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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Featuring the Rolling Stones, His Lordship, Ashley McBryde and five other good old-fashioned lover boys and girls
“As I grew, hopefully my writing was growing too”: Five great Al Di Meola albums
From fruitful fusion forays to gentle world acoustica, the revered guitarist has covered a lot of ground since joining Return To Forever at the age of 20
How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it
Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
Two Classic Rock writers go toe-to-toe over the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath guitar legends
The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
Jesus, grunge and near death experiences – the story of cult Texan rockers King’s x has it all
Voivod didn’t try to invent prog metal. They just tried to be like Van der Graaf Generator
Drummer Away recalls the Canadian outfit’s rapid transition from thrash over the course of their first four albums
Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… it really isn’t too different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
Britpop was thriving, Pumpkins were Pumpkinsing, and Skunk Anansie tried to get on every bill going…
The night Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris joined Def Leppard to cover Creedence Clearwater Revival
This one-off union of two British rock superstars actually happened
