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“Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best

From scrappy debut Identity Crisis to refined latest album Horizons/East, we rank the back-catalogue of one of the most underrated bands on the planet right now

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“Social media was aroused, then curious, then hooked on the rest of Sleep Token’s material”: How The Summoning turned a faceless cult into metal’s most surprising breakout band

Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations

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"He was being very naughty under the piano with a woman at the same time he was singing": The epic story of the ‘stolen’ song that could be the next Stranger Things hit

Deep Purple's Child In Time has a long and complicated history – and now a whole new audience are hearing it for the first time

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What is the metal song in the Stranger Things season 5 trailer? The TV show has championed another pioneering rock band

After inserting Metallica’s Master Of Puppets into season four, Stranger Things has used another hard rock classic to soundtrack the announcement of season five

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"I would give my left arse cheek to be on a soundtrack for a movie like Resident Evil": Bury Tomorrow's Dani Winter-Bates picks the 10 songs that changed his life

From Slipknot and Through The Eyes Of The Dead to AFI and Tracy Chapman, these records made Bury Tomorrow vocalist Dani Winter-Bates who he is

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Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has the sexiest voice of any UK festival performer this year, according to new scientific study

Self-proclaimed “music experts” say that the Rollin’, My Way and Break Stuff rapper has a more attractive voice than Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan

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Alter Bridge announce new album and huge European tour

AlterBridge's eighth studio album was recorded round at Wolfgang Van Halen's place

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All guns blazing! Watch full, pro-shot footage of Judas Priest’s Painkiller anniversary set at Hellfest last month

The Birmingham heavy metal legends played the French festival on June 21 as part of their ongoing Shield Of Pain tour

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There's a horn-throwing Rob Halford action figure on the market and only 164 shopping days until Christmas

Judas Priest's Metal God becomes the latest musician to be immortalised in six-inch plastic

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Missing Black Sabbath? Here are 10 bands that will fill the Sabbath-shaped hole in your life

Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there

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"We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row

"The meat is so sweaty"

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"Appropriate dress is encouraged for this very special evening at the theatre": Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK and European shows

The Catacombs tour follows the release of the Queens Of The Stone Age: Alive In The Catacombs film and live album

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"When he did the four-tom fill that he was famous for, I almost fainted twice": Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin

The gospel according to Chris Goss

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"It came down like a guillotine!" That time an angry Britpop icon nearly accidentally killed one of heavy metal's most-famous superstars on a live British TV show

Remember that time a metal legend was almost decapitated on British TV?

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"Thank you for a lifetime of beauty, horror, love, power, happiness, melancholy." Soundgarden salute the "majestic brilliance" of Black Sabbath, and say they were "super bummed" at not being able to play the band's Back To The Beginning show

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"They’re clearly the Rage Against The Machine of now." Tom Morello on Kneecap

Rage Against The Machine guitarist sings praises of Irish rappers Kneecap –and Disturbed's David Draiman is unimpressed

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

Metal, deathcore, goth, punk and a creepy dude with a balloon –these are the essential albums coming out between now and the end of the year

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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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