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9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band

From Lars Ulrich to Lzzy Hale, these are the rare metal musicians who hit the big time on their very first go

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"Dad was the guy that would get us Christmas presents and then steal them back to pawn them." Tragedy hasn't stopped Texans Frozen Soul from finding warmth in old school death metal

Frozen Soul's frost-obsession might seem strange for a Texan band, but their story is one of triumph over tragedy and essential escapism

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"We’ve never done a proper, real tour together. Which is nuts, because we’ve toured with everyone!": How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine have teamed up for 2025's biggest metal event

In 2005, two rising stars of metal's next generation released landmark albums. Next year, they'll tour together for the first time to celebrate them

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"Before Deathgasm, whenever movies needed a bully, they put them in an Anthrax t-shirt": One of the best heavy metal movies ever is getting a sequel, and it's going to be even more bloody, messy... and metal (of course)

Writer/director Jason Howden is working on Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon with soundtrack contributions from Matt Heafy

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"I would assume it’s going to happen." Are Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine going to release a song together?

Two modern metal greats could be cooking up something special

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7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024

From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024

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“It’s heavy, it’s dynamic, it’s technical!” We got Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine to name the best song on each other’s classic 2005 album

Ahead of their Poisoned Ascendancy co-headliner, we asked Trivium to pick the best song on The Poison and Bullet For My Valentine to choose their favourite Ascendancy track

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"This is going to be the metal tour of 2025." Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce co-headlining UK tour, playing classic albums Ascendancy and The Poison in full

Two of the biggest metal bands of the modern era will play their two most celebrated albums in full!

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?

Two of metalcore’s leading lights have posted their classic 2005 albums on social media, and we think something’s up

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The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.

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"I got married two years ago and this was on par with that." On Trivium's last tour for "quite some time", we learned two things: 1) their shows are still some of the most intense in metal and 2) fans really love their 'Pig Pen'. Erm...

Trivium are preparing to go on a much-needed break, but we caught up with the band to talk everything from their beloved 'Pig Pen' to their incredible recent run of albums

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"Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce a friend of ours." Watch Trivium's Matt Heafy guest with Bullet For My Valentine for a special version of Tears Don't Fall

Two of the most important metal bands to emerge in the 2000s teamed up in style this past weekend

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Trivium are about to take a break from touring, but their live show still proves they’re one of the greatest metal bands of their generation

As they start their “last tour for a long time”, modern metal heroes Trivium honour classics and deep cuts alike with an impassioned performance

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“Fluence pickups are unlike anything else there is”: Slipknot’s Mick Thomson is latest high-profile metal player to join Fishman’s artist roster

The question is when we will see them on a new ESP signature model

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Meet John Matos, the death-metal guitarist whose brutal viral video riffs have cracked up guitar heroes and comedians alike

Everyone from Matt Heafy to Eric André have found themselves chuckling at Matos’ vicious riff displays over clips of unusually aggressive roosters and waylaid sandwiches – and some of his compositions even inspire full songs with his deathcore outfit Abiotic

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Trivium's Matt Heafy stops show and saves crowdsurfing fan from injury

Trivium fan was seconds away from a crowdsurfing accident when frontman Heafy leapt to his rescue

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The incredible rise of guitar hero Sophie Lloyd: from YouTube covers to Machine Gun Kelly

Sophie Lloyd has gone from playing Avenged Sevenfold covers in her teenage band to working with Matt Heafy and Machine Gun Kelly

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The full story of metal's greatest supergroup, Roadrunner United: "We even opened it up to Nickelback"

How members of Slipknot, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Trivium came together to celebrate metal's most legendary label

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Cristina Scabbia's love of gaming goes far deeper than just Metal: Hellsinger

Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia has recently featured in the new Metal: Hellsinger DLC, but her love of video games is deeper.

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10 metal covers of Disney songs that are actually great (no, really!)

From Korn dabbling with The Nightmare Before Christmas to death metal takes on Let It Go, here's some proof that even Disney can be metal

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How 'Metal: Hellsinger' forged an unholy alliance between gamers and metalheads

As part of Gamescom 2022, an epic concert for 'Metal: Hellsinger' raised hype for the upcoming rhythmic shooter. Matt Heafy and David Goldfarb reveal how they pulled it off.

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