“No matter how bad it gets, you can create something out of the dregs of your life”: The wild past and crazy transformations of RØRY – rock’s new “ADHD bitch”

Folk pop, Charli XCX collabs and a Top 10 album of her own - nu-gen’s latest heroine has done it all

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“I like a picture that makes you uncomfortable. It’s gross, but you look anyway”: Tool’s first 20 years of being regarded as freaks, malcontents or psychopaths

Sacred geometry, lunar currents, media baiting, arena shows… there’s enough complexity in their first four albums to fill several lifetimes’ worth of study

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Hanoi Rocks announce The Complete Collection 1981-1984. "I recommend this box set to everybody!" says Michael Monroe

The great Michael Monroe thinks you should buy the new Hanoi Rocks box set and so do we

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“We don’t write fast – that’s the nature of progressive metal. We’re not going to put an album out every 18 months. So we wanted to make this as big a deal as possible”: When TesseracT went super-conceptual with War Of Being

While the band asked their audience, ‘Who are you?’ via their fifth album, they were also asking themselves, ‘Who are we?’ And they admitted doing it in a geeky fashion

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Judge set to preside over sexual assault lawsuit against Aerosmith's Steven Tyler stands down two weeks ahead of scheduled trial

Julia Misley's case against Steven Tyler is hit with unanticipated development

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Metallica's M72 tour returns - with the support act they thanked for 'raising the bar' back on board

Metallica's M72 will enter its fifth year with a run of North American shows with Linkin Park and Avatar

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Nine Warren Zevon albums to listen to and one to avoid. "A rare artist who was defined as much by his flaws as by his successes"

Warren Zevon could have carved out a career as a mainstream piano man were it not for his caustic wit, chemical-induced instability and general contempt for the world. These are his best albums

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“We all grew up with The Kinks, Beatles, Stones: three-minute blasts. It’s just we weren’t very good at it!” Phil Collins recalls Genesis’ surprise when 23-minute track Supper’s Ready actually worked

He talks about their early character clashes, the studio trick he learned from Brian Eno, recording versus playing live, and why he got the blame as the band became more musically streamlined

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“What I feared most when parting ways with Brent was that he’d pass away”: How Mastodon survived two of the worst years of their lives and rebuilt the band from the ashes of tragedy

Mastodon have risen above tragedy with new album Marrow Deep

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Brian May is weighing up the pros and cons of an Abba Voyage-style avatar show for Queen. "The doors are open, but I don't know if we're gonna walk through."

Will Freddie Mercury ever be immortalised in a Queen avatar show? Brian May is conflicted

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Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning movie is finally being released in October: “There’s never been anything like that that’s happened in the history of rock and roll!”

Relive the “greatest day in heavy metal history” and Ozzy’s emotional swansong

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Kelly Osbourne reveals the final conversation she had with Ozzy: “He got to say goodbye. And then he let go.”

Ozzy‘s doctors warned him not to play his final gig – but he ignored them

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Trainspotting director Danny Boyle wanted to reunite the original Undertones and Sex Pistols line-ups to play the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics could have been a very special occasion for punk rock fans

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Nightwish got blamed for ugly Tarja Turunen split “for good reason”, Tuomas Holopainen admits: “It was like we were these evil neanderthals who’d hurt our wonderful ex-singer”

Finland’s symphonic metal stars let their ex-singer go via a public letter in 2005

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"Jason and I have committed ourselves to creating a final Enid recording." The Enid announce their retirement from touring and one final album

The Enid's Robert John Godfrey calls time on the band in social media statement...

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“He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult”: the life and legacy of At The Gates’ Tomas Lindberg, the godfather of melodic death metal

The Gothenburg screamer died one year ago today. His At The Gates cohorts talk about his life and career – and how his influence continues to echo in modern metal.

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Ian Gillan reveals all about Ritchie Blackmore's recent Deep Purple cameo. "It was a public demonstration of friendship and good memories"

Behind the scenes of one of rock's least likely reconciliations

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Attention, earthlings! Watch alien duo Angine de Poitrine debut new song Zugzegk on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

The microtonal rock two-piece are currently touring in support of their album, Vol. II

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Def Leppard launch new box set with previously unreleased cover of The Beatles' Revolution

The fourth volume of Def Leppard's album box sets brings their story up to date – and includes an extensive selection of rare tracks

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"You're an idiot!" Fleetwood Mac producer reveals which member of the band tried to strangle him during the recording of Rumours classic Go Your Own Way

The making of Fleetwood Mac's masterpiece Rumours was a famously fractious time

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I experienced the new Ozzy Osbourne Haunted House attraction at Universal Studios, and it's far from the lazy cash-in you might have feared

Boarding the crazy train, escaping werewolves and a giant bat biting Ozzy’s head off - here’s what it’s really like inside Universal’s brilliant, Ozzy-themed haunted house

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Every Deftones album ranked from worst to best: three decades of brilliance from the world's sexiest metal band

From Adrenaline to Private Music, this is your definitive guide to Deftones' studio albums, re-reviewed and ranked

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“We still have to decide if it’s any good. It’s been very interesting to come back to work”: Could a cult prog band with Roxy Music, Gong and Robert Wyatt connections return five decades on?

Phil Manzanera’s Quiet Sun released one album four years after they’d officially broken up. But in building an anniversary edition, they found themselves writing new music

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Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger might be the best film ever made about music's ability to emotionally impact vast crowds. It's also brilliant, Olympic-level marketing for 2027's biggest tour

Dovetailing with the announcement of the band's 2027 world tour, Oasis' new film is a genius piece of marketing. But it's also so much more than that

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Evanescence's biggest ever London show is a triumphant spectacle powered by Amy Lee, an iconic team-up and some all-time anthems

Evanescence's O2 headline set feels like a long time coming, and they didn't disappoint

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"I am not a Nazi. I have never considered myself a Nazi, and I never will." Slaughter to Prevail vocalist Alex Terrible addresses far-right accusations again in lengthy Instagram post

As a teen in Russia, the Slaughter to Prevail frontman fraternised with right-wingers and football hooligans

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"I was concerned Ozzy was going to blow himself out." Why Tony Iommi initially didn't want to play Black Sabbath's final show - or record a new Sabbath album

Tony Iommi explains why he had some doubts about doing a final Black Sabbath victory lap

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Satyricon once played their heretic black metal at a Norwegian fashion show: “I have no idea who came up with the idea!”

The band brought their diabolical sound to the catwalk in 2011 – and still aren’t sure why

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Why the Flamin' Groovies will never forget the night they met the Sex Pistols. "They stole our passports, five thousand pounds in cash and my fuzz-tone pedal"

San Francisco rock'n'rollers the Flamin' Groovies are about to embark on a UK tour to celebrate 50 years of their classic Shake Some Action single

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"I’d go into a record shop and I’d want Blodwyn Pig and Wishbone Ash and Traffic and Soft Machine – but which one do you choose?": Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog... but had to hide it

The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear

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