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"Metal is the most positive thing in the world". Max Cavalera tells it like it is

Sepultura founder and Soulfly star Max Cavalera thinks metal is the greatest – and who are we to argue?

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“Metallica were still a local band. It made no sense for me to say, ‘I’m out of here, I’m going to join them”: The man who was asked to replace James Hetfield as singer in Metallica – and turned it down

In 1983, Metallica almost got a new singer

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"The universe is not fair like that." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson tells new bands they'll get nowhere without self-belief

Iron Maiden frontman offers advice to young musicians looking to make their mark

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“We did get very wild and crazy at points. I remember thinking, ‘Why aren’t we getting arrested?’”: The violent, bloody birth of the Bay Area thrash scene

How a handful of kids from Northern California changed the world

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“Yeah! Sounds like Metallica!” Watch Donny Osmond headbanging to The Osmonds’ Crazy Horses played at 33rpm and sounding like a lost doom metal classic

We always suspected The Osmonds were secret doom fans

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"I said yes, but only if I could criticise the Constitution." Wardruna's Einar Selvik on nature, black metal and the importance of having a message

"I said yes, but only if I could criticise the Constitution."

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“We had no commercial ambitions. This introverted Norwegian attitude is what enabled us to create something that no one else had done”: How Emperor made black metal masterpiece In The Nightside Eclipse and changed metal forever

Emperor’s landmark debut In The Nightside Eclipse is one of the most important metal albums of the 1990s

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Primus share new single Little Lord Fentanyl, their first new music for three years

Little Lord Fentanyl is the band's first new studio track since 2022’s Conspiranoid EP, and features new drummer John Hoffman and guest Maynard James Keenan

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“Most singles are about love in one way or another… and this one is beautiful”: Geoff Tate explains how Silent Lucidity became Queensrÿche’s biggest hit (second time around)

The lead track from 1990’s Empire explores an unusual subject – but its singer argues it proved to be the right song at the right moment

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This acoustic guitar virtuoso has turned Sleep Token’s Euclid into the most gorgeous instrumental you’ll hear this weekend

UK guitar wizard Mike Dawes has released a studio version of his Euclid cover, after live recordings of it went viral last year

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Death Angel, Primus and Loathe lead this week's best new metal songs, plus new music from Shadows Fall, Turnstile, Chthonic and more.

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Hear Deftones frontman Chino Moreno’s remix of The Cure track Warsong

It’s taken from the transformative project Remixes Of A Lost World, out on June 13

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“We didn’t like how metal was made in Europe or in America. It was too polished. They were talking about dragons and castles”: Iggor Cavalera explains Sepultura’s ‘Satanic’ early albums

Sepultura’s original drummer explains why the Brazilian metal scene was so enamoured with the Devil in the 1980s

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"I’d just want to tell Randy Rhoads how great he is and how much I love him." Zakk Wylde on shredders, movies and his favourite Ozzy Osbourne moment

Zakk Wylde on shredders, best movies and his favourite Ozzy Osbourne moment

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Listen to metalcore heroes Loathe’s first new song in three years, Gifted Every Strength

The Liverpudlians have returned to their metal roots in teeth-gnashing fashion

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Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler and Soundgarden members have been added to Black Sabbath’s farewell show, Sharon Osbourne reveals

The legends will join Metallica, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and other rock/metal stars at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5

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Official Lemmy statue to be unveiled - and you can be there

Put May 9 in your diary now

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Former Possessed guitarist killed by police in California after gun battle outside his home

Brian Montana, a former member of death metal pioneers Possessed, dies aged 60, following fatal escalation of dispute with a neighbour

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"We were hoping to get as big as Fugazi. So it was really exciting and really frightening." Billie Joe Armstrong looks back on Green Day's "out of control" rocket ride to success, as his band celebrate getting star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

"It was a really scary time because it was definitely do or die."

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"I don’t want people thinking, ‘We’re getting ripped off'." Ozzy Osbourne says he will "do the best I can" at Black Sabbath's farewell show, admits that fans will only be getting a "sample" of his solo career and Sabbath's catalogue

Ozzy Osbourne is determined to give his fans a memorable farewell show

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“I am at peace these days, give or take a fit of blinding rage”: Propagandhi are as confused about the state of the world as everyone else on vital new album

Canada’s punk/metal iconoclasts aren’t sure what to do about the chaos across the globe, but their eighth album is poignant and poetic all the same

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Ozzy Osbourne will only sing five solo songs at his final show this summer, support act Sammy Hagar reports

And one of them will be No More Tears

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“I’ve been in the demo studio for the last three weeks”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson has 18 songs ready for new solo album, will record it “early next year”

The Mandrake Project was Bruce’s first solo album in 19 years, and he seems to have no intention of taking that long again

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Meet "denture-core" maniacs Melted Bodies, marine biology-inspired post-black metallers Dawn Of Ouroboros, Lady Gaga-inspired industrial metallers Tayne and melodic hardcore heroes Bloom

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The five most metal Sleep Token songs

The detractors say, “Sleep Token aren’t metal” – these songs reply, “Yeah, right!”

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