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"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson

Producer and guitarist Roy Z explains how Bruce Dickinson's solo material has evolved in the past 31 years

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“10 years ago no one in the US would bought an album by an Italian metal band. The idea doesn’t seem so strange now”: how Lacuna Coil served up a 2000s classic with Karmacode and went global in the process

In this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archive, Lacunca Coil look back on how they became Italy’s biggest ever metal band

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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Slaughter To Prevail, Accept and Knocked Loose are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Richie Faulkner isn’t sure if Judas Priest will make another album after Invincible Shield: “You never know what the future holds”

Judas Priest’s guitarist doesn’t rule out the idea of the band’s new, 19th album being their last

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“It was a real awkward time”: The story of the abandoned Metallica album

In 2001, Metallica hired an old army barracks in California to try and record album eight. The songs were scrapped when James Hetfield entered rehab, but countless fans still want to hear them finished.

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"Capital and its bourgeois foot soldiers hold nothing but contempt for working people": Bad Breeding return in defiant form with Survival, the fierce first single from forthcoming album Contempt

Bad Breeding are back, and they're even angrier than before

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Enslaved announce Jo Quail will perform Congelia with them at London's opening night of their latest tour

Prog cellist Jo Quail will join Norwegian prog metallers Enslaved at their Islington Assembly Hall show on March 6

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Wheel announce third studio album Charismatic Leaders

Anglo Finnish prog metal trio Wheel will tour Europe towards the end of the year

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“All of that youthful exuberance was still there!” Rob Halford is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer - cuddling kittens!

The Judas Priest frontman reveals all about new album Invincible Shield – and kittens!

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"Love them or dismiss them, Exit Emotions will only propel Blind Channel towards the arenas calling their name": Former Eurovision contestants step up as leading lights in the nu metal revival

The self-described "Backstreet Boys of metal", Blind Channel capture the anthemia and energy of peak nu metal with new album Exit Emotions

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“Laid To Rest is 20 years old!” This new comedy sketch about ‘modern metal classics’ will make you feel old, guaranteed!

Lamb Of God, Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine have been around for two decades now, and your lower back isn’t in the shape it used to be

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“This song is underrated!” Watch the only time Slipknot have performed All Hope Is Gone’s incredible title track live

Despite it being the lead single of Slipknot’s first US chart-topping album, All Hope Is Gone has only been played live one time, in July 2008

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“The heart of darkness for me is a heart of honesty, it’s the heart of vulnerability”: how Ville Valo pulled back from the abyss and bared his soul on HIM’s Screamworks

In 2010, Hammer visited HIM frontman Ville Valo at home in Helsinki to talk about the goth-metal band’s new album, Screamworks: Love in Theory And Practice

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"I've had to turn my back, because, you know, the big man is not supposed to cry": All the stories from behind the scenes at Kiss's emotional final blow-out at Madison Square Garden

In early December Kiss played their final ever show, at New York's iconic Madison Square Garden: Classic Rock was there to talk to Gene and Paul about the enormity of it all

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A new Jack Reacher story is coming and it's inspired by AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long

Inspired by songs from AC/DC's classic Back in Black album, an upcoming anthology will contain ten murder mysteries from ten bestselling authors

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"He’s always waiting for body parts to fall off": Al Jourgensen says Dave Navarro once offered him $20,000 for his amputated toe

After stepping on a needle, Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen's toe got so infected it required amputation - and almost became part of a curio collection

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Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

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“We made it again!” Nightwish have finished their next studio album

The symphonic metal stars are expected to release a “heavier” 12-song album later this year

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“I think fans are going to be blown away”: Avenged Sevenfold release virtual-reality concert Looking Inside

The arena-metal titans’ 26-minute VR performance is available to download via the App Store and Meta Quest

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Watch the time pop trio Hanson did an acoustic cover of Slipknot’s Wait And Bleed as an April Fools prank

On April 1, 2011, Hot Topic ‘leaked’ footage of 90s pop act Hanson covering Slipknot and said the boys were planning a whole cover album. Unsurprisingly, it never happened.

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Watch Pearl Jam play Alive and Even Flow live for Dutch TV pop show Countdown before Ten exploded worldwide

Most artists booked to appear on popular Dutch TV show Countdown were content to lip sync: not Pearl Jam

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“The time is right to get back on stage”: Power Trip announce first headline shows since death of Riley Gale

The reunited thrashers, now fronted by Seth Gilmore, will follow their comeback at this summer’s No Values festival with headline dates in Dallas and New York

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"Formidable hard rock confidence, yet would benefit from that fearless unpredictability of their youth": New Years Day don't quite find their way on Half Black Heart

Five albums in and New Years Day are maturing - but losing of the charm of their youth on new album Half Black Heart

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"We look forward to an incredible evening of unique performances": Metallica to perform at star-studded Elton John tribute ceremony

Metallica will join Annie Lennox, Garth Brooks and more in saluting the "influential" songwriting of Elton John and Bernie Taupin

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“This story takes place around a seminal UFO event that I believe happened”: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge has written a novel titled Trinity about a “pivotal moment in American culture”

For his new novel Trinity, Blink-182's Tom DeLonge has taken “a whole lot of truth and encased it in a cool and rebellious story”

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