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Icelandic post-rockers Sólstafir also announce they have signed a new record deal with Century Media
How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later
Black Sabbath played their first gig at The Crown – which has been saved from potential demolition by new 'listed' status
Judas Priest’s new album Invincible Shield has trounced British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Firepower in the UK charts
Prog/post-metal label Pelagic Records is celebrating its 15th anniversary with two stacked days in the Netherlands this August
Brandon Lee’s goth-vigilante classic is divisively getting a remake, but at least its trailer comes with a sick soundtrack
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Some of the Motörhead leader’s ashes will be on show at the Catton Park metal festival from the 2024 edition onwards
Robert Trujillo had no idea how his Infectious Grooves side-project’s new drummer, Jay Weinberg, looked maskless – until they started rehearsing together
“It works and it means something, but I don’t know what it is,” Bruce Dickinson says of (he believes) the best song he’s ever written
Cassyette lines up extensive tour previewing her forthcoming debut album
Watch the brand new video for Marko Hietala and Tarja Turunen's Left On Mars here
Though his career was brief, Randy Rhoads left an indelible mark on modern rock music as the brilliant, bewildering guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne's original solo band
Katy Perry, Elton John, Boy George, Billy Joel – they’ve all secretly rocked it up over the years
In 2006, Audioslave’s Tom Morello and Chris Cornell sat down with Classic Rock to reveal all about their third album, Revelations
Rob Halford has only met Bob Dylan once, but he’s never forgotten the hilarious conversation that followed
“They were like superheroes”: how Bill & Ted star Alex Winter fell in love with Kiss as a 10-year-old. Excellent!
As epic new sci-fi show 3 Body Problem hits Netflix, Tesseract bassist/avid sci-fi fan Amos Williams picks the novels that encapsulate the genre at its best
It seemed like a good idea at the time
Periphery founder and guitarist Misha Mansoor shares the wisdom that helped his band become djent pioneers
Canadian prog metal icons Voivod released their classic second album Rrröööaaarrr on this day in 1986. Drummer Away looks back on a career like no other
From Slipknot and Linkin Park to Converge, Norma Jean and Mansions, these are the records that shaped Of Mice & Men frontman Aaron Pauley
If you’ve seen The Beast perform any of these rarities at a show, you’re in a very exclusive club
Writer/director Jason Howden is working on Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon with soundtrack contributions from Matt Heafy
BRAT have the right look to fit in with the likes of Scene Queen and Sophie Powers, but their straight-ahead deathgrind fails to make the same impact
David Vincent, Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen and Flo Mounier live up to their reputation as extreme metal's leading lights
A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow
Dragonforce prove they are still guitar heroes through and through
During their first-ever headline tour, Swedish up-and-comers Orbit Culture rocked the Underworld’s foundations with a groove metal/melodeath armada
James Lollar has been on shaky ground with GosT's most recent material, but a return to the darkest edges of synthwave re-energises the project
The self-described "Backstreet Boys of metal", Blind Channel capture the anthemia and energy of peak nu metal with new album Exit Emotions
Five albums in and New Years Day are maturing - but losing of the charm of their youth on new album Half Black Heart
Al Jourgensen might be hinting at putting Ministry to bed after their next album, but Hopiumforthemasses shows the industrial metal legends are as incendiary and furious as ever
At a sold-out London extravaganza, prog metal intellectuals Tesseract make a stunning play for the heavy music mainstream, backed by two of their genre’s finest up-and-comers
Darkest Hour have put together another pulsating collection of metalcore bangers