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August 31
- What happened when The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd played Knebworth
- The 10 best Japanese rock bands, as chosen by Marty Friedman
- Slipknot's Surfacing voted best song of the 90s
- 10 feminist anthems you should hear right now, as chosen by Petrol Girls
August 30
- What happened the night Brian Robertson got glassed at The Speakeasy
- My life in 10 records, by Ufomammut's Urlo
- Metal Blade Records: From Myspace to Manowar
- We talked to the guy that scored the Terminator films
August 29
- 9 things we learned at Reading festival 2017
- The Story Behind The Song: Saxon's And The Bands Played On
- Arch Enemy: How heavy metal can change the world
August 28
- What's it like when Axl Rose calls you out in a song?
- The story behind How You Remind Me by Nickelback
- The 10 best Architects songs, as chosen by Skies In Motion
- What happened when Status Quo played Lincoln Castle
- Steven Wilson's Guide To 10 Amazing Concept Albums You Might Have Missed
- New Band Of The Week: Shaman's Harvest
August 25
- Media Shouts 'Prog Is Back' As Steven Wilson Charts At No.3!
- TR+ Singles Club: Skam
- 10 things we learned at Summer Breeze 2017
- Tracks Of The Week: new music and videos from Ghost, War On Drugs and more...
- Queens Of The Stone Age: Villains and the true meaning of rock ‘n’ roll
- Steven Wilson: Everything You Need To Know
August 24
- Hypnotic psych rockers Ruby The Hatchet find magic in the Pennsylvania forests
- Revolution Saints: When Freedom really means freedom
August 23
- Listen to Hot Water Music's potent new single Complicated
- Rotten Sound frontman unveils the year's most horrifying album
- Vote for your favourite song of the 90s
- The biggest bands go head to head in Metal Hammer's State Of The Nation
- The 10 Best Ramones Songs, by CJ Ramone
August 22
- The 10 best songs from the 4AD back catalogue, as chosen by The Last Dinosaur
- Epic black metallers Der Weg Einer Freiheit stream their new album in full
- Portugal's doom destroyers Process Of Guilt unleash a monumental new track
- Stone Sour, Korn, Ghost, Lamb Of God, Megadeth and more star in Metal Hammer 300
August 21
- Fresh Meat: Introducing your new favourite metal bands
- Vulture Industries on the absurd, degenerate art and oblivion
- Chelsea Wolfe: "Magic and science are sometimes the same thing"
- Why the death of Sophie Lancaster should never be forgotten
- Make metal rage again: Why Prophets Of Rage are this year's most important band
- So, Joey Jordison: has modern metal's lost its edge?
- New Band Of The Week: Fizzy Blood
August 20
- What does it take to survive as a band in the modern metal scene?
- Does metal take itself too seriously?
- Has modern metal become too narrow-minded?
August 19
- Is there space for politics within metal music?
- Can metal rule the world again?
- Jonathan Davis: "Metal needs to evolve"
August 18
- Can extreme metal break the mainstream?
- Watch Bill Bailey's Hilarious Guest Speech For Peter Gabriel At The Prog Awards
- Phantoms choose their 10 favourite Linkin Park songs
- The Darkness, Kadavar and more are in today's Tracks Of The Week. Vote Now!
- What makes a metal band?
- Six Things We Learned About The New Slipknot Movie
- Corey Taylor and Randy Blythe: The Big Debate
August 17
- Dave Mustaine: Thrash metal and the pursuit of happiness
- Iceland's epic black metallers Auðn go for glory with their stunning new album
- The 10 best After The Burial songs, as chosen by The Cartographer
August 16
- Every Celtic Frost album, in Tom G. Warrior's words
- Vote For The Album Cover Of The Year
- How metal is Epica's Simone Simons?
- The Grateful Dead's long and strange story: told in the new Classic Rock
- Meet Vein, the group on a mission to push hardcore forward
- So This Is Suffering are creating deathcore with a purpose
- The best 90s songs, as chosen by your favourite bands
- Headcrusher: "There’s way more to Texas than Pantera"
- Ex People: "We make doom songs about catcalling”
- Are Dead Cross the most unique supergroup ever?
- Meet Helpless, the new face of powerviolence
August 15
- We went record shopping with Steven Wilson and this is what happened
- Man makes Bohemian Rhapsody video with one note and 13 seconds of footage
- Meet Danny Fields, the man responsible for bringing punk to Britain
- From goth glory to intra-band chaos: the Gene Loves Jezebel story
- Alice Cooper: "Rock music should be arrogant, snotty and have real swagger"
- How Ronnie Montrose's final album came to life after his death
- Is PP Arnold the most overlooked soul singer of all time?
- Derek Trucks: "Oftentimes the things that come right after a slip are the best"
- The 9 best underground New Orleans bands, as chosen by Pears
- Meet Triggerfinger, the biggest Belgian band you've never heard of
- Chris Robinson: "We’re free to do whatever we want"
- All join together: the forgotten heroes of the jam-band community
August 14
- The untold story of Mr Big
- Lost in a jam: Gov't Mule
- What happens when Metallica collide with Earth, Wind and Fire
- The strange lives and far-out times of The Grateful Dead
- Watch Transatlantic Win Album Of The Year In 2014
- Unboxing Black Sabbath's Ten Year War vinyl box set
- Nergal with puppies is the cutest thing you'll see today
- Listen to North Atlas' moody new single Another Ocean
- 10 things we learned on the Sunday of Bloodstock 2017
- New Band Of The Week: Culture Abuse
August 13
- Mike D'Antonio's toy collection is the coolest and geekiest thing ever
- 10 things we learned on the Saturday of Bloodstock 2017
August 12
- 10 things we learned on the Friday of Bloodstock 2017
- The Story Behind The Song: Balls To The Wall by Accept
- We go inside the studio with Palm Reader
- Five minutes alone with Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler
August 11
- QOTSA, Joe Bonamassa, Primus and more... vote for your Track Of The Week
August 10
- Vote for the greatest debut album of all time!
- Philip Lewis: "The best advice I've ever been given was to get a vasectomy"
- Six things you need to know about Pond
- Greta Van Fleet: "There are worse things to be compared to than Led Zeppelin"
- Almost 10 years later, Ten Years After are back
- You can now own a pinball machine inspired by your favourite band
August 9
- Deep cuts: Riches from the rock underground
- The Dream Syndicate are back, but what took them so long?
- The Dirty Thrills: Blues, Politics, and good old-fashioned rock'n'roll
- Thunderstick: "Samson weren't just out to take drugs and find women"
- Chester Bennington: March 20, 1976 - July 20, 2017
- How do Lionize feel about making their Bloodstock debut?
August 8
- Glen Campbell, 1936 - 2017: The Man With The Perfect Voice
- Mike Dawes plays all of Metallica's parts for One on one guitar
- Watch Megadeth's entire set from Wacken festival 2017
- Prog Awards: Watch TesseracT Win Best New Band Back In 2012
- Watch Bret Michaels get attacked by a shark outside Buckingham Palace
August 7
- Korn give us the lowdown ahead of their UK dates
- Danger Danger: "There is no motivation to record another album"
- The Psychedelic Furs: "This is a reintroduction to our music"
- Former Thin Lizzy man Eric Bell opens up about his upcoming live date
- Why The Temperance Movement decided to take their new tunes to small rooms
- What does Bloodstock mean to Amon Amarth?
- New Band Of The Week: The OBGMs
August 4
- Black Country Communion, Gregg Allman and more... in Tracks Of The Week
- The best new rock albums you can buy this week
August 3
- The 10 best prog albums, as chosen by Chris Merrick Hughes
- Limelight: Meet Brother Ape and their mega riffs from Sweden
August 2
- Limelight: Orsome Welles introduce their metallic prog from Australia
- Limelight: Why is soundtrack composer Steve Gibbs moving over to prog?
- Limelight: Introducing Chicago avant-garde collective Cheer-Accident
- Meet Laurent Goldstein, the man who's just made a film about Magma
- Paperlate: Why bands can't always play your hometown
- Meet James Norbert Ivanyi, the Aussie bringing prog from down under
- It's Prog, Jim, But Not As We Know It: David Gates
- Depressed 7ft clown sings Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
- My Prog Hero: New Order bassist Peter Hook on Tony McPhee of Groundhogs
- Rick Wakeman's Caped Crusade: That's not my name!
- Fad gadgets: The gizmos putting the prog into progress
- Magenta's Rob Reed gives us a glimpse into his prog world
- Here Lies Man — where Black Sabbath meets Fela Kuti
- The Prog interview: John McLaughlin
- A Formal Horse: "We’re all smelly, longhaired rockers at heart"
- Edguy's Tobi Sammet: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
- Snarky Puppy: How a bunch of college kids became a Grammy-winning global concern
- What have Arch Enemy got in store for Bloodstock 2017?
August 1
- Lifesigns take us behind the scenes of their new album Cardington
- 10 highlights from our new Guns N' Roses Bumper Special Edition
- The Tangent's Andy Tillison on life and death, punk and prog
- Brexit, Charlotte Church and cat people: Inside Schnauser's new album
- Kim Seviour: "Wherever I’ve gone, I've taken singing with me"
- Mogwai talk us through their most ambitious album yet
- The Outer Limits: How prog are Alt-J?
- The 10 best songs about food, as chosen by Animal House
- Return of the synth: Introducing Mastodon side project Arcadea
- Paul Draper: "I didn’t go looking to be a solo artist"
- Tim Burness talks Marillion, reading the stars and recording with Daleks
- Tangerine Dream: "All we ask is that fans listen with open minds"
- What's it like being a drummer in a prog band when your dad is Mike Portnoy?
- Prog stars pick their favourite 80s prog-pop tunes
- From Dethklok to Galaktikon: The 10 best songs from Brendon Small
- Just how progressive was 1980s pop music?
- Steven Wilson and To The Bone: Pop? Prog? Or a bit of both?