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Spanish Love Songs' Bleak Anthems Offer A Light In The Darkness Of Everyday Life

The end may be nigh, but Spanish Love Songs are only just getting started. Third album Brave Faces Everyone embarks on a bleak, often despairing journey through these troubled times, but its underdog anthems ultimately offer messages of empathy and possibly even the faintest glimmers of hope. Time to join the club…

Quiz: How well do you know Iron Maiden's lyrics?

Call yourself an Iron Maiden fan? See how well you fare in our tricky lyric quiz!

The 11 greatest Metallica videos of all time

Stuck for something to watch? Metallica have got you covered…

Mark Lanegan's Autobiography Is The Most Raw And Brutal Rock Memoir Ever Written

Sing Backwards And Weep is an honest, unflinching look at the abject darkness that surrounds Mark Lanegan

The 5 Best Covers Of Metallica By Other Bands

Many have tried, most haven't come close. Here's a handful of the best Metallica covers by other artists...

6 Things We Want From The New Marilyn Manson Album

With news that Marilyn Manson's album is finished, we look ahead to what we actually want from his 11th record

A Day To Remember’s New Album Is The Soundtrack To These Dark Times

Why A Day To Remember's new album You're Welcome is the perfect soundtrack to this strange and uncertain world that we live in.

Claudio Sanchez: “Sometimes I look at us and think of King Kong… We’re these savages from the jungle put out there as a spectacle”

In conversation with Coheed And Cambria’s head honcho Claudio Sanchez, discussing drugs, the heyday of ’70s music and being a weird band.

The 13 Best Heavy Metal T-Shirts Of All-Time – Ranked

A baker's dozen of heavy metal's greatest t-shirts. Probably not ones to wear to graduation...

How Rock And Metal Reacted To The 1992 LA Riots

On the anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, we look back at how the city's reaction influenced the rock and metal scene

Boston Manor are the voice of a new generation

Is Boston Manor's GLUE the most important record of the year? It finds singer Henry Cox looking inward to confront self-loathing, toxic masculinity and suicide. It's a beacon of hope and reason in our uncertain times…

Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall: “No-one opens doors for us. We kick them in!”

Parkway Drive’s documentary Viva The Underdogs captures the band in all of their fiery, explosive glory, cementing their status as one of metal’s most cherished and successful live forces. Before they could ride this wave, however, frontman Winston McCall reflects on how it used to be wipeout after wipeout…

10 metalcore and deathcore bands you probably don’t remember

Countless bands formed in the metalcore explosion a decade ago, but not all of them achieved superstardom…

Power Trip's Riley Gale: Hype Equals Unnecessary Pressure

Telling bands that they’re on course to ‘save’ rock and metal is a needless burden, stresses Power Trip frontman Riley Gale...

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon: "#MeToo Is Symptomatic Of A Culture Of Women Feeling Repressed, But The Music Industry Was Always Sexist"

Kim Gordon discusses punk rock, Nirvana, New York and her multitude of artistic endeavours

Grassroots Venues Are About More Than Music

Kerrang!'s Luke Morton looks back on his formative years and the independent venue that forged his love of live music

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