The Top 10 best albums of 1988
1988 was a killer year for metal, and here are 10 albums that prove it
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Cigarettes, alcohol and heroin: the inside story of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid
Black Sabbath’s debut album staked their claim as the Godfathers Of Metal. But follow-up Paranoid turned them into stars
The Story Behind The Song: Rammstein’s Ausländer
A dig at sex tourists? A takedown of colonialism? Or just the ultimate Eurotrash industrial metal song? We unpack Rammstein’s mischievous 2019 single Ausländer
Kirk Hammett: how Jimi Hendrix accidentally invented Metallica
In this extract from Greg Prato's new book Avatar Of The Electric Guitar: The Genius Of Jimi Hendrix, we learn how Kirk Hammett's fixation with Purple Haze lead to a relationship with music that eventually gave us Metallica
The Top 10 best skateboarders of all time
The greatest skateboarders ever, according to 10 Years frontman Jesse Hasek
Watch Maynard James Keenan wrestle a stage invader to the ground and sit on him for 10 minutes
When a stage invader interrupted Tool’s Maynard James Keenan while he was singing Pushit at a 1997 gig, there was only going to be one winner
Every Disturbed cover song ranked from worst to best
From Metallica and Faith No More to Simon & Garfunkel and Sting, these are Disturbed’s greatest cover versions
What the hell is happening with Korn’s Kovers album?
Korn’s semi-mythical Korn Kovers project is one of metal’s great lost albums. But will it ever see the light of day?
Beggar: the blackened sludge ragers whose riffs were forged in a war zone
Beggar are what Black Sabbath would sound like if they hung out in some of the world’s harshest war zones
Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert: 10 albums that changed my life
From Alice In Chains to Type O Negative, this is the soundtrack to Oceans Of Slumber singer Cammie Gilbert’s life
How Ville Valo went to hell and back on HIM’s Venus Doom
Addiction, rehab, suicide – HIM made their darkest, heaviest album in 2007’s Venus Doom
10 essential Viking metal albums
Raise your flagons of mead to Valhalla! These are the 10 greatest Viking metal albums known to man and valkyrie
Rob Halford: “If I wanted some action on the road, how the hell was I supposed to go about it?”
In this exclusive extract from his upcoming autobiography Confess, Rob Halford looks back on Judas Priest’s transformation into leather-clad metal gods - and why he stayed in the closet for so long
Iranian metallers Confess escape the death penalty and unleash insurrectionary new track
Exiled Iranian groove/thrash metallers Confess release a creepy new video for the track Eat What You Kill
Venom Prison prepare to unleash all the rage live
Death metal breakout stars Venom Prison livestream from London this Sunday
Jesse Leach's ultimate hardcore (and metal, and trip-hop) playlist
Playlist! Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks us through the music that's essential to his life – and he goes big on the ’core, throwing in some healthy slabs of metal (and trip-hop) for good measure
Pallbearer's Brett Campbell picks his five fave prog albums
Yes, Steve Hackett, Camel and more among Pallbearer frontman Brett Campbell's all-time prog favourites
Vote for the best Rick Rubin album ever
Vote! We're compiling the definitive guide to Rick Rubin's sprawling back catalogue – and we want your help
The Top 10 weirdest System Of A Down songs
10 songs that prove System Of A Down do ‘weird’ better than any other metal band
