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- March 31
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- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Black Stone Cherry, Chickenfoot and more...
- Mike Rutherford: "I was beaten for playing Sgt Pepper"
- Dan Reed Network at 100 Club, London - live review
- Choppers, skateboards and biker-blues: Meet the Picturebooks
- John Mayall: The Godfather Of Blues heads to Ronnie Scott's
- Black Spiders: Think it's all over? It is now
- What to expect when Joe Bonamassa hits the road
- How Sweden's Eclipse are moving on with sixth album Monumentum
- Dream Theater: "We're taking liberties with the way we play some songs"
- Tarja Turunen: 10 Records That Changed My Life
- What's next for Brian Johnson? The new issue of Classic Rock is on sale now
- Nine things we learned from Linkin Park's intimate unplugged session
- Hunter & The Bear: Classic rock for modern times
- March 30
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- Steel Panther's 10 Favourite Aerosmith Songs
- 5 things we learned about the Rammstein: Paris movie
- The gospel according to Ice-T
- Bat Out Of Hell: The turbulent life cycle of a rock’n’roll phenomenon
- Drudkh frontman lowers the temperature with his new project, Windswept
- Megadeth: how Peace Sells turned four thrash metal f**k ups into superstars
- 'I tease Corey Taylor for being old' - meet WWE’s most metal superstar
- Who is the real Paul Stanley?
- Toseland launch Fingers Burned video, and it's undeniably epic
- Traffic's Chris Wood: Gifted, troubled and perpetually overlooked
- The Beatles Unseen: A collection of candid snaps
- The top 10 best Paul Weller songs, as chosen by Stone Foundation's Neil Jones
- March 29
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- The wild one: How Danny Worsnop took sex, drugs and rock’n’roll to the limit
- How a series of unfortunate events inspired Royal Thunder's new album
- Trans Am pick their favourite Led Zeppelin songs
- Wednesday 13 answers your questions
- It's a long way to the top: What's next for Brian Johnson?
- Six things you need to know about My Dynamite
- We grill Ryan Adams on heartbreak, hope and AC/DC
- The story behind the song: I Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith
- March 28
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- Heavy rotation: What Classic Rock have been listening to this month
- Nikki Lane: Meet Nashville's coolest new songbird
- Life Of Agony: “We finally got to make the record we’ve been dying to make”
- We get to grips with an ultra-limited-edition Dream Theater guitar
- Leslie Mandoki: “I still believe that music can change the world”
- Deep cuts: Riches from the rock underground
- Introducing The Picturebooks: The blues-rock duo taking LA by storm
- Black Stone Cherry launch speed dating video for Cheaper To Drink Alone
- Our band should be your life: Underground Inc and the US' untold musical history
- Eddie Kramer's track-by-track guide to Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy
- KXM are a supergroup with no boss, no limits and no fights. Can it last?
- Roger Waters and Nick Mason preview Floyd V&A exhibition
- Weeley's On Fire: Hell's Angels and flaming fields at the British Woodstock
- Are Inglorious really the best British band since Led Zeppelin?
- March 27
- March 24
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- Ohhms: A tale of tarot cards and doom
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Chuck Berry, The Virginmarys and more...
- The 10 best feminist anthems, according to Tokyo Taboo's Dolly Daggerz
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- 10 sensational facts about Alex Harvey/Michael Schenker bass player Chris Glen
- Josh Smith's track-by-track guide to the new Northlane album
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- Northlane - Mesmer album review
- This Pussy Grabs Back: Boss Hog On Music, Art And The Revolution
- March 23
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- The Music Of Cream is a family affair: just don't call it a tribute act
- The Doomsday Kingdom: Leif Edling's Most Treasured Albums
- Iron Fist cast play Iron Maiden Or Iron Fist?
- Guy turns axe into guitar and uses it to chop wood
- Listen to Tokyo Taboo's new album 6th Street Psychosis
- The Weeks: Stay positive and enjoy a good sandwich
- March 22
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- In memory of Negura Bunget's Negru (1975-2017)
- Higher Power: Hardcore without boundaries
- A Secret History Of Goth by the Claytown Troupe
- Aerosmith's Last Child taken for a funky spin by hip hop duo
- Ghost Community's Matt Cohen gives us a glimpse into his prog world
- Forward thinkers: Why Disperse are forgoing djent to focus on prog
- Michael Schenker's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
- Magenta's Rob Reed: "I had dig deep to find something new to say"
- Steve Rothery: "People still think Marillion are a Scottish heavy metal band”
- New Issue Of Prog On Sale Now
- Richard Barbieri gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his musical methods
- Genesis on Supper's Ready: "This is where we started to become significant"
- The Outer Limits: How prog are Epica?
- March 21
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- The 121 best records you can buy on Record Store Day
- The 32 records you need this Record Store Day
- The Essential Prog Releases For Record Store Day
- Where Dutch still life painting meets Heavy Metal: The Art of the Battle Jacket
- Bittersweet Symphonies: Alan Reed guides Prog through his new album
- Cruise To The Edge: Prog reports back from the high seas
- Watch this metalhead sing Slipknot on The Voice
- The 10 best Joy Division/New Order basslines, according to Peter Hook
- March 20
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- How family tragedy fuelled Mastodon's proggiest-ever album
- Adam Bomb: The day I auditioned for Kiss
- How Kong: Skull Island merges '70s music nostalgia with rampaging gorillas
- John Wetton and me, by friend and Prog writer Nick Shilton
- When musicians don't know music theory
- Geoff Downes remembers his late friend John Wetton
- An extraordinary life: John Wetton, 1949-2017
- Novembers Doom: "Our tragic flaw is our ability to love"
- Stone Foundation tackle uncertainty and division with new album Street Rituals
- March 19
- March 17
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- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Deep Purple, Steel Panther and more...
- Our Six Favourite Irish Prog Bands
- Joe Rowland from Pallbearer recommends a movie, a book and an album
- Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: the story behind a cult 90s metal classic
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- March 16
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- Leslie Mandoki: "Everybody knows that egos kill music"
- Gallery: The Beatles as you've never seen them before
- Tour Diary: Monster Truck
- Enter the weird and wonderful world of Norway's avant-rock adventurers Virus
- Ex People: "Who wouldn’t want to be in league with the devil?"
- Designer, historian and writer Phil Smee shows us his record collection
- Teens react to Linkin Park
- Explaining the petrifying, intimidating genius of Eddie Van Halen
- March 15
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- Hemina: "We just pick the different sound palettes that we like the best”
- Cobalt Chapel: Blending horrific sounds with acid folk
- Brutai: It's djent, but not as we know it
- Nergal: Love, sex, death and embracing your weaknesses
- Introducing Nuclearte: Multilingual, mystical sounds
- Have A Cigar: Sel Belamir on launching a label with a difference
- Paperlate: Why aren't people going to prog shows anymore?
- Beltane Fire - Different Breed: It's prog, Jim, but not as we know it
- All Around The World: Meet Jug Bundish, the Costa Ricans who dig far-out sounds
- What happened when Twisted Sister crashed into Blind Melon
- My Prog Hero: Temples' Thomas Walmsley bangs the gong for the late Daevid Allen
- Carach Angren bring a macabre new twist to black metal
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusades: Heaven Can Wait
- Fad gadgets: The gizmos currently putting the prog in progress
- This is the most metal record store in London
- March 14
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- The Story Behind Couldn't Get It Right by the Climax Blues Band
- So you wanna be a rock'n'roll star? Then join Rock’N’Roll Fantasy Camp
- Borders target Big Pharma and mainstream media with new EP
- Kirk Hammett reacts to Metallica cover versions
- Gallery: Unseen photos from the Mastodon Metal Hammer cover shoot
- March 13
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- The best new bands you should be listening to this month
- Blaze Bayley's 10 favourite Iron Maiden tracks... that he didn't sing on
- This month's must-hear music: The best reviewed albums in Metal Hammer
- Joanne Shaw Taylor announces UK tour and launches No Reason To Stay video
- Six kids mime to Iron Maiden and kick maximum arse
- Listen to the weird and frankly petrifying past of avant-explorers Aluk Todolo
- Monster Truck's ultimate playlist for life on the road
- Someone has mashed up Metallica with Legend Of Zelda
- March 10
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- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Mastodon, Afghan Whigs, Saturn and more...
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- Tygers Of Pan Tang: still clawing their way to the top
- Mastodon bare their souls in the new issue of Metal Hammer
- Black metal in the desert is the most kvlt thing you will see today
- Just how metal is Firewind's Gus G?
- Fresh Meat: The three best new bands from metal's undergound
- Svart Crown: "Making an album has been a kind of therapy"
- Brothers in qualms: How Pallbearer are taking over the world
- The records that changed my life: Volbeat's Rob Caggiano
- Stoneghost frontman Jason James Smith takes us inside his tattoo studio
- March 9
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- Freaks unleashed: Why Ho99o9 could be metal's most vital new band
- Creeper: "We want to be the next Marilyn Manson"
- Why has Behemoth frontman Nergal ditched corpsepaint for an acoustic guitar?
- Armored Saint's John Bush: "I don't regret turning down Metallica"
- Introducing Zeal & Ardor, black metal's brand new superstar
- Is the Caribbean the new global hotspot for metal?
- Watch four 12-year-old Brazilians take on Metallica's Enter Sandman
- Blacktop Mojo: gators, whiskey, guns... and a little band from Texas
- Getting to know Ghost: The Swedish ghouls answer your questions
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Enter the realms of the unknown with French black metal vagabonds Merrimack
- Ariana Grande fans react to metal
- Linkin Park play The Bandmate Game
- How U2’s The Joshua Tree changed my life, by Magenta’s Rob Reed
- Deep Purple reveal all in the new Classic Rock, on sale now
- Why I love The Joshua Tree, by Feeder's Grant Nicholas
- March 8
- March 7
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- Why X Japan's X Marks The Spot is the ultimate rockumentary
- Have Sunlight’s Bane crafted this year’s most brutal masterpiece?
- Decapitated have a new album and they're determined it'll make them huge
- "Our music is uncomfortable" Introducing Imminence, Sweden's next big metal band
- Can The Royal bring metalcore back to its glory days?
- If only these classic album cover football shirts were real
- Studio Report: Amenra working on Mass VI
- Introducing Cove: The new new wave of British heavy metal
- New band The Anchor are cooking up some crushing noise
- Without Waves unpick their unapologetically weird racket
- Watch kids react to Guns N' Roses
- Wacken roll: Thomas Jensen on what makes Wacken the world's best metal fest
- Watch a giant Japanese kid’s TV character play death metal in a shopping mall
- Five minutes alone with Hellyeah's Vinnie Paul
- March 6
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- The 10 best video games of all time, by Pulled Apart By Horses' James Brown
- Listen to a demented, 70-minute remix of an iconic Phil Collins drum break
- Meet the man behind THAT Lemmy fire pit
- The very best bits of Iron Maiden, by the Iron Maidens
- Deep Purple: 50 years in, where will the adventure take them next?
- Watch Corey Taylor freestyle Spandau Ballet in the studio
- The Wall Revisited
- Feuer Frei! How Rammstein's fearless spirit made their best live movie yet
- March 4
- March 3
- March 2
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- How a great flood inspired Telepathy's new album
- Watch AC/DC's drums and bass replaced by a washing machine
- Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: "We never play the same show twice"
- Your track-by-track guide to the We Are X official soundtrack
- Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett has made a country punk album. And it's good.
- Devin Townsend: "I should never have taken a shit in Steve Vai’s guitar case"
- The 10 best Anti-Flag songs, by The Menzingers' Tom May
- Why Senseless Things are getting the band back together after 25 years away
- Tour Diary: The Raven Age
- March 1
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- The Black Angels: 21st Century Psychedelia
- Big Boy Bloater: "The ups and downs of touring keep you grounded"
- Ex-Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss previews his "kick-ass" live shows
- Danko Jones on porn, Kiss and being your own worst critic
- Anarchy in the UK: Walter Lure looks back on life as a Heartbreaker
- 8 things we learned at Complexity Fest
- Paul Draper Announces UK Tour
- Aaron Keylock launches acoustic version of No Matter What The Cost
- Let's party like it's 1399: The story behind Jethro Tull's Songs From The Wood
- Rob Reed's Favourite Welsh Prog Bands
- Our Hollow, Our Home's track-by-track guide to Hartsick
- They've been written off, broken up, reunited. Now Thunder want even more…
