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
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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
Lzzy Hale: "When Dio gives you a mission, you follow"
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale talks sibling rivalries, discovering her sexuality and being the first woman to win a Grammy for best metal performance
Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe: "I was on the streets in 2020, getting teargassed and shot at with rubber bullets"
Randy Blythe reveals how war, corruption and environmental destruction made Lamb Of God's new album Omens their most nihilistic yet
Every single Hellraiser film ranked from worst to best
With Hellraiser 2022 now out in the world, we rank the eleven films that make up the horror franchise so far
Broken like a marrow: when Judas Priest and Bon Jovi targeted the dance market
Judas Priest and Bon Jovi both made possibly ill-advised forays into dance music but backed away when they heard the results
Every Tim Burton filmed ranked from worst to best
Goths, assemble! With Beetlejuice 2 in development and Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off just around the corner, we’ve ranked every Tim Burton film so far
"I was told that a biker gang were going to murder me for killing off Pandora": artist Ray Zell on the origin, influence and rockin' rebirth of Pandora Peroxide
As legendary comic strip artist Ray Zell launches his website, we salute his most iconic inked creations, Pandora Peroxide and her sassy namesake niece, and reveal how you too can now hang with his queens of noise
Queensrÿche: "We're always being sued about something, that’s part of the business"
Queensrÿche are back with a new album Digital Noise Alliance, the signature sound they say "will always be in our DNA", and more legal bills
The Halo Effect: "the most talked-about melodeath band since the golden age of Gothenburg"
Meet The Halo Effect, the supergroup made up of ex-In Flames members lighting a fire under melodeath
Watch a baby-faced Nirvana rehearse, hang out and cover Led Zeppelin in a tiny room above a hair salon in 1988
Before they were the biggest band in the world, Nirvana were a bunch of kids, jamming above a hair salon owned by Krist Novoselic's mum
10 cult Swedish metal records from 2022 to stop you moaning about Ghost
10 thrilling cult metal bands that prove there's more to Sweden than Tobias Forge's satanic superstars
