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What happened when a SWAT team swooped on ex-Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri
The former QOTSA bassist faced a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years
Car crashes, Satanism and 28 Years Later: the story behind Iron Maiden's The Number Of The Beast
From ominous omens to a horror film that got everyone talking, the legacy of The Number of The Beast is bigger than ever
How Iron Maiden got their man and made the album that sent them stratospheric
An exclusive extract from Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History
Meet The Pretty Wild: the viral metal duo embracing that controversial 'baddiecore' tag
They're behind that 'cough-cough' mosh call you've probably seen all over metal TikTok
Inside the night James Hetfield caught fire - and Axl Rose caused a riot
A look back at one of the most chaotic gigs in the history of rock 'n' roll
When Korn teamed up with rap royalty to make one of the funniest metal videos ever
What happens when nu metal legends team up with hip hop icons? Music video gold
A camel, a wedding, the streets of India and seven million views: how Bloodywood broke big
Bloodywood went from the underground to being India's biggest ever metal band
Coroner invented a genre. Decades on, they know how to write less complicated songs but they won't
Back with a new album after 14 years, and on a different musical tack to their thrash metal of the 80s and 90s
Seven classic metal albums you forgot came out in 2016
From some French metal titans reaching a new peak to incredible bands we wish were still making records, here are some albums that blew our tiny minds ten years ago
Reliving the absolute insanity of Daphne & Celeste at Reading Festival 2000
In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos
How Unholy Confessions made Avenged Sevenfold - and why they don't dig it that much
How Avenged Sevenfold embraced heavy metal and wrote the song that took them to the next level
Why the man behind the Ozzy Osbourne Birmingham Airport petition is refusing to give up
Other musical cities celebrate their musical heritage - so why not the birthplace of heavy metal?
How Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess nearly played on Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Keyboard maestro admits he gave a “very poor” performance during 1979 session, and Bob Ezrin was right to kick him out
“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on solo debut 16
Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again
The violence and defiance behind the 2000s metal anthem that accidentally inspired an Olympic gold medal
HammerFall helped keep traditional metal alive during the early 2000s
The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene
How The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land bought aggro to dance music and rave culture to metal
“Dream Theater have been completely unchallenged until now”: How Sons Of Apollo flew before they fell
Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian had big ambitions when they teamed up with Guns N’ Roses, Mr Big and Journey alumni
