
10 metal bands who changed genre and immediately ruined everything
Changing your sound is a bold step, but Slayer, Mötley Crüe and Kiss absolutely fumbled it
Changing your sound is a bold step, but Slayer, Mötley Crüe and Kiss absolutely fumbled it
Release the bats! Your essential guide to the best of '80s goth
Avenged Sevenfold, Helmet and Chelsea Wolfe are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
When Britney decided she needed an album to break her out of her 'teen idol' phase once and for all, she turned to one unlikely source for some inspiration
Released on September 22, 1998, Queens Of The Stone Age's debut album was Josh Homme's post-Kyuss declaration of independence, and the start of a wild new adventure for the 'Ginger Elvis'
Within Temptation's new album Bleed Out is their most fired up to date, proving there's much more to them than just being "the symphonic band"
From the Anthrax guitarist who is now a master watchmaker to the death metal bassist who hung out with "sweary Muppets", these are the most unique post-music career paths of metal musicians
Black Sabbath were blues rock also-rans in 1968. One year later, they wrote their insidious self-titled song and plotted the entire future of the heavy metal genre.
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic revisit Nirvana’s troubled final 18 months, and the pain and trauma at the heart of In Utero, released on this day (September 21) 30 years ago
Spooky goings-on and controversy in the US have inspired rumours that Iron Maiden’s magnum opus was cursed by supernatural forces. Are they right? Probably not…
As Voivod celebrated their 35th birthday and release their 14th album, Prog met the Canadian progressive metal legends to look back over their career.
Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen on jamming Chuck Berry songs with AC/DC and introducing Bon Scott to Mexican food
Legendary former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing answers your questions on everything from nu metal and Judas Priest to which buscuit is best
Singer/guitarist James Hetfield used to think that Metallica’s signature megahit “wasn’t such a great song”
Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot have all performed to the tiniest of crowds after making it big
With Alter Bridge, Slash’s Conspirators, solo and more, vocalist/guitarist Myles Kennedy has an impressive and still-growing catalogue - and these are his best albums
Vexed were rising stars after 2021's Culling Culture. But the loss of a parental figure saw them bin a follow-up EP and dig deep to write the emotionally powerful Negative Energy
From leading the charge with the New Wave Of Heavy Metal to finding new life in the 2000s, Biff Byford talks us through Saxon's whirlwind career
Damnocracy, Tapeworm and Device might have seemed like dream team-ups, but they couldn’t amount to the sum of their parts