Anthrax’s Scott Ian: why I love Kiss Alive!
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian salutes Kiss’ classic 1975 live album Alive!
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Alice In Chains changed the sound of rock and metal with their debut album Facelift. It’s time they got credit for it
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Metallica’s iconic second album Ride The Lightning did more than turn the band into stars – it forced the world to take thrash metal seriously
The 20 best rock albums of 1975
The classics just keep on coming. Welcome to the year of Physical Graffiti, Born To Run, Blood On The Tracks, A Night At The Opera and many more
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After 44 years of smashing things up, The Damned have just released one of the finest recordings of their entire career
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Bright Eyes break their nine-year silence with new album Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
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The Top 10 best metal albums of 1989
The 90s was just around the corner, and metal was getting harder, faster and weirder. Here are the 10 best albums that soundtracked 1989
Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst: “I’m Dr Frankenstein and the guy in the red cap is my creature”
The gospel according to Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst
Jakko Jakszyk takes us behind the scenes of his Trouble With Angels video
Worldwide political upheaval almost derails the shoot for King Crimson singer Jakko Jakszyk's recent promo video
Celtic Frost’s Into The Pandemonium: the madness and the magic of metal’s most visionary album
Former Celtic Frost mainman Thomas Gabriel Fischer looks back on the Swiss visionaries’ avant garde metal masterpiece
Live music and the road ahead
Are drive-in gigs and pay-per-view concerts the post-pandemic future?
The best metal albums of 2020 so far
Metallica, Trivium, Ozzy… 2020 hasn’t all been bad, as these brilliant albums prove
Metallica’s Death Magnetic: how the kings of metal reclaimed their throne
After a decade of controversy and near-implosion, Metallica seriously needed to right the ship. With Death Magnetic, they did just that
Lars Ulrich: “There’s not a f**king moment I’d change”
Lars Ulrich is more than just Metallica’s drummer – he’s the beating heart of the band. In this classic 2012 interview, he looks back over the band’s epic journey
The 10 best 80s movie soundtracks
The 80s was the decade of brat packers, teen movies, and big films about fast cars and fighter pilots – all of which had killer soundtracks. We round up 10 of the best
Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström: 10 albums that changed my life
Avatar ringmaster Johannes Eckerström dives into his record collection and pulls out Marduk, Helloween and Beethoven
Massive Wagons: booze, blood, and the British Legion
With touring on hold and a new album out, Massive Wagons take us back to the times and gigs that shaped them
