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Dolphin studies Drinkwater to hammer home advantage

Dolphins fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow is watching North Queensland No.1 Scott Drinkwater's highlight reels to improve his ball-playing ahead of their clash.

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“Vultures were on the bedpost. It was a dark road and I was losing my lust for life”: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is metal’s great survivor

Drugs, feuds, bitter ex-bandmates – Dave Mustaine has weathered everything life threw at him. And in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, he wasn’t about to roll over yet

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“The heart of darkness for me is a heart of honesty, it’s the heart of vulnerability”: how Ville Valo pulled back from the abyss and bared his soul on HIM’s Screamworks

In 2010, Hammer visited HIM frontman Ville Valo at home in Helsinki to talk about the goth-metal band’s new album, Screamworks: Love in Theory And Practice

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Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

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The 20 greatest Korn songs ever - as voted by you

They kickstarted nu metal and have become living metal legends, but which Korn song is the greatest of all? Here's what you picked

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"You’ll find out over the next couple of years what it means when Beartooth headline": Caleb Shomo on idolising David Draiman, duetting with Papa Roach and whether he'd reunite with Attack Attack!

Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo answers your questions on the most rock'n'roll song of all time, what it was like meeting David Draiman and Papa Roach and whether Beartooth are ready to headline festivals

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"Opeth and Scissor Sisters are fans of mine": comedian Bill Bailey talks Mastodon, Ghost and why he'd love to have a nerdy conversation with Prince

Musical comedian Bill Bailey answers your questions on his favourite instrument, exotic animals and why he misses Never Mind The Buzzcocks

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"They’re both extreme, and they can be intimidating to an outsider." Svalbard made one of 2023's most personal and emotional metal albums. It was at least partly inspired by rollercoasters

Hammer spent the day riding the rails at Thorpe Park with self-confessed rollercoaster fanatic Serena Cherry to uncover the truth behind Svalbard's new album Weight Of The Mask

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"There have been pivotal moments, like playing with Metallica or Iron Maiden for the first time, where you go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’" We went to LA to see Ghost's world takeover reach yet another new peak

From setting the stage for Sleep Token to making metal sexy again, Tobias Forge takes us inside the final days of Impera

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“It’s a place where outsiders live. When you’re getting hit in the face for being a dirty grunger, it’s a world to escape to.” How UK goth-punks Creeper crafted a deliciously dark new world for outcasts everywhere to hide in. With vampires.

Creeper's Sanguivore is one of the albums of the year, and with it they - and in particular talismanic frontman Will Gould - have crafted a whole new world

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Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning review – Hammer horror meets Victorian melodrama

Strong performances are the lifeblood of Morna Pearson’s new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale for the National Theatre of Scotland and Aberdeen Performing Arts

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"We have to bring people together not divide them": Electric Callboy don't mind being tagged a 'novelty' band so long as they can make metalheads smile

German 'dance' metal crew Electric Callboy answer your questions on rebranding, dance anthems and going viral with songs like Pump It and Hypa Hypa

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“We came as ambassadors for heavy music, so we did our job”: How butt-plugs, sold out shows and Iron Maiden helped Lord Of The Lost laugh off their Eurovision loss

Lord Of The Lost have met King Charles, played Eurovision and supported Iron Maiden - and that's just in 2023. Behind the scenes with one of Germany's fastest rising metal bands

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"I said, 'Can we have flames coming out of it?'" Cyborgs, Samurai and gun battles: backstage and front row for Iron Maiden's massive Future Past tour

Inside the mischief and mayhem of Iron Maiden's Future Past tour as Hammer join the band in Prague

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"There definitely will be an end, but I don’t see it any time right now." Rumours of Sevendust's demise have been greatly exaggerated:

Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon answers questions on zombies, Woodstock 99, Beyoncé and why he's proud to be nu metal

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Brimson targets Maroons No.1 after Walsh suspension

Gold Coast fullback AJ Brimson says he wants to end his two-year Queensland absence as selector Darren Lockyer provides a clue on who will replace Reece Walsh.

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Bennett: Best of 'Val Meninga' yet to come for Dolphins

Dolphins' cult hero Valynce Te Whare has caught Wayne Bennett's eye as he prepares to line up alongside a repurposed Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow against Brisbane.

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Hammer's Dolphins switch, O'Sullivan puts demons to bed

Dolphins halfback Sean O'Sullivan has full confidence in his body ahead of facing Brisbane as Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow moves to centre and Kodi Nikorima to No.1.

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Hammer wants bragging rights as Broncos showdown looms

Dolphins fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow says Billy Slater's tips and a desire to end a three-game losing streak has him primed to fire against the Broncos.

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Jesse Leach: "After Alive Or Just Breathing came out, I was not in a great place"

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks new music, who he'd pick for his Roadrunner United team and the greatest hardcore song ever written

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We went on the road with Gojira for their biggest French show ever, and it was mindblowingly good

You haven't lived until you've seen 16 thousand Parisians screaming along to Gojira

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Slater hails Walsh, Hammer in Maroons No.1 battle

Queensland coach Billy Slater has been impressed with the form of Reece Walsh and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow as the race heats up to don the No.1 for State of Origin.

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Renfield review: Hilarity, Hammer horror style

Renfield draws on the classical Hammer horror style Dracula and gives it a modern twist.

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Bennett likens 'Hammer' to Latrell as No.1 clash looms

Wayne Bennett says Rabbitohs No.1 Latrell Mitchell could shine at five-eighth and has given Dolphins fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow a huge wrap.

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'The Hammer' inks two-year Dolphins deal

Former North Queensland speedster Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow will join the Dolphins where he is expected to be the new NRL club's fullback.

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