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

Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week

Metal Hammer

“I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label

In 1970 they gave him Scotch in the morning, a big cash advance and a three-ton limousine. Eventually the man who’d hated the resulting album gave him a platinum disc for its sales

Louder

“A love letter to the retro sound and aesthetic that has shaped my music”: Suhr unveils its 2026 line-up – kicking off with new signatures for Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden and Lady Gaga’s riffer Tim Stewart

There’s also the return of its short-scale OSO models, and T-types aplenty

Guitar World

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"I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom

The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)

Louder

“You think back over what you have done and you drinka bottle of red wine and get out all the old albums and listen tothem until four o’clock in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71

He played on the band’s landmark albums and the worldwide hit Wind Of Change

MusicRadar

Harry Styles finally explains why he was at the Vatican as the Pope was announced

Styles was photographed during the historic event wearing a hat with the slogan ‘techno is my boyfriend’

The Independent UK

Dijon review – a dense and dramatic forest of futurist sound from Grammy-nominated R&B auteur

Nominated for producer of the year for his album Baby and work with Justin Bieber, the US musician’s passion and experimentalism shine in this daring performance

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Dijon live at O2 Brixton review: Raw, unflinching emotion from a true visionary

4/5 The spiritual lovechild of Prince and Frank Ocean flew in the face of all things prim and polished

Evening Standard

K-pop star Rain issues apology after calling out fan with hearing loss for not dancing at concert

Singer singled out the fan to ask her why she was not dancing

The Independent UK

Add to playlist: the Regency-styled 80s synth-pop revivalism of Haute & Freddy and the week’s best new tracks

The LA-based pop duo are sending a jolt through TikTok with maximalist songs that emote wildly in every direction

The Guardian - UK

Holy smoke! Divine intervention for Harry Styles’ haircut in Rome

The former One Direction star was spotted in the Vatican last March for Leo XIV’s first address as the new Pope.

Evening Standard

Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71

"Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched"

Metal Hammer

“He said, ‘I have to play on this. Give me a track’”: How three session-guitar aces and an inspired intervention from a “wunderkind” Steve Lukather saved a ‘70s soft-rock classic

England Dan and John Ford Coley's Love Is the Answer might not sound like the guitar track of nightmares but it took a lot of guitar talent to get it onto tape

Guitar World

Gary Barlow says watching old Take That footage is ‘very hard’

Pop band are the subject of a new Netflix documentary that explores their rise to fame, split and eventual reunion

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Harry Styles: Aperture review – a joyous, quietly radical track made for hugging strangers on a dancefloor

Styles is wonderfully loose and unhurried on the lead single to his new album, taking a bold path away from the rest of today’s mainstream pop

The Guardian - UK

Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse review – grief, grace and memory in a luminous folk rebirth

Moving from dream pop to acoustic clarity, the Dutch-British songwriter delivers her most personal record yet where loss is transformed into something quietly powerful

Evening Standard

Harry Styles says it is ‘hard to tell’ if he will still make music in 20 years

His fourth studio album Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally, will be released in March.

The Independent UK

Harry Styles review, ‘Aperture’ – Not trying so hard pays off on this giddy new single

4/5 Pop star returns with a sprawling house and dance-influenced track that yearns for adventure

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Harry Styles calls Shania Twain tour collaboration a ‘full circle’ moment

The pop star says he’s ‘honoured’ to have the music icon on his upcoming tour as she’s been in ‘my life for a really long time’

The Guardian - UK

‘Some artists thought it was too political’: can Jarvis, Damon, Olivia Rodrigo and Arctic Monkeys reboot the biggest charity album of the 90s?

Oasis, Macca and Radiohead made Help a smash for War Child in 1995. A new reboot packs comparable star power – and was partially produced from a hospital bed

Louder

"We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence

Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame

Evening Standard

Harry Styles ‘honoured’ to team up with Shania Twain for new tour

The singer’s first single in almost four years, titled Aperture, was released at midnight.

The Independent UK

From the rubble to the ritz: The story behind Arctic Monkeys’ earth-quaking debut album

IN FOCUS: Twenty years since the Sheffield band released ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, it remains the bedrock of contemporary British guitar music. Mark Beaumont speaks to producers Alan Smyth and Jim Abbiss about the making of a cultural H-bomb

MusicRadar

DW expands DWe line-up with Roland module and cymbal-equipped bundles

Premium DW shells paired with Roland's next-generation V71 and V51 modules and a choice of DW or Roland cymbals

MusicRadar

“Delivers portability without compromising the authentic feel and expressiveness of an acoustic drum kit": Donner enters the pro-level electronic drum set market with new flagship Groove Series

Mesh pads, space-saving setups and well-stocked modules are all on the menu from Donner's new line-up

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