This Motley Crue vs Motown mash-up is the party anthem the world needs right now
Mash-up extraordinaire Bill McClintock returns with another mighty musical concoction, featuring Motley Crue
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This Motley Crue vs Motown mash-up is the party anthem the world needs right now
Mash-up extraordinaire Bill McClintock returns with another mighty musical concoction, featuring Motley Crue
Fifty percent of Kyuss are touring the UK and Ireland together next year
Stöner, featuring Kyuss alumni Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork, will undertake their debut UK/Ireland tour in spring 2022
Joey Belladonna had ‘no clue’ who Anthrax were when he auditioned for them
Anthrax discuss the moment they first heard vocalist Joey Belladonna sing, in the latest Anthrax 40 webisode
Amon Amarth make an appearance in new Marvel comic
Marvel's Viking-inspired character Thor sports an Amon Amarth T-shirt in new comic
LA police fire rubber bullets into mosh pit to shut down punk gig
The Los Angeles Police Department shot ‘less-lethal rounds’ to disperse crowd at outdoor punk rock show
Iron Maiden and BrewDog raise hell with brand new lager
Rock giants Iron Maiden team up with beer behemoths BrewDog for the "feisty" new Hellcat India Pale Lager
Faith No More move all European tour dates to 2022
Faith No More will now tour the UK and mainland Europe in June and July 2022
Pearl Jam release 5404 live tracks from 186 live shows
Pearl Jam have unleashed Deep, an interactive live music motherlode containing thousands of live songs
The internet is turning British politicians into rock stars with disturbing results
Internet jokers on the b3ta.com boards have reimagined the UK’s top politicians as rock stars, with hilarious results
This is what Killswitch Engage’s The End Of Heartache would sound like as a synthwave banger
This synthwave cover of Killswitch’s Engage’s The End Of Heartache is the soundtrack to the greatest 80s movie never made
Megadeth’s David Ellefson denies online ‘grooming’ accusations
Megadeth bassist David Ellefson says “private, adult interactions” were “taken out of context and manipulated to inflict maximum damage”
Metallica have written more than 10 new songs in lockdown
James Hetfield says Metallica have written 10 new songs in lockdown: ‘We’ve been doing this for about 100 years now, so we should have it together’
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Max Cavalera: My Life In 10 Songs
Max Cavalera cherry-picks the best songs from his illustrious career, from Sepultura and Nailbomb to Go Ahead And Die
How Germany took on the world of heavy metal and won
The story of the unlikely rise of German metal, as told by members of Scorpions, Accept, and Doro Pesch
Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante: 10 albums that changed my life
From soft rock and tech metal to hip hop, these are the albums that made Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante the force of nature she is
10 hair metal bands who should have been massive
10 hair metal bands who deserved to become megastars but ultimately fell short
Chris Holmes on Blackie Lawless, why he made a documentary, and *that* interview
Former W.A.S.P guitarist Chris Holmes has a new film out. He thinks it's the only W.A.S.P. movie you'll ever see
Skindred’s Benji Webbe: “I went to A&E cos I thought I was dying”
Skindred and Dub War riotstarter Benji Webbe on health scares, outlaw country side projects and the legendary ‘Newport Helicopter’
These nu metal looks are giving us pure 2001 energy and we're here for it
Nu metal is officially cool again, which can mean only one thing: baggy jorts are back. Here, 16 products that are the next best thing to a time machine back to Camden Market in 2001
Why I ❤️ Faith No More’s The Real Thing, by Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch
Korn and Love And Death guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch salutes Faith No More’s alt-metal masterpiece The Real Thing
Flames, fetishes and pickled babies: the twisted story of Rammstein‘s Mutter
How Rammstein’s third album, Mutter, took them from cult band to global metal superpower
The secret inspiration behind Gojira’s Fortitude album artwork
Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier reveals how a 19th century painting inspired the enigmatic cover of new album Fortitude
Girlschool: the story of metal’s original riot girls
Lemmy loved them – and so did George Michael. This is how Girlschool kicked down the doors of metal’s boy’s club
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Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude
Cannibal Corpse’s Violence Unimagined: death metal legends gouge out a new classic
They may have been around since the dawn of time, but Cannibal Corpse’s new album Violence Unimagined is perilously addictive
Sex, death, isolation and art-rock weirdness? Årabrot’s Norwegian Gothic has them covered
Noise rock surrealists Årabrot are still orbiting a planet of their own on new album Norwegian Gothic
Blaze Bayley’s War Within Me: British metal’s great survivor brings the thunder
Ex-Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley hits new heights of power on new album War Within Me
Lamb Of God’s Live In Richmond, VA is the sound of a band raging in the face of the pandemic
Lamb Of God capture their onstage glory on COVID-busting live-in-lockdown album
La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s Trivial Visions: cosmic space rock from interstellar travellers
Italian psych-heads La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio travel way beyond the final frontier on new album Trivial Visions
Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth: an emotive and empowered rock album for our times
Amy Lee releases her most empowered, emotional, politically charged album yet with Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth
Pupil Slicer’s Mirrors: grind meets mathcore on one of 2021’s most exciting debut albums
Grind meets mathcore meets doom on Pupil Slicer’s savage debut album Mirrors
White Void’s Anti’s is a whirlwind ride around metal, occult rock and psychedelia
Norwegian oddballs White Void find new ways to get psyched on debut album Anti
Death metal maniacs Baest take a swim in the grim on new album Necro Sapiens
Looking for brutish, no-nonsense death metal riffery? Baest’s new album Necro Sapiens has got you covered
The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics
If Tool jammed with Helmet, it would sound like the second album from UK’s hypno-metallers The Hyena Kill
