Joe Daly

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

Not every band can be as huge as The Beatles or Led Zeppelin in America – just ask Slade, The Small Faces and Status Quo

From Night Of The Living Dead to Rec, these are the times the undead scared the life out of us

Since co-founding Tenacious D in 1994, Jack Black has enjoyed celebrated film and music careers – and he’s been a champion for heavy metal at every chance along the way

Cocksucker Blues is one of rock’n’roll’s most notorious documentaries – that’s why the Rolling Stones blocked the director from releasing it

Run To The Hills rocketed Iron Maiden to new levels of popularity, despite being made during one of the most stressful times in their history

This hyper-low-budget heavy metal comedy – featuring Slayer, Lamb Of God and Morbid Angel – was shelved for years before finally getting released on YouTube

Stone Sour, Probot and A Perfect Circle may not be their members’ most famous projects, but that didn’t stop them from being brilliant

"It abruptly emerged, halted mid-sky, then darted from zero to breakneck speed. A phenomenon far beyond even today's aviation capabilities" - Lemmy

Spooky goings-on and controversy in the US have inspired rumours that Iron Maiden’s magnum opus was cursed by supernatural forces. Are they right? Probably not…

In the 2000s, directors Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti went to war-torn Iraq and met thrash band Acrassicauda. The documentary they made is a stunning testament to the power of music in life-threatening times.

These speed freaks from thrash metal’s golden age fell by the wayside when they should have been megastars

Recorded in Dave Grohl's studio, 2009's Black Gives Way To Blue resurrected Alice In Chains and allowed them to pay tribute to Layne Staley - with guest contributions from Elton John

2013’s Metalhead understands heavy music better than any other film – and features nods to Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest and Venom along the way

Oliver Stone’s The Doors divided the critics – and the surviving band members. But it made Jim Morrison a star all over again and laid down the template for the modern rock biopic

Megadeth leader and ex-Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine wrote a thrash metal classic called The Mechanix in the early ’80s. Today, both bands lay claim to vastly different versions of the song.

Metallica, Tina Turner, Abba – here are 10 times Ghost completely owned someone else’s song

They’ve been off the radar for a while, but Vintage Trouble have returned with new album Heavy Hymnals, and this time their blazing rock’n’soul is fuelled by heartbreak, social commentary and racial injustice. Just don’t call it a comeback

This year will be your last chance to see Kiss, the Eagles, Foreigner ever play live

Hollywood likes to portray metalheads as either bullies or dimwits. These 10 movie and TV characters smash all the stereotypes.

From spotlighting Linkin Park and Lamb Of God in their prime to pulling pranks on a Slipknot crowd, the former Late Night host truly is one of us

These bangers by Metallica, Linkin Park and more never got an album or single release – but, in hindsight, they really deserved one