After slamming US Surgeon General Jerome Adams last week, Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose says he’ll continue to speak out through a sense of “outrage, obligation and responsibility”

Kanji Yamanouchi straps on his Fender Stratocaster and plays Hendrix to celebrate Independence Day

The Royal Mint release set of commemorative coins to celebrate Elton John’s remarkable career

The Italian Oscar-winning composer, who created more than 500 scores for film and television, has died at the age of 91

Music venues, theatres, galleries, independent cinemas and museums will receive loans and grants to help them survive the coronavirus crisis

Rush’s Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson queued all night to get tickets to see Yes when they first came to Toronto

Zakk Wylde, Blasko and Joey Castillo will release their tribute to Sabbath’s debut album in September - listen to lead track Black Sabbath

Dave Grohl looks back on his time in Nirvana and says he was worried that Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic might dismiss him and “find somebody else”

The Virgin Money Unity Arena will open this summer at Newcastle’s Gosforth Park for live music and comedy

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen reveals a 30-day fitness challenge – and he’s encouraging fans to join him

Slash says he’s been jamming with Duff McKagan and Axl Rose during the lockdown and recording “guitar stuff” for Guns N’ Roses

David Gilmour releases his new track Yes, I Have Ghosts - the former Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist’s first new material since 2015’s Rattle That Lock

Megadeth, Lamb Of God, Trivium and In Flames reschedule their postponed 2020 tour - all 42 dates will take place next summer

The best albums from Muddy Waters, the electric warrior of fine blues who mobilised the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton

How to All you need to know about caring for your LP collection, including how to clean vinyl records properly, and where NOT to store them

How Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy Of Gold become part of metal’s mythology courtesy of Metallica

How a newly cleaned-up Megadeth made Rust In Peace – the 1990 masterpiece that sealed their place in thrash metal’s Big Four

Pythons, guillotines and drug-fuelled parties – this why Alice Cooper is the Godfather Of Shock and you're not

Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, Jerry Cantrell and, of course, Metallica – Rob Trujillo has played for them all. This is the story of the man behind the bass

At the end of the 70s, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal revitalised the genre in the UK and now bears a weighty influence on metal worldwide. Geoff Barton – who invented the phrase all those years ago – charts 10 of the best

The story of Kansas is just your average tale of power struggles, line-up changes, religious conversions and multi-million selling hit records

All hail the Mona Lisas of 80s metal album sleeves

Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash on everything he's learned from the mighty Aerosmith

Bryan Adams’ hit single Summer Of '69 wasn’t about childhood innocence and forgotten friendships – it was an ode to topsy-turvy lurve-makin’

In 1983, The Clash sacked founder Mick Jones, hired three new members and tried to return to their punk rock roots. Cue two years of fighting and one of the worst albums ever made

Smart, funny and mad as hatters, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band could have been huge. Instead, they burned out, having inspired a new generation of bands... like AC/DC

Black Sabbath's Never Say Die! arrived as the band's original line-up began to disintegrate. History has not been kind, but will our reviewers find more to enjoy?

Songs from the Twilight Zone provide intrigue on Paul Weller's 15th solo album On Sunset

Buzzcocks sell you everything on eight-CD compilation of Mancunian (post) punksters second wave of recording life

The meaning of prog, from Big Big Train drummer Nick D’Virgilio

Society-lacerating third album Interzone from Vermont electro-punks The Vacant Lots

The king of American doom Wino goes soulfully solo on Forever Gone

Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock… on Neon Animals' follow-up to Bring Back Rock n Roll From The Dead

Owning up and owning it on Asking Alexandria's sixth album Like A House On Fire

NYHC legends Cro-Mags kick-start a new age of quarrel on In The Beginning

Big hits, latter-day bangers and, for Whitesnake diehards, a new song on The Rock Album

Bad Touch ain’t looking for nothing but a good time on fourth album Kiss The Sky

American metal titans Lamb Of God get all fired-up and definitive

Grit Your Teeth, that difficult sixth album from Vega: sometimes very different, sometimes the same, always good