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Watch Mike Portnoy learning Tool's Pneuma – a drum track so complicated it "makes Dream Theater look like Weezer"

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy wrestled with learning Tool drummer Danny Carey's work on epic track Pneuma

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“You could have anyone from Dio to Pavarotti, and it will never be Sabbath. Don’t belittle that band, Tony, move on”: the furious open letter Ozzy Osbourne sent to Tony Iommi telling him to end Black Sabbath

In the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi looks back on the band’s late 80s ‘wilderness period’ – and a war of words with Ozzy Osbourne

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“They were very important albums, not just for us, but also in the history of heavy metal”: how Helloween invented power metal with Keeper Of The Seven Keys Parts I and II

The story of German power metal icons Helloween’s landmark late 80s Keeper Of The Seven Keys albums

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Deicide’s Glen Benton doesn’t know why he burnt an inverted cross into his forehead either: “To this day, I don’t know what I was thinking!”

The scarred face of US death metal tries to explain his self-branding in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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Slash adds his voice to the growing concern that musicians have over the impact of AI

Artificial Intelligence is a problem for a number of artists including Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash

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“I could walk out of here, go get a drink and within a week I could be dead. But I’m not interested in doing that”: how Trent Reznor pulled back from the abyss to make Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero

In 2007, Nine Inch Nails released their fifth album, Year Zero – and Trent Reznor, the man behind it, had finally thrown off his demons

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"We opened up for Billie Eilish...the first two songs were just everybody in shock and awe." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on rock, religion, queer awakenings and a whole lot more

Lzzy Hale dishes out the lessons she's learned during a life in rock 'n' roll

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Iron Maiden weren’t part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, says ex-singer: “We felt like we were on our own”

Former Iron Maiden man Paul Di’Anno has distanced the group from Def Leppard, Saxon and the rest in an exclusive Metal Hammer interview

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“Nothing sounded like it at the time. Nothing sounds like it now. It’s a beast!”: meet the doom metal legend who obsessively collects vinyl versions of Black Sabbath‘s debut album

Candlemass bassist Leif Edling owns way more copies of Black Sabbath’s debut album than you

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After Ozzy admits he'd love to play one final Black Sabbath show with Bill Ward, Tony Iommi describes it as a "nice idea"

Ozzy recently said he'd like to give "unfinished" Black Sabbath a proper send-off and Tony Iommi is not ruling it out

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“We kept getting bigger and we realised we had to take things seriously or throw it all away“: how Bring Me The Horizon changed the game and silenced the haters with There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It…

In 2010, BMTH released There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret. - the album that set them on the path to becoming one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands

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“Look forward to welcoming you into the coven.” Eurovision legend Bambie Thug announces UK and European headline shows for Crown The Witch tour

Ireland's Eurovision star and Ouija Pop practitioner Bambie Thug outlines Crown The Witch tour plans

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Watch rising death metal stars Orbit Culture play tooth-rattling single While We Serve on their 2024 tour

The Swedish metal force obliterated Europe in the spring and are about to play across America with Slipknot

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How are there so many Swedish metal bands? A Swedish metal band explains

Avatar singer Johannes Eckerström explains how his homeland has given us Opeth, Arch Enemy, Sabaton, In Flames, Meshuggah, Amon Amarth, Bathory and much, much, much, much more

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Marty Friedman wants you to stop calling him an ‘ex-Megadeth guitarist’: “It’s not doing me any favours. It’s 25 years ago.”

Though still proud of his time in the celebrated thrashers, Friedman feels his music and theirs have become wildly different

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“I said, Adrian, why aren't you singing in Iron Maiden? Be the singer!” Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham once encouraged Adrian Smith to return to Iron Maiden as the band's frontman

In 1997, Scott Gorham suggested that Adrian Smith should rejoin Iron Maiden in place of Blaze Bayley

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This footage of Evanescence’s Amy Lee singing with Within Temptation is a modern metal clash of the titans

Within Temptation have released a clip of them performing The Reckoning live with Lee in 2022

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Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”

Van Halen’s record label stopped him from getting a Black Sabbath songwriting credit in 1994

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Black Sabbath's Get A Grip: Watch the official upgraded video

Get A Grip comes from a new single released to celebrate the upcoming Tony Martin-era box set Anno Domini 1989-1995

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“The answer has been the same for 20,000 years. It’s not gonna happen.” Skid Row founder rules out Sebastian Bach reunion

Bach previously told Metal Hammer that he’d be keen to regroup with the glam metal legends who made him famous

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The 9 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Nightwish, Babymetal with Electric Callboy and Zeal and Ardor are among the best new metal songs this week. Vote for your favourite!

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Desertfest 2024 review: sludge, thrash and hair-raising volume at London’s stoner rock gathering

Masters Of Reality, Suicidal Tendencies and Godflesh lead a surprisingly eclectic lineup for the annual desert rock weekender

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"Bring Me The Horizon don’t care about the expectations of metal – if anything, the guidelines are there to be ridiculed." Post Human: Nex Gen is long, chaotic and antagonistically weird

Bring Me The Horizon's latest album is another dizzying evolution for a band that refuses to stand still

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"It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster": US Department Of Justice goes to court over alleged anticompetitive conduct

The US Department Of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Live Nation, saying it acts to the detriment of fans, artists, venues and competition

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“We know this will be disappointing, but we ask that you respect our choice to put health first”: Bad Omens cancel summer UK and Europe shows due to singer Noah Sebastian’s “extreme burnout”

Vocalist Noah Sebastian claims Bad Omens’ recent schedule has “pushed me to the limits of my mental bandwidth”

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