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“There’s a weird sexual energy with a lot of it”: Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags

Musically and aesthetically, the Mississippi musician thinks Sleep Token are “really, really cool”

Metal Hammer · Oct 7, 2025

Hear Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante sing electro-metal banger Ties That Bind, from the soundtrack of new fighting game 2XKO

The song follows developer Riot Games’ recent collaborations with Polyphia and Linkin Park

Metal Hammer · Oct 7, 2025

“The further I got away from it, the more I thought, ‘It’s OK. We had 40 years. I’m tired of hanging around a hotel, being away from family’”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee explain why now is the time to reunite Rush

The pair say that the decision to get the prog rock luminaries back together was “relatively recent”

Metal Hammer · Oct 7, 2025

“Only if it really stinks will we redo it”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to record his next solo album in January

Dickinson reveals that he and his solo band will record the follow-up to 2024’s The Mandrake Project live in the studio

Metal Hammer · Oct 6, 2025

“He tried to stab Dio with a fork!”: The first time Ozzy Osbourne met Ronnie James Dio it nearly ended in bloodshed

The rivalry between the two ex-Black Sabbath singers nearly spilled over into chaos

Metal Hammer · Oct 5, 2025

"They might just be the most essential live show in metal right now." We're not entirely sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was

Surely a Download Festival headline set is on the cards after this?!

Metal Hammer · Oct 5, 2025

“I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics

It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

Metal Hammer · Oct 5, 2025

Watch video for new Megadeth single Tipping Point

Tipping Point is the 1st single from Megadeth's upcoming final album

Metal Hammer · Oct 4, 2025

"While this chapter has come to a close, this is by no means the end of my path as a musician." Modern metal heavyweights Trivium abruptly part ways with drummer Alex Bent

Drummer of 9 years splits with Trivium hours before Aftershock Festival show – Sepultura's Greyson Nekrutman steps in

Metal Hammer · Oct 4, 2025

“It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig

All the emotion came out during Ozzy’s solo set at Back To The Beginning

Metal Hammer · Oct 4, 2025