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As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush - and reconciliation with Roger Waters.
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As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush - and reconciliation with Roger Waters.
The nu-metal pioneers commit entirely with hulking riffs, frenzied scatting and guttural rage as they stomp through their songs with little ceremony.
In a sublime concert full of banter, storytelling and guitar virtuosity, the 75-year-old surrenders himself completely to each moment.
The US musician went from homelessness to multiplatinum success with the thrash metallers - and then became a pop cultural icon in Japan. He explains the weirdest portfolio career in rock.
Kennedy's powerhouse vocals are a perfect match for Slash's devil-may-care riffs - and it's mesmerising to watch the legendary guitarist in full flow.
The frontman answers your questions on metal's punk rivals, working with Dolly Parton, his top Priest song and his time working in a Walsall sex shop.
Twenty years into their career and on their first arena tour, Enter Shikari push the massive sound system to the limit with gleeful and vibrant cross-genre rock.
Rush's Geddy Lee reflects on his friendship with the late Neil Peart, going through loss and writing his new memoir My Effin' Life.
As he publishes his memoir My Effin' Life, the abundantly talented bass player and singer answers your questions on the end of the band, the prospect of new music and Jack Black's bum crack...
The Guns N' Roses bassist suffered in silence with a panic disorder and alcohol problems took him to the brink of death. He explains how he turned his life around.
The Japanese megastar, who's worked with everyone from Bono to George Michael, looks back on his life, the power of music and letting go of past hurts.
With Alter Bridge, Slash's Conspirators, solo material and more, vocalist/guitarist Myles Kennedy has an impressive and still-growing catalogue. These are his best albums.
Fred Durst and co - whose notoriety was recently restoked by a Netflix series about Woodstock '99 - pound out their irresistibly aggro rebel anthems with cheerful abandon.
Few bands do OTT rock'n'roll quite like The Darkness. Here's where to start with their back catalogue.
Steve-O speaks candidly about his death-defying stunts, the impact of MTV hit Jackass, and reveals his biggest concern about getting sober.
On this co-headline tour, Mötley Crüe are crass and limp, and then shown up all the more by the triumphant power of Def Leppard's homecoming.
Lead singer of iconic band Def Leppard, Joe Elliott, talks the band's future plans, his Sheffield roots and the state of rock music today.
Winners of Eurovision 2021 and runners-up on the Italian X Factor in 2017, glam hard rockers Måneskin have gone from hopefuls to arena-filling stars. Here's why they're the real deal.
Welcome to The Big Questions, where we ask the biggest of big questions (and the smaller ones, too). This week we've had a sit-down with one of rock's most enduring legends: Gene Simmons...
Effectively summoning moods of burning heat and freezing cold, the djent pioneers' machine-like precision can be tiring.
For their first non-festival gig in the UK in nearly 15 years, the LA quartet's opuses generate a frenzy - and drummer Danny Carey shows he is one of the greats.
We catch up with guitar god Slash to ask whether his main project is Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators or that other band...
Tobias Forge's band of ghouls just reached No 2 in the UK charts, and their symphonic metal - complete with bat wings, confetti and flamethrowers - has universal appeal.
He wowed the blues scene with his holler - but bad decisions and worse luck sent him into a rut. Now, with a loving relationship and Joe Bonamassa championing him, he says he's grabbing a second chance.
The Alice In Chains guitarist on why he's exploring his lighter side, why he still feels like he's at the top of his game, and how his signature Les Paul is the ultimate Christmas present.
Back on the road with a new album, the Scottish trio are packing their stadium-sized rock into smaller venues, to thrilling effect.
It's exactly 6 o'clock in the evening when my phone begins to ring. Calling from his home in Seal Beach, California, is Bill Ward. Bill Ward the drummer from Black Sabbath, the most influential heavy metal band of all time.
With Cybermen cheerleaders, hazmat suits and gigantic mosh pits, there's a gloriously daft energy to the pop-metallers' emotional, earth-shaking return.
Inspired by the story of Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Rock Star featured Hollywood A-listers and a stellar cast of supporting musicians. So why was it so crushingly banal?
In combining both pummelling impact and nimble speed, Jordison defied his short stature to become a hulking master of rhythm - and the finest metal drummer of his era.
How does a band formerly known as the Sex Maggots end up penning one of the most successful love songs in modern music history?
In the age of streaming and social media, 10 years is a lifetime. In that period, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has experienced life, love, loss and everything in between. So it's no wonder that the band's new album, The Bitter Truth, might just be their best yet.
The Darkness' sixth and latest album, 2019's Easter Is Cancelled - their best-received record since the band's reformation in 2011 - has taken on new and ominously prophetic meaning in light of April's national coronavirus lockdown.
American guitarist and blues icon Joe Bonamassa has just released his 45th album, Royal Tea. He's only 43.
"The shit that Mötley pulled off on tour buses, airplanes, in hotel rooms... Honestly, we got away with fucking murder"
Kiefer's right. There is a stigma attached to actors who get involved with the music business. But it takes all of 90 seconds in conversation with the Golden Globe winner to establish that his reasons for swapping the set for the stage are sincere.
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