Features Louder Gallery: Black Sabbath time at the British Summer Time Festival By Photos Tina Korhonen and Derek Bremner published 5 July 2014 Metal fans gathered in their masses! Just like witches at...etc,. So, can we do this every year please?Get the Louder NewsletterThe latest news, features and interviews direct to your inbox, from the global home of alternative music.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors Photos Tina Korhonen and Derek BremnerSocial Links Navigation More about louder The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now Spiritbox, Babymetal, Gojira, Architects and more announced for the most metal WWE videogame soundtrack in years Latest “I always thought that Pink Floyd were a band for people who don’t like music or rock’n’roll”: Jack Bruce’s wild tales of Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West and more See more latest Most Popular"It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampiresGoth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it"Wrapping blues tradition in boundary-breaking innovation": Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best“People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times"Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta"He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...“I hate that I had to write the previous album. It became dangerous to play the music and stab myself in the heart”: Swallow The Sun had to escape from Juha Raivio’s personal hell. The solution was new album Shining"When I met him he was this hippie dude, living up in the hills taking magic mushrooms." The making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler“Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it“As I was leaving the stage, I put my arm around Niall and said, ‘I think we got away with it’”: And So I Watch You From Afar were brave enough to debut their album Megafauna in full at a festival"It’s not like anything else. I liked it for that. We'd always take a different path": The story behind The Kinks' brilliantly subversive classic Lola
