“A cocktail of pure fire and creativity.” How Limp Bizkit went from nu metal’s whipping boys to a beloved cultural force (again) Limp Bizkit have proven time and again they can roll with the punches
“An album misinterpreted by lesser talents”: What do Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, Peter Hammill and Robert Fripp have to do with Britpop? See Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish for details Okay, it’s not all-out prog – but the band’s second record contains the spirit of the genre, with its English eccentricities, non-linear approach to playing...
“I had a dreadful hangover, so I put my dark glasses on and we played Children Of The Grave, Iron Man and Paranoid”: What happened when Black Sabbath reunited for one day only at Live Aid 1985 Back To The Beginning won’t be the first time Black Sabbath’s founding lineup briefly got back together to raise money for charity…
Rustorm – Gravity Review I feel like I’ve seen an uptick in bands formed from people who played music several decades ago and only recently returned to it. One...
“All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘We want to announce now, what do we say?’”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains why Papa V Perpetua was unveiled on the Black Sabbath farewell show poster The world got its first look at Ghost’s ‘new’ frontman last week, but Papa V Perpetua was first named on February posters for Black Sabbath’s...
“We’ve done a lot of our growing up in public, made our mistakes too. We’ve suffered at times with that. Our extremes are extreme”: How the Manic Street Preachers shook things up to make new album Critical Thinking Even after all this time, the Manic Street Preachers still bow to no one