Alexander Milas

In London for the War Games Live event at the Imperial War Museum on November 26, John Romero talks Iron Maiden, the NWOBHM and the cultural touchstones which fire his imagination. Read to the end for free tickets details

Inspired by a Moscow festival crowd, the Scorpions' Wind Of Change came to represent the fall of the Berlin Wall, but now its message of reconciliation and hope is now being tested

Amid muted celebrations of their 50th anniversary Scorpions released their nineteenth studio album – Rock Believer – more than a decade after their farewell tour. Will they ever stop?

Robert Calvert’s manic imagination was fuelled by bipolar disorder, but it helped him conceive one of the 70’s most outlandish concept albums

Metallica are late onstage, drummer Lars Ulrich has gone AWOL, and 100,000 fans are about to witness an unexpectedly historic show

Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, Jerry Cantrell and, of course, Metallica – Rob Trujillo has played for them all. This is the story of the man behind the bass

The man behind Black Sabbath's game-changing lyrics reveals all about his life and times

In 2007, Metal Hammer talked to Peter Steele about Type O Negative’s new album Dead Again. No one knew it would be his swansong

Here, for the first and only time, Ville Valo reveals why HIM have chosen to go out with a with a bang after 26 years, and why some things are best left to die

As the 80s drew to an end, post-punk and goth rock were going overground, subverting the mainstream and turning everything but the water black…

Six months after The Black Parade made My Chemical Romance the biggest band on the planet, we tried to find out if that success had become a poisoned chalice...

The Heavy Metal Truants are cycling to Download festival for charity once again

The Boss isn't being "a bully" or a petulant millionaire rock star – he's making a genuine difference in highlighting an unfair law

How a classic rock song started a personal obsession

It's Louisville's premier Bourbon and gourmet man-food festival... and a bunch of bands just happen to be playing

Kerry King isn’t just the face of Slayer. As he revealed one sunny day in LA back in 2006, he’s got more than just a few litres of Jägermeister beneath the surface.

Folk, metal, and history combine for a Norwegian Fjord Fiesta

There are few certainties in life but death, taxes and Clutch and Mastodon putting on a show for the history books. We caught up with them in New York to talk new music and a metal bromance...

All the action from the second day of Heavy Metal Truants III

What happens when you send dozens of metalheads on a bike ride to Download for charity?

What does one of Star Wars' biggest fans make of the new trailer?

The Metal God closes the second night of Rock On The Range