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Someone’s made a wide-eyed Bobby Liebling puppet amidst all the Pentagram memes and I desperately want to buy it

Seriously, how much?

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“We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982

Iron Maiden’s label representatives haven’t been allowed to hear what the metal legends are recording since as far back as The Number Of The Beast

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"I was emotionally moved watching Megan Thee Stallion interact with her fans." From surprise collabs with rap superstars to playing with Bring Me The Horizon and explosive new album Tsunami Sea, inside Spiritbox's incredible year

How Spiritbox have taken steps to world domination

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"You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits." With Vice Grip, Parkway Drive went from metalcore stars to future festival headliners - and jumped out of a plane

How Vice Grip took Parkway Drive from metalcore heroes to future festival headliners

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"The second we got the offer for Jimmy Kimmel I said, 'I'm gonna pig squeal on national television!'" Knocked Loose singer Bryan Garris on the Grammys, THAT performance with Poppy and conquering a phobia to bring heavy music to the mainstream

Bryan Garris discusses one of the most viral moments in metal last year

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I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album

Hooked on Tobias Forge’s satanic hymns? These anthems will keep you (and me) going until Skeletá drops next month.

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The best Black Sabbath songs that don’t feature Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio

Ozzy and Dio may be Sabbath’s best-known singers, but these bangers with less-famous voices deserve their share of the love

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Watch Ghost's new video Satanized and meet new frontman Papa V Perpetua as the band officially announce brand new album Skeletá

Ghost are back with a new figurehead and some new-look Nameless Ghouls with the devilishly daft video for new single Satanized

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood!

Meet your New Heavy cover stars for 2025

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Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes join You Me At Six to play Bite My Tongue in Sheffield

Sykes guested on the You Me At Six single in 2011 and recaptured that magic onstage during a recent show in his hometown

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Why System Of A Down bassist scrapped a collaboration with Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated”

Korn’s frontman was supposed to show up on the new album by Shavo Odadjian’s Seven Hours After Violet project but never appeared

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Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more

The thrashers have scheduled headliners in Cardiff and London around their appearance at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning event in July

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"A band who could contend with Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token as the next zeitgeist-setting metal act." Spiritbox have unleashed another absolute stunner with Tsunami Sea

Spiritbox's second album doesn't just match the instant-classic status of their debut: it surpasses it

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“It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend

Testament and ex-Death man Steve Di Giorgio claims Metallica’s bass-free classic forced the instrument into the background for years afterwards

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“Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night

Metal's resident nine-piece went deep into the rarities bin for their set at Knotfest Melbourne last week

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“V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream

The occult rockers continue the build-up to “new” vocalist Papa V Perpetua’s debut

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“It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife

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“I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis

The story of High On Fire’s bonkers stoner doom landmark De Vermis Mysteriis

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"It's very hollow and astoundingly creatively unfulfilling." Why Wolfgang Van Halen won't make his living by performing Van Halen songs

Wolfgang Van Halen thinks he'd be "selling out" if he gave in to fan demands to play Van Halen songs

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“A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness

Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness

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“We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco

When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Meet the "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss, to Danish prog metallers Danefae, concept-driven Texan metalcore mob Cantervice and UK alt metallers Vower

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“Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution

In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain

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“I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare

How Alice Cooper made shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare – with help from a horror icon

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

Bad Omens, Employed To Serve and Deafheaven lead this week's best new metal songs

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