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August 30
- Devin Townsend: "I can't overstate how The Dark Crystal affected me"
- J-metal fans rejoice! The first ever all-Japanese metal festival outside of Japan is coming to London!
- Tool's Fear Inoculum: Your definitive track-by-track guide
- The Holy Bible at 25: an anomaly, an education and a warning from history
August 29
- Check out this incredible cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters by Polish folk group
- Ginger Baker meets Herman Rarebell: pain, playing and marijuana
- Watch InMe's captivating video for new single Blood Orange Lake
- The Stray Cats: nine lives and still running wild
August 28
- The ultimate BBQ menu and playlist, by Texas Hippie Coalition's Big Dad Ritch
- The 10 most difficult guitar solos to play
- How Slipknot's Iowa changed the face of metal forever
- 10 Essential Garage Rock Albums
- Watch teenage girl's incredible drum cover of Slipknot's Unsainted
- How Rival Schools' United By Fate ushered post-hardcore into a new millennium
August 27
- Down by The Jesus Lizard: Celebrating 25 years of sonic mania
August 26
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Alter Bridge, Airbourne, The Hu and more
- Tool - Fear Inoculum review: an enigma inside Pandora’s box
August 25
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due by Megadeth: The story behind the song
August 24
- Hail Satan?: Why the new documentary might have you converting to Satanism
- 1994: The albums that changed the world
August 23
- Watch Dani Filth throw axes at Bloodstock Open Air!
August 22
- 7 Reasons to fall in love with Midgardsblot metal festival
- Could Sitar Metal be the next stars of global metal?
August 21
- Machine Head's Burn My Eyes: riots, religious cults and the album that rebooted metal
- Jimmy Page: how I brought my Dragon Telecaster back to life
- Why I love George Harrison and The Beatles, by Randy Bachman
- Jethro Tull: how loneliness and cold war spy thrillers shaped Minstrel In The Gallery
- Jane's Addiction: "The first alternative band to break - not Nirvana"
- Danny Gatton: the tragic story of the "the best guitar player that ever lived"
August 20
- The 10 best Lightning Bolt songs, as chosen by Wizard Rifle
August 19
- 4AD: a guide to the best albums
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Kris Barras Band, Opeth and more
August 15
- Ten bands who owe it all to The Beatles
- Win the Woodstock: Back To The Garden 5LP box set
- Get retro and necro with Norway's 8-bit occultists Darkhan
August 14
- The Ultimate Midgardsblot metal playlist!
- 10 of the best Steve Howe tracks
- Steve Howe: Prog God 2018
- Beer and loathing at Rock In Rio: the sordid story of a festival
- SST Records: a guide to the best albums
- The story behind Camel's Moonmadness
- Paradise Lost's Aaron Aedy on his prog heroes Voivod
- The miraculous story of Queen in the 1980s
- Reading and Leeds Festival 2019: Your ultimate guide, by the bands who will be there
August 13
- We saw Rammstein play two shows in the most metal city on the planet, and f**k!
- 10 greatest power metal albums as chosen by Northtale
- Woodstock ’94: inside the craziest festival of the 90s
- Meet the women redefining what it is to be metal
- Hollis Brown: making a blood-spattered journey from the garage to the stars
- The 10 best Eagles songs, as chosen by Walrus
- Paul Gilbert interview: I’m happy that anybody’s paying attention
August 12
- High-security prison, interrogation and solitary confinement: The harsh reality of being a metalhead in Iran
- How Scorpions ended Bloodstock 2019 on a high
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Phil Campbell, The Cold Stares and more...
August 11
- Parkway Drive proved all the haters wrong and owned it at Bloodstock 2019
August 10
- Battle cries, tanks and an impressive body count: How Sabaton conquered Bloodstock 2019
August 9
- Bloodstock Open Air 2019: The Ultimate Review
- Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind: Your ultimate track-by-track guide
- Listen to Slipknot's new album We Are Not Your Kind now
August 8
- Amon Amarth: Could they be the next Iron Maiden?
- Madder Mortem celebrate two decades with a transformative new track
- Why aren't Rotting Christ the biggest band in extreme metal?
- "It seemed like a joke": How Peaceville Records almost turned down Darkthrone's A Blaze In The Northern Sky
- Avant-black metal pioneers Blut Aus Nord embark on a thrilling new chapter
August 7
- The Ultimate Bloodstock 2019 playlist
- Bloodstock's New Blood: Up-and-coming metal bands you need to check out!
- The Netherlands' Asagraum reignite the true black metal spirit
- The first reaction to Tool's new single Fear Inoculum
August 6
- Vote for your favourite Lacuna Coil song!
- 10 bands you must see at Bloodstock 2019 as chosen by Krysthla
August 5
- The first reaction to Slipknot's new single Birth Of The Cruel
- Tracks Of The Week: new music and videos from Little Triggers, Iggy Pop and more
- Pop music doesn't have to be metal's enemy
- Red Method and Sikth's Mikee Goodman tackle dementia for a devastating new track
August 3
- Your Prog guide to Tool: the proggiest playlist
August 2
- Ozzy Osbourne's 10 craziest moments
- Watch Cosmic doomers Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard trippy new video for The Spaceships Of Ezekiel
- Marilyn Manson vs Courtney Love: The true story of 1999's Beautiful Monsters Tour
- Russian Circles' track by track guide to new album Blood Year
- 10 Essential Tool tracks to stream right now!
August 1
- Guess the famous musician behind Slipknot's masks
- The 10 best music apps to download right now
- Tool: the ultimate timeline of new album Fear Inoculum
- Def Leppard's Joe Elliott: The 10 Records That Changed My Life