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Watch rare, newly unearthed, footage of an unmasked Slipknot soundchecking for a hometown club show in 2000, plus footage of that wild Des Moines gig

A Slipknot fan account on Instagram posts rare footage of The Nine unmasked on New Year's Day 2000

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A Limp Bizkit-inspired IPA called “Fred Thirst” exists now

Swap that hot dog-flavoured water for something a bit more palatable

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Reactivated Nevermore holding open auditions for new singer and bassist

Returning members Jeff Loomis and Van Williams are also defending the comeback following criticism from founding bassist Jim Sheppard

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"We got **** in the press, we got bullied...but we’ve had the same trajectory." Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are together on the cover of Metal Hammer for the first time ever

We speak to Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium about 20 years of The Poison and Ascendency

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“I wanted to explore melody even more than we have in the past”: Employed To Serve’s next album inspired by In Flames

The UK metalcore bruisers have pulled influence from Gothenburg metal for their hotly anticipated fifth album

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“The lowest on my list of things we’ve ever done”: M. Shadows names the Avenged Sevenfold song he considers a “throwaway”

“That’s not a great ballad. We’ve had much better ballads.”

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"It's adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall": Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes have recorded a song with Robbie Williams

Former Take That star Robbie Williams has confirmed the unlikely collaboration

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“We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before”: Bruce Dickinson promises Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour will have a “setlist for the ages”

Bruce Dickinson wants us to expect big things from Iron Maiden’s Run For Your Lives tour this year

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“Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy in Heaven”: Scorpions and former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee was hospitalised with sepsis last month

The Scorpions/ex-Motörhead man is at home recovering after a series of surgeries, but is expected to appear at all of his current band’s planned live dates

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"I like those guys in concept." Watch legendary former Police drummer Stewart Copeland create a magical new foundation for a classic nu metal anthem

This is what happens when one of rock's greatest drummers hears a nu metal standard for the first time

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Former Iron Maiden man Tony Moore announces UK tour dates

One-time Iron Maiden and Cutting Crew keyboard player Tony Moore will tour his recent Awake album in January

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Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is making a solo album

The now-Suicidal Tendencies member says he’s been working on his own music since his early 20s

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“The world my kid is going into is insane. I can’t write positive lyrics”: How In Flames defied the haters and the apocalypse to make A Sense Of Purpose

The end of the world? That was just inspiration for In Flames’ ninth album, A Sense Of Purpose

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"My anger is a gift. But it's consuming me." Inside the rebirth of Jason Aalon Butler's genre-splicing punk machine, Fever 333

Forced to rebuild from scratch, Jason Aalon Butler is finding ways to harness the storm - and find his peace - on Fever 333's Darker White

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"It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts

From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon

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"When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted to have anything to do with it": How Eddie Van Halen became a superstar and the real story of Van Halen's biggest-selling album

Welcome to 1984: it was the album that would see Van Halen straddle theplanet like a rock colossus, but it would also mark the end of the originalline-up

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Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024

From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

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“I was fired after two months because I was playing guitar with a dildo and being an idiot”: The wild life and crazed career of Devin Townsend, metal’s misunderstood maverick

From defecating in Steve Vai‘s guitar case to puppet-based concept albums, Devin Townsend is out there on his own

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“We jammed with Zeppelin. John Bonham said, ‘Let’s play that song of yours I like.’ That was Supernaut”: Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session

Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?

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“Everyone was singing about Satan back then, but I don’t believe in Satan so I needed something that was real to me”: How Amon Amarth became the world’s favourite 21st century Viking metal berserkers

Amon Amarth’s 2008 album Twilight Of The Thunder God transformed them from death metal hopefuls into all-conquering Viking metal chieftains

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Why Robert Trujillo hasn’t written much Metallica music: “These guys write amazing songs, and I’m not going to suddenly insert myself”

The bassist has co-written only a handful of Metallica tracks since joining the metal titans in 2003

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“If you look at the leads he was doing and when he was doing them, he kind of innovated a lot of that stuff”: Slayer’s Kerry King names metal’s most overlooked guitarist

The Slayer man makes the claim while listing his five favourite players of all time

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Prog metal heroes Nevermore tease reunion with cryptic social media vignette

The American band’s ranks have included Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy), Chris Broderick (In Flames/ex-Megadeth), Pat O’Brien (ex-Cannibal Corpse) and late singer Warrel Dane

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"Rock and roll is all about being defiant." Do rappers belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Absolutely, says Offspring guitarist Noodles

The Offspring's Noodles says Rock Hall should be inclusive – but he doesn't think his band will ever be inducted

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“Thank God we had strippers! They make great money”: Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler on the chaos and carnage of making Appetite For Destruction

The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it

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