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No-frills thrash, heart-rending doom and demented black metal: the 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Anthrax, Green Lung, Sicksense and Warning lead this week’s heavy picks – vote for your favourite here

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Thrash legends Anthrax announce their first album in a decade - order an exclusive red vinyl variant of Cursum Perficio only via Metal Hammer

Get a lush transparent red vinyl edition of the new Anthrax album right here

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"It's been more than a decade… but we're back." Anthrax announce new single, confirm first album in a decade

Cursum Perficio, the follow-up to 2016's For All Kings, will be released later this year

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“Their first record was very different from the record they made after they met me and the guys in Metallica”: Dave Mustaine on the influence he had on the Big Four of thrash metal

Mustaine makes a compelling argument that he directly inspired the likes of Kerry King and Scott Ian

Guitar World

"We're honouring a legend." Inside King Ultramega, the star-studded tribute to Chris Cornell featuring members of Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax and more

How a spur-of-the-moment pandemic jam turned into a special tribute to a much-missed legend

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Anthrax-causing bacteria have dwelled in soil for centuries – cycling through people, animals and earth

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and blood-filled tissues.

The Conversation

"Gandalf is rocking out to dwarven metal while the guitarist from Anthrax commandeers soft serve ice cream." Mosh pits in hot tubs and stage dives over the sea: what it's like on the world's biggest heavy metal cruise

Anthrax, Paradise Lost, Eluveitie and more packed out this year's 70000 Tons Of Metal

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Diagnostic dilemma: Teenager contracts rare 'welder's anthrax,' marking the ninth known case ever reported

A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation.

LiveScience

“Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

1986 was the year where thrash metal broke through. We got the genre’s leading bands to look back on those whirlwind 12 months.

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“Philip might just call and go, ‘Guys, why don’t we get together, and we’ll do something… we’ll do a band.’ So yeah, you never know”: Zakk Wylde says it's possible that the Pantera tribute lineup could record music together

The Black Label Society frontman/guitarist says "never say never" – but if they did it might end up like the Eagles

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"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name

Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name

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Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus

Megadeth's farewell plans now include a 12-date tour of Canada with fellow thrash metal titans

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"They commenced to destroy, slaughter and wipe the stage with our blood." How a hip hop powerhouse and a heavy metal institution united to create a whole new genre - and spark one of the rowdiest tours in history

How thrash kingpins Anthrax and hip hop titans Public Enemy created the greatest rap-metal song of all

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“I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness

A year before Nirvana broke out with Nevermind, Alice In Chains Seattle’s grunge scene on the map

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Iron Maiden announce Run For Your Lives North American tour for 2026 including Louder Than Life festival - and they'd like you to keep your phones away

North America needs to get ready to run for its life!

MusicRadar

“Now do it with upstrokes only”: Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been to the Upside Down but this backwards version might be the Strangest Thing you’ll hear this year

Evile's Ol Drake has played the thing that should not be – Masters Of Puppets, only backwards, and it'll give you whiplash

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Watch Gene Simmons officiate at 2025's most rock'n'roll wedding

The Kiss man presided over the wedding of Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and former Butcher Babies singer Carla Harvey

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Crazy Sheep? Anthrax become the latest victims of AI slop impostors

Their new ‘album’ suggested a sudden detour into EDM

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Thrash legends Anthrax join 2026's stacked 70000Tons Of Metal cruise bill, as the on-sale date for tickets for next year's voyage is revealed

NYC thrash icons Anthrax join Soilwork, Amorphis, Insomnium, Kamelot, Gama Bomb, Vio-Lence and more on the 2026 70000Tons Of Metal line-up

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"Ozzy goes, 'I thought it was some ***hole dressed as the guy from Kiss!'" Anthrax's Scott Ian reveals his most hilarious memory of the Prince Of Darkness

Scott Ian recalls a funny encounter with Ozzy Osbourne that took place at one fateful Halloween show

Guitar World

“The truth of the matter is, I don’t believe that anybody asked us”: James LoMenzo reveals Megadeth weren't invited to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final show

The other members of the Big Four of thrash metal – Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax – all participated in Back to the Beginning

The Independent UK

From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation

The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250

The Guardian - UK

‘He spoke up for me when I was in prison’: Anthrax, Lamb of God, Rick Wakeman and more share memories of Ozzy Osbourne

After Osbourne’s death at 76, the heavy metal greats he inspired remember his pranks, generosity and quadruple brandies – and relive the tears at his farewell show

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"An evolving creation to pay tribute to the voice of a generation": Listen to new supergroup King Ultramega's cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage

King Ultramega are made up of members of Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax and Metal Allegiance

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“I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets

Armored Saint vocalist John Bush says it wasn’t his “destiny” to front the biggest metal band of all time

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