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"We did stuff that cannot be done now because it's illegal": With lyrics by gonzo rock critics and a crazy live show, Blue Öyster Cult were born to break the mould
Kiss kept the kids happy with lunchboxes, but Blue Öyster Cult were the brooding kings of the teenage wasteland
10 bands whose best album was recorded live
10 live albums that remain a career pinnacle for 10 legendary bands
The 10 most American songs ever
10 extremely American songs to celebrate America in all its star-spangled and/or faded glory
Rock City Angels: the self-destructive story of Johnny Depp's old band
In 1987 Geffen Records paid Rock City Angels $6.2 million dollars for a seven-album deal – but it was Guns N' Roses who ascended
Overkill's Scorched: No ballads, no compromises, just pure, vicious thrash metal
Scorched is the gorgeously tawdry twentieth album from deathless thrash metal veterans Overkill
Every song on ZZ Top's Eliminator ranked from worst to best
ZZ Top's Eliminator yielded hit after hit and catapulted the unlikely power-trio into superstardom, but how good was it really? We rank every song on the album from worst to best
Heavy Metal Love: The story of Helix, Canada's mightiest hair metal heroes
Helix were street-wise and raw while maintaining allegiance to their melodic Canuck-rock roots. And nearly half a century after forming, they're still on the road
If you ever considered fishnets a fashion necessity then you probably need Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip
Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip is a sprawling re-examination of unheralded Hollywood glam
Black Space Riders: laser-blasting stoner rock warriors widen their remit
Black Space Riders get real gone for a change on seventh album We Have Been Here Before
Skid Row have released a full-on, victory or death, maximum rock’n’roll album
Faded-star hair-metallers Skid Row return with their best album since their best-ever album
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant classic rock bands
Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands
The Black Angels are the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world
Austin space streakers The Black Angels are back to feed your head on Wilderness Of Mirrors
Datura 4's Neanderthal Jam is a reverent and joyful ode to arena-rock excess
Aussie garage rockers Datura4 go 70s stadium rock on Neanderthal Jam and it all works out fine
Righteous Fool's long-shelved album will melt your face into a puddle of goo
Little-known Corrosion Of Conformity offshoot surfaces unexpectedly to bring maximum sludge to the masses
Grunting, sweating, greasy downer rock from the dawn of the 70s? Step right this way
Another deep-dive into the proto-metal past via a 14th creditable collection in the Brown Acid series
Church Of The Cosmic Skull: your new favourite classic rock hippie sex cult
Finally, a cult worth joining: Church Of The Cosmic Skull and their life-affirming fourth album There Is No Time
Detroit Rock City: the 10 best bands from America's rock'n'roll capital
The 10 best bands (and more) from Detroit, a city with the purest of rock'n'roll coursing through its veins
Tokyo Blade's Fury is a pulverising and satisfying return to form
Forty years on and it’s still the Night of the Blade
Death Angel don't deliver the hits on The Bastard Tracks
Nothing but deep cuts on Death Angel's brain-rattling live-in-the-studio collection The Bastard Tracks
10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great
Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great
Ministry's fifteenth album Moral Hygiene provides a few surprise twists
Ministry's Al Jourgensen, industrial metal’s favourite deviant, is back with the Trump-inspired Moral Hygiene
Power Trio by Danko Jones: a relentless surge of high-energy, rock’n’roll savagery
Power Trio features more rippers from Danko Jones, Canada’s greatest living rock’n’roll band
10 proto-metal albums you should definitely own
A handy guide to 10 of the ugliest, gnarliest, most influential proto-metal albums of all time
