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Buckcherry's Josh Todd on the state of the nation, managing old habits, and going back to school

By Chris Lord published 21 January 26

After 11 studio albums, Buckcherry are on a roll - and Josh Todd is getting good grades

Watch Geddy Lee give celebrity tobogganing advice

By Fraser Lewry published 20 January 26

Rush's Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson all appeared on Canadian satire show The Mercer Report over the years

When Korn teamed up with rap royalty to make one of the funniest metal videos ever

By Merlin Alderslade published 20 January 26

What happens when nu metal legends team up with hip hop icons? Music video gold

How Clutching At Straws broke Marillion and Fish apart

By Dave Everley published 20 January 26

Their fourth studio album came at a point of high tension. Instead of taking the break they needed, they were sent back into the studio. It took decades to resolve the issues that blew up

How Mike Oldfield made Maggie Reilly sing in an odd style to make Moonlight Shadow

By Mike Barnes published 20 January 26

A bottle of wine, a thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary sent his career out of the doldrums, into the Top 5, and helped make 1983 album Crises a success

A camel, a wedding, the streets of India and seven million views: how Bloodywood broke big

By Metal Hammer published 20 January 26

Bloodywood went from the underground to being India's biggest ever metal band

The story of the joyous breakthrough hit inspired by Thin Lizzy, Star Wars and Dutch cigars

By Henry Yates published 20 January 26

From school to hellraising in short order – all enabled by a story of a whirlwind intergalactic romance

Coroner invented a genre. Decades on, they know how to write less complicated songs but they won't

By Dave Everley published 20 January 26

Back with a new album after 14 years, and on a different musical tack to their thrash metal of the 80s and 90s

How Thin Lizzy made the albums that saved them, only to be plunged into chaos

By Alan Byrne published 20 January 26

Thin Lizzy went from being stone broke to recording the two albums that came to define their career, but bad luck always seemed to be lurking in the shadows

Seven classic metal albums you forgot came out in 2016

By Merlin Alderslade published 19 January 26

From some French metal titans reaching a new peak to incredible bands we wish were still making records, here are some albums that blew our tiny minds ten years ago