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- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1996
- 12 essential Queen books: Explore the world of the UK’s best-loved rock champions
- Why I ❤️ The 3rd And Mortal’s Tears Laid in Earth by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen
- Why I ❤️ Genesis's Selling England By The Pound, by Fish
- Whacked-out occultists, scary séances, and the saga of Uriah Heep's Demons And Wizards
- How Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding inspired an AC/DC tradition
- April 21
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- Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher is here to help you win on claw machines every single time
- The mad genius of Jim Steinman in seven glorious songs
- Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix: “The TikTok cover of Last Resort? That sh*t is slapping!”
- Get ready for the Get Ready: what Damon Johnson did next
- How Mick Jagger made the greatest blues album he's never released
- Drug abuse, violence, and the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night
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- An epic interview with George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher, a hero for our times
- What the f**k is an NFT anyway?
- Svalbard’s Serena Cherry: “Metal’s not a utopia. If your face doesn’t fit, it’s hard to get attention”
- The story of Andrew W.K. and the most bizarre TV performance in music history
- Thunder: how we made All The Right Noises
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- The Top 20 best metal albums of 1992
- “Maybe bits of me don’t want to grow up. Maybe I am an escapist, a romantic. I dislike cynicism. It’s bad energy. Does that make me childlike?” Kate Bush on the inspiration behind Hounds Of Love
- The Story Behind The Song: My Dying Bride’s The Cry Of Mankind
- A love letter to a city: How Alice Cooper and Bob Ezrin made Detroit Stories
- April 8
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- Bust-ups, bankruptcy and backstabbing: how Burton C Bell escaped the wreckage of Fear Factory
- Sullivan King: 10 albums that changed my life
- Acolyte keyboard player Dave van Pelt chooses his favourite prog synth solos
- We got Hollywood Undead’s Johnny 3 Tears to make us the mixtape of his life
- Eric Bloom: The Soundtrack of my Life
- The story of Def Leppard's Jim Steinman sessions, the most expensive unreleased album ever
- Why I ❤️ The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, by Manfred Mann
- April 7
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- Mick Abrahams: "I quit Jethro Tull. I wasn't fired!"
- How to get into… Eyehategod
- 10 metal bands who went ‘soft’ – and were better off for it
- The Clash Albums Ranked From Worst To Best – The Ultimate Guide
- Blondie: The Soundtrack To My Life
- Meet the guy who hated The Clash's last album so much he re-recorded it for them
- April 6
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- How Tangerine Dream conquered the UK charts in the 70s
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: "Playing the guitar was one of the only ways I could express myself"
- We asked an Oxford professor what the hell Rammstein’s Mutter album is really all about
- The 10 best blues rock albums ever, by Walter Trout
- The ego has landed: Inglorious singer Nathan James strikes back
- April 5
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- Tetrarch’s intense new single Negative Noise will make you think nu metal never went away
- 20 things you didn’t know about Rammstein’s Mutter
- Smith/Kotzen: putting two guitarists together in a studio can be dangerous
- The 10 best Leon Russell songs, by Bruce Hornsby
- Brick by brick: how The Dirty Nil's one-step-at-a-time climb has finally paid off
- April 1
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- Catch up with all the latest from the Metal Hammer podcast
- The Story Behind The Song: System Of A Down’s Chop Suey!
- Best audiobooks about music 2024: Lose yourself in 10 of the best
- 11 Queen songs you never hear on the radio but should
- The return of Black Spiders: "Every song needs to punch you in the face"
- Revolution: The story of the lost pioneers of heavy metal
