Welcome to the darkness

SEEMINGLY OUT OF nowhere, the Darkness swooped out of Suffolk, England, and onto the international music scene in 2003 with their high-voltage debut, Permission to Land. At a time when hipster bands i

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes