Metallica ’s 1984 began with a gear heist and a cancelled UK tour; it ended with them being heavy metal’s Next Big Thing. Then came Master Of Puppets. This is the inside story of the making of that album and the two year whirlwind that took four “alcoholica” outcasts from the El Cerrito garage to the big time.

Mr Megadeth on the band’s final chapter, his love for Ozzy, finger numbness, trading mosh pits for a silver screen future…

When Dylan’s 1966 tour hit the British Isles, a hostile press had the knives out from the first. Uncut scours the archives to reconstruct how it all went down in real time

A choir on one of Germany’s Big Four thrash bands’ new album? “We always did our own thing.”

He’s lived it live and dangerous as part of the classic line up of Thin Lizzy, lived it loud in Motörhead, ridden his own band Wild Horses, has an impressive list of credits as both session musician and producer… There’s much more to Robbo than you probably think.

If you’re looking for some ‘leather, studs and bullet belts’ classic metal, get in their firing line.