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Imperial Triumphant continue to confound with new single Hotel Sphinx, announce 2025 album Goldstar

Tech-metal’s masked wackadoodles have released their second single of 2024, with more delirium to follow next year

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“It deals with the intense depression that I’ve dealt with most of my life”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy names the most personal song he’s ever written

In the new issue of Metal Hammer, Trivium’s leader names the song that most candidly deals with his mental health

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"This could all fall apart at any moment." From collaborating with Bad Omens and Knocked Loose to touring with Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy might be metal's most vital artist of 2024 (just don't call her a metalhead)

Starting out as a YouTube sensation with a robotic persona, Poppy has broken out to become a hyperpop/metal crossover star

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Over 25 venues, including London’s Wembley Stadium, seem to be teasing a Linkin Park world tour

“Counting From Zero” teases have appeared near venues in North America and Europe, with an announcement expected tomorrow (November 14)

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The UK is currently going nuts about Chris McCausland, the blind comedian who dances to Kiss

Watch Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell tango to Rock And Roll All Nite by Kiss on Strictly Come Dancing

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A guide to every Sleep Token song (and the theories behind them)

We dive deep into the discography and lore behind masked metal entities Sleep Token

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Download festival announces more than 90 bands for 2025, including headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn

Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox and dozens more have also been confirmed for the Donington extravaganza, taking place in June

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My Chemical Romance announce stadium tour to play their classic album The Black Parade in full, with Alice Cooper, Devo, Evanescence, Pixies among special guests

Emo overlords MCR reveal plans for 2025 stadium tour, with video teaser referencing "a great Dictator" and "THE CONCRETE AGE”

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“I gotta get it on pop radio!” Michael Jackson’s Beat It was “too metal” before Quincy Jones stepped in, claims guitarist

Michael Jackson metal? It almost happened, according to Thriller guitarist Steve Lukather

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Ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno’s cause of death revealed

The vocalist’s family have specified how he died last month, aged 66

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“Her type of voice could work surprisingly well with our music”: Celeste (the black metal band) want to make a song with Celeste (the soul singer)

Celeste feat. Celeste? When we asked the metal band to name the soul singer’s best song, they opened the door for a team-up

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“Fans will experience something unprecedented”: Sabaton announce 2025 European tour featuring biggest-ever UK shows

The Swedish war machine will roll through Europe from November to December 2025

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"It's not the high operatic singing thing!" Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton announces new solo album

Michael Wilton will release his very first solo album Whip Vol. 1 in December

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"I'm talking about people doing some despicable stuff...I’m also talking about my first ex-wife." Nile leader Karl Sanders on the fun of the 80s, being a black belt badass and how to stay authentic while writing death metal about ancient Egypt

Nile are one of death metal's most reliably consistent bands. We caught up with mainman Karl Sanders for some lessons on life, death and more

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High Parasite are fronted by Aaron from My Dying Bride, produced by Greg from Paradise Lost and led by a fella called Tombs. You already know they're your new favourite goth metal band

With some true underground metal royalty in their ranks and a tour with Cradle Of Filth under their belts, High Parasite are the goth metal fix you've been looking for

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"We have a special treat for you tonight." Watch Linkin Park debut brand new song Casualty and play a deep cut for the very first time with Helmet's Page Hamilton on guitar at Texas show

Linkin Park mixed up their setlist a little ahead of new album From Zero dropping this week

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Saturday Night Live ran a hair metal sketch this weekend and it was exactly as bad as that sounds

Meet Snake Skin, your new least favourite fictional 80s band

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“I was very successful working in the mortuary, and then I was living in a closet. It was worth it, suffering for my art”: The dark and twisted history of Korn, the band who invented nu metal

In 2016, all five members of Korn looked back on the ups, downs and madness of their rollercoaster career

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Jerry Cantrell says some bands earn just "1000th of a cent" each time their song is streamed

Commenting on streaming revenues, Alice In Chains mainman says "It's a bad business model"

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Alien Ant Farm kick CKY off co-headlining tour as Dryden Mitchell claims he was punched in the face by Chad I Ginsburg

CKY frontman accused of punching Alien Ant Farm singer –resulting in swift removal from UK and Ireland tour

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“I wanted to be in a band that would appeal to younger musicians like Pink Floyd or the Ramones did to me. That’s the pinnacle of our success”: How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal

Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years –and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy

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“He was called ‘the Wickedest Man In The World’ by the press – how can you fail to be fascinated by such a character?”: The twisted life and decadent times of Aleister Crowley, metal’s favourite occultist

How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands

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“Ozzy says, ‘I’ve never thrown a TV out the window.’ So I rip one out of the wall and launch it out of the window”: Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more

Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses –Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more

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“Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band

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2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated

Thrash legends, metalcore heavyweights and rising hardcore ragers are included in next year's Grammy nominations!

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