Joe Daly

There wasn't a dry eye in the house the final time he played this classic live

Released 17 years after The Replacements broke up and sold for pocket change, the album was a perfect metaphor for Paul Westerberg’s chaotic, brilliant career

We sat down with the wrestler formerly known as Edge and wouldn‘t let him leave until he named the best track on each Metallica disc, from Kill ’Em All to 72 Seasons

Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

From Papa's very first sermons on Opus Eponymous to the bombastic Skeletá, we rate every Ghost album so far

In 1983, Metallica almost got a new singer

In 2008, eager to mend fences with fans after the Napster debacle, the biggest band in metal played one of the tiniest shows of their lives

Zakk Wylde’s love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young knows no bounds

From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

Juuso Laatio talks directing Babymetal, 'playing' Wacken and whether we'll ever get that Impaled Rektum album

In 1985, John Fogerty was sued for releasing a song that allegedly ripped off another he'd written 15 years earlier – and it was a battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court

From metal legends to rising stars, Aftershock was stacked with amazing moments

Mastodon were already an underground sludge metal sensation in the early 2000s, but Leviathan turned them into a breakout success