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- December 31
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- December 22
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- Metal visionaries Kim Holm and Costin Chioreanu recreate a Lovecraftian nightmare for our times
- How Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou made 2020’s strangest and best collaboration
- Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: “Pop is like a giant tub of sh*tty candy, but metal is a filet mignon”
- Metal Hammer writers’ top metal albums of 2020
- December 21
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- Watch: Blondie were the best and bravest band of 70s, 80s, and 90s – here's why...
- Watch: Bryan Adams and the making of Reckless
- Nightwish’s Floor Jansen: “The way that things are now aren’t the way things are for life”
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Starbenders, No Fit State and more
- The Top 5 best black metal albums of 2020
- Every Morbid Angel album ranked from worst to best
- Will the real Taylor Momsen please stand up?
- December 18
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- These are Kirk Hammett’s favourite Kirk Hammett guitar solos
- Rotting Christ co-founder returns to raise Hell with Yoth Iria
- Killer Be Killed’s Max Cavalera: “The Pope should listen to our new album”
- Twin Temple are the Satanic doo-wop duo metal fans have embraced
- Metallica: “We’re taking this time to create and try new things”
- Mike Campbell on The Dirty Knobs, Fleetwood Mac, and the ghost of Tom Petty
- Tyler Bryant: how I made my lockdown album
- The inside story of the return of AC/DC: how Angus Young and Brian Johnson Powered Up
- December 17
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- The 12 Emo Songs of Christmas
- The 10 best albums of 2020 you haven't heard
- Mr Bungle’s Mike Patton: “We wanted this to be the most f**ked-up reunion ever”
- Ghostemane: 10 albums that changed my life
- Paul Rodgers: a guide to his best albums
- David Bowie: how Hunky Dory was made
- The 100 greatest rock songs of the century... so far
- December 16
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- The 50 best albums of 2020
- The 10 best livestreams of the year
- Spiritbox: the post-metalcore trio set to own 2021
- “I’d been preparing for this my whole life”: the tragedy and triumph behind the birth of Ghost
- The Top 10 best death metal albums of 2020
- Cult Heroes: the audacious return of Blue Oyster Cult
- The 10 worst rock albums this century according to everyone else
- December 15
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- The story behind The Mute Gods' Atheists And Believers
- 10 new bands you need to watch out for in 2021
- In Trance by the Scorpions: the story behind the song
- The future of Jane's Addiction and chocolate digestives with Perry Farrell
- Black Stone Cherry: "We had to fight for our integrity, stand up for our sound"
- December 14
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- This is the only hurdy gurdy cover of System Of A Down’s Toxicity you need to hear today
- Tracks of the Week: new music from AC/DC, Hot Breath and more
- These orchestral covers of Death songs are almost as good as the originals
- Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon: “I try to make my metal as soulful as I possibly can”
- The album that killed Tesla, by Brian Wheat
- December 13
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- Grandson interview: "I don’t do a good job of throwing up my hands and going 'f**k it'"
- How trap metal anti-icon Ghostemane became the new king of the misfits
- These were Dimebag Darrell’s 10 favourite songs, according to Vinnie Paul
- Amaranthe’s Elize Ryd: ‘You cannot take music forward if you sound like everyone else’
- December 7
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- Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal
- Vote for the best album of 2020
- Tracks of the Week: new music from The Hu, Greta Van Fleet and more
- Win virtual VIP tickets to Lockdown Live: Streaming Of A White Christmas with The Darkness
- Slipknot announce 2021 European tour dates
- DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara: ‘I’m not gonna say no to a new Coal Chamber album’
- How the New York Dolls' appetite for self-destruction cost them their career
- December 6
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- December 2
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- Side projects, solo albums and ukulele jams: the best of the Pearl Jam extended universe
- The Story Behind The Song: Scorpions’ Rock You Like A Hurricane
- Greg Puciato: ‘Dragging the dying corpse of Dillinger Escape Plan across the world was not healthy’
- Volbeat's 12 favourite live albums
- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1997
- December 1
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- The Top 10 best Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden songs
- Pothamus have given this crazy year the epic post-sludge soundtrack it deserves
- Every Rob Zombie and White Zombie album ranked from worst to best
- From prog metal to folk and the Foo Fighters: how Brothers Osborne paid their dues
- 10 examples of the supernatural genius of Jaco Pastorius
