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- October 31
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- Dub War’s Benji Webbe on the assault that changed his life: “My girlfriend was holding my neck and blood was squirting out”
- Corey Taylor on the future of Slipknot: “This is the end of what was”
- A needlessly deep dive into The Offspring’s cameo in cult horror film Idle Hands
- Ranking every Hannibal Lecter film (and TV show) from worst to best
- Clutch’s Neil Fallon: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Lulu revisited: why Metallica and Lou Reed's controversial album is far better than you remember
- Queen vs Sex Pistols: How Freddie took on punk and won with News Of The World
- “The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal was a marketing trick”: Chimaira’s Mark Hunter looks back on the NWOAHM’S glory days
- Dave Grohl once named the band who were his 'biggest songwriting influence'
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Kings Of Chaos, Nickelback and more
- October 28
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- How The Flower Kings made Islands
- Mastodon: "Hushed And Grim is our proggiest album."
- Every Halloween film ranked from worst to best
- We asked a load of bands to tell us their spookiest real-life stories...and the results will keep you up at night
- Vote for the greatest Anthrax song ever
- Four things we learned from Dry Cleaning's intimate two night stand in Kingston
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson: "I’ve said from day one that we’re not actually a black metal band"
- The 50 greatest horror movies of all time
- Around The Fur at 25: the sound of Deftones gleefully detonating a bomb under nu metal
- Arjen Lucassen and the Theory Of Everything
- 11 things you never knew about Skid Row's Slave To The Grind
- The making of The Flower Kings Desolation Rose
- Motley Crue's Mick Mars: 10 albums that changed my life
- October 27
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- "It was ugliness personified": How anarchy, acrimony and apathy killed the Sex Pistols just 78 days after the release of Never Mind The Bollocks
- “We could have called it F**k You”: why Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come still sounds like the future, and still matters
- Loudest headphones 2024: You want volume and lots of it? You got it
- Hellbender: meet the family metal band who made one of 2022's coolest horror movies on a shoestring budget in lockdown
- How David Bowie's authoritarian Thin White Duke persona inspired Scott Weiland
- From doomed to in-demand: meet Spirit Adrift, the rising stars of trad-metal
- The Lou Reed albums you should definitely own... and one to avoid
- October 26
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- 10 African metal bands that are challenging heavy metal as we know it
- Jello Biafra's 10 finest post-Dead Kennedys albums, ranked worst to best
- Best gifts for music fans 2024: Present ideas with a rock'n'roll twist
- Watch Nirvana troll a prime-time TV chat show host with a riotous performance of the most punk rock song on Nevermind
- Ten songs you need to know by WASP
- On the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Atlanta Rhythm Section: a story of guns and homicidal bass players
- Paul McCartney: the albums outside The Beatles you should definitely own
- In 2003 AOL needed a new face for their Instant Messaging software: Metallica got the call
- October 25
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- Every Incubus album ranked from worst to best, by vocalist Brandon Boyd
- Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle: "five years of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll took its toll"
- Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: the soundtrack of my life
- "Overcoming darkness is a beautiful thing": How My Chemical Romance battled ghosts, addiction, the Daily Mail and Kasabian to take over the world with The Black Parade
- October 24
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- Ex-Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels: "It doesn’t have to be a f***ing priority to look a certain way all the time"
- Great outta Compton: how Kendrick Lamar revolutionised hip-hop with the darkly poetic concept album Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
- That time Parkinson challenged Elton John to write a song on the spot for the silliest lyrics ever - and he absolutely nailed it
- "I even saw some fans doing heroin outside one of those shows" - the real story behind Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory
- Bill Wyman: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon and more
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Those Damn Crows, Jaws The Shark and more
- October 22
- October 21
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- 10 essential new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "We wanted to capture the magic of prog's classic era" – Wobbler: the story of From Silence To Somewhere
- Eivor: from teenage TV star and avant-jazz queen to The Last Kingdom
- Limp Bizkit blowing up boats, Incubus hanging with Britney and Korn's Jonathan Davis in a top hat: 10 times nu metal took over MTV's iconic Total Request Live show
- 11 years since its release, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim may well be metal's most influential game ever
- 10 things to look out for at this weekend's When We Were Young festival
- The story of Metallica and the ‘obscene’ punk cover that got them banned from MTV
- The Roy Harper albums you should definitely own
- "Out, demons, out!" The historic day The Fugs attempted to levitate the Pentagon
- October 20
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- Six songs you need to know by Placebo
- “Arrogant, misogynistic and full of testosterone”: 10 nu metal musicians hating on nu metal
- Ozzy Osbourne on his health struggles and what the future holds: “I’m 73, I can’t do this once I’m dead”
- Best vinyl record storage 2024: Solutions to help protect your record collection and keep your LPs safe from harm
- The 5 worst metal collaborations of all time
- A deep dive into Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst repeatedly and inexplicably turning up in early-2000s fighting games
- The Godfathers are back with a new line-up, a new album, and a disdain for poodle hairdos
- Rock star, interrupted: the unsung story of grunge pioneer Tina Bell and Bam Bam
- October 19
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- Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
- Randy Blythe is obsessed with The Crown, and nine other things we learned from Metal Hammer’s epic Lamb Of God interview
- Best headphones for vinyl 2024: Top headphone choices for your record player
- "Get outta my f**kin' face!" How Pearl Jam's furious, confrontational Vs. album saved the band's soul
- Goo Goo Dolls: Johnny Rzeznik on vintage gear, inequality, and why America is moving backwards
- Why I ❤️ The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails, by Steven Wilson
- Queen's Radio Ga Ga: how a song inspired by a swearing toddler proved the power of television
- Spandex, mullets and profanity: the eternal genius of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
- October 18
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- Two kids made their own Metallica video in 1989 and thinking about it, we're grateful we didn't have a camcorder then
- Every Paramore album ranked from worst to best
- 10 things we learned about the stellar new King Crimson documentary
- Best earplugs for concerts 2024: gig-ready hearing protection, tested by music fans and musicians
- Spunk, willies and arrests: remembering Rammstein's most notorious show ever
- Gary Moore: leaving Thin Lizzy, the story of G-Force, and the terror of success
- October 17
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- Rainbow Chasers: how 60s duo Nirvana caught Salvador Dalí's attention
- Loudest Bluetooth speakers 2024: The best speakers capable of summoning the devil himself
- "Youth is a funny thing, isn’t it?" Clannad: their final chapter
- 10 killer metal songs inspired by the Hellraiser movies
- Watch the moment Rammstein's Till Lindemann brought his own, leashed-up BDSM gimp to a book signing
- How David Coverdale Americanised Whitesnake and sold 8 million albums
- 25 things only hardcore fans know about Led Zeppelin III
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Mammoth WVH, The Answer and more
- October 14
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- Lazuli take Prog on the fantastic journey of Dieter Böhm!
- Mostly Autumn: the emotional story behind Graveyard Star
- Green Day's Nimrod at 25: how Billie Joe Armstrong learned to stop giving a f**k about punk rock rules
- Meet Major Parkinson: the Norwegian septet who are very big Cardiacs fans
- The Story Behind The Song: A Certain Shade Of Green by Incubus
- That Joe Payne: from no future to a life full of hope
- The 10 best things we saw at California’s Aftershock festival
- 10 post-rock albums you should definitely own
- October 13
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- October 11
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- The Dark Side Of The Moan: watch Pink Floyd work – and argue a bit – in this amazing archive studio footage
- Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia: "in the music world, if being sexy is the only thing that you have to offer, that’s kind of sad.”
- Black Friday alcohol deals 2023: Don't panic! The big booze deals are still going strong
- Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan: the soundtrack of my life
- Donovan: my stories of The Beatles, Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix and more
- Relive the historic pie attack Alice Cooper called "one of the greatest moments of my life"
- October 10
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- October 7
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- The story behind Cypress Hill’s Insane In The Brain, the crossover hip hop banger that metalheads love
- A history of every single Eddie from every Iron Maiden single and album
- The 10 greatest Hollywood cameos in metal videos
- How Oceans Of Slumber turned childhood trauma and religious cults into a prog metal epic
- Wednesday 13: “Joey Jordison was like a brother to me”
- Drugs, drugs, drugs, and the making of Black Sabbath's miraculous Vol 4
- October 6
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- Keyboards and guitars engaged in mortal kombat: the story of Pomp Rock
- 10 legendary lost metal side-projects we'd kill to hear
- Eddie Van Halen: January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020
- Stevie Van Zandt: my stories of Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Miles Davis and more
- LostAlone: what happens when you've been fed a diet of Queen records your entire life
- October 5
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- Remember the time Adam Sandler jammed with Deftones and Incubus?
- Why I ❤️ David Coverdale, by Lucy Porter
- Revealed: the secret and dangerous life of AC/DC's Brian Johnson
- "I've done my best, and I'm happy" - How Ozzy Osbourne made Patient Number 9
- Mike Tramp on singing in Danish, the demise of White Lion, and how to spoil a dinner party
- October 4
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- Rancid's Lars Frederiksen: "I wasn't allowed off the bus or I'd have a punch-up"
- Every film in the Living Dead series ranked from worst to best
- Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best
- Watch the moment Metallica swapped instruments on stage and Lars Ulrich showed he'd actually make an awesome frontman
- Meet the ex-Christian pagan folk vocalist on a mission to help metal fans discover their inner shaman
- Six things you need to know about... Thundermother
- Watch an emotional Ozzy Osbourne on TV just six days after Randy Rhoads' death
- October 3
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- The Story Behind The Song: U2's One
- Celebrating the time Lemmy and Pinhead played poker in the coolest Motörhead video ever
- How Three Dollar Bill Y’all transformed Limp Bizkit from wannabes to nu metal superstars
- The story behind the all-time classic The Zombies recorded as an afterthought
- How Diamond Head gave Metallica the classic that paid for Brian Tatler's house
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Skid Row, Tuk Smith and more
- October 2
- October 1
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- In Bloom: the making of Rachel Flowers' Bigger On The Inside
- The story of Guy Manning's Charlestown
- “I wanted to help Yes reinvent itself." The story of Yes and The Quest
- So yeah, Metallica covered a Slayer song once and there’s footage to prove it
- The story of Pap Smear – Slayer’s forgotten 80s punk side project
