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“I got so tired of all these different hybrid categories, I created my own”: Ice-T names the one thing he’d change about heavy metal if he could

The outspoken Body Count frontman also names his favourite rap and metal albums in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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“I’m sure you all appreciate that I hate you all!” Iron Maiden share heartfelt backstage video of Nicko McBrain’s final concert

After announcing his intention to retire from the live stage, McBrain played his last show with Iron Maiden over the weekend

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The next Korn album will take some time: “Maybe next summer, maybe next year, the next winter – I don’t know!”

Korn have a lot written for the followup to 2022’s Requiem – but they aren’t quite sure when it’s coming out

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"Anyone who loves epic, powerful and ingenious metal needs this in their ears immediately." Hold those end of year lists: Múr just put out one of the best metal debut albums of 2024

Another uniquely mesmerising metal band from Iceland has entered the chat

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Deftones announce two more UK headline shows for summer 2025

Didn’t get tickets to Deftones’ blockbuster London date? The quasi-nu metal beloveds have just announced extra stops in Yorkshire and Cornwall

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Kerry King adds summer 2025 headline shows in the UK and Europe, plus Gojira support slot, to his solo band tour schedule

More chances to hear monster tunes from From Hell I Rise played live by some of metal's finest musicians

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Korn, Muse, Scorpions, Linkin Park, Judas Priest and more for Hellfest Open Air 2025

Hellfest has announced another heavyweight lineup for next year!

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System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events

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Geezer Butler names one “cringy” Black Sabbath song: “Maybe because I wrote it, and I hate listening to stuff that I’ve written”

The beloved bassist also reveals how Black Sabbath’s lyrics have been “misinterpreted” over the years

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Whores announce UK and European dates as part of their World War Tour

Whores unveil 2025 World War Tour schedule

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The 10 best metalcore albums of 2024

From UK greats Bring Me The Horizon and While She Sleeps to young innovators like Heriot and Scene Queen, metalcore has had a hell of a year

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Judas Priest add UK dates to 2025 Shield Of Pain European tour, including biggest-ever London show with Alice Cooper

The Metal Gods will be joined by the master of shock rock when they play at the O2 Arena in July

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“He kept sneaking into our studio and hanging out with us. And then, the minder would come in like, ‘Have you seen Ozzy?’” Metallica’s Robert Trujillo explains how he met Ozzy Osbourne

Apparently the Prince Of Darkness enjoyed wandering off when he was supposed to be recording music…

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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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Guns N' Roses announce 2025 tour dates including first-ever show in Saudi Arabia

Guns N' Roses will play 24 shows across the Middle East and Europe next summer

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"He was a drummer before I was a singer, a pilot before I was a pilot": Watch Bruce Dickinson pay tribute to Nicko McBrain during his final Iron Maiden show

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has retired from touring after 42 years

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"A name familiar to many of our fans." Iron Maiden announce new touring drummer following departure of Nicko McBrain

A day after the sad news that Nicko McBrain will be retiring as Iron Maiden's full-time drummer, his replacement has been revealed

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“He wasn’t a phoney. He didn’t have to be somebody else – he felt comfortable being himself“: We lost Dimebag Darrell 20 years ago today. His brother Vinnie Paul never let his memory die

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal

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"It's a beautiful song with a bit of a dark edge." Comic Chris McCausland on why he chose Metallica's Nothing Else Matters for his latest performance on Strictly Come Dancing

Watch Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell wow the Strictly judges with Viennese Waltz set to Metallica classic

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“There were fire, floods and riots. We saw LA being destroyed. We channelled that into the record”: How Fear Factory predicted the apocalypse with industrial-metal masterpiece Demanufacture

The story of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture, the album that rewired metal forever

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“At any venue, every time, this band play like their lives depend on it”: While She Sleeps reiterate their place among the metalcore elite with exhilarating London show

While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights

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“It was a reaction to a life of being bullied and also a celebration of fun. A lot of the metal world didn’t understand that”: How Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst became nu metal’s biggest star – and lived to tell the tale

With his red cap and hip hop swagger, Fred Durst was the biggest and most divisive star of the nu metal era. But that’s only half the story

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"Today will be my final gig with Iron Maiden." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain retires from band after 42 years

Beloved Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is officially stepping away from the band

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Savatage announce London Shepherd's Bush Empire show for June

US prog metal legends Savatage will play their first live shows in over a decade with singer Zak Stevens throughout Europe next year

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“Given the state he was in I would have given him two years, tops. But Sharon literally rescued him”: Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne

Drink, drugs, urinating up unsuspecting keyboard players’ legs – fellow hellraisers Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy were partners in crime for decades

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