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Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it
By Vicky Greer published
The unstoppable rise of Hayley Williams, an icon for our time

Witch Club Satan proved they're the best thing in black metal right now
By Rich Hobson published
Norwegian black metal trio Witch Club Satan made a thrilling, theatrical and utterly terrifying UK debut at Birmingham's Supersonic Festival

Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road
By Dave Ling published
Blaze Bayley and his band are playing the whole of Silicon Messiah live and it's finally coming to life

The Moody Blues on their albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin
By Peter Makowski published
The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock

How AC/DC's plan to conquer the world began in the back of a squalid bus
By Geoff Barton published
We travel back to 1976 to spend time with AC/DC as they clamber the first few rungs on stardom’s greasy ladder

Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well
By Metal Hammer published
“Exit light, enter plight”, apparently

How Bleed From Within became Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars
By Jon Wiederhorn published
From touring with Slipknot to opening for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine in the US, Bleed From Within are a band on the rise

"Nobody wanted to sign us, because we didn’t sound like Korn or Limp Bizkit."
By Stephen Hill published
System Of A Down might not've fit in, but they helped reshape metal for generations to come
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