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Emerson, Lake & Palmer's second studio album Tarkus served as a blueprint for their sound. But it almost never happened
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Three singers, ten albums, one amazing career. This is Arch Enemy's discography ranked
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Dark Tranquillity vocalist (and all-round Gothenburg legend) Mikael Stanne picks the ten gore-dripping death metal albums that changed his life
Every Rancid album ranked from worst to best
Tim Armstrong's band have been delivering punk rock magic since 1991, but which album is their defining masterpiece?
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In which we interview Bryan Adams, the man who would rather not be interviewed
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Thunder guitarist Luke Morley picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the sport Jimmy Page is terrible at
Def Leppard: the making of Diamond Star Halos and the return of the electric warriors
The setbacks Def Leppard have faced over the past 45 years would have finished off many lesser bands, but now they’re very much on the up again
Carpenter Brut: "I thought it would be cool to make a metal album without guitars"
Synthwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut talks trilogies, uniting music fans and this year's absurdly fun Leather Terror album
The Prodigy's The Fat Of The Land at 25: the electronic punk record that put a bomb under heavy music
Much more than a crossover 'dance rock' smash, The Prodigy's incendiary third album re-defined the heavy music landscape
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - how Bonnie Tyler became the ultimate power ballad diva
With over a billion streams across YouTube and Spotify, Bonnie Tyler's hair-raising classic Total Eclipse Of The Heart might just be be the biggest power ballad of them all
The Monster Magnet albums you should definitely own
Throwing space-rock, proto-metal, acid-rock and a lot more into a swirling pot, Monster Magnet have a gift not for invention, but reinvention... and these are their best albums
Halestorm: the challenging journey that brought them Back From The Dead
Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger talk getting personal, the trouble with social media, and the difficult road to Halestorm's Back From The Dead album
Bill Ward has made a masterpiece and no one wants to release it
Bill Ward was an integral part of Black Sabbath and of heavy metal’s genesis. Here he reflects on his eventful life thus far and his piles of unreleased albums
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From mathcore digit-snappers to the Cayman Island resident working with Iggy Pop and Randy Blythe, this is the best new noise around right now
Oceans Of Slumber's Cammie Gilbert: "My dad was the choir director for a cult"
Oceans Of Slumber vocalist Cammie Gilbert talks capybaras, Black Lives Matter and run-ins with cults
