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"After he died, his body was dug up and moved seven times because people thought his fingers were possessed by the Devil": Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a man of many talents, but his rock opera about the philandering violinist Paganini has yet to see the light of day

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"Metallica seek raw, rowdy 'n' gutsy frontman." That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine

If you were reading Kerrang! in December 1983, you could have had a shot at fronting Metallica

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"At school I did a presentation about Black Sabbath! I knew I wanted to move to the UK." Jack Black, angry nuns and Duolingo: the strange story of metal's weirdest new stars, Calva Louise

Mixing metalcore, EDM and Latin dance music, Calva Louise's influences are as diverse as its members' backgrounds growing up in Venezuela, France and New Zealand

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"It did surprise us. People started calling us sell-outs." How Metallica wrote the metal power ballad that saved Miley Cyrus - and that Elton John called 'one of the best songs ever written'

James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did

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"I looked around and nobody was happy. And I was thinking: 'This is going to be rough'": What happened when Bruce Dickinson made the decision that changed his life

Becoming a band’s new singer is never easy. But when Bruce Dickinson saw Iron Maiden play, he knew he was the singer they needed

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“War is senseless, it’s stupid, and in the end you could end up dead… but in some ways it is glorious”: From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper

It didn’t live up to prior singles’ chart success, it was banned when it came out, and it’s got the band booed onstage. But, The Trooper is a song that Iron Maiden have never left behind.

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“I lost a lot of hair when Lemmy blasted his bass. You’d see big bikers at the front of the house throwing up”: Watch Motörhead drummer react to fans’ stories about the heavy metal trailblazers

Mikkey Dee remembers life with Lemmy Kilmister while watching tributes from Motörhead super-fans

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"The band started that album cycle as ones to watch and emerged as one of rock’s new leaders." Every Halestorm album ranked from worst to best

We rate the back catalogue of one of modern rock's very best bands

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Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist: “It’s difficult to do a set from any part of our career and not miss things out”

The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring

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“I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that”: How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen

Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan

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"We weren't seen as enigmatic as some bands. I do feel that we were kind of under-appreciated": Ben Ward looks back on three decades in the Orange Goblin trenches

In late 2025, British heavy metal stalwarts Orange Goblin played their last ever shows, calling it a day after 30 years. Frontman Ben Ward explains why, and reflects on three decades of creating metal thunder

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"We set out to make the ultimate Priest album. It could be the most successful failure we'll ever have!" A classic encounter with Judas Priest as they prepare to unleash the album that saves them

With a notorious court case looming and an untested new drummer, Judas Priest retreated to Spain as they steeled themselves for the release of one of their greatest albums

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"The collective mood is influenced by the combination of loud, fast music, synchronized with bright flashing lights, and frequent intoxication." What the science behind mosh pits can tell us about human behaviour

Ever wondered about the physics of mosh pits and circle pits? We have answers for you

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"It is unlikely that extreme metal musicians are trying to increase mating success through their music." A study suggested that men who play guitar in extreme metal bands mainly do it to impress other men

Time to smash those preconceptions about playing guitar to show off to girls, lads

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Haken part ways with Charlie Griffiths and Conner Green

UK prog rockers Haken have announced that guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green have left the band

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"I'll never forget it. It still brings goosebumps." System Of A Down's Daron Malakian on being asked to fill in for injured James Hetfield on Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour in 2000

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

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“With strange chords and enigmatic lyrics, it fed the metal mainstream with some of its most prog-friendly material in years”: In the desperate moments before grunge, this British band offered an ambitious alternative direction

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

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"They did okay without me." Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith looks back on his unsuccessful 1991 audition for one of the biggest bands in the world

"It sounded good. And they're a great bunch of guys. But it didn't work out"

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“Working with him would have been a dream. If I could go back in time, I know exactly how it would go”: Perturbator aka James Kent on why Vangelis’ music endures

French electronic composer discovered Greek genius through the Blade Runner soundtrack, and began to incorporate similar ideas in his own work – even if he didn’t have the technology to do it

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"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world

Tenacious D had friends in high places, and they used them to bring this 2000s smash hit to life

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked it, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: Nineteen years ago, this US metal band released their sixth album. Today it sounds like a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century

Machine Head’s The Blackening is one of the greatest metal records of the 21st century

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"Really, the whole scene was very Spinal Tap. It was almost beyond parody": The true story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid

Eat your heart out, Bob Geldof – Hear ’n Aid saw the hard-rock community muscling in on the charity single bandwagon. Cue a heavyweight cast, guitar battles and big hair contests

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"In 2026 I shall have definitely, definitely have my solo album out": Tony Iommi films New Year message, reflects on the "Summer of Sabbath"

The Riff Lord has spoken

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Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver: “I knew that I wasn’t mentally prepared to jump into something of that magnitude”

After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver and their lineup of then-former Guns N’ Roses members

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“We partied every night! We would have a hotel room and just give the details out to friends and girls, ‘We’ll see you there!’” The story of the song that made Judas Priest icons in America

With one big single, and a little help from an Iron Maiden tour, the Brummie underdogs found their footing across the pond

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