Joe Daly

These speed freaks from thrash metal’s golden age fell by the wayside when they should have been megastars

2013’s Metalhead understands heavy music better than any other film – and features nods to Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest and Venom along the way

Oliver Stone’s The Doors divided the critics – and the surviving band members. But it made Jim Morrison a star all over again and laid down the template for the modern rock biopic

Megadeth leader and ex-Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine wrote a thrash metal classic called The Mechanix in the early ’80s. Today, both bands lay claim to vastly different versions of the song.

Metallica, Tina Turner, Abba – here are 10 times Ghost completely owned someone else’s song

They’ve been off the radar for a while, but Vintage Trouble have returned with new album Heavy Hymnals, and this time their blazing rock’n’soul is fuelled by heartbreak, social commentary and racial injustice. Just don’t call it a comeback

This year will be your last chance to see Kiss, the Eagles, Foreigner ever play live

Hollywood likes to portray metalheads as either bullies or dimwits. These 10 movie and TV characters smash all the stereotypes.

From spotlighting Linkin Park and Lamb Of God in their prime to pulling pranks on a Slipknot crowd, the former Late Night host truly is one of us

These bangers by Metallica, Linkin Park and more never got an album or single release – but, in hindsight, they really deserved one

In 80s America, the Parents Music Resource Center sought to censor music by imposing a series of draconian rules. Here’s how a group of rock, metal and punk bands fought back

Guns N' Roses changed the shape of rock'n'roll when they emerged in the mid-eighties. Here's a half-century of their very best, and the stories behind them.

In August 1966, The Beatles played their second to last show at LA’s Dodger Stadium – and they had a couple of familiar names on their security team

In 1986, director Charles Martin Smith made an underrated horror movie lambasting the PMRC – and he got Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead to help.

In 1991, some people noticed a similarity between Metallica’s Enter Sandman and a skatepunk song that had come out two years earlier

Jack Black and Kyle Gass look back on how Tenacious D became pop culture phenomenons - and reveal the real inspiration behind Tribute

After six albums in 15 years and touring alongside a raft of A-listers, new album Darkfighter finds Rival Sons ready to take it to the next level

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

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