Whether it's Stone Cold Steve Austin's love of Saxon and Judas Priest, Chris Jericho fronting his own metal band Fozzy or Megadeth icon Dave Mustaine presenting Triple H with the Spirit Of Lemmy Award at Download 2016, the link between pro wrestling and metal has been a constant since way back in the 1980s.
This coming weekend, WWE's biggest annual event and the biggest spectacle in all of wrestling, Wrestlemania, returns for its 40th incarnation courtesy of a two-night extravaganza in Philadelphia, so we thought we'd take a trip down memory lane to pick out 12 times heavy metal has stolen the show on the grandest stage of them all. From rock legends accompanying their countrymen to the ring in Wrestlemania's earliest days to nu metal heavyweights rubbing shoulders with undead icons, metal and the WWE have combined to provide some timeless moments we'll never, ever forget.
