Metal giants Metallica and Tool are deploying COVID-sniffing dogs on their tours in an effort to try and protect themselves and their audience.

To save your ears from the torment of carols, we've put together this playlist of the very best metal Christmas hits.  This is a Maniacs Very Metal Christmas Special Playlist.

Artist Felipe Mora has reimagined Metallica's 'Ride The Lightning' album as a series of brutal oil paintings

We are teaming up with Cover Nation to give you the chance to win BIG this Christmas. All you have to do is record a metal cover of an iconic Christmas song.

Trivium's bass player Paulo Gregoletto talks to Maniacs about their new, tenth studio album 'In The Court Of The Dragon' which is out now via Roadrunner Records.

With so many new metal releases dropping every week, it can be hard to know what to listen to, so we've taken it upon ourselves to do the heavy lifting, sorting the 'hell yeah' from the 'hell meh' you don't have to.

If Iron Maiden had written Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' in an alternate reality, this would be it!

An epic crossover that was filmed during one of Trivium's live shows with a multi-cam setup!

'Ride The Lightning' meets Kanye West, and it's basically the Linkin Park/Jay Z 'Collision Course' from an alternative universe!

Here are ten of the greatest rock and metal albums turning 10 this year!