Simon Young

Iron Maiden's eponymous anthem would go on to inspire their mascot Eddie and closes their set to this day

Slipknot, Spiritbox, and Suicide Silence are among those serving up this week's best new metal songs

Slayer's controversial ninth album was released on September 11, 2001

Albums, t-shirts, tattoos, books and games: the Not Man has been everywhere

The Fargesta Five went from being underground garage rock heroes to signing a major label deal on the strength of a "fairly monotonous" song

Step this way for some "savage blasts of junk shoppe punk that kicks you in the ding ding"

The 1997 single with the inaudible crackly bit has been streamed 1.8 billion times on Spotify

When saying you love metal isn't simply enough for some people

The band's unique 2007 show was filmed but footage has remained locked up in a record label vault ever since

Released on August 13, 1996, Failure's Fantastic Planet is beloved by Deftones, Tool, Paramore and a new generation of music fans, but it traumatised the band to the point of meltdown

On this day in 1991, Mr Bungle’s self-titled debut came out – confusing many but inspiring Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and other greats

This headline sounds a fever dream, but it really happened in 1983

"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."

'Two parts serenity and one part death metal', one promo sticker said – and they had a point

“Dude, that riff’s good enough to open our album."