From Bloodbath and Bleeding Through to Oceans Ate Alaska and Dub War, these are the week’s best new tracks. Plus: vote for your favourite!

Dark Tranquillity vocalist (and all-round Gothenburg legend) Mikael Stanne picks the ten gore-dripping death metal albums that changed his life

How Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction helped a cleaned-up Dave Mustaine realise his superstar ambitions

Canada’s finest Bryan Adams on John Cleese, Mutt Lange, and why he never tires of playing *that* song

Thunder guitarist Luke Morley picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the sport Jimmy Page is terrible at

The setbacks Def Leppard have faced over the past 45 years would have finished off many lesser bands, but now they’re very much on the up again

Synthwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut talks trilogies, uniting music fans and this year's absurdly fun Leather Terror album

With over a billion streams across YouTube and Spotify, Bonnie Tyler's hair-raising classic Total Eclipse Of The Heart might just be be the biggest power ballad of them all

Throwing space-rock, proto-metal, acid-rock and a lot more into a swirling pot, Monster Magnet have a gift not for invention, but reinvention... and these are their best albums

Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger talk getting personal, the trouble with social media, and the difficult road to Halestorm's Back From The Dead album

Bill Ward was an integral part of Black Sabbath and of heavy metal’s genesis. Here he reflects on his eventful life thus far and his piles of unreleased albums