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November 30
- Cavalera Conspiracy’s Iggor Cavalera on one of metal’s big problems: “Sometimes it can be too conservative”
- Archers Of Loaf: "Anger makes good rock’n’roll, and I had a lot of it"
- When Pink Floyd reunited for Live 8: "It was like sleeping with your ex-wife"
- Prime Beef: a short history of what happens when rock stars come to blows
November 29
- Why I ❤️ The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper, by Ronnie James Dio
- Mother's Finest: six songs to get you started
- “We’re on The Rock’s workout playlist!”: how The Hu are taking over America one fan at a time
November 28
- Watch BBC current affairs show Nationwide try to make sense of the Sex Pistols and punk rock for Middle England in 1976
- 10 insanely brilliant symphonic black metal tracks everyone should hear
- The best new prog music you need to hear with Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee on dealing with childhood grief: “When you’re hurting, you grab on to anything that helps”
- Cyber Monday Marshall speaker and headphones deals 2023: These Marshall products are still on sale
- Cyber Monday camping deals 2023: Our pick of the top outdoor cyber sales that are still live
- Cyber Monday streaming deals 2023: These streaming deals are still flowing - but be quick
- Rob Halford on Judas Priest's Turbo Lover: "We didn’t know it was a classic"
- The eight best new rock songs of this week
November 27
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "It feels euphoric to let go of inhibitions": Girls Against Boys' Scott McCloud on punk epiphanies, 'sex-rock', and the return of TheKindaMzkYouLike
- Jimi Hendrix at Monterey: "as if some alien from a hyphenated galaxy had zapped me with a ray gun"
November 26
- How Cynic's Ascension Codes was a triumph born of tragedy
- Seconds Out! Touchstone and The Reasoning on tour
November 25
- Find the perfect Christmas jumper with EMP this Black Friday
- Black Friday vinyl deals 2024: Spin yourself an excellent cut-price bargain this Black Friday
- “My whole life has been heavy metal!” - Doom creator John Romero on making the most notorious game of all time
- "Simon Cowell asked if I'd ever seen The Exorcist": How Harper went from America's Got Talent to next-gen metal star
- Black Friday streaming deals 2024: The best music, TV & film streaming deals this November
- Black Friday headphones deals 2023: The biggest and best deals that are alive and kicking
- Black Friday record player deals 2024: Everything you need to know to bag a record player bargain
- Black Friday camping deals 2023: You can still save big on camping gear for next year's festival season
- Black Friday Marshall speaker and headphones deals 2024: Everything you need for a great-sounding deal
- Francis Rossi could make another Status Quo album but he won't: you can blame Spotify
- The story of the historic night Jimi Hendrix "killed god"
- Black Friday Record Store Day 2022: the 63 best releases you can buy
November 24
- Gazpacho and the strange saga of Missa Atropos
- Why I ❤️ Freddie Mercury, by Taylor Hawkins
- "He was the best guitarist I’d ever seen" - the night Jimi Hendrix met his destiny
- 10 classic rock albums from the 1970s that unintentionally paved the way for heavy metal in the 1980s
November 23
- Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: "Slipknot have a hardcore audience, but we were up for the challenge"
- The 10 greatest ska-punk albums ever, ranked from worst to best
- "I want to be a household name like Slipknot or Slayer": 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- The Dark Crystal at 40: inside Jim Henson's misunderstood, dark fantasy epic
- "Everybody was dumbstruck" - how Jimi Hendrix's arrival in London changed everything, as told by Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and more
- Vote for the greatest nu metal song of all-time
- Robert Fripp went to war in 1976: It's a battle he's still fighting
November 22
- Here's what happened when GWAR appeared on The Joan Rivers Show in 1990
- Giant toilets, vampires and Calvin Klein: the 14 craziest moments in nu metal history
- Gene Simmons: my stories of Eddie Van Halen, Donald Trump, Cher and more
- Disco balls: Queen's ill-advised adventures in Hot Space
November 21
- Every Killing Joke album ranked from worst to best
- Threshold, Nightwish, Ayreon, Hayley Griffiths, Hedvig, SKALD and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- This video of King Crimson playing Elephant Talk in Tokyo in 1984 proves that when they fancied it, they were one of prog rock's funnest bands
- Watch Muse troll a Sunday afternoon TV show's presenter and audience by swapping instruments and taking the piss
- "Have we got anything in common with Iron Maiden? I hope not" - watch peak Axl Rose slyly diss Maiden and Kiss in this cheeky 1988 interview
- "I remember System Of A Down going to the Roxy and giving out their eight-track!" - Power Rangers star Jason David Frank on metal, the 90s and making "history" as The Green Ranger
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Cats In Space, Grace McKagan and more
November 20
- A tribute to late Big Big Train singer David Longdon
November 18
- Every song on Audioslave's debut album ranked in order of greatness
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "If people think we’re a heavy metal band...I don't really care": how Load and Reload changed Metallica forever
- Lzzy Hale: "When Dio gives you a mission, you follow"
November 17
- Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe: "I was on the streets in 2020, getting teargassed and shot at with rubber bullets"
- Every single Hellraiser film ranked from worst to best
- Jimmy Page on Presence: "You don’t make music like that falling about in the street drunk"
- Broken like a marrow: when Judas Priest and Bon Jovi targeted the dance market
- Meet Birth, the San Diego quartet delivering premium 70s prog for modern ears
November 16
- Dare: "It isn't easy to keep on going. But I live and breathe this music"
- Meet Russian minimalist folky progger Dikajee
- Every Tim Burton filmed ranked from worst to best
- "I was told that a biker gang were going to murder me for killing off Pandora": artist Ray Zell on the origin, influence and rockin' rebirth of Pandora Peroxide
- Queensrÿche: "We're always being sued about something, that’s part of the business"
- Elton John's Tiny Dancer: a tale of love, failure and resurrection
November 15
- The Halo Effect: "the most talked-about melodeath band since the golden age of Gothenburg"
- Watch a baby-faced Nirvana rehearse, hang out and cover Led Zeppelin in a tiny room above a hair salon in 1988
- Best Marshall speakers 2024: Everything from portable speakers to home Hi-Fi
- Best portable record players 2024: Portable turntables that’ll fit even the smallest space
- When Rainbowman met Gangsterman: The story of the gig that invented glam rock
- Every The Strokes album ranked from worst to best
- The soundtrack of my life: Jellyfish's Roger Manning Jr
- How Pink Frost paid tribute to a fallen friend and gave new life to The Chills
November 14
- Blue jeans and wolf whistles: The story of the song that saved Steve Miller's career
- Best home brew kits 2024: Brew up your own batch of beer or cider at home
- Best Marshall headphones 2024: Our top picks across the range from the legendary amp brand
- Public Image Ltd's Metal Box: "The entire concept was progressive"
- 10 cult Swedish metal records from 2022 to stop you moaning about Ghost
- Devin, Damanek, Amanda Lehmann, Laibach and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- Best music streaming services 2024: How do Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music, Qobuz and others compare?
- Best kids' headphones 2024: Wired and wireless headphones for mini music fans
- The night Jimi Hendrix dropped acid for the first time and the girl who changed his life
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Royal Thunder, Larkin Poe and more
November 13
- Lunatic Soul's folky shift on Through Shaded Woods
- Type O Negative’s Dead Again: the triumph and tragedy of Peter Steele’s final album
November 12
- The story of Genesis and Nursery Cryme
November 11
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Rare cuts, make-up contests and chef Paul Stanley - eight awesome things we learned on-board Kiss Kruise 2022
- 10 essential rap metal albums
- Jason Newsted on thrash metal, the Black Album and life after Metallica: “Playing Enter Sandman for the 1,000th time kinda wears on you”
- Every The Killers album ranked from worst to best
- Shinedown's Brent Smith: My Life in 10 Songs
- 10 bands that wouldn't exist without Discharge
- Murderdolls’ Dead In Hollywood: how a Slipknot side-project delivered a horror-punk classic
- "He did all this wild playing": Behind the scenes at Jimi Hendrix’s first ever live gig
- "Guns N' Roses have been creatively impotent since 1991" - former manager Alan Niven
- 6 things you need to know about Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts
November 10
- Bram Stoker's Dracula at 30: a love letter to Francis Ford Coppola’s classy, bloody, horny masterpiece
- Inside Iceland Airwaves 2022 as the coolest music festival on the planet returns in spectacular fashion
- Suicide Silence’s Mitch Lucker: the life and death of a deathcore icon
- The 50 best metal albums of all time
- Blue Öyster Cult: the truth behind the cowbells
- How the Bellamy Brothers' happiest hit produced the wealthiest roadie ever
- Every Red Hot Chili Peppers album ranked from worst to best
November 9
- Meryl Streek's 796 is the most incendiary and important punk rock album of the year and you need to hear it right now
- Every Exorcist film (and one TV series) ranked from worst to best
- How Tina Turner looked to her childhood to write the song that signalled her salvation
- WASP’s Blackie Lawless: "We’re still here... which I’m sure some people aren’t happy about"
November 8
- Late AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott has absolutely no time for punk in this 1977 interview
- Gloria Cavalera on tragedy, triumphs and a life in heavy metal management: "Sharon Osbourne has a bigger heart than anyone I've ever met"
- "We were at each others throats": Inside the intense, freaky, fairytale world of Palaye Royale
- Best phones for music 2024: Discover the best-sounding smartphones
- Best record players 2024: turntables tested for every budget
- Best Bluetooth turntables 2024: Our pick of the best wireless record players you can buy right now
- Every Arctic Monkeys album ranked from worst to best
- Watch Jethro Tull, Soft Machine and Lemmy in wild French TV London special from 1969
- Rush before Geddy Lee: meet the bass player who stepped aside
November 7
- Wigs, ferraris and porn moustaches: How Electric Callboy became 2022's ultimate party band
- Lamb Of God have postponed their UK and European tour
- Best budget turntables 2024: You don't have to break the bank to make your vinyl sing
- How Song Of Seven helped Jon Anderson survive the 80s!
- The making of Pink Floyd's The Endless River
- Every Ozzy Osbourne solo album ranked from worst to best
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Tuk Smith, Joe Lynn Turner and more
November 6
- The making of Fates Warning's Long Day Good Night
- Rob Reed's Mike Oldfield playlist
- A Van der Graaf Generator primer playlist
November 5
- Blackfield's For The Music: none more black
- Peter Hammill: inside the mind of prog's renaissance man
- "We’ve become more stable, more solid than ever before.” How TesseracT made Sonder
- The 20 greatest prog metal bands of all time
November 4
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory; a modern prog classic
- Rammstein made a porno: inside their most NSFW music video
- The greatest Alice In Chains songs ever, picked by members of Slayer, Soulfly, Halestorm, Incubus, Napalm Death and more
- How Dee Snider made horror’s most metal box office bomb
November 3
- The story of Pentangle's Basket Of Light
- Best headphones under £100 in 2024: Top bang for your buck budget headphones
- Best in-ear headphones 2024: Our pick of the best earbuds for listening on the go
- Sex workers, solitude, suicide: How The Police spun black thoughts into platinum hits on Outlandos d’Amour
- “It was like holding a f**king live wire”: how Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything
- Best concert ticket sites 2024: Our pick of the finest online ticketing agencies for live music and beyond
- HIM’s Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666: how goth metal’s new superstars seduced the world
- Ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo: “Would I join Kerry King’s new band? I don’t think he’d have the need to ask me”
- The story of the all-time Kinks classic that came to Ray Davies in a dream
- Taj Mahal: "All you’ve gotta do is step out of the boxes they try to put the blues in"
- How The Cult made the "blues-rock-free zone" of Under The Midnight Sun
November 2
- The story of Fairport Convention's Full House
- Twisted black metal enigmas Gaerea will be your new favourite masked band
- Darkness, destruction, drugs and a dead crow: how Therapy? killed off their hated 'Irish Nirvana' tag with the daring Nurse
- The 10 heaviest metal riffs of all time
- 5 essential death metal albums… for people who want to get into death metal
- Every The White Stripes album ranked from worst to best
- How Mötley Crüe survived literally everything to make Dr Feelgood
- Cardinal Black: the oldest new band in town are just getting started
- Richard Marx on the perils of social media: "Anybody I go after has already come after me"
- How George Michael proved himself to be Freddie Mercury's one true heir
November 1
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- Best budget wireless headphones 2024: cut the cable with our expert pick of cheap wireless headphones
- Every Cypress Hill album ranked from worst to best
- Should I wait until Black Friday to buy a record player?
- Best headphones for music 2024: Elevate your listening with our top picks
- We made the ultimate 10-track album from Metallica’s Load and Reload to prove the haters wrong
- We Care A Lot: how Faith No More's parody of rock superstardom kept coming back for more
- How Mountain's harrowing tale of cannibalism and cheating reflected the band's heart of darkness
- Clutch wanted to make a party album: it did not go as planned