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“We’d play a song in a certain tempo. Three weeks later, it would be twice as fast”: who invented thrash metal? Kirk Hammett has a theory

Kirk Hammett was there at the birth of thrash with his original band Exodus, so he should know more than anyone who invented the genre

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Vinnie Paul “was never behind” the idea of Pantera reuniting, says former bandmate

Hellyeah and Mudvayne singer Chad Gray says late drummer Vinnie Paul never wanted Pantera to reunite following the death of his brother Dimebag Darrell

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“I love how they’ve evolved over the years. They’ve taken risks, but always stayed true to themselves.” Watch the time Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia joined her idols Paradise Lost onstage in 2013

At 2013’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods, two titans of gothic metal united for a spectacular collaboration

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“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

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"The war doesn't stop. I know a lot of people are tired of it, but Ukraine doesn't have that luxury." Why Sharon den Adel travelled to Kyiv to film Within Temptation's new video for upcoming single A Fool's Parade

Within Temptation frontwoman Sharon den Adel discusses travelling to an active warzone and why she is determined to continue spreading support for Ukraine

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“I didn’t want my children to grow up and not know Max”: how Max and Iggor Cavalera healed their wounds and buried the ghost of Sepultura with Cavalera Conspiracy

Cavalera Conspiracy’s debut album was released on March 24, 2008. In this classic interview, Max and Iggor explained how they put their acrimonious split behind them and forged a new future

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“Rob Zombie hates my guts. He owes everything to us”: GWAR’s Dave ‘Oderus Urungus’ Brockie was a genius, and here’s proof

GWAR frontman Dave ‘Oderus Urungus’ Brockie died on this day in 2014

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“He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless

It takes a lot for Herman Li to be starstruck, but one iconic guitar hero managed it

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"I wouldn’t be the singer, the artist, anything without it." New Years Day's Ash Costello on the Millennial goth post-hardcore masterpiece that changed her life

Without this classic 2003 record, New Years Day might not exist as we know them

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“It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands

The Iron Maiden frontman expresses his admiration for one of the weirdest, yet most successful, metal bands of all time

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"She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford

Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford

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Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024!

Louder, Metal Hammer and DWP are teaming up to offer one lucky US fan and a pal the chance to go to one of this year's biggest festivals!

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"This looks f***ing mint": Order your limited edition While She Sleeps bundle – featuring an exclusive patch and stencil

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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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“It’ll be something you haven’t heard in 20 or 30 years – it’s the perfect way to go out”: Al Jourgensen is reuniting with a legendary ex-bandmate for Ministry’s final album

Former Ministry bassist Paul Barker is returning to the fold for the band’s last-ever album, according to Al Jourgensen

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“I get excited when a witch comes out of the broom closet”: Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle – featuring an exclusive patch

This exclusive Chelsea Wolfe x Metal Hammer bundle comes with a special patch featuring a gothic design

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"It sounds like worse Ghost." Watch Creeper send up some of the more outraged comments that greeted them winning Metal Hammer's album of the year in 2023

Some people weren't happy about Creeper winning Hammer's Critics Poll - and the band find it pretty hilarious

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“People think we get our calculators out and work out some kind of complex mathematical formula”: how Meshuggah redefined tech metal for the 21st century

With 2008’s landmark obZen album, Meshuggah were streets ahead of the competition – and the kings of punking other bands

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Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford learned there are some spots even a Metal God isn’t allowed in at last year’s Power Trip festival

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A burned CD-R copy of an unreleased solo album by Ghost's Tobias Forge sold online for almost $5500

Ghost frontman Tobias Forge made a solo album before the band took off. It was never released and fans REALLY want it

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“We invented the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal as a joke”: how Chimaira bounced back from the edge of oblivion with Resurrection

Chimaira helped start an entire a scene but never got the same acclaim as some of their peers. They hoped to change that with 2007’s classic Resurrection album

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"The world was on fire for 48 hours and then the world moved on." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford compares his coming out experience to Billie Eilish's

Rob Halford opens up on his famous MTV interview in 1998, and explains why it was a very different situation to Billie's widely-publicised coming out as bisexual last year

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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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Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."

Beloved Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li adopts a humble attitude when it comes to his place in the grand pantheon of shredders

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