Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has undergone a second heart operation
A year after suffering an onstage aneurysm and undergoing emergency heart surgery, Richie Faulkner reveals he's recovering from a second operation
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Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has undergone a second heart operation
A year after suffering an onstage aneurysm and undergoing emergency heart surgery, Richie Faulkner reveals he's recovering from a second operation
Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred like a master on a pair of Van Halen classics
Yet another highlight from the gift that keeps giving: the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Polyphia team with Steve Vai in new video for Ego Death
US instrumental prog quartet Polyphia will release Remember That You Will Die in October
Corey Taylor announces charity livestream event Half Sold Out: CMFT Live At The Palladium
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor shares details of special livestream performance in aid of The Taylor Foundation
The Prodigy's Liam Howlett on the early days of rave: "I like how rebellious it felt"
The Prodigy leader was marking the 30th anniversary of the band's debut album, Experience
Watch Nova Twins' fuzz-soaked cover of Beyoncé’s Break My Soul
Rising stars Nova Twins make an explosive debut in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge with a cover of Beyonce's chart-topping Break My Soul
We think we've found the coolest cover of Rammstein's Deutschland on the internet
Axe-slinging extraordinaire Kiki Wong has collaborated with violinist Mia Asano, cellist Tina Guo and saxophonist Grace Kelly for an epic Rammstein tribute
Watch Lars Ulrich, Geezer Butler, Dave Grohl and Sebastian Bach team up for riotous Black Sabbath covers at Taylor Hawkins LA tribute show
This is one hell of a supergroup - and they dusted off a rare track that Sabbath themselves last played in the 90s!
Let's Eat Grandma share shimmering new single Give Me A Reason
Indie pop duo Let's Eat Grandma release the stunning new single Give Me A Reason, lifted from the deluxe version of their recent acclaimed album, Two Ribbons
WIZRD premiere their brand new single Fire & Water
Norwegian prog rockers WIZRD will release their debut album Seasons in October
Metal vocalist auditions to be new voice of Tesco's checkout service with hilarious results
Tesco are challenging shoppers to audition on TikTok to become the new voice of their automated checkout..here's one metalhead's particularly lairy entry
Godsmack drop first new music in four years with new song Surrender
Godsmack offer first taste of their forthcoming album with new track Surrender
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The Top 20 best albums of 1998
From Korn to Rob Zombie, System Of A Down to Cradle of Filth these 20 albums shaped 1998
Yes frontman Jon Davison: "Taylor Hawkins’ last words to me were ‘I love you’"
“He was fearless”: Yes frontman Jon Davison on his childhood friend Taylor Hawkins
The Glenn Hughes albums you should definitely own
Thirty years of hard-rocking, blues’n’funk alchemy has earned golden-throated bassist Glenn Hughes a place at the top table of British rock - and these are his best albums
Kate Bush was once the face Seiko Watches in Japan, and we have the video to prove it
"We have many varieties of mood within us," says Kate Bush. "It’s up to you to choose"
The Struts' Luke Spiller on Taylor Hawkins, five-year-old fans, and the joy of bowls
Struts frontman Luke Spiller on Taylor Hawkins: "The outpouring of love for him on social media after he died was a real testament to how much he was loved"
Every Venom album ranked from worst to best
Venom’s Black Metal album gave the most evil metal subgenre its name, but which albums get the horns and which are as diabolical as the devil's diaper?
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From a death metal supergroup to alt-metal’s next heroes, these are the bands you should be at the top of your New Music playlist
Meet The Chats: straight outta the bong shed and into the bar
Back flips, booze and a horrible work ethic – meet Aussie slacker punks The Chats
The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and a guitar sound that defined the sixties
Roger McGuinn recalls The Byrds’ first-album flight of Mr Tambourine Man – and how that guitar sound was created
Why the failure of Stray Dog is one of the rock world’s biggest conundrums
Greg Lake loved them. They had one of the greatest opening tracks on any album, ever. Their guitarist is a hugely successful TV composer. So why did Stray Dog fail?
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Strigoi’s Viscera: dark, dank death-doom nirvana from Paradise Lost guitarist
Album review: Paradise Lost’s Gregor Mackintosh takes a trip to the even darker side on Strigoi’s second album Viscera
Autopsy’s Morbidity Triumphant: gore-metal godfathers are still sick after all these years
Album review: death metal sickos Autopsy keep the bad taste flag flying on new album Morbidity Triumphant
Dio: Dreamers Never Die is the documentary Ronnie James Dio deserves
Review: Illuminating, funny and occasionally brutally honest, Dio: Dreamers Never Die is an insightful portrait of one of metal’s most beloved figures
Joe Satriani: Surfing With The Alien - Album Of The Week Club review
Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien was the album that made his name and took shredding to the masses
Another Motorhead album celebrates its 40th birthday, and it's quite the party
Three Amigos’ farewell sumptuously re-packaged with added demos, booklet and essential previously unreleased live set
Billy Idol's The Cage is compact, catchy, precision-tooled pop-rock
Stanmore’s finest Billy Idol gets his motor running on his second EP in a year, The Cage
Troy Redfern continues breakneck creative pace on The Wings Of Salvation
The Wings Of Salvation is Hertfordshire bluesman Troy Redfern's sixth album in two years
Dr. John is in tip-top form on posthumous album Things Happen That Way
Dr John raves from the grave on star-studded album Things Happen That Way, completed after his death
Steve Howe pays tribute to late son Virgil on lovingly rendered Lunar Mist
Lunar Mist finds Yes guitarist Steve Howe presenting a fresh set of instrumentals written by his late son Virgil
Nikki Lane chronicles youthful follies on defiant Denim And Diamonds album
Country music's Nikki Lane is alive, kicking and rockier than before on Josh Homme-produced fourth album Denim And Diamonds
Rise by The Rasmus is not the fightback album against covid you were looking for
The jarring Rise is the tenth album from metallic Finnish Eurovision also-rans The Rasmus
