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“They just do what they feel is right for them. They don’t take into account what people think”: How Metallica rewrote their script (and irritated countless metalheads) with Load and Reload

When the former thrashers cut their hair and took influence from the blues, they didn’t emerge unscathed, but they remained heavy music’s biggest band all the same

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“By luck or design, we found a different way to say something, and people listened”: How unlikely proggers Karnivool made the last great nu metal debut

Nu metal was considered dead by 2005 – but a ragtag band from Australia ensured that the genre would bow out in a blaze of glory

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My Chemical Romance announce deluxe edition reissue of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, with nine bonus recordings

My Chemical Romance's final album is getting a deluxe edition makeover

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“The script is right there. This movie will absolutely happen”: Jack Osbourne says Ozzy biopic is written and gives tentative release date

We still don’t know who’ll play the Prince Of Darkness, though

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"The most surreal moment at that day was running into Ronnie Wood in the bathroom." Zakk Wylde's wild stories of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Dave Grohl, Elton John and more

Zakk Wylde spent years playing guitar for Ozzy, fronts Black Label Society, has taken the place of Dimebag Darrell in the current Pantera… and these are some of his stories

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"Seeing these dogs finally get a chance at freedom and loving homes is deeply moving." Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler backs rescue of 1500 beagles from Wisconsin breeding facility

Geezer Butler attended the beagle liberation alongside pop star Debbie Gibson

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Bullet For My Valentine eyeing January 2027 release for long-awaited eighth album: “Once the machine starts, that’s it for 14, 18 months”

Drummer Jason Bowld says that the metalcore heroes will finish the follow-up to their 2021 self-titled effort in June and release a long string of singles

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Stoner/doom stalwarts Green Lung return with riffy single Evil In This House ahead of first-ever festival headline show

The Londoners will headline Desertfest this weekend and release their fourth album, Necropolitan, in September

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“We’ve played each other songs, but we still haven’t come eye-to-eye on how things should be done”: 15 years after their comeback, will there ever be a sixth System Of A Down album?

Since reuniting in 2011, System Of A Down have headlined festivals, packed arenas and released two songs. What’s the situation with their long-anticipated follow-up to Mezmerize and Hypnotize? Well, don’t hold your breath.

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“I used to think I’d keep screaming until a trickle of blood came out. But it hasn’t happened yet”: How post-metal maverick Julie Christmas returned with her first album in eight years

In 2024, the former Made Out Of Babies singer and Cult Of Luna collaborator released her long-awaited second solo album, Ridiculous And Full Of Blood

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"We never fit into any scene or genre, ever, so all our friends are weirdos." What happened when we took Skindred record shopping in Newport

Genre-smashing Welsh rockers Skindred undertake Classic Rock's £50 vinyl challenge

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"Who the f** just threw a phone at my f***in' head?" Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes suffers mild concussion after being stuck by object thrown from crowd

Can we please just stop throwing stuff at musicians?

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"I am blessed to be able to finally share my path to where I am today, in my own words." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain announces his autobiography Hello Boys and Girls!

Nicko McBrain is ready to share "a thrilling, hilarious and deeply personal" memoir

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This Irish trio are the loudest band I've seen in 40 years of gig-going. You'll be hearing more from them, like it or not

Bucket: the very, very, very loud sound of the underground, blow minds at their debut London headline show

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“He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult in his early days”: At The Gates members recall the first time they met late singer Tomas Lindberg

Jonas Björler, Anders Björler and Adrian Erlandsson remember their first encounters with their beloved frontman

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“We were in this pub and Paul Di’Anno pulled this young nurse. She invited us all to sleep on her floor”: How Iron Maiden made the scrappy four-track EP which launched their career

As the heavy metal juggernauts continue their 50th birthday celebrations, we look back on how The Soundhouse Tapes started it all

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"Some kids wanted to come up onstage, chaos ensues and the people in charge seemed to panic and cut the power." How a cult hardcore punk band shut down one of rock's most legendary festivals after bagging an unlikely major label deal

Biohazard were swept up in the major label hysteria that swamped rock and metal in the 90s

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Watch Mötley Crüe and Carrie Underwood tackle two Crüe classics on American Idöl

The unlikely pairing have completed their highly anticipated appearance on the finale of the latest series of American Idol

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"It's been more than a decade… but we're back." Anthrax announce new single, confirm first album in a decade

Cursum Perficio, the follow-up to 2016's For All Kings, will be released later this year

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"When we played in America with bands we influenced, their fans were like, ‘Who are you?'" They've inspired generations of huge bands, toured with Slipknot and helped put Swedish metal on the map. This is the story of In Flames

How one band helped craft a new sound that changed the fate of metal forever

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"We were drunk on the bus and he was being annoying. We threw punches at each other." From singing in a pub getting him a job in one of Europe's biggest metal bands to MMA and cat fostering: five minutes with Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg

Amon Amarth's towering frontman opens up on his life, career and whatever else we can squeeze into a cup of coffee

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"When I went to rehab, they forced me to do the serenity prayer...I told them I’d say, ‘Ozzy grant me the serenity.'" Heartbreak, partying with Playboy bunnies and relapsing with Slayer: Every HIM (and VV) album in Ville Valo's own words

Ville Valo reflects on 30 years of HIM and horny, doomed gothic romance

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The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Motionless In White team up with Corey Taylor, Cancer Bats mark 20 years and nu gen star Mimi Barks announces her next release in this week's best new metal songs

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Watch former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz make her debut with power metal heavyweights Dragonforce as frontman Marc Hudson misses show

See the Alissa White Gluz-led Dragonforce play their first show at Welcome To Rockville 2026

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“Originally, Metallica had a dreadful tape as our intro. Then our manager came up with the idea of replacing it with The Ecstasy Of Gold”: How metal’s biggest band turned a song from a Clint Eastwood movie into the greatest intro music in history

No Metallica show is complete without The Ecstasy Of Gold as its intro tape

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