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August 2020

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August 31
- Nailbomb’s Point Blank: the explosive legacy of 90s metal’s greatest supergroup
- Getting it together in the country. The story of Traffic
- Yes artist Roger Dean talks about his career so far
- Chthonic’s Freddy Lim: “To give a voice to oppressed people is the soul of the artist”
- Aversions Crown’s Mick Jeffrey: “Musicians sacrifice a lot of things to make other people happy”
August 28
- Decolonise Fest: the only place you'll find Kenyan punk rock and US post-punk on the same bill
- This 10-year-old has crushed Enter Sandman – and Kirk Hammett approves
- “This is far and away the best thing I’ve done for as far back as I can remember." Rick Wakeman and The Red Planet
- The story of Caravan's In The Land Of Grey And Pink
- Watch Bruce Dickinson being ‘killed’ onstage at his last gig before leaving Iron Maiden
- The best 104 releases you can buy on Record Store Day (Drop Day 1)
August 27
- The Top 10 best orchestral metal albums
- Everything you need to know about Avatar's new album Hunter Gatherer
- Randy Blythe: “I’d love to do a tour where we don’t have to take out metal bands”
- “I’m renovating a castle!”: why Zoltan Bathory’s lockdown has been busier than yours
- The epic story of The Outlaws, and why southern rock still matters
August 26
- The Pretty Reckless, Death By Rock And Roll and 2021's most anticipated rebirth
- We went to our first live gig since lockdown and this is what it was like
- 10 essential nu core bands you need to hear right now
- Walter Trout: the 10 records that changed my life
- Every King Diamond and Mercyful Fate album ranked from worst to best
- Power Trip’s Riley Gale: “Who cares about trying to make history? Just live your life the way you want to”
August 25
- Metallica Week: The Ultimate Archive – the albums, the interviews, the songs
- 100 gecs are the sound of full-blown chaos – and now Fall Out Boy are joining in
- Metallica Mondays: Your ultimate guide to every show
- The 20 best rock albums of 1976
- How Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake ended up playing on the new Imperial Triumphant album
August 24
- Robb Flynn: “I’m having twice as much sex as before the pandemic. It could have been worse.”
- How to sound like Metallica’s Kirk Hammett
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, The OBGMs and more
- How to sound like Metallica’s James Hetfield
- The best Metallica merch 2022: amazing gifts for the Metallica fan in your life
- Anthrax’s Scott Ian: why I love Kiss Alive!
August 22
- Forget Dirt – Facelift is Alice In Chains’ most influential album
August 21
- The 20 best rock albums of 1975
- The Damned: punk's old dogs pick up ferocious new tricks
- Bright Eyes' Down In The Weeds... is a powerful collage of grief and resilience
- Wrestling, homemade instruments, and the world's strangest Guns N' Roses cover
- The Story Behind The Song: Avenged Sevenfold’s Beast And The Harlot
August 20
- The Top 10 best metal albums of 1989
- Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst: “I’m Dr Frankenstein and the guy in the red cap is my creature”
- Jakko Jakszyk takes us behind the scenes of his Trouble With Angels video
- Live music and the road ahead
- The best metal albums of 2020 so far
- Metallica’s Death Magnetic: how the kings of metal reclaimed their throne
- Lars Ulrich: “There’s not a f**king moment I’d change”
August 19
- Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström: 10 albums that changed my life
- Massive Wagons: booze, blood, and the British Legion
- Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman: My Life Story
- 10 essential black’n’roll albums
- The story behind Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty's Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
- Listen to Megadeth’s Holy Wars… get the country-bossanova-reggae treatment it deserves
August 18
- This is what Britpop looked like to an American
- This student picked up his exam results dressed as GWAR’s Oderus Urungus
- Entombed AD’s LG Petrov: “Cancer doesn’t have feelings. It’s just maximum bad luck”
August 17
- Could this tribute to Slayer be the feelgood hit of the summer?
- This Is Endless drag the golden age of extreme metal into 2020 on crushing new song As I Suffocate
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Brothers Osborne, Piston and more
- The Top 10 best Iron Maiden album opening songs
August 16
- Peter Gabriel: my life story
August 15
- The story behind the debut album from Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
- The quiet life and sober times of Peter Frederick Way
- The Top 10 best albums of 2001
August 14
- Watch this one-armed super-drummer nail Slipknot’s Duality
- The Story Behind The Song: Alestorm’s Captain Morgan’s Revenge
August 13
- Rhode Island’s Kingsmen are making crushing music to get us through the dark times
- Deftones’ White Pony: the explosive story of a post-nu metal classic
- The OBGMs are what punk music should sound like in 2020
- We picked our fantasy cast for the Ozzy biopic so Hollywood doesn't have to
- Robby Krieger interview: life in The Doors, the wonder of acid, and dealing with crazies
- Watch Jason Momoa bust out some Red Hot Chili Peppers on his brand new bass
August 12
- Bully have just released the song of the summer that never was
- 2020’s essential upcoming metal albums
- Tropical F**k Storm's new single is what happens when pot-smoking teenage morons grow up
- Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton: My Life Story
- Death metal with wild boars singing the vocals is as genius as it sounds
- Chris Motionless: “It’s annoying seeing the Kardashians in Slayer T-shirts”
August 11
- 10 times metal hit the headlines for the wrong reasons
- 156/Silence’s savage madness proves Pittsburgh is hardcore’s new frontier
- Grab Amazon Music HD now and get 90 days of crystal clear audio for free
- The 20 best rock albums of 1974
- Why HIM’s Love Metal is the greatest goth album of the 21st century
August 10
- Martin Birch: a life in 10 essential albums
- “We were four f**king dummies from Birmingham”: the epic story of the birth of Black Sabbath
- Vote for the greatest prog musician of all time
- Where to buy the coolest face masks with a rock and metal twist
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Thundermother, Black Stone Cherry and more
- Make Them Suffer: “There’s an epidemic of suicide in our society. It’s horrible to see”
- Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach: why I love Angel Dust by Faith No More
- The Top 10 best albums of 1992
August 9
- Vredehammer: where Stephen King meets death metal
August 8
- “I’ve taken a difficult period of my life and turned it into a positive"- Antimatter come clean on Black Market Enlightenment
- The story of 10cc's The Original Soundtrack
August 7
- Shavo Odadjian on his new band North Kingsley and the future of System Of A Down
- The wisdom of Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden's frontman on creativity, cancer and cocaine
- Why I ❤️ Possessed’s Seven Churches, by Ghost’s Tobias Forge
- Avatar’s track by track guide to new album Hunter Gatherer
August 6
- Watch Tallah tear nu-metal a new one on monstrously heavy new single Placenta
- The 10 best Elliott Smith songs, by the White Buffalo
- Joe Satriani interview: the soundtrack of my life
- Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water: inside Limp Bizkit’s obnoxious masterpiece
- Imperial Triumphant: “Some people have their minds blown, some people think we’re pure sh*t”
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy: “M Shadows saved my voice”
August 5
- This blues rock version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy will make Joe Bonamassa consider a career change
- The new video by Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse is a trippy vision of lockdown bliss
- Every Rage Against The Machine album ranked from worst to best
- How The Beatles made Revolver, the album that changed Everything
- Bloodbather are the insane sound of hardcore, death metal and EDM colliding
- Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: “There are more better days than bad days”
August 4
- Metallica: we sacrificed Jason to save ourselves
- Marillion's Steve Hogarth: the soundtrack of my life
- The 20 best rock albums of 1973
August 3
- The 12 best videos from Rammstein's depraved cinematic universe
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Christopher Shayne, Gorilla Riot and more
- Jerry Cantrell says James Hetfield is the greatest frontman in metal and we're not about to disagree
- 10 essential proto-black metal albums
- Periphery’s Spencer Sotelo: “You aren’t going to make money being in a metal band”
- The Top 10 best albums of 1993
August 1
- How Sir Alan Parker made Pink Floyd The Wall – the movie