Metallica’s James Hetfield has been “writing lots of music” this year
Papa Het claims he’s been composing and “playing guitar pretty much every day” since Metallica’s last tour
Papa Het claims he’s been composing and “playing guitar pretty much every day” since Metallica’s last tour
Tim Bowness will release his latest album Powder Dry in August
Justin Chancellor has offered an update on the prog metal luminaries’ next album
In the battle of Black Sabbath vs black bear, there was a clear winner
Long hair. Moustaches. Silk shirts. Satin trousers. The works
Meet Pretty Runaway, the headbanging horse
Black Hole Sun comes from Aloe Blacc's upcoming rock covers EP Rock My Soul Volume 1
"I continue to miss Taylor as does the band"
Film charting the history of The Beach Boys will feature previously unseen footage and interviews with band members
Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page has posted about last week's London show from the Black Crowes
The Guns N’ Roses legend will perform tracks from his new solo album Orgy Of The Damned on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week - here’s how you can watch
The Slayer guitarist admits he doesn’t have the attention span for Iron Maiden’s double albums The Book Of Souls and Senjutsu
1983’s Earth A.D./Wolsblood album showed off Misfits at their fastest and most vicious – but it would become their gravestone
Late New Orleans legend Dr John on that time he drank a case of Blue Nun with Frankie Miller, and other stories
Joe Elliott might decry the phrase "heavy metal" in 2024, but 46 years ago he was ready to embrace it
Unequalled as a British-blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Peter Green's best albums are studded with brilliance
After three spells with Thin Lizzy', the late Gary Moore turned solo artist, ditching hard rock for the music of his childhood, the blues
One of the few groups to ever get away with releasing a double-album as a debut, they’d started out as a covers band who’d rebuild and extend every song they played
Recorded for just £800, Free’s Tons Of Sobs remains one of rock’s greatest debut albums
From members of the Monty Python crew to famous evolutionary biologists, here are some of the strangest hook-ups in rock history
With two members “smashed after touring”, the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the Love At First Sting album turned them into global icons
Hi-fi freak who never got over Hawkwind explains what he listens to while he works – and revels in the joy of putting a Mogwai joke in one of his books
AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there
To All Trains, Shellac's first album in 10 years, is a worthy tribute to the force-of-nature that was Steve Albini
Feats don't fail the blues as swamp rock veterans Little Feat tackle Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters on their first album in more than a decade
On solo album From Hell I Rise Kerry King sounds like he's having more fun than he had in years with his old band
One of the busiest men in the biz gets the blues
Kings Of Leon let the subtly melodic, sporadically explosive and pleasingly edgy times roll on ninth album Can We Please Have Fun
The Karma Effect might not be reinventing the hard rock wheel, but there's plenty of rabble-rousing to be found on their second album
Brothers in harmony the Lemon Twigs deliver a retro pop-rock triumph on album number five A Dream Is All I Know
A wild ride across the airwaves from California-by-way-of-New Orleans roots rockers Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse