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As Wacken fast approaches, we find out how a small gathering in Germany evolved into one of the world’s biggest metal fests

The Back To The Beginning show features the greatest metal bill ever assembled. Over the next 12 pages, some of the musicians appearing share just what Ozzy and Black Sabbath mean to them

The song that rebuilt the band for the 21st century

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

The Ouija-pop inventor on obsidian crystals, taxidermy ducklings and alien tattoos

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