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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale once dumped a guy for falling asleep during a Tool show

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"Marriage is f*cking metal." Cradle of Filth members Marek Šmerda and Zoë Federoff married in Arizona

Cradle of Filth guitarist and keyboardist tied the knot in Tucson, Arizona

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"All had this feeling that it was something really momentous": Bruce Dickinson looks back on his solo albums and forward to Iron Maiden's big year

Bruce Dickinson reveals the solo album that should've been better and the song Iron Maiden play while he enjoys a cup of tea

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Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith loses Malibu home to Los Angeles wildfires

Adrian Smith is among tens of thousands affected by the wildfires currently bringing destruction to Los Angeles

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“I like to push some of those buttons. I like the fact that people have a problem with what we’re doing”: How Metallica kicked back against the 1990s haters with Reload

Haters gonna hate – but with 1997’s Reload album, Metallica just didn’t care

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“We demonise the concept of being angry. But it needs to be used as a tool”: The game-changing 2015 album that reinvented metalcore

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Primus guitarist Ler LaLonde's home decimated by California fires

Primus man just one rock star impacted by devastating fires – with Anthrax, Rage Against the Machine and Smashing Pumpkins members affected

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“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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“We were doing things that would have been beyond us with Ozzy. With Ronnie James Dio, there were so many more options”: How a reinvented Black Sabbath saved themselves from oblivion with Heaven And Hell

Heaven And Hell was the start of Black Sabbath’s short but glorious second chapter

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“Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to talk to me. They thought I would be right for the part of The Terminator”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’ wild tales of Lemmy, Gene Simmons and The Village People

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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor nominates one of 2024's biggest hit singles as his favourite song of the year

"Wow, unexpected!"

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce pop-up shops for UK tour – and you can get tattooed there if you’re brave enough!

Based in the UK? Get exclusive merch and a fresh piece of ink before seeing Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine play their 2005 albums in full

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“Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

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"Cannibal Corpse have made it to a level where they’re playing to thousands." Gatecreeper want to make death metal as big as possible

Arizonan death metallers Gatecreeper put out one of 2024's best albums - and they're just getting started

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Pop megastar Halsey booked hardcore shows when she was 16

“The biggest show I ever booked was August Burns Red and The Devil Wears Prada”

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Metallica’s James Hetfield names who he deems the “master craftsman at lyrics” – and it’s not a metal musician

The Metallica man discusses all things lyric-writing during the latest Metallica Report podcast

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"System Of A Down isn’t working right now, so do you want me to just sit around and wait?" How Shavo Odadjian ditched nu metal for deathcore with Seven Hours After Violet

Shavo Odadjian hadn't released an album in almost 20 years, but a chance encounter at a party gave birth to his heaviest project yet

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Listen to entrancing new Lacuna Coil single Gravity

The Italian goth metal maestros release new album Sleepless Empire next month

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“Dave Mustaine can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth”: Slayer’s Kerry King explains his relationships with Metallica members old and new

The Slayer guitarist reveals he’ll spend 20 minutes with Dave Mustaine but then “bolt just before anything gets uncomfortable”

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“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!

Get the newest Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and brand-new t-shirt, just in time for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s mammoth Poisoned Ascendancy world tour

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Orphaned Land share emotive reworkings of their very first song The Beloved's Cry

Israeli prog metallers Orphaned Land honour friends they have sadly lost in the war with re-recording of their very first song, The Beloved's Cry

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"Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more

Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions

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“I’ve been sober for a few years now, so it’s kind of about that”: Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk names her favourite song on upcoming album Duél

“I honestly think it is the best song Jinjer have ever written,” adds bassist Eugene Abdukhanov

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Hear ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo team with wife Paula and current Slayer guitarist Gary Holt to cover Scorpions’ Animal Magnetism

The mini-Slayer reunion is taken from To Cross Or To Burn, the second album by the Lombardos’ project Venamoris

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The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

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