Iron Maiden are going to battle with an underwear company over its name
Iron Maiden object to the name of new underwear company Maiden Wear as they believe fans might see it as an officially endorsed clothing line
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Iron Maiden are going to battle with an underwear company over its name
Iron Maiden object to the name of new underwear company Maiden Wear as they believe fans might see it as an officially endorsed clothing line
Watch a teenage James Corden look on as his first ever interviewee, Meat Loaf, bangs his head against a table and talks about musicals
Decades before he was a divisive, America-conquering late night TV host, James Corden won a competition to interview Meat Loaf
Former Soft Machine man Sir Karl Jenkins denies he's "Meghan in disguise" at Coronation
"I look this way all the time," says former Soft Machine musician Karl Jenkins after Coronation mix-up!
Black Stone Cherry announce new album Screamin' At The Sky
Black Stone Cherry's Screamin' At The Sky will be released in September – watch video for new single Nervous
An official Syd Barrett YouTube channel has been launched
The Syd Barrett Estate has launched an official YouTube channel for the Pink Floyd founder - first up are new videos for Terrapin, Dominoes and Dark Globe
Watch this Metallica fan play Master Of Puppets using every 'instrument' imaginable, including straws, bananas and, er, a toilet door
Tom Fdez attempts to play Metallica's Master Of Puppets using just about every means possible
“I couldn’t breathe!”: Duff McKagan’s new song was written in the middle of a panic attack – and got him through it
Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan releases a new solo EP and reveals his long-term struggles with panic attacks and depression – and how Slash supported him from the beginning
Listen to this haunting AI Freddie Mercury cover of The Beatles' Yesterday
Someone has crafted an AI-generated cover of The Beatles' Yesterday as if it were sung by Freddie Mercury, and we're not sure how we feel about it
Rita Lee, Brazil's "Queen of Rock", dead at 75
The death of Rita Lee, solo star and singer with Tropicália legends Os Mutantes, has been confirmed by her family
Watch Steven Tyler poke fun at 'Peace Out' tag for Aerosmith's farewell tour
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler makes lighthearted suggestions for alternative name for farewell tour
Ex Megadeth bassist says Dave Mustaine's long-held Metallica grudge is "f***ing pathetic"
David Ellefson takes aim at former Megadeth bandmate Dave Mustaine over his decades-long beef with Metallica
Dolly Parton details long-awaited, much-hyped, star-studded rock album
Dolly Parton's 30-song, 4LP Rockstar comes out in November and includes a stellar list of guest performers and versions of Free Bird, Purple Rain and We Are The Champions
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The making of Deep Purple's Machine Head: "Smoke On The Water only made it onto the album as filler"
How The Clash made history by visiting some of Belfast's most divided and violent streets
Punk pioneers The Clash were captured visiting a war-torn, troops-heavy Belfast at the height of the Troubles and it cemented their reputation as a result
The time Nirvana got in a food fight with Sonic Youth (and then someone went and urinated in Ride’s champagne bucket)
It wasn't all doom and gloom in camp Nirvana – the band found time for some "real, sincere fun" along the way too
We went on the road with Gojira for their biggest French show ever, and it was mindblowingly good
You haven't lived until you've seen 16 thousand Parisians screaming along to Gojira
The triumph and tragedy of Monsters Of Rock '88: How Iron Maiden's biggest UK show will be forever tinged by disaster
In 1988 Iron Maiden were enjoying soaring success – but as they prepared for their biggest UK show, tragedy awaited around the corner
The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room
Producer Tony Visconti was working with Thin Lizzy on their Black Rose album when Phil Lynott's partying started to spiral out of control
The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever
Forensically examining a cursed selection of artwork which are heinous crimes against the eye
The Girlschool albums you should definitely own
Celebrated as ‘the female Motörhead’, Girlschool became stars of the NWOBHM scene. But what were their best albums?
Mike Rutherford: "The last Genesis show felt bizarre"
With Mike + The Mechanics currently on an extensive UK tour, Mike Rutherford talks singers, drummers, taking it easy, and the last days of Genesis
10 occasionally baffling stories of 10 bands named after 10 other bands
They're named in honour of other bands, but don't sound anything like them. It's complicated
Kenny Wayne Shepherd: the soundtrack of my life
Blues giant Kenny Wayne Shepherd picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and recalls the life-changing show he went to as a three-year-old
"This is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and they’re playing my song!" - what happened when Def Leppard went to Abbey Road
Def Leppard are joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on new album Drastic Symphonies. We went to Abbey Road Studios to watch it come together
The Aerosmith albums you should definitely own
Aerosmith might be coming to the end of the road, but no one has ever done the dirty job of rock'n'roll better, and their best albums are swaggering, charismatic proof
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Winger fail to reinvent themselves again, but who cares when the choruses are this big?
Reanimated 80s FM rockers Winger return with comfortingly familiar seventh album Seven
Tygers Of Pan Tang's new album is the bog-average sound of a band dithering
Bloodlines is the unlucky 13th album from the band formerly known as "NWOBHM legends" Tygers Of Pan Tang
Whitesnake add polish to an unexpected gem on the pleasingly punchy Still Good To Be Bad
Whitesnake’s tenth studio album Good To Be Bad reissued with added bells, whistles and horns
The Damned continue to flourish as their punk peers wither and fade
Darkadelic is a loud'n'lively twelfth album from punk’s most adaptable survivors The Damned
Metallica just threw Amsterdam the world's biggest heavy metal party
Metallica's first set of the M72 world tour was a triumphant, rousing success
Goat: mysterious masked magick mavens bewitch Brixton with filthily funky ritual
Pancultural psych-fusion Swedes serve up heady witch's brew at UK tour climax
"Their best album since...": Metallica fans review new album 72 Seasons
We asked rock and metal fans to share their views on the new Metallica album 72 Seasons - here's what they had to say
RökFlöte finds Jethro Tull tackling Norse Gods and somehow reborn as a viable contemporary outfit
Jethro Tull forsake the Bible of last year's The Zealot Gene in favour of the paganism of Norse mythology on RökFlöte
Nobody but Ian Hunter has the power, at this point in their career, to sound so fresh, so new and so exciting
One of Britain's great songwriters Ian Hunter delivers a shining example of his craft on new solo album Defiance Part 1
Kerrang! Living Loud: an essential insider account of how 'The Rock Bible' shaped the global rock landscape
Nick Ruskell's Kerrang! Living Loud: Four Decades On The Frontline Of Rock, Metal, Punk and Alternative Music is an eye-opening account of the magazine's storied history, featuring tributes from Metallica, Guns N' Roses and more
David Bowie's Aladdin Sane: still better than 99% of all other pre-'77 rock
Aladdin Sane's fiftieth birthday celebrated via the medium of half-speed master and picture disc reissues
