Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson: "I’ve said from day one that we’re not actually a black metal band"
Enslaved mastermind Ivar Bjørnson says the band's upcoming 16th album mixes thrash, black metal and space rock
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Around The Fur at 25: the sound of Deftones gleefully detonating a bomb under nu metal
Released on October 28, 1997, Deftones' second album Around The Fur found the Sacramento band striding away from nu metal convention
11 things you never knew about Skid Row's Slave To The Grind
From hanging with Lars Ulrich to Sebastian Bach saying no to objectifying women, here are eleven facts about Skid Row's classic second album you may have missed
"It was ugliness personified": How anarchy, acrimony and apathy killed the Sex Pistols just 78 days after the release of Never Mind The Bollocks
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols was released on October 28, 1977. Just 78 days later, the band who gave us that thrilling debut was finished. "All of us had been cheated," says John Lydon
Motley Crue's Mick Mars: 10 albums that changed my life
Mötley Crüe’s now departed guitar hero Mick Mars picks 10 albums that soundtracked his path through music
“We could have called it F**k You”: why Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come still sounds like the future, and still matters
Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come, released on October 27, 1998, was born from conflict and contempt for the scene from which it came
10 things to look out for at this weekend's When We Were Young festival
The 'World's Biggest Emo-Fest Ever!' aka When We Were Young is set to take over Las Vegas this weekend: here are 10 things worth getting over-emotional about
The 10 weirdest festival bookings ever
From Katy Perry at Warped to Wombles at Glastonbury, these bookings ranged from the surprising to the downright bizarre
Hellbender: meet the family metal band who made one of 2022's coolest horror movies on a shoestring budget in lockdown
Their music is inspired by Sabbath and Queens and they made an award-winning horror from their own doorstep. Are Hellbender's officially metal's coolest new family?
From doomed to in-demand: meet Spirit Adrift, the rising stars of trad-metal
"I want to arrive and kick the shit out of people" - Spirit Adrift's Nate Garrett on the band's rising popularity and the importance of Stranger Things
Jello Biafra's 10 finest post-Dead Kennedys albums, ranked worst to best
After Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra was never going to exit the music business quietly: here's our definitive guide to his very best post-DKs output
10 African metal bands that are challenging heavy metal as we know it
The African metal bands you need to hear now, from Togolese folk-inflected melodeath to Kenyan metalcore, Botswanan punky death metal and beyond
Watch Nirvana troll a prime-time TV chat show host with a riotous performance of the most punk rock song on Nevermind
"Boy, hope we didn't wake the neighbours up..."
Ten songs you need to know by WASP
From shock tactics to hard-rock hymnals, here’s the best of four decades of WASP and Blackie Lawless
In 2003 AOL needed a new face for their Instant Messaging software: Metallica got the call
Watch the 2003 AOL advert that sees Metallica's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich sending each other romantic messages
Every Incubus album ranked from worst to best, by vocalist Brandon Boyd
Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd takes a long, hard look at the Californian band's back catalogue, and sorts the mediocre from the masterpieces
Every Alien film ranked from worst to best
From Ridley Scott's original masterpiece to the sequels, prequels and intergalactic face-offs that followed, we rank every single film in the Alien franchise
Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: the soundtrack of my life
Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why bossa nova is the perfect music for breakfast
"Overcoming darkness is a beautiful thing": How My Chemical Romance battled ghosts, addiction, the Daily Mail and Kasabian to take over the world with The Black Parade
The story behind My Chemical Romance's transformation from cult punks to global superstars with the gloriously ambitious The Black Parade
