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“Ay, Geezer! Let’s play Villa Park!” Watch Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler star in trailer for beloved Birmingham football club Aston Villa’s new home kit

The hard-rocking Brummie icons help their hometown club reveal their 2024 home kit

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"Don’t let this small moment in time define you." Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale's powerful message to Ingrid Andress after her disastrous US national anthem performance went viral

Ingrid Andress made headlines last week for a messy and worrying performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Home Run Derby

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"This is Sabaton for shaggers." New Powerwolf album Wake Up The Wicked is epic, catchy and brilliantly daft - like all the best power metal should be

You won't get any surprises from Powerwolf at this stage, but with songs this good, who cares?

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Ian Gillan says Black Sabbath were more "important" than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin: "Without them there would have been no grunge or heavy metal"

Ian Gillan on the "unholy trinity" of British rock bands, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and why the Brummie Rock Gods were the "most important" of them all

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“A noose was put in my family’s garage.” Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello remembers the racism he endured as a kid

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist reflects on the darker details of his Chicago childhood in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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"There’s no bad blood." An update on new Nightwish album Yesterwynde, why they still won't tour and what comes next

Nightwish mainman Tuomas Holopainen lifts the lid on album number 10

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"I can't do it!" Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain reveals which classic song he has to play differently live since his stroke in 2023

Incredibly, the beloved Iron Maiden drummer went out on tour just months after suffering a stroke

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"Emails were exchanged with Ian Anderson, containing something that could be described as music": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt is unable to tell you what he'd like to tell you

Swedish proggers Opeth have European festival dates throughout the summer before heading to the US, and have a new album in the can

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"The woody base of papyrus and patchouli leaves the senses longing for more in a rhythmic exchange of back and forth": Yes, Tony Iommi has released a new scent

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has launched his second cologne in conjunction with Italian perfume company Xerjoff

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Rejoice! An official Ozzy Osbourne colouring book is on the way

Disclaimer: Bats not included

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Slash cancels four shows on S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour due to unforseen circumstances

Slash's all-star blues tour kicked off earlier this month

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Watch previously unseen videos of Chris Cornell covering Tracy Chapman's Fast Car and the Rolling Stones' Wild Horses

Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on Saturday: Vicky Cornell and Nancy Wilson released videos to mark the occasion

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“Did we do drugs in the studio? Of course. What could be better than three or four bongs before you start recording?”: how stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album

Electric Wizard frontman Jus Osborn on the making of the weed enthusiasts’ classic third album Dopethrone

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"Imagine. Your phone rings and it's Anthony Hopkins": Anvil's career has taken them to unexpected places, but now they've got everything they ever wanted

Anvil's career has been a masterclass in perseverance, and they're back with studio album number 20

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“They didn’t like the idea of choruses”: Lamb Of God producer reveals one of the “pop ideas” he snuck into Ashes Of The Wake

After a bit of a struggle to make his voice heard, Gene ‘Machine’ Freeman had an idea that made one Ashes Of The Wake track a Lamb Of God classic

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“We’ve really fought. In one day something can blow up into a full-scale war. There’s been days I’ve quit the band”: how System Of A Down turned friction into genius with Toxicity

In 2001, Metal Hammer joined System Of A Down in their Hollywood HQ to talk about their brilliant second album, Toxicity

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7 new progressive metal albums that break all the genre’s rules

So many prog metal bands want to sound like Tool, Gojira or Meshuggah – but not these seven forward-thinkers

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“We didn’t meander into obscurity and make records that I wasn’t proud of. None of that ever happened”: the epic story of Soundgarden, the superstar grunge band who didn’t want to be superstars

Late, great Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on July 20 – this is the story of the band that made him famous

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"I wasn’t concerned if people who liked The Downward Spiral would like this": Trent Reznor on the making of Nine Inch Nails' epic 1999 masterpiece The Fragile

The industrial-rock titans' third record helped lay the groundwork for Reznor's hugely-successful career as a film composer

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The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Fever 333, Simone Simons and Zeal & Ardor are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Slayer guitarist Gary Holt declares his love for Taylor Swift: “Why all the hate? She’s an extraordinarily hard worker!”

From “Kill the Kardashians” to “I love Taylor Swift!”

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Heavy Psych Sounds Fest is returning to London, with Dozer, Black Rainbows, Lord Dying and more booked to perform

Dozer, Black Rainbows, Lord Dying, Black Tusk and more will play Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in Camden this November

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“We are still disturbed, but not surprised, by the violence and the division and despair”: Genre-busters Ulver go full Depeche Mode on surprise new single Hollywood Babylon

It’s the fifth song from the Norwegian collective’s newest album, which is being released track by track

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“The director lost control of the crowd and chaos ensued.” Ex-Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell shares his memories of 'starring' in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video

There were around 40 'extras' on the Smells Like Teen Spirit video shoot. Burton C. Bell was one of them

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Former Great White frontman Jack Russell diagnosed with two degenerative illnesses, announces retirement from touring

"I am unable to perform at the level I desire and at the level you deserve" - Jack Russell

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