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Survivor survived a change of singer to become a rare example of a band achieving mainstream success with two different frontmen – and these are their best albums

Venom legend Cronos on the birth of black metal, the success of former support band Metallica and why there’s zero chance of the classic line-up getting back together

From power ballads to balls-out OTT anthems, and from mega-hits to cult classics, the rock duet comes in all shapes and sizes

Fronted by vocal powerhouse Joyce Kennedy, Mother’s Finest were simply too ahead of the game: black musicians playing rock. If they’d arrived a decade later they could have been huge

Six songs to introduce you to the fierce funk-rock wizardry of Atlanta's very own Mother's Finest

Updated A guide to the recorded work of Ozzy Osbourne: Black Sabbath frontman, rock icon, reality TV star, national treasure

The best Queen songs Freddie Mercury didn't sing

It’s easy to forget that there’s more to Macca than The Beatles and the Frog Chorus: Just take a look at his rock’n’roll legacy

Just four years after Live Aid, Brian May gave an interview about the band's new album, The Miracle, and revealed where Queen lost their way

In this interview from 1989, just four years after Live Aid, Brian May talks about the band's new album, The Miracle

Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the album that makes him bounce around

After reuniting in LA in 2011, things quickly spun out of control for Black Sabbath, Iommi's cancer, Bill Ward's controversial departure, Ozzy falling off the wagon, how did 13 ever get made?

Knife-carrying thug, practical joker, drug fiend and the inventor of heavy metal, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on his life less ordinary

In 1979, Ozzy was out of Black Sabbath and on the ropes. Then he made the two albums that saved his career – and his life

From his seismic debut with the band to the defining live album of their careers and the sprawling concept album that divided fans, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson picks three of his favourites

From Number Of The Beast to The Book Of Souls, Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and co look back at every studio album Iron Maiden have recorded

"Imagine me trying to play Run To The Hills at fucking seventy-three years old!" Nicko McBrain might not be ready to retire yet, but he knows he's not going to go on forever...

The Iron Maiden story told by the "control freaks" who got them there, from East End pubs to worldwide stadiums, via sackings, internal squabbles and new business models

Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands

In the 1980s Metallica made some of the greatest heavy metal music of all time and became the biggest cult band in the world

How a song about a disfigured soldier made the biggest cult band in the world even bigger – and said goodbye to thrash metal once and for all

Dave Mustaine hit the canvas but lifted himself back up and found God, and still has the ambition to make Megadeth the biggest metal band in the world