The Colour And The Shape at 25: how Foo Fighters' second album took Dave Grohl out of Kurt Cobain's shadow
The inside story of the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape, as it reaches its 25th anniversary
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Radiohead's proggiest moments
From grungy indie to avant-garde rock, Radiohead have always been restlessly creative. Here's their proggiest tracks
How Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears resurrected metal’s greatest icon
The story behind No More Tears, the album that saved Ozzy Osbourne’s career – and possibly his life
Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come
Prince Of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne talks about Black Sabbath, sobriety, burying the hatchet, beating the booze and sticking it to Lollapalooza
Justin Hawkins is thinking about buying a castle for The Darkness to live in
From writing advertising jingles music in a London bedsit, to headlining Wembley Arena fronting The Darkness, a lot has happened to Justin Hawkins
Apocalypse and orgasm: The crazy story of Aphrodite’s Child 666, Vangelis's cult masterpiece
Before he became a soundtrack king, Vangelis made this cult classic that began as a celebration of late-60s freedom and ended with Salvador Dalí threatening to bomb cathedrals with hippos
Have you spotted the hidden Marillion easter egg in new Gary Oldman spy thriller Slow Horses?
There’s a sneaky reference to Fish-era Marillion in hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses that only hardcore fans of the prog icons will get
Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
From '80s pop to universe-expanding prog, these 10 records shaped Coheed And Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez
How Pythagorean theory, ancient Egyptology and a topless dancer inspired the cover of Hawkwind's greatest album
Throw in British op-art, Balinese art, Czech nouveau art and the cinematic visions of Stanley Kubrick, and you've got yourself a classic
What happened when the boys from Black Country Communion got together again
Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa discuss their careers, wonder why rock’s future will suffer from a lack of small venues, and mention something about a new Black Country Communion album
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the anti-firearm protest song that's as relevant now as it ever was
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1975 hit Saturday Night Special belied the band's pistol-packin’ image, but things were never quite that black and white
The improbable story of the Journey classic that keeps coming back to life
From Mafia finales to Arnold Schwarzenegger: the brilliant and often bizarre and afterlife of Journey’s Don't Stop Believin'
Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust in the style of Chris Cornell is brilliant and uncanny
Anthony Vincent covering Queen's Another One Bites The Dust in the style of Chris Cornell is like something unearthed from the Seattle legend's vaults
Watch Metallica troll the MTV Awards with their cover of So What?
Metallica might have become the biggest metal band in the world, but that didn't stop them trolling the execs at MTV
Louder Than Love: Metal Hammer remembers Chris Cornell
First published in 2017, Metal Hammer writer Mörat's tribute to his friend Chris Cornell remembers a frontman like no other
The King Crimson albums you should definitely own
An exploration of the puzzling, mould-breaking, occasionally very noisy and often terrifying world of King Crimson
Geddy Lee on beer, Rush 2.0, and his friendship with Alex Lifeson
Former Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee, who is due to publish his memoir next year, talks us through his career highlights from the 20-plus years of Classic Rock’s lifetime
10 new bands featuring the kids of famous rock stars
How the offspring of famous musicians are taking over rock and metal
