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Nu metal legends Korn have announced their first UK and Europe headline tour in over a decade - and they're bringing one of Britain's best metal bands along for the ride

This is gonna be huge!

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"One day I came back from delivering the chickens and there was a message. I had to learn 18 songs by Friday." Phil Campbell interview: My life in Motörhead

In 2010, Classic Rock interviewed late Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell about his brilliant quarter century in one of rock'n'roll's greatest bands

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"It's been a long time in the making. I am very proud of this very special album." Love Vinnie Vincent? Then you'll probably be OK with the two-million-dollar price tag for his new album

The launch of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion's new album comes just months after the former Kiss man received flak for charging $225 for his Ride The Serpent single

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"In a sea full of fish, we caught each other." Metallica's James Hetfield proposes to partner Adriana Gillett underwater while swimming with whale sharks

She said yes!

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"They asked if I knew who Johnny Cash was. I was like, ‘Of course I f**king know who he is!" How a punk legend helped resurrect the career of an American icon in less than half an hour

Glenn Danzig wrote Thirteen for Johnny Cash's 1994 album American Recordings

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"I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls and I apologise if I hurt her." Sebastian Bach sorry for relationship with 17-year-old Christina Applegate

Skid Row and new Twisted Sister singer Sebastian Bach famously derailed Christina Applegate and Brad Pitt's union

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"It's a way of life. I love my job, so working isn't a problem." Gary Holt has seen it all with Slayer and Exodus – and he's not ready for it to end yet

Thrash guitar hero Gary Holt on life on the road with Slayer and Exodus

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Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64: “His legacy, music and the memories he created with so many will live on forever”

Phil Campbell passed away away following “a complex and major operation”

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"I could be talking to you from my Burger King castle. That's my biggest regret." The beloved hardcore band that turned down a big pile of money to wear chicken masks for a Slipknot-aping fast food advert

The Bronx kept their punk rock cred intact, while the Coq Roq commercial caught the eye of Slipknot's legal team

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Metal Up Your Bass! TransAtlantic duo remaster entire early Metallica catalogue with bass parts restored and made louder

Good news for lovers of low end metallic grooves

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“The song represents a reckless normalisation of a dangerous practice." Romania's nu metal-styled Eurovision Song Contest entry Choke Me under fire for allegedly promoting sexual strangulation

Alexandra Căpitănescu's Eurovision song Choke Me is facing criticism from campaigners against sexual violence

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"I'll see you all around." Ghost appear to have killed off another of their iconic frontmen in a hilarious new video that has everyone talking

Frater Imperator announces leave of absence in Chapter 25: The Portrait. Is this really the end?

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

Sabaton, Devin Townsend and Corrosion Of Conformity are among the best new metal songs this week

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"The masks are sanitised now." Slipknot's former drummer is selling memorabilia collected during his time with Bruce Springsteen, Against Me! and Suicidal Tendencies

A portion of Jay Weinberg's sales will benefit the MusiCares charity

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"There’s a guy here who you can pay five dollars to kick in the crotch.” A wild and weird weekend in Las Vegas with metal's most colourful band

They might've started out as a melodeath band, but these days Avatar are supporting Iron Maiden and Metallica and more colourful than ever

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“I know Deftones don’t like to be coined as nu metal, but…”: Nu metal favourites Papa Roach have just named the best nu metal songs of all time – and, yes, one of them picked Last Resort

No false modesty here

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“Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne”: Jack Osbourne and wife Aree welcome baby daughter and name her after the Prince Of Darkness

The couple had their second child together last Thursday

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"They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas

Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

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“I had rock stars much bigger than Dave coming to my side”: Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson responds to Dave Mustaine’s jab at former member’s past “behaviour”

Mustaine recently said that Megadeth won’t reunite with former members on their farewell tour due to one particular person’s past

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"I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel

We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

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10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single

Devin Townsend has reached peak Devin Townsend, unveiling a 24-track behemoth with choirs, orchestras and a song called We Don’t Deserve Dogs. Listen to maximalist preview Enter The City.

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"She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life

Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist salutes a folk-rock icon

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“I was naked in a shower, they held me upside-down by my legs and they poured bourbon into my mouth”: How this thrash singer became the new frontman of 21st-century metal stars Children Of Bodom

Samy Elbanna of Finnish speedsters Lost Society talks about fronting his country’s biggest extreme metal band for two glorious nights last month

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"I was like, 'This is it. This is ****ing it.' I was so obsessed." Here's what Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong thinks about the band's legendary debut album, Hybrid Theory

Surely even in her wildest dreams, Emily wouldn't have believed she'd be singing the lyrics from that album on stage with the band herself

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"This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays

Lamb Of God's new album is their best since Resolution - at the very least

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