Iggy Pop vows to never stage-dive again due to being "too rickety"
The Godfather of Punk says he'll no longer be stage-diving during live shows, a move that he famously popularised in his youth as frontman of The Stooges
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Iggy Pop vows to never stage-dive again due to being "too rickety"
The Godfather of Punk says he'll no longer be stage-diving during live shows, a move that he famously popularised in his youth as frontman of The Stooges
Evanescence's Fallen has now sold over 10 million copies in the US alone
Evanescence's debut album Fallen has been certified Diamond by the RIAA for over 10 million sales in the US
This new quiz makes you guess the popularity of various metal songs
Gareth Evans has created a metal version of Stattogories, an online higher/lower game that tests metalheads' knowledge of songs and their popularity
Ne Obliviscaris share video for epic 12-minute new song Equus
Australian prog metallers Ne Obliviscaris will release new album Exul in March
Big Big Train share live video for new seasonal single Snowfalls
Big Big Train recorded Snowfalls live at Zoertemeer's Boederij venue in September
Someone’s added that Peanut Butter Jelly song to Turnstile’s Holiday and we can’t get it out of our head
Enjoy this Buckwheat Boyz novelty single mashed up with the Baltimore hardcore band’s bouncy single
Spiritbox announce UK headline tour
Canadian metallers Spiritbox are returning to the UK for a seven-date headline tour
Three Steve Jolliffe solo albums to be reissued
Former Tangerine Dream member Steve Jolliffe to have three 1980s solo albums reissued
According to DATA, Mötley Crüe were rock's biggest success story in 2022
The success of Mötley Crüe's huge stadium tour has seen them crowned rock music's Artist Of The Year in a new, data-driven report
Metallica issue official warning as fans fall for crypto scams
Metallica have taken to social media to warn fans against scams that have appeared online since they announced new album 72 Seasons
Watch this YouTuber switch Metallica and Pink Floyd guitar solos with jaw-dropping results
Bradley Hall plays Metallica’s Fade To Black and Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb solos like some sort of alchemist
Disturbed's Down With The Sickness mixed with The Spice Girls' Wannabe is the most cursed mash-up of the year
'I really, really, really wanna zigazig, OH WAH AH AH AH' We've all been there
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Watch The Cult's cheeky appeal to record labels at weird 1984 German TV appearance
The Cult's Ian Astbury adopts an 'If you don't ask, you don't get' approach while miming for German TV show Music Convoy
Vote for the best metal song of 2022
Ghost? Babymetal? Metallica? We need your help to pick the very best metal songs of 2022
In Flames' Anders Fridén: "We were missing that guitar attack"
Anders Friden says In Flames' new album Foregone is "a mix between the past, the present and wherever we’re going"
Ginger Wildheart: "It was time to divorce the wife and move in with the bit on the side"
How maverick Britrocker Ginger Wildheart survived another messy divorce to shack up with his new band, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners
David Bowie: The making of Diamond Dogs and the iconic tour that failed
Diamond Dogs marked the point at which David Bowie began to shed his glam-rock skin. He then embarked on one of rock's most expensive – and dangerous – tours
Remembering the time Limp Bizkit took over the Playboy Mansion for the release of Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Relive the opulence of a nu metal launch party hosted by a band at the height of their powers
"We’re finding something completely new": why Africa is the future of metal
Author Edward Banchs' new book introduces the metal bands reshaping the genre and giving it a brighter future
"I felt like an alien in my own music": Why Blind Guardian returned to their heavy metal roots on The God Machine
How Blind Guardian overcame personal tragedy to return to bombastic heavy metal on The God Machine
Cannibalism, The Cramps and THAT Wednesday dance scene: the weird story of Goo Goo Muck
The Cramps' Goo Goo Muck has gone viral thanks to Netflix's Wednesday show - but the song's history is as murky as the music itself
The eight best new rock songs out this week
Eight beautiful baubles hanging from the newly erected Christmas tree of rock
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Kid Congo Powers: Some New Kind Of Kick review
The Gun Club, Cramps and Bad Seeds guitarist looks back over a life in three of the most exciting bands of the 80s
Saxon: Metalhead - Album Of The Week Club review
The dark Metalhead is another highlight from British metal veterans Saxon's late-career purple patch
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 25th birthday remake of his second album is not a surprise party
This remake of blueser Kenny Wayne Shepherd's second album Trouble Is... might just stick too close to the original
Neil Young's Harvest: 50 years on, flawlessly imperfect from beginning to end
If you’re a Neil Young fan, you’ll want this: an expanded, 50th anniversary edition of the classic Harvest
As pummelling as 12 rounds with Tyson Fury: our first reaction to new Metallica single Lux Æterna
Metallica have surprised the world with a fast blast of speed metal that sounds straight from the Kill 'Em All era
Badfinger: No Dice - Album Of The Week Club review
Badfinger were besieged by Beatles comparisons and beset by bad business dealings, but perhaps No Dice's ultimate legacy is the hits it provided for others
Fleetwood Mac's Alternate Collection is insightful but lacks LA bells, whistles and cocaine pixie-dust
Once more into the archives for alternative takes on old Fleetwood Mac favourites
The Doors' Paris Blues: Is that all there is? Really?
Released as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event, Paris Blues features the last (apparently) unreleased studio recording by The Doors
Eric Burdon & War: a barrier-breaking collaboration from a trail-blazing era
This Record Store Day box set corrals Eric Burdon & War's three albums on multi-hued vinyl
Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything: an epic that's as swoony as it is cerebral
50th-anniversary Record Store Day box of peak Todd Rundgren album Something/Anything
The Grateful Dead thrive in a venue they never intended to play
A hefty Record Store Day hefty document from the Grateful Dead’s Europe ‘72 tour
