Watch Maynard James Keenan wrestle a stage invader to the ground and sit on him for 10 minutes
When a stage invader interrupted Tool’s Maynard James Keenan while he was singing Pushit at a 1997 gig, there was only going to be one winner
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Inside AOR, the most under-appreciated sub-genre of all time
Massive-sounding, massive-selling, and with massive barnets, the 1970s saw the birth of the monster known as AOR. Here, Styx, Foreigner, Journey, Survivor and more explain what it was all about
The 20 best rock albums of 1979
The 1970s crash out in style with AC/DC, Pink Floyd and The Clash producing some of their best work, and Led Zeppelin’s last hurrah
Tracks Of The Week: new music from Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Fish and more
Eight awesome new rock tracks you need in your life... like, right now
Rob Halford: “If I wanted some action on the road, how the hell was I supposed to go about it?”
In this exclusive extract from his upcoming autobiography Confess, Rob Halford looks back on Judas Priest’s transformation into leather-clad metal gods - and why he stayed in the closet for so long
The 10 best Deep Purple songs from 1994 and beyond
Sifting through the finest Purple patches of the last three decades
It's taken 50 years, but Mark Lanegan has finally confronted his past
That Mark Lanegan is alive is a surprise – to him as much as to anyone else. His self-destructive days are now behind him, but for years it looked like we would be robbed of one of the stand-out singing voices of his generation
Think Deep Purple's best days are behind them? Think again
Deep Purple ended their Long Goodbye Tour last year, but with their last three albums putting them on a (rock and) roll, none of them are even contemplating retirement
Vote for the best Rick Rubin album ever
Vote! We're compiling the definitive guide to Rick Rubin's sprawling back catalogue – and we want your help
Why Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is the greatest live album ever
Originally released as a stopgap between studio albums, Live And Dangerous showcases Thin Lizzy at their stunning, charismatic best
The 20 best rock albums of 1978
Punk fury gives way to classic songwriting, live albums prove dangerous to the charts, and Van Halen, Kate Bush and Dire Straits make their entrance
How ...And Justice For All changed Metallica forever
Metallica's 1988 album was their step up to the big leagues. But things would never be the same again
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and it only took them eight hours
What do you get when a jazz drummer, a former abattoir worker, a guitarist without a full set of fingers and a trainee accountant walk into a bar? According to this exclusive extract from Steve Carr’s new book Every Record Tells A Story: A Vinyl Handbook, you get the birth of heavy metal, that's what
Do we really miss music festivals? (Spoiler alert: yes we do)
As a festival-free summer draws to a close, we look at why British fests are so close to our hearts – sh*tty weather, warts n' all
The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Du Hast
How Du Hast introduced Rammstein and their exploding dildos to the world
Why Judas Priest’s Painkiller is the ultimate heavy metal song
Heavy metal doesn’t come any more perfect that Judas Priest’s career saving anthem Painkiller
Watch Iron Maiden gatecrash a Polish wedding on the Powerslave tour
That time Iron Maiden became the world’s most unlikely wedding band
How Led Zeppelin plundered music's past to create a blueprint for its future
From the ashes of 60s blues rock, Led Zeppelin took off and wrote the template for all hard rock that followed. But it was all just an extension of the blues tradition itself
