Conquering London’s 02 Arena and the US charts, the kawaii metallers went from strength to strength. Kon! Kon!

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

Featuring tributes to curry and fantasy battles involving… rats?! here are all the records our critics loved this year

This month…

We might have lost metal’s founding fathers, but the next generation proved that the music lives on

JOHN LYDON WITH PHIL MEARS “This pic of myself and John Lydon was taken at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester, as part of his I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right spoken word tour on