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“My whole life has been heavy metal!” - Doom creator John Romero on making the most notorious game of all time
In London for the War Games Live event at the Imperial War Museum on November 26, John Romero talks Iron Maiden, the NWOBHM and the cultural touchstones which fire his imagination. Read to the end for free tickets details
"Simon Cowell asked if I'd ever seen The Exorcist": How Harper went from America's Got Talent to next-gen metal star
10-year-old Harper became metal's next generation superstar after her cover of Spiritbox's Holy Roller went viral
Francis Rossi could make another Status Quo album but he won't: you can blame Spotify
Status Quo’s grand statesman Francis Rossi on un-Royal behaviour, his pal ‘Reg’ (aka Elton John) and the fear of slowing down
The story of the historic night Jimi Hendrix "killed god"
Jimi at 80 It was Jimi Hendrix vs Eric Clapton, and there was only ever going to be one winner
Black Friday Record Store Day 2022: the 63 best releases you can buy
The very best in this year's Record Store Day Black Friday releases, including The Cure, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Ghost, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more
Gazpacho and the strange saga of Missa Atropos
Norwegian art rock sextet Gazpacho discuss their 2010 concept album Missa Atropos
Why I ❤️ Freddie Mercury, by Taylor Hawkins
In 2016 we asked late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins to pay tribute to his favourite rock icon: Queen's Freddie Mercury
"He was the best guitarist I’d ever seen" - the night Jimi Hendrix met his destiny
Jimi At 80 New York, August 3, 1966. Jimi Hendrix is playing Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village, and through the door comes the man who will turn him into a star
10 classic rock albums from the 1970s that unintentionally paved the way for heavy metal in the 1980s
The 1980s didn't just happen by accident: here are 10 albums from the previous decade that laid the groundwork
Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: "Slipknot have a hardcore audience, but we were up for the challenge"
Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez talks touring, proper hair care and almost making a movie with Mark Wahlberg
The 10 greatest ska-punk albums ever, ranked from worst to best
Pick it up! Pick it up! No, really, pick up any of these ska-punk stormers and you're in for a treat
"I want to be a household name like Slipknot or Slayer": 5 new bands you need to hear this month
From gothic reflections of smalltown America to world-conquering deathcore, these are the five new bands you need to know this month
The Dark Crystal at 40: inside Jim Henson's misunderstood, dark fantasy epic
Critically misunderstood at the time and bombing at the box office, The Dark Crystal is now rightly praised as a classic
"Everybody was dumbstruck" - how Jimi Hendrix's arrival in London changed everything, as told by Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and more
Jimi at 80 When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in 1966, he not only blew the minds of fellow rock legends-in-making: he'd help spark a whole new form of electric blues
Vote for the greatest nu metal song of all-time
Blind, Rollin', In The End - we've assembled the finest nu metal bangers and need your help to crown the GOAT.
Robert Fripp went to war in 1976: It's a battle he's still fighting
King Crimson downed tools as Robert Fripp's battle with Universal Music escalated. It’s a war he’s waged since the 1970s, he says, on behalf of artists everywhere
Here's what happened when GWAR appeared on The Joan Rivers Show in 1990
Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty presented the legendary comic with a gruesome gift on the set of her chat show
Giant toilets, vampires and Calvin Klein: the 14 craziest moments in nu metal history
From gigantic loos, scaring British TV viewers and appearing on South Park, it's amazing to think any music got made at all
