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“I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol

Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes once told future indie sensations Snow Patrol, to their faces, that they’d never hit the big time

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State of Origin 2025 Game 3: where the series decider will be won and lost

From the huge decision to bring Josh Papalii out of Origin retirement to a titanic tussle in the centres, the series finale in Sydney promises intrigue

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

Judas Priest, Lord Of The Lost and Warkings are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Quatermass 2 review – Hammer turns up the heat in enjoyable alien invader sequel

The brusque, unsmiling American rocket scientist returns with a bigger budget and more action alongside an entertaining turn from Sid James as an inebriated journalist

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"You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem

Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story

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Hammer time as Dolphins soar back into NRL top eight

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow scored four tries in a timely pre-Origin performance as the Dolphins streaked clear of South Sydney and shot back into the NRL's top eight.

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"He thought of all the sounds we chose as my voices - these machines are singing and crying and talking or laughing in the same way that we do”: Lorde on the Frank Ocean collaborator who helped to humanise the synth sounds on her new album, Virgin

The star performed a secret set to open this weekend's Glastonbury Festival

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“It’s an invisible bond that can’t be broken”: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

We talk to all four members of Sabbath ahead of their final show, taking place in the city where they started heavy metal

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“The more successful we become, the lonelier it gets”: Why your favourite British metal bands are breaking up

UK metal beloveds Svalbard, Orange Goblin and Ithaca will all split in the coming months. Their reasons why hint at a grim future for the country’s alternative artists.

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“The goal was to die onstage!” Why retirement is a four-letter word for Metallica’s Kirk Hammett

Metallica’s lead guitarist tells Metal Hammer he doesn’t “believe” in the idea of willingly stepping away from music

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The Quatermass Xperiment review – Hammer’s first sci-fi hit is brash, watchable B-movie

A spacecraft crashes back to Earth in an English field in this BBC series spinoff from the soon-to-be-legendary house of horror

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Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else

Metal Hammer has teamed with Volbeat to bring you an exclusive package celebrating their new album God Of Angels Trust

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"An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show

From beloved rarities getting dusted off to some truly impressive new visuals, Maiden kicked off their new world tour in style

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Monster Hunter Wilds' weakest weapon is probably my beloved hammer, but good news, bonk fans: Capcom is buffing it so hard that it can't fit it all in one patch

Here bud, that's no a bonk machine

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“We were in New York on 9/11 – it felt like the whole world was falling down”: Incubus reflect on playing two NYC shows days after the World Trade Center attacks

Brandon Boyd tells Metal Hammer about how selling out the Hammerstein Ballroom on September 15 and 16, 2001 brought “lightness in a dark period of time”

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Tony Adkins death: X-Factor legend and Simon Cowell’s former bodyguard dies, aged 64

The bodyguard was often called upon to remove angry contestants on the talent show

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"That's legendary status right there." Watch Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Within Temptation, Ice-T, Lacuna Coil, Jesse Leach, Hanabie and more celebrate 400 issues of Metal Hammer

Hammer celebrates 400 issues with an all-star line-up of metal stars

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Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue

This month saw the launch of Metal Hammer's 400th issue - so we released our own beer and threw a party to celebrate

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“Metallica were still a local band. It made no sense for me to say, ‘I’m out of here, I’m going to join them”: The man who was asked to replace James Hetfield as singer in Metallica – and turned it down

In 1983, Metallica almost got a new singer

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Sharon Osbourne remembers first thoughts when she laid eyes on Ozzy: “What the f*ck?!”

Sharon Osbourne first saw her husband at a Black Sabbath show when she was 18 – and it was unlike anything she’d experienced before

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“I’ve had dreams about a meteor hitting us. It’s only a matter of time. We deserve it, to be honest”: Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world

Electric Wizard’s 2014 album Time To Die was a masterclass in apocalyptic doom necromancy

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This was the one “beneficial” thing from the Norwegian black metal church burnings, according to Wardruna’s Einar Selvik

“It’s hard to defend a lot of the stuff that happened in that period but, in retrospect, it moved some boundaries that needed to be moved”

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I got Metal Hammer’s writers to name the ‘bad’ metal albums they can’t get enough of

From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend their favourite clangers

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”

The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years

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Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more

Celebrate the release of Ghost’s Skeletá with this stacked Metal Hammer package – available only through our webstore!

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