Heavy metal

Heavy metal fan Jamie Cullum

Music Gossip

19 Oct 2011

Jamie Cullum started off as a heavy metal fan. The jazz pianist and singer was initially drawn to an altogether darker music as a teenager, and thinks it gave him a good base to move on to jazz and its complicated forms and structures from. He…

Bowling for Soup frightened by heavy metal

Music Gossip

14 Jun 2011

Bowling for Soup frontman Jaret Reddick was frightened by how many heavy metal were on the bill at Download festival. The '1985' pop punk group's frontman realised as he watched metal group Twisted Sister from the side of the stage at the event in…

Heavy metal roadie Lady Gaga

Music Gossip

21 Apr 2011

Lady Gaga has been a roadie for Iron Maiden. The 25-year-old singer is a huge fan of the heavy metal group and offered to do chores for them backstage when they met in Tampa, Florida during the band's The Final Frontier World Tour. Refusing to…

Heavy metal titans still partying hard

Music Gossip

1 Oct 2010

Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax say they still party as hard as when they last toured together 19 years ago. The three US heavy metal bands embarked on a landmark tour, 'Clash Of The Titans' in 1991, and have recently reprised it - performing a string…

Heavy Metal Mouth

9 Jul 2009

For their latest exhibition Polarcap invited 13 artists, drawn from a diverse pool of ages and experience and disciplines to respond to contemporary Heavy Metal culture, in particular to a text by participating artist Norman Shaw, which includes the…

Download 2009 - Donnington Park, Sun 14 Jun

19 Jun 2009

The sun is shining once again on the hallowed grounds of Donnington and this year’s Download has to have been one of the most successful metal festivals yet, the line-up has been fantastic (Faith No More, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit and The Prodigy already…

Attica rage - Ruin Nation

30 Oct 2008

Glasgow’s Attica Rage might have the directions for the road to hard rock valhalla but the second-NWOBHM-coming they are not. Their debut Ruin Nation, although mastered in London by Skunk Anansie’s Ace, is perceptibly DIY and the foursome, who have…

Iron Maiden to release free 'Best of the 80s' download

12 Mar 2008

Heavy metal behemoths Iron Maiden are joining the digital revolution to coincide with their 'Somewhere Back in Time' world tour that focuses on their 80s back catalogue. EMI are launching Somewhere Back in Sound on 12 May, which can be downloaded…