Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist and avid angler Adrian Smith shares the lessons he’s learned from 40 years on the roads and rivers around the world
UK alt-rockers Asylums have recorded a live set of songs, taken from their new album Genetic Cabaret, exclusively for Louder
Spirit Adrift mastermind and riff connoisseur Nate Garrett on the heaviest noises ever forged in the name of metal
In 2015, late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland picked 10 favourite songs from his back catalogue
Over the past decade, Steven Wilson has shifted through a range of musical guises. Here he reflects on the genius of Bowie and Zappa, married life, and why it’s good to talk bollocks
We need your votes, and we need them now: what's the greatest live album ever recorded?
In the late 80s, with their live shows and second album punching hard, the rock press fighting their corner and the band gathering momentum, White Lion’s future looked bright. But it soon dimmed rapidly
Eight perfectly ripened fruit from this week's bountiful rock music harvest
Indian mavericks Bloodywood are the missing link between metal and Bollywood. And now they’re out to take over the world
Sepultura, Radiohead, Poison – Korn are masters of the unexpected cover version, and here’s proof
For some, it never gets better than the beginning: here's 10 bands who never improved on their debut albums
Metallica’s cover of the Anti-Nowhere League’s punk classic So What? gets the orchestral treatment it deserves
Linkin Park were already on the way to becoming nu metal’s biggest band. But Hybrid Theory‘s epic final single sent them spinning into the stratosphere
Halloween is approaching, so dive into the gloriously cheesy world of ‘metalsploitation’ movies
Mexican musician Lorena Quintanilla – who has just released Hibiscus, the second album from her solo project J. Zunz – talks us through life inside México's vibrant underground scene
Kenya is metal’s best-kept secret. Two-man noise explosion Duma want to change that
QUIZ! As Blondie announce a UK tour, we're looking for super-fans to try our super-hard multiple-choice mega quiz...
As Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory turns 20, rapper Mike Shinoda looks back at the birth of their landmark debut album – and how it changed music forever
Led Zeppelin may have shunned singles, but they wrote the greatest songs in rock – here, 50 of the very best
