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Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Ricky Warwick, Deep Purple, Paradise Lost and more

The Answer frontman Cormac Neeson on California Irish, the new band inspired by his parents' cassette tapes

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

The story of the unlikely love-in between Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath

From hammer-wielding Swedes to gun-toting Motor City Madmen, these are the metal singers Bloodstock figured could weather a zombie apocalypse

From the return of Sabaton and a Mastodon side-project to a blockbuster Slipknot reissue, these are the essential metal albums coming in the rest of 2025

Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling

The Marillion and Arena co-founder explains how the American prog metal band astonished him with a track from 1996 album Ænima

Not every festival could be Woodstock or the Isle Of Wight

Dave Mustaine has announced the metal icons’ final album – here’s how they got here