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“That song really affects people. It affects me.” Bruce Dickinson names the greatest song he’s ever written – and, no, it’s not an Iron Maiden track

“It works and it means something, but I don’t know what it is,” Bruce Dickinson says of (he believes) the best song he’s ever written

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"At first I thought Meshuggah were absolute noise, just trash!": Periphery's Misha Mansoor talks early influences, the benefits of social media and internet trolls

Periphery founder and guitarist Misha Mansoor shares the wisdom that helped his band become djent pioneers

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“We were living with cockroaches, writing crazy concept albums and touring the planet”: how prog metal visionaries Voivod invented a whole new genre

Canadian prog metal icons Voivod released their classic second album Rrröööaaarrr on this day in 1986. Drummer Away looks back on a career like no other

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"Hybrid Theory made me realise metal wasn't this weird, ostracised subgenre": Of Mice & Men's Aaron Pauley picks the 10 records that changed his life

From Slipknot and Linkin Park to Converge, Norma Jean and Mansions, these are the records that shaped Of Mice & Men frontman Aaron Pauley

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The 8 songs Iron Maiden have played live the least

If you’ve seen The Beast perform any of these rarities at a show, you’re in a very exclusive club

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"The perfect ‘Mother metal’ line up": Cassyette picks Witch Fever and Harpy to join her on This World F**king Sucks tour

Cassyette lines up extensive tour previewing her forthcoming debut album

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Former Nightwish bandmates Marko Hietala and Tarja team up for new single

Watch the brand new video for Marko Hietala and Tarja Turunen's Left On Mars here

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"We have waited a long time to announce this!": L7 reveal plans for Bricks Are Heavy shows in the UK and Europe

L7 will play their classic 1992 album Bricks Are Heavy in full at summer shows

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"Before Deathgasm, whenever movies needed a bully, they put them in an Anthrax t-shirt": One of the best heavy metal movies ever is getting a sequel, and it's going to be even more bloody, messy... and metal (of course)

Writer/director Jason Howden is working on Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon with soundtrack contributions from Matt Heafy

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“The songs incorporate supernatural ideas with my own experiences.” Gatecreeper have teamed with death metal and hardcore royalty for new album Dark Superstition – judging by lead single The Black Curtain, we’re in for something truly special

The US death metal bruisers made their new album with help from members of Dismember and Converge

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Watch this metal musician mistake a photographer for a technician and accidentally lob a guitar at him

The photographer emerged unscathed; the guitar probably didn’t

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“It’ll be something you haven’t heard in 20 or 30 years – it’s the perfect way to go out”: Al Jourgensen is reuniting with a legendary ex-bandmate for Ministry’s final album

Former Ministry bassist Paul Barker is returning to the fold for the band’s last-ever album, according to Al Jourgensen

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"Epic lives up to its title, treading the line between imperious grandeur and ridiculous pomposity": new VLTIMAS album lives up to its member's legendary death metal pedigree

David Vincent, Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen and Flo Mounier live up to their reputation as extreme metal's leading lights

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“I needed to destroy”: Watch video footage of the first-ever Tool concert in 1991

On October 7, 1991, Tool played their primal debut gig, and so began three decades of prog metal trailblazing

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“I shouldn’t speculate why we were singled out, other than because we were massively offensive”: how Cannibal Corpse became death metal’s first million selling band

Blood, guts and Jim Carrey – the epic story of death metal provocateurs Cannibal Corpse

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"A mesmerising snapshot of the nihilistic grunge age": Mad Season's only album may forever be associated with tragedy and loss, but the musicians sound liberated

With members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees on board, Mad Season's 1995 album Above was gut-wrenching but transfixing

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“Movies take forever to make. Forever!” An Osbournes biopic is in development, and Sharon knows who she wants to be played by

A film about the lives of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne is currently being made, with The Prince Of Darkness hoping it’ll be finished in his lifetime

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“Why did you let Some Kind Of Monster come out?” What happened when Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson interviewed Metallica’s Lars Ulrich

In 2008, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich swung by Bruce Dickinson’s radio show to promote Death Magnetic and sling some mud at the St Anger era

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"I wrote about a threesome I had in Holland." Lzzy Hale picks the 15 greatest Halestorm songs, and explains the stories behind them

Lzzy Hale guides us through the Halestorm songs that mean the most to her

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“We refuse to participate in the war machine." Scowl, Gel, Sprints, Lambrini Girls and more pull out of SXSW Festival in protest at festival's US Army links

A host of bands have protested SXSW's US army sponsorship, due to the US military's support of Israel in the ongoing conflict in Gaza

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Every Metallica instrumental ranked from worst to best

From (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth to Suicide & Redemption, we’ve rearranged the six Metallica instrumental tracks in reverse-order of excellence

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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"No holograms, no troupes of dancers, just a giant light-up trident descending from the ceiling": Judas Priest keep it simple on a triumphant first night of the Invincible Shield tour

A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow

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"Wacky avalanches of overripe gorgonzola delivered with the band’s trademark OTT exuberance and virtuosic flair": Dragonforce's Warp Speed Warriors might be more meme than music, but it still delivers the goods

Dragonforce prove they are still guitar heroes through and through

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“I get excited when a witch comes out of the broom closet”: Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle – featuring an exclusive patch

This exclusive Chelsea Wolfe x Metal Hammer bundle comes with a special patch featuring a gothic design

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