“Over the years I’ve realized I thrive most when I’m actively working with my bandmates behind the scenes”: Linkin Park’s Brad Delson steps back from live lineup
Delson will be replaced onstage by Alex Feder for the foreseeable future
Delson will be replaced onstage by Alex Feder for the foreseeable future
Hetfield has a role in western thriller The Thicket, currently in cinemas, alongside Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage
Ellefson was dismissed from Megadeth in 2021 following a sex scandal, but seems open to rejoining the thrash icons
Ticket sales for Linkin Park comeback get off to a flying start as new singer speaks out under fire
Horror buff Slash has released a 'spooktacular' new album, but if you want one, you better hurry
RATM bassist Tim Commerford is coming to Europe with 7D7D for the first time, for a tour starting in Lisbon and ending in London
Jerry Cantrell has shared another track from his star-studded forthcoming album, I Want Blood, which is set to feature appearances from members of Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Faith No More
Their last single was a death metal comeback. Now, Opeth are showing their proggy side again.
Dutch symphonic metal crew Delain will release their Dance With The Devil EP on November 8
Two icons of 2000s metal will be teaming up for… something, on September 12
Slipknot got into an infamous brawl with fans of rival masked hellraisers Mushroomhead in 1999, and video of the carnage has finally made it to Youtube
‘Rob And Romesh Vs Heavy Metal’, featuring Scottish metal stars Bleed From Within, is broadcast in the UK tonight on Sky Max
From Anthrax's Fistfull Of Metal to Exodus's Bonded By Blood and Metallica's Ride The Lightning, 1984 was the year thrash broke big
A feud between Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses came to a head at the MTV Awards in 1989, and it still hasn't been resolved
In 2013, former Korn guitarist Head rejoined his ex-bandmates to make The Path Of Totality - this is how it happened
The songs that turned Leprous’s leader from teenage raver to prog metal maestro
American metallers Armored Saint are steeling themselves for a US tour with W.A.S.P. via the magic of Motown
In 1991 Poison were ready to consolidate a year of enormous success at the MTV Music Video Awards... but it all went wrong in the most disastrous way
PS. Rock is very much alive, pass it on
The story of Mastodon’s 2009 prog metal masterpiece, Crack The Skye
Def Leppard man Joe Elliott on Mutt Lange, Hells Bells and replacing Bon Scott
In 2007, Al Jourgensen was talking about retiring – and it was mostly down to the US President
The first Chinese prog act to sign to a major Western label, they’re speeding past this year’s II: Frailty and already working on album number three – with an associated animated series
Norway's Leprous might be ditching some of their heaviness, but Melodies Of Atonement is a prog metal masterclass nonetheless
Eight years and more than a few band members since their last record, Nails are back and brutal as ever
Put them under noise rock, grindcore, hardcore or avant-garde; you'll still never find another band like Melt-Banana
After 22 years and eight studio albums with Epica, vocalist Simone Simons is spreading her wings as a solo artist
A 2021 climbing accident almost cost Fleshgod Apocalypse vocalist Francesco Paoli his life. On Opera, that pain fuels the Italians’ best album to date.
Uniform dig deep into personal issues and demons for their devastating fifth album American Standard
From supporting Bring Me The Horizon to writing a Eurovision anthem, 2024 has been a massive year for Cassyette - and she's just getting started
No one does death metal quite like Nile. Their 10th album is a ferocious reminder of why
Frank Carter replaces Johnny Rotten as the Sex Pistols reanimate the corpse of punk
One of the pioneers of Gothenburg's legendary melodeath sound, Dark Tranquillity continue to provide remarkable consistency on their thirteenth album
At Bloodstock Open Air, Sheffield nasties Malevolence rile up a passionate crowd – to the point that they break a festival record for crowd-surfing