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September 2020
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- September 30
- September 29
- September 28
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- 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
- September 25
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- 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
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- "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
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- 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
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- 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
- September 18
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- 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
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- September 9
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- 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
- September 7
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- 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
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- How Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls became an epic triumph over adversity
- Cannibal Corpse’s Gallery Of Suicide: the symphony of cruelty that kept death metal alive
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Elvis Costello: a guide to his best albums
- The 20 best rock albums of 1977
