Dave Everley

Creeper's Sanguivore is one of the albums of the year, and with it they - and in particular talismanic frontman Will Gould - have crafted a whole new world

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

The story behind Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's mega-hit I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Kavus Torabi explains the themes behind the band’s third album after the death of Daevid Allen

Iron Maiden have made some absolute classics across their near-five decade career, so we got the Maiden megafans in our ranks to argue over which is the greatest album of them all

For Kiss, the 90s was a roller-coaster decade that took them from the lows of a shelved ‘grunge’ album to a money-spinning reunion to a cataclysmic fall-out. Roll up and step into the Psycho Circus

Not every band can be as huge as The Beatles or Led Zeppelin in America – just ask Slade, The Small Faces and Status Quo

Little Caesar should have been the next big band to come out of the late 80s Sunset Strip scene – but everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong

Bassist fascinated with how drummer and lyricist Neil Peart “saw the layers in life”

10 unsung Queen classics that truly made the band who they are but aren't Bohemian Rhapsody or any of the other massive radio hits you hear every day

Blaze Bayley reflects on a life in heavy metal, from the turbulent early days of Wolfsbane to fronting Iron Maiden, overcoming tragedy and reckoning with his own mortality

Good or bad, it didn’t matter – these cover versions attracted the ire of their original authors

From a dizzying concept to an accompanying video game and (hopefully) a novel, Tesseract's newest chapter is seeing them reach new heights of ambition

Looking for something new and heavy to listen to? We've got you covered

Seemingly washed up at the beginning of the 80s, Alice Cooper got his act together, and before the decade was over he was sober, straight and right back in the game – and the charts

Jimi Hendrix, Whitesnake, Heart and Johnny Cash have all performed covers that got the blessing of the people who wrote them

Which songs have Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Queen and others played live the most? Spoiler: contains surprises

The Red Hot Chili Peppers had a rollercoaster 90s, but 1999’s Californication saw them reuniting with guitarist John Frusciante and returning bigger than ever