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These days, whack on a robe and light some incense for your shows, and suddenly you’re not playing a gig – you’re 'performing a ritual'. But Amenra are the real deal, and their spectacular rituals were the force that led to their seventh album De Doorn

The first single released after Brian Jones' death and the Rolling Stones' last UK No.1 hit, Honky Tonk Women was the song that ushered in the future for the band

Ten years in, Swedish prog metallers Opeth were tired of toiling in obscurity. Then Blackwater Park put them on the map and changed extreme metal forever

Yngwie Malmsteen joins us to talk creativity in isolation, the freedom of having more time and new album Parabellum

Guns N' Roses man Slash plays great guitar, and he writes great songs. But what’s the real reason he's such an icon?

In July 1981, shortly after No Sleep ’Til Hammersmith topped the charts, Hammer’s Malcolm Dome met Lemmy to talk about Motorhead’s fast-rising fame. Unpublished until now, here is their conversation in full

We look back at Big Dumb Face, the brilliantly bonkers and impossible to categorise side project from Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland

We've picked a dozen of the best budget wireless headphones you can buy right now - pairs that'll be music to your ears

Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares talks us through his life lessons, from rule-breaking and bankruptcy to er, wrestling with Max Cavalera

The creators and advocates of LSD were an integral influence on the genre of psychedelia, but its history is bound up in espionage and government spooks as much as fun-lovin’ hippies

Heart founder and guitarist Nancy Wilson picks eight songs that rock her world

An excerpt from Paul Brannigan's new book Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Lynott and more

Often maligned and occasionally magnificent, sometimes supergroups really do make albums as good as the sum of their parts - here are 10 of the best

From Mexico to China, we count down the killer bands that are incorporating their own cultures and traditions into metal

There was far more to grunge than Nirvana, as these lost treasures prove

Powerwolf superfan The Metal Nun creates stained glass windows inspired by her idols

Highlights from the much vaunted New Wave Of Classic Rock have been collected together on a compilation album. But does the movement's inclusivity undermine its strengths?

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Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz on mental illness, dairy produce, romance, the band’s new EP Butter Miracle, Suite One, and shaving off his dreads