Metal Hammer

“Somebody said I was the ice queen, because I just didn’t move on stage – I was terrified!” The woman who became a prog star after being asked to lead the singing at anti-nuke marches

Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera declined invitation to perform at band’s final show, claims guitarist Andreas Kisser: “They don’t want to be a part of it”

“They chose to make this buck-wild album. If Metallica can do that, then we can do that”: Why Avenged Sevenfold “fell in love” with the ever-controversial St Anger

The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

“I’d never heard of them before I got the request. But my assistant said they were very good, so I agreed”: The ambition behind Nightwish’s collaboration with Richard Dawkins

"In pursuing my own fake band I stumbled upon something that had real potential." The miraculous rise of the modern prog superstars who started out as a joke

"Determined to expand beyond the restrictive confines of goth, they were victims of their own ambition." Nine albums by The Mission to listen and one to ignore

"Yo, Jim. This is Sylvester Stallone. Gimme a call. We need to talk." How one of Hollywood's great action heroes turned Survivor from no-hopers to heavyweight champions of AOR

Hotel bombings, car crashes, conspiracy theories, towering infernos and more: The A to Z of B.B. King

Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89

"I was like, Get out of this studio right now. And his jaw hit the ground." The day Anthony Kiedis was fired from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and why it was the wake-up call he desperately needed

"I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell

They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s

Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”

"There was no facade, this was genuine." Take a first look inside Oasis Live ‘25 Opus, the official photo book of "the most anticipated reunion of all time"

Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame

"I felt like an absurd grunge Cinderella, who’d found herself with VIP access to the ball." Melissa Auf der Maur's '90s rock memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry is frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory

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"He bought a retired police sniffer dog because he kept forgetting where he'd hidden hisdrugs." Quireboys frontman Spike is currently on an unplugged tour - and he's telling some wild stories

“I said, ‘It’s more interesting to just hint. We don’t want to give the game away”: The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing