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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Evanescence release their first new song of 2026, underground doom heroes Warning make a comeback and beleagured nuns Dogma offer a defiant new sound in this week's best new metal songs

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"On our first tour one of the venues burned down, and the cops would shut things down." Police raids, venue fires and murderous rednecks: the story of Converge, the band who defined metalcore for a generation

Before Killswitch Engage, Bring Me The Horizon or Architects brought metalcore to new commercial heights, Converge were shaping the genre for the future

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All hail the Rat Queen! Hotly-tipped fantasy doom metallers Castle Rat launch video for bombastic single Siren

Castle Rat embark on a North American tour with Amon Amarth and Dethklok next week

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"Its venom did a number on my system." The Pretty Reckless' Taylor Momsen has been bitten by yet another animal on the AC/DC tour

The Pretty Reckless vocalist sought medical treatment before their set in Mexico City

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"I’d have to be careful if I did wear a big, flowing dress onstage… I’d be worried about pyro setting me on fire." Cliff Burton, Wicked and real-life High School Musicals: Five fun minutes with Amaranthe's Elize Ryd

Amaranthe vocalist Elize Ryd harbours a secret love for musicals - and would love to star in Wicked

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"We’re here for you, Randy. Might be time for a beer or three." Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan offers support to the US Army's top general ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Maynard James Keenan and General Randy George were West Point Prep classmates in the early 80s

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"There are a lot of people who don't seem interested or even notice that the world's on fire." Puscifer's Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times

Why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin

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"Slipknot is a big scary monster and we're losing control of it." How Slipknot's angriest and sweariest song helped the metal icons land the heaviest number one album in history

As soon as people heard that crushing first song on Iowa, they knew we weren't getting a soft, sell-out second album

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"People were throwing coins and smashed up cups. It was horrifying!" This is what it's like supporting metal legends Iron Maiden in front of a hostile crowd, according to Atreyu guitarist Dan Jacobs

Atreyu might be one of metalcore's most celebrated bands, but they had a hard time winning over a rowdy Maiden crowd in Mexico

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"I’m not the first woman in metal. I just did it a little more my own way." The trailblazing black metal star who worked with Martin Scorsese and Michael Bolton before taking on the mother of all career changes

Few artists in modern metal have had a career quite like Myrkur

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"There can be more spices – we have a choir on three songs – but the foundation must be secure." 16 albums into a 44-year career, German thrash veterans Kreator are still doing their own thing

Kreator's Krushers Of The World album is out now

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Twisted Sister announce first show with Sebastian Bach - and it's in Alaska

Twisted Sister will introduce Dee Snider's replacement during a short run of shows in September and October

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Take a tour of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's Los Angeles home – and if you like what you see, it's yours for $17 million

The Hancock Park address was the late Ozzy Osbourne's last home in Los Angeles

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"It was scary when we were getting death threats over social media." After angering the far right by pretending to murder Donald Trump, alien monster metallers Gwar couldn't believe people were trying to censor them

The veteran comedy-thrashers were surprised that people were kicking off over the kinds of routines they've been doing for decades

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"I am your Rat Queen! We're on a mission to defend the realm from those who seek to destroy it." Watch one of the most hyped young bands in heavy metal battle on stage as Castle Rat slay a brilliant new live set

It's the Rat Queen's world, we're just living in it now

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"I was never a fan of it and I didn't even want it to be on the record." The emotional Linkin Park anthem that Chester Bennington didn't originally like but became one of the biggest rock songs of all time

Incredibly, if Chester had had his way, In The End would have never made the cut on Hybrid Theory!

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"When I wrote that song I was really going through it...I was almost embarrassed by it." From Brazil to the UK, the hardcore punk four-piece channelling Distillers fury via some deeply personal lyrics

It's pretty impressive that Le Rox even exist, let alone putting out some of hardcore punk's best new material

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“Someone put toilet paper in my back pocket and set fire to it. I sat in the sink and fell asleep. The soundtrack to that night was Gong!” How Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway got into prog

Vocalist believes there’s a strong and clear link between his band and Gong: their weirdness

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"My role in life was to be a proud, bold lion, to tell the truth, and stick up for what's right." Dave Mustaine on Megadeth's final chapter, his love for Ozzy, finger numbness, and trading mosh pits for a silver-screen future

With Megadeth's final album topping the US charts, Dave Mustaine is determined to go out on a high note

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"We didn’t always know what we were doing on this record, and I think that’s the beauty of it." Jonathan Davis and Munky share the stories behind every song on Korn's game-changing debut album

A track by track breakdown of Korn's legendary 1994 debut album, by the men who wrote it

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"I just want her to leave me alone and not hurt anyone else." Woman charged with alleged stalking of Ghost singer Tobias Forge

Ghost's Tobias Forge describes "invasive and downright threatening" actions of woman who claims she is engaged to him

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"Good luck with your music, I will continue to not listen to it." Gloves are off in Arch Enemy v Kiko Loureiro copyright beef as former Megadeth man and Michael Amott trade barbs

Ex Megadeth man says Arch Enemy stole his melody for their single To The Last Breath – but they uncover 'proof' that they didn't

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Crowdfunding campaign launched to support the family of late GosT mastermind James Lollar

"He was a father, a friend, a talented musician, and a one-of-a-kind human being"

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"I started chemo and got in touch with my Native American roots." How Testament's Chuck Billy survived cancer (and grunge) to become a thrash metal legend

Testament, Marvel's What If...?, an upcoming biography: Chuck Billy is a man of many talents

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"I wanna write lyrics that have real weight in real life experience. I don’t wanna write about still dyeing my hair black!" Members of influential bands Crowbar and Type O Negative unite in dour new supergroup Sun Don't Shine

The 90s most miserable metal bands have united to create a brilliant new supergroup

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