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"It's gonna be killer. What we're doing is cool." Kerry King has picked the Black Sabbath song that Slayer will cover at Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show, and says it's an "honour' for Slayer to pay tribute to the Godfathers of Metal

Kerry King is more than a little excited at the prospect of Slayer honouring Black Sabbath at Villa Park on July 5

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“People think we sing about Vikings. We don’t and we never did. We’re concerned with nature and our relationship with nature”: If other Nordic folk bands overtake Wardruna, Einar Selvik doesn’t mind

Inspired by a bear, a moose and a wolf, new album Birna is extending the band’s “beautiful broken family” as they tell modern tales through ancient instruments

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I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era

Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start

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"Life is beautiful!" Voyager share their first new music since singer Danny Estrin's cancer diagnosis

Australian proggers Voyager share video for emotive new comeback single Seen Better Days

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Order an exclusive Slaughter To Prevail Grizzly red splatter vinyl variant from the official Metal Hammer store (it comes with cool pop-up art too!)

Slaughter To Prevail unleash their new studio album Grizzly this summer, and we have a special vinyl variant that you can't get anywhere else

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Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high

The Korn frontman will be the guest presenter on a new episode of US TV show Ghost Adventures next week

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge may have just revealed how Papa V Perpetua’s tenure will end: “There is nothing that is eternal, except maybe for the memory of someone”

Ghost’s mastermind drops some serious hints in a new interview

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“It’s overwhelming – you wanna go on, you wanna live off the music, but maybe not everyone in the band can do that”: Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on 11th album City Burials

Jonas Renske didn’t stop writing when the dark Swedish troupe went on hiatus – which made it all the shorter

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Days after their singer adopted two bear cubs, Slaughter To Prevail announce new album Grizzly – stream lead single Russian Grizzly In America

We’re starting to think Alex Terrible likes bears…

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Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed

Japan’s kawaii metal sensations have pushed their upcoming release back by two weeks

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“It’s like a Downton Abbey murder mystery!” Watch Trivium react to a music video so bad they didn’t release it for 20 years

Trivium made two versions of the video for Dying In Your Arms – the first try was so dreadful that it’s only now seeing the light of day

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“It really is like starting from scratch”: Ozzy Osbourne is doing “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show

The Prince Of Darkness will step onstage for the last time at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5

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This Billie Eilish song inspired one of the UK's most exciting metal bands to write one of their very best tracks

The Eilish song was a “reference point” for one of UK's most celebrated young heavy bands

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Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money

Why not spend £50 on some Frater Imperator banknotes that have no cash value? We can think of a few reasons why not…

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Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield

Ghost have shared the latest single from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá

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"My ears are tired from music. It’s more like a job now as opposed to having youthful enthusiasm." Al Jourgensen explains why he's putting Ministry to bed after one final "amazing" album and world tour

"It’s not going to be like Kiss. I’m not going to be coming back every week."

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Stoner metal beloveds Orange Goblin announce final tour with support from Grand Magus and Urne

The Londoners will play across the UK and Ireland in December before going their separate ways

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Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media

The late Slipknot drummer’s family have shared his initial sketch for the band’s legendary logo

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"This is their best album yet and a major contender for album of the year." Employed To Serve are officially taking their seat at UK metal's big table with the brilliant Fallen Star

Employed To Serve have dished up their best album yet - and a certified metal album of the year contender

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“I’ve been going through some challenging times”: Def Leppard’s Rick Allen is still traumatised by Florida attack two years ago

The Def Leppard drummer was assaulted in a hotel car park in March 2023

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Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer

The star behind “Brat summer” passed the torch during her Coachella show this weekend

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Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins

The Pennsylvania hard rockers promise their new song isn’t as pessimistic as its title makes it sound

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Watch the video for the first new music from the original Alice Cooper Band in half a century

Black Mamba comes from the Bob Ezrin-produced Revenge of Alice Cooper, out in July

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"Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s

Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends

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“Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden

Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue

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