Watch rare, newly unearthed, footage of an unmasked Slipknot soundchecking for a hometown club show in 2000
A Slipknot fan account on Instagram posts rare footage of The Nine unmasked on New Year's Day 2000
Returning members Jeff Loomis and Van Williams are also defending the comeback following criticism from founding bassist Jim Sheppard
The UK metalcore bruisers have pulled influence from Gothenburg metal for their hotly anticipated fifth album
Bruce Dickinson wants us to expect big things from Iron Maiden’s Run For Your Lives tour this year
This is what happens when one of rock's greatest drummers hears a nu metal standard for the first time
One-time Iron Maiden and Cutting Crew keyboard player Tony Moore will tour his recent Awake album in January
The now-Suicidal Tendencies member says he’s been working on his own music since his early 20s
The bassist has co-written only a handful of Metallica tracks since joining the metal titans in 2003
The Slayer man makes the claim while listing his five favourite players of all time
The American band’s ranks have included Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy), Chris Broderick (In Flames/ex-Megadeth), Pat O’Brien (ex-Cannibal Corpse) and late singer Warrel Dane
The Offspring's Noodles says Rock Hall should be inclusive – but he doesn't think his band will ever be inducted
Lamb of God guitarist is loving life without booze or drugs – and he wants everyone to know recovery is possible
Didn’t see much of Anthrax on MTV during the mid-1980s? Their founding guitarist explains why
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The end of the world? That was just inspiration for In Flames’ ninth album, A Sense Of Purpose
Forced to rebuild from scratch, Jason Aalon Butler is finding ways to harness the storm - and find his peace - on Fever 333's Darker White
From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon
Welcome to 1984: it was the album that would see Van Halen straddle the planet like a rock colossus, but it would also mark the end of the original line-up
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
From defecating in Steve Vai‘s guitar case to puppet-based concept albums, Devin Townsend is out there on his own
From touring with Korn and meeting pop stars to barely selling 200 tickets and almost getting dropped from their label, Papa Roach endured to prove themselves the ultimate rock survivors
Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?
Amon Amarth’s 2008 album Twilight Of The Thunder God transformed them from death metal hopefuls into all-conquering Viking metal chieftains
The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it
Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants
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While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights
Therapy? roll back the decades in joyous communal celebration of their best-loved album, 1994's Troublegum
Supported by Darkest Hour and Heriot, the co-headliners host a night of wall-to-wall adrenaline at Electric Brixton
Overcoming technical troubles and an initially thin crowd, the three bands offer unique approaches to mind-expanding music
Opeth go Miss Marple via Edgar Allen Poe on the prog-death-jazz metal odyssey that is The Last Will And Testament
Celebrating their seminal classics and modern material alike, Sepultura bow out in impeccable form at London’s Hammersmith Apollo
Sum 41's farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever
Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight
Defences haven't quite perfected their formula yet, but if you love yourself a good slice of modern metalcore, you're gonna wanna hear this
Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don't need big production to put on a massive show
Vola continue to move their sound forward on album number four
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