Matt Mills

Blackwater Park may have been Opeth’s masterpiece, but it was these death metal and prog albums that laid the track for their career to come.

The anti-rock star talks about the anarchic thrash of his new album, playing with his other bands Faith No More and Mr Bungle, and how the pandemic drove him to drink

Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy look back on their greatest guitar moment, the Creed hangover, and new album, Pawns & Kings.

Megadeth’s chief shredder Kiko Loureiro talks the 10 virtuoso guitarists that inspired his playing - from Eddie Van Halen to Steve Vai

At capacity again after two years of Covid, jubilant crowds greet showstopping turns from full-glam Kiss to musically flashy Iron Maiden and the fury of Bleed from Within

From nu-metal partystarters to Chinese prog-metal mavericks, this is the best new noise around right now

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne’s killer cameo as a TV preacher in a cult 80s comedy-horror movie Trick Or Treat

Black metal, punk, alt rock, even hair metal – Tobias Forge’s list of pre-Ghost bands covers every base imaginable

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello drafts in Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Oli Sykes for The Atlas Underground Fire

The melodic death metal masters discuss the raging riffs that built Slaughter Of The Soul, and how they’re subverting expectations with their dense new album.