Alexander Milas

In 2011, Metal Hammer boarded Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden in South America for scenes of madness, mayhem and pisco sour

The story of Mastodon’s 2009 prog metal masterpiece, Crack The Skye

In 2007, Al Jourgensen was talking about retiring – and it was mostly down to the US President

In 2007, three years before his death, Peter Steele sat down for one of his most candid interviews ever

Trivium broke big with 2005’s Ascendancy – but a year later, The Crusade saw the backlash hit

HIM’s Venus Doom was the sound of a band peering over the edge of the abyss, as Ville Valo explained when Metal Hammer spoke to the singer in 2007

The story of Alice In Chains’ comeback album Black Gives Way To Blue

How Within Temptation’s 2007 album The Heart Of Everything kicked things to the next level

In 2007, Vinnie Paul returned to the fray with the debut album from the supergroup Hellyeah – his first band since the death of his brother Dimebag Darrell

In 2010, Hammer visited HIM frontman Ville Valo at home in Helsinki to talk about the goth-metal band’s new album, Screamworks: Love in Theory And Practice

Iron Maiden drummer and living legend Nicko McBrain opens up on a whirlwind 12 months

When HIM broke up, Ville Valo fell into a deep depression. With VV, he's found a new lease on life

In London for the War Games Live event at the Imperial War Museum on November 26, John Romero talks Iron Maiden, the NWOBHM and the cultural touchstones which fire his imagination. Read to the end for free tickets details

Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, Jerry Cantrell and, of course, Metallica – Rob Trujillo has played for them all. This is the story of the man behind the bass

Metallica are late onstage, drummer Lars Ulrich has gone AWOL, and 100,000 fans are about to witness an unexpectedly historic show

Inspired by a Moscow festival crowd, the Scorpions' Wind Of Change came to represent the fall of the Berlin Wall, but now its message of reconciliation and hope is now being tested

Amid muted celebrations of their 50th anniversary Scorpions released their nineteenth studio album – Rock Believer – more than a decade after their farewell tour. Will they ever stop?

Robert Calvert’s manic imagination was fuelled by bipolar disorder, but it helped him conceive one of the 70’s most outlandish concept albums

The man behind Black Sabbath's game-changing lyrics reveals all about his life and times

In 2007, Metal Hammer talked to Peter Steele about Type O Negative’s new album Dead Again. No one knew it would be his swansong

Here, for the first and only time, Ville Valo reveals why HIM have chosen to go out with a with a bang after 26 years, and why some things are best left to die

As the 80s drew to an end, post-punk and goth rock were going overground, subverting the mainstream and turning everything but the water black…

Six months after The Black Parade made My Chemical Romance the biggest band on the planet, we tried to find out if that success had become a poisoned chalice...