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Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more

The thrashers have scheduled headliners in Cardiff and London around their appearance at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning event in July

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"A band who could contend with Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token as the next zeitgeist-setting metal act." Spiritbox have unleashed another absolute stunner with Tsunami Sea

Spiritbox's second album doesn't just match the instant-classic status of their debut: it surpasses it

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“It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend

Testament and ex-Death man Steve Di Giorgio claims Metallica’s bass-free classic forced the instrument into the background for years afterwards

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“Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night

Metal's resident nine-piece went deep into the rarities bin for their set at Knotfest Melbourne last week

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“V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream

The occult rockers continue the build-up to “new” vocalist Papa V Perpetua’s debut

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“It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife

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“I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis

The story of High On Fire’s bonkers stoner doom landmark De Vermis Mysteriis

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"It's very hollow and astoundingly creatively unfulfilling." Why Wolfgang Van Halen won't make his living by performing Van Halen songs

Wolfgang Van Halen thinks he'd be "selling out" if he gave in to fan demands to play Van Halen songs

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“A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness

Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness

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“We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco

When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Meet the "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss, to Danish prog metallers Danefae, concept-driven Texan metalcore mob Cantervice and UK alt metallers Vower

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“Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution

In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain

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“I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare

How Alice Cooper made shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare – with help from a horror icon

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

Bad Omens, Employed To Serve and Deafheaven lead this week's best new metal songs

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Slayer are teasing a return to the UK

The thrash metal legends' surprise reunion rumbles on as they confirm shows in Canada and the US, and tease appearances in England and Wales

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Limp Bizkit to play Reading and Leeds 2025, more than 25 new names also added

Nu metal legends Limp Bizkit are amongst dozens of new additions to this year's Reading and Leeds lineup

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Sleep Token have shared sheet music for what might be a new song - here's what it sounds like

A pianist has played the sheet music shared by Sleep Token's mysterious new social media accounts. It sounds pretty damn good!

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Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian have covered Kansas' Dust In The Wind and it's the most gorgeous song you'll hear all week

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor and Bad Omen's Noah Sebastian perform a stunning duet on the soundtrack for the upcoming wrestling film Queen Of The Ring

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"There are some things AI can’t replace, and that is drinking two-litre bottles of cider and ****ing yourself in a field." We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzouz shows why

Ithaca might be about to head off into the sunset, but not before we get one last brilliantly chaotic interview with singer Djamila Azzouz

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"People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album

Chris Motionless on ice hockey, being a Swiftie and why Motionless In White are taking their time on the new album

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“Haven’t we been f***ing great tonight?!” Prog metal legends Opeth bring a career-spanning setlist, staggering visuals and more than a little self-confidence to sell-out London show

Rejuvenated after latest album The Last Will And Testament, the prog/death metal masters honour both sides of their sound with cinematic accoutrements

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Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025

Louder Than Life 2025 is go and it is STACKED!

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"Someone get Papa Emeritus on the phone." Green Lung just confirmed they're doom metal's breakout band with a massive London show

Green Lung's mix of Black Sabbath dread and Ghost theatricality makes them perfectly suited for massive venues

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Get new Skunk Anansie album The Painful Truth on white splatter vinyl, exclusively through Classic Rock

Only 300 copies are available, so order yours now!

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“Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science

Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena

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