Classic Rock Features

Updated From Powerage to Power Up, from Back in Black to Black Ice, from Rock Or Bust to... you get the idea. These are AC/DC's albums ranked, from worst to best

Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman looks back on 10 classic songs that made the 70s great

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

Marilyn Manson was a new type of metal hero: an articulate spokesman, fearless in expressing himself. But as the discourse in music changes, are #MeToo and ‘cancel culture’ too close to home?

Whether you enjoy drinking beer, cider or both, we’ve picked out the best home brew kits to help you on your summer brewing journey

UPDATED The best cheap record players from Rega, Pro-Ject, Audio-Technica, Sony, Lenco and more – including USB and Bluetooth turntables

Power pop is the cheeky little cousin of pop-rock. It’s one of rock’s most accessible genres, and it’s not so easy to define, but these are its best albums

Your youth should be a time of rebellion. The man-made part of religion is disgusting. Don’t be afraid of a challenge. Star quality can’t be acquired. These are among the things that shape Skin's world view

Eight rock'n'roll wrestlers, making their way towards the ring for a right rock royal rumble

The prog metal icons have influenced some of music’s greatest artists. And Justin Bieber

It’s a dirty job, but we’ve done it and ranked Slayer’s untouchable back catalogue in order of greatness

This goth metal cover of Metallica’s thrash classic would make Peter Steele proud

For Stranglers founder Jean-Jacques Burnel, The Doors' L.A. Woman became “the soundtrack to an important time in my life” after just one acid-fuelled listen

For Low Cut Connie mainman Adam Weiner, music is not something he just wants to do, he says, it’s his religious calling. And what he delivers suggests that maybe the devil doesn’t have all the best tunes after all

Shauna Tohill aka Rews (now effectively a solo artist) is inspired by Trent Reznor, loves to rock out, and relies on her ”inner child” for confidence

Slipknot singer Corey Taylor on solo album CMFT, partying sober, bringing up kids, mask-rejecting “idiots” and the fun of working in a porn shop

Kiss wanted to be stars of the silver screen as well as the concert stage but they couldn’t act, they had no budget, and Phantom Of The Park went horribly wrong

It's 1976, and Ted Nugent is poised for greatness. The Great Gonzo has inked a solo deal with Epic – and his self-titled album is tearing out of the stores like a pack of wolves

Moving Pictures was the album that propelled Rush into the mainstream and onto the radio. Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher tells how he was seduced by the band’s organised chaos