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Everybody starts somewhere! Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot and more remember their first times onstage.

From Van Halen and Iron Maiden to Disturbed and Bring Me The Horizon, these are the bands that helped Sophie Lloyd become a shred goddess

Thanks to the lead single of 2015’s Meliora, Tobias Forge’s devil church made their late-night TV debut, won their first Grammy and spread their Satanism throughout the States

From Sleep Token and Ghost, Babymetal to Metallica: 2023 has been a year of heavy metal bangers - these were the 50 best of them all, according to you

From the monolithic Metallica to rising stars like Green Lung, these are the greatest shows that Team Hammer saw this year

From setting the stage for Sleep Token to making metal sexy again, Tobias Forge takes us inside the final days of Impera

The Grammys have always got heavy metal wrong. But, with them defaulting to Metallica and Slipknot while the next generation is rife with talent, there is no excuse this year.

For two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

From Sleep Token and Scene Queen to Ghost, Halestorm and Type O Negative - these are the bands who brought some sex positivity back to metal

These songs by Iron Maiden, Slipknot and Ghost could make for the perfect Halloween playlist

Metallica, Disturbed and Guns N’ Roses have all covered hit songs, only for their versions to become even bigger hits

Metal has produced some world class power ballads across the decades. Here are the 10 very finest