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Kansas, Styx, Starcastle, Queen, Magnum... Pomp rock lives - run for the hills...

From a Slayer/Suicidal Tendencies hardcore punk team-up to Metallica joining Guns N' Roses: who wouldn't want to hear these legendary lost side-projects?

A personal look back at the music, life and times of the late, great guitar hero, Eddie Van Halen, the irreplaceable "Mozart of the guitar"

Blues legend Freddie King pulled a gun on him. He’s a TV star with a radio show and a day job with Bruce Springsteen. He's Stevie Van Zandt

Derby power trio LostAlone have returned with megawatt fourth album The Warring Twenties after eight years away

Because... nu metal? We're not sure either, but Adam Sandler jamming with Deftones and Incubus was a watershed moment

Actress, writer and comedian Lucy Porter reveals the three things about David Coverdale that gave her a funny, fizzy feeling

Welcome to the world of AC/DC's Brian Johnson: 145 mph car crashes, the eternal search for good pasta sauce, and a huge alligator named Maurice

It hasn’t had an easy journey, but Ozzy Osbourne's star-studded new album is finally upon us, and he thinks it's really something special

Singing in his mother tongue for the first time, Mike Tramp shows that an old dog can learn new tricks - just don't get him started on 9/11

Rancid guitarist Lars Frederiksen shares the secrets to his success, from inspiring wrestling hero Ruby Riott to getting praise from Rob Halford and Gene Simmons

From George A. Romero's original zombie trilogy to the remakes and beyond, here are all eight Living Dead films ranked

From their forgotten mid-90s debut to new album The End, So Far, this is Slipknot’s discography ranked in order of greatness

Honestly we wouldn't be mad watching this version of Metallica

From Bible studies to mummified warriors, Nordic tattoos and shamanism – inside the unique world of Heilung’s vocalist Kai Uwe Faust

A football club has spurred Thundermother on, gig time is party time, and they’ve learned their trade from some of the best of the old masters

Less than a week after the plane crash that killed Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne traveled to New York to appear on Late Night with David Letterman

How a song inspired by artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz still resonates deeply three decades on

Thirty years ago, two icons came together in one of the most badass heavy metal videos ever made

Korn may have kickstarted the nu metal revolution, but Limp Bizkit were about to steal their thunder with debut album Three Dollar Bill, Y'all