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February 2023
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- February 28
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- How Metallica's James Hetfield helped Ghost become the biggest metal band of the decade
- Born from rage, U2's War was intended to "give people a slap in the face". It ended up making U2 superstars
- Six cool new prog songs you must hear this week!
- How to keep your earplugs clean so you can use them time after time
- Here are the 20 greatest Babymetal songs ever as voted for by you
- Paul Stanley knows the End Of The Road is nigh, but he's determined to out with a bang
- Heavy Metal Love: The story of Helix, Canada's mightiest hair metal heroes
- February 27
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- Every album by The Cult ranked from worst to best
- Ricky Warwick on The Almighty's wild and wonderful rock 'n' roll adventures: "We were the real deal. We were like Vikings!"
- The 10 most emotional Slipknot songs
- God Save The Streets: UK rapper Avelino and Sex Pistol Glen Matlock on why rap is the new punk
- The 10 best Southern Rock deep cuts according to Johnny Van Zant
- The eight best new rock songs you'll hear this week
- February 25
- February 24
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- The 10 best Motorhead songs (that sound nothing like Ace Of Spades)
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- "Where is my dog poop?": How porn, poop and chicken coops derailed Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- “I really didn’t expect the scale of the success”: The story behind Asia's self-titled debut album
- Kashmir: the story of the song Robert Plant calls "Perfect Zeppelin"
- February 23
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- Carmine Appice: my stories of Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, John Bonham and more
- "I was never a show off!" - Tony Banks in The Prog Interview
- "It's Rant City all the way!": The Mute Gods and how tardigrades will inherit the earth
- The story behind Tool’s Lateralus: "A real moment of experiment and risk”
- 5 brilliant up-and-coming bands you need to check out this month
- From Russia with love: the story of Gleb Kolyadin's debut solo album
- “So much prog is prog by numbers". How John Mitchell launched Lonely Robot
- Light Up The Sky: How Hundred Reasons rose from the dead to make the comeback of the year with Glorious Sunset
- How Anthrax's cameo on Married With Children was inspired by real life chaos
- The Doors in London: "Jim was enigmatic and almost unbelievably beautiful"
- Iggy Pop: "Once you’re my age, every day has to carry some risk"
- February 22
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- The Story Behind Soulfly's nu metal anthem Jumpdaf***up: "We were the Wu-Tang Clan of metal"
- One Step Beyond: How Rancid, Sublime, No Doubt and a generation of US ska-punks spread the Two Tone gospel to the world
- The story of Dream Theater's Distance Over Time
- Six great new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- Sam Ryder: The soundtrack of my life
- From the sublime to the ridiculous: What happens when drummers go solo
- February 21
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- February 17
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- "I’ve never made a deadline in my life. They’re finished when they’re finished.” Spiritualized and the story of their first four albums
- The story of Tim Bowness' Lost In The Ghost Light
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Manic Street Preachers: the rise of the Generation Terrorists
- February 16
- February 15
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- Chase The Dragon: the true story of Magnum's magnum opus
- 10 brilliant goth songs every metalhead needs to hear
- The 10 best Bring Me The Horizon songs
- 13 musicians declaring their undying love for Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
- The Band albums you should definitely own
- Rush producer Terry Brown: "they were pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone"
- Meet Spell: they've had enough of fighting dragons and swinging swords
- A sped-up version of Aerosmith's Dream On is massive on TikTok: we've figured out why
- February 14
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- The victorious rebirth of goth metal's dark prince Ville Valo: "VV had a ‘V for Victory’ kinda vibe"
- Six new prog tracks you must hear this week!
- Thunder's Danny Bowes: "I'm getting a bit better every day, but it’s a very slow process"
- Justin Hawkins on songwriting: "There’s always got to be an intangible ingredient"
- February 13
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- "I can't afford to waste any time": Horror legend John Carpenter on making albums in his 70s
- Moby nearly formed a supergroup with members of Pantera and Mötley Crüe… and a metal band with Bjork
- The greatest new rock songs you'll hear this week
- Purple Rain in a deluge: How Prince stole the Super Bowl
- February 12
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- February 10
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- Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was acclaimed by one music magazine as the best album of the '90s. The fallout caused its creator to disappear from the spotlight entirely
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Vote for the best Babymetal song ever
- “In 10 years time, this album will be a classic”: how In Flames fell in love with melodeath again
- Dire Straits: the story of Sultans Of Swing
- The John Waite albums you should definitely own
- The story of the man who jammed with Led Zeppelin then sold Jimmy Page his most famous guitar
- February 9
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- The 10 bands saving deathcore
- “After Nirvana, anything seemed possible”: Quicksand's Walter Schreifels on Slip, the greatest '90s rock album that you've probably never heard
- 5 bands every metal fan is going to be talking about in 2023
- Blazing squad: A deep dive into Rammstein’s fiery cameo in xXx
- Ville Valo: "There’s no time for a hangover in the music business these days"
- Ugly Kid Joe's Everything About You: a story of MTV, beer drinking and escaped sex dolls
- February 8
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- February 3
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- Transatlantic and The Absolute Universe
- Lifesigns in the beginning: the story of the band's debut album
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- Given To Fly: How Yield taught Pearl Jam to chill the f**k out and fall back in love with being a killer rock 'n' roll band
- The top 20 best Nightwish songs ranked
- Kerry King: "Metallica certainly influenced me"
- The Joni Mitchell albums you should definitely own
- February 2
- February 1
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- 20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023
- 12 times rock stars gatecrashed another band's video
- Are Babymetal teasing a new member? 10 things we want from the Japanese metal stars in 2023
- "When I’m onstage, it’s my world": what happened when we joined Ozzy Osbourne on his final ever tour in 2018
- Breaking down The Beatles: Giles Martin and the miracle of the Revolver de-mix
- Adrian Vandenberg: "I turned down an offer to join Thin Lizzy because I knew they were heavily into drugs"
