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July 2020
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- July 31
- July 30
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- Go inside the chaos and carnage of Blood Red Throne's upcoming new album
- Creeper's new album is where 80s goth, rock opera and the apocalypse collide
- Nile’s Black Seeds Of Vengeance: the death metal classic that fought off nu metal – and won
- The Top 20 best Corey Taylor cover versions
- Now Donald Trump is singing Alice In Chains’ Man In The Box, because of course he is
- July 29
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- July 25
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- That time we got Slipknot to put together the ultimate 25 track mixtape
- Peter Green, Judas Priest, and the acid-induced nightmare of the Green Manalishi
- The Top 10 best albums of 1998
- How Back In Black brought AC/DC back from the dead
- Killswitch Engage’s The End Of Heartache: the epic anthem that kicked metalcore to the next level
- July 24
- July 23
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- My Morning Jacket just casually released the best psych pop album of 2020
- This man single handedly invented death metal… in 1979
- How Iron Maiden conquered The World
- Donald Trump singing Iron Maiden’s Run To The Hills is just as insane as you’d imagine
- Slash's 10 best guitar solos, from Guns N' Roses to Velvet Revolver and beyond
- 10 metal compilations that changed the world
- Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: “Everything is f**ked, but there are good things”
- July 22
- July 21
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- Metz are back with the chaotic noise-rock anthem of the summer
- A bunch of top metal drummers interview metal drum legend Gene Hoglan
- MMA superstar Josh ‘The Warmaster’ Barnett: 10 albums that changed my life
- Smack, strippers and Guns N' Roses: the chaotic road to Appetite For Destruction
- High On Fire’s Matt Pike: ”My amputated toe? F**k it, good riddance”
- July 20
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- This is what Metallica’s One sounds like with everything played on bass
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Starbenders, Crown Lands and more
- 10 essential Death’n’Roll albums
- Dub War’s Pain: ragga-metal and revolution on a lost 90s classic
- Metal album covers with Simpsons characters wins the internet today
- July 17
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- How prog were Queen?
- Avant-extreme metallers Voices get ready to party in purgatory
- Steve Albini: a guide to alt-rock's unsung hero
- Gavin Rossdale: "Our reviews improved once we stopped selling records"
- Still in session: 30 years of Therapy?
- Gavin Rossdale's track-by-track guide to Bush's new album The Kingdom
- Lonely Robot's John Mitchell chats with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing
- July 16
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- "I was thinking I was going to go down in history as the man who killed Howlin' Wolf": What happened when English rock royalty worked with a real blues icon
- Grunge? You can thank Black Flag for that
- "Purple is like an old love affair and love can be very close to hate": Deep Purple on chemistry, magic, and the birth of Perfect Strangers
- July 15
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- In 1980, Iron Maiden hit the road supporting Kiss. We were there
- The 10 best scenes from This Is Spinal Tap - and the inspiration behind them
- Joe Satriani: a guide to his best albums
- Watch this utter genius knock on doors in the style of Slayer, Metallica, Sabbath and more
- Asking Alexandria’s Ben Bruce and Danny Worsnop: “Someone presented their penis for us to sign”
- The Top 10 best albums of 2000
- July 14
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- The 20 best rock albums of 1970
- Dave Mustaine: “Go into politics? They'd only bring up the fact that I did heroin”
- Bleed From Within: how the ‘new Lamb Of God’ pulled back from extinction
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen: “After 20 years of metal, I would like to do something else”
- Mother Vulture: a vital, sweat-soaked, anarchic reminder of what's on the other side
- Watch: The Loud and Fast History of The Acacia Strain
- July 13
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- The best smart speakers 2023: Get the best bang for your buck
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Deep Purple, All Them Witches and more
- How Paradise Lost made the greatest British metal album of the 90s
- Metallica Mastermind quiz answers
- In Flames’ Whoracle: the inside story of a 90s melodeath classic
- The Top 10 best Celtic Frost songs
- That day that rocked the world: the chaotic story of Status Quo's Live Aid
- The Top 10 best James Hetfield guest appearances
- Amorphis’ Tomi Joutsen: “I’ve seen a lot of people on drugs and there’s no glory in that”
- July 12
- July 11
- July 10
- July 9
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- Paul Gray: the life and death of Slipknot’s quiet genius
- Black Sabbath, Birmingham, and the invention of heavy metal
- This Is Endless are taking death metal into a terrifying new future
- Can metal and indie exist side by side? This band have the answer
- The Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 Challenge #6: Local Band Portraits
- This ye olde medieval version of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters is next-level genius
- July 8
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- Every Tool album ranked from worst to best
- Better late than never: the story of Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
- Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf: My Life Story
- Best Funko Pop! figures and collectables 2024: Music icons, Marvel superheroes, Star Wars characters & more
- Check out footage of Zack de la Rocha playing guitar with his very first band
- July 7
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- The Top 10 best albums of 1990
- 10 things you didn’t know about Deftones’ White Pony
- Krautrock, communism and chaos: the anarchic story of Can
- Led Zeppelin: how Celebration Day happened
- Wishbone Ash interview: "There was some dickishness on both sides"
- How the greatest thrash band you’ve (probably) never heard made the comeback album of the decade
- Some genius has covered Metallica’s Enter Sandman in the style of Iron Maiden
- July 6
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- How to clean vinyl records, deal with scratches, and store LP records properly
- Why Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy Of Gold is more than just metal’s greatest intro music
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Jim Kirkpatrick, Low Cut Connie and more
- Megadeth’s Rust In Peace: the inside story of the greatest thrash album of the ’90s
- “I wouldn’t want anyone to go into my head”: how Bury Tomorrow’s Dani Winter-Bates learned to bare his soul
- July 5
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- July 3
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- Metallica’s Rob Trujillo: My Life Story
- The 10 best NWOBHM bands, by the man who gave the movement its name
- Kansas: an everyday story of success, failure, drugs, booze and jealousy
- When Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach invites you for a hike in a bear-infested wood, you don’t say no
- Crap 80s Metal Art is our new favourite thing
- Slept on boygenius? Now's the perfect time to fix that
- July 2
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- How Indonesia built the world’s most exciting underground metal scene
- Exclusive: listen to Imperial Triumphant’s insane new song City Swine – featuring Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake
- Confederate flags, suspicious cops and the dangers of touring America when Black
- Muddy Waters: a guide to his best albums
- New Years Day’s Ash Costello: “I try not to give a f**k, like Marilyn Manson”
- July 1
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- Culture Abuse's new compilation rips it up and starts again
- Say hello to Marshall's smallest ever portable speaker: the Emberton - on sale now
- Why I love Aerosmith, by Slash
- Bryan Adams: the surprisingly sexual story of Summer Of '69
- Why is no one talking about Phoebe Bridgers' best song?
- The best band merch and more 2023: Treat yourself to the internet’s loudest items
- This Sabbath-loving rapper is set to rule 2020
- Back-stabbing, bullying, busking: how The Clash disintegrated
