Chris Cornell and the most cringeworthy interview ever: "But it’s so loud!"
Watch Chris Cornell remain unflustered during an awkward interview about the weather, Soundgarden's "noise", and Jimi Hendrix
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By the time Motörhead made Iron Fist they hated each other, and it showed
Iron Fist was the final album the Three Amigos line-up of Motörhead, and even Lemmy said it was "inferior to anything else we’ve ever done"
Vote for the best metal song of 2022
Ghost? Babymetal? Metallica? We need your help to pick the very best metal songs of 2022
In Flames' Anders Fridén: "We were missing that guitar attack"
Anders Friden says In Flames' new album Foregone is "a mix between the past, the present and wherever we’re going"
Remembering the time Limp Bizkit took over the Playboy Mansion for the release of Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Relive the opulence of a nu metal launch party hosted by a band at the height of their powers
"We’re finding something completely new": why Africa is the future of metal
Author Edward Banchs' new book introduces the metal bands reshaping the genre and giving it a brighter future
"I felt like an alien in my own music": Why Blind Guardian returned to their heavy metal roots on The God Machine
How Blind Guardian overcame personal tragedy to return to bombastic heavy metal on The God Machine
Cannibalism, The Cramps and THAT Wednesday dance scene: the weird story of Goo Goo Muck
The Cramps' Goo Goo Muck has gone viral thanks to Netflix's Wednesday show - but the song's history is as murky as the music itself
Satanic Panic is back but metal music has nothing to do with it
Metalheads might have been the poster children of Satanic Panic in the '80s, but these days it's popstars and fashion labels that are coming under fire for supposed devilish deeds
The weird but true story of Ministry's unlikely friendship with Steven Spielberg: "He thought we'd be baby-eating, satanic goat herders!"
A deep dive into Ministry’s unlikely cameo in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and their unlikely 'bromance' with film legend Steven Spielberg
Pain, perversity and Pinhead: the twisted story of cult horror classic Hellraiser
Twisted, nightmarish and transgressive, Hellraiser is a horror movie like no other
The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
Metallica, Motorhead and Bury Tomorrow are among the best new metal songs this week - plus vote for your favourite!
The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal: where are they now?
From Shadows Fall and God Forbid to Bleeding Through and Unearth, we track down the NWOAHM’s Class Of 2002
Fat Mike won't bullshit you on why he's killing off NOFX: "I don't enjoy it like I used to... I don’t need to be onstage hearing people applaud"
NOFX's Fat Mike is breaking up his band after 40 years, but he's not walking away from punk rock. He tells Ian Winwood why
Here are all the songs Metallica have never played live
Metallica could churn out Seek And Destroy for the millionth time on their upcoming M72 world tour… or they could dig out one of these 17 never-played deep cuts
Every System Of A Down album ranked from worst to best
System Of A Down have released five albums, and here they are in order of greatness
Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes on the albums that changed his life: “King Diamond is my flying music!”
Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes reaches into his record collection and pulls out King Diamond, Slayer and Björk
Watch horror author Stephen King's awkward fanboy interview with AC/DC
In 1986, a coked-up Stephen King directed his first feature film, Maximum Overdrive - then engaged in a goofy trans-Atlantic interview with AC/DC, who provided the soundtrack
Cavalera Conspiracy’s Iggor Cavalera on one of metal’s big problems: “Sometimes it can be too conservative”
Why ex-Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera has reinvented himself as as a noise-rock adventurer
