Farting! Deadpool! Muggles? Puscifer might have delivered their darkest album yet, but they’re not skimping on the humour that’s been their brand since day one

…For Randy’s friends to ask him whatever they hell they want. We sat the Lamb Of God frontman down for an all-star grilling

Big Big Train cofounder Gregory Spawton on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

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.

Puscifer ’s driving forces Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times and why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin.

Knocked up quickly in a Soho rehearsal room, one of the first rallying cries of punk becomes a perennial anthem