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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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"On this kind of form, and with this momentum, surely nothing is going to stop Knocked Loose." Hardcore's most exciting band just decimated London's 2,500-capacity Forum

Hardcore music has never been bigger, and Knocked Loose are making sure it stays true to its savagely heavy roots

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Biffy Clyro announce intimate 'A Celebration Of Beginnings' UK dates, playing their first three albums in full

Biffy Clyro will celebrate their early material courtesy of two three-date residencies in London and Glasgow

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“This will be one of those concerts that people fiercely envy you for attending.” Orbit Culture reaffirm their standing as metal’s next big thing at a sweaty, sold-out London Underworld

During their first-ever headline tour, Swedish up-and-comers Orbit Culture rocked the Underworld’s foundations with a groove metal/melodeath armada

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"It sounds like worse Ghost." Watch Creeper send up some of the more outraged comments that greeted them winning Metal Hammer's album of the year in 2023

Some people weren't happy about Creeper winning Hammer's Critics Poll - and the band find it pretty hilarious

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“People think we get our calculators out and work out some kind of complex mathematical formula”: how Meshuggah redefined tech metal for the 21st century

With 2008’s landmark obZen album, Meshuggah were streets ahead of the competition – and the kings of punking other bands

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Watch Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen join Ryan Gosling onstage at the Oscars to rip through Barbie hit I'm Just Ken

The historic performance of I'm Just Ken took place at last night's star-studded awards ceremony

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"I don't think they're gonna retire. They've been retiring for the last twenty years": Kiss played their final show last year, but Ace Frehley isn't convinced

The former Kiss guitarist on his latest solo album, continuing to have fun, and why you'll never see an Ace Frehley avatar in a million years

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Slipknot are rehearsing with a new drummer – and the signs are that they hit very, very hard

Slipknot tease fans with post about new drummer, including a hint that possibly points at a hard-hitting Brazilian

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Vote for the best Slayer song ever

Angel Of Death? Seasons In The Abyss ? Disciple? Have your say…

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"When I was a kid, my obsession was rifling through the forest for mushrooms. Then I gravitated toward witchcraft." We spent a day amongst neolithic tombs and monoliths with occult metal sensations, Green Lung

British stoner-doom crew Green Lung are taking the metal world by storm. We spent an eerie but educational day with them exploring Britain's occult past

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"We chose to be a progressive metal band because it meant that we could do whatever we want." Periphery

The story of how Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre finds the US prog metallers at their defiant best.

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Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford learned there are some spots even a Metal God isn’t allowed in at last year’s Power Trip festival

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“People have to put up with this rap-metal stuff. They’re looking for something with meaning”: Mudvayne were written off as third-rate Slipknot clones. They proved everyone wrong

In 2000, Mudvayne were written off by the press as nu metal chancers – the truth was way more interesting

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A burned CD-R copy of an unreleased solo album by Ghost's Tobias Forge sold online for almost $5500

Ghost frontman Tobias Forge made a solo album before the band took off. It was never released and fans REALLY want it

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"It still excites me and breaks my heart." Trent Reznor reflects on 30 years of Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Downward Spiral

Trent Reznor is in a reflective mood as Nine Inch Nails' classic album The Downwards Spiral turns 30

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“We don’t have this need to party and to cling to other people doing the same thing that we are”: how Within Temptation followed their own path to make The Heart Of Everything

How Within Temptation’s 2007 album The Heart Of Everything kicked things to the next level

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"We like to keep the fans on their toes, and we like to keep ourselves on our toes too." The story of Between The Buried & Me's Automata concept albums

US prog metallers Between The Buried & Me Automata concept albums were so complex the band released them as two separate discs

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“We invented the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal as a joke”: how Chimaira bounced back from the edge of oblivion with Resurrection

Chimaira helped start an entire a scene but never got the same acclaim as some of their peers. They hoped to change that with 2007’s classic Resurrection album

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"Blackwater Park has been hyped as this big breakthrough for us. It really wasn't": How stress, isolation and Grand Theft Auto III inspired Opeth to write Windowpane

After 2001's Blackwater Park, Opeth knew they needed something special. But when Mikael Åkerfeldt suggested recording two albums at once, the band were almost pushed to breaking point

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Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain had a farcical falling out during a 1983 tour. When they found out Bruce Dickinson recorded it, they decided it’d fit perfectly onto 2 Minutes To Midnight’s b-side.

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

From masters of melodeath to a bimbocore queen, it's all here

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“We knew if we stuck together, we would create great things.” Amaranthe have three vocalists and make music that resembles ABBA on a bloodthirsty rampage. They might just be the most extra band in heavy metal

Swedish metallers Amaranthe open up on a career - and a sound - like no other

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"There’s odes to pop culture moments in there from Mean Girls to Michelangelo...obviously made a bit goth." Watch the fantastically bonkers video for Bambie Thug's Irish Eurovision entry, Doomsday Blue

Bambie Thug is representing Ireland at Eurovision this year, and on the basis on Doomsday Blue, they should win it all

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Avenged Sevenfold play live debuts, deep cuts and one long-lost classic at first 2024 concert

Arena-metal crew Avenged Sevenfold started their 2024 Life Is But A Dream… tour in Buffalo, New York, this week

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