Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

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As frontman with Mayhem, Tormentor, Sunn O))) and more, Attila Csihar has been the enigma at the heart of extreme metal for 40 years – and he’s seen the best and worst of it