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Excide don't want to be Turnstile or Knocked Loose. They want to create something new: "Post-hardcore just meant trying new and different things."

South Carolina's Excide aren't afraid to mix things up

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Cardio, corpse paint and Carolina Reapers: Venom frontman Cronos opens up about his brilliantly bizarre double life

Best known as the godfather of black metal, Cronos is also a birdwatcher, a fitness instructor, a multimedia engineer, a pepperhead and a Kate Bush nut

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Hear Ghost’s Tobias Forge sing on a brand-new re-imagining of Accept’s classic heavy metal deep cut Save Us, featuring Anthrax bassist Frank Bello and Korn drummer Ray Luzier

The re-recording comes from a star-studded tribute album celebrating 50 years of Accept, out next month

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Linkin Park announce new documentary Unshatter and tie-in album; watch trailer and live footage of Somewhere I Belong here

The film, directed by band member Joe Hahn, will hit cinemas on September 30

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Electric Callboy hit the apex of their dance-metal era on floor-filling new album Tanzneid – with a little help from Babymetal and The Offspring: “It may not represent a dramatic reinvention, but it doesn’t need to”

The electronicore six-piece double down on everything that’s made them festival crowd-pleasers

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Addiction, Doris, Riots and Tub Tarts: An A-Z Of Metallica

Your alphabetical guide to the world’s biggest metal band

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We took the rising zombie-metal stars to an escape room in Germany – find out what happened and get your hands on these limited-edition goodies!

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System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian says drummer John Dolmayan is tired of Donald Trump despite past support of US president: “I know so many Armenians in Los Angeles who voted for Trump and now regret it”

Dolmayan called Trump “the most attacked president in history yet the greatest friend to minorities” in 2020

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Slipknot’s Sid Wilson reportedly sacked for mistreating bandmates, ex-fiancée Kelly Osbourne tears into the DJ: “I want to be happy and I have a beautiful son to raise. Leave me alone.”

Neither Wilson nor Slipknot have commented on claims that he’s been fired

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“I was struggling at home and struggling on tour. I’ve had a real problem with alcohol again”: Inspired by a Neil Peart quote, Napalm Death’s Shane Embury embraced his prog tendencies to search his soul

The bassist’s desire to “jump into the unknown” inspired Bridge To Revolution, his most progressive album yet, as the Rush fanatic continues work on his Cardiacs-inspired project

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"They draw a crowd size which would have once been reserved for Iron Maiden or Metallica." Burning keyboardists, flying tanks and free suncream - inside Wacken Open Air 2026

The world's biggest metal festival puts on a weekend to remember for its 35th anniversary

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Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Electric Callboy cover and art print

The electronicore outfit’s new album, Tanzneid, is out this week

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Five Finger Death Punch, Helloween, Electric Callboy, Knocked Loose, Dragonforce and many more announced for Wacken Open Air 2027 lineup

Germany’s biggest metal festival will return from July 28 to 31

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Megadeth announce first UK headlining tour since 2015 plus European dates, Black Label Society and Testament supporting

Dave Mustaine’s departing thrashers are bringing their farewell tour across the pond

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"There was a guy shooting at us from his balcony. It turned out he’d been sniffing glue." The story of the UK's only top-10 nu metal hit

A's Nothing bore all the hallmarks of a nu metal banger - but its creators couldn't have been further from the genre

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Sharon Osbourne gives an update on Ozzfest – and confirms there will be a Back To The Beginning film: “Ozzy’s legacy isn’t fading”

Exclusive: Sharon Osbourne on the rebooted Ozzfest, a film of the Back To The Beginning show, the mooted Ozzy biopic and that controversial AI avatar

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"He was centre-half and you didn't go near the man. He was dangerous!" How AC/DC’s Brian Johnson ended up playing on the same football team as Chuck Norris

This headline sounds a fever dream, but it really happened in 1983

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Ross Robinson reveals that Slipknot were talking about splitting up just before they made Iowa: “We’re just not getting along. We’re gonna break up.”

Forget Sid Wilson – things have always been dramatic in the world of Slipknot

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"I probably should've put them through hell." Tarja reflects on her public dismissal from Nightwish in 2005

Fallouts, tabloids and mended bridges: Tarja Turunen talks us through the lessons she's learned in 30 years of making music

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"Rock and metal is one of the few genres that has kept a certain quality." Lacuna Coil singer says metal bands are maintaining higher standards than most in the face of industry challenges

In today's world of short attention spans, metal still sounds pretty great according to Lacuna Coil's Andrea Ferro

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“If someone says they don’t like something, that makes me embrace it even more”: Steve Harris defends Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying album – and names the one radical thing he’d change about if

Do you love Iron Maiden’s eighth album? You’re in good company

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"One of the things that Bruce Dickinson and Paul Di’Anno didn’t have was, they’d not seen Iron Maiden as a fan." Blaze Bayley on heart attacks, being banned by the church and his legacy with 'metal's greatest band'

Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it

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Jim Root responds to rumours that Sid Wilson has been fired from Slipknot: “Don’t believe everything you read. Stop. Think.”

According to a report, Sid Wilson is no longer a member of Slipknot

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"They liked the Butthole Surfers, they liked Iggy Pop, they liked us… we were keeping good company." How Beavis and Butt-head's approval of Thunder Kiss '65 turned White Zombie into a million-selling band

"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."

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

Tony Iommi makes a long awaited return, Electric Callboy channel their inner boyband and Sheri Moon Zombie strikes out as a solo artist in this week's best new metal songs round up

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