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June 2022

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June 30
- Def Leppard: the making of Diamond Star Halos and the return of the electric warriors
- Carpenter Brut: "I thought it would be cool to make a metal album without guitars"
- The Prodigy's The Fat Of The Land at 25: the electronic punk record that put a bomb under heavy music
- Total Eclipse Of The Heart - how Bonnie Tyler became the ultimate power ballad diva
- The Monster Magnet albums you should definitely own
- Halestorm: the challenging journey that brought them Back From The Dead
- Bill Ward has made a masterpiece and no one wants to release it
June 29
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Oceans Of Slumber's Cammie Gilbert: "My dad was the choir director for a cult"
- Apple Music vs Amazon Music Unlimited: which streaming service rocks hardest?
- How Änglagård, prog's most reclusive band, made third album Viljans Öga
- "We’ve had a lot of really good comments, and others are happy to be less complimentary." Yes, Benoit David and the story of Fly From Here
- Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
- My Favourite Things: The stuff Justin Hawkins can’t live without
- "My hands were covered in blood": the violence and pain behind Slipknot's debut album
- 8 years after the film, Spinal Tap appeared on US TV and were fantastic all over again
- Pamela Des Barres: my stories of Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison and more
- The 40 best rock albums of the year... so far
June 28
- Sun, Skin and saxophones: 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2022
- This cringey 2002 Slipknot interview makes us want to die inside
- Six things we learned from Twenty One Pilots' UK 'Takeover'
- Fly On The Wall is the great lost AC/DC album and here’s why
- Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and the true story that's almost too good to be true
June 27
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- The day Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it
- Paul McCartney and Wings: the 10 best songs
- The eight best new songs of right now
June 26
- The 10 best albums on Epitaph Records
- Demians and the making of their second album Mute
- That time Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson from The Nice visited the Prog office!
June 25
- The 10 moments which have defined Ghost’s spooktacular career (so far)
- Five things we learned as London welcomed Elton John home for show 223 on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour
- Watch Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley bicker like an old couple during this awkward 1993 interview
- How Panic Room made their "dark and personal" third album SKIN
June 24
- 10 metal bands who went heavy again - and were (mostly) better for it
- Scott Ian: "Nobody thought Metallica would be bigger than Iron Maiden"
- Faith No More revisit Angel Dust at 30: "Our label called it commercial suicide"
- How Brownsville Station made the goofy hit that gave Motley Crue a goofy hit
June 23
- Helmet's Meantime at 30: The alt.rock masterpiece still shaping modern metal
- The REAL reason The Damned were thrown off the Anarchy In The UK tour
- Watch Rob Halford be the classiest guy in the room on a 1994 TV debate about obscene lyrics
- Fear Of The Dark and the bitter battle for Iron Maiden's soul
- My Favourite Things: The stuff Jah Wobble can't live without
- John Coghlan interview: Status Quo and the real end of the road
- Drugs, alcohol and goofing around: The making of Fleetwood Mac's Mirage
- Fight for your right to create havoc: How the Beastie Boys caused a crime wave
June 22
- 10 obscure but brilliant hard rock bands you need in your life
- The 10 best albums on Nuclear Blast
- "The tour bus was not a good place to be..." The real story behind Marillion's Clutching At Straws
- Every Jimmy Eat World album ranked from worst to best
- We asked Tobias Forge how much he uses social media and he gave us a mini-lesson in how brains work
- The story behind Arena's 2018 album Double Vision
- Why it's time to add Queen's Live Killers to the pantheon of truly great live albums
- It could have been a gorilla suit: How Angus Young became rock's most iconic schoolboy
June 21
- Watch Tool's Danny Carey change a broken drum during a song without missing a beat
- What really happened when the Sex Pistols appeared on the Bill Grundy show
- 10 alternative artists you won't want to miss at Glastonbury 2022
- False starts and a whole lotta cash: how Appetite For Destruction was made
- "I looked at the cover and puked" - the bizarre story of Black Sabbath's Born Again
June 20
- Deep Purple: the turbulent story of Stormbringer and Ritchie Blackmore's exit
- Watch the historic interview that introduced the real David Bowie to the world
- “You can’t shine if you don’t burn!” Remembering Kevin Ayers
- Every Blur album ranked from worst to best
- Eight songs to change your world right now
June 19
- Watch Dave Grohl try to keep his cool during this adorably awkward meeting with Slayer in 1998
- "Size doesn't matter!" How Echolyn made 2012's self-titled echolyn album
- How Protest The Hero got their groove back with Palimpsest
June 18
- “It isn’t simple radio-friendly rock.” How Styx brought prog to Crash Of The Crown
- The return of The Flower Kings and Banks Of Eden
- Watch Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain take on Sooty in a tense drum battle in 1988
- Korn’s Untouchables: the $4 million blowout that marked nu metal’s end point
- What happened when Shooter met The Wolf
June 17
- Today’s weather? You should expect a Tropical F*ck Storm
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Watch: The crazy kids’ TV show that threw pies at Iron Maiden, Robert Plant and Lemmy
June 16
- Why I ❤️ Ziggy Stardust, by Be-Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson
- Misfires and mistakes: the luckless story of Shy, hair metal's ultimate nearly men
- Why I ❤️ Ziggy Stardust, by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott
- Every song on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, ranked from worst to best
- Get off your ass and jam! The ferociously funky story of Parliament-Funkadelic
- Joey Tempest: When Europe reunited, we bonded over Audioslave
- Record Store Day, June 18: the 44 best releases
- Six things you need to know about Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse
June 15
- Napalm Death once appeared on a children's BBC TV show in 1989, just after a cartoon about cats
- Brent Smith interview: Iron Maiden, chocolate cake, and being terrified on stage
- The crazed story of rock's ultimate folly: Rick Wakeman and King Arthur... on ice
- Peter Green: the superstar with the human touch who sent Fleetwood Mac into orbit
- Nikki Sixx: "rock’n’roll is embarrassing – as it should be"
June 14
- Giant Walker: "The last thing the world needs is another love song"
- A bizarre new AI app has gone viral, so we flooded it with metal icons. The results will haunt your dreams
- The Rory Gallagher albums you should definitely own
- Why Heavy Trip is the funniest metal movie since This Is Spinal Tap
- Watch Jason Statham get electrocuted by Maynard James Keenan in a wig
- 12 times rock stars went busking in public, with varying degrees of success
- The butcher cover: the story of The Beatles' most controversial sleeve art
June 13
- Which music streaming service pays artists the most?
- Watch Lemmy's classy reaction to the most rude and obnoxious interview ever
- Watch the time Kate Bush duetted with Mr Bean himself
- The eight best new rock songs of right now
June 12
- Dan Reed used to live in a buddhist monastery: now he's made his angriest album
- "We have a great fucking job and it is fun, especially when people are so into what we’re playing." Rush and the secrets of Clockwork Angels
- Prepare to cringe at this Maynard James Keenan interview years before he was famous
June 11
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Here are 6 ways science has proven metal is good for you
June 10
- Motionless In White’s Chris Motionless: “Religion continues to show itself for how vile it is”
- "And then things got weird..." Johnny Depp on how music saved his life
- The Sky's the limit: The return of rock'n'roll heroes The Hellacopters
June 9
- The Flaming Lips on prog rock, drugs and writing six hour songs
- Watch Kate Bush maintain the patience of a saint in excruciatingly awkward 1985 interview
- Watch Ramones try to keep their punk rock cool on a cheesy European TV pop show
- Best festival tents 2025: Budget, pop-up and inflatable tents for your big weekend
- 10 nu gen songs you need to hear right now
- Remember the time Slipknot tried to sue Burger King over a Chicken Fries ad?
- Till Lindemann has a nose bleed: the story of Rammstein's first TV appearance
- Edgar Winter and the album that transformed his suffering into joy
- Mark Tremonti on Creed, Alter Bridge, Frank Sinatra, and the bungee jump initiation
June 8
- The story of Scale The Summit's The Migration
- That time Rob Halford fell off his bike on stage (and barely missed a beat, because he's Rob freakin' Halford)
- Every Bad Religion album ranked from worst to best
- Zakk Wylde picks the 10 songs that have defined his career
- Watch the amazing moment Korn played Blind with Joey Jordison
- A love letter to Airheads: one of the great metal cult classics of the 90s
- Closed-back vs open-back headphones: What's the difference and why does it matter?
- Meet prog-metal-blues men Moon Tooth, Dennis Rodman's accidental backing band
- Alex Lifeson: the journey to Envy Of None and profound moments with Neil Peart
- Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on Instagram guitarists and the brilliance of Jimmy Page
- Dynasty and drama: How Kiss snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
June 7
- Watch Rick James and Judas Priest get Super Rock Hard together
- King Diamond is "honoured" to have inspired Metallica
- Watch the heartwarming moment Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows took a stage dive - and got a very special t-shirt as a result
- Paddy McAloon on prog rock and trawling the megahertz
- Deborah Bonham on her covers album, Mark Lanegan, and her bond with Robert Plant
- Kirk Hammett: the upside of covid is a half a billion new guitarists and a bright future
- The Kansas albums you should definitely own
- How Foo Fighters and Led Zeppelin combined for Dave Grohl's "greatest dream"
June 6
- The 10 Best Albums on Earache Records
- Ten cool King Crimson songs from the 80s
- The pandemic, the rise of the right, the war against truth: Jon Spencer has a lot on his mind. So how come his new album is so much fun?
- The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II's infamous Chris Holmes pool scene was a dark glimpse inside 80s metal excess
- Watch the time Metallica replaced Lars Ulrich with a 13 year old
- Like Dua Lipa backed up by the Black Keys: The rise of JJ Wilde
- Watch a four-piece Nirvana kickstart the grunge revolution in a tiny US record shop
- Tracks of the Week: eight great songs you need in your ears right now
June 5
- Lzzy Hale: "I have a case of the f***-its, that can be dangerous"
June 4
- Best non-alcoholic beers 2025: Alcohol-free beers that rock
- Anathema and the making of Distant Satellites
- Nad Sylvan: W.B. Yeats, music and me...
June 3
- The stories of Peter Gabriel's solo albums, told by his collaborators
- The story behind Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill - the song everyone's talking about
- The 10 best new metal songs you need the hear right now
- 10 Modern Hip-Hop Albums Every Metalhead Should Own
- Fantastic Negrito's new album was 270 years in the making: its story changed his life
- Wind Of Change: the story of the most monumental power ballad ever
June 2
- Ten reasons Metallica are now officially the nicest band in metal
- Pink Floyd's tribute to Syd Barrett and the moment that moved the band to tears
- Fish reflects: loss, longevity, and hanging on in an unkind industry
- The 10 most sampled rock acts in hip hop
June 1
- The Bo Diddley albums you should definitely own
- Every Panic! At The Disco album ranked from worst to best
- The 20 Greatest Roadrunner Records Albums Ever
- Watch a baby-faced Red Hot Chili Peppers get all over-excited on their first ever TV appearance
- Best gifts for beer lovers 2025: Present ideas for your ale-loving friends
- The making of The Pineapple Thief's Someone Here Is Missing
- Two of a kind: the story of Squackett
- Tony Banks: Genesis never really changed, we just got better at the short stuff
- "It's the best hard rock record since Appetite For Destruction" - Scott Ian
- Boston's More Than A Feeling: a happy-sad fantasy song of lost love and nostalgia