Latest articles by Simon Young
Video Breakdown: Slipknot – Duality
Watch an army of Slipknot fans destroy someone's home in less than four minutes
A bizarre new AI app has gone viral, so we flooded it with metal icons. The results will haunt your dreams
Great, now we'll never sleep again. Thanks, science.
We asked Microsoft's CaptionBot to describe 13 photos and things got weird
Microsoft reckon their new experiment can describe a photo as well as any human. Then we showed it a photo of GWAR...
The 10 least-played Metallica songs
Metallica have played Master Of Puppets more than 1,500 times. Some Kind Of Monster? Not quite as much…
Metallica's epic journey from Death Magnetic to Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
You may have been wondering what Metallica have been up to for the last eight years. Here's the definitive timeline from Death Magnetic to Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
Ozzy Osbourne updates fans following surgery
The Black Sabbath vocalist reveals that he's "feeling the love"
Ozzy Osbourne says he once thought Eric Clapton was stalking him around Los Angeles
The Double O admits to being "paranoid as f**k" at the time
Someone's messed around with a Pantera classic and the results will hurt your mind
It's a version of Mouth for War, but not as we know it
This Cliff Burton beer will quench the thirst of the most major of ragers
This Burton family-endorsed IPA clocks in at 6.4%
21 guitarists who look scared out of their mind
So what's tormenting these fret wizards, then?
Ozzy is "doing well" after major surgery
"Your love means the world to him," says Sharon Osbourne in Twitter post
The Osbournes: The very best clips
In 2002, reality TV was given something of a rude beeping awakening by The Osbournes. These are the best bits
Video Breakdown: Foo Fighters – Low
Dave Grohl and Jack Black have a lovely time in a crap motel
Here's Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time as you've never heard it before
Thomas Zwijsen has recorded Maiden's classic 1986 album in its entirety on acoustic guitar
Watch Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain take on Sooty in a tense drum battle in 1988
Can you guess who won? The answer may surprise you.
The Colour And The Shape at 25: how Foo Fighters' second album took Dave Grohl out of Kurt Cobain's shadow
The inside story of the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape, as it reaches its 25th anniversary
Here's what Eddie Munson would sound like if he hadn't practiced Master of Puppets
This is what most of us would sound like when confronted with Vecna and his mates, not gonna lie
A fan has trimmed the fat from Metallica's St. Anger and it sounds all the better for it
This thoughtful fan-edit will save you 23 minutes compared to the band's original, divisive 2003 studio release
11 things Metallica would rather do than finish their new album
Playing in igloos, hanging out with Hillary Clinton, THAT fashion shoot – Metallica would literally rather do anything at all than finish the follow up to Death Magnetic
13 Bassists Who Look Like They've Left The Oven On
Which bassists have gone and left their appliances switched on before playing a gig?
10 versions of The Star-Spangled Banner to celebrate Independence Day
It's Independence day, and to celebrate here's the United States Of America's national anthem performed with varying degrees of flair
Watch Bad News cause mayhem on a British chat show in 1987
See the late Terry Wogan effortlessly deal with a pyro accident, petty squabbling and a near punch-up on his iconic chat show
