
Dave Mustaine claims Metallica "has always tried to hold me back"
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine claims Metallica have tried to discredit him as a guitar player, says Megadeth "has been more consistent" as a band
Babymetal release their final single ahead of the arrival of their new album, The Other One
New heavy prog outfit They Watch Us From The Moon sign to New Heavy Sounds for new album Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1, The Ascension
What could it mean if Dave Grohl was dreaming about Eddie Vedder sucking his finger while he was a member of Nirvana? "Paging Dr. Freud!"
Wayne Swinny passed away after suffering a brain haemorrhage while on tour with Saliva
To Jerry Cantrell, Alice In Chains's rehearsal space was party central, but he didn't expect a SWAT team to smash into the studio in search of drugs
Nita Strauss shares new single Winner Takes All, featuring Alice Cooper and lifted from her forthcoming solo album
Skindred return with roof-raising new single Set Fazers, and it features the guy who kick-started the TikTok Skindred dance that has everyone moving
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says singing with his younger self on forthcoming orchestral album Drastic Symphonies was like "singing with a ghost that's still alive"
Watch these unexpecting lunchers get a helpful serving of nu-metal when ordering their meatball marinaras one afternoon
Mudvayne are to hit the road this summer with Coal Chamber and GWAR, and they're promising "An Event"
Former Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee says he is glad "jokester" Lemmy isn't here to experience cancel culture
Released in 2003, the soundtrack to Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses featured a very special update of The Commodores' Brickhouse
Iconic film and TV composer Danny Elfman talks working with Tim Burton, being a "freak" and why he's surprised the likes of Trent Reznor and Avenged Sevenfold are fans
From Papa Emeritus I to IV to Papa Nihil, Sister Imperator and beyond, here's everything you need to know about Ghost's colourful cast of characters
Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in time for the band's iconic third album, The Number Of The Beast. Things would never be the same again
Post-metal, shoegaze, goth: genre-blurring mavericks Holy Fawn are happy to defy all classifications in their quest for heaviness
Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories
When Donald Tardy isn't drumming for death metal legends Obituary, he runs a cat rescue charity called the Metal Meowlisha
From L7's pubes to Sepultura fans causing chaos, here are just some of the reasons we don't get to see many heavy bands on mainstream talk shows
Black metal, fashion models and skiing? Only in Norway.
From attempts at a Guinness World Record to, ahem, 'intimate relations' in the middle of a death metal crowd, here are 10 times moshing was taken to a whole new level
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith on the impact of Soundgarden's Superunknown, and how it was influenced by Frank Sinatra
Electric chairs, toilet bowl stabbings and, erm, semen – the Four Horsemen have had quite the eclectic visual journey
From trampolinists and human chicken legs to religious battles and, yes, that artwork, here are ten fascinating things you might not know about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death
Nightwish powerhouse Floor Jansen opts for a change of pace with her solo debut, Paragon
Fall Out Boy took over London's Heaven club for one of the most memorable (and sweatiest) shows in recent memory
Suicide Silence play things safe with new album Remember... You Must Die
Tech metal pioneers Periphery continue to push boundaries with their seventh album V: Djent Is Not A Genre
LA-based hardcore newcomers Zulu challenge the boundaries of heavy music with their utterly captivating debut
Japanese power metal heroes Lovebites resurrect the sounds of classic heavy metal on new album Judgement Day.
Album review: Avatar are a little too eclectic for their own good on new album Dance Devil Dance is
Bristol punks Cuffs deliver an unflinching, pitch-black state-of-the-nation address on debut album To Hell And Back
Hiatus terminated, San Diego's arena-filling post-hardcore kings are hungry to make up for lost time
Album review: symphonic metallers Delain build themselves up from scratch on new album Dark Waters
Album review: In Flames’ Foregone is the Swedish melodeath icons’ best album in years