Stephen Hill

Putting members of Skid Row, Anthrax and Biohazard in the same room was a weird idea. When the resulting supergroup only released three demos then broke up, it also proved to be a waste of time.

Code Orange looked set for huge things before the pandemic struck. Luckily, they're not ones for feeling sorry for themselves

Looking for something new and heavy to listen to? We've got you covered

Sometimes waiting three years for a new album is torturous enough – so imagine how fans of Guns ’N’ Roses, Black Sabbath and At The Gates have felt

Motörhead, Deep Purple and Manowar have all broken records – and people’s eardrums, probably

Skinny jeans and hair-straighteners at the ready! Your guide to the best of British indie in the ‘00s

Lapland show at minus 20 degrees presented unique problems - and they weren’t even sure anyone would be there to watch

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot have all performed to the tiniest of crowds after making it big

Damnocracy, Tapeworm and Device might have seemed like dream team-ups, but they couldn’t amount to the sum of their parts

Gagging for some brilliant new metal to wrap your ears around? We have you covered

The story of Feeder, one of Britain's most under-rated and consistently brilliant alt. rock bands, in five essential records

After 25 years Skindred have gone from reggae-metal innovators to playing arenas, Glastonbury Festival and a UK top 10 with new album Smile

Bands need to evolve to survive, and these classic albums by Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Sepultura are masterclasses in switching everything up

Where to start with New York's most influential 'underground' guitar band since The Velvet Underground

There was much more to Outbreak and Supersonic than white men with guitars, and the UK festival scene now feels vital and vibrant again

In 2000, Alien Ant Farm were nu metal also-rans struggling to find their place. Then an endorsement from Papa Roach and one hard-rocking Michael Jackson cover thrust them up the charts

Metallica, Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold are all hugely reliable bands – apart from on one painful occasion

Roots Bloody Roots made Sepultura one of metal’s biggest bands in 1996. Not even a year later, the lineup that made it imploded.

In the late ’90s, Iron Maiden were creatively flagging and unable to fill venues. Then two of their most adored members, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith, returned to make them megastars again.

Metallica wanted to make their answer to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same, and even hired future Spider-Man star Dane DeHaan to help. But then Metallica: Through The Never became one of the band’s most costly misadventures.

Joe Duplantier is one of metal's most thoughtful and widely respected figures. This is what he's learned through a career in music

Released on August 25, 1998, Elliott Smith's XO is a treasure-trove of brilliance from a true cult artist