Slayer’s Kerry King wants to record his second solo album this year: “I’ve got everything in place to make that happen now” trib.al/XJqyb1i

'I'd never been able to see what other people liked about us. Suddenly I understood': Roger Glover's seven favourite Deep Purple songs trib.al/p8qvfWM

Watch Ministry play songs from maligned albums With Sympathy and Twitch for first time since 1980s trib.al/lLiNuND

'People chucked pesetas at us, bottles, you name it': How Gun survived Spanish crowds, an X-rated video and that 'strange cookie' from INXS, then hit the bullseye again trib.al/sEzdjiF

Watch Dave Grohl and Wolfgang Van Halen prank an entire festival with cover of Van Halen's Eruption trib.al/H7M3BaJ

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Mike Campbell, Orange Goblin, Battlesnake and more trib.al/PvwxSYD

'Ten Years After are still partying like it's 1967 even though it's 1971': Ten Years After discover a glitch in the blues rock matrix on A Space In Time trib.al/uGwXDwF

AC/DC share first photo of new 2024 lineup featuring drummer Matt Laug and bassist Chris Chaney trib.al/IvcUMvQ

“You can just see the decline”: The time that Creed bassist Brian Marshall went to war with Pearl Jam trib.al/ccnp6cR

10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations trib.al/btmhLaL

“Metallica can play 60 more Lulus. They’ve earned the place to do whatever they want”: how Jason Newsted escaped the shadow of metal’s biggest band to forge his own career trib.al/f7Mb0h1

“She continues to be a beacon in the darkness”: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on why Patti Smith is one of her heroes trib.al/UvlOC4G

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott has a problem with the 'silly, silly term' that is heavy metal trib.al/Fy1Jg8R

“We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock trib.al/QU1ZWAL

“When I was doing this record, I thought, ‘Jeff would ****ing love this. There’s plenty of hate’”: Kerry King says his new solo album would have got ex-Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman’s approval trib.al/ya7suka

“He had this mystique to die for. There were rumours of him being nasty and mean. But he could play his ass off”: Steve Vai salutes the genius of Ritchie Blackmore trib.al/be396DI

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands trib.al/kc0shtO

“I thought we were going to be taken seriously as the next Nirvana. I was shocked to find that the press story was Revenge Of The Nerds.” Rivers Cuomo always dreamt of becoming a rock star, but the success of Weezer's 'Blue' album freaked him out trib.al/baIlY37

A new video for The Beatles' poignant classic Let It Be has been ushered onto the internet trib.al/PK0rC8h

Jane's Addiction announce intimate London show trib.al/yWxpryn