RARE PHOTOS: 5 | Vintage Vibes

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands

Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike

Louder · Dec 17, 2023

“If I ever run into him in a dream again, I hope I remember to apologize”: the time Chris Cornell revealed he’d been dreaming about Layne Staley

Cornell wrote that he’d been angry at Staley’s funeral and wanted to say sorry

Louder · Dec 2, 2023

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

Louder · Nov 26, 2023

10 classic metal albums where the last song is the best

Masterpieces by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest have all saved the best for last

Metal Hammer · Aug 28, 2023

10 classic metal albums almost ruined by one terrible song

Metallica, Korn and Machine Head have all got so close to perfection – just for one song to mess it up

Metal Hammer · Aug 4, 2023

“Cameron Crowe said, ‘This is killer, it’s awesome!’”: Jerry Cantrell on how he wrote Alice In Chains’ classic hit Would?

The Alice In Chains songwriter was still grieving the death of Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood when he wrote the song for Crowe’s 1992 grunge film Singles

Louder · Jul 28, 2023

"People were spitting at us": How one of Alice In Chains' worst gigs ever earned them the respect of hardcore Slayer fans

For Alice In Chains, playing on the 1991 Clash of the Titans tour was an eye-opening, and sometimes terrifying, experience

Metal Hammer · Jul 26, 2023

Ken’s guitar of choice in the Barbie Movie is… a Gibson Jerry Cantrell acoustic?

Ryan Gosling is giving up the customized guitar – which has links to Metallica and Alice in Chains – to apologize for a fashion faux-pas

Guitar World · Jul 20, 2023

"There was something about this music" - Eddie Vedder and the magical intensity of of Pearl Jam

How the tragic end of Mother Love Bone and a surfing scientist brought Pearl Jam to life, and an album called Ten

Metal Hammer · Jul 1, 2023

"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

Metal Hammer · Jun 22, 2023