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According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands

Metalheads are boffins, actually, and these bands prove it

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Every Testament album ranked from worst to best

Rearranging Testament's back catalogue into order of greatness

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"She's made the jump from bizarre YouTube content creator to one of the brightest stars in metal." A guide to every Poppy album

We dissect the fascinating career of genre-hopping alternative artist Moriah Rose Pereira - known to millions as Poppy

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"I've seen Ozzy's arse more times than I've seen my own": That time Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough

How Bill Ward's final performance with Black Sabbath was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne's buttocks

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Mastodon's Bill Kelliher says bands are still trying to recover from "irreparable damage" to touring business

Mastodon man gives brutally honest insight into why touring is so much harder now and why merch got so expensive

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Who's gonna tell him? Busker drums Red Hot Chili Peppers song without realising drummer Chad Smith was watching

Watch busker play Red Hot Chili Peppers' Otherside to an audience of one – the man who plays on the record

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The 10 best punk albums of the last decade

Never mind the bollocks - here's the greatest punk albums that have raged against austerity, Trump and so much more

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Carpenter Brut, Zeal & Ardor, Normandie,Intervals, GHØSTKID and more confirmed for Radar 2025

Manchester's premier progressively-minded rock and metal festival has unveiled its first announcement for 2025

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"I saw it at the movies when I was 11 and it blew my mind." Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas names the greatest horror movie of all time

Fresh from Ice Nine Kills' collaboration with Terrifier, Spencer Charnas names the horror movie GOAT - and gives an update on The Silver Scream 3

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"Let's have some ****ing fun!" Watch rising metalcore stars Dying Wish bring riffs and circle pits to a church

Two-stepping in God’s house? It happened, thanks to Oregon’s most exciting metalcore export.

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“Strong, defiant, teeth-rattling, testosterone-levels-shooting-to-Valhalla metal.” Wrestling star Adam 'Edge' Copeland pays tribute to Viking metallers Amon Amarth in band’s new comic book

Amon Amarth x Z2 comic The Great Heathen Army is now available

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“They knew nothing about the deal”: Hard Rock Cafe wouldn’t give Tony Iommi’s guitar back – because the employee who bought it died

The guitar Iommi played on the first “four or five” Black Sabbath albums is still in the restaurant franchise’s possession

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Plan is in place for new Guns N' Roses music, says Duff McKagan

Guns N' Roses have been talking about a new album for some time – and now Duff tells fans to stay tuned

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Louder Than Life festival announces Slayer will return in 2025

After getting their set cancelled by adverse weather at last month’s Louder Than Life, thrash icons Slayer will be back for the 2025 bill

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10 movies that prove 2024 has been a brilliant year for horror

From the sadistic brutality of Art The Clown in Terrifier 3 to the stomach-turning dysmorphia of The Substance, 2024 has been a great year for all things horror

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“Trump’s got more felonies than all my criminal friends put together.” We asked Ice-T about the US election and he gave us one of the more thoughtful takes we've seen so far

The Body Count leader and Law & Order: SVU star sounds off on Trump, Harris, partisan politics, local government and weed

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Synthy rocky metal wackadoodles Zetra announce first-ever headline tour

Your favourite face-painted, synthpop-loving metal duo will play across the UK next year

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Alex Van Halen reveals that David Lee Roth asked Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos: "He couldn’t handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was"

In his new memoire, Brothers, Alex Van Halen says that David Lee Roth was "convinced he was going to be a movie star" so didn't want the spotlight to shine too long on anyone else

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“My absolute favourite colours in the world have always been purple and black”: Adidas reveals Black Sabbath x Aston Villa shirts and shoes

The shirts will soon be available to buy in very limited quantities

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"Happy Halloween for all who believe, and much love to all who don't": Black Sabbath's Bill Ward shares the eerie new poem, It's Near

Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward unveils his latest original poem, It's Near, in time for Halloween

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“We’re no longer able to balance our life responsibilities with giving you the standard of art that you deserve”: Metallic hardcore firebrands Ithaca announce break-up, final headline show

The London hardcore beloveds will host their own Cremation Party at O2 Academy Islington in February

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Paul Stanley defends Kiss' "wholesome" history of groupies: "Nobody got hurt. Nobody ever walked away feeling disrespected or diminished”

Kiss' Paul Stanley says that the band had a very "wholesome" relationship with their many groupies

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The 1975 say they could be a “heavy” band – but they’re not because it “wasn’t new”

“Unless you’re Glassjaw, Converge, Refused or further than that, heavy is fucking lame”

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“People say, ‘I never would have expected that to work.’ But we’re not just a gimmick – we want to create something new”: The Omnific’s two-bass line-up is a serious bid to redefine what the instrument can do

Australian trio’s second album The Law Of Augmenting Returns lays out their case for a rethink… they only wish Jaco Pastorius was alive to hear it

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"There are always fears and doubts lurking, because you're opening yourself up in a completely raw way": Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell on his new album and its guests, songwriting, AI, algorithm bots and AIC's legacy

Jerry Cantrell's new solo album I Want Blood features members of Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More

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