Maiden’s art attack

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

With Iron Maiden about to return to the UK as part of their Run For Your Lives world tour, manager Rod Smallwood shares with us what he regards as “the most important and interesting” shows the band have ever played.

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 song that rebuilt the band for the 21st century

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

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