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May 2017

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May 31
- The 10 best songs from Liverpool, as chosen by The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie
- Bill Ward on the early days of Sabbath and drumming on LSD
- Jesus Jones: "AC/DC is a major part of what we do"
- John Corabi - The 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Vintage Trouble: Where do you go once you've supported AC/DC?
- Richard Jobson explains why The Skids are back on the road
- Alter Bridge discuss their upcoming Download slot
- John Otway: "I haven’t lived a sensible moment in the last forty years"
- Gary Brooker on 50 years of Procol Harum
- Brother Firetribe: "Our songs will make you want to do push-ups or go for a run"
- How Swiss metallers Invoker are smashing the stigma around depression
- Horseneck: Tune in and freak out
- Meet the man who got James Hetfield involved in Addicted To Porn
- The Story Behind The Song: Coheed And Cambria's Welcome Home
- Meet Triverse Massacre, the band flying the flag for Northern death metal
- Why The Voynich Code are on a mission to put Portuguese metal on the map
- Meet Ghastly Sound and their furious, freewheeling sludge rock
May 30
- Wednesday 13's track-by-track guide to Condolences
- Meet Deathless Legacy: Horror-mad and Rob Zombie-approved
- The 10 records that changed my life, by Jacob Bannon
- Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg goes more Viking than he's ever gone before
- How metal is The Raven Age's Michael Burrough?
- Fresh Meat: Introducing your new favourite metal bands
- Vallenfyre: "The first album was so personal I didn't want to release it"
- 10 things we learned at Slam Dunk Festival 2017
- Ulver: "The idea that pop music’s easy to make is a myth"
- The secret world of SiKth's Mikee Goodman
- Meet the Lebanese bands using music to fight oppression
- Ocean Grove: "We're trying to change perceptions"
- Worlds Apart: What happened when Tesseract went to South Africa
- Of Mice & Men: "We didn't know if we'd play another show together"
- Men On Fire: We joined Bury Tomorrow on their biggest ever UK tour
- The ultimate festival preview of 2017
- How Rage Against The Machine sparked a revolution – in the new issue of Hammer!
- The 10 best hardcore albums, as chosen by Mutoid Man's Ben Koller
- Still Raging: Why the world needs a band like Prophets Of Rage
- Guerrilla Radio: The influences behind Rage Against The Machine
May 29
- New Band Of The Week: Nine Shrines
May 28
- The story behind the song: Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
May 27
- Enter the eerie and fantastical world of metal artist David Thiérrée
May 26
- Every Miss May I album in their own words
- The Tidal Sleep stream new album Be Water in full
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Roger Waters, Triggerfinger and more...
- 50 Things You Might Not Know About Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- TR+ Singles Club: Long John and the Killer Blues Collective
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
May 25
- What happened when The Who took on America
- Is Led Zeppelin III the band's most important record?
- Wednesday 13: Condolences, serial killers and movie soundtracks
- We went to the Marillion weekender and this is what happened
- Progstock: "If we don’t reach our targets, we won’t be able to pull it off"
- Paperlate: Lonely Robot's John Mitchell confronts filming at gigs
- Aswekeepsearching: The world's only Hindi post-rock band
- It's Prog, Jim, But Not As We Know It: Stevie Wonder
- Sepultura's Andreas Kisser pays tribute to his prog heroes Yes
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusade: In a word (or several)
- Steven Wilson: "I have a strong personality and I don’t need to hide it anymore"
- Limelight: Meet Edensong, where metal and classical music collide
- Limelight: Introducing Barock Project
May 24
- Limelight: Meet Kaprekar’s Constant - "We’re trying to work out who we are"
- Limelight: Introducing enchanting chamber pop trio Beatrix Players
- Pallas’ Graeme Murray gives us a glimpse into his prog world
- Damenek's Guy Manning: "The clock is ticking, humans are wiping themselves out"
- We take a look through Steven Mackintosh's record collection
- Bands tell us what to expect from this year's Be Prog! My Friend festival
- Voyager: "We are progressive in many ways"
- Cosmic Drama: How Voivod became prog metal pioneers
- Carl Palmer remembers ELP: "I can't believe we called a prog album Love Beach"
- 10 bands you need to watch at Slam Dunk festival 2017
- Trinity Live 2017 Preview: Lonely Robot
- Allan Holdsworth: The final interview
- "We've been going 50 years, it's time to make some effort." Procol Harum reflect on their golden era
- Tour Diary: Ohhms in the UK
May 23
- Lonely Robot: Space-themed exploration and sonic sounds
- The Outer Limits: How prog are Temples?
- Public Service Broadcasting on the story behind their new concept album
- Solstafir: "A band is a glacier – there's a lot of stuff no one sees"
- Roger Waters: Is this the life he really wants?
- Galley Beggar: Where folk meets psych-rock
- Anathema: "The more we’re made to suffer, the more we’re made to care"
- How Mark Wilkinson created the artwork for Marillion's Clutching At Straws
- The inside story behind Marillion's Clutching At Straws
- Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik – The Ten Records That Changed My Life
May 22
- Manic Street Preachers: "We always wanted to be massive"
- John Mellencamp: "I see the truth and the lie in everything"
- Identity crisis: How Jason Isbell finally found his voice
- Finnish grindcore kings Rotten Sound release a sense-shattering new video
- Are Aerosmith really hitting the road for the very last time?
- Oceano's track-by-track guide to Revelation
- Black Lips: Is it time to rein in the anarchy?
- New Band Of The Week: Casey
May 20
- Genesis Play Spot The Pigeon
May 19
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- Tracks of the Week: music and videos from Soundgarden, Royal Blood and more...
- TR+ Singles Club: The Cuckoos
- Who and what the hell are Sleep Token?
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- How Brandon Mendenhall overcame his cerebral palsy to make a metal record
- The 10 best Dillinger Escape Plan songs, as chosen by Blood Youth
May 18
- Why Devildriver are making a country album
- The Dives: introducing the new kings of New York power pop
- Celebrating the genius of Chris Cornell
- Dutch masters of the macabre, Carach Angren, unveil a grisly new video
- The top 10 best Noel Gallagher tracks, as chosen by The Stands' Howie Payne
- Romanus Records: the little label that's reinventing vinyl
May 17
- Meet The Weeks: Mixing southern swagger with indie-rock edge
- Introducing Hunter & The Bear: "We're not one-trick ponies"
- Atmospheric black metallers Der Weg Einer Freiheit unleash a thrilling new video
- Listen to Steak's new album No God To Save
- Bad Mannequins: "We like to play with the tensions of everyday life"
- Trinity Live 2017 Preview: Touchstone
- Behind-the-scenes on Cypher16's video at the Natural History Museum
May 16
- Getting to grips with the Steven Wilson ID Series Signature guitar
- Anathema: "We don’t write about politics. Our stuff is a personal story"
- Introducing The Brothers Osborne: "Rock’n’roll is about attitude"
- Royal Trux: “We thought we were avant-garde, but now I guess we’re classic rock"
- Maiden's Voyage: What happened at Iron Maiden's UK shows?
- Here's Meshuggah played on a shovel – WTF?!
- Five minutes alone with Wednesday 13
- The story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid
- Kids react to Red Hot Chili Peppers
- 12 Iron Maiden songs inspired by TV and movies
- Xander And The Peace Pirates: Blues for a brave new world
- Jacob Bannon: Wear Your Wounds, Jane Doe and discovering music
- The 10 best songs by The Specials, as chosen by Little Hurricane's CC Spina
May 15
- Progressive post-black metallers Foscor unveil a mesmerising new video
- Listen to Higher Power's debut album Soul Structure
- Angie Bowie: David was "just another dude trying to make a buck"
- Earth, Wind & Ozzys is the funkiest thing you'll hear today
- Thee MVPs: "Constant exhaustion can lead to good riffs sometimes"
May 13
- Eight Crazy Tour Cancellations
May 12
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Steven Wilson, Vintage Trouble and more...
- Blood Youth's track-by-track guide to Beyond Repair
- TR+ Singles Club: Low Cut Connie
- Why Jacob Bannon locked himself away in the dunes for his new album
- The Black Crowes and the making of The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
May 11
- Why Camden Rocks is special, by Feeder's Grant Nicholas
- London's extreme metal extravaganza, Incineration Festival returns this weekend
- Louise Distras: "Punk rock saved my life!"
- Progressive post-metallers Ulsect stream their enthralling new album in full
- The 11 best Clutch songs, as chosen by CKY
May 10
- Pink Floyd's Mortal Remains
- Trinity Live 2017 Preview: Ghost Community
May 9
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
- How to curate a music festival, by Baroness' John Baizley
- 10 stunning highlights from Pink Floyd's Their Mortal Remains exhibition
- Every Frank Turner album in his own words
- System Of A Down's BYOB played on a cello in a fancy restaurant
May 8
- What do old people think of Rammstein?
- New Band Of The Week: Coltana
- What the Unstoppable Rise of Guns N' Roses Looked Like From The Inside…
May 7
- Clive Brooks Remembered
May 5
- The best alt.rock albums of all time, as chosen by Maximo Park's Duncan Lloyd
- Tracks Of The Week: new music and videos from Halestorm, Inglorious and more...
- TR+ Singles Club: Neon Animal
- 5 things we learned at the first date of Iron Maiden's UK tour
- We got 3teeth to pick their 10 favourite Tool songs
- The best new metal albums you can buy this week
May 4
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
- The top 10 best Foo Fighters songs, as chosen by The Nyx
- WWE NXT Superstar Aleister Black's Top 8 Bands To Watch At Download
- Oxbow's track by track guide to new album Thin Black Duke
May 3
- Enter the bleakly beautiful world of Toronto doom crew Völur
- Listen to The Voynich Code's new album Aqua Vitae in full
- For Whom The Bell Tolls played on bells because obviously
- Trinity Live 2017 Preview: Kim Seviour
- Bang bang! Rammstein return to Metal Hammer for a world exclusive
May 2
- Rejoice! Sgt. Pepper has been re-written to tell the story of Star Wars
- Introducing 3TEETH, a Tool-approved industrial delight
- We gatecrashed Dimmu Borgir’s studio for an update on their new album
- Meet Widow, the stoner-punk quartet setting the UK ablaze
- The Vicious Head Society: Guaranteed sci-fi metal satisfaction
- Alter Bridge: the story behind Metalingus
- Meet Loathe, the band who refuse to have their sound pigeon-holed
- Exist Immortal: "You've never heard anything like us"
- Why Hometruths think it's time for the world to wake up
- Borders: "Big Pharma cares more about profits than cancer"
- Five minutes alone with System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian
- Just how metal is He Is Legend's Schuylar Croom?
- Pallbearer's Brett Campbell: "I've always been attracted to the extreme"
- The 10 records that changed my life, by WWE star Baron Corbin
- Fresh Meat: Introducing your new favourite metal bands
- Avatarium are taking their dramatic vintage rock into rich new pastures
- Full Of Hell: "It's a fortuitous time to be an aggressive band"
- Unchained Melody: Revisiting the influential Gothenburg sound
- Why Malevolence's new sound has the scene losing its sh*t
- How Northlane stared sorrow in the face to make their boldest album yet
- Meet Power Trip, a band determined to wreak havoc with the system
- Sol Survivors: Meet Solstafir, Iceland's biggest metal export
- Papa Roach: "We're shaking some sh*t up"
- Flogging Molly’s Dave King: My 10 Favourite Drinking Songs
- This acoustic cover of Slipknot's Duality is creepy as hell
- Beartooth are back and ready to take over the world
- We went to Dave Mustaine's Megadeth Boot Camp and this is what happened
- Rammstein: Have metal's mad scientists gone serious?