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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Architects, Body Count and Spiritbox are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Listen to melodic new Bury Tomorrow single What If I Burn, taken from 2025 album Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience

The metalcore firebrands have offered another instantly catchy anthem and announced their next studio album

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“I had jellyfish stings all over my body”: From a near-death experience to international acclaim, the story of cult prog metal label Pelagic Records

The Ocean guitarist Robin Staps founded Pelagic Records to reissue one of his band’s albums. 15 years later, the label is home to post-metal’s best and brightest.

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"Alcohol is a depressant, so I got depressed": A poignant interview with the late Chris Cornell

Classic Rock's final interview with Chris Cornell: Grunge superstar, acoustic balladeer, would-be R&B lover-man, drinker

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“We go very deep into the struggles of starting the band, the impact of the tape-trading community back then, and loads of stories and interesting moments that led to the band being where we are today”: A Kreator biography is coming in 2025

Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year

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“It was a do-or-die moment”: Arch Enemy “didn’t have high hopes” for War Eternal album after Angela Gossow left

Guitarist Michael Amott and drummer Daniel Erlandsson admit Arch Enemy considered packing it in after losing their longtime vocalist in 2014

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“The most psychedelic trip you’ll ever have sober”: Baroness, Graveyard and Pallbearer conquer adversity to give London a heavy metal high

Overcoming technical troubles and an initially thin crowd, the three bands offer unique approaches to mind-expanding music

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Watch the visualiser for Michael Schenker and Axl Rose's epic cover of UFO's Love To Love

Axl Rose and Michael Schenker, together forever via the medium of animation

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"Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years

As the 1980s dawned, Iron Maiden were about to record their debut album. It was the start of a journey that would launch them into the stratosphere, but there were some massive hurdles to overcome first

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"I love programming all of the pre-show house music": Listen to the audience playlist Mike Portnoy compiled for the Dream Theater tour

Mike Portnoy's DT40 audience playlist includes songs by Snarky Puppy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Frank Zappa, Jack White and many more

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Green Day, The Prodigy, Misfits and more announced for Coachella 2025

The 2025 Coachella festival will take place in Indio, California, next April – and the headliners have been named

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Fred Durst having a conversation with a goblin is the most deranged non-interview of 2024

Fred Durst doesn’t always do press, but when he does, he pretends he’s a guy called Gary who paints teabags for a living

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Coheed And Cambria announce third Vaxis album The Father Of Make Believe

US prog rockers Coheed And Cambria will release their latest album The Father Of Make Believe in March

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"I used to be a trance vocalist." Delain's Diana Leah picks the 10 songs that changed her life

From Linkin Park to Sleep Token, The Weeknd and Faithless, Delain vocalist Diana Leah shares the songs that changed her life

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"Trevor would've loved the new album." How The Black Dahlia Murder triumphed over tragedy with Servitude

The 2022 passing of Trevor Strnad could easily have spelled the end for The Black Dahlia Murder. Instead, they rallied to create an album worthy of his legacy

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“I was bleeding everywhere. It was wild!” Atreyu bassist has “a dent in my skull” after opening for Iron Maiden

“A lot of stuff” was thrown at Atreyu when they supported Iron Maiden in 2009, including a coin which caught Marc McKnight beneath the eye and dented his skull

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Watch Rolo Tomassi play their biggest-ever UK show in new pro-shot footage

The mathcore underdogs have uploaded the entirety of their new live album, Live At The Electric Ballroom, to Youtube. Watch for free here.

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Listen to the first Killswitch Engage song in five years, Forever Aligned

The metalcore mavens have also announced ninth album This Consequence, due next year

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AEW launches epic wrestling video using Guns N' Roses' equally epic November Rain

The November Rain video arrives ahead of his weekend's AEW Full Gear pay-per-view event

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"We’re so happy to be back." Architects announce new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between: listen to new single Whiplash now

Brighton's greatest metal export will release a new album next year!

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"I wasn’t ready for a 13-minute song like Rime Of The Ancient Mariner." Members of Arch Enemy, Testament, Fozzy and Wargasm explain how Powerslave shaped modern metal

Forget Number Of The Beast - these bands say Powerslave is Iron Maiden's greatest achievement

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Poppy announces 2025 North American tour

Poppy is taking her metalcore era to the US and Canada next year!

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Leprous share drum playthrough video for Atonement

Norwegian proggers Leprous will tour Europe, Latin America and return to North America in the first half of 2025

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"This is Opeth’s best since the career-making heights of Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries." The Last Will And Testament is Opeth at their most groundbreakingly brilliant

Opeth go Miss Marple via Edgar Allen Poe on the prog-death-jazz metal odyssey that is The Last Will And Testament

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"I don’t like comedy heavy metal." Comedian Frank Skinner reveals the beloved British rock band he'd banish forever

British comedy icon Frank Skinner explains why he'd choose to send one of the UK's biggest 21st century rock bands to Room 101

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