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

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The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

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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

When Alice Cooper ’s album Billion Dollar Babies hit No.1 in the UK and US in 1973, instead of solidifying the band they unravelled. It would be 50 years until the original group recorded another, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper .