Latest articles by Chris Chantler
As Gene Simmons takes another stack-heel tumble, we pay tribute to those musicians who've fallen in the name of rock... only to unsteadily rise again
Poems have inspired many metal anthems over the years, but these are the definitive best metal songs based on poetry
A lupine playlist featuring Ozzy, Metallica Type O Negative and more
Whether it's the Genevan student or his horrific creation, the story of Frankenstein has inspired these monster hits
Megadeth's debut album Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good gets calibrated to perfection
Arcade games, werewolves and Satan himself – here are Iron Maiden’s 10 greatest videos
Unleash the fire-breathing dragons and alien power station towers! These are the greatest stage sets ever
The top ten thrash metal monsters from the 1990s
NWOBHM classics, punk bangers, malevolent goth rock slow-anthems: how Metallica made metal’s most famous covers album
Kirk Hammett is metal’s undisputed horror nerd king, so we got the Metallica axeman to give us his rundown of the underrated grizzly classics you need in your life
Get your Gandalf on with metal’s finest songs about our pointy-hatted friends
Snarling biker-doom, sword-waving ghouls and Orson Welles – this is the best of the original early 80s New Wave Of American Heavy Metal
They might be flamingo-loving Norwegian party boys, but they're writing about some seriously dark stuff
Hammerfall helped keep heavy metal alive in the 90s, but new album Hammer Of Dawn shows their quest is far from over
Album review: ex-Immortal man and black metal survivor pulls back from the edge of ruin with Dread Reaver
Simone Simons looks back on the album that made Epica take a five-year break and a near-disastrous run-in with pyro
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel looks back on the band's 2004 symphonic metal breakthrough album The Silent Force
From Delain and Devin Townsend to Celtic Frost, Nightwish and Cradle Of Filth, these are the 25 best symphonic metal releases that saw metal embrace its grandiose side
Ten deep cuts and and immortal entreaties to make your blood pulse over Halloween
A journey from the lowest to the highest realms of Suffolk's masters of the macabre, Cradle Of Filth
Ex-Judas Priest legend KK Downing returns to familiar heavy metal territory
Goth/metal fusionists Unto Others undergo a triumphant resurrection with Strength
How Germany's power metal legends Helloween reconciled their warring factions
