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- 10 brilliant but obscure punk bands who should've been huge
- The Story Behind The Song: Arch Enemy's As The Pages Burn
- Learn to play Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Beatles and Rolling Stones songs fast with Jammin Player
- Agony and ecstasy: How Stone Temple Pilots overcame heartbreak to make Tiny Music
- Charlie Watts interview: I’m not really that interested in talking about me
- August 24
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- Backxwash: "I had planned I was going to die at the end of the year"
- ‘Listening to Nirvana’s In Utero makes my skin crawl’: Read an extract from newly updated Dave Grohl book This Is A Call
- Van Halen: a track-by-track guide to the debut album that saved rock'n'roll
- Jakob Dylan: "I was brought up thinking records were not supposed to be fun to make"
- Why I ❤️ AC/DC’s Back In Black, by Buckcherry’s Josh Todd
- How Reef wrote Place Your Hands, by Gary Stringer
- 10 pomp rock albums you should definitely own
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- Tuomas Holopainen: “If Floor left, Nightwish would be over”
- “Are you trying to get us killed?”: the explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album
- 10 proto-metal albums you should definitely own
- The Moon City Masters are putting fun, sunshine and colour back into rock’n’roll
- How I wrote Strutter, by Paul Stanley
- August 18
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- Anthrax's Charlie Benante: "I wanted to do a metalised version of Billie Eilish"
- "There's enough weirdos out there to support us": Tomas Lindberg on At The Gates' new album The Nightmare Of Being
- Perry Farrell: the soundtrack of my life
- Night Ranger: When you cut us, Night Ranger oozes out
- The story behind American Pie by Don McLean
- AC/DC, Van Halen, Ozzy and more: Was Donington 1984 really the best ever?
- August 17
- August 16
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- A surprise setlist and a triumphant return: Judas Priest close out Bloodstock in style
- Gong, Stonehenge and hemp packaging: we get inside the mind of Ozric Tentacles' Ed Wynne
- 10 power metal bands that time forgot
- Inside Wobbler's universe: monsters, blizzards and analogue keys
- Tracks of the Week: New music from The Darkness, The Wildhearts and more
- August 14
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- August 12
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- How Metallica went from reinventing heavy metal to reinventing themselves
- The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant extreme metal bands
- The story behind Metallica's Black Album artwork
- How heavy music saved me from my ADHD brain
- Introducing Rich Ragany and The Digressions: darkness dressed up to party
- Black Label Society: box sets, hot sauce, and the secret plan to reform Black Sabbath
- August 11
- August 10
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- Singer Mikko Kotamäki's personal Swallow The Sun playlist
- 10 thrash metal bands that time forgot
- 10 singer-songwriter albums you should definitely own
- Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - 10 records that changed my life
- Tesla's Psychotic Supper: platinum problems and the savage strain of success
- Nirvana's Nevermind and the rock'n'roll revolution that came from nowhere
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- Clannad: “The influences of bands like Yes, Marillion... We were eating them up!"
- David Draiman: 8 songs that changed my life
- “How serious can we be about religion if we have a song called Resurrection By Erection?”: inside the world of Powerwolf
- How Bruce Springsteen's The Rising helped America heal after 9/11
- Coloursøund: the sound of The Cult, The Alarm, and therapy in hiking boots
- How Montrose wrote Rock Candy, by Sammy Hagar
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