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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From former thrashers turned modern metal hopefuls Lost Society to lizard-brain Danish death metallers Plaguemace, Yorkshire metalcore mob Caskets and US deathcore brutes Signs Of The Swarm, these are the bands you need to hear in March 2024

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"Crank it up now!" Black Sabbath's Paranoid passes one billion streams on Spotify

One of the most famous metal songs of all time passes a major milestone

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Listen to Black Sabbath cover Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water, with Ian Gillan on vocals

During the 1983 Born Again tour, Black Sabbath acknowledged new singer Ian Gillan’s former band by performing Deep Purple’s signature song

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“Even with our accessible songs we get pinned as bizarre and wrong. Somebody was writing about unicorns and centaurs in a review and I was like, ‘That was two records ago’”: Did Coheed And Cambria go too far up their own concept for some?

Claudio Sanchez knew his band’s sci-fi universe would turn certain people off, but there’s a reason he went there – and it’s definitely not self-indulgence

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"My family were pastors and a lot of injustice was taught to me as a little girl. Now it's my time to put on the collar and preach": The rise of occult rockers Lucifer

From Stockholm via Berlin, Lucifer are a 70s-inspired occult-rock force on the rise

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"I still have very vivid images of him laughing, smiling, and goofing around": Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon remembers Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Kim Gordon remembers her friend Kurt Cobain, as the 30th anniversary of his death nears

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Every The Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best

The collected studio works of Billy Corgan and company rated and ranked, from the so-so to the smashing

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London's iconic Brixton Academy to reopen in April with Nirvana, Smiths, Oasis and Foo Fighters tributes

O2 Brixton Academy has been shuttered since tragic incident in December 2022

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Watch actor Mark Benton win almost £10,000 on The Celebrity Weakest Link - and donate it all to the ultimate heavy metal charity, The Heavy Metal Truants

Over £9,000 will now be going to some great children's causes via the power of heavy metal - and some intense general knowledge skills

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"We threw everything away at one point": Justin Chancellor talks new Tool material, fashion and why MTVoid aren't a supergroup

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor explains how MTVoid differ from Tool, how long until we get another album and why he isn't worried about Swifties

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"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

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“We want to be a voice for those who don’t dare speak up." Dogma are a bunch of sexually-charged, corpsepainted, metal-playing nuns. And they're here to spread liberation and queer love in the rock scene.

Dogma aren't quite like anything you've seen in metal before. You might want to watch their videos away from the office, though

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"Fifty years on from their tentative first steps, Priest have produced what may well be the most defiantly, unrelentingly triumphant record of their career." New Judas Priest album Invincible Shield is nothing short of magnificent

Judas Priest prove yet again that little in this world is as timeless as pure, unadulterated heavy metal

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Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."

Beloved Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li adopts a humble attitude when it comes to his place in the grand pantheon of shredders

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“It’s about how grateful we were to have our time with Cliff”: Watch the only time Metallica have ever played emotional instrumental To Live Is To Die live

In 2011, Metallica finally unearthed their bittersweet tribute to late bassist Cliff Burton in front of one very intimate audience

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“I have fond memories of sitting on Lemmy‘s lap after he’d come offstage, with his hair in a white towel turban”: Rob Halford says Judas Priest‘s new album has a tribute to Lemmy and Ronnie James Dio

New Judas Priest song Giants In The Sky from upcoming album Invincible Shield pays tribute to Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio and other great rock icons

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“When Dime went away, my heart went with him. I didn’t think I’d ever really be able to do this again”: Vinnie Paul’s return from tragedy with Hellyeah

In 2007, Vinnie Paul returned to the fray with the debut album from the supergroup Hellyeah – his first band since the death of his brother Dimebag Darrell

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“We’re revelling in the hell we are in. We say, ‘Please enjoy your death’”: this classic Ghost interview from 2011 shows they were always destined for greatness

Back in 2011, Ghost gave their first major interview to Metal Hammer. This is what they had to say

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The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project

Bored vampires, inspirational graveyards and Pulp Fiction moments: these are the stories behind every song on Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project

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Scientists name Jurassic marine worm after shock rock icon Alice Cooper

Worm discovered in 190-million-year-old fossil is named Serpula alicecooperi by metalhead Danish scientists

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"Cheers to the BRITs for making the voting system so complicated that only our fans could be arsed to vote!": Bring Me The Horizon defeat The Rolling Stones, Blur and more to win Best Alternative/Rock Act at the BRIT Awards

Watch Bring Me The Horizon celebrate their BRIT Awards triumph in sweary style

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Watch Courtney Love sing Hole classic Celebrity Skin with Green Day's covers band The Coverups at London's iconic 100 Club

The London love-in between Courtney Love and Billie Joe Armstrong continues

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“Vultures were on the bedpost. It was a dark road and I was losing my lust for life”: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is metal’s great survivor

Drugs, feuds, bitter ex-bandmates – Dave Mustaine has weathered everything life threw at him. And in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, he wasn’t about to roll over yet

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10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet)

From Metallica’s …And Justice For All to Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other, these masterpieces are so good that live crowds need to hear them in their entirety

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"We’re not a band that writes about fast cars, hot chicks and partying." How Queensrÿche got their prog metal groove back with The Verdict

Seven years into their reinvention with Todd La Torre at the front, the new, rebuilt Queensrÿche are stronger than ever before. But with album number 15, they haven’t lost sight of their past.

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