Joe Daly

What Tenacious D's comedy rock opera The Pick Of Destiny lacked in box office returns, it made up for in heart and star cameos

Here's all the proof you need that when they fancy it, Metallica know how to put the pedal to the metal

Metal, movies and Randy Rhoads – this is what happened when Tenacious D interviewed Ozzy Osbourne

Jon Dette has played with two of the Big 4, so he knows exactly which songs by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth are toughest to nail

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt channelled late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton as the nihilistic title character in cult movie Hesher

Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album

Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Queensrÿche... Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero may have flopped with critics, but 30 years on, its soundtrack is an absolute classic

When an overawed Nuno Bettencourt finally got to meet his hero Eddie Van Halen, he could not have predicted what happened next

Turning 20 this year, The Darkness' classic Permission To Land was like a glittery rocket fired into the heart of the early-00s rock scene

From trampolinists and human chicken legs to religious battles and, yes, that artwork, here are ten fascinating things you might not know about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death

Legendary actor and honorary heavy metal hero Sir Christopher Lee had some choice words in response to rumours he owned a huge collection of occult books

It's a cold night in New York, and Kiss are about to play their first show... but there's almost no one in the crowd to witness history in the making

2022 was a massive year for Ghost, but Tobias Forge says there’s more to come in 2023

In 1985, John Fogerty was sued for releasing a song that allegedly ripped off another he'd written 15 years earlier – and it was a battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court

From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months

From Bruce Dickinson and Dave Mustaine to Rob Halford and Dee Snider, these are the must-read accounts of some of heavy music's most iconic names

From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black metal albums of 2022

From Conan and BlackLab to Crippled Black Phoenix and MWWB, these are the 10 best doom metal records of 2022

From Megadeth and Kreator to Dead Cross and Vulcano, these are the best thrash metal albums of 2022

Watch Chris Cornell remain unflustered during an awkward interview about the weather, Soundgarden's "noise", and Jimi Hendrix