Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena
With Metallica’s S&M reaching the grand old age of 25, we look back at how, and why, the world’s leading metal band teamed up with – shock, horror – the San Francisco Symphony
No Black Sabbath, no heavy metal as we know it
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale has been addicted to rock’n’roll since she was a kid
Death metal began in the US - but the early 1990s Swedish scene gave it a run for its money
Dimmu Borgir sealed their status as black metal’s biggest band with 2007’s In Sorte Diaboli
How AC/DC recovered from the death of iconic singer Bon Scott to make the biggest rock album ever
The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor
Machine Head, Disturbed and Black Label Society are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
From Ghost to Babymetal, Halestorm to Sleep Token, these are the metal albums you should keep an eye out for in 2025
From the agony of trying to get Black Sabbath tickets to the ongoing Oasis reunion ticketing fiasco, buying tickets to big shows has got worse than ever - here's how to try and navigate the madness
Take care of business. Quit your comfort zone. Don’t listen to rock journalists. And never forget you could still be washing cars. Life advice from The Book Of Tremonti
From Slayer singing about Dracula to Cradle Of Filth and Creeper taking style notes from Interview With The Vampire and Near Dark, this is how heavy metal has intersected with vampires in popular culture
From Crippling Alcoholism to Kælan Mikla, these goth metal up-and-comers show it’s hip to be sad
Finnish prog-doomers’ ninth record contains elements of Queen, Marillion, Metallica’s Black Album and pop production – but most of their mesmerising melancholy remains
45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all
Irish band broke the limits of their own ambition when they performed every track of their seventh record at ArcTanGent
Why are Black Sabbath coming back? Who else is on the bill? Can I still get tickets? We answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza
Tom Morello is best known as the guitarist with RATM, but there’s much more of his playing to marvel at than that - and these are his best albums
