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“I was earning good money and Marillion were all on £50 a week… I said, ‘I can’t really afford to join,’ so the manager gave everyone an immediate pay rise. I was Mr Popular”: Tales from Ian Mosley’s drum stool
He’s risked the ire of Buddy Rich, kept time for naked hippies, told AC/DC he couldn’t join the band and watched his own band nearly split up over a Christmas song encore - among many other adventures
“To put up with stupidity and not call it out is a crime… When I think about some of the things I’ve said over the years, I’d really like to give myself a punch in the face”: On-call bassist Nick Beggs was always pretty angry
An album built around the impending demise of mankind is the last thing you’d expect from that bloke who used to be in Kajagoogoo
The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024
From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year
“They must have realised it was a bit stupid”: Metallica have never covered a Saxon song, and Biff Byford has a theory why
Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an incident at their second ever show explain why?
"He looked like Daniel Day Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans, except he jangled when he walked. I thought: 'That's a bit interesting'": Billy Duffy on Ian Astbury and the early days of Death Cult
When Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy announced the 2023 resurrection of Death Cult, goths went batshit and gig tickets sold like blackened coals. Here’s how the seminal band came into being
"Everything blew up. I remember there was a store in East Village that started selling ruffled shirts and velvet jackets." Vampires, Jesus and goth going mainstream: the story of Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses
How Type O Negative brought gothic metal to the masses with an iron-clad classic album
“At the time, we had a lot of anger, a lot of depression, the world was crazy. That song reflected what we were thinking.” How Sepultura's Refuse/Resist captured the mood of a world in turmoil - and put South American metal on the map
Sepultura were already considered one of the most exciting bands in 90s metal. They just needed a song to take them to the next level
“It was like being a reporter with a notebook going, ‘No! Wow!’ It was hilarious. We had all the fun but we didn’t have to go through the lifestyle”: Martin Barre on being serious with Jethro Tull while Led Zeppelin partied
Guitarist nearly missed his chance to join Ian Anderson’s band in 1968 because he didn’t have the courage to call the number on the advert
“Freddie goes berserk and says: ‘I’m not being constrained in my wardrobe. I will wear what the f**k I like!’”: how Queen made the groundbreaking 1981 concert movie Queen Rock Montreal
As a restored version of Queen Rock Montreal hits IMAX, we look back on two gigs that went from the tetchy to the triumphant
"He'll tell you I pushed him more than I needed to, and he's probably right": Mick Jones looks back at the Foreigner single that helped invent the 80s
Mick Jones reveals how Mutt Lange and a young British keyboard wizard helped steer Foreigner out of a difficult time
"The Mandrake Project is possibly the maddest idea in a career full of mad ideas." Bruce Dickinson's new comic book is weird, dark, funny and far more than a rock star vanity project
The Iron Maiden frontman has roped in some heavyweight comic book names for his latest endeavour - and it's worked rather well
"I owe him an apology. I'd like to sit down with him and have a beer": Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt on upsetting a member of Guns N' Roses and the guitar solo that broke the internet
In 2023, Extreme released their first new album in 15 years, Six. Guitarist Nino Bettencourt also found time to play at the Super Bowl with Rihanna and bust his knee playing basketball
"Someone from the BBC said my outfit revealed ‘too much penis’. I’m not a Ken doll!": Lord Of The Lost reflect on a wild 2023
They played Eurovision, met the king and toured with Iron Maiden - but 2023 was just another wild year for Germany's Lord Of The Lost
The New Model Army albums you should definitely own
Mocked by most of the UK press, Bradford band New Model Army have remained as steadfastly uncompromising as they have unfashionable
"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most misunderstood album
Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience
"It’s an extension of Slayer...a follow-up to Repentless for sure." Kerry King updates us on his highly anticipated new album
Slayer legend Kerry King discusses one of the most anticipated metal records of 2024
"At some point between now and the next album there will have been a change": Tobias Forge teases the fate of Papa Emeritus IV and what 2024 might hold for Ghost
Tobias Forge remains tight-lipped on what Ghost's massive two-night LA residency was about, but does drop hints about the band's future going into 2024
“During the 70s, every morning I woke up and thought: ‘This could end today’”: the epic story of how the Eagles became America’s Band
The Eagles’ Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit look back on their band’s rollercoaster career
“I was just lost… but if you just fall to the floor and lie there, you’re just going to take a kicking. I had to stand up and fight”: When Fish made an album about the most difficult time of his life
Broke, directionless and dumped just before his wedding, the former Marillion singer forged 13th Star amid the turmoil
The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon: My stories of Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Grohl and more
"He takes me down this dark path, and suddenly Mark Lanegan just appears out of nowhere, wreathed in smoke, kind of like the devil" - Brian Fallon
“The phone rang, it was Steve Harris: ‘Are you interested in joining Maiden?’”: this is what it’s like to audition to replace Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden, by three singers who went for the job
In 1994, Blaze Bayley became Maiden’s new singer – but he wasn’t the only contender for the job
“It doesn’t add much to the myth of an album that deserves mythologising”: Muse’s Absolution – XX Anniversary Edition
The packaging and hardback book are impressive, but the additional music is less essential
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2023 (and the stories behind them)
Sleep Token, Creeper, Within Temptation: 2023 has been a massive year for metal, and these 50 records represent the very best the year has had to offer
“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen
Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg
“I called Keith Richards about doing it. His manager said: ‘Keith has already got a band. They’re called the Rolling Stones’”: the epic story of Kings Of Chaos, rock’s billion dollar supergroup
Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band
