Ken McIntyre

Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal

The story of Hanoi Rocks’ Back To Mystery City, the glam-punk album that invented Guns N’ Roses

Ron Dante produced Barry Mannilow's first nine albums before turning to rock. What could possibly go right?

Eight albums in shape-shifting rock’n’roll brothers Redd Kross are gearing up to take the next step up the ladder

It was Ronald Reagan’s fault, really

Thanks to Suicidal Tendencies, JFA, Dr Know and more, skate punk was the fastest, most violent sound of the early 80s

LSD, rehab, whiskey, fights, and in their spare time Blue Cheer invented heavy metal. This is their twisted tale

From Metallica to Sleep Token, Avenged Sevenfold to Babymetal, these are the best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by you!

Guns N' Roses changed the shape of rock'n'roll when they emerged in the mid-eighties. Here's a half-century of their very best, and the stories behind them.

The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

Fancy a ‘pocket symphony of hard times and gorgeous melodies’? Then Dangereens might just be the band for you

Having trudged down the same sorry, drugs-littered road as some of his heroes, Marcus King has cleaned up his act and is now on the road to major success

From Megadeth and Kreator to Dead Cross and Vulcano, these are the best thrash metal albums of 2022

In September 2008, Slipknot scored their first number one album in the US with All Hope Is Gone. We travelled to Des Moines to find a band standing on the edge of the abyss

In the early 80s, San Francisco became the epicenter of an extreme new scene. This is the story of the birth of thrash metal

It's 2008, Jimmy Page is thinking about going on the road, but Robert Plant isn't interested: Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler tells the story of crossing the Atlantic to audition

Throwing space-rock, proto-metal, acid-rock and a lot more into a swirling pot, Monster Magnet have a gift not for invention, but reinvention... and these are their best albums

The story of Brownsville Station, creators of the classic Smokin' In The Boys Room and Michigan’s biggest band of the glam era

The six-decade career of Meat Loaf was a carnival of excess, full of theatre, motorcycles, teen lust, and soaring, roaring guitars. Here's Meat's albums from disappointing worst to dizzying best

Just months before he died, blues icon Johnny Winter and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry met for the first time to talk hell-raising, music-making and the price of fame.

Classic Rock gave Mojothunder's self-released debut album Hymns From The Electric Church a 9/10 score, and their “southern alternative” sound is on the rise

Missouri hillbillies the Ozark Mountain Daredevils look back to the mellow times when country rock ruled the US airwaves and Jackie Blue became a radio classic

A side-project escape for two members of Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains, addict-sheltering Mad Season was also planned as a ‘recovery’ band. Musically it worked. As rehab, sadly, it didn’t

The psychedelic scene brought great bands such as Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead to the fore. But that wasn’t the whole story