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Metallica announce one of their most intimate shows ever, playing to just 250 people later this month – and you can win a ticket

The biggest band in metal will play their smallest gig in decades on August 28

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New Creeper single Blood Magick (It's A Ritual) is a cross between Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Ozzy Osbourne's The Ultimate Sin, and Laibach, and if that doesn't get you excited for new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death we give up

Creeper preview new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death with a conjuring from 1987

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Watch Linkin Park thrill 90,000 fans with a killer version of The Emptiness Machine recorded at their spectacular sold-out show at London's iconic Wembley Stadium earlier this summer

Watch the 21st century's biggest metal band on peak form at huge UK show back in June

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What happens when a Eurovision band turns to the dark side? Lord Of The Lost’s new album almost answers that question

The first entry in a planned trilogy, Opvs Noir, Vol. 1 sees Lord Of The Lost shed their vibrant look while retaining their goth/glam bluster

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Watch one of the most dramatic makeovers of 2025, as Davey Havok turns into goth rock Frank Zappa for new AFI anthem Behind The Clock

The newly mustachioed frontman and his band will put out their next album Silver Bleeds The Black Sun in October

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“All of a sudden we’re satanic and controversial. People wanna buy our records and burn them? Go ahead!” Why heavy metal fell in love with the Devil

For as long as it’s existed, heavy metal has been obsessed with the Devil. We investigate why.

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“Easily the band’s boldest work to date, boasting some of their most interesting songs yet”: Halestorm reach a career peak with new album Everest

Halestorm are still Halestorm on album number six, but the hard rockers have more ideas in their back pockets than ever before

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Michael Schenker releases first song with new singer Erik Grönwall

Don’t Sell Your Soul is the title track of a new Michael Schenker Group album

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The Decline Of Western Civilisation, Part II: The Metal Years is now free to watch on YouTube

The classic movie, starring Ozzy, Lemmy, Kiss and Aerosmith, has been liberated by its distributors for all of humankind to enjoy

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"I'm holding on tight to the love, the light, and the legacy left behind." Kelly Osbourne shares touching thank you note to all who've supported her amid the heartbreaking loss of her beloved father

"Knowing my family are not alone in our pain makes a difference"

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Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister was asked to review Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album in 2011 – this is what he said

One late metal legend looks back on the masterwork that launched the solo career of another late metal legend

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Watch Opeth pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with heartfelt cover of Black Sabbath’s Solitude

The prog metal mavens offered an excellent tribute to the Prince Of Darkness at a festival last weekend

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Debate: what is the greatest metal riff of all time?

Creeping Death? Raining Blood? The Trooper? Blind? Which metal riff towers above the rest?

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I just spent four days at the muddiest metal festival on the planet - here's why I'm desperate to go back

Thousands of fans, hundreds of bands and tonnes of mud: but Wacken is still the best metal festival around

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“I don’t follow the rules of metal, which is probably wrong, and I’m sorry”: Metallica producer Bob Rock looks back on controversial Load and Reload albums

Rock is “glad” he and Metallica didn’t imitate the metal stars’ blockbuster Black Album when making its divisive follow-ups

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“The whole place went, ‘What on earth is this?!’ It was nuts. The crowd went mental”: The story of the Black Sabbath gig that changed history

At a gig just outside Birmingham on August 1, 1969, music changed forever

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Watch masked metal enigmas President cover Deftones classic at their first ever headline show

The mysterious President played a 6-track set in London and threw in a solid cover of Deftones' Change (In the House of Flies)

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“I had this idea, ‘We really need to make a hard rock jock jam!’”: Halestorm’s exclusive track by track guide to their new album Everest

Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger breaks down the band’s upcoming album Everest

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"Jacoby Shaddix is practically bouncing on the spot between songs, visibly thrilled." Headlining a major European festival for the very first time, Papa Roach's Wacken performance is a loud, proud and unbowed triumph. Pressure? What pressure?

Papa Roach deliver a career-defining headline set at Germany's legendary Wacken Open Air festival

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“There is some really bad-ass stuff on that album”: This legendary alt-metal band are sitting on an album recorded at the height of their success – but it may never come out

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"To be with them on that day, it was like a magical dream." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan shares his memories of Black Sabbath's emotional farewell show, and his thoughts on the death of Ozzy Osbourne

The emotional weight of Black Sabbath's final bow had Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan in tears

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The 9 new heavy metal songs you need to hear this week

Listen to these killer new tracks from Spinal Tap, Primal Fear and Orbit Culture, then tell us which is your favourite

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You can now get an exclusive Babymetal Metal Hammer issue with a limited edition variant cover

Celebrate Babymetal's new album Metal Forth with this special edition cover!

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“I had to become the host of Headbanger’s Ball to get my video played!”: Hatebreed enlisted a Spider-Man director for a music video, then got banned from MTV

Jamey Jasta says he had to “infiltrate the system” for the hardcore band’s song I Will Be Heard to make the airwaves

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4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month

From Metallica-endorsed alt-metallers Unpeople to satanic psych doomies Saturday Night Satan, Scottish prog metallers Tiberius and Salisbury shoegaze-revivalists Oversize, these are the bands you need to hear in August 2025

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