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"That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalls his hard rock education before the era of 'The Guitar Olympics'

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“As a band you can be just awful and still have lots of success. But they were truly great.” The tragic story of Snot, the best lost band in nu metal history

Snot were set to be the next Faith No More. But then the death of magnetic frontman Lynn Strait cut their ascent heartbreakingly short.

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"I don't think their IQ is very high": watch the Beastie Boys behave like obnoxious frat boy jerks on Dutch TV

When the Beastie Boys appeared on Dutch pop show Countdown in 1987 they could hardly have been more irritating

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"Hunger is what keeps you alive": How nerve damage and burnout led Linnéa Olsson to embrace vulnerability and anger with Maggot Heart

With their third album Hunger, Maggot Heart channelled the moodiness of post-punk into an empowering and surprisingly vulnerable statement

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“One slide was closed down – somebody broke their nose on it”: MTV once took Alice In Chains to the deadliest waterpark in America

In 1993, Headbangers Ball host Riki Rachtman treated Alice In Chains to a day in New Jersey’s Action Park. He had no idea the waterpark claimed six lives in 10 years.

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"Hopefully we get more horny metal songs in 2024": Inspired by Bat Out Of Hell and the theatricality of Ziggy Stardust, Creeper have proved Sleep Token aren't the only band bringing sex appeal back to metal

Creeper's Sanguivore is a gloriously OTT vision of the vampire-goth-rock opera inspired by Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman and classic vampire horror movies

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"We're the only species capable of destroying itself (and all others) completely and, increasingly, it appears as though we're only too willing": Listen to Enter Shikari and Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler collaborate on the furious Losing My Grip

Enter Shikari and Fever 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler join forces for fiery new single Losing My Grip

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“Say goodbye to this guy and get ready for the new look”: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson teases new era for the band – but terrifies fans into thinking he’s leaving

Slipknot turntablist Sid Wilson’s comments telling fans to “say goodbye” to the band’s old look startled some, following Craig Jones and Jay Weinberg’s 2023 exits

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“It is by far the most difficult album I’ve ever worked on”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach gives update on long-awaited ninth record

Killswitch Engage’s vocalist has reflected on making the band’s first album in five years, saying he sees “the distant light at the end of this long tunnel”

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“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

When guitarist Scott Black asked his grandmother for a Machine Head album, she bought him Deep Purple’s Machine Head – and so began a journey into mixing folk prog with 70s rock

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The Clutch albums you should definitely own

Since emerging from the DC scenes of punk, funk and go-go, Clutch have united the rock nation under their groove

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Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says the word 'grunge' was nothing but a marketing ploy

Soundgarden guitarist says grunge bands never used the word – but marketing types were all over it

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"Mike Bloomfield came up to me at the Avalon Ballroom and says, ‘You can’t do that’. I said, ‘C’mon, Mike, you can do it, too. All you gotta do is turn this knob up to 10'": The story of Blue Cheer - the band who invented heavy metal

LSD, rehab, whiskey, fights, and in their spare time Blue Cheer invented heavy metal. This is their twisted tale

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"It's like a song from a parallel universe!" The funkiest, grooviest Korn remix ever just dropped, and it's got a classic Black Sabbath solo stitched in

Ignore all that Blue Monday nonsense, and get your groove on with this fiercely infectious new Korn mash-up

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“We are on the brink of an autocratic government, someone who is blatantly saying, If I’m president again, I’m going to be a dictator:” Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong fears for America's future

“America is not supposed to be about the cult of personality”

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Will Creed make new music together? Scott Stapp hopes so

Scott Stapp can’t certainly say if Creed will write new songs, but he embraces the idea with arms wide open

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Watch this incredible YouTuber play death metal classics by Cannibal Corpse, At The Gates and In Flames on piano

Pianist Catherine Fearns is giving some of metal’s most brutal songs the classical treatment, and they sound shockingly elegant

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10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film

Want to see Ghost, Rage Against The Machine and Spiritbox’s first times on a stage? These clips have got you covered!

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"People have heard it and loved it." We have an update on that Cradle Of Filth x Ed Sheeran collaboration (and we may still be waiting a while to hear it)

Dani Filth has offered updates on Cradle Of Filth’s team-up with pop sensation Ed Sheeran and the band’s long-awaited 14th album

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"Change is good - and bold transformation is exactly what has allowed the metalcore collective to stay relevant over the years." Bring Me The Horizon show Manchester AO Arena why they're this metal generation's top dogs

If Jordan Fish's exit has shaken the band, they show no signs of it with an immense, retina-singeing headline show in Manchester

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10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat

Not everyone can be Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio…

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10 classic metal albums celebrating major anniversaries in 2024

From Judas Priest's seminal debut to nu metal and metalcore landmarks, these iconic records all changed the game

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10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard

From Iron Maiden going full prog to Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water, only completists will have heard these extraordinary covers

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Mudvayne's Chad Gray slams new bands for all sounding "the same"

Mudvayne singer hits out at current crop of nu metal-inspired bands and says they all sound exactly the same

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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda reflects on Hybrid Theory: “I was standing on red carpets with celebrities and thinking, ‘Wow, this is so weird.’”

Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda has reflected on the strangeness and vindication of groundbreaking debut album Hybrid Theory in a new interview

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