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All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them

From the return of Sabaton and a Mastodon side-project to a blockbuster Slipknot reissue, these are the essential metal albums coming in the rest of 2025

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The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other

Sound N' Fury, due to be published in July, has been pushed back. But it might be the best book about Guns N' Roses ever written.

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United States military used Metallica's Enter Sandman without permission in now deleted video promoting war drones

Might of US military is no match for Metallica's lawyers as they demand removal of track from social media drone video

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“Solitary confinement marks you. It tortures your soul. You’re living day-by-day in fear and uncertainty”: This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band

Confess frontman Nikan Khosravi was imprisoned by the Iranian authorities for being a metal fan

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The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now

Soothe your post-Back To The Beginning blues with new tracks from Babymetal, Deftones, Halestorm and more, and vote for your favourite

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“The album sounds incredible. A masterpiece, even though I say so myself!”: Black Sabbath are over – this is what the four members are doing next

Black Sabbath may be over, but are Ozzy and co actually hanging up their boots?

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Bring Me The Horizon have just surprise-released a new album

The Lo-files project contains 23 lo-fi reinterpretations of the UK metal band’s biggest songs

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Hot off announcing long-awaited new album Private Music, Deftones confirm 2026 European tour dates with Denzel Curry and Drug Church

The nu-metal-but-not-really superstars will play the UK and mainland Europe from January to February

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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi issues update on long-awaited solo album: “I’m trying to finish off what I started”

Now that Back To The Beginning is in the rear-view mirror, heavy metal’s foundational guitarist is returning to work on his first solo album in 20 years

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Ozzy Osbourne is doing retirement the right way – by painting abstract art with chimpanzees

Pieces co-painted by The Prince Of Darkness and his primate pals are now up for auction

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"This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent immigrant purges and kidnappings": Tom Morello releases powerful new single in support of immigrant rights across America

Pretend to Remember Me arrives a week after Rage Against The Machine man Morello directed Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning celebration

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Deftones announce new album Private Music: Listen to the new single My Mind Is A Mountain now

New Deftones album private music finds the band working with an old friend once again

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“I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets

Armored Saint vocalist John Bush says it wasn’t his “destiny” to front the biggest metal band of all time

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“If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy”: Ozzy Osbourne to release new memoir Last Rites, centred around his recent health struggles

The Prince Of Darkness’ second and final memoir will come out in October

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“They wouldn’t bat an eyelid at Wagner, who believed the church was linked to the downfall of civilisation. But metal is ‘wrong’?”: The metal band who made history by playing one of England’s biggest cathedrals – despite accusations of ‘blasphemy’

Symphonic metal band Plague Of Angels became the first metal band to play the 800-year old York Minster

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Eivør signs new deal with Nuclear Blast Records and announces European tour

Faroese art rocker Eivør will tour throughout Europe in Autumn 2025 and will release a new album in 2026

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“Everything blew up. ‘What do you mean you’re leaving?!’ ‘I’m not!’”: Rob Halford insists he didn’t quit Judas Priest in the 1990s

The Metal God reveals that a technicality in his contract led to him stepping away from Judas Priest for 11 years

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The Nine Inch Nails lyric that made Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux quit his job: “I think Trent Reznor did a lot for the job market that year!”

A line from Nine Inch Nail’s 2005 album With Teeth inspired Manuel Gagneux to give up the 9-to-5 for good

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Tony Iommi compared Bill Ward to a Lord Of The Rings monster at Black Sabbath’s epic farewell gig: “You look like Gollum!”

As Ward issues a heartfelt thank you to his bandmates and fans, Sabbath’s guitarist admits he likened the drummer’s appearance when topless to an emaciated hobbit

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"We're in our seventies and late seventies, so you can only do so much": Tony Iommi reveals the songs Black Sabbath rehearsed but didn't play at Back To The Beginning

Tony Iommi has reflected on Black Sabbath's performance at Villa Park

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One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?

Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”

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30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s

From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade

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"He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!’" How Volbeat's Michael Poulsen went from occult-loving teenage guitar thief to leader of Denmark’s biggest metal band

Volbeat's Michael Poulsen talks us through his journey to metal stardom

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”

Papa V Perpetua sang Ozzy solo classic Bark At The Moon – but it could have been very different.

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Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend

Slipknot’s Sid Wilson, Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Frank Bello will do meet-and-greets and sign autographs in Birmingham on July 12 and 13

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