Ali Cooper

Tattoos and metal culture go hand in hand, but Stoneghost frontman Jason James Smith took his love of ink to a new level

For a special edition of our regular feature, Slipknot/Stone Sour icon Corey Taylor invited into his house. Spoiler: It was every bit as nerdy as you would imagine

Trivium's bass player Paolo chooses the records that have soundtracked his life

After three years away from the scene, Underoath came roaring back... but why now?

Helloween's co-founder Kai Hansen picks the records that made him the person he is today... Including quite a few that he was on himself

Mr Lordi picks out the finest spine-chillers in rock'n'roll

The finest anthems in metalcore heroes Asking Alexandria's repertoire

The Devil Wears Prada frontman Mike Hranica tells the story behind every song on their new album Transit Blues.

We chat to Papa Emeri-we mean A Nameless Ghoul And Definitely Not Papa Emeritus about their new EP, Halloween and ‘doing a Beyoncé’

Black Stone Cherry drummer John Fred Young picks his top 10 favourite records... warning: gratuitous pop contained within

KoRn join us for an exclusive interview, where the nu metal legends discuss their new album and reveal that Corey Taylor will be guesting on a track

Horror-loving director Robert Rodriquez tells us why heavy metal is the perfect match for guts and gore

The Shrine’s big riffs and punk ethos are keeping them on the road to glory.

Arena rock’s king of riffs loses his shit for Switzerland’s mysterious black metal pioneers.

The boys from Brazil celebrate 30 years of international brutality

Symphonic brutes She Must Burn are black metal’s new breed.

Every month we ask metal heavyweights about the records that changed their life.

Ex-Machine Head man finds perfect partner in the brutal Once Human.

The Dutch symphonic crew are pedalling like demons on their way back to the UK

Children Of Bodom's shredder-in-chief Alexi Laiho hails the masters of evil thrash

Biters are renegade punks on a mission to make rock’n’roll cool again.

We look at a history, of life, on the cutting edge of heavy music...

UK rock'n'roll's sharpest showman praises Boston's enduring stadium giants...