Children of the grave

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

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

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 genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

How Tom Morello pulled together the bill for the “greatest day in heavy metal history”

The song that rebuilt the band for the 21st century