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April 30
- “By 14 I was doing drugs and stealing booze”: the life and times of stoner icon Matt Pike
- “Tool is a machine": an exclusive interview with Adam Jones
- The Story Behind The Song: Slayer’s Angel Of Death
April 29
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- The 15 songs that defined Dillinger Escape Plan
- Gojira: "We grew up with Mike Oldfield's Crises..."
- Best rock guitars 2023: Embrace your inner Slash with this killer collection
- OPPO Find X5 Pro Empowers Music Fans at Coachella
April 28
- 10 obscure but brilliant 2010s bands that deserved more
- How love, chaos, ego and drug abuse fuelled an Eric Clapton classic
- The real story of that time Keith Richards fell out of a palm tree
April 27
- "Birth with Rammstein had to be graphic": the inside story of Rammstein's Zeit video
- Every The Pogues album ranked from worst to best
- Randy Bachman: my stories of Elvis, Little Richard, Steven Tyler and more
- We used AI to write song lyrics in the style of real bands and the results are amazing
April 26
- Scorpions: 50 years of belief in rock and 50 years of proving their critics wrong
- Someone upscaled this video of Iron Maiden miming The Number Of The Beast on Aussie TV in '82, and it looks ace
- Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to look at Lemmy’s thoughts on religion
- We asked an Oxford Professor what Rammstein's new album Zeit is all about, and learned a lot
- The dambusters, a heart attack, and Saxon's late career purple patch
- The complicated journey towards legend of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love
- Goodbye June: where classic rock, gospel fire and hunger for success collide
- Dan Patlansky: "I thought I’d be playing the Royal Albert Hall by the time I was 40"
- Amorphis’ Tomi Joutsen: “One time I had to go pick up some human sh*t”
April 25
- Papa Roach’s Infest: the story behind the first great nu metal album of the 2000s
- Buy Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog magazine t-shirts!
- How Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly made old ladies faint on the streets of Glasgow
- There's a new way to learn guitar, drums and production online for players of all levels with MLC Powered By Marshall
- Danny Bryant: "I feel like a caged animal that just wants to get out and run"
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Marcus King, Classless Act and more
April 24
- How a song written in Texas by Buddy Holly's guitarist became a UK punk classic
- The story of Katatonia's City Burials
April 23
- “I think James is still fuming”: an interview with the artist who created Metallica’s Load and Reload album covers
- When Arjen Lucassen really goes solo!
- The phenomenon of the "sweaty" song that became one of the most covered of all time
April 22
- GWAR vs Jerry Springer and an angry parent is absolute 1990s TV gold
- Watch Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Trivium jam Misfits together on stage at Download 2006
- How Patti Smith twisted a slice of 60s garage rock and announced herself to the world
April 21
- The Top 10 best nu metal singers
- How Queen Of The Damned reinvented vampire movies for the nu metal generation
- We asked a ton of your favourite metal artists which new bands you should be listening to
- Every PJ Harvey album ranked from worst to best
- Meet Johnossi, your new favourite Swedish punk-grunge-blues duo
- Alabama 3 on death, weirdness, and being the next messiah
- Watch the iconic performance that showed the world that Prince was the true king
April 20
- Stravinsky, flame throwers and King Crimson: A Formal Horse on their debut album, Here Comes A Man From The Council...
- The Top 20 best stoner metal records
- Rudolf Schenker: "Scorpions soundtracked the most peaceful revolution on Earth"
- The Steve Marriott albums you should definitely own
- Billy Idol: an extraordinary life, and vivid proof that dreams do come true
- How Blondie rescued a song from obscurity and turned it into a breakthrough classic
April 19
- The new Ghost album sounds like Def Leppard, so we asked Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott what he thinks of it
- “This is a bridge between HIM and the future”: the resurrection of Ville Valo
- Jim Steinman: the eccentric king of fairytale rebellion and grand drama
- Meet Kissin' Dynamite, the band with a plan to bring mid-80s rock back to the world
- Marianne Faithfull: my stories of Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Metallica and more
- From prison to the world: the improbable story of Ram Jam's anthem Black Betty
April 18
- “When Nightwish stops giving as much as it takes, I’ll quit”: the gospel according to Tuomas Holopainen
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Thunder, Joe Satriani and more
- How Three Dog Night turned a song no one knew into a party anthem everyone knows
April 15
- Zakk Wylde: “My doctor said I’d need a liver transplant”
- 10 moments of pure punk perfection from Joey Ramone
- A quick word with Voivod: thrash metal, the Cold War, and making a movie
- How Stevie Ray Vaughan took Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing to spectacular new heights
April 14
- This is every band Tobias Forge was in before Ghost
- Best smartwatches for music 2024: Take time to rock with our essential guide
- Peter Steele: the life and death of the Godfather Of Goth Metal
- Poll: vote for the best Linkin Park album
- The tantalising story of Baby Face, the supergroup that almost was
- A piano to a knife fight: the unlikely journey of the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen
- Rosalie Cunningham: The Soundtrack Of My Life
- 10 brilliant deep cuts from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
April 13
- George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher: My Life Story
- "We're giving out-of-fashion music a chance to shine": How Peacemaker made glam metal cool again
- Devin Townsend: my life in 10 songs
- Rob Halford, porn stars and a sex dungeon: the story of the I Am A Pig video
- How Billy Idol turned a song of crazed vengeance into the hit that made him a star
- The night the stars came out: Behind the scenes at David Bowie's 50th birthday party
- Country rock, a crash and a coma: the story of Bon Scott's life as a Mount Lofty Ranger
April 12
- Every Mogwai album ranked from worst to best
- Alex Henry Foster's gorgeous cover of a Lou Reed classic is essential listening
- “It’s close to a miracle”: how prog-doom magicians MWWB faced down tragedy and pulled through
- The Kevin Shirley albums you should definitely own
- "If I was me, I’d cover my songs too" - the story of rock's enduring love affair with Bob Dylan
- Watch Robert Plant and Jimmy Page perform Stairway To Heaven as a duo for the only time
April 11
- Amy Lee singing with Korn shows why both bands were nu metal's ultimate survivors
- 10 classical songs that would sound even more epic with a heavy metal makeover
- Jonathan Davis: “I don’t know why Korn haven’t headlined Download”
- Iron Maiden's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son: nothing sits better within their prog canon
- Satanic sermons and sax solos: inside Ghost's first post-Impera headline show
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Pink Floyd, The Sheepdogs and more
- "It really upset me, and it really affected me": the story of Johnny Cash's haunting Hurt
April 10
- 10 movies that get metal absolutely right
April 9
- “Metallica are not wimps”: Bob Rock reveals the secrets of the Black Album and Load
- 10 movies that get metal completely wrong
April 8
- Introducing Meer: the Norwegian pop-proggers you need to hear
- Dracula, Mike Oldfield and Moogs: Magenta visit the dark side on Masters Of Illusion
- Yes guitarist Steve Howe on cruises, Close To The Edge and the secrets behind Relayer's sound
- This clip of Alexi Laiho's final gig shows why he was a guitar hero 'til the end
- The Story Behind The Song: Metallica’s Enter Sandman
- From the Devil to Def Leppard: how Ghost made the best album of 2022 so far
- Crowdfunding, anoraks and prog weekenders – how Marillion survived the 90s and beyond
- Pink Floyd's new single: the internet has reacted, and not all of it is good
- The 10 best Children Of Bodom songs, as chosen by Alexi Laiho
- Six things you need to know about Sabaton
- The Kinks, The Pretenders, and the story of the song that started a family
April 7
- How The Cult's Electric helped save rock
- "This is not an act": how Sabaton's odd couple conquered the world
- 10 amazing viral rock videos you've probably forgotten all about
- Steve Hogarth on Peter Gabriel, Deep Purple, and Marillion's now-or-never new album
- How a Bruce Springsteen tale of poverty and despair was given vibrant new life by Rage Against The Machine
- Watch Ian Anderson offer Coldplay some career advice: you guys need more flute
April 6
- Robb Flynn: Machine Head are making “The Blackening 2”
April 5
- This rare video of Avenged Sevenfold at Warped 2003 is chaos and we love it
- “Lars was desperate!": an interview with Lloyd Grant, Metallica’s forgotten guitarist
- 'Here we are now, entertain us': the inside story of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video
- Hammerfall's Joacim Cans: "The time to pass the torch was years ago"
- How Killswitch Engage’s My Last Serenade became metalcore’s first great anthem
- Carpenter Brut: 10 albums that changed my life
April 4
- Listen to Catwoman sing Alice In Chains and Misfits classics
- Every Placebo album ranked from worst to best
- The Crow: the tragic story behind the ultimate cult goth comic book movie
- Tracks of the Week: new music from ZZ Top, Steve Vai, RHCP and more
- Video: The sadness and confusion of Keith Moon revealed in his final TV interview
April 2
- Why we’re insanely excited about the return of Beavis And Butt-head
- “The energy was intense!”: that time Dave Lombardo replaced Lars Ulrich in Metallica
- 10 pop songs every black metal fan should hear
- Ian Anderson and Thick As A Brick II
- Bathory: the triumph and tragedy of the man who invented black metal
April 1
- The 50 best nu metal albums of all time
- 11 times metal ruled Wrestlemania
- The Top 20 best Meshuggah songs
- The Story Behind The Song: Tool’s 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
- How Status Quo turned a minor John Fogerty hit into their ultimate party anthem