Wolfgang Van Halen hits back at fans over using VH initials: "Last I checked it was my f**cking name"
Wolfgang Van Halen's ongoing feud with aggrieved fans over his refusal to play Van Halen songs live takes a heated turn
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Wolfgang Van Halen hits back at fans over using VH initials: "Last I checked it was my f**cking name"
Wolfgang Van Halen's ongoing feud with aggrieved fans over his refusal to play Van Halen songs live takes a heated turn
Black metal musician Andrea Meyer among five killed in Norway attack
Cradle Of Filth guest musician and Pagan folk artist Andrea Meyer was one of the five people reportedly killed in a bow and arrow attack in Norway last week
Tom Morello hails Zack de la Rocha as "the greatest frontman of all time"
Tom Morello shares the love for Zack de la Rocha, who he describes as a "punk rock James Brown", and opens up about working with "magical being" Chris Cornell in Audioslave
Video: Vince Neil falls off stage, taken to hospital with broken ribs
Motley Crue singer Vince Neil injured after falling off stage during show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Bloodstock Director "steps back" from festival after coming under fire for transphobic comments
Bloodstock director Vicky Hungerford is taking time away from her role as booking manager after transphobic post draws widespread condemnation
Watch David Draiman and Nita Strauss join forces on killer collaboration Dead Inside
Disturbed frontman David Draiman joins guitar heroine Nita Strauss for a state-of-the-art arena metal banger
Listen to Götterdämmerung, single four from the new Zeal & Ardor album
The countdown to the release of the new Zeal & Ardor album continues with single number four Götterdämmerung
Kerry King teases post-Slayer comeback: “It will be f**king good!”
Exclusive Kerry King may have regrets about Slayer quitting too soon, but he’s looking to the future and promising good things ahead
Steve Harris’ British Lion withdraw from Darkness tour support citing “completely unacceptable” protocols
British Lion say they’re “sad and disappointed” to pull out of Darkness tour support slot, but “have no alternative”
Rob Halford "still shook up" by Richie Faulkner's onstage near death experience
Judas Priest's Rob Halford reveals he is still emotionally disturbed from witnessing Richie Faulkner's onstage major heart emergency last month
Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch teams up with We Are PIGS for a powerful new video
Exclusive Korn guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch, and Love And Death's JR Bareis collaborate with We Are PIGS to give hope to troubled youth
Watch Master Of Puppets performed in the style of Phil Collins, Queen, JS Bach and Harry Styles
YouTuber Anthony Vincent has re-recorded Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in 50 styles and people are gonna lose their sh*t
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"I got choked up": Mastodon's Brann Dailor reviews Metallica's Black Album set at Aftershock festival
Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor got up close to Metallica's surprise Black Album set at Aftershock Festival - here's his exclusive review
Joey Jordison remembered: in his own words and by those who knew him best
Joey Jordison's death devastated the metal world. The first UK journalist to meet Joey pays tribute, helped by some of his closest confidants
Jinjer overcome a decade of war, trauma and uncertainty with Wallflowers
Jinjer were forced from their home in the Russo-Ukraine war, but new album Wallflowers sees them forging a bright future as metal's hottest up-and-coming stars
How Metallica made the Black Album: an oral history
James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Bob Rock tell the behind-the-scenes story of how Metallica made the Black Album
The Story Behind The Song: Slipknot's Duality
Slipknot's Duality: how personal agony and conflict helped the band write one of 21st century metal's definitive anthems
10 obscure but brilliant Japanese psych rock bands - including the original Ghost
Norway's psych rockers Kanaan pick the 10 most dazzling bands from Japan's psychedelic underground
Why I ❤️ Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside, by Cronos from Venom
Venom founder Cronos celebrates the unique appeal of The Kick Inside, and tells the story of the time Kate Bush kissed him
Metallica take Aftershock festival back in time through The Black Album
Metallica's two headline sets at Sacramento's Aftershock Festival offer exclusives and outright exhilaration
Original horrorpunks the Misfits bring the Halloween spirit to Aftershock Festival
Dave Lombardo joins the original Misfits as Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein reunite
Cypress Hill get high on life at Aftershock festival
California hip hop masters Cypress Hill headline day one of Aftershock with Misfits and Metallica to come
The 10 best Idles songs
With Idles' fourth album Crawler on the horizon, we pick out the ten tracks that helped make them one of rock's fastest rising sensations
Slayer’s Reign In Blood: the epic oral history of thrash’s greatest album
As Slayer celebrate 35 years of Reign In Blood, here Kerry King, Tom Araya, Dave Lombardo, Rick Rubin and more look back on the making of one of the greatest albums in metal history
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Bullet For My Valentine bring the heavy back on their self-titled new album
Bridgend’s metal behemoths Bullet For My Valentine cover all the bases on their seventh album, Bullet For My Valentine
Ice Nine Kills' The Silver Scream 2 - Welcome To Horrorwood: there will be blood
Horror movie aficionados Ice NIne Kills return with an even bloodier sequel, The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood
Tom Morello's The Atlas Underground Fire: a star-studded, style-shifting roll of the dice from RATM guitarist
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello drafts in Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Oli Sykes for The Atlas Underground Fire
Blood Youth's Visions Of Another Hell: a maelstrom of intense metal chaos
Harrogate heavies Blood Youth offer a monumental swansong for departing vocalist Kaya Tarsus - and hint at a bright future ahead
Ministry's Moral Hygiene: Anti-Trump vitriol proves acerbic, if slightly out-dated
Industrial legends Ministry's 15th record offers parting shots to the Trump nightmare
KK's Priest's Sermons Of The Sinner: Top-tier power metal from a reborn KK Downing
Ex-Judas Priest legend KK Downing returns to familiar heavy metal territory
Katatonia's Mnemosynean: A three-decade celebration for hits that never were
B-sides and rarities collection digs into Katatonia's three-decade evolution across doom, goth and prog
Full of Hell's Garden Of Burning Apparitions: subversive extremity from one of the most vital bands on the planet
East coast grindcore dissidents Full of Hell smash the system with extra venom
Asking Alexandria's See What's On The Inside: an outrageously infectious ode to classic rock
Asking Alexandria trade in their metalcore roots for massive classic rock sound
Carcass' Torn Arteries: death metal legends still vital and vivacious 35 years on
Carcass' Torn Arties marks another bold and bloody comeback for the death metal legends
Employed To Served's Conquering: metalcore aggressors discover a new groove
Employed To Serve pivot from metalcore to groove and even death metal on ambitious new album Conquering
