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These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week

Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

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Order an exclusive Slaughter To Prevail Grizzly red splatter vinyl variant from the official Metal Hammer store (it comes with cool pop-up art too!)

Slaughter To Prevail unleash their new studio album Grizzly this summer, and we have a special vinyl variant that you can't get anywhere else

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This Billie Eilish song inspired one of the UK's most exciting metal bands to write one of their very best tracks

The Eilish song was a “reference point” for one of UK's most celebrated young heavy bands

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Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield

Ghost have shared the latest single from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá

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“They sounded like screams of anguish, screams of war, screams of where humanity is headed – they were perfect”: The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal

How D-beat pioneers Discharge took punk and metal to extreme new realms

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"I will not just ask you for money but I will drop some merch with these lil' cutie pies and you will buy it. All money will go to them": Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has adopted two bear cubs and our hearts might just explode

Alex Terrible (Bearable) is now looking after two baby bears and is hoping to raise money to help with their care

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“We’ve always been true to ourselves. Motörhead has never told you a lie. And that’s very important to me”: A classic audience with Lemmy, rock’n’roll’s greatest warrior

Motorhead kept the rock’n’roll flag flying well into their fourth decade with 2006’s Kiss Of Death

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“Ringo Starr set down rules for us to follow. There was to be no riding of motorbikes on the grounds – so we did that. What do you expect from a heavy metal band?” The crazy story of British Steel, the album that turned Judas Priest into superstars

1980’s British Steel officially sealed Judas Priest’s status as metal gods

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“It deals with depression, girlfriends, substance abuse – all that stuff. We exorcised some demons”: How Lamb Of God turned from political fury to personal darkness on Sacrament

2006’s Sacrament is still one of the most intense albums Lamb Of God made –and there was a reason for it

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"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career

Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta

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"I hated everybody. I had no friends." The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos

How Casey Chaos became a punk rock icon for the nu metal generation

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“I’m drawn to melody and drama - AOR and yacht rock”: Tobias Forge says the new Ghost album combines smooth ’80s sounds with Black Sabbath-inspired lyrics

“That kind of music comes very naturally for me,” he says

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"Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness

Sneaking beers on tour in Japan? Heaven forbid

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"Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands

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“They’re outlaw bad boys who’ve got no business with fanciness or politeness!” Amon Amarth, Grand Magus, Wardruna and more explain why metal loves Vikings so much

We got bands and academics to tell us why heavy music can’t get enough of big, burly berserkers

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Exclusive Employed To Serve bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now

To celebrate incredible new album Fallen Star, we've teamed up with Employed To Serve for this exclusive bundle

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“Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá

Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

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“We started performing rituals to conjure entities. From that point on it was all about making music that would please these gods”: The unholy story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal

How a bunch of kids from Florida took metal into extreme new realms

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“It’s obvious that one day this’ll all die out, just like every sort of music does. There is no point in worrying about it”: How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings

Bring Me The Horizon were dealing with the haters from the start

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets

The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece

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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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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!

Get your hands on a new Grucifix patch, a purple logo patch, and a special art print

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“She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley

This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different

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“We were a bit drunk, and I slurred to Ronnie, ‘Do you fancy doing an album?’ It was as simple as that”: How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know

Heaven & Hell’s The Devil You Know was a Dio-era Sabbath record under any other name

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“You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Doom metal never sounded so huge as it did on Candlemass’ game-changing 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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