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June 2021

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June 30
- 10 obscure doom bands that should be huge
- 10 obscure but brilliant 80s bands who should've been huge
- The story behind The Spirit Of Radio by Rush
- How Helloween buried the hatchet and returned with one of the best albums of their career
- The story behind the album cover: Cream's Disraeli Gears
June 29
- 10 funk metal bands that time forgot
- Corey Taylor reveals the stories behind every song on Iowa
- Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx: 8 songs that changed my life
- Don Letts: the soundtrack of my life
- The Damn Truth: naked beginnings and arena-sized ambition
June 28
- 10 obscure but brilliant death metal albums you need in your life
- Exclusive: watch Skindred walk to the stage at Download Pilot 2021
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Journey, Bros and more
June 27
- 10 albums that changed my life, by Buckcherry’s Josh Todd
June 26
- How Mike Oldfield made Crises and ended up with a Top Five hit single!
June 25
- Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia: my life in 10 songs
- Lucy Dacus: The 10 albums that changed my life
- The 10 things we missed most about festivals
- Inside the space bubbles: How Flaming Lips cheated the pandemic
- Death-defying, Covid-defying, age-defying: Toto just keep getting bigger
- Paul McCartney: How I made Ram
June 24
- Iron Maiden's Steve Harris: 8 songs that changed my life
- From Sabbath to Slipknot: A complete history of Ozzfest
- The 10 best songs by 10 ska punk bands you’d forgotten ever existed
June 23
- The 50 greatest thrash metal albums ever
- The Death of Bobby Fuller: an untimely tragedy and an unsolved mystery
- Why I ❤️ Rush's A Farewell To Kings, by Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire
- Nazareth: a guide to their best albums
June 22
- Eddie Kramer: why I loved working with Led Zeppelin
- Joey Tempest: my stories of Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose, David Hasselhoff and more
- How Def Leppard made On Through The Night, by Joe Elliott
June 21
- How Jimi Hendrix set rock'n'roll ablaze and rewired the electric guitar forever
- Download 2025 festival tickets, lineup rumours, announcements and more
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Chris Catalyst, Garbage and more
- 10 goth albums you should definitely own
June 20
- Download Pilot as it happened: Music, moshing and a whole lotta rain
June 18
- The 10 greatest comic book heroes you’ve never heard of (unless you’re a comic book fanatic)
- Dizzy Reed: 10 records that changed my life
- The story behind Dreamer by Supertramp
June 17
- Synthwave is dead: how Perturbator embraced the dark side
- Michael Monroe: 10 records that changed my life
June 16
- Win £200 of gig tickets
- Why I ❤️ Montrose's debut album, by Thunder guitarist Luke Morley
- Jeff Beck: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan and more
- The story behind the song: (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding
June 15
- Six things you need to know about Dirty Honey
June 14
- Evile: the return of the kings of British thrash
- “Just headbang and yell at people”: the world according to Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder Fisher
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ghost Hounds, Frank Hannon and more
June 11
- "If all you know of his work with Return To Forever, you’re missing out on a remarkably rich and deeply fulfilling back catalogue." A tribute to the late Chick Corea
- Joe Bonamassa has just released the best damn blues concert you’ll experience all year
- The best 113 releases you can buy on Record Store Day (Drop Day 1)
- The 10 albums that changed Paul Gilbert's life
June 10
- How Radiohead shook up the record industry
- Inside the Metal Galaxy: why Babymetal have the most devoted fans on the planet
- Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt: My Life In 10 Songs
- Prepare yourselves: Epica are about to unleash the most bombastic livestream event of the year
- The gospel according to Myles Kennedy
- Classic Album Sundays: the healing power of giving yourself over to music and great hi-fi
- John Mellencamp: a guide to his best albums
June 9
- Max Cavalera: “Go Ahead And Die saved my sanity”
- The story of Curved Air's debut album Air Conditioning
- The Datsuns: out of hibernation and into the "horrifying" world of social media
- While She Sleeps’ Loz Taylor: “As you get older you realise you’re not going to live forever”
- Gojira’s Mario Duplantier: 10 drummers who changed my life
June 8
- The story behind the song: Hocus Pocus by Focus
- Pendragon: the journey to The Jewel
- Black Sabbath’s Master Of Reality: the inside story of 70s metal’s stoned masterpiece
- In the studio with Spiritbox: “A lot of our new record is about dealing with depression”
- Free download: Nick Perri & The Underground Thieves' album Sun Via
- 10 glam metal albums you should definitely own
- Eric Church interview: alpha males and soccer moms, NASCAR and AC/DC
- Bella Donna: How Stevie Nicks escaped chaos and proved a point
June 7
- Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel lets us rummage through his record collection
- The Story Behind The Song: Faith No More’s Epic
- Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson: 10 albums that changed my life
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Yngwie Malmsteen, Witch Fever and more
June 5
- Hedvig Mollestad on taming the mother of monsters on Ekhidna
June 4
- From Tubular Bells to Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom: Henry Cow's John Greaves comes clean
- The Story Behind The Song: DevilDriver’s Clouds Over California
- The 50 greatest cult metal bands of all time
- How AC/DC conquered the world from the back of a van
June 3
- Is The Kinks' Arthur a lost prog classic?
- “People shouldn’t be scared of dying”: why Eyehategod’s Mike Williams is metal’s ultimate survivor
- Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon: “I met Alice Cooper when I was tripping on mushrooms”
- 10 grunge albums you should definitely own
June 2
- "We never thought we would be releasing Virus during a pandemic!" Haken revisit the Cockroach King on their boldest album yet
- “We like to melt faces”: how Gojira became the most important metal band of the decade
- Iron Maiden: a track-by-track guide to the debut album that reinvented heavy metal
- Ayron Jones: the new sound of Seattle
June 1
- Greta Van Fleet interview: "It’s our generation’s turn to toy with rock’n’roll"
- How Ronnie Wood survived Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones