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"I got high on mushrooms with Brent Hinds from Mastodon." How Zeal & Ardor went from grotty squat-punks to one of the most innovative bands in extreme metal

Zeal & Ardor's new album Greif continues Basel's fine tradition of flashing their backsides at power and authority

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“It’s the metal tour of 2025, so don’t miss out!” Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine add North American dates to Poisoned Ascendancy world tour; August Burns Red, Sylosis and Bleed From Within supporting

One of 2025’s most exciting tour packages is going stateside, with some stellar support acts added in

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This piano cover of Lamb Of God’s Laid To Rest is the most elegantly metal thing you’ll hear today

Youtuber Catherine Fearns has given Lamb Of God the classical treatment, and it sounds shockingly good

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"Nightwish sound heavier and livelier than they’ve been for years." Yesterwynde proves Nightwish remain the undisputed heavyweight champs of symphonic metal

Yesterwynde is as much a chance for Floor Jansen to spread her wings as it is a showcase of Nightwish's incredible ambition

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“Every time I hear it on the radio it’s like, ‘I’m glad they’re playing this instead of Crazy Train!’” Slayer’s Kerry King names his favourite Ozzy Osbourne song, and it’s one of his most obscure

When we asked Slayer’s guitarist to name the best Ozzy Osbourne track, he picked the deepest of deep cuts

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Rob Halford says another Judas Priest album is “inevitable”: “This band thrives on the metal that we make”

Mere months after Judas Priest released 19th album Invincible Shield, their frontman is already looking towards a followup

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"I wanted to go back to being a cult band, which is what I had sought all along": After 35 years, Monster Magnet know exactly what they want

"It's all-energy. It's rock excitement, psychedelic glory and space-rock hooks" - Dave Wyndorf

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Watch thrash legends Testament perform live with 11-year-old on guitar

Guitar prodigy Maya Neelakantan joined Testament onstage in Vegas last week

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“We played a cave underground. There was water on the floor and all our electrical stuff was in the water.” How Slift became heavy music’s least likely viral sensation

From playing in caves and kitchens to becoming Youtube stars during the pandemic, Slift are psychedelic rock’s quirkiest success story

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“People are gone. Craig’s out. Chris is out, Joey’s out, Paul’s out. The band is different.” Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan admits the band aren’t as “close” now as they were 25 years ago

After lineup changes and the deaths of Joey Jordison and Paul Gray, Clown says Slipknot “will never be like” how it was in the early days

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“There’s some screams on there. It’s cool that people appreciate it. It’s also a bit annoying.” Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt is slightly irritated by all this talk about his growls

We’re all happy that Opeth are screaming again, but Mikael Åkerfeldt isn’t happy with how happy we are

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Watch Gojira’s fiery Olympic Games performance get projected onto the Arc De Triomphe

Paris celebrated its recent hosting of the Olympics by blaring death metal from a national monument, complete with fire and spotlights

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Kiss icon Gene Simmons gives new Linkin Park lineup his backing

The Demon from Kiss says Linkin Park should get the same chance as other acts who lost key members

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“When we first playing Reading, we got everything thrown at us. The whole crowd hated us.” Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes on the hurdles the metal giants overcame to become one of Britain’s biggest bands

The Sheffield quartet released their debut EP 20 years ago this month, and there were plenty of bumps on the way to eventual triumph

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

Mastodon, Within Temptation and Nightwish are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“A brilliant bloke who left you feeling better about life every time you ran into him.” Tributes paid to Rachel Stamp/Sham 69/All About Eve drummer Robin Guy following his death

A GoFundMe fundraiser has been started to help drummer Robin Guy's wife, following his death on September 8

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"He's the king of death metal." Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and Fredrik Akesson name the greatest death metal band of all time, and discuss their own journey through the genre

From inverted crosses in flowerbeds to failing to blow Morbid Angel off-stage and petty larceny, Opeth talk their journey through death metal

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"I'm the rock'n'roll rebel that everybody's mother likes to hate": Watch Ozzy Osbourne talk about capturing the hearts of America in this 1986 The Tube interview with Paula Yates

The Prince Of Darkness spoke about his childhood, early jobs, going double-platinum in America and more in this archival interview with The Tube host Paula Yates in 1986

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"I love being a poser!" Five minutes with Fernanda Lira of fast-rising Brazilian death metallers Crypta

Can you be TRVE while rocking a Beyonce tattoo? According to Fernanda Lira, hell yeah

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"We were nobodies, anonymous and faceless, but it felt like maybe we had a shot." The new issue of Metal Hammer is a bumper celebration of Slipknot’s debut album – and comes with an exclusive patch and charm

The latest issue of Metal Hammer magazine comes with two gifts and 28 pages of Slipknot

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Korn kicked off their 2024 North American tour with some rare cuts - including one classic song not played in 25 years

Korn, Gojira and Spiritbox are officially on the road, and Korn are packing bangers

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Bret Michaels plots 40th anniversary Poison reunion in 2026

Bret Michaels hopes classic lineup can get together for 40 dates to celebrate four decades of Poison

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Listen to Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel team up with Ukrainian metallers Blind8 on new single Labyrinth

Blind8 with join Within Temptation on their upcoming European tour

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"Will we bring the tour overseas? We’re exploring options..." Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe and Mastodon's Brann Dailor talk their new collab single, their history together and what the future may hold

We talk to Brann and Randy about their epic new collaboration Floods Of Triton - and whether there's more to come

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Listen to Lamb Of God and Mastodon's explosive new team-up single, Floods Of Triton

Two of modern metal's greatest bands have united, and the results are killer

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