Nu metal ruled the roost at the turn of the millennium, and these are the 50 best albums the genre produced| Louder
The latest Heavy Metal breaking news, comment and features from the experts at Louder| Louder
There’s more to Bruce Dickinson than just a voice like an air-raid siren, as these 10 Iron Maiden classics prove| Louder
From Genesis to The Who, Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris reveals the songs that shaped him| Louder
Iron Maiden’s monumental Powerslave album was released 40 years ago today| Louder
The epic concept album was more than just Iron Maiden’s most successful album of the 1980s – it took them to heavy metal immortality| Louder
James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Bob Rock tell the behind-the-scenes story of how Metallica made the Black Album| Louder
A guide through the life and times of Maiden's mascot| Louder
How a day out in 1980 changed music festivals forever| Louder
The Latest Iron Maiden Breaking News, Comments and Features from the Experts at Louder| Louder
At a gig just outside Birmingham on August 1, 1969, music changed forever| Louder
Celebrate Babymetal's new album Metal Forth with this special edition cover!| Louder
Babymetal team up with a bunch of metal pals to make another bold stride forwards| Louder
Steve Howe's Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre arfe reissued on CD and vinyl in September| Louder
The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened| Louder
David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October| Louder
Or, to give this list its full title: The 20 greatest power ballads you’ve probably never heard unless you're an extreme AOR connoisseur| Louder
In the heady days of 1971, German experimentalists Can pushed the musical envelope to the furthest fringes with their landmark album Tago Mago| Louder
50 years after the release of Soon Over Babaluma, the founding keyboardist reflects on what he calls “the last of our best albums”| Louder
The genre with the joke name that stuck: With a sonic imprint still discernible in all corners of music, these are five albums that tell the story of Krautrock| Louder
Their one-off exploration of disco-pop, I Want More, featured lyrics written by a roadie and gave them a Top 30 hit in the UK. They took the short-term clamour in their stride| Louder
The Prince Of Darkness, heavy metal's original madman and the architect for an entire genre - these are some of the finest songs Ozzy lent his talents to| Louder
How five working class heroes from East London helped kickstart the 80s| Louder
Released in May 1992, Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark was supposed to future-proof the British metal legends. Instead, it hastened the exit of talismanic frontman Bruce Dickinson| Louder
Clown princes of self-spoofing glam continue their bumpy comeback| Louder
The Queen songs the band's fans voted champions of them all| Louder
From Powerage to Power Up, from Back in Black to Black Ice, from Rock Or Bust to... you get the idea. These are AC/DC's albums ranked, from worst to best| Louder
The musicians may have changed, but the search for musical transcendence never wavered. These are the very best albums by Yes| Louder
Justin Hayward and co weren’t sure how long they’d last after inheriting the music of Denny Laine - but they needn’t have worried| Louder
"What the world needs now, is rock, sweet rock"| Louder
Few bands do OTT rock’n’roll quite like The Darkness - and here’s where to start with their back catalogue| Louder
From teenage punks to power-pop veterans, Ash remain a force to be reckoned with. All their albums ranked| Louder
Taking the spikiness of punk and welding it to hard rock tradition, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal remains the stuff of legend| Louder
What happened when Kiss hit cinemas for one night only?| louder
"Rock'n'roll's a dirty job, and no one did it dirtier"| louder
A guide to the recorded work of Ozzy Osbourne: Black Sabbath frontman, rock icon, reality TV star, national treasure| louder
30 million people can’t be wrong: how the Black Album transformed Metallica into metal’s biggest band| louder
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett give us a track-by-track rundown of the album that built thrash| louder
More than three decades after their debut, prog icons Dream Theater show no sign of either slowing down or running out of ideas| louder
Classic Rock presents the complete list of Kiss' 29 albums, each ranked from worst to best| louder
From game-changing debut Kill 'Em All to the emotionally-charged 72 Seasons, this is every studio album by metal's biggest band, ranked| louder
Ranking every album (and EP) by grunge titans Alice In Chains in order of greatness| louder
Brian Molko's band have always been proudly out of step with music trends: here is Placebo's catalogue ranked| louder