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October 31
- Hail to the king, baby! Why metal is obsessed with The Evil Dead
- When Dani Filth met Hellraiser’s Doug ‘Pinhead’ Bradley
- Death Tribe’s Beyond The Red Light District: A Canal Experiment album is the sound of defiant resistance
- 10 killer videos of bands playing gigs in Halloween costumes
October 30
- Listen to the synth-pop demo that got a pre-Korn Jonathan Davis viciously bullied at high school
- Puscifer: “We can get swallowed in the burning hellfire of social media or we can take a step back”
- The 10 creepiest metal songs ever
October 29
- “Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA
- We asked Dez Fafara one question about 2020, and his answer was heartbreaking and inspiring
- Sex, stimulants and snake eyes: How Ace Of Spades sent Motorhead stellar
- Pete Way: the life and times of the ultimate badass bassist
October 28
- UK black metallers Tableau Mort put the 'Roman' into 'Necromancy'
- Therapy, rebirth and the ghosts of the past: the inside story of Deftones’ Ohms
- Nihilistic nu metal with electro-punk attitude? Wargasm have got it covered
- 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut
- Uriah Heep and the slow road to ruin
- Kiss, bingo, and a towel problem: on the road with Judas Priest in 1979
October 27
- Elemental Icelanders Katla reveal the ancient art of the curse
- Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith: “When we hit America things kicked in with booze and drugs, using it as a crutch”
- Missing live music? Asylums have got you covered
- The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever
- Scott Weiland's 10 favourite Scott Weiland songs
- Steven Wilson interview: "the cult of personality is a big part of what makes rock music tick"
October 26
- The sad story of White Lion, the band that was allowed to die
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Cadillac Three, All Them Witches and more
- Bloodywood: the Indian metal stars who broke the internet
- 10 bands whose debut album was their best
October 24
- If you wanted to hear Metallica’s So What? in the style of S&M2, it’s your lucky day
October 23
- The Story Behind The Song: In The End by Linkin Park
- 10 insanely brilliant ‘metalsploitation’ horror movies everyone should see
- 'Rebellion is well-known to us': inside Mexico's vital underground music scene
- Kenyan noise kings Duma make industrial grindcore like you’ve never heard it before
- Watch a one-man mosh pit lose his sh*t at Rage Against The Machine’s very first public gig
- How well will you do in The Ludicrously Difficult Blondie Quiz?
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda: “We never wanted to be part of nu metal”
October 22
- The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs of all time
- Corey Taylor: “I’m pissing in the face of elitists”
- 10 bands who wouldn’t exist without Korn
October 21
- "I'm not very good at writing songs. None of us in the Earth Band were." Manfred Mann and the story of his Earth Band
- 10 obscure but brilliant noise rock albums you need in your life
- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness: the monumental masterpiece that killed grunge
- Who needs Satan when you can have proto-feminist demon worship with your death metal?
- Metal album covers recreated with Batman characters is the best thing you’ll see today
- Keith Moon's 10 craziest stunts
- Crazy, overblown and brilliant: How Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman made Bat Out Of Hell
October 20
- 10 brain-melting prog albums that are as heavy as any metal band
- 15 things you didn’t know about Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine
- How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
- All Them Witches: alluring sounds from rural Arkansas via Abbey Road
- Biffy Clyro interview: "We’re as good a live band as any fucker in the world"
October 19
- Howlin' Wolf - a guide to his best albums
- The story behind Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crobot, Larkin Poe and more
- Power Trip’s Riley Gale: the modern metal hero who was one of us
- Win a signed Angus Young Gibson SG guitar
- Why I ❤️ Slayer’s Seasons In The Abyss, by Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg
October 16
- Leaking albums used to hurt bands. Now it can kill them off completely
October 15
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “The way I was going I was gonna kill myself, dying from drinking”
- Beabadoobee's Fake It Flowers: an authentic grunge album for the 21st century
- 10 essential symphonic black metal albums
- Palaye Royale: Six things you need to know
October 14
- The best Amazon Prime Day whisky deals 2020: Grab a last minute bargain
- “Scream for me, Long Beach!”: down the front on Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour
- Every Sepultura album ranked from worst to best
- Slipknot songs on the hurdy gurdy are almost as good as Slipknot songs on the guitar
- Tommy Lee interview: rock'n'roll has become too safe, and that's kinda sad
October 13
- The Top 10 best Mr Bungle songs
- The story behind Search And Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges
October 12
- Watch HIM’s Ville Valo killing it on slap-bass in a funk metal band in 1992
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Struts, Starbenders and more
- The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever
- Listen to Linkin Park and Lady Gaga get the mash-up they’ve always deserved
October 9
- The A-Z of Five Finger Death Punch
- The Top 10 best ’90s Slayer songs
- Lzzy Hale: The Soundtrack Of My Life
October 8
- First reaction: Linkin Park's Pictureboard, the song fans waited 20 years to hear
- Mayhem's Teloch beams down to planet synthwave
- Elliott Smith 25th anniversary edition: a careful tribute which lays an artist bare
- Pallbearer: “We’d build a campfire, talk over beers, listen to gunfire”
- Mystifier: the unholy Brazilian occultists who took metal to blasphemous new depths
- John Lee Hooker: a guide to his best albums
October 7
- A tribute to the explosive genius of Eddie Van Halen
- Ihsahn: 10 albums that changed my life
- Here's everything we know about AC/DC's Power Up album so far
- The world of rock mourns as tributes to Eddie Van Halen pour in
- AC/DC's Shot In The Dark: the first reaction
October 6
- Van Halen: the story of the debut album that saved rock
- The 10 best Eddie Van Halen guitar solos
- Eddie Van Halen – the 1978 interview
- Why I love Van Halen’s debut album, by Steel Panther’s Michael Starr
- Canada's doom mystics Völur invite you to their death cult
- Salem: life-affirming pop-punk for people who want to f**k witches
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1987
- Hardcore wasn't made for people with nothing to say - so it's time to listen to Sharptooth
- AC/DC’s Back In Black: the story behind the greatest riff in history
- This yacht rock version of Judas Priest’s Electric Eye will make it seem like 2020 isn’t happening
- Why I Love Ghost’s Prequelle, by Dani Filth
- Chaos, cash and Caligulan excess: How Emerson, Lake & Palmer made Brain Salad Surgery
October 5
- Megadeth’s So Far, So Good… So What!: the chaotic story of thrash’s most f**ked-up album
- Blue is the new black: inside the otherworldly universe of A.A. Williams
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, the Byson Family and more
October 4
- Yes, this is Mike Patton covering Mötley Crüe at a high school talent show in 1985
- The Top 10 best Iron Maiden videos
October 3
- Genesis. The longs? Or the shorts?
October 2
- Watch an unrecognisable Layne Staley fronting hair metal-era Alice In Chains in 1986
- Metal photographer Jeremy Saffer has published a book of nude photography – with a black metal twist
- How Public Enemy wrote the perfect soundtrack to a brutal year
- “Metallica’s best years are ahead of us”: 12 months in the life of metal’s biggest band
- Meet the artists leading Argentina's feminist revolution
- How Oceans Of Slumber went to the edge and back to make the most vital prog metal record of 2020
- The Story Behind The Song: In Flames’ Only For The Weak
October 1
- How No Prayer For The marked the end of an era for Iron Maiden
- Corey Taylor’s track by track guide to CMFT: “I’m making fun of people who think they know who the f**k I am”
- Best Amazon Echo devices 2025: which is the right one for music fans?
- Watch Enslaved perform Utgard - The Journey Within
- Glenn Hughes: the soundtrack of my life
- 10 times an artist covered someone else's album, from the fantastic to the foolish