Watch Bruce Dickinson leading a 15,000 crowd in singing happy birthday to Nicko McBrain
The celebrations may have come a day early, but an arena full of Finnish Iron Maiden fans probably didn't care
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Watch Bruce Dickinson leading a 15,000 crowd in singing happy birthday to Nicko McBrain
The celebrations may have come a day early, but an arena full of Finnish Iron Maiden fans probably didn't care
Noel Gallagher has a new message for Liam: "He should concentrate on what's left of his f***ing hairdo"
Liam Gallagher has responded to brother Liam's unfavourable review of his badly-received cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
Despite the bad blood between the Nirvana and Guns N' Roses camps, Courtney Love once appeared onstage with Slash, and it was pretty damn cool
Watch footage of Slash and Courtney Love onstage together in 2009
Rob Trujillo would love Slayer to cover the title track from Metallica's 72 Seasons
Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo says he would "love it" if Slayer covered the title track from 72 Seasons "because some people say there’s a competition [between us]"
Noel Gallagher once again slams The 1975, calls them naughty words and says they're "certainly not rock"
According to former Oasis bandleader Noel Gallagher, The 1975 don't write rock music
Ghost just played a show opposite Harry Styles and watching the two fanbases queue next to each other is hilarious
Ghost and Harry Styles were both booked to play Amsterdam on the same night in opposite venues, and people are loving how different their fanbases looked
Listen to Peter Gabriel's cheery new single Road To Joy
Peter Gabriel is expected to release his long-awaited latest studio album i/o later this year
In 1989 Howard Stern gave Axl Rose an unexpected wake-up call on his birthday: the whole recording is now online
The full 20 minutes of Howard Stern's 1989 conversation with Axl Rose has surfaced: subjects covered include tattoos, Aerosmith, Bruce Dickinson, and Axl's lost phone book
Wolfgang Van Halen's album credit joke didn't get a laugh out of his manager
Wolfgang Van Halen joked about his uncle guesting on upcoming Mammoth album – and it cost him time and (very little) money
Liam Gallagher apologises on behalf of his family for Noel's "piss poor" and "damn right blasphemous" cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
Noel Gallagher performed a cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart on the BBC Radio 2 Piano Room series, and brother Liam was far from impressed
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp
Black Sabbath's 1981 UK tour was a victory lap for their rebirth with Ronnie James Dio. A shame then that a local taxi company gatecrashed the celebrations
Chad Kroeger says Pantera's Dimebag and Vinnie Paul always defended Nickelback against critics in the metal scene
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger says Pantera's Dimebag and Vinnie Paul would often defend his band from haters: "It was really, really lovely"
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St Anger at 20: how Metallica's most maligned album saved their career
Metallica were facing oblivion at the turn of the millennium. 20 years ago today, they'd release the album that'd turn their fortunes around - and go down in infamy
12 times rock stars went busking in public, with varying degrees of success
There's always a street corner ready to welcome a famous busker, from Steven Tyler to Paul McCartney to Bruce Springsteen and beyond
Young, Loud and Snotty: the chaotic story of the Dead Boys
Dead Boys had a rampant live show and a debut album matched only by The Ramones. But The Dead Boys lived it like they played it, and burned out after only two records
Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick: the 40 minute song Ian Anderson wrote as a joke
At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry
The Suzi Quatro albums you should definitely own
With her looks, charisma and star quality, Suzi Quatro was the undisputed queen of 70s glam-rock. These are her best albums
Five new bands you need to hear if you love Joy Division
Joy Division have become one of the most influential alternative bands of the last 40 years, and these five new bands are bringing that sound bang up to date
Loving the new Avenged Sevenfold album? Here are the 10 records you need to listen to next
From glitching electronics to unpredictable prog and heavy metal theatrics, ...Life Is But A Dream is an absolute trip. If you're enjoying it, here's where to go next
Here are Metallica's ten fastest songs, ranked by BPM
Here's all the proof you need that when they fancy it, Metallica know how to put the pedal to the metal
The Bruce Springsteen albums you should definitely own
The best of The Boss: from factory floors to open highways, Bruce Springsteen's best albums conjure up vivid images of American truth and hope
There Goes My Hero: The Gallows Pole writer Ben Myers on Joey Ramone, the ultimate punk
Novelist Ben Myers (The Gallows Pole/The Offing) salutes Joey Ramone, the king of the underdogs
A beginner’s guide to pub rock in five essential albums
Pub rock: a live-wire, booze-driven reaction to the pomp and excesses of prog and the perceived artifice of glam
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Avenged Sevenfold have crafted their definitive artistic statement... and it’s fantastic
Huntington Beach titans Avenged Sevenfold's career-defining masterpiece Life Is But A Dream sets a new benchmark
Noel Gallagher interrupts squabbling to release album of old-school anthems
Ex-Oasis chief Noel Gallagher returns to his musical roots with fourth High Flying Birds album Council Skies
Revitalised and raucous, Buckcherry sound like they're just getting started
Nashville rockers Buckcherry crank up the volume on their tenth album
Hollywood Vampires' Live In Rio is the jukebox of the damned
Fortune favours the grave as superstar supergroup Hollywood Vampires launch their first live album
Iron Maiden's new show is another reminder that class is permanent - and so is heavy metal
Iron Maiden's rambunctious Prague show might be packing deep cuts, but it makes for no less an enthralling experience
Countdown To Ecstasy: all hail Steely Dan's idiosyncratic visions of jazz-charged contemporary rock
Steely Dan's initially overlooked sleeper Countdown To Ecstasy is back on wax
If it's big, boisterous, melodic metal anthems you're after, Elegant Weapons may be just what you need
Judas Priest man Richie Faulkner returns, backed by Rex Brown, Ronnie Romero and Scott Travis, on Elegant Weapons' debut Horns For A Halo
Marc Bolan loses the plot on T.Rex's Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream?
After a stellar 1972, Marc Bolan had a less successful 1973. Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream? documents the decline
Hanoi Rocks' first five albums repackaged: No bells, no whistles, but what a beautiful noise
Hanoi Rocks: The Days We Spent Underground 1981-1984 celebrates the pre-major label days of the band who reinvented the template for high-energy, sleazy rock’n’roll
Sparks' album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte is living proof that weirdness never gets old
The Mael brothers cement their autumnal resurgence with The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, a strong return to their former UK label
Ghost's Phantomime EP: the devil still has the best tunes, even when they're someone else's
Winking provocateurs Ghost give Genesis, Iron Maiden and Tina Turner the Satanic heavy metal treatment
