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New Killswitch Engage album is “angry, dark and aggressive” because that’s “what the world needs right now”, says Jesse Leach

“I think a lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album”

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Hear folk metal heroes Eluveitie’s first new single in two years, Premonition

The song will be on the Swiss outfit’s next album, expected in 2025, and they’ll probably play it on their impending European tour with Arch Enemy, too

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Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.

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“It's about finding inner strength to fight in immensely hard times. To call on our ancestors when going up against the impossible.” On the evidence of new single Platinum, Penelope Trappes' forthcoming record A Requiem could be one of the albums of 2025

“All of the elements of my album are in this video. Mourning of the growing distance between family, homeland, mortality awareness, and the inevitability of death”

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Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue, which comes with an Iron Maiden Powerslave patch, a Nightwish notebook and a 2025 heavy metal calendar

The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it's on sale now!

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"Phil wouldn't be afraid to throw a punch, but it was Eddie who gave people a battering": How Motörhead made their game-changing Overkill album and the anarchic tour that followed

An exclusive extract from Kris Needs' biography Make My Day: The Rock'n'Roll Story Of Eddie Clarke

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Former Rainbow singer Graham Bonnet has just told the most disappointing Ozzy Osbourne story ever

Rock, and indeed, roll

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Soundgarden's surviving members are reuniting for a show in Seattle

Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron will reunite onstage at a benefit for Seattle Children’s Hospital

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Live Is But A Dream…: Avenged Sevenfold announce European summer tour for 2025

The hard rock/heavy metal titans will play arenas and festivals across the continent in June

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“Over the last 10 years, I’ve been a bit disillusioned by popular music. The business sucks.” A revitalised Trent Reznor is ready to to be “back in the driver’s seat” again with a new Nine Inch Nails project

Nine Inch Nails might be back with us sooner than we had imagined

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“This one shifts gears from the fast and furious energy of our two recent singles”: Hear Arch Enemy put the “melodic” into “melodic death metal” on new single Blood Dynasty

The stomping track is taken from the Arch Enemy album of the same name, out next year

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Vote for the best metal song of 2024

From Judas Priest to Poppy, Spiritbox, Ghost and beyond, 2024 has offered some great new metal tunes. But now we need your help deciding the best of the best

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“This is definitely terrible!” Watch Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst drink hot dog-flavoured water

The beverage was served with a side of legitimately chocolate starfish, because how could it not be?

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“Our schedules have caused this to take longer than expected, thanks for bearing with us”: Former Killswitch Engage bandmates Howard Jones and Adam D’s new project has a name, album almost finished

The former metalcore cohorts have been hard at work on their first album together since 2009

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"Often mesmerising, sometimes strange but never less than compelling." Sleep Token show London why they've become metal's biggest success story in over two decades

The mysterious masked metallers put on a dazzling second show at a packed-out London O2

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The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

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Start your neck warmups now: UK metalcore hellraisers Heriot announce biggest-ever headline tour

One of this country’s best up-and-coming metal bands will hit the road in April

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"As I have from the beginning, I deny the allegations": Axl Rose settles sexual assault lawsuit, maintains innocence

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was accused of assaulting former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy in 1989

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Slipknot announce shows in Australia and New Zealand

The Nine will play sideshows in Adelaide and Auckland in addition to already-announced Knotfest dates

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"The progressive rock-ness of this huge epic pushed me in a whole new direction": Slash and Duff McKagan have combined forces on a colossal new song

Slash and Duff McKagan appear together on I Can Breathe, a new charity single by Gibson Brand

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Spiritbox announce 2025 North American tour with stacked list of support acts

The Grammy-nominated metalcore stars will trek across the States and Canada shortly after the release of new album Tsunami Sea

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Dream Theater share hard-hitting video for new single A Broken Man

Dream Theater's first new album with Mike Portnoy for 16 years, Parasomnia, will be released in February

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“Our team are continuing to work on new projects with Iron Maiden that we are excited to share with you somewhere down the line”: Iron Maiden mobile game Legacy Of The Beast is shutting down after eight years

The role-playing game, which lets players control multiple eras of iconic mascot Eddie, will no longer be playable or downloadable after December 31

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The Ocean share new collaboration with darkwave artist Sierra

The Ocean and Sierra release a limited edition 7" single featuring reworked versions of Boreal and Traum

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"They wouldn't have a clue." Kiss bassist Gene Simmons believes that no-one aged 20 or younger can name a single song by Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Gene Simmons: "Ask the first young person you meet, 'Name me anybody in Pearl Jam.' Good luck with that"

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