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Vote for the best metal album of 2023

Metallica? Babymetal? Sleep Token? We need you to tell us which metal albums have excited you the most in 2023

Metal Hammer

"Lambasting it as 'selling out' directly contradicts its musical integrity and emotional vulnerability. It's all killer, no filler." Metal Hammer's writers battle it out over which is Metallica's best album

They are the band that have defined and redefined heavy metal. But which album is their greatest? Our writers get in the ring

Metal Hammer

The Grammys are still failing heavy metal – with so many new bands releasing incredible music, it’s never been more unforgivable

The Grammys have always got heavy metal wrong. But, with them defaulting to Metallica and Slipknot while the next generation is rife with talent, there is no excuse this year.

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From Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey: The full list of Grammy Awards 2024 nominations

Taylor Swift broke the record for being the most-nominated artist for the Song Of The Year category

The Independent UK

Metallica, Paramore, Ghost, Spiritbox and Foo Fighters among the rock and metal bands nominated for next year's Grammy Awards

The nominees for the Best Metal Performance and Best Rock Album categories at the 2024 Grammy Awards have been revealed

Metal Hammer

There’s only one metal headliner at Download 2024 - and as a dedicated metalhead, I think that can be a good thing for the genre

Complaining about Fall Out Boy and Queens Of The Stone Age headlining the UK rock’s biggest event is to overlook the incredibly brutal bill beneath – and the new ears these bands can bring to heavy music

Metal Hammer

Eight things for you to do this weekend

There's an award-winning production, music, stand-up comedy and Mexican wrestling.

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Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best

We’ve listed the 40 covers that metal’s biggest band recorded in the studio and released to the public in reverse-order of excellence

Metal Hammer

The best metal albums of 2023 so far

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

Metal Hammer

The 20 greatest Download festival sets ever

For two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

Metal Hammer

The 11 greatest final shows in heavy metal history

From Black Sabbath to Metallica’s Cliff Burton, these excellent gigs also proved to be bittersweet goodbyes

Metal Hammer

Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

Metal Hammer

"We reinvested in the band to the point where we probably shouldn't have. We made a lot of personal sacrifices": Kirk Hammett on how Metallica's "almost delusional" attitude to success ultimately paid off

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett talks about his band's self-belief and ambition, and how their risk and reward strategy paid off

Metal Hammer

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 12-18

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Nov. 12-18 include actor-TV host Whoopi Goldberg, guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica and singer TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne

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"I did see a few tears": Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo discusses reuniting with his former Suicidal Tendencies bandmates in Mexico City recently

Robert Trujillo recently took a break from touring the world with Metallica to stand in for his son in his old band Suicidal Tendencies

Guitar World

Gary Rossington shaped the sound of Southern rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd – and his guitar style influenced everyone from the Black Crowes to Metallica

Learn the distinctive pentatonic licks of the Les Paul-toting Southern rock master

MusicRadar

"If it gets mushy at all, he's out" – Metallica producer Greg Fidelman confirms James Hetfield used a very specific blend of four amps together in the studio for the 72 Seasons album

"It gets pretty hairy" says the producer on the volume levels

Metal Hammer

Robert Trujillo says Metallica haven't given up on slow songs: "At some point there will be a ballad"

Metallica haven't released a ballad since 2008's The Day That Never Comes, but bassist Robert Trujillo admits the slow songs will make a comeback... eventually

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“A meticulous recreation of Kirk’s prized original”: Epiphone has launched a Kirk Hammett signature 1979 Flying V – and it’s a lot more affordable than the Gibson Custom Shop version

Made in partnership with the Gibson Custom Shop, the Metallica man’s accessible Epi pays homage to “one of the most important heavy metal guitars of all time”

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 22-28

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 22-28 include actor Kevin Kline, bassist Robert Trujillo of Metallica and comedian Samantha Bee

Newcastle Herald

Cedar Mill building steam to host acts like 'Metallica'

Morisset's Cedar Mill plans on making plenty of noise.

Metal Hammer

“We put a lot of money, time and effort into it, then it disappeared.” The story of Metallica: Through The Never – how metal’s biggest band and a Spider-Man star disastrously bombed at the box office

Metallica wanted to make their answer to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same, and even hired future Spider-Man star Dane DeHaan to help. But then Metallica: Through The Never became one of the band’s most costly misadventures.

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NBD, Just Jason Momoa Living Out Metalheads' Dream With Tom Morello, Tommy Lee, And Pantera At Metallica Concert

Jason Momoa's trip to a Metallica concert included hanging out with reunited metal legends Pantera and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello.

Metal Hammer

10 terrible metal albums with amazing cover art

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slayer have all released the odd clanger – but that doesn’t mean they don’t look the part

Metal Hammer

"Van Halen could do nothing, night after night, to stem the charge of this Godzilla": How 1988's Monsters Of Rock tour was the making of Metallica

In 1988 Metallica released ...And Justice For All. Then they went out on the road to claim the throne of modern metal

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