Classic Rock Features

Our Tracks of the Week: Eight completed passes in this week's Superbowl of Rock

Anvil’s debut album Hard ’N’ Heavy is an 80s metal classic that should have turned them into superstars. Mainman Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow looks back on a career of missed chances

When abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson broke earlier this week, it sparked a dangerous narrative around abuse and its victims – here, experts address key doubts and questions head-on

In Absentia was a game-changer for Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree. But it would ultimately mark the beginning of the end for modern prog’s most influential band

We take a look through a selection of publications documenting the life and times of much-missed Queen frontman Freddie Mercury

Metal Hammer Deputy Editor Eleanor Goodman has been living with tinnitus since she was 16. To mark Tinnitus Week 2021, Eleanor reveals what it’s like to live with the condition and what she does to protect her hearing

FM singer Steve Overland reveals how positivity and lack of pressure has done the British melodic veterans good

With electric guitars largely banished from the recording sessions, Stone Temple Pilots crafted Perdida, a light-touch album that could be among their best

How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in the three and a half perfect minutes of Changes

Updated From psychedelia to wild success, the very best of the band who delivered The Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall

With its recording set against a background of drugs and pain, yet written by an “in love and on-top-of-the-world-type guy”, perhaps it’s no surprise that Neil Young’s Harvest divides opinion so greatly

Iron Maiden’s debut album and The Number Of The Beast grab the glory. But Killers was a key stepping stone on their journey to superstardom

In the late 70s, Riot were the Great White Hopes of American rock. But that was before the public ignored them, their label disowned them, and their singer quit. And then things got really bad…

In 1989 Meat Loaf's career was floundering, and he was booked on a tour of small Irish halls. It did not go according to plan

Clutch singer Neil Fallon salutes the terrifying majesty of Black Sabbath‘s self-titled debut

Let us pump rock medicine into your official listening orifices, as our eight tracks of the week burst into the zeitgeist

As Tinnitus Week 2021 gets under way, we speak with the British Tinnitus Association’s Emily Broomhead to find out more about the condition and how you can protect yourself when live music returns

Shinedown and Smith & Myers frontman Brent Smith on drug recovery, the death of Eddie Van Halen and the cover songs the world never needs to hear again

How Billie Joe Armstrong wrote Green Day's game-changing three-minute classic Basket Case in a basement surrounded by pizza boxes