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“I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol

Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes once told future indie sensations Snow Patrol, to their faces, that they’d never hit the big time

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"When gangsters hustled me, I showed no fear because I was unaware of what was going on": What happens when you buy one of the UK's most iconic venues for £1

A new play tells the story of Simon Parkes, the entrepreneur who turned Brixton Academy into one of the nation's most-loved live venues

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Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs

Slipknot's six album box will feature 59 recordings including demos, live versions and rarities

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"The whole point was to put on a party with our mates and the music we loved." How Wacken became one of metal's biggest and most beloved festivals

Wacken Open Air returns this year with bands including Guns N' Roses, Papa Roach, Gojira, Machine Head and more

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YouTube star shows just how easy it is to create a fake, but entirely convincing, new musical artist using AI

Indie rock / alt.country singer/songwriter Eli Mercer isn't who you think he is

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Who do we contact about putting this photo of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler with the Backstreet Boys up in the National Portrait Gallery?

The fact that we didn’t hear Backstreet’s Back at Back To The Beginning is a crime, really

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"They said, ‘Can you get Rob off the bloody Teletubbies set, please?'" How Rob Halford's return to Judas Priest on Judas Rising rebuilt one of metal's greatest bands

After a decade with Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Judas Priest welcomed Rob Halford back into the fold - and ushered in their second coming

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This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers

Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect

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“I can’t force other people to do something just because I wanted it”: Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”

The guitarist/vocalist reveals he struggled when the nu metal-era juggernauts went their separate ways in 2006

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"An evolving creation to pay tribute to the voice of a generation": Listen to new supergroup King Ultramega's cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage

King Ultramega are made up of members of Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax and Metal Allegiance

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Pentagram tour shelved after online protests

Pentagram's debut tour of Australia and New Zealand has been put on hold in the wake of protests by campaigners

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“These up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital”: Mawiza are endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, and they’ve just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums

Chilean groove metallers Mawiza explore their indigenous Mapuche Nation culture on colossal debut Ül

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Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage

Blaze wiped out Tomorrowland stage just days before gates opened – but Metallica saved the huge EDM event

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People lashed out at Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong "because she wasn't a guy" says Mike Shinoda

Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong did not have an easy start to life as the band's new vocalist

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Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival

Gavin Rossdale proves a bit of earnestness and a whole lot of heart can make all the difference on Bush's I Beat Loneliness

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

Nine Inch Nails, Amon Amarth and In This Moment are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely." Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway make a brilliant, bonkers comeback with Addicted To The Violence

Wild-eyed riffs, insane left-turns and lyrics blurring the surreal and poignant: Daron Malakian is at his best on the new Scars On Broadway album

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If you haven't seen the best new band in the world live yet, you really, really, really should

Introducing Die Spitz, your new favourite band

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"With Grizzly, Slaughter To Prevail might complete the Mount Rushmore of great deathcore escapologists." Alex Terrible's mob stake a claim on the best deathcore album of 2025

Slaughter To Prevail prove they can stand toe-to-toe with breakout stars Lorna Shore, Bring Me The Horizon and Whitechapel with new album Grizzly

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Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week

Late-night TV will be Satanized on Wednesday, July 23

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"The one thing that stuck in this witness's mind when he shot someone at point blank range was that he was quoting one of our lyrics." How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s

"We woke up with a call from our manager who said there's some s**t going on." Lars Ulrich

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Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas

Ozzy Osbourne’s blockbuster farewell will be turned into a concert film and hit theatre screens in 2026

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Yungblud’s career-affirming cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes from Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show is now available to stream

The UK rocker stole the show with his take on Sabbath’s 1972 track at Back To The Beginning, and the performance can now be relived again and again

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Masked metal enigmas President announce six-track debut EP, release new single Rage

The anonymous one-man project will give their inaugural address with King Of Terrors in September

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