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"Our message to the government is clear: we’ve only got a summer to save music. Act now." MP Jeremy Corbyn's Peace & Justice Project declare A Summer To Save Live Music in the UK

"A Summer To Save Music is not hyperbole," says Music For The Many

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"I was talking with Kurt, and he said, You should join my band." The night that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, and DinosaurJr's J. Mascis realised that newcomers Nirvana were going to change alternative rock forever

Watch a four-piece Nirvana play one of the most important gigs of their career in July 1989

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Ghost may have banned phones from their 2025 tour, but you can see footage of their latest shows in the new music video for Peacefield

The song is taken from the Swedish devil church’s new album Skeletá

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Jerry Cantrell has an amazing solo song on the Sinners soundtrack and no one seems to be talking about it

Listen to the Alice In Chains guitarist/singer’s raspy and overlooked new track In Moonlight here

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Slayer’s Kerry King admits he isn’t close with Tom Araya: “He’s not the guy I started the band with”

King says that Slayer’s singer/bassist is “a very different person” compared to when they started the band together in 1981

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Hit horror movie Sinners is inspired by Metallica track One

Sinners director says One from Metallica's ...And Justice for All album was the inspiration for his new hit horror film

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Family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison launches Kickstarter campaign for unreleased Vimic album Open Your Omen

Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot band Vimic could finally see their debut album released thanks to family's crowdfunding effort

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"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons

We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album

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"I hit a wall. I am not built to do that." Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life

After the weight of 15 years of carrying Ghost got too much, Tobias Forge needed something special to get his mojo back. He tells us how it happened

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These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week

Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

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I sing anti-fascist songs in a thrash band – why aren’t more metal musicians angry about the state of the world?

Hardcore and thrash still pride themselves on being politically conscious: we should all follow these ballsy bands’ examples

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Machine Head's Unatoned has so many crushing riffs that it should come with a health and safety certificate. This is a band back in peak condition

Machine Head's epic bounce back continues with the brilliant Unatoned

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Code Orange are on hiatus: “It’s on the shelf for a good reason, for many reasons”

Singer Jami Morgan confirms that the US metalcore hopefuls are on ice for the foreseeable future

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Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles

Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month

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Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars

The armour-plated Swedes have signed to Better Noise Music and are readying their next album

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Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss announces first solo album in 18 years

The Catman's new album includes contributions from John 5, Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer and more

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"It's gonna be killer. What we're doing is cool." Kerry King has picked the Black Sabbath song that Slayer will cover at Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show, and says it's an "honour' for Slayer to pay tribute to the Godfathers of Metal

Kerry King is more than a little excited at the prospect of Slayer honouring Black Sabbath at Villa Park on July 5

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“People think we sing about Vikings. We don’t and we never did. We’re concerned with nature and our relationship with nature”: If other Nordic folk bands overtake Wardruna, Einar Selvik doesn’t mind

Inspired by a bear, a moose and a wolf, new album Birna is extending the band’s “beautiful broken family” as they tell modern tales through ancient instruments

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I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era

Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start

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"Life is beautiful!" Voyager share their first new music since singer Danny Estrin's cancer diagnosis

Australian proggers Voyager share video for emotive new comeback single Seen Better Days

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Order an exclusive Slaughter To Prevail Grizzly red splatter vinyl variant from the official Metal Hammer store (it comes with cool pop-up art too!)

Slaughter To Prevail unleash their new studio album Grizzly this summer, and we have a special vinyl variant that you can't get anywhere else

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Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high

The Korn frontman will be the guest presenter on a new episode of US TV show Ghost Adventures next week

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge may have just revealed how Papa V Perpetua’s tenure will end: “There is nothing that is eternal, except maybe for the memory of someone”

Ghost’s mastermind drops some serious hints in a new interview

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“It’s overwhelming – you wanna go on, you wanna live off the music, but maybe not everyone in the band can do that”: Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on 11th album City Burials

Jonas Renske didn’t stop writing when the dark Swedish troupe went on hiatus – which made it all the shorter

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Days after their singer adopted two bear cubs, Slaughter To Prevail announce new album Grizzly – stream lead single Russian Grizzly In America

We’re starting to think Alex Terrible likes bears…

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