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How Wacken became one of metal's biggest and most beloved festivals
Wacken Open Air returns this year with bands including Guns N' Roses, Papa Roach, Gojira, Machine Head and more
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 21, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Die Spitz, Castle Rat, Bobbie Dazzle and five other holy divers and divas
How Judas Rising rebuilt Judas Priest for the 21st Century
After a decade with Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Judas Priest welcomed Rob Halford back into the fold - and ushered in their second coming
Mark King saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra on colour TV and a fashion crime followed
The future bandleader wasn’t even a bassist when John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer and co burst into his young life on the Isle of Wight
Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart
Unruly brass musicians, unrecordable horns, a runaway film crew and the surprise appearance of female fans… Andrew Latimer recalls the profile-boosting 1975 concert and morale-securing 2018 return
How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s
"We woke up with a call from our manager who said there's some s**t going on." Lars Ulrich
The epic story of the stolen song that could be the next Stranger Things hit
Deep Purple's Child In Time has a long and complicated history – and now a whole new audience are hearing it for the first time
How Aerosmith grew to hate each other but learned to love again
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!
Stewart Copeland on The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Neil Peart and life in his 70s
The accidental archivist revels in found sounds, movie soundtracks, spoken-word performances – and after dealing with his tensions of the 80s, explains why his brother isn’t talking to him
10 bands that will fill the Black Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there
The Renaissance Man: Ginger Wildheart albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
Ginger Wildheart has multiple strings to his bow: brilliantly memorable hard rock with The Wildhearts, bleeding-heart confessionals under his own name, and plenty in between
Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin
The gospel according to Chris Goss
The day a metal superstar was almost decapitated on live TV by one of Britain's most popular singers
Remember that time a metal legend was almost decapitated on British TV?
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
Eight new songs you need to hear right now from Jack Black, Halestorm, 38 Special and more
Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
After two failed solo albums, in the period between 1971 and 1974, David Bowie worked on nine of rock's greatest albums. WTF?
"Y’know what I'm proud of? That they're all alive": Machine guns, snakes and missing millions – Alan Niven, the first manager of Guns N' Roses, looks back
When Guns N' Roses released Appetite For Destruction they were managed by Alan Niven. This is how he dealt with The Most Dangerous Band In The World
The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert
No one expected Queen to return in 2011 – not least Queen themselves
