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David Ellefson calls Megadeth’s most hated album “one of the great Megadeth records”

To quote John Cena: “Are you sure about that?”

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“We can’t wait to see everyone!” Sonic Temple festival announces full 2025 lineup, including Linkin Park, Bad Omens, Korn and much more

Linkin Park and Korn will join a double dose of Metallica, plus more than 100 other bands, at the Columbus weekender in May

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"We were nobodies but in that moment, it felt like we had a shot." How Slipknot overcame jealousy, substance abuse and trauma to become metal's most important band

25 years on from their self-titled debut, Slipknot look back at the years that helped them define 21st Century metal

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“They were there in the beginning”: Slayer/Exodus guitarist Gary Holt names the two thrash bands who deserve more credit

“They were ripping these albums apart and killing it before these other bands!”

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"It pulverises the boundaries of modern progressive metal." Jinjer announce fifth album Duél, release new single Kafka

Ukraine’s finest will release their next record in February

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Devin Townsend: “90 percent of the job is to be a content creator rather than write any music”

Hevy Devy says savvy branding on Instagram and TikTok is a bigger part of being a musician than actually making music

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“The way they craft their music, it becomes immortal”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, metal’s best person, pays tribute to Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and other pop giants

“I’ll still be banging my head to [Lady Gaga’s] Paparazzi on my deathbed,” the Metal God declares

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Cynic announce The Aggressive Progressive 2025 EU/UK Tour

Cynic will tour Europe and the UK in February and March with Rivers of Nihil, Beyond Creation and Daath

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"Maybe this was the catharsis he needed to propel his next chapter." Devin Townsend's PowerNerd isn't the all-out burst of Heavy Devy we expected, but it's still pretty damn good

Devin Townsend's PowerNerd isn't the all-out burst of Heavy Devy we expected, but it's still pretty damn good

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“For Paul Di’Anno! Scream for me!” Watch Bruce Dickinson pay tribute to late Iron Maiden singer during concert last night

Iron Maiden’s frontman offered a sombre onstage tribute to Di’Anno, whose death was announced Monday, calling him “groundbreaking”

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"When they put their cloaked heads down, Gaerea indubitably deliver the goods." Portugal's mysterious masked black metallers strive for greatness on Coma, but aren't quite there yet

Gaerea's third studio album is another very good, if sometimes over-egged, slab of epic black metal

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"Heavy doesn’t have to start with guitars." How Heriot became UK metal's most exciting underground band

Mixing death metal, sludge, metalcore and shoegaze, Heriot represent the diverse new direction metal is headed

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"We will travel to a world we have never experienced, with new songs." Babymetal announce European tour including biggest UK show ever - with Poppy and Bambie Thug in support

Babymetal will return to Europe in 2025, and they're bringing some stellar supports with them

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"It'll be like hanging with us in our living room": Halestorm's Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger announce intimate acoustic tour

The Living Room Sessions tour will find Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger telling stories, playing Halestorm classics and deep cuts, and covering some of the songs that inspired them

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Paul Di'Anno's 10 greatest performances with Iron Maiden

Some fans still cite Iron Maiden's first two albums as their greatest. This is the best of Paul Di'Anno, the late, great man who sang on them

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Cradle Of Filth release new single Malignant Perfection, their “horrific homage to All Hallows Eve”

Before you ask: no, Ed Sheeran isn’t on it

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“I’m very excited for the Iron Maiden faithful to see it!” A Paul Di’Anno documentary is coming in 2025

Wes Orshoski, co-director of 2010’s Lemmy documentary, hopes his film about Iron Maiden’s late former singer will hit festival screens next year

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Shavo Odadjian reflects on System Of A Down being ‘nu metal’: “I never liked being compared to anyone”

“When they put us in a group, I would always be like, ‘We’re not nu metal, we’re our own thing!’ Now I’m older and wiser…”

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I saw one of Paul Di'Anno's final live shows, and despite everything, he still had some of that special spark that made him an Iron Maiden legend

Even if we didn't know it at the time, this was a nice way to say goodbye to Paul Di'Anno

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"Highly Irresponsible is the sound of five cult stars clinging to the characteristics that made them cult stars." Better Lovers' debut album is exactly what you'd expect from Dillinger Escape Plan and Every Time I Die alumni

The first Better Lovers album is what you'd imagine, which is certainly no bad thing

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"I don't wanna say the word 'ballad' but we wrote a slower song." Nightwish singer Floor Jansen is teaming up with thrash legends Testament on their new album

A big change of pace from both parties as Nightwish's Floor Jansen will appear on a track on the new Testament album

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"90% of everything we own was either severely damaged or completely destroyed." Cannibal Corpse guitarist Erik Rutan and his family have had their lives devastated by Hurricanes Helene and Milton

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Erik Rutan updates fans on the profound damage two huge hurricanes have caused

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"I saw Black Sabbath one month before their first album came out – and I was right in the front row": Billy Idol on his love for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne

Billy Idol was part of the celebration that saw Ozzy Osbourne inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame at the weekend

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Alex Van Halen shares the last song he wrote with late brother Eddie Van Halen

Unfinished / Between Us Two is an epic, six-minute instrumental

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Iron Maiden, Geezer Butler, Anthrax, Blaze Bayley, Frank Turner, Exodus, Kreator, Volbeat, Ryan Adams and more pay tribute to Paul Di'Anno

The death of former Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di'Anno at 66 was confirmed yesterday

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