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"My name is Lucifer, please take my hand, is such a memorable lyric": Ghost's Tobias Forge on the satanic hymns which lured him to the dark side
Ghost might not exist had these Satan-praising sounds not seduced Tobias Forge as an impressionable teenager
10 songs that invented thrash metal, according to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian
Scott Ian on 10 proto-thrash bangers that changed the face of 80s metal
A brief history of the metal Christmas song – and why there’ll (probably) never be a heavy holiday classic
Superstars from Spinal Tap to King Diamond have all tried to make a heavy metal Christmas classic. Yet, these attempts have never become chart-smashing hits. What gives?
11 legendary heavy metal bands with only one original member left
Superstars from Iron Maiden to Slipknot are still thriving, despite having just one founding member among their ranks
“She's got a fire raging in between her thighs, I got a hose to put it out, try this for size”: a deep dive into terrible heavy metal lyrics about sex
Metal might nail it when it comes to lyrics about death, war, Satan and existential terror...but sex? Um, not so much
"They’re not just wearing our shirts, they’re stealing the f**king music as well!" Venom's Cronos on his first impressions of Metallica, and nearly choking Lars Ulrich
Metallica made no secret of their love for Newcastle's extreme metal pioneers Venom, and when the two bands' worlds collided, things got kinda wild
10 classic metal albums almost ruined by one terrible song
Metallica, Korn and Machine Head have all got so close to perfection – just for one song to mess it up
A beginner's guide to black metal in five essential albums
Everyone knows metal’s evilest genre for the arson and murder, but the music’s been transgressing boundaries for four decades
