UPDATED! The Californian alt-rock legends are 15 albums into their career, but which Weezer albums are essential, and which should you leave well alone?

Slipknot's Duality: how personal agony and conflict helped the band write one of 21st century metal's definitive anthems

With Idles' fourth album Crawler on the horizon, we pick out the ten tracks that helped make them one of rock's fastest rising sensations

Trivium fans gathered for an exclusive listening party for In The Court Of The Dragon last week, and we were there to get the verdict

Looking back over the rollercoaster career of 21st century metal heroes Trivium

From their roots in synthpop to ascension as industrial metal legends, here's every Ministry album arranged in order of greatness

With the new The Matrix Resurrections trailer doing the rounds, here we look back on how the original Matrix movie was perfectly placed to help lead a nu metal revolution

Plunged into anxiety hell by COVID-19, Danko Jones’ dreams of rock stardom never seemed more impossible. Fortunately, new album Power Trio brings the band roaring back to life

Skindred frontman Benji Webbe talks the 10 songs guaranteed to get a party bouncing

Motorhead never sounded better than when playing to sweaty, fanatical audiences... and these are their best live albums

Napalm Death's iconic bassist and man of many musical hats Shane Embury takes us through his 10 most definitive tracks

If you were expecting Judas Priest’s 50th Anniversary Celebration at Bloodstock to just be a perfunctory run through of the hits… well, you’ve got another thing comin’

The Wildhearts frontman and man of many musical projects Ginger Wildheart talks us through his 10 songs that mean the most to him

Come the end of the 80s, Ozzy was in tatters, but by 1991 he was back, sober and fit again

Clutch's raucous hit The Mob Goes Wild from Blast Tyrant was inspired by the Iraq War and helped Clutch break out of the last chance saloon with a Jackass-starring music video

Ten years in, Swedish prog metallers Opeth were tired of toiling in obscurity. Then Blackwater Park put them on the map and changed extreme metal forever

With the UK opening up on July 19, one Metal Hammer writer looks towards the return of live shows and what might happen next

From Bathory to Judas Priest, these are the records that shaped Tomas Lindberg of At The Gates