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September 30
- Vote for the greatest thrash metal album ever
- This f**king insane year has just got the perfect soundtrack
- 10 metal bands who deserve way more love than they get
- Why I Love Meshuggah’s Chaosphere, by Carpenter Brut
September 29
- Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding: 10 albums that changed my life
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 2000
- Steve Hackett: the soundtrack of my life
September 28
- 8 things we want from the new AC/DC album
- "It’ll probably piss Doctor Who fans off" Rob Reed comes clean about that theme tune
- The Top 10 best horror video games
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Blood, Starbenders and more
- How Carcass twisted grindcore into repulsive new shapes on Symphonies Of Sickness
- What happened when Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen and Troy Donockley formed Auri
- Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: “I used to eat acid like M&Ms”
September 26
- The story behind Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds
September 25
- The 10 most OTT rock and metal stage sets ever
- The Top 50 best metal debut albums ever
- Dan Terminus just dropped the synthwave album of 2020
- Holy Moses revolutionised the 80s thrash scene. Why don't more people know about them?
- Good Charlotte: the album that taught pop-punk how to give a sh*t
- Ayreon's new album Transitus: where prog rock and Doctor Who finally meet
- Why John Bonham was a genius, by Mike Portnoy
September 24
- "Like Mark Lanegan covering the Velvet Underground": the album that's captured the lonesome sounds of lockdown...
- HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth
- We spoke to the metal-loving Satanic High Priestess running for Sheriff in New Hampshire
- Watch history being made as Marty Friedman auditions for Megadeth in 1989
- Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan: “Most of us don’t get to murdering, but we think of it day in and day out”
- Morpheus Project's new single Mozaick marks the arrival of a new force in prog
- Meet the grime-punk duo the music industry didn't want you to hear
- Dave Mustaine: “Drugs? Why would I want to glorify something like that?”
- Six things you need to know about... Crown Lands
September 23
- The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it
- US black metal visionaries Akhlys bring you the glorious stuff of nightmares
- The saviours of extreme metal are here, and they will spin your head off your shoulders
- Why James Dean Bradfield made an album inspired by a murdered Chilean activist
- How Blues Pills turned burn-out into brilliance and made the best album of their career
- The story behind the song: Budgie's Breadfan
September 22
- Ex-In Solitude guitarist Henrik Palm returns to mess with your mind
- The best wireless headphones 2021: Great sound without a tangle of wires
- Chris Motionless: 10 albums that changed my life
- If Limp Bizkit and Carpenter Brut had a baby, it would sound like Mimi Barks
- Geddy Lee: The Soundtrack Of My Life
September 21
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Black Stone Cherry, Austin Gold and more
- Joe Bonamassa just played a gig to an auditorium full of cardboard cut-outs
- This all-bagpipe cover of The Final Countdown is either the best or worst thing ever
- Lee Kerslake: the last interview
September 18
- The Top 10 best albums of 1988
- Cigarettes, alcohol and heroin: the inside story of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid
- The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Ausländer
- Kirk Hammett: how Jimi Hendrix accidentally invented Metallica
- Flying Colors release electrifying live album Third Stage: Live In London
- The Top 10 best skateboarders of all time
September 17
- The story of Spock's Beard and Snow
- Watch Maynard James Keenan deal with a stage invader by sitting on him
- Every Disturbed cover song ranked from worst to best
- What the hell is happening with Korn’s Kovers album?
September 16
- Extreme metal photographer Ester Segarra wants to realign you with the universe
- Beggar: the blackened sludge ragers whose riffs were forged in a war zone
September 15
- Inside AOR, the most under-appreciated sub-genre of all time
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: 10 albums that changed my life
- The 20 best rock albums of 1979
September 14
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Fish and more
- How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
- 10 essential Viking metal albums
- Rob Halford: “If I wanted some action on the road, how the hell was I supposed to go about it?”
September 12
- Neil Peart remembered
September 11
- Iranian metallers Confess escape the death penalty and unleash insurrectionary new track
- The Stray Cats' new live album is the best live music experience you're likely to get this year
September 10
- Venom Prison prepare to unleash all the rage live
- The 10 best Deep Purple songs from 1994 and beyond
September 9
- Jesse Leach's ultimate hardcore (and metal, and trip-hop) playlist
- Metallica’s cover artist on what it’s like to illustrate one of the biggest bands on the planet
- Pallbearer's Brett Campbell picks his five fave prog albums
- It's taken 50 years, but Mark Lanegan has finally confronted his past
- Think Deep Purple's best days are behind them? Think again
- Ihsahn: “You want artists who don’t give a f**k. That’s what metal is about”
September 8
- Vote for the best Rick Rubin album ever
- The Top 10 weirdest System Of A Down songs
- Why Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is the greatest live album ever
September 7
- The 20 best rock albums of 1978
- How ...And Justice For All changed Metallica forever
- Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and it only took them eight hours
- Tracks of the week: new music from Royal Republic, The Struts and more
- Do we really miss music festivals? (Spoiler alert: yes we do)
- ASMR for metalheads is a thing, and it’s brilliant
September 4
- How Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls became an epic triumph over adversity
- Watch System Of A Down destroy a festival with Chop Suey days before Toxicity came out
- The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Du Hast
- How Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater turned a new generation onto punk and metal
September 3
- So it looks like women still aren't allowed to headline Reading and Leeds
- The Story Behind The Song: Judas Priest’s Painkiller
- Watch Iron Maiden gatecrash a Polish wedding on the Powerslave tour
- How Led Zeppelin plundered music's past to create a blueprint for its future
- Biff Byford: the soundtrack of my life
- Layla and The Man Who Sold The World: the classic albums no one saw coming
September 2
- Drums, death and destruction: the story of Mountain's Corky Laing
- Lacuna Coil were the first metal band caught up in the pandemic. This is how they made it through
- How David Bowie returned to orbit and made Scary Monsters
- Clown suits and chaos: What happened when Jello Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco
- Thundermother: "I’m gonna be that crazy guitar player!"
September 1
- A rare glimpse into the mundane world of Axl Rose
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Electric Hydra, Little Triggers and more
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: “If you’re forging a new path it’s lonely”
- The Top 10 best metal albums of 2002
- The story behind Status Quo's Forty-Five Hundred Times
- The 20 best rock albums of 1977