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“There’s no other band that drew me in like them. It was the mood and atmosphere – and the aggression”: Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life as a teenager – and got him fanboying out as an adult

You may not hear Tremonti favourites Celtic Frost in Creed and Alter Bridge’s music but they’re there

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“He heard it and had this massive smile on his face!”: Ozzy Osbourne was a big fan of Judas Priest’s War Pigs cover, according to Rob Halford

The Metal God says that The Prince Of Darkness “really loved” his band’s take on Black Sabbath’s classic

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"It got so blown out of proportion." Slash on Axl's latest outburst and "killer" new Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter

New Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter not to blame for Axl Rose's latest onstage meltdown

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“It was an additional, surprise, out-of-nowhere track and it went to No.1”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars

Square Hammer opened Ghost’s 2016’s Popestar EP and cracked US radio for the Swedish occultists

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Trivium’s Matt Heafy thinks it’s “silly” that their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine only lasted three months: “We had to completely uproot our entire year”

The Poisoned Ascendancy tour was supposed to extend from January to December 2025, until Bullet pulled the plug to record their next album

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“My wife brought the phone out and thought it was a prank call from Maynard from Tool! Nope – it was actually Lars!”: This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica –and not get the job

Metallica’s line-up could have looked very different today if Robert Trujillo hadn’t got the job

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"I don't think it would be the right environment for a proper rock and roll show." Guns N' Roses man Slash on Las Vegas Sphere

A Guns N' Roses residency at Las Vegas' groundbreaking Sphere venue seems unlikely

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“I feel like I got jerked at the Grammys. I don’t understand how they get best new artist." From 50 Cent invading the stage to Eminem still grumbling about it years later, the story behind Evanescence's chaotic first big awards win

Evanescence's Best New Artist win at the 2004 Grammys was well deserved - but fellow nominee 50 Cent and his hip hop pals were not happy

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“I had no idea it would be such a catastrophic event in people’s lives!" How leaving Iron Maiden, A Nightmare On Elm Street and the acoustic album that never was led Bruce Dickinson to write Tears Of The Dragon

Tasked with kicking his solo career off for real, Bruce Dickinson produced one of the 90s' greatest metal power ballads

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

Puscifer, Bad Omens and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival

In 2017, Steve Harris’ British Lion performed at Sabaton Open Air – but not without the Maiden man convincing the band in charge first

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Deftones’ Chino Moreno once helped Max Cavalera bury Soulfly’s debut album on Native American ground to give it “Indigenous power”

“It was kind of crazy, but fun at the same time,” Cavalera says of the unhinged endeavour

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"Proud to call this infinitely modest and generous genius my friend": Brian May shares video of surprise Tony Iommi appearance at Black Sabbath ballet

Iommi took to the stage at the climax of a performance of Black Sabbath - The Ballet

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"They're really serious this time": Spinal Tap announce Stonehenge concert film of "final" show with Eric Clapton and Shania Twain

Spinal Tap At Stonehenge: The Final Finale will arrive in IMAX cinemas next year

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“We thought, ‘Wow, that’s really cool – this was the guy that did all those crazy, terrible things’”: How Slayer made Angel Of Death – the fastest, freakiest and most controversial song in thrash metal history

The opening song from 1986’s Reign In Blood affirmed Slayer as thrash metal’s scariest scare-mongers

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Swedish prog rockers Wolverine announce first new album for a decade

Swedish prog rock quintet Wolverine will release new album, Anomalies, in February

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Iron Maiden announce Run For Your Lives North American tour for 2026 including Louder Than Life festival - and they'd like you to keep your phones away

North America needs to get ready to run for its life!

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Calling all moshers! Get the new Metal Hammer with an exclusive Malevolence cover and cross-body bag

Metalcore’s premiere pit-starters are on the cover of this exclusive edition of Metal Hammer’s latest issue, which comes with a bag unavailable in shops

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"Take cover." Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age - listen to new Foos song Asking For A Friend now

Foo Fighters will be back on the road in 2026!

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Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way

That’s one heck of a way to announce a new live album

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Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb

Draiman accuses Cusack of defending “a genocidal death cult”, as a photo of the Disturbed man writing “F*** Hamas” on an artillery shell continues to circulate

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"He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again

These two underground favourites found themselves trading singers like football stickers in the 90s

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“There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band

Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history

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The story of the terrible 90s horror film with the trailblazing soundtrack that mixed Metallica and Korn with Orbital, Moby and The Prodigy

Years after Judgement Night blazed a trail with hip hop and metal, this album seemed destined to do the same with metal and edm. So why didn't it?

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This folk metal band from Inner Mongolia have just made one of the most unique and effortlessly enjoyable albums of 2025

You might not have heard of Nine Treasures, but this is a great time to educate yourself

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