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The best metal albums of 2026 (so far)

Lamb Of God, Dimmu Borgir, Evanescence: it's been a great year for metal (and we're not done yet)

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Techno vikings, Ozzy tributes and post-apocalyptic landscapes: Mystic Festival's final year at Gdansk Shipyard is another triumph

Poland's biggest metal festival hosted everyone from Megadeth and Black Label Society to Ice Nine Kills, Blood Incantation, Cavalera and more

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Rail firm bans Download festival-goers from bringing wheelie bins full of beer onto trains: “While it might seem like a great idea, it just isn’t safe”

“Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible,” says East Midlands Railway

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The 10 best death metal albums of 2024

From the cosmic death exploration of Blood Incantation to the welcome return of Nails and Job For A Cowboy, these are the 10 albums that defined death metal in 2024

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The 10 best black metal albums of 2024

You may as well rename Ihsahn, Zeal & Ardor and Witch Club Satan “Spinal Tap”, because there was none more black in 2024

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The 10 best prog metal albums of 2024

Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year

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Electric Callboy announce biggest-ever UK headline show at London’s Alexandra Palace

The date is part of a monster tour that will stretch across Europe from 2025 to 2026

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“Fans will experience something unprecedented”: Sabaton announce 2025 European tour featuring biggest-ever UK shows

The Swedish war machine will roll through Europe from November to December 2025

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Anyway, here’s that deathcore cover of Tool’s Sober that you never asked for

Props to Ohio metal mob Backbiter for giving it a go, at least

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Melodeath supergroup The Halo Effect (ex-In Flames, Dark Tranquillity) announce headline UK and Europe tour

Gothenburg’s melodic death metal stars will be joined by industrial outfit Pain in 2025

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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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The 10 best doom and stoner metal albums of 2023

The end is nigh - but you can still check out these brilliant stoner and doom records from 2023

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The 10 best goth albums of 2023

From Grave Pleasures and Creeper to Host and Ville Valo, these are the best gothic albums of 2023

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The 10 best thrash metal albums of 2023

From Overkill to Gama Bomb, Hellripper to Nervosa, these are the best thrash metal albums 2023 had to offer

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The 10 best alt metal albums of 2023

Between Sleep Token, Skindred and Within Temptation, it's been a massive year for alt metal. So these are the best albums of 2023

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The 10 best metalcore albums of 2023

From the uber-melodic Code Orange to the evocative Svalbard, metalcore has been brilliantly diverse in 2023

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The 10 best black metal albums of 2023

From Blackbraid to Wayfarer, Immortal and beyond - these are the best black metal albums of 2023

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The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2023

Avenged Sevenfold, Tesseract, Enslaved and more ensured that prog metal had another standout year in 2023

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The 10 best death metal albums of 2023

From old school veterans Obituary and Cannibal Corpse to newcomers Crypta and Burner, death metal was brilliantly brutal in 2023

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Ghost just quietly released a greatest hits album with one very, very rare track

Ghost’s new 13 Commandments compilation includes Zenith, a song previously unavailable on streaming services

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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi remembers writing Paranoid riff: “The producer said, ‘Can you put another song together?’ I went, ‘Well, no.’”

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has talked about writing one of the band’s most iconic songs in a new interview

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Slipknot just released a pro-shot video of an entire 2023 headline set

If you didn’t catch Slipknot at Spain’s Resurrection Festival this summer, you can now watch the show in full online

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