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Guns N' Roses release anguished yet epic new recording of The General

The General is the b-side to new Guns N' Roses single Perhaps, and was recorded, mixed and mastered this summer

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Bloodstock festival adds Carcass, Sylosis, Satyricon and more to 2024 lineup

11 new bands have been added to the extreme metal festival, which will take place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, in August

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Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain reflects on ministroke: “I thought, ‘This is it, I’m not going to be able to play.’”

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain says he feared for his career after suffering a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in January

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"I won't go on stage until I've slaughtered 15 puppy dogs": Ozzy Osbourne on the most ridiculous rumour he's heard about himself

The Prince of Darkness says his bloodthirsty reputation once got him stopped from entering a circus because the performers thought he would try to kill the lions

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"We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness." Listen to Green Day's deeply "personal" new single, Dilemma

Dilemma is the latest track to be taken from new Green Day album Saviors, and is accompanied by a brand new video

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Vote for the best metal song of 2023

From Sleep Token to Metallica, Ghost to Babymetal, 2023 has seen some massive new songs. But now we need your help to crown the best metal songs of the year.

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The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of 2023 starring Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal, Avenged Sevenfold and more – and it comes with five exclusive gifts!

Get a Metallica patch and art print, a Ghost badge, an Iron Maiden poster and a 2024 calendar!

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"People that mostly know Skynyrd from Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama: there's this heavier, less mainstream side to them." Metallica's Lars Ulrich reveals the five Lynyrd Skynyrd deep cuts that everyone needs to hear

Metallica's drummer has been digging deep into Lynyrd Skynyrd's back catalogue. Do you know these lesser celebrated songs?

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“I just wanted to scream”: Taiwanese duo Laang 冷 are channelling a near-death experience into ferocious black metal

Haitao Yang was shot in the head in 2017. 18 months later, the musician started unloading his trauma into the intense black metal of Laang 冷.

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"Our intention was to go out on stage and destroy all living things": How Gene Simmons intimidated Geezer Butler when Kiss supported Black Sabbath

Kiss supported Black Sabbath for three dates on the Sabotage tour, and Gene Simmons remembers it well

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The 10 best horror movies of 2023

From Saw X to Skinamarink, these are the horrors that had us cowering behind splayed fingers in 2023

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Sleep Token just played Take Me Back To Eden’s title track live for the first time

Watch masked metal collective Sleep Token debut their eight-minute prog metal opus onstage last night

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Every Grand Theft Auto soundtrack ranked from worst to best

With the GTA 6 trailer finally out in the world, we rank the soundtrack of every main entry of the series so far

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"It was the most scary thing any of us had ever been through." Ronnie James Dio on the "evil spirit" that apparently sabotaged Rainbow and ended up pushing his wife down the stairs

While recording in a haunted château, Ronnie James Dio believed he'd accidentally summoned a "really evil spirit" that caused chaos during their sessions

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Bruce Dickinson on mortality and whether he'd pay to live for another 50 years: "Technology is advancing to the point for many things where we are all living longer, more effective lives. Which is great – as long as you do something with it"

After beating cancer and receiving two hip replacements, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson says medical technology has kept him alive

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Ozzy Osbourne ponders making new music with A.I. Randy Rhoads riffs: “I’m open for anything, if it was good quality.”

The Prince Of Darkness says he’s “open” to using A.I. riffs based on recordings by his late guitarist Randy Rhoads

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“The blueprint for the beginning of death metal.” How Slayer dragged metal to new depths of evil with Show No Mercy

From the otherwise hair metal backdrop of Los Angeles, Slayer began a campaign of pure, satanic thrash with Show No Mercy

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The ten best Nine Inch Nails deep cuts

Heading into the darker corners of Trent Reznor's industrial-rock titans

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"This is a road that I can’t walk down." Funeral For A Friend frontman Matthew Davies-Kreye has left the band after 20 years

Funeral For A Friend have announced the departure of longtime frontman Matthew Davies-Kreye, reveal temporary replacement vocalist

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Does anyone else remember the time Metallica’s Kirk Hammett played Bleed onstage with Meshuggah?

Metallica’s guitarist once joined tech-metal heavyweights Meshuggah to shred the solo of Bleed – watch the footage here

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Creeper announce surprise bonus UK tour - and this time it's featuring some seriously intimate venues

UK goth-punks Creeper will take the magnificent Sanguivore back on the road next Spring

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"Go take a look at some real rock and roll fans - not a bunch of posers who wanna go down the front." Why Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson wasn't a fan of the crowd at Power Trip festival

The Iron Maiden frontman was surprised to find that many diehard fans didn't get anywhere near the band at their historic Power Trip show in October

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"It has been far too long." Jane's Addiction announce 2024 UK and Europe tour

Jane's Addiction are jumping across the pond for the first time in eight years for a UK/EU tour in May 2024

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In 1995 Ozzy Osbourne revisited his old school in Birmingham: The kids didn't know who he was

In which Ozzy Osbourne shows the BBC the band name he carved into the brickwork outside his childhood home

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Much-loved Bath venue Moles to close immediately after 45 years as cost of living crisis continues to bite

Owners of Bath Moles file for insolvency and appeal for industry help to stave off grassroots sector collapse

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