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March 2023
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- March 31
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- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
- Check out these new tunes with Prog's Tracks Of The Week
- This is Sempiternal: how Bring Me The Horizon made this generation's definitive metal album
- Status Quo's Francis Rossi: "I’d rather have a buttered bread roll with mild cheddar and tomato than cocaine and groupies"
- The tragic story behind Mastodon's Emperor Of Sand
- Slipknot's Joey Jordison once picked this as his favourite Pink Floyd song: "It freaked the f*** out of me"
- 7 killer metal albums you might have missed this month
- "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering!" Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: Chapter One!
- Empyre's track-by-track guide to new album Relentless
- Angus Young on Eddie Van Halen, the differences between Bon and Brian, and his guilty secret
- March 30
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- "I’ve been booted out of King Crimson about three times": Bill Bruford on a life in music
- Five cool new prog acts you need to hear this March
- This is Hardcore: these dark depictions of the damaging, corrosive effects of fame illustrate why Pulp bailed on Britpop
- 10 completely bonkers guest spots from metal legends on non-metal songs
- Every track on Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal album ranked from worst to best
- Why Mystic Festival remains one of Europe's most unique and essential metal holiday destinations
- When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained
- The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"
- March 29
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- That time Eddie Van Halen appeared on Two And A Half Men exiting a bathroom with his guitar
- The epic story of metal’s love affair with Dungeons & Dragons
- The true meaning behind Radiohead's Creep, the song that made, and nearly broke, Thom Yorke's band
- Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd went on tour: knife-throwing, guitar smashing and acid breakdowns followed
- The Ry Cooder albums you should definitely own
- How Brian Johnson joined AC/DC: a strange German, a hoover ad, and an awful pie
- March 28
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- Beyond The Black: how a former pop star could be symphonic metal's next megastar
- 12 obscure but excellent 80s rock and metal bands who should have been massive
- 10 things you never knew about The Darkness' Permission To Land
- The 10 most viewed System Of A Down videos on YouTube
- Uriah Heep's Mick Box: "I feel like I’ve done ten rounds with Mike Tyson and not got a punch in"
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- March 23
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- Don't mess with Keith Richards' pre-show shepherd's pie ritual, or he might threaten to cut you up and bake you into one
- August Burns Red's JB Brubaker picks his most influential metal albums of the 21st Century
- Jesse Malin: "I like to get under those lights and sweat out the poison"
- From tragedy to triumph: The Allman Brothers and the making of Eat A Peach
- March 22
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- Danny Elfman: "F***ing put me next to the stage where Rage Against The Machine is playing"
- The 10 most viewed Iron Maiden videos on YouTube
- Holy Fawn: meet the heaviest non-metal band you'll hear this year
- Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors
- Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more
- "We aim to re-establish our contact with the people who got us off the ground": What happened when Led Zeppelin went Back To The Clubs
- March 21
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- Wholesome death metal news: Obituary drummer Donald Tardy runs a cat rescue charity
- 10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined TV talk shows
- Remembering the totally normal moment black metal legends Satyricon played a catwalk during the World Ski Championships
- Torture. Incest. Voyeurism. Why Pixies' Surfer Rosa is the weirdest and most influential alt. rock album of the '80s
- Watch 10 of the craziest mosh pits we've ever seen
- Why I ❤️ Soundgarden's Superunknown, by Shinedown's Brent Smith
- Bob Dylan and the strange case of the soy bomb stage invader
- March 20
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- 10 new Irish artists you should be listening to right now
- The story behind every single Metallica album cover art
- "I had been running, numbing and self-medicating": How The Interrupters turned abuse, trauma and depression into triumph on Into The Wild
- 10 things you never knew about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death album
- Chester Bennington would have turned 47 today. In 2017, in his final interview, he gave us these touching words about his friend and hero, Chris Cornell
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Ayron Jones, Elles Bailey and more
- March 19
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- March 17
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- The 10 best new songs you need to hear right now
- 10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined mainstream awards shows
- Employed To Serve's Justine Jones: "Post Malone invited us to play beer pong"
- No one expected Bad Omens to become the biggest metalcore band in a generation. So what the hell is going on?
- The story of Gazpacho's Demon
- Ice-T has a new podcast and he's already recorded a year's worth of episodes: "I don't think I'll ever run out of wisdom"
- The 'debate' around Meg White's drumming says everything about the enduring sexism in rock music
- Skindred's Benji Webbe: the soundtrack of my life
- March 16
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- Six cool new prog tracks you need to hear this week
- A 1978 Black Sabbath/Ramones gig was promoted as 'Punk Rock vs Heavy Metal': it got ugly and dangerously out of control
- Why you should definitely own Fried by Julian Cope
- The Stones. The Dolls. Hanoi Rocks. Could Dangereens be the next great rock'n'rollers?
- March 15
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- Dream Evil's The Book Of Heavy Metal: how a death metal producer made trad metal cool again
- Every Rise Against album ranked from worst to best
- The 10 most viewed Metallica videos on YouTube
- Connor Selby might be blues music's next big star, and he's off to a flying start
- That time Billy Gibbons showed up on Pawn Stars because someone was selling his $40,000 Nudie suit
- March 14
- March 13
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- 9 rock and metal songs inspired by mushrooms and fungi
- The Reels Thing: How Dave Grohl's love letter to a Los Angeles recording studio beautifully captures the magic of music
- "It's not telling a story, there’s no concept or anything." Mike Oldfield and the strange miracle of Tubular Bells
- Wig Wam: "I’d have a bottle of cognac backstage and it was empty when we left"
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Rival Sons, The Damned and more
- March 10
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- The 10 best new songs you need to hear this week
- 10 times rock bands totally ruined Top Of The Pops
- 5 brilliant new bands you need to check out this month
- Far's Water & Solutions at 25: "We were a mess... and on that record it was a beautiful mess”
- Ghost stories: the making of Gazpacho's March Of Ghosts
- Nightwish's Floor Jansen: "Life is short. Time is not endless"
- Broken bottles, sliced hands and drunken carnage: the true story behind Lynyrd Skynyrd’s infamous 'Bloodbath In Hamburg'
- March 9
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- Six great new prog tracks you really must listen to!
- Sing The Sorrow at 20: the album that turned AFI from cult punk heroes into gothic rock superstars
- Here are the astonishing US sales stats for every Metallica album
- Steve Vai: "When people take back their freedom, they become themselves"
- Watch Trent Reznor before he was famous singing Billy Idol's Eyes Without A Face
- Diving For Pearls: the band who should have been kings of melodic rock
- March 8
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- 10 essential music books to add to your reading list on International Women's Day
- The metal as hell moment Christopher Lee warned us all off black magic: "You not only lose your mind...you lose your soul”
- Kelly Jay was on the cover of Rush's Moving Pictures: he never listened to it
- Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous: the real story of the greatest live album ever
- March 7
- March 6
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- The 10 best I Prevail songs ever, according to vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe
- Why Lynyrd Skynyrd are one of Metallica's most important influences
- Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington: lessons from a life lived to the full
- Tracks Of The Week: new music from Elegant Weapons, Extreme, Samatha Fish and more
- All aboard! What happened when Status Quo ran their legendary train trip to Butlins
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- March 1
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- Here's everything we know about Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons so far
- The 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time
- "I want more haters!" Voyager tackle the critics with Colours In The Sun
- Piece Of Mind at 40: inside Iron Maiden's first true fantasy epic
- Every Nickelback album ranked from worst to best
- The story of Rush's debut album: "We wanted to be a hard rock band"
- Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon: 20 things you didn't know
