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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.

In this exclusive roundtable interview, Sabbath superfans Lzzy Hale, Joe Duplantier, Brann Dailor and Randy Blythe bow down before the godfathers of metal

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