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“He just showed up and didn’t sit with us or anything”: The inside story of Jason Newsted’s final Metallica show

Bassist Jason Newsted left Metallica on January 17, 2001. Six weeks earlier, he’d played his last show with the thrash metal titans, where he very literally waved goodbye.

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10 songs that invented thrash metal, according to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian

Scott Ian on 10 proto-thrash bangers that changed the face of 80s metal

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Judas Priest, Invent Animate and Chelsea Wolfe are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Judas Priest stream new single Crown Of Horns

The Metal Gods’ new, stompin’ song is the third single from the upcoming Invincible Shield

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"I don't think I'd have enjoyed a stay in a South American prison": Therapy?'s Andy Cairns has learned some important lessons from three decades in rock

You don't spend a lifetime in the music business without learning a lesson or two: here's what rock 'n' roll has taught Therapy? frontman Andy Cairns

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"We got a good crowd here!" Watch a heavily-disguised Green Day busk a hard rockin' cover of Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love on a New York subway platform

Who had 'Green Day jamming on a Bad Company classic' on their 2024 Bingo card? Not us

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"It won’t change the face of music or knock the world off its axis, but Hell, Fire And Damnation is yet another damned fine addition." Saxon's new album emphatically ticks all the heavy metal boxes you're looking for

Saxon's twenty-fourth studio album brings the kind of heavy metal thunder you'd expect. And we wouldn't have it any other way

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"Even if you listen to a band every day, go to every show and follow their every move, they are not your friends." From Bad Omens to Sleep Token, it's time to talk about toxic fandom in metal

Fandom is an integral part of rock and metal culture, but with the internet giving us access to every aspect of a musician's life, is it any wonder members of various big metal bands are ditching social media entirely?

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"We were rivals once but it doesn't feel like there's any rivalry now. We're all on the same team, for heavy metal": Revisiting the first ever Big Four show, as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax invaded Poland in the summer of 2010

When thrash's Big Four rolled into Warsaw in June 2010, heavy metal history was made

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“These rebels are our own children… who masquerade at night in leather and chains yet retreat by the light of day back into the fabric of our society”: watch US TV show Tomorrow investigate the dark side of punk rock in America in 1980

Blood! Mohawks! Nazi salutes! In 1980, NBC’s The Tomorrow Show took a solemn, sober and unwittingly hilarious look at hardcore punk

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"North America shall gather in Worship once again": Sleep Token announce US and Canada tour dates, including two festival appearances

Vessel and his mysterious comrades reveal The Teeth of God tour schedule

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“It’s a big, festering, open sewer – it’s nothing to do with music”: Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson eviscerate hair metal in a 1990 interview

Iron Maiden’s frontman didn’t mince words when talking about the hedonism of certain ’80s metal bands

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Every Baroness album ranked from worst to best

The sludge darlings have made six remarkable records, but which entry in their technicolour spectrum is best?

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"Rock doesn’t need saving in 2024, but it’s nice to be reminded just how thrilling and relatable three chords and the truth can still be." 'Saviors' is inarguably Green Day's best album in 20 years

After the limp misfire of their last album, Green Day clearly have something to prove

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"The most surreal moment of my life was when Neil Young pied me": Robert Trujillo on a year in the life of Metallica

With 72 Seasons Metallica delivered the metal album of 2023: Bassist Robert Trujillo reviews ’Tallica’s year for us

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"We saved a lot of our favourite mementos, candid pics, and dirtiest souvenirs": Mötley Crüe have launched what they're calling "the world's most notorious museum"

Mötlety Crüe's Crüseum is open now, and the band have relaunched their official fan club

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"Making a split with someone after 10 years, 20 years, 30 years — there’s going to be some high highs and low lows as you begin to process it all". Chelsea Wolfe shares shadowy new single Everything Turns Blue

Doom goth Chelsea Wolfe releases the new single Everything Turns Blue, lifted from her forthcoming album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

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Mystic Festival announces 17 more bands to join 2024 headliners Megadeth, Bring Me The Horizon and Machine Head

Zeal & Ardor, Kadavar and Mork are among the new names added to the Polish metal festival, held in Gdansk in June

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The 10 best cover songs by thrash metal bands

Metallica, Slayer and Sepultura have all given classic songs a high-octane boot up the back side

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"The Mandrake Project is possibly the maddest idea in a career full of mad ideas." Bruce Dickinson's new comic book is weird, dark, funny and far more than a rock star vanity project

The Iron Maiden frontman has roped in some heavyweight comic book names for his latest endeavour - and it's worked rather well

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“Dust off your guitar (sorry, the snare drums will have to wait for another day)”: Metallica take potshots at St Anger in new announcement

Metallica are joining in with all your snare drum jokes as they team up with guitar app Fender Play

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Spiritbox are in the studio with ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish

Spiritbox guitarist Mike Stringer has teased a collaboration with the recently departed Bring Me The Horizon keyboardist

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"You're so independent; you're so tough": Relive the bizarre moment Donald Trump fired Gene Simmons on Celebrity Apprentice

According to Gene Simmons, it was all part of his plan

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"Nothing lasts forever". Sleep Token wipe their social media accounts and fans are freaking out

Sleep Token's wiped social media account have fans speculating - are they preparing to enter a new era or are they pissed off over a leak of their identity online?

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"This is more than just a song; it's a salute to a legend, a way to honor DMX's memory." Five Finger Death Punch recorded a song called This Is The Way featuring hip hop icon DMX - and we'll get to hear it next month

It turns out Five Finger Death Punch have a track featuring DMX, and the song will be released as a part of the deluxe edition of FFDP's latest album, Afterlife

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