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Beggar are what Black Sabbath would sound like if they hung out in some of the world’s harshest war zones
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The 20 best rock albums of 1979
The 1970s crash out in style with AC/DC, Pink Floyd and The Clash producing some of their best work, and Led Zeppelin’s last hurrah
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The best rock guitars 2020: Embrace your inner Eddie Van Halen with this killer collection
Channel your inner guitar god with these ready-to-rock electric guitars for all budgets, from Gibson, Fender and PRS
How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
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Rob Halford: “If I wanted some action on the road, how the hell was I supposed to go about it?”
In this exclusive extract from his upcoming autobiography Confess, Rob Halford looks back on Judas Priest’s transformation into leather-clad metal gods - and why he stayed in the closet for so long
Iranian metallers Confess escape the death penalty and unleash insurrectionary new track
Exiled Iranian groove/thrash metallers Confess release a creepy new video for the track Eat What You Kill
The Stray Cats' new live album is the best live music experience you're likely to get this year
The Stray Cats' new live album, Rocked This Town: From LA to London, shows a veteran band still showing us who's boss
Venom Prison prepare to unleash all the rage live
Death metal breakout stars Venom Prison livestream from London this Sunday
Cheap vinyl records September 2020: Top vinyl records on sale in rock, metal, prog and more
UPDATED Vinyl sales have been rocketing in recent years… but so have the prices. But don’t despair as we’ve got the definitive list of records on sale right now along with buying advice and much more
The 10 best Deep Purple songs from 1994 and beyond
Sifting through the finest Purple patches of the last three decades
Jesse Leach's ultimate hardcore (and metal, and trip-hop) playlist
Playlist! Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks us through the music that's essential to his life – and he goes big on the ’core, throwing in some healthy slabs of metal (and trip-hop) for good measure
Pallbearer's Brett Campbell picks his five fave prog albums
Yes, Steve Hackett, Camel and more among Pallbearer frontman Brett Campbell's all-time prog favourites
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That Mark Lanegan is alive is a surprise – to him as much as to anyone else. His self-destructive days are now behind him, but for years it looked like we would be robbed of one of the stand-out singing voices of his generation
