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"The idea of slowing down is unacceptable to me. I’d rather walk away than be a shadow of my former self." Twisted Sister cancel 50th anniversary reunion tour as Dee Snider quits due to health issues

The future of Twisted Sister will be decided in the coming weeks

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A lounge cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was “the creepiest thing” Ozzy Osbourne ever heard: “Which coming from him is the biggest compliment”

Pop-rockers The Cardigans put a chilled-out spin on the Black Sabbath song in 1994, and singer Nina Persson says the Prince Of Darkness was freaked out by it

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"I go onstage, I battle death, I die and I come back to life." From sword-waving rat queens to alpha bro-baiting metal singers, the new issue of Metal Hammer has four exclusive covers: Castle Rat, Sleep Theory, President and Paleface Swiss

The New Heavy 2026 has arrived, and it's starring four of the most exciting young bands in metal today

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"If there was another way around this, I would swallow my pride and say, 'I was able to find some miracle cure.'" Heavy metal legend and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on why now is the right time to say goodbye

Dave would love to continue Megadeth even longer, but it just isn't on the cards

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"We are watching people be pushed out of their homes here in America, in Palestine, in Sudan, in Iran, everywhere." Turnstile reflect on their historic Grammy Awards triumph and vow to keep making music in solidarity with "voices that are buried"

Turnstile reaffirm their commitment to calling out injustice "in a time of heightened state violence"

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"I was being bombarded with Madonna's image on TV." How a beloved rock band took aim at a pop megastar, sampled Simon & Garfunkel and ushered in a genre-mashing masterpiece with a 90s classic

This Faith No More song is so catchy, Disturbed covered it on two separate occasions

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"It's intense back there. Everybody is nervous. And everybody's really emotional because we know it's the last time." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning: The build-up, the show and the aftershow... and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne

When Halestorm's Lzzy Hale was asked to appear at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham, ‘thrilled’ doesn’t even come close to how she felt

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"There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released

Look Outside Your Window was recorded while Slipknot were in the studio making 2008's All Hope Is Gone album

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"He looked at the lyrics and goes, ‘Rock ’n’ roll cocktail – I think I invented that!'" How Queens of the Stone Age got a metal legend to sing on a single US radio would not touch

Feel Good Hit of the Summer was a commercial flop but became an instant, messy classic

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“We have the same management, and we both wear masks. Is that it?!” President vocalist blasts comparisons to Sleep Token as “lazy”

Mr President doesn’t see the similarities between his band and the other masked, anonymous, pop-metal sensations dominating heavy music discourse

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"I started meeting all these really warm, nurturing moms in school…and that wasn’t what I was experiencing at home."The heartbreaking tragedies behind the rise of metal's latest sensations

Dayseeker have been on the scene for some time, but have exploded in popularity. We go inside their story

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"If they ever approached me, of course I would have done it...but I'm kind of relieved they didn't." Mike Portnoy responds to rumours he was in the frame to join Rush following the death of Neil Peart

As much as the idea of Mike Portnoy drumming with Rush would be a prog fan's dream, Portnoy had a very respectful attitude to the idea

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post

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"Having to resort to writing something like this is so embarrassing." The story behind the extremely controversial Nirvana song that almost got them banned and made a US President smash up his own daughter's CD

Kurt Cobain was convinced no one could misunderstand the intent of the lyrics to this track. Sadly, many still did

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"I shifted from Garbage, Radiohead and Silverchair to black metal." The classic 90s album that changed the life of the singer who'd go on to front one of her country's biggest bands

She's a household name in her home country, and it was the voice of a fellow metal icon who helped her on her journey

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"I miss Ukraine very much. I missed it even more when I realised that I cannot go back there." The Soviet-born heavy metal singer who had to flee war to make her rock star dreams come true

As frontwoman of tech metal stars Jinjer, Tatiana Shmayluk has manifested an incredible career against the odds

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"He was a big, burly dude who would go to the beach in a Speedo at 65 years old and hit on women with the most confidence you’ve ever seen." How the death of a loved one, pig squeals and TikTok helped crown a modern metal classic

It also officially introduced the world to one of the best vocalists in metal today

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"They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health

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New Metallica x Dr. Martens collection are Hardwired to impress… wherever you may roam

Metallica join forces with Dr. Martens for new limited-edition boot and shoe designs - and both are available right now

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What the 2026 Grammys got right about rock and metal this year - and what they got very wrong

As is so often the case, the rock and metal representation at this year's Grammys was a mix of deserved recognition and total clangers

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"We've experienced the biggest loss we will ever go through." Kelly Osbourne reveals why the Osbourne family are "closer than ever" following Ozzy's death - and has an emotional reaction to the epic Grammys tribute starring Post Malone and Slash

Ozzy not being here any more still feels as raw and surreal as ever

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"The community we found through punk and hardcore music has given us a safe place to swing in the dark." Turnstile win big in the rock and metal categories at the 2026 Grammys, Yungblud and Nine Inch Nails also winners

Other winners included Yungblud, Nine Inch Nails and The Cure

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"I was trying to make a butt sex joke and it was dumb." Maynard James Keenan regrets some of the lyrics he wrote on those early Tool records

Widely regarded as a smart and witty lyricist, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan thinks he could have done better on some tracks

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“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”

How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’

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"The real ideological Nazis began coming out of the closet and attacked our shows." How pockets of mindless violence inspired the most important 63 seconds of punk you'll ever hear

Even 45 years after its release, this 1981 single remains depressingly relevant today

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