System Of A Down had yet to make their breakthrough – but guitarist Malakian was thrust onto the stage with metal royalty ...

Anomaly-chasing quartet’s challenging response to funk metal came out of their love for Rush, Phil Collins and being odd ...

Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage ...

The masked metal band have teamed up with Rock N’ Roll Colouring, who’ve previously made colouring books for Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Cannibal Corpse and others ...

Buy yourself some cosy, oh-so-snuggly heavy metal pyjamas this winter and rep your favourite bands even whilst you sleep ...

Sound N' Fury, due to be published in July, has been pushed back. But it might be the best book about Guns N' Roses ever written.

John 5 has picked up the axe for the likes of Mötley Crüe and Rob Zombie, and he's learned a few lessons along the way ...

Orbit Culture return with yet more evidence of why they're one of the best bands in the current European metal scene ...

Former Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King can't name any new rock or metal artists that excite them ...

Sick of being known as ‘the devil-worshipping band’, the heavy metal legends wrote a sweeping track about a Romantic poem. They had no idea it’d be 13 minutes long, though.

New Desaster album Kill All Idols is more proof they should be way bigger - but maybe music this deathly and monstrous needs to live in the shadows ...

From Ghost and Sleep Token to Electric Callboy, Lorna Shore, Babymetal and beyond, 2025 has offered up plenty of great metal tunes. But which songs rule the roost?