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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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“We’re revelling in the hell we are in. We say, ‘Please enjoy your death’”: this classic Ghost interview from 2011 shows they were always destined for greatness

Back in 2011, Ghost gave their first major interview to Metal Hammer. This is what they had to say

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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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“10 years ago no one in the US would bought an album by an Italian metal band. The idea doesn’t seem so strange now”: how Lacuna Coil served up a 2000s classic with Karmacode and went global in the process

In this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archive, Lacunca Coil look back on how they became Italy’s biggest ever metal band

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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Slaughter To Prevail, Accept and Knocked Loose are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“All of that youthful exuberance was still there!” Rob Halford is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer - cuddling kittens!

The Judas Priest frontman reveals all about new album Invincible Shield – and kittens!

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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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"Since black metal, what’s the next dangerous thing?": Ihsahn reflects on black metal's place in rock'n'roll history

Former Emperor frontman Ihsahn discusses how black metal maintains a rock tradition and why social media is hurting how we interact with some musicians

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“They don’t know how to make a bad album!” Metal Hammer writers battle it out over which Ghost album is best

Every Ghost album is a fan-favourite, but which one is the ultimate in their devilish discography? We got the five biggest fans in Team Hammer to fight it out.

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"It was an honour to watch Mick Mars play our dumb songs!" How a secret meeting, some serious growing up and a Motley Crue legend helped Murderdolls reunite for their final album

In 2010, Joey Jordison and Wednesday 13 reunited for another round of shock-rock mayhem

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"The first thought about the band that went through my mind was: ‘The band’s over.'" How Avenged Sevenfold found the strength to carry on after the death of The Rev - with the unlikely help of Mike Portnoy and the guy who wrote 50 Cent's biggest hit

In 2010, Avenged Sevenfold attempted to rally and continue their career after experiencing the unimaginable

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"Danny Carey is 62 now, so there's no thought of taking 13 years for another album": Justin Chancellor offers promising update on new Tool album

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor suggests the band may hit the studio in "the second half" of 2024

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Emperor’s Ihsahn reflects on black metal church-burnings: “We were all very consumed with the whole thing. The attention it got.”

in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Emperor’s Ihsahn looks back upon the controversial church-burnings which brought notoriety to the Norwegian extreme metal scene in the 90s

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In Flames just released a new song, Become One, on streaming services without telling anybody

A melodeath banger from the deluxe edition of In Flames’ latest album, Foregone, has finally become available online

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"I have a dream of holding a festival that brings together female vocalists such as those in Evanescence, Nightwish and Arch Enemy." Babymetal reveal their dream festival lineup

Japanese metal superstars Babymetal tell us what their ultimate festival bill would look like

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"I couldn’t tell you a pentatonic scale from a gin and tonic." Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project will be the first time he's ever played guitar on record

Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson discusses his imminent new solo album

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