The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
Rammstein, Electric Callboy and Heck are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
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How Cynic's Ascension Codes was a triumph born of tragedy
After a tumultuous period when two core members tragically died, remaining co-founder Paul Masvidal re-grouped, and re-emerged with the fourth Cynic album.
“My whole life has been heavy metal!” - Doom creator John Romero on making the most notorious game of all time
In London for the War Games Live event at the Imperial War Museum on November 26, John Romero talks Iron Maiden, the NWOBHM and the cultural touchstones which fire his imagination. Read to the end for free tickets details
"Simon Cowell asked if I'd ever seen The Exorcist": How Harper went from America's Got Talent to next-gen metal star
10-year-old Harper became metal's next generation superstar after her cover of Spiritbox's Holy Roller went viral
Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: "Slipknot have a hardcore audience, but we were up for the challenge"
Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez talks touring, proper hair care and almost making a movie with Mark Wahlberg
"I want to be a household name like Slipknot or Slayer": 5 new bands you need to hear this month
From gothic reflections of smalltown America to world-conquering deathcore, these are the five new bands you need to know this month
The Dark Crystal at 40: inside Jim Henson's misunderstood, dark fantasy epic
Critically misunderstood at the time and bombing at the box office, The Dark Crystal is now rightly praised as a classic
Vote for the greatest nu metal song of all-time
Blind, Rollin', In The End - we've assembled the finest nu metal bangers and need your help to crown the GOAT.
Here's what happened when GWAR appeared on The Joan Rivers Show in 1990
Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty presented the legendary comic with a gruesome gift on the set of her chat show
Giant toilets, vampires and Calvin Klein: the 14 craziest moments in nu metal history
From gigantic loos, scaring British TV viewers and appearing on South Park, it's amazing to think any music got made at all
Gene Simmons: my stories of Eddie Van Halen, Donald Trump, Cher and more
He's Kiss legend Gene Simmons. He's the Demon. And he has some stories to tell
Every Killing Joke album ranked from worst to best
On a mission to recreate 'the sound of the earth vomiting', the back catalogue of West London's dark prophets of doom Killing Joke is no laughing matter
Watch Muse troll a Sunday afternoon TV show's presenter and audience by swapping instruments and taking the piss
When Muse were asked to mime on an Italian TV show they saw it as a golden opportunity to "arse about", to quote drummer Dom Howard
"Have we got anything in common with Iron Maiden? I hope not" - watch peak Axl Rose slyly diss Maiden and Kiss in this cheeky 1988 interview
Axl Rose certainly wasn't shy of sharing his opinion on fellow rock and metal heavyweights back in the day
"I remember System Of A Down going to the Roxy and giving out their eight-track!" - Power Rangers star Jason David Frank on metal, the 90s and making "history" as The Green Ranger
Back in 2017, we talked to the original Green Ranger himself, Jason David Frank, about his career and love of alternative music
Every song on Audioslave's debut album ranked in order of greatness
Audioslave's debut album brought the face of Soundgarden and Rage Against The Machine's engine room roaring into the 21st century. Here's our ranking of its 14 songs, from the mediocre to the magnificent
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
Babymetal, Enslaved and Disturbed - these are the 10 best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
"If people think we’re a heavy metal band...I don't really care": how Load and Reload changed Metallica forever
Metallica were already one of the world's biggest bands in the mid-90s. Then came a chapter in their career that'd change many fans' perceptions of them for good
