How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
Addiction, rehab, suicide – HIM made their darkest, heaviest album in 2007’s Venus Doom
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10 essential Viking metal albums
Raise your flagons of mead to Valhalla! These are the 10 greatest Viking metal albums known to man and valkyrie
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
It's taken 50 years, but Mark Lanegan has finally confronted his past
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
Think Deep Purple's best days are behind them? Think again
Deep Purple ended their Long Goodbye Tour last year, but with their last three albums putting them on a (rock and) roll, none of them are even contemplating retirement
Vote for the best Rick Rubin album ever
Vote! We're compiling the definitive guide to Rick Rubin's sprawling back catalogue – and we want your help
The Top 10 weirdest System Of A Down songs
10 songs that prove System Of A Down do ‘weird’ better than any other metal band
Why Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is the greatest live album ever
Originally released as a stopgap between studio albums, Live And Dangerous showcases Thin Lizzy at their stunning, charismatic best
The 20 best rock albums of 1978
Punk fury gives way to classic songwriting, live albums prove dangerous to the charts, and Van Halen, Kate Bush and Dire Straits make their entrance
How ...And Justice For All changed Metallica forever
Metallica's 1988 album was their step up to the big leagues. But things would never be the same again
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and it only took them eight hours
What do you get when a jazz drummer, a former abattoir worker, a guitarist without a full set of fingers and a trainee accountant walk into a bar? According to this exclusive extract from Steve Carr’s new book Every Record Tells A Story: A Vinyl Handbook, you get the birth of heavy metal, that's what
