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“If someone says they don’t like something, that makes me embrace it even more”: Steve Harris defends Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying album – and names the one radical thing he’d change about if

Do you love Iron Maiden’s eighth album? You’re in good company

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"One of the things that Bruce Dickinson and Paul Di’Anno didn’t have was, they’d not seen Iron Maiden as a fan." Blaze Bayley on heart attacks, being banned by the church and his legacy with 'metal's greatest band'

Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it

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Jim Root responds to rumours that Sid Wilson has been fired from Slipknot: “Don’t believe everything you read. Stop. Think.”

According to a report, Sid Wilson is no longer a member of Slipknot

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"They liked the Butthole Surfers, they liked Iggy Pop, they liked us… we were keeping good company." How Beavis and Butt-head's approval of Thunder Kiss '65 turned White Zombie into a million-selling band

"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."

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

Tony Iommi makes a long awaited return, Electric Callboy channel their inner boyband and Sheri Moon Zombie strikes out as a solo artist in this week's best new metal songs round up

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"I said to him, Do you want to play on something else? He said, No, no. Your solos are good." Why Queen's Brian May is the only guest musician featured on Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's forthcoming solo album

Tony Iommi's upcoming solo album From The Dark features his old friend Brian May on a song called Death Wake

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Celebrate the release of the metalcore band’s new album A Stranger To You in style

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"You're nude under the full moon, drinking chalices of blood and hanging out with goats." Watch Twin Temple explain modern-day Satanism to America as they make their late night US TV debut on The Daily Show

"It's time for a little more Satanic Panic. Let's get it going again"

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“2012 wasn’t that long ago but it was in terms of women and evolution. That almost made me want to double down”: How Halestorm tackled sexuality and broken relationships, and emerged with hit single I Miss The Misery

Singer/guitarist Lzzy Hale looks back on the arguments that inspired her band’s biggest song – and the cheaters and fan stories that have strengthened its meaning

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“You’re gonna see the Crazy Train and get on the Crazy Train”: What to expect at Universal’s Ozzy Osbourne haunted houses this Halloween

The Prince Of Darkness will take over Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Hollywood. One of its directors explains what will happen and how it was set up.

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“I have nothing against 50 Cent, but what does that even mean?!” AFI were told to collaborate with 50 Cent in the mid-2000s

Their A&R wanted to get the attention of a label boss who’d just declared that rock’n’roll was dead

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"Another exciting step as we continue to grow his licensing program around the world." Universal Studios launch two Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness haunted houses

Ozzy's afterlife continues

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"It’s weird when you hear stuff from so long ago." Tony Iommi says that Black Sabbath's earliest recordings, dating back to when they were known as Earth, will be released "at some point"

Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes was originally set for release in July 2025 until Sharon Osbourne intervened on behalf of the band

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"I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists, I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists." System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Kneecap and Beartooth's Caleb Shomo to guest on new Tom Morello solo album Everyone Gets Everything They Want

Tom Morello shares "which side are you on?" single Date Night

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“We’re not trying to prove anything – it’s a great album, it rocks!” Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi releases solo single World Alone, announces long-awaited album From The Dark

The heavy metal architect’s first solo effort since 2005 drops in October

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"I keep thinking about what happens to creative communities during authoritarian times." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian appears on chilling cover of David Bowie's I'm Afraid Of Americans

I'm Afraid Of Americans appears on an upcoming album by composer Brendan Angelides

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“What if the sweetest late-90s boyband love ballad suddenly turned into one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written?” Electric Callboy subvert the soppy tropes with surprisingly heavy new single The Way You Are

A taste of their upcoming album Tanzneid, out next week

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“The basement where we rehearsed got flooded and some of our equipment we just had to throw away”: How Meshuggah foresaw the future of extreme metal with 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve

Despite floods and two horrific hand accidents, the Swedes drew the blueprint for what heavy music would become in the 21st century

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“The first Slipknot album is all chaos; the Stone Sour album is a baring of the soul”: Corey Taylor reveals the 10 albums that changed his life

The Great Big Mouth on his best records, Les Misérables and how great sex made him a Depeche Mode fan

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DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara is living with a non-cancerous tumour in his head: “We can beat this f*cking thing!”

He says that it has to grow before doctors can remove it

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"The romantic tale of a man who seduces a young lady at a Bavarian shooting party and makes love with her in a pig barn." 10 Faith No More deep cuts which perfectly capture their subversive, maverick spirit

In celebration of their imminent return, here are the 10 best Faith No More curios that may have passed you by

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Avenged Sevenfold’s Statica EP is a goofy, auto-tuned mess – and exactly the kind of risk more big metal bands should take

In a genre where many veteran artists stay the course, it’s refreshing to see one break the mould so brazenly

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Linkin Park, the Ramones and The Smashing Pumpkins will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 2027

Actors Pedro Pascal and Adam Scott will also be immortalised on Hollywood Boulevard next year

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"It's our duty to push the boundaries." How a local gig in the German countryside ended up becoming the biggest metal festival on Earth: the story of Wacken Open Air

Ahead of its huge 35th anniversary event, we look back at the birth of Wacken

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“Cliff played For Whom The Bell Tolls all the time. The rest of us would stiffen up and go, ‘What the heck was that?’” The stories behind every song on Ride The Lightning, in Metallica’s own words

Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett break down their band’s landmark second album, released on this day in 1984

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