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
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Long before Blaze Bayley joined Iron Maiden, he was a member of British metal lunatics Wolfsbane
Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne, Lacuna Coil and Lordi are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
With 2011’s The Hunter, Mastodon ditched the concepts and came up with something different
Rather than supercars and million-dollar mansions, nu metal’s newest stars put their cash towards much less rock’n’roll items
With a stable line-up since the beginning, Sweden's Grand Magus have been staunch defenders of the faith for over 25 years
From collaborating with Wheatus to getting the seal of approval from members of Halestorm, The Prodigy, Skindred and more, Alt Blk Era are breakout stars of the nu gen
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler reflect on some good, bad and ugly encounters
Testament’s six-string superstar reflects on the chaos of the Bay Area, guesting with Lamb Of God and studying with jazz legends
Overkill’s Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth has spent a life on thrash’s frontlines
