Latest articles by Ken McIntyre
Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal
Originally intended for a Peter Pan musical, Bat Out Of Hell ended up in the hands of a sweaty, leather-lunged theatre kid – and it was perfect
Talking major life events, vomiting into buckets and tricky band names with US punk rockers The Menzingers
They came from the desert, and they rocked
Buying guide Monster Magnet have a gift not for invention, but reinvention... and these are their best albums
Before he was churning out megahits with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Kiss, Desmond Child was the cornball king of streetfighting anthems
Celebrating Canada's phony metal conspiracy
Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough
Revisiting one of melodic rock's greatest long-lost albums
Perfect for people who think Survivor rock too hard
A tale of terrifying underachievement
"They did everything they could to destroy us. That's why we're like this secret, cult band."
All thanks to a warm, evergreen slice of pure pop genius
The rollercoaster story of REO Speedwagon, the AOR band with a rock’n’roll spirit
By the mid-80s, the huge success of Back In Black was a fading memory, AC/DC were on the ropes, and there was worse to come
“Sometimes Simon Cowell writes the music for us. Sometimes it’s AI”
Buying guide The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best
LA punk metallers with Iggy Pop connections return with head-crunching new album
Which band stole all their equipment, lived in a remote mountain compound for half the 70s and were buddies with Bill Clinton? Just them good ol’ boys Black Oak Arkansas
Some bands make all the right noises but never achieve the riches they deserve
Part Hanoi Rocks, part their skanky selves, meet Ravagers, the band soundtracking the end of the world
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!
AC/DC’s 1988 album Blow Up Your Video was a tipping point for the hard rock icons – and for guitarist Malcolm Young in particular
