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“Now I’m James LaBrie’s biggest cheerleader”: Mike Portnoy on his return to Dream Theater
By Rich Wilson published
Co-founding drummer discusses how easy 16th album Parasomnia came together, his sadness when he thought a reunion might not happen, and how he’s not quite the control freak some people think he is

"As soon as you hear it it's just, 'Wow'. The simplicity of it and how powerful it is."
By Merlin Alderslade published
Zakk Wylde picks out iconic riffs from Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC and more

""My dad smashed the Number Of The Beast: ‘I’m forbidding Devil’s music in my house!’"
By Stephen Hill published
How Jesse Leach went from preacher's son to metalcore icon with Killswitch Engage

“He used to call me Hitler. I’ve been called Sergeant Major, but Hitler takes the biscuit.” Iron Maiden's Steve Harris remembers "lovable rogue" Paul Di'Anno
By Paul Brannigan published
Steve Harris salutes the singer who helped launch Iron Maiden from London's East End to stadiums worldwide

“Life is meaningless – so embrace it”: Steven Wilson looks back at Planet Earth
By Dave Everley published
His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death”

How Divide And Dissolve went from doom-drone to classical
By Alex Deller published
Divide And Dissolve’s Takiaya Reed has made the leap to composing symphonies – with some help from the BBC

"A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was"
By Stephen Hill published
We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards

Nick Cave once dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea
By Paul Brannigan published
“I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre”
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