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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Chepang's philosophical grindcore to Slung's sleek doomgaze, screamo revivalists Static Dress and chaotic metalcore mob Idle Heirs, these are the bands you need to hear in October 2025

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Watch the wholesome trailer for new BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which airs later this week

The hour-long film airs on October 2 and chronicles the Black Sabbath singer and his wife/manager’s move from the US to the UK

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“You tour for so long. You’ve got a family, a mortgage, and you come home from America after eight weeks with £100. That’s unsustainable”: Dan Tompkins had to leave Tesseract – so what brought him back for third album Polaris?

2015 album saw the djent pioneers continue their move away from frenzied metal to thought-provoking prog, meaning the singer had to embrace a new way of creative thinking

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Ozzy Osbourne's face appears on the side of New Zealand's tallest building

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"We had a decision to make as to whether we wanted to carry on or not": Steve Harris on Nicko McBrain's departure from Iron Maiden

Nicko McBrain announced his retirement from touring with Iron Maiden earlier this year

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Sick Of It All singer Lou Koller says his oesophageal cancer has returned

The hardcore vocalist was first diagnosed with the disease in summer 2024 and said he was cancer-free in May

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An old skit of Ozzy Osbourne acting as Gandalf The Grey in The Lord Of The Rings is going viral, and it’s magical

Glorious footage of The Prince Of Darkness battling a Balrog is doing the rounds on multiple social media platforms

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“People were letting surfers fall hard into the crowd”: Fans at recent Sleep Token show reportedly dropped crowd-surfers, and now everyone is arguing about concert etiquette

A woman who attended Louder Than Life festival claims that she was knocked out after a crowd-surfer got dropped on her during Sleep Token’s performance

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Watch Slayer charge through Hell Awaits during the fieriest rehearsal video you’ll probably ever see

Lots of metal bands want to tear the house down – Slayer are doing their damnedest to burn it down

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Lamb Of God seem to be teasing new music for later this week

The Richmond groove metal heavyweights are hinting that something will go down on Thursday, October 2

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s spat was blown out of proportion, says support act: “Whatever was going on, they were professional enough to keep it from affecting the tour”

Bleed From Within supported Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine at multiple US shows, and singer Scott Kennedy says the co-headliners’ falling-out “wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be”

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"Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne

Interviewing the Prince Of Darkness was not like interviewing other members of the rock royalty

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“I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way

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"It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero

Join Axl Rose as he becomes entwined in a deadly conspiracy

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"There’s really no way you should be ignoring this band." If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it Orbit Culture's excellent Death Above Life

Orbit Culture return with yet more evidence of why they're one of the best bands in the current European metal scene

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Ghost announce 2026 North American tour

North America! Prepare to get Ghosted!

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Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids

The California four-piece offer another platter of soulful rock’n’roll that bucks trends and plucks heartstrings

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"Nobody liked the song when I put it in the cut!" Why Peacemaker showrunner James Gunn used a cult Swedish metal band to soundtrack that shocking episode six twist

The new episode of Peacemaker featured a hell of a plot twist - and showrunner James Gunn turned to heavy metal to soundtrack it

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“It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning

The bassist, who used to play in Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band, compares seeing Sabbath onstage to watching Muhammad Ali in the ring

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“I don’t try to point out stupidity, and I don’t like to make people feel bad – unless they annoy me”: The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them

Just like the Pied Piper…

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“This is it, folks. The start of a genuine phenomenon”: The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s

The classic debut albums that shaped metal’s golden decade

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“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

Box office bomb, killer soundtrack

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"I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that." Pumpkins, power metal and the mostunexpected reunion in metal: Helloween are better than ever

How Helloween's Pumpkins United has reinvented power metal's first breakout stars

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“I have to make the responsible decision – there’s just no way I can sing like this”: Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury

The shows will be rescheduled for January

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"I watched Ozzy's last concert!" Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley on why he used Metallica, Sabbath, Pearl Jam and more to soundtrack season one

Noah Hawley gave Alien: Earth a metal as hell soundtrack. What did you think of the show?

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