panther guitarist Satchel's top 5 hair metal guitar solos
- Every Devin Townsend Project album, ranked worst to best
- New EPs reviewed – Heriot, Immolated Moth and In Aeternum
- The Greasy Slicks: raw blues rock from three very sweaty men
- October 1
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- The story behind the song: A Horse With No Name by America
- Charlie Starr's top guitar solos from the south
- Steel Panther: Michael Starr's Guide To Life
- Tyketto: "Nirvana? It was just pop music in cardigans"
- The 10 worst Judas Priest songs of all time
- Joe Bonamassa: the guitar solos that changed my life
- Video Breakdown: Beastie Boys – Sabotage
