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"I've got poop on me!" We took Kittie to a cat cafe (obviously) to ask them about their amazing comeback, the nu metal nostalgia train and surviving the music industry as a band of young women

What happened when we took Kittie to a cat cafe in LA to talk life, music and fur babies?

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Hammerfall singer doesn’t like being called ‘power metal’: “I think heavy metal is enough”

Joacim Cans pulls Hammerfall away from the power metal genre in a new Metal Hammer interview

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“It’s French charm: you know, beheaded people.” Gojira respond to claims Olympics performance was “satanic”

Singer/guitarist Joe Duplantier shoots down allegations of satanism fired at the French extreme metal stars

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"That extraordinary voice, switching from urgency to desolation within a few bars": The Chris Cornell albums you should definitely listen to

With Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog and solo, Chris Cornell proved to be a vocalist of singular talent. Here we round up his best albums

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“Headbanging in front of a billion people was a very gratifying experience!” Gojira express their gratitude for being given “the opportunity to represent the Metal community” at the Olympics

“We can’t believe what just happened.” Gojira on being the first ever metal band to perform at the Olympic games

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“I’m three years younger than Jesus. I’m just waiting to be crucified”: how Ville Valo went darker than ever on HIM’s Venus Doom

HIM’s Venus Doom was the sound of a band peering over the edge of the abyss, as Ville Valo explained when Metal Hammer spoke to the singer in 2007

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Listen to prog metal heroes Oceans Of Slumber's spinetingling cover of Chris Isaak classic Wicked Game

The progressive metal favourites have given Wicked Game a typically classy, emotional overhaul

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This rock band just let fans pick their concert’s setlist – while they were performing onstage

Art rockers Leprous hosted the world’s first ‘real-time song request’ show and (potentially) opened up new avenues for live music

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"It was my life for 16 years." Charlotte Wessels on having to adapt after leaving Delain

The former Delain singer discusses leaving the symphonic metallers and the next chapter of her career

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"I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince

Duff has some serious regrets about meeting the iconic Prince, but it seems he actually made a solid impression

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James Hetfield on why Metallica use their influence to give back and help the less fortunate: "There's not really a better feeling in this world than helping someone else"

Metallica's frontman opens up on the bands charitable All Within My Hands foundation

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"It really feels like we’re 18 again!" Dream Theater's John Petrucci is fired up for upcoming 40th anniversary tour

Dream Theater's 40th anniversary tour kicks off at London's O2 Arena on October 20

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"I remember getting offstage like, ‘I feel like Dave Grohl right now!'" From sweaty basement shows to Coachella, Madison Square Garden and Fred Durst: how Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore

Scowl could well be the next hardore band to break out of the scene

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"Lars felt so sorry that he got us a slot on the main stage.” Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen on stoned soundguys, collaborating with Metallica and how they helped revolutionise both metal and classical music

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“Getting in Angela Gossow was like throwing out your pet rabbit and getting a Rottweiler. It was a lot more brutal”: how Arch Enemy’s Wages Of Sin reinvented extreme metal for the 21st century

Arch Enemy’s Wages Of Sin marked the debut of singer Angela Gossow – and put them on the melodic death metal map

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“Being crazy is being free, man. Completely free!”: the unhinged story of System Of A Down’s Hypnotize, the last album they might ever make

In 2005, System Of Down released their fifth, and possibly final, album Hypnotize

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“Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant

Death stares, Axl Rose and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy are all part of the story of Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel’s A Perfect Circle

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Queens of the Stone Age cancel more European shows as frontman Josh Homme recovers from emergency surgery

A further string of Queens of the Stone Age festival dates in Europe pulled as Josh Homme remains in doctors' care

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Fans' hopes dashed over cryptic My Chemical Romance social media posts: "Our Facebook got hacked."

A series of off-brand Facebook posts had My Chemical Romance fans dreaming of a tour or album announcement

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“We’ve done Jimmy justice. Whether we quit or not, we’ve done what we were put on earth to do”: how Avenged Sevenfold emerged from tragedy with Nightmare

Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare album was released on July 27, 2010 – their first without late drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan

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“Lots of people hated it at first. Fans wanted them to do Kill ’Em All 20 per cent faster”: how Metallica defied the haters and changed the course of metal with Ride The Lightning

Metallica’s second album Ride The Lightning turns 40 on July 27 – this is how they made one of metal’s greatest records

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“I love people and I hate people at the same time. I’ve a lot of passion”: how Gojira took took metal in a whole new direction with L’Enfant Sauvage

Twelve years before they played the Olympic opening ceremony, Gojira released their classic fifth album, 2012’s L’Enfant Sauvage

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“You can stay small but, if you have something to say, you need to utilise these things”: Why James Hetfield is glad a Metallica fan spat on him in 1989

Metallica’s singer/guitarist responded to a violent accusation of “selling out” with unbroken confidence

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Watch Gojira in fiery performance at Olympics opening ceremony in Paris

Gojira blast out metal version of French revolutionary song Ah! Ça Ira at Olympic Games opening ceremony

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"A heavy and mysterious masterpiece that possesses the mind in a dark and decadent vortex of mystery and wonder": Listen to the soundtrack to Tony Iommi's new perfume

Tony Iommi's Deified cologne is available now for those who'd like to smell extra nice

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